Update for dialogs

[alexagranov]

We have Dialogs!!!

Note: I removed the auto-generated spec/slack/web/api/endpoints/dialog_spec.rb as even though it passes, it's not technically accurate due to the necessary JSON patch - plus it's tests are already included in the custom dialog_spec.rb.

[dblock]

👍 😮

[vbanthia-zz]

@dblock when is it going to be released? Any plan.

[dblock]

No plan, but I have a bit of time to work on #180 and #181, so maybe today.

[dblock]

I released 0.11.0.

[vbanthia-zz]

Thanks :)

[arnoldtonderaimarunda]

Hi, @alexagranov and @dblock .

Trying to initiate a dialog in a workflow. How do I call the dialog.open method?

Bot.log_dialog(request_data['trigger_id'])

def self.log_dialog(trigger_id)
  dialog = [{
      dialog: [{
      title: "Please provide the following details",
      callback_id: "log:dialog",
      submit_label: "Submit",
      elements: [
          {
              type: "text",
              label: "Starting Time",
              name: "started",
              value: "text",
              hint: "What time did you start work?"

          },
          {
              type: "text",
              label: "Reason",
              name: "reason",
              value: "text",
              hint: "Why were you late?"
          }
      ]
    }]
    }]

  $client.dialog_open(
    trigger_id: trigger_id,
    dialog: dialog.to_json
  )
end

[jmanian]

You can’t spontaneously open a dialog like this. You can only open a dialog in response to a message action (a button click or a menu selection) and you have to use the `trigger_id` that comes along with the action payload when you open the dialog. Check out the docs on dialogs for the full scoop.

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On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 4:02 PM Arnold™ ***@***.***> wrote: Trying to initiate a dialog in a workflow. How do I call the dialog.open method? res = $client.im_open(user: user_id) attachments = [{ dialog: [{ title: "Please provide the following details", callback_id: "log:dialog", submit_label: "Submit", elements: [ { type: "text", label: "Starting Time", name: "started", value: "text", hint: "What time did you start work?" }, { type: "text", label: "Reason", name: "reason", value: "text", hint: "Why were you late?" } ] }] }] $client.dialog_open( channel: res.channel.id, text: 'Got it. Thank you', attachments: attachments.to_json ) — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#173 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AGh-bQhwUO8ECdcHgaDY-K4fmpXOOMTTks5tPOBhgaJpZM4PpUf0> .

[alexagranov]

If indeed request_data['trigger_id'] is from an action payload, then I believe your issue may simply be what you're passing for the dialog itself. You probably want:

dialog: dialog.first

after you remove the extra nested dialog: [{ ... hash ;-)

The client already takes care of the .to_json for you btw.

[arnoldtonderaimarunda]

Thanks @jmanian and @alexagranov for your response, much appreciated.

Yes, the 'request_data['trigger_id'] is coming from an interactive button payload.

I have changed the dialog as per you advice to

def self.log_dialog(trigger_id)
  dialog = [{
      title: "Please provide the following details",
      callback_id: "log:dialog",
      submit_label: "Submit",
      elements: [
          {
              type: "text",
              label: "Starting Time",
              name: "started",
              value: "text",
              hint: "What time did you start work?"

          },
          {
              type: "text",
              label: "Reason",
              name: "reason",
              value: "text",
              hint: "Why were you late?"
          }
      ]
    }]

  $client.dialog_open(
    trigger_id: trigger_id,
    dialog: dialog.first
  )
end

However, The error I am obtaining is
2018-01-29 12:04:08 - NoMethodError - undefined method dialog_open for #<Slack::Web::Client:0x00000002ecb510>:

[arnoldtonderaimarunda]

Gentlemen, the undefined method issue was due to using a lower version of 'Slack-Ruby_Client'. Was on '0.9.1' instead of at least '0.11.0'. I have upgraded to '0.11.1'.

Everything working great. Thanks very much. However, I seemed to encounter dialog validation errors when the title was too long.

[alexagranov]

👍 Good to know there's a length limit!

[vbanthia-zz]

Yes, there is indeed a length limit and it is very difficult to troubleshoot those issues because current ruby-client will only raise error saying validation_errors. It would be good to add response_metadata into error description.

https://api.slack.com/methods/dialog.open

[dblock]

@vbanthia This would be useful, PR?

[vbanthia-zz]

@dblock #201