Make CHANNEL_PARAMETERS a list

app/controllers/chat_controller.rb

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ class DiscourseChat::ChatController < ApplicationController
     providers = ::DiscourseChat::Provider.enabled_providers.map {|x| {
                                       name: x::PROVIDER_NAME, 
                                       id: x::PROVIDER_NAME, 
-                                      channel_regex: (defined? x::PROVIDER_CHANNEL_REGEX) ? x::PROVIDER_CHANNEL_REGEX : nil
+                                      channel_parameters: (defined? x::CHANNEL_PARAMETERS) ? x::CHANNEL_PARAMETERS : []
                                       }}
     
     render json:providers, root: 'providers'

app/models/channel.rb

@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ class DiscourseChat::Channel < DiscourseChat::PluginModel
 
     params = ::DiscourseChat::Provider.get_by_name(provider)::CHANNEL_PARAMETERS
 
-    unless params.keys.sort == data.keys.sort
+    unless params.map {|p| p[:key]}.sort == data.keys.sort
       errors.add(:data, "data does not match the required structure for provider #{provider}")
       return
     end
 
     data.each do |key, value|
-      regex_string = params[key]
+      regex_string = params.find{|p| p[:key] == key}[:regex]
       if !Regexp.new(regex_string).match?(value)
         errors.add(:data, "data.#{key} is invalid")
       end

lib/discourse_chat/provider/slack/slack_provider.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ module DiscourseChat::Provider::SlackProvider
 
   PROVIDER_ENABLED_SETTING = :chat_integration_slack_enabled
 
-  CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = {"identifier" => '^[@#]\S*$'}
+  CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = [
+                        {key: "identifier", regex: '^[@#]\S*$'}
+                       ]
 
   def self.excerpt(post, max_length = SiteSetting.chat_integration_slack_excerpt_length)
     doc = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(post.excerpt(max_length,

lib/discourse_chat/provider/telegram/telegram_provider.rb

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module DiscourseChat
     module TelegramProvider
       PROVIDER_NAME = "telegram".freeze
       PROVIDER_ENABLED_SETTING = :chat_integration_telegram_enabled
-      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = {}
+      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = []
 
     end
   end

spec/dummy_provider.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ RSpec.shared_context "dummy provider" do
     module ::DiscourseChat::Provider::DummyProvider
       PROVIDER_NAME = "dummy".freeze
       PROVIDER_ENABLED_SETTING = :chat_integration_enabled # Tie to main plugin enabled setting
-      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = {}
+      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = []
 
       @@sent_messages = []
       @@raise_exception = nil
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ RSpec.shared_context "validated dummy provider" do
     module ::DiscourseChat::Provider::Dummy2Provider
       PROVIDER_NAME = "dummy2".freeze
       PROVIDER_ENABLED_SETTING = :chat_integration_enabled # Tie to main plugin enabled setting
-      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = {"val" => '\S+'}
+      CHANNEL_PARAMETERS = [
+                            {key: "val", regex: '\S+'}
+                           ]
 
       @@sent_messages = []