How to get the username of who is interacting with the bot, Plus one more issue

[AtbTheGreat]

I don't mean to bother you with so many issues, but I still need help on some aspects of the bot I'm working on, because I am almost done with my bot that uses the JBot framework except for a few aspects.

1. How do I get the username of the user currently interacting with the bot, as a String?

2. What EventType should I set the parameter events equal to so that my bot will automatically post a DM to each user at a certain time every day, even if no one is logged in? BTW, I am aware of how to use TimerTask to set a certain time for the bot to send a message, but I need to know what to set events to.

[mndominguez]

@AtbTheGreat I didn't find a way to do this without making an API call to Slack.

My code is:

public JSONObject getSlackUsername(Event event) {
        String slackUserGetUri = "users.info?token=YOUR_TOKEN&user=";
        Response slackUserResponse = slackRestClient.get(slackUserGetUri + event.getUserId());
        return slackUserResponse.asJSON();
    }

I know this is less than optimal, but it gets the job done.

[jjenksy]

Did you figure out the send a Direct message piece for this? I am needing to send a DM to users.

[adamoutler]

@mndominguez can you elaborate on that example? these other methods aren't available in the example or the api. Where can I form a slackRestClient?

[mndominguez]

Hey @adamoutler

In my case, that slackRestClient gets initialized like this

private final NioRestClient slackRestClient = (NioRestClient) RestClientBuilder.builder()
            .setNio(true)
            .setBaseUrl("https://slack.com/api/")
            .setSocketTimeout(2000)
            .setMaxConnections(30)
            .setMaxConnectionPerRoute(100)
            .setConnectionTimeout(2000)
            .build();

But any Rest Client implementation will be fine. OkHttp is a good choice.

I'm unable to share the full code since it's for internal use at my company, but if you have any other questions just let me know.

[adamoutler]

Thank you. I was banging my head on this for the weekend. I will share my code when finished. I have no problem since it is open and for a gamer team.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018, 11:11 mndominguez notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey @adamoutler https://github.com/adamoutler

In my case, that slackRestClient gets initialized like this

private final NioRestClient slackRestClient = (NioRestClient) RestClientBuilder.builder() .setNio(true) .setBaseUrl("https://slack.com/api/") .setSocketTimeout(2000) .setMaxConnections(30) .setMaxConnectionPerRoute(100) .setConnectionTimeout(2000) .build();

But any Rest Client implementation will be fine. OkHttp is a good choice.

I'm unable to share the full code since it's for internal use at my company, but if you have any other questions just let me know.

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[adamoutler]

OK. Here's my solution. No additional dependencies were needed.

Add Method to me.ramswaroop.jbot.core.slack.SlackApiEndpoints

    public String getUserConnectApi() {
        return slackApi + "/users.info?token={token}";  //literaly copy and paste this. it will put the token in by itself.
    }

Add Class UserResponse.java, anywhere.

public class UserResponse {

    private boolean ok;
    private User user;

    /**
     * @return the ok
     */
    public boolean isOk() {
        return ok;
    }

    /**
     * @return the user
     */
    public User getUser() {
        return user;
    }
}

Create a method

    private User getUser(Event event){
        UserResponse userResponse= new RestTemplate()
                .getForEntity(slackApiEndpoints
                        .getUserConnectApi()+"&user="+event.getUserId(), 
                        UserResponse.class, slackToken)
                .getBody();
        return userResponse.getUser();
    }

and access that with

String username=getUser(event).getName();

[adamoutler]

String displayName=u.getProfile().getRealName();