Slack API Using \n for new lines does not work in chat.postMessage (golang)
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Solution 1
I figured out the issue. The sample I originally posted will actually work as intended. I simplified the original code which was a command line application where the text is a parameter passed as a CLI flag so it looked a little like this:
cliapp --text="one\ntwo"
The variable that held the value for this flag wasn't actually escaping the character so it was ACTUALLY:
"one\\ntwo"
I used a simple string replacement to fix the values:
text = strings.Replace(text, "\\n", "\n", -1)
Solution 2
I was using Java and i did
message.replace("\\n","\n")
and it worked.
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broseflip
Updated on June 27, 2022Comments
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broseflip almost 2 years
I'm using the Slack web API to post messages to a channel in Go. I'm trying to support multi-line messages in the text field. According to the documentation simply adding a \n should work but it's not working. When posting the \n appears in the text and there's no line break.
Here's the code I'm using:
func PostMessage(token, channelName, userName, text string) error { uv := url.Values{} uv.Add("token", token) uv.Add("channel", channelName) uv.Add("username", userName) uv.Add("text", text) resp, err := http.PostForm("https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage", uv) if err != nil { return err } return nil } func main() { if err := PostMessage("xxxx", "#test-channel", "API", "This should be the first line\nThis should be the second line"); err != nil { panic(err) } }