Added an option to skip httpServer creation

README.md

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ const bot = new TeleBot({
  proxy: 'http://username:[email protected]:8080' // Optional. An HTTP proxy to be used.
  },
  webhook: { // Optional. Use webhook instead of polling.
+ createServer: true, //Optional. Specifies whether httpServer or httpsServer instance should be created or not. Defaults to true. When set to false, bot.start() returns a promise which resolves with a listener function to be attached to the server manually. 
  key: 'key.pem', // Optional. Private key for server.
  cert: 'cert.pem', // Optional. Public key.
  url: 'https://....', // HTTPS url to send updates to.
@@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ Creates inlineKeyboard object for answerList articles.
 
 ##### `start()`
 
-Start polling updates.
+Start polling updates. If createServer is set to false in webhook options, then the method returns a promise resolving to a listener function suitable for usage with httpServer/httpsServer createServer method.
 
 ##### `stop(<message>)`
 

examples/webhook-custom-http-server.js

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+const TeleBot = require('../');
+
+const bot = new TeleBot({
+ token: 'TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN',
+ webhook: {
+ createServer: false,
+ url: 'https://....'
+ }
+});
+
+bot.on('text', msg => bot.sendMessage(msg.from.id, msg.text));
+
+bot.start().then(listener => {
+ const server = http.createServer(listener);
+ server.listen(3200, '0.0.0.0');
+});

lib/webhook.js

@@ -12,18 +12,24 @@ module.exports = (bot, opt) => {
  const path = url.parse(opt.url).pathname;
  const key = opt.key && fs.readFileSync(opt.key);
  const cert = opt.cert && fs.readFileSync(opt.cert);
-
- // Create server
- const server = key && cert ?
- https.createServer({key, cert}, listener) :
- http.createServer(listener);
-
- // Start server
- server.listen(port, host, () => {
- if (bot.logging) {
- console.log(`[bot.webhook] started${ key ? ' secure' : ''} server on "${ host }:${ port }"`);
- }
- });
+ const createServer = opt.createServer === false ? false : true;
+
+ if (createServer) {
+ // Create server
+ const server = key && cert ?
+ https.createServer({key, cert}, listener) :
+ http.createServer(listener);
+
+ // Start server
+ server.listen(port, host, () => {
+ if (bot.logging) {
+ console.log(`[bot.webhook] started${ key ? ' secure' : ''} server on "${ host }:${ port }"`);
+ }
+ });
+ }else{
+ // Server will be created by consumer, just return the listener
+ return listener;
+ }
 
  // Request listener
  function listener(req, res) {