Botkit: [Slack] im.open is deprecated

[ball-hayden]

Are you sure this is an issue with the Botkit core module?

Fairly sure, yes.

What are you trying to achieve or the steps to reproduce?

Attempting to begin a direct message with a Slack user throws a deprecation warning:

````ts
const bot = await controller.spawn(SlackTeamId);

const slackEmail = "[email protected]";
const slackLookupResponse = await bot.api.users.lookupByEmail({ email: slackEmail });
const slackId = slackLookupResponse.user.id;
await bot.startPrivateConversation(slackId);

await bot.say("Anything");
````

What was the result you received?

[WARN]  web-api:WebClient:0 im.open is deprecated. Please use the Conversations API instead. For more info, go to https://api.slack.com/changelog/2020-01-deprecating-antecedents-to-the-conversations-api
[ERROR]  web-api:WebClient:0 This method is retired and can no longer be used. Please use conversations.open instead. Learn more: https://api.slack.com/changelog/2020-01-deprecating-antecedents-to-the-conversations-api.
(node:1088) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: An API error occurred: method_deprecated
    at Object.platformErrorFromResult (/Users/hayden/development/PlayerData/beaverbot/node_modules/@slack/web-api/src/errors.ts:94:5)
    at WebClient.apiCall (/Users/hayden/development/PlayerData/beaverbot/node_modules/@slack/web-api/src/WebClient.ts:188:13)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)

What did you expect?

A direct message "anything" sent to the user id.

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Context:

• Botkit version: 4.9.0
• Messaging Platform: Slack
• Node version: v14.4.0
• Os: MacOS
• Any other relevant information:

[StephRicardo]

I am also encountering this issue.

[nikosalexakis]

Same issue here.

[ball-hayden]

This is fixed by https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/pull/1989, which will be included in "the next release".

@benbrown would you be able to give an indicative date for the next release please - it's been over a month?

[nikosalexakis]

This is an important fix, as notifications are not working on Slack for newly created apps.
Is there a workaround we could adopt before the next release?
Thanks

[benbrown]

A version of the adapter with this fix has been published! Snag 1.0.12 from npm.

[ball-hayden]

Thanks @benbrown

[nikosalexakis]

Thank you @benbrown!

[icsandesh]

@benbrown
createPrivateConversation method also gives "im.open is deprecated" message in latest legacy version (0.7.6) as well.
Will it be corrected?

[dhazan]

@benbrown
I am also encountering @icsandesh issue.
Will it be corrected?

[icsandesh]

I just edited the library change from im.open to conversation.open in
original code. using this custom library for now.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 5:32 AM Fernando Michel [e-mail]
wrote:

I found a similar used but when I try to convo.say inside the
createPrivateConversation, this used to work

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