Best way to write a bubble? #21

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1. davidmann4 commented on Oct 11, 2016

   

   davidmann4

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   also we need a smart way to handle button clicks ...hmmm
2. mraaroncruz commented on Oct 13, 2016

   

   mraaroncruz

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   The way button clicks (aka. postbacks) are handled in other frameworks is with a postback:MYPOSTBACK handler at the message boundaries or in the state machine.

   The messenger term for bubbles is Generic Templates. Bubbles may be misleading if you go with it. I thought you meant this https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-api-reference/sender-actions

   bussi, aaron
3. mraaroncruz commented on Oct 13, 2016

   

   mraaroncruz

   on Oct 13, 2016

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   I like the second option with the hash. Good question about the buttons though.

   They deserve their own type. Maybe you should just wrap them and make a couple different types.

   Botstack::URLButton # or Botstack::Button::URL
   Botstack::PostbackButton # or Botstack::Button::Postback
   
   button = Botstack::Button::URL.new(title: "View Product", value: "http://example.com/peters_hat.jpg")
   
   template = Botstack::ButtonTemplate.new(message: "Choose something already!", buttons: [button])
   
   =begin
   Outputs
    {"message":{
       "attachment":{
         "type":"template",
         "payload":{
           "template_type":"button",
           "text":"Choose something already!",
           "buttons":[
             {
               "type":"web_url",
               "url":"http://example.com/peters_hat.jpg",
               "title":"View Product"
             }
           ]
         }
       }
     }}
   =end

   Downside being you'd need to define the buttons beforehand to send into reply_button but the method signature could be something like reply_button(message, buttons)

   If you were so inclined, you could even write button factory methods like

   def make_url_button(text, url)
   # and
   def make_postback_button(text, postback)

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