beef up stdin module too. This can serve two purposes, to test/interact with other modules (e.g. like a one-person chatroom) or to bridge to irc/discord.

src/modules/stdin.rs

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::io;
 use modules::EventLoop;
 use toml::value::Table;
 
-use {MessageSender, Message, User};
+use {MessageSender, Message, User, Channel};
 
 use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::sync::mpsc::Receiver;
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ use transformable_channels::mpsc::ExtSender;
 
 use event::{Event, Envelope};
 
-pub struct StdinModule {}
+pub struct StdinModule {
+    name: String,
+    channel: Option<String>
+}
+
+const DEFAULT_NICK: &'static str = "user";
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct StdinMessageSender {
@@ -21,31 +26,49 @@ pub struct StdinMessageSender {
 impl MessageSender for StdinMessageSender {
     fn send_message (&self, message: &str) {
         debug!("Send message to stdout: {:?}", message);
-        println!("{}: {}", self.name, message);
+        println!("@{}: {}", self.name, message);
     }
 }
 
 impl StdinModule {
-    pub fn new (_: &Table, config: &Table) -> Box<EventLoop> {
-        Box::new(StdinModule {})
+    pub fn new (_: &Table, configuration: &Table) -> Box<EventLoop> {
+        Box::new(StdinModule {
+            name: configuration.get("name")
+                               .and_then(|value| value.as_str())
+                               .unwrap_or(DEFAULT_NICK)
+                               .to_owned(),
+            channel: configuration.get("channel")
+                                  .and_then(|value| value.as_str())
+                                  .map(String::from)
+        })
     }
 }
 
 impl EventLoop for StdinModule {
     fn run(&self, sender: Box<ExtSender<Event>>, _: Receiver<Arc<Envelope>>) {
+        let name = self.name.clone();
+        let channel = self.channel.clone();
+
         loop {
             let mut input = String::new();
             match io::stdin().read_line(&mut input) {
                 Ok(_) => {
                     let message = Message {
                         author: User {
-                            name: String::from("Dave"),
+                            name: name.clone(),
                             sender: Box::new(StdinMessageSender {
-                                name: String::from("Dave")
+                                name: name.clone()
                             })
                         },
                         content: input,
-                        channel: None
+                        channel: channel.as_ref().map(|channel| Channel {
+                            name: channel.to_owned(),
+                            description: "".to_owned(),
+                            sender: Box::new(StdinMessageSender {
+                                name: channel.clone()
+                            }),
+                            topic: "".to_owned()
+                        })
                     };
 
                     match sender.send(Event::Message { message: message }) {

tenquestionmarks.toml

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ end
 
 [lua3]
 type = "lua"
-children = ["lua", "irc"]
+#children = ["lua", "irc"]
 code = """
 local clock = os.clock
 function sleep(n)  -- seconds