Message surface text attribute

[kvalenti]

I just found your library and it looks like it could be very useful. Is it possible to (re)add the text attribute to the Message surface?

In my case, I'm looking to use this with slack_bolt using the following endpoint:

@app.message("hello")
def message_hello(message, say):
    # say() sends a message to the channel where the event was triggered

    message = Message(
        blocks=[
            Section(text="Hey there")
        ],
    ).build()
    say(message)

When I use this, I get a slack_bolt warning in my logs saying:

/Users/me/Library/Caches/pypoetry/virtualenvs/mack-0TpdqiFV-py3.9/lib/python3.9/site-packages/slack_sdk/web/
internal_utils.py:271: UserWarning: The `text` argument is missing in the request payload for a chat.postMessage 
call - It's a best practice to always provide a `text` argument when posting a message. The `text` argument is 
used in places where content cannot be rendered such as: system push notifications, assistive technology such as 
screen readers, etc.
  warnings.warn(message, UserWarning)

What I would like to be able to do is the following:

message = Message(
    blocks=[
        Section(text="Hey there")
    ],
    text="Hey there"
).build()

I know that I can work around it by manually adding text after creating the message, but I'd prefer to do it all in one operation.

I see that text was previously available ~2 years ago. Was there a reason that it was removed?

[imryche]

I decided that the text is not a part of the surface and removed it from Message, but I see how it can be beneficial. I will add it in the next release.

[kvalenti]

Thank you!