scalaconsultants/scala-slack-bot-core

Akka based library for writing Slack bots in Scala.

scala-slack-bot-core

Akka based library for writing Slack bots in Scala.

For examples, description and ideas take a look at our implementation or blog post.

Developed by Scalac

scala-slack-bot-core's Issues

Possibility to customize spray-json JsonProtocol

Hi,

I'm using slack-scala-bot-core 0.2.1 which depends on spray-json 1..3.1.
No I've added a dependency to akka-http-spray-json 10.0.3 which depends on spray-json 1.3.3.

The problem is that there is an incompatibility in the API between spray-json 1.3.1 and 1.3.3 which causes an error :

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: spray.json.StandardFormats$class.optionFormat(Lspray/json/StandardFormats;Lspray/json/JsonFormat;)Lspray/json/StandardFormats$OptionFormat;

spray/spray-json#158

A possible fix would be to recompile slack-scala-bot-core with spray-json 1.3.3 but that means I have to embed this version in my project.

Is there a possibility to customize or replace the Unmarshallers object used in ApiActor ?

Thank you

How to get channel ID by name?

The first param of OutboundMessage is a channel id. If the target channel name is known, but not the id, how can we obtain the id?

`OutboundMessage` doesn't escape the newline in JSON

https://github.com/ScalaConsultants/scala-slack-bot-core/blob/master/src/main/scala/io/scalac/slack/common/Messages.scala#L52

If the text contains newline or ", it will break the JSON format.

Example:

val response = OutboundMessage(message.channel, s"""ha","escape":"bad""")
publish(response)

Expected Payload:

{
"id": 1,
"type": "message",
"channel": "D08GG2WJF",
"text": "ha\",\"escape\":\"bad"
} 

Actual Payload:

{
"id": 1,
"type": "message",
"channel": "D08GG2WJF",
"text": "ha","escape":"bad"
} 

Support for threaded messages

I would like to added threaded message support. This will allow bots to respond to a conversation and encapsulate the conversation in a thread. This type of encapsulation makes it a lot easier to follow a conversation on a particular topic, and removes a lot of noise from the channel.