Botkit: Can not fire the event if the sender is other kind of Bot

[ZuzooVn]

I use Google Calendar Bot (http://slackhq.com/post/124767707715/googlecalendar) from Slack in order to send the message to my bot.

But the botkit did not fire the event.

controller.on('direct_message',function(bot,message) {
// Do something here
});

It only work if the real person send a message

[ZuzooVn]

Finally I can use bot_message event

controller.on('bot_message', function(bot, message) {
    // Do something here
});

[ZuzooVn]

There was a problems that message.text always return null.

[gdcohan]

@ZuzooVn I was hitting this problem too..in my case, the bot was sending a message that had no text but an attachment field with a fallback in it..maybe yours is doing something like this too?

[ZuzooVn]

@gdcohan Me too, we can not get the text because the bot did not send any text. Can you get the text in the attachment in below image?

[ZuzooVn]

@gdcohan According to https://api.slack.com/events/message/bot_message, I think we can not get the attachments content.

[ZuzooVn]

@gdcohan Finally I can get the attachments content with below code:

javascript controller.on('bot_message', function(bot, message) { console.log('message.attachments: ' + message.attachments); var attachment = message.attachments[0]; console.log('attachments.title: ' + attachment.title); console.log('attachments.text: ' + attachment.text); });```

[donavon]

Did bot_message go away? I don't see it anywhere in the code and it's not fired when I receive a message from another bot.

[kalexmills]

@donavon The above code snippet works for me.