Is there a variable for the user that initiated the command?

[kmickeletto]

Example, user executes whoami command. How can the function lookup who actually executed the command?

Expected Behavior

If user executed custom whoami command, there would be a variable or lookup function to determine who executed the command.

Current Behavior

I am not sure

Possible Solution

Variable or lookup function

[Brandon Olin]

@kmickeletto Yes, when the command is executed, PoshBot populates a variable called $global:PoshBotContext. In that, you'll find properties like the ID and name of the user who executed the command, the channel ID and name, the raw message PoshBot received, and other info.

Here is a demo command dump the variable contents back to the the backend: https://github.com/poshbotio/PoshBot.Demo/blob/master/PoshBot.Demo/PoshBot.Demo.psm1#L421

Here is the code showing how PoshBot populates it.

PoshBot/PoshBot/Classes/Command.ps1

Lines 87 to 101 in c385b99

 # Context for who/how the command was called 
 $parsedCommandExcludes = @('From', 'FromName', 'To', 'ToName', 'CallingUserInfo', 'OriginalMessage') 
 $global:PoshBotContext = [pscustomobject]@{ 
     Plugin = $options.ParsedCommand.Plugin 
     Command = $options.ParsedCommand.Command 
     From = $options.ParsedCommand.From 
     FromName = $options.ParsedCommand.FromName 
     To = $options.ParsedCommand.To 
     ToName = $options.ParsedCommand.ToName 
     CallingUserInfo = $options.CallingUserInfo 
     ConfigurationDirectory = $options.ConfigurationDirectory 
     ParsedCommand = $options.ParsedCommand | Select-Object -ExcludeProperty $parsedCommandExcludes 
     OriginalMessage = $options.OriginalMessage 
     BackendType = $options.BackendType 
 } 

[kmickeletto]

Thanks so much! Works like a charm!