Slack channel name

[WaleedAshraf]

Right now bot prints slack channel ID i.e xwy was last seen in G1YLK964G less than a minute ago

can't we convert channel id to channel name?

[patcon]

I'd accept that PR if someone could confirm that it works for both slack and irc :)

[WaleedAshraf]

Well Im just confirming that does it happens every where? Or is just me facing this issue?

[patcon]

Slack adaptor has some different behaviour than IRC adaptor in relation to room id's, so while I haven't used this script on slack, it sounds about right

[WaleedAshraf]

Right, I added slack channel name against id in hubot brain.

[dgautsch]

@WaleedAshraf what did you do to accomplish this? Thanks.

[WaleedAshraf]

@dgautsch When ever my bot joins a new channel, I call this method,

robot.respond /channel add (.+)$/i, (msg) ->
        channelName = msg.match[1]
        channelID = msg.message.room
        console.log "Starting channel add: #{channelID} : #{channelName}"
        try
          robot.brain.set channelID, channelName
        catch err
          return msg.send err
        msg.send "Channel Added!"

and then modified seen script a bit, as

lastRoom = robot.brain.get last.chan
        if(lastRoom)
          msg.send "#{nick} was last seen in ##{lastRoom} #{date_string}"
        else
          msg.send "#{nick} was last seen #{date_string}"

check it here: https://github.com/WaleedAshraf/caari/blob/staging/scripts/seen.coffee#L90