Access slack data

[cehoffman]

Since the adapter is a genserver, it would be handy if it could respond to queries for information about users, channels, etc. that is being stored in the state object.

[scrogson]

@cehoffman can you please provide an example (code) of how you would want to use this?

[cehoffman]

How I would want to do this might be something like this from a pure mechanics. It could be wrapped up in nicer helpers inside the hear and respond blocks or maybe the adapter is easier to reach from within the responder than having to query the robot.

user =
  :global.whereis_name("myrobot")
  |> GenServer.call({:adapater, Hedwig.Adapter.Slack})
  |> GenServer.call({:lookup_user, "US231234AS"})
# user now holds the details of the above user id as kept in the users map

Similar genserver calls for :lookup_channel and other metadata kept in the state.

[electricshaman]

@scrogson Is this information currently stored anywhere? I could see a definite need for this.

[electricshaman]

Nevermind, I found it by poking around :observer.