Develop a Custom Alerter

How to develop a custom alerter

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Base Abstraction

The base abstraction for alerters is very basic, as it only defines two abstract methods that subclasses should implement:

• post() takes a string, posts it to the desired chat service, and returns True if the operation succeeded, else False.

• ask() does the same as post(), but after sending the message, it waits until someone approves or rejects the operation from within the chat service (e.g., by sending "approve" / "reject" to the bot as response). ask() then only returns True if the operation succeeded and was approved, else False.

Then base abstraction looks something like this:

class BaseAlerter(StackComponent, ABC):
    """Base class for all ZenML alerters."""

    def post(
        self, message: str, config: Optional[BaseAlerterStepConfig]
    ) -> bool:
        """Post a message to a chat service."""
        return True

    def ask(
        self, question: str, config: Optional[BaseAlerterStepConfig]
    ) -> bool:
        """Post a message to a chat service and wait for approval."""
        return True

This is a slimmed-down version of the base implementation. To see the full docstrings and imports, please check the source code on GitHub.

Building your own custom alerter

Creating your own custom alerter can be done in three steps:

1. Create a class that inherits from the BaseAlerter.

2. Define the FLAVOR class variable in your class (e.g., FLAVOR="discord")

3. Implement the post() and ask() methods for your alerter.

Once you are done with the implementation, you can register it through the CLI as:

zenml alerter flavor register <THE-SOURCE-PATH-OF-YOUR-ALERTER>