When using Perl's Net::Jabber, sending a simple message to an offline user causes the message to be delivered to the user when he comes online (it even show's in the user's gmail account as unread messages). That's as simple as doing
my $msg = Net::Jabber::Message->new();
$msg->SetMessage(...);
$connection->Send($msg);
In Ruby xmpp4r, doing the same equivalent thing does not send the message to an offline user, instead returning (async) a xmpp service-unavailable stanza or even not returning anything, and also not working. Message is simply lost.
How can one send an offline message with xmpp4r?
Also, in related subject, in xmpp's api docs for Jabber::Stream's send method, there is a "block" parameter. How does one use that?
Thanks
Make sure that you're doing type=:chat on the message.
client.send(Jabber::Message.new(jid, contents).set_type(:chat))
(code copied from Ricardo Pardini's comment, for long-term clarity)
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What we are trying to do
I am working on automation which posts messages to a Slack channel using Incoming Webhooks on a custom Slack App. The messages mentions people.
What works
We can send a message just fine, it has formatted content, and usernames are correctly resolved using the link-names flag.
What isn't working
The whole point of the notification is to inform a dynamic set of people about something they should care about. The set of people we tag varies hugely (think people who contributed to a pull request) and so not all possible recipients are in the channel these automated messages go to.
We assumed that given the usernames are being directly #-mentioned, they would be notified by Slack. However, two of the users we've tested with and #-mentioned confirm they never received a notification they had been tagged.
This is different to "human" behaviour, where if you #-mention someone in Slack, you get a little message reminding you that person isn't in this channel and offers to invite them or let them know.
As far as we can tell, sending the message programmatically is doing the equivalent of "Do nothing" in the picture above. I want to do either of the other two options, preferably "Let them know".
How can I notify people they've been mentioned? I've looked at all the API documentation and nothing discusses notifying users who aren't in the channel that they are mentioned.
This can't be an uncommon issue.... right?
Notes:
We aren't directly calling chat.postMessage, it's just the only documentation on link_names I could find to link to. We are using Incoming Webhooks, which has minimal documentation on the parameters - it seems to be the same as chat.postMessage.
We would prefer not to move off Incoming Webhooks, but we can do a custom integration with the API if we have to.
You need to invite the user to the channel first, using the Python client that's:
client.channels_invite(
channel=channel_id,
user=user_id
)
Whenever my app posts ephemeral message to Slack channel (in response to a query by a user), I am unable to get the timestamp of my Slack app response. As I want to delete it once the user has made a selection using one of the buttons. Although I have subscribed to 'message.channels' event, I don't get a notification to my app whenever my app posts in the channel (in response to the user input), therefore, I am unable to get the timestamp of the message which I'll use to delete it. All I want is the timestamp of the message posted by my app so that I can delete it but I am unable to receive the timestamp. Please help!
For e.g. in Giphy app for Slack. Let's say the user invokes the app by calling '/giphy [dog]' where 'dog' is just an example of a search term. The app responds by sending a gif and user can either send it, shuffle to the next one or cancel it. I want a similar capability of cancelling the app response but I need the timestamp of the message in order to do so therefore I am asking for help.
Thanks.
Your approach can not work, because Slack is handling ephemeral messages differently from "normal" messages. They are only visible by one user and can not be modified by API methods (e.g. deletion).
But of course its possible to replace ephemeral messages. Here is how:
Your app can just reply to the interactive message request from Slack with a new message. That new message will by default override the original message including ephemeral messages.
You can reply in two ways:
Directly reply to the request from Slack with a message within 3 seconds
Send a message to the response_url from the Slack request within 30 minutes.
See here for the official documentation on how to respond to interactive messages.
This approach works both with interactive messages and slash commands.
See also this answer for a similar situation.
I'm using the Gmail RESTful API directly (not from some library).
Looking at the documentation here Gmail Documentation.
I have managed to get the content of the message body, however it also returns the whole history chain for the current message.
Is there a way to get a response from the API only the requested message body, without the whole thread history?
According to this thread, it is not possible because it is part of the email's body content and you're specifying the ID of the message to retrieve.
You are getting the full reply message. When the report replied, they quoted the original message and this the text of the original is in the reply message. You may just want to do what Gmail and many other modern emails apps do and collapse/hide any reply text which begins with >.
References:
How to get the reply message without the original message from the Gmail API
GMAIL API : How to get the reply without the original message
Most efficient way to get new messages
I need to be able to access a log of all SMS that were sent. Is there a way to do this via their HTTP API? I haven't had much luck finding anything that reference this in their docs.
There is a feature called 'callbacks' that can send an HTTP request to your server for every message you send. It will give you status updates about the message and the message charge. This allows you to build up whatever form of custom reporting that you may want.
https://www.clickatell.com/developers/api-docs/callback-(push-status-and-cost-notification)-advanced-message-send/
You send your message with the callback parameter... And you specify your URL to receive callbacks on your API connection on the website.
Unfortunately, you can't access reporting features like that via API. You need to log in to your central dashboard to get that information.
You can, however, query the message status if you have the message ID, but I don't think that's quite what you're looking for.
(Disclosure: I work for Clickatell)
I am making an event organisation platform. Whenever user creates an event, the candidate gets an email notification as well as sms notification asking whether the suggested time fits or not. The problem is that since it is event organisation, there may be more than one occurance of candidate's mobile phone. So I need to have some unique information to identify to which event candidate is responding to.
I have tried identify using Message SID, but then I realised that Message SID is different on reply message.
So my question would be: is there any way to authenticate to which message candidate is replying to?
Hi Twilio developer evangelist here.
Because every message is idempotent, you wouldn't be able to track them just via the call sid. however, there's way to get around that such as passing a code that goes with each message which you can then read, or using cookies.
I think you are probably going to be more successful using cookies, and luckily enough there is an article on twilio's website that describes just how to do that. And because I noticed you're using PHP, I'm pointing you directly to the PHP article on tracking SMS conversations.
Hope this helps you