Receiving messages from users? about fb-messenger-bot-api HOT 10 CLOSED

Hi,
Sorry for the late reply on this issue.

The client refers to the bot that is receiving the messages from the user.

Although there is no specific handler created for the messages as there is for validation, it can easily be created manually as per the example below. I am doing some work on it now to add Typescript support and will add an inbuilt message handling option as well.
routes.js

...
const router = require('express').Router();
const facebook = require('fb-messenger-bot-api').ValidateWebhook;
const postBackController = require('./postbackController');

router.get('/api/webhook', facebook.validate);
router.post('/api/webhook', postBackController);

postbackController.js

const client = new facebook.Client(process.env.PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN);
const postBackController = function postBackController (req, res) {
let event = req.body.object.entry[0].messaging[0];
let senderId = event.sender.id;
let userMessage = event.message.text;
client.sentTextMessage(senderId, `You said: '${userMessage}'`);
}

This would be the barebones example of echoing user message. I will add class to handle extraction of this nicely this week or next latest ;)

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Hey @teomaragakis ,
As mentioned, I have updated the code to TS, has taken a while longer than wanted due to life but it is cleaner, more feature rich and more generic at same time.

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Took far longer than expected due to lack of time but I am releasing today the postback extraction and parsing logic in a shape & form. Open to suggestions for new features !

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@weekian Okay so I think figured it out:

Listening for messengers requires a post request endpoint, and from what I see there is no route that receives post requests. So the answer is no, There's no handler for receiving messages. I'll try to write something and post it in a gist.

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@crisboarna, I'd suggest adding this to the current version before upgrading to TS, but that's just me. Thanks for the great job, I'm learning a lot from your code.

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@teomaragakis, the code already exists and am using it in another repo, just need to port it over, adding it before TS would result in having to do two refactors instead of one.

Glad to hear it's educational ^^, hopefully on how to write code and not on how to not write it :P

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hopefully on how to write code and not on how to not write it :P

@crisboarna well I don't have enough experience with node to judge yet.

Just kidding, your code is fine. :) Definitely learning some good JS OOP practices from it.

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@crisboarna, looks great but my TS game is weak so I'll just take your word for it :)

Can't wait to see the postback functionality!

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Did you forget to push? :)

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It has been pushed, just a little later than I was hoping for (27 Sept), but it got there :)

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