Truncate messages to some 'sensible' length before sending them to the irc server

diff --git a/irkerhook.py b/irkerhook.py
index 48024d514fb24c50700bc62db812b641301f0f18..a1323b04a92b750a72f7d33b46177dcb96195268 100644 (file)
--- a/irkerhook.py
+++ b/irkerhook.py
@@ -113,9 +113,10 @@ class IrkerSender(object):
             channels = self.config.get('irker_channels')
             if channels:
                 channels = channels.split(',')
-            msg = unicode(self._format())
-            # We rely on the server truncating, rather than trying to be
-            # too fancy here
+            # If we're too long, we might not get any notification, so
+            # we truncate the msg to max 450 chars, and hope that's
+            # going to be within the 510 irc limit
+            msg = unicode(self._format())[:450]
             message = json.dumps({"to": channels, "privmsg": msg})
             if channels:
                 # We assume tcp, since I'm lazy, so we just grab that bit