Channel name instead of ID? about hubot-matteruser

[Judokus]

Method findChannelByName is in the mattermost-client. It returns the channel object. See here

[alexiri]

That function does the exact opposite of what would be needed. You could have pointed to getChannelByID, which is closer to my question.

Regardless, I realize now that my question was badly explained. When other hubot plugins (such as hubot-seen, for example) get the channel information, they get the channel id. They then print this information to the user, which is pretty useless:

> hubot seen alex
hubot: alex was last seen in dmmmhorgtfdq8yeotaaqdub71c at Fri Jun 24 2016 08:58:56 GMT+0200 (CEST)

[loafoe]

You would need to have a modified seen plugin that does the reverse lookup. Mattermost has chosen to work with non-hum consumable channel IDs