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Slack slash commands - Variable/Parameters

I'm integrating slack with jenkins to use slash commands and want to know if slash commands have variables

What I want to do is something like this;

/this_word_should_be_in_the_url word

and the be able to use word in the URL the slash command will call.

On their page they have something like /weather 94070

Do I have access to the 94070 and somehow set is as a query parameter for the URL.

Is this possible? Can't find any documentation of this.

Thanks.

Solution

  • Yes. You will have access to the word as per the example that you mentioned.

    So for example, if you have the following:

    /this_word_should_be_in_the_url word

    Then there will be an additional query parameter named text that will contain everything else after the slash command. If you just have one parameter then it should be simple to just trim and use the text query parameter but if you have multiple words and need to split them into something more meaningful, then you might have to use some regex or simple string split function.

    It is documented at How do commands work. In this section they have provided the various query parameters that will get passed to your Slash Command External URL. For the weather example, the data posted as per the documentation is:

    token=gIkuvaNzQIHg97ATvDxqgjtO team_id=T0001 team_domain=example channel_id=C2147483705 channel_name=test user_id=U2147483697 user_name=Steve command=/weather text=94070 response_url=https://hooks.slack.com/commands/1234/5678

    Notice the text parameter in the above list.