Google Hangouts Chat: auth on Heroku/Dokku nodes etc

[julbrs]

Hello

I am testing BotKit with the Google Hangouts Chat Bot, and it working really well locally ! Good job ! (https://github.com/howdyai/botkit-starter-googlehangouts)

I am planning to deploy it on a Dokku/Heroku instance and I am hitting a wall:

I need to set to set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS as a link to the google json auth file (like auth.json) but I don't want to put this file on git so I can't push it to Dokku.

The solution proposed by Google seems pretty easy to implement buy I don't know how to do this in my BotKit :)

Here is my code for another project using Google Hangouts Bot auth that is working well with that:

// load the environment variable with our keys
const creds = process.env.CREDS
if (!creds) {
  throw new Error('The $CREDS environment variable was not found!');
}
const keys = JSON.parse(creds)
const client = auth.fromJSON(keys)
client.scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/chat.bot']

module.exports = google.chat({
  version: 'v1',
  auth: client
});

Do you have an idea ?

Thanks !

[julbrs]

Hello

I have created a pull request that allow this behavior : #1543

Thanks !

[ouadie-lahdioui]

Hi @bobman38, i'll take a look asap.

Thank you

[benbrown]

This will be in the next published version of Botkit.