Hubot Thing..

gistfile1.txt

/**
 * Created by audstanley on 01/06/16.
 */
//need to change the path in jsonObj to /home/pi/slackberrypiratebot/json/botlist.json
module.exports = function(robot) 
{
  robot.respond(/\/[Rr][Ee][Mm][Oo][Vv][Ee]\s+@(\S+)?/, function(res) 
  {
       var role = 'admin';
    //  console.log(res);
      if (!robot.auth.hasRole(res.envelope.user, role)) 
      {
        console.log('some console log for non-admin command');
      } 

      else 
        {
            var fs = require('fs');
            var _ = require('underscore');
            var jf = require('jsonfile');
            var util = require('util');    
            var jsonObj = require('/home/audstanley/slackberrypiratebot/json/botlist.json');
            var file = '/home/audstanley/slackberrypiratebot/json/botlist.json';
            var bots = jsonObj.bots;
            var isRemoved = false;

            console.log("attempting to remove: " + res.match[1]);
            function removeBot(anObj) {
            for (var i = anObj.bots.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
                  
                  if (anObj.bots[i] == undefined) {                    
                       delete anObj.bots[i];
                        console.log("Got to the splice section.");
                  }        
                                      
                  if (anObj.bots[i].name == res.match[1]) {
                      console.log(anObj.bots[i]);
                      anObj.bots[i] = {"name": undefined};
                      isRemoved = true; 
                  }
                }

              if (isRemoved) {
                res.send('removed ' + res.match[1]);
                  function removeNulls(obj){
                        var isArray = obj instanceof Array;
                        console.log("running removeNulls function.");
                        for (var k in obj){
                          if (obj[k]===null) isArray ? obj.splice(k,1) : delete obj[k];
                          else if (typeof obj[k]=="object") removeNulls(obj[k]);
                        }
                      }
                removeNulls(anObj.bots);
              }
            jf.writeFileSync(file, anObj);
            return anObj;
            }

            removeBot(jsonObj);


        }


  });
};