Question about Telegram Payments affiliate commissions by Telegram Stars

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Hello pyTelegramBotAPI developers and community!

I'm working with Telegram Payments in my bot using pyTelegramBotAPI (lastes version), and I'm trying to process affiliate commissions information from successful payments, but I'm having trouble accessing this data.

According to Telegram Bot API documentation, successful payments should include an affiliate_info field with commission details, and I've properly included the AffiliateInfo class in my imports:

from telebot.types import (
    InlineKeyboardMarkup,
    InlineKeyboardButton,
    LabeledPrice,
    PreCheckoutQuery,
    AffiliateInfo
)

In my payment handler, I'm trying to access this data:

@bot.message_handler(content_types=['successful_payment'])
async def successful_payment_handler(message):
    payment_info = message.successful_payment
    
    # Debug logging
    log.info(f"Payment structure: {vars(payment_info)}")
    log.debug(f"Payment attributes: {dir(payment_info)}")
    
    # Check for affiliate info
    if hasattr(payment_info, 'affiliate_info') and payment_info.affiliate_info:
        affiliate = payment_info.affiliate_info
        log.info(f"Affiliate info found: {type(affiliate)}")
        log.info(f"Commission: amount={affiliate.amount}, commission_per_mille={affiliate.commission_per_mille}")

However, I never see the affiliate information in the logs. I've confirmed that:

1. My bot is properly set up with a payment provider
2. Payments go through successfully
3. The commission program is active in my bot

Questions:

1. Is the AffiliateInfo field fully supported in pyTelegramBotAPI?
2. Is there any special configuration needed to receive this data?
3. Are there any known issues with accessing affiliate_info in successful_payment objects?
4. What's the proper way to access commission data with the current version of the library?

Thank you for your help!

[Badiboy]

1. Telegram has no commission for Star PAYMENTS. As for any other payments via Telegam.

successful payments should include an affiliate_info field

2. No affiliate in SUCCESS PAYMENT: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#successfulpayment

3. The only "affiliate" is in TransactionPartnerUser
   https://core.telegram.org/bots/api#transactionpartneruser
   and it's not "affiliate_info". And there is no "affiliate_info" anywhere in the Bot API.

The less strange stuff you invent - the less problems you will get.