flowdock - Send a message to a flowdock

Author:Matt Coddington

Synopsis

New in version 1.2.

Send a message to a flowdock team inbox or chat using the push API (see https://www.flowdock.com/api/team-inbox and https://www.flowdock.com/api/chat)

Options

parameter required default choices comments
external_user_name no
    (chat only - required) Name of the "user" sending the message
    from_address no
      (inbox only - required) Email address of the message sender
      from_name no
        (inbox only) Name of the message sender
        link no
          (inbox only) Link associated with the message. This will be used to link the message subject in Team Inbox.
          msg yes
            Content of the message
            project no
              (inbox only) Human readable identifier for more detailed message categorization
              reply_to no
                (inbox only) Email address for replies
                source no
                  (inbox only - required) Human readable identifier of the application that uses the Flowdock API
                  subject no
                    (inbox only - required) Subject line of the message
                    tags no
                      tags of the message, separated by commas
                      token yes
                        API token.
                        type yes
                        • inbox
                        • chat
                        Whether to post to 'inbox' or 'chat'
                        validate_certs no yes
                        • yes
                        • no
                        If no, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. (added in Ansible 1.5.1)

                        Note

                        Requires urllib

                        Note

                        Requires urllib2

                        Examples


                        - flowdock: type=inbox
                                    token=AAAAAA
                                    from_address=user@example.com
                                    source='my cool app'
                                    msg='test from ansible'
                                    subject='test subject'
                        
                        - flowdock: type=chat
                                    token=AAAAAA
                                    external_user_name=testuser
                                    msg='test from ansible'
                                    tags=tag1,tag2,tag3

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