[Question] How to add reaction to message from bot?

[Kariton]

It is possible to react to messages from someone else when the bot gets triggerd:

await ctx.react(emoji=command_react)

But cat the bot add a reaction to its own message after sending it (await ctx.send(message))?

[Kariton]

somewhat related: #18 (comment)

[filipre]

Yes, using self.bot.react(message: Message, emoji: str) should work for any message. You just need to persist the message object somewhere or build it by yourself again

[filipre]

send just returns the timestamp, so to build your own message, you could do something like this

if self._is_phone_number(receiver):
    sent_message = Message(
        source=receiver,  # otherwise we can't respond in the right chat
        timestamp=timestamp,
        type=MessageType.SYNC_MESSAGE,
        text=text,
        base64_attachments=base64_attachments,
        group=None,
    )
else:
    sent_message = Message(
        source=self._phone_number,  # no need to pretend
        timestamp=timestamp,
        type=MessageType.SYNC_MESSAGE,
        text=text,
        base64_attachments=base64_attachments,
        group=receiver,
    )

and then react on it?

Maybe send should always return a Message object like above and not just the timestamp 🤔