How to distinguish DMs from messages to rooms?

[llimllib]

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[StewPoll]

The first part of the channel ID will start with "D"

{'ts': '1454135373.000338', 'text': 'This is a channel', 'user': 'U02GSB32U', 'channel': 'C02HDGZT9', 'team': '<REDACTED>', 'type': 'message'}
{'ts': '1454135387.000045', 'text': 'This is a group', 'user': 'U02GSB32U', 'channel': 'G04UL2QM5', 'team': '<REDACTED>', 'type': 'message'}
{'ts': '1454135392.000010', 'text': 'This is a DM', 'user': 'U02GSB32U', 'channel': 'D04UGH7SL', 'team': '<REDACTED>', 'type': 'message'}

[llimllib]

neat! next up is that this should be wired into slackrtm, probably the message should come with an is_direct_message field or something?

[StewPoll]

Having a second look at the code in the commit that you've linked, they're not looking for DMs, they're looking for mentions of the bot within regular channel/group messages.

init_msg == '<@xxxxxxx>:'

You can get this ID using the auth.test call from slack.

Maybe have a .self_id attribute to server?

That way we can have the following functions as part of the server object, that people can check with within plugins:

def is_direct(server, msg):
    if msg['channel'][0] == "D":
        return True

def is_mention(server, msg):
    if msg["text"].split(" ")[0] = "<{0}>:".format(server.self_id):
        return True

[llimllib]

The bot's ID is actually available, via the opaque server.slack.server.login_data["self"]["name"]; limbo used to make sure it wasn't responding to itself but I seem to have cut that out when I added the bot_message handler.

[llimllib]

the slackrtm library should probably gain two issues:

• create a self_id attribute
• add a direct message flag

will do when I have time