debug attempt 1: send channel messages

beeminder · Dec 1, 2023 · f5bb922 · f5bb922
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commit f5bb922
Showing 1 changed file with 21 additions and 14 deletions.
diff --git a/lib/beebot.js b/lib/beebot.js
@@ -180,21 +180,28 @@ var handleZeno = (req, res) => {
 
   if (req.body.channel) {
     webClient.conversations.list({}, (error, response) => {
-      const target = req.body.channel
-      if (!response.ok) { 
-        console.error("error in conversations.list: " + response)
-        console.error("DEBUG1: error: ", error)
-        return 
-      } //TODO: alert
-      for (var i = 0; i < response.channels.length; i++) {
-        const toChl = response.channels[i]
-        if (channel.name !== channel.replace('#', '')) { continue }
-        webClient.chat.postMessage(channel.id, req.body.message)
+      try {
+        const target = req.body.channel.replace('#', '')
+        if (!response.ok) { 
+          console.error("error in conversations.list: " + response)
+          console.error("DEBUG1: error: ", error)
+          return 
+        } //TODO: alert
+        for (var i = 0; i < response.channels.length; i++) {
+          const toChl = response.channels[i]
+          if (toChl.name === target) { 
+            webClient.chat.postMessage(toChl.id, req.body.message)
+          } else {
+            // no match, no message
+          }
+        }
+      } catch (error) {
+        // this maybe doesn't actually catch errors because of promises or something?
+        console.log('caught an error', error)
       }
-      console.log(`could not find a channel with the name ${req.body.channel}`)
-    })
-    res.send("ok");
-    return
+      res.send("ok");
+      return
+    });
   } else {
 
     // open the dm channel if we didn't find a user