slack-machine crashes with error wrong value type for field "topic.creator" - should be "str" instead of value "None"

[dondebonair]

slack-machine crashes with error wrong value type for field "topic.creator" - should be "str" instead of value "None"

[michaelbutler]

When looking through slack API docs, I'm wondering if this could happen when the user who initially setTopic
on the conversation or channel is a deleted user. I mean it probably still should be empty string "" but for whatever reason maybe they returned null or not anything at all.

[DonDebonair]

Yep, that could be it. In any case, the fix it easy. I'll make the creator optional.

[drdarina]

Has this been fixed? I'm also getting the same error

[eguven]

I'm wondering if this could happen when the user who initially setTopic on the conversation or channel is a deleted user.

@michaelbutler I checked. It was happening on a shared channel where the user who most recently set the topic was still active member of our workspace (so no reason for the value to be None).

I think in our case, the person who setTopic before (member of the other Org) did so prior to sharing the channel and this causes the None. 🤷‍♂️