From: Neil <neil@dip.sun.ac.za>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:10:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Truncate messages to some 'sensible' length before sending them to the irc server
X-Git-Url: https://git.ctpug.org.za/?p=bzrirker.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9975175d60c3abc3b29e0b23ef80ce9703a6dda0

Truncate messages to some 'sensible' length before sending them to the irc server
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diff --git a/irkerhook.py b/irkerhook.py
index 48024d5..a1323b0 100644
--- 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