From 50cbd915a47fbad8f48a25655d3048201ce9ae4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tomaslin <clin@netflix.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:26:18 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] make the pound in a slack channel name optional

---
 .../spinnaker/echo/slack/SlackNotificationService.groovy      | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/echo-notifications/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/echo/slack/SlackNotificationService.groovy b/echo-notifications/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/echo/slack/SlackNotificationService.groovy
index dbb011cef..01f69cc39 100644
--- a/echo-notifications/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/echo/slack/SlackNotificationService.groovy
+++ b/echo-notifications/src/main/groovy/com/netflix/spinnaker/echo/slack/SlackNotificationService.groovy
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ class SlackNotificationService implements NotificationService {
     def body = notificationTemplateEngine.build(notification, NotificationTemplateEngine.Type.BODY)
     notification.to.each {
       slack.sendMessage(token, new SlackMessage(
-          text: body,
-          channel: it
+        text: body,
+        channel: it.startsWith('#') ? it : "#${it}".toString()
       ))
     }
   }