IBID-PB-CLIENT(1)					     Ibid - Multi-protocol Bot						 IBID-PB-CLIENT(1)

NAME

       ibid-pb-client - RPC Client for Ibid

SYNOPSIS

       ibid-pb-client [options...]  message message
       ibid-pb-client [options...]  plugin feature method [parameter...]
       ibid-pb-client -h

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is for passing events to a running Ibid bot, or executing RPC-exposed functions remotely.

       It communicates with the pb source on the Ibid.

       message is a text message as could be sent to the bot by an IM source.  The message is processed normally by the bot.

       feature	is  the name of the feature to invoke exposed method method on, directly.  parameters are passed directly to the method.  They can
       be specified positionally or by key, using the same syntax as Python: key=value.  They may be encoded in JSON, if not valid JSON they  will
       be treated as strings.

       The output is a JSON-encoded response.

OPTIONS

       -s HOSTNAME, --server=SERVER
	      Connect to the Ibid running on SERVER, by default it connects to localhost.

       -p FILE, --port=PORT
	      Connect to the pb source running on port PORT, by default 8789.

       -h, --help
	      Show a help message and exit.

SEE ALSO

       ibid(1), http://ibid.omnia.za.net/

Ibid 0.1							    March 2010							 IBID-PB-CLIENT(1)