Feature request: being able to post on a r-o channel.

[0x5c]

Basically allowing whitelisted users to directly post on a r-o channel.

[tshamz]

sure, this wouldn't be too difficult, where would you want to set who's on the whitelist? directly in the code or through the heroku env variables? and how would you like to set the user? by user ID or user name (my vote would be for user id but then it's a little harder to locate)?

[0x5c]

For our use, IDs shouldn't be a problem as there wouldn't be a lot of "special users",although I can't speak for others who may want to use that feature.

Would it be possible to make a whitelist per protected channel? If yes, I think that either code/env, as long as it can take JSON input, would be good.

On a completely unrelated note, there is a relatively frequent disconnection bug that seems to emanate from botkit. I'll file a proper bug report once I manage to get on my computer and gather logs/relevant info.

[tshamz]

Kk, this is good direction. I’ve been wanting to rewrite everything using async/await and really clean up the code so I’ll look into getting around to that some time later this week. If all goes according to plan hopefully I’ll have something later this week.

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[0x5c]

Neat!

[tshamz]

alright, i updated everything to now use, amongst other things:

• the newer botkit starter kit
• node LTS stuff
• interactive messages + dialogs (so you don't have to deal with that weird message formatting)
• and whitelisting users for posting in certain channels

the flow looks like this:

I still have a little more work to do:

• i need add the listener that deletes messages (which is also where I'll put in the check for who posted the message and deciding whether or not to delete their post)
• im also thinking about just rolling this out as a dumb little free app in the slack marketplace, so i gotta put some stuff in place for that also

if you want take what i have right now and just finish it up on your own, you can find it in the #update-to-new-botkit-and-node branch.

i'll update you when everything is finished. enjoy!

[tshamz]

oooooooo, i almost forgot, everything works a little differently now so the whole config has been changed. When i get some more free time on my hands i'll get around to updating the readme.

[0x5c]

Woooaaaaaaa! It's amazing!