Providing customized drinks

[smalls257]

Just a heads up, this is my first time contributing to a project, so please bear with me.

I'm looking at adding a feature to provide customized drink options! My thought process behind the implementation is creating a console menu with options to either send a randomly generated tweet or to customize one of the attributes of the drink itself.

From the second option, another menu would be displayed to choose which attribute to change. After selecting the attribute, the user would be able to enter in their own text, return to the customization menu and finally send the tweet. So they can customize as much, or as little, as they want.

As far as the implementation of the code, i'm looking at having the code flow like below.

main_menu()-->customize_order_menu()-->customize_attribute-->go back to customize_order_menu()-->make_tweet()-->send_tweet()

So the program will end up behaving a bit differently when I'm done. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

[DeastinY]

Hey @smalls257 !
First of all thank you for contributing 😄

In regards to the feature I'm afraid that, in the end, this won't be used very often. The bot is currently running autonomously on a Raspberry Pi, so I probably won't be accessing the console very often.
The general idea sounds really great, but how about mixing it with the following :

Running on Twitter it is already possible to @mention the bot and get a random coffee tweeted back at you. This behaviour could be modified to allow "conversation". Exchanging tweets with the bot could then work through the code flow / dialogue flow you proposed. Small example:

user: "@coffeebot recommend me a coffee"
coffeebot "@user here you go : arbitrary coffee combination"
user: "@coffeebot make it larger, sweeter and add more syrup !"
cofeebot "@user ok : *larger and sweeter coffee with more syrup"

On the one hand I think this would be more used, than a console interface. On the other hand I'm not sure if there is much demand for it. To get such a feature going I think we need some more social interacting. What first came to my mind was asking the bot to recommend coffee to other persons like this :

user: "@coffeebot recommend something sweet and small to @otheruser"

What do you think ?
I'm not yet completely happy with the concept and ideas, so this is very open to discussion 😄
Implementing a feature that will hardly be used is imho a waste of time, so I'm pretty conscious about stuff like that

[smalls257]

I think that sounds like a much better idea. Interacting through twitter would probably be a lot easier for everybody too. I really can't think of anything else to add.

I've seen that a lot of work has been done too since I last forked the project. I'm going to start working on adding the customization today. I can't wait to see where the project ends up.

[DeastinY]

I'm really looking forward to your contribution, best of luck 😉 !

[Tjzabel]

@DeastinY I'm very interested in working with this project! I've created a pull request for a small improvement in customized drinks. Possibly creating a section where a twitter user can ask for a popular drink recommendation?

[DeastinY]

@Timbone21 I think keeping track of the "popular" combinations, by looking at the drink receiving likes/retweets is a great idea !
Please open an issue to discuss on different approaches 👍