web service: better integration in rbot

[user/henk/code/ruby/rbot.git] / lib / rbot / messagemapper.rb

diff --git a/lib/rbot/messagemapper.rb b/lib/rbot/messagemapper.rb
index c222ee71350066e943c25a65f94cf5f745a04b50..e154e3952c406f42eb9178f5c9a99a43ee4fc227 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/rbot/messagemapper.rb
+++ b/lib/rbot/messagemapper.rb
@@ -258,7 +258,17 @@ class Bot
           debug "checking auth for #{auth}"
           if m.bot.auth.allow?(auth, m.source, m.replyto)
             debug "template match found and auth'd: #{action.inspect} #{options.inspect}"
-            if !m.in_thread && (tmpl.options[:thread] || tmpl.options[:threaded])
+            if !m.in_thread and (tmpl.options[:thread] or tmpl.options[:threaded]) and
+                (defined? WebServiceUser and not m.source.instance_of? WebServiceUser)
+              # Web service: requests are handled threaded anyway and we want to 
+              # wait for the responses.
+
+              # since the message action is in a separate thread, the message may be
+              # delegated to unreplied() before the thread has a chance to actually
+              # mark it as replied. since threading is used mostly for commands that
+              # are known to take some processing time (e.g. download a web page) before
+              # giving an output, we just mark these as 'replied' here
+              m.replied = true
               Thread.new do
                 begin
                   @parent.send(action, m, options)