how to stop from further parsing in a module or across all modules?

[sr105]

For both inside a script and across all scripts, how can I tell hubot/robot to stop parsing an incoming message? I'm looking to sometimes implement the behavior of "first match stops searching/parsing".

module.exports = (robot) ->
    robot.hear /no further/i, (res) ->
        res.send "Will not parse further in this module"
        # return from this module-exported method???

    robot.hear /all stop/i, (res) ->
        res.send "No more parsing in any modules"
        # command???

[sr105]

Found it: https://github.com/hubotio/hubot/blob/master/src/response.js#L132,L137

Just call res.finish(), correct?

[JCMais]

According to this check:

hubot/src/robot.js

Lines 312 to 320 in d0c13d2

	listener.call(context.response.message, this.middleware.listener, function (listenerExecuted) {
	anyListenersExecuted = anyListenersExecuted || listenerExecuted
	// Defer to the event loop at least after every listener so the
	// stack doesn't get too big
	process.nextTick(() =>
	// Stop processing when message.done == true
	done(context.response.message.done)
	)
	})

You can have:

      res.message.done = true

inside your listener callback.

But this only works if your callbacks are not async, I think this is a major drawback of this architecture, it would be better if hubot could handle async.

It's kinda of documented here https://github.com/hubotio/hubot/blob/d0c13d2d8cd1ba30dc7f8765778988ca5a4d00c9/docs/implementation.md#listeners