Merge branch 'master' of git.ligo.org:daniel-williams/minke

"""

This is an experminetal module to allow Minke production pipelines to

communicate wasily with the Mattermost chat server which is used by

LIGO.

"""

import requests

def send_mattermost(message, hook):

    # A line to explain what the Minke-bot is when it posts.

    explainer = """I'm Minke-bot. I'm here to keep an eye on the progress of MDC job production, and report it to this Mattermost channel."""

    payload={

      "channel": "minke",

      "username": "Minke-bot",

      "icon_url": "https://camo.githubusercontent.com/d2a13f9c4e6fe16dc8021887990f4bcc4f8df076/68747470733a2f2f636f64652e64616e69656c2d77696c6c69616d732e636f2e756b2f6d696e6b652f5f696d616765732f6d696e6b652e706e67",

      "text": "{} \n {}".format(message, explainer)

      }

    code = requests.post(hook, json=payload)