Get ThreadID from Listen for on_message about fbchat

[thekindlyone]

PR #56 adds getUserInfo to get name from uid (you probably want to maintain a dictionary of contacts in your subclassed Client). As for thread_id, have you checked the metadata?

[litobro]

I'm going through the metadata now trying to access a thread_id, there were some issues for python 3.5 in PR #56 for getUserInfo. I was getting an error on an iteritems() call and hadn't had time to debug the compatibility yet.

[thekindlyone]

ugh, 3.x doesn't have dict.iteritems(). dict.items() in 3 does what iteritems did in 3.5.

[litobro]

Unless I'm mistaken the metadata doesn't contain the thread_id either. It does have a "offlineThreadingId" that if I try to send a message to I receive a 500 error in response.

[thekindlyone]

I fixed the iteritems thing, but don't know about thread_id. Can't you just reply to the author_id? Does it not always reply to same thread?

[litobro]

Replying to the author_id seems to always reply directly (1to1) with the author of the message, even in a group chat.

[thekindlyone]

The group chat in the js wrapper has some extra things going on. But the current PR situation is pretty messed up due to my inexperience with git, so am not doing any extra functionality till my current PR's are merged or rejected.

[Schmavery]

In the js wrapper, it looks like we're first checking if the tid field on the message exists, and then preferring to use that, then trying to use the thread_fbid and failing that, the other_user_fbid. It's possible that this is a little out of date and handles cases that no longer exist, but it seems to be working.

[litobro]

Poking around some more now, it seems that the threadFbId and actorFbId definitely exist in the metadata. Not sure how I missed the tread one. Don't see a tid anywhere, but I'm going to have to think a bit about how to implement this if the maintainer wants it part of the main library. Otherwise I can just implement a simple fall through case on my bot.

EDIT: It seems as though the send() function does not actually support replying to groups properly though. It sends it as other_user_fbid which then still returns a 200 but the message does not appear in the group. Perhaps @Schmavery could provide some insight?

[thekindlyone]

@litobro just follow the js and clone whatever it is doing in python. Worked for me so far. :P

[litobro]

I'm going to close this issue and reopen as an issue about replying to groups.