Sending Location Message

[coccovax]

It would be nice to send location message too.

[robvanderleek]

Hi @coccovax

Thanks for your feature request.

It's possible in the WhatsApp API library I'm using to send a location but it requires the position in latitude and longitude degrees. I then wonder how this would work in practice: would users first lookup a location coordinate, or would they expect a comnand-line tool to get that information from the OS.

Could you perhaps tell me a bit more about your use case?

[coccovax]

Hi @robvanderleek, thanks for your reply. My use case involves always fixed coordinates known to the system. When a user books a service, she receives a message with instructions for using it. Having the location in the message would also be very nice.

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[robvanderleek]

Hi @coccovax

I've added a new feature for sending a location message in this pull-request

If you know how to checkout the repository and run the application using yarn start it would be helpful to let me know if this works for you. Otherwise, no problem, I'll do a bit more testing/documentation and merge the pull-request soon.

[coccovax]

@robvanderleek thanks a lot. In this period I'm very busy, but I'll try to do the tests you ask for asap.

[coccovax]

Hi @robvanderleek, I did some tests and location is sent only if coordinates are positive and there are max 4 decimals. I used this coordinates for testing -33.8677835,-63.9863332. The result is:

• [ ] negative coordinates must be allowed
• [ ] if possible, manage more than 4 decimals

Thank a lot

[robvanderleek]

Thanks for the testing @coccovax!

I've fixed the issues, also see the README.

Can you give it another try please?

[coccovax]

Hi @robvanderleek, good job! It worked for me! Thanks a lot!

[robvanderleek]

Cool! I'll merge it main then 😄