Privatemessages not working

[h1rule]

Hello,

just noticed that PrivateMessages to the Bot Owner does not work.

I've set everything correctly in the config.js - the Bot works in channels etc., but private messages doesnt come up. I've logged the action when i send a message to the Botnumber on Whatsapp:

2014-01-14 17:03:19.828210 EE catch_them_all.py:12:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niko/breakbot/catch_them_all.py", line 10, in wrapper
return function(_args, *_kwargs)
File "/home/niko/breakbot/wa_bot.py", line 43, in onMessageReceived
messageContent = unicode(messageContent, "utf-8")
TypeError: decoding Unicode is not supported

2014-01-14 17:03:19.828210 EE catch_them_all.py:12: Exception in function onMessageReceived

[stenyak]

Private messaging should now work in both directions (irc>wa, and wa>irc).

Please pull the most recent version and let me know if you still have problems.

[h1rule]

Confirmed.

Whatsapp > IRC works.

IRC > Whatsapp not working.

2014-01-29 10:42:39.077555 II bot.py:101: <<< WA 1390988559000: 49151xxxx in 491775xxxx said to None: joooo
2014-01-29 10:42:39.079257 II irc_bot.py:166: ->- IRC ven000m: joooo
2014-01-29 10:42:39.084483 II irc_bot.py:152: >>> IRC PRIVMSG ven000m : joooo
2014-01-29 10:42:48.604819 II bot.py:76: <<< IRC 1390988568603239: ven000m in WhatsApp said to None: hi
2014-01-29 10:42:48.604901 EE catch_them_all.py:12:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/niko/breakbot/catch_them_all.py", line 10, in wrapper
return function(_args, *_kwargs)
File "./bot.py", line 80, in irc_msg_received
raise Exception("Private message sent to no one?")
Exception: Private message sent to no one?

2014-01-29 10:42:48.604901 EE catch_them_all.py:12: Exception in function irc_msg_received

[stenyak]

That is the expected behaviour, maybe the error message is not very intuitive. The reason is that, whenver you open whatsapp and talk to the bot, the bot doesn't know who to direct your message to.

The way it works is by prefixing the nick of the other person. For example, instead of "joooo", you should write "stenyak: joooo". The bot will then know "jooo" was directed at "stenyak".

Keep in mind that you can be private-messaging to 5 persons at the same time, and you need to know who each message you write is directed to.
You can't simply assume messages are directed at the previous person X (because other person Y may send a message before you hit "send", and the message directed at X will be sent to person Y instead).

I'm open to suggestion on how to handle this situation though. In any case, I should document it better...

[h1rule]

It works with Name: text

Thank you!