From 4f8b19c6866ae61c2ca36b7c9935669ee2089ef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wim <wim@42.be>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 01:14:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add PingDelay option (irc) (#1269)

---
 bridge/irc/irc.go        | 9 ++++++++-
 matterbridge.toml.sample | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bridge/irc/irc.go b/bridge/irc/irc.go
index 2ac678e0..4be15b51 100644
--- a/bridge/irc/irc.go
+++ b/bridge/irc/irc.go
@@ -246,6 +246,13 @@ func (b *Birc) getClient() (*girc.Client, error) {
 		debug = b.Log.Writer()
 	}
 
+	pingDelay, err := time.ParseDuration(b.GetString("pingdelay"))
+	if err != nil || pingDelay == 0 {
+		pingDelay = time.Minute
+	}
+
+	b.Log.Debugf("setting pingdelay to %s", pingDelay)
+
 	i := girc.New(girc.Config{
 		Server:     server,
 		ServerPass: b.GetString("Password"),
@@ -255,7 +262,7 @@ func (b *Birc) getClient() (*girc.Client, error) {
 		Name:       b.GetString("Nick"),
 		SSL:        b.GetBool("UseTLS"),
 		TLSConfig:  &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: b.GetBool("SkipTLSVerify"), ServerName: server}, //nolint:gosec
-		PingDelay:  time.Minute,
+		PingDelay:  pingDelay,
 		// skip gIRC internal rate limiting, since we have our own throttling
 		AllowFlood: true,
 		Debug:      debug,
diff --git a/matterbridge.toml.sample b/matterbridge.toml.sample
index c82b33ce..aab2f482 100644
--- a/matterbridge.toml.sample
+++ b/matterbridge.toml.sample
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ ColorNicks=false
 #OPTIONAL (default empty)
 RunCommands=["PRIVMSG user hello","PRIVMSG chanserv something"]
 
+#PingDelay specifies how long to wait to send a ping to the irc server.
+#You can use s for second, m for minute
+#String
+#OPTIONAL (default 1m)
+PingDelay="1m"
+
 #StripMarkdown strips markdown from messages
 #OPTIONAL (default false)
 StripMarkdown=false