Added an experimental hook for mattermost.

"""

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)