Handling split messages

[Dusty-Meg]

Had a bot working for years now, generally working really well.
Occassionally I get long private messages, which get split into 2 on_privmsg calls.

Is there anyway of joining these together?

Thought about having a buffer which holds the messages, but can see how this could end badly, so wondering if there is anything in the irc package that could assist with this.

[ljluestc]

import irc.bot
import irc.strings
from irc.client import Event, ServerConnection

class MessageBufferBot(irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot):
    def __init__(self, server, port, nickname, channel):
        irc.bot.SingleServerIRCBot.__init__(self, [(server, port)], nickname, nickname)
        self.channel = channel
        self.message_buffer = {}

    def on_welcome(self, connection: ServerConnection, event: Event):
        connection.join(self.channel)

    def on_privmsg(self, connection: ServerConnection, event: Event):
        nick = event.source.nick
        message = event.arguments[0]

        # Initialize buffer if it doesn't exist
        if nick not in self.message_buffer:
            self.message_buffer[nick] = ""

        # Append the new message to the buffer
        self.message_buffer[nick] += message

        # Check if the message is complete (e.g., ends with a newline or specific marker)
        if self.is_message_complete(self.message_buffer[nick]):
            # Process the complete message
            self.process_complete_message(nick, self.message_buffer[nick])
            # Clear the buffer for this user
            self.message_buffer[nick] = ""

    def is_message_complete(self, message: str) -> bool:
        # Define your logic to determine if the message is complete
        # For example, check if the message ends with a newline or a specific marker
        return message.endswith('\n') or message.endswith('\r\n')

    def process_complete_message(self, nick: str, message: str):
        # Process the complete message here
        print(f"Complete message from {nick}: {message}")
        # Example: Echo the message back to the user
        self.connection.privmsg(nick, f"You said: {message}")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    server = "irc.example.com"
    port = 6667
    nickname = "YourBotNick"
    channel = "#yourchannel"

    bot = MessageBufferBot(server, port, nickname, channel)
    bot.start()