Telegram-bot-sdk: how to handle Forbidden: bot was blocked by the user?

[mrmrn]

hi,
I wrote a bot for connecting 2 people together.
it works fine but when a user block it, the bot cannot do anything. It stick in a loop and send a message continuously to users.
$data=Telegram::commandsHandler(false);
when I want above method it gaves me:
TelegramResponseException in TelegramResponseException.php line 58: Forbidden: bot was blocked by the user
and it dose not work for any user. not just that user who blocked my bot!!
how can I get rid of this problem?

thanks.

[mrmrn]

I used Telegram::setAsyncRequest(true)-> before each sendMessage method and get rid of this error.
but still I want to know when I have this 403 error to handle error and do something.

[jonnywilliamson]

Don't be using the setAsyncRequest method unless you REALLY understand what it is and why you need it.

Why don't you just use a simple Try and Catch block and deal with the exception?

This is VERY rough and basic example below.

        try {

            $telegram->sendMessage([
                'chat_id'                  => '<PERSONS_ID>',
                'text'                     => 'Here is some text',
            ]);

        } catch (TelegramResponseException $e) {

            $errorData = $e->getResponseData();

            if ($errorData['ok'] === false) {
                $telegram->sendMessage([
                    'chat_id' => '<ADMINISTRATOR ID>',
                    'text'    => 'There was an error for a user. ' . $errorData['error_code'] . ' ' . $errorData['description'],
                ]);
            }
        }

Please let us know if this resolved your problem.

[mrmrn]

Dear @jonnywilliamson
thank you for the response. it works for me.

[mohsennrs]

Hi.Sorry to bring this up again but using try catch doesn't seem to work for me. Although it catches exceptions but my bot encounters a loop all the same. Any suggestions?

[neel004]

@mohsennrs you got any another solution if yes then please let me know i have also been fallen pray to telegram infinite loop

[mohsennrs]

@neel004 I got it to work at the time but I'm really not sure how I fixed it, but I think using general Exception class did the job. My code is like this:

  `try{
        $response = $this->telegram->deleteMessage([
            "chat_id" => "chat id",
            "message_id" => "message id"
        ]);
        return $response
    } catch (\Exception $e) {
        return $e;
    }`