How to get the user id from Slack to bot service

Question

I am creating a simple bot using Azure LUIS and this is my first one. I made some decent progress after doing some research and also now integrated with Slack as channel to test it.

The bot functionality is working fine, but I am looking to identify the user. So that I can personalize the bot conversation and also to pull the user specific information from his profile table.

Is there anyway, that I can get a UID or any reference ID of the slack user and so I can store that in my user table along with user profile?

So next time, when the user greets the bot, the bot can say "Hello, John." instead of justing say "Hello."

Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the solution by priting the whole session object, which is having all the required informaiton. This could be same as mentioned by Dana above, but after debugging, this follwing made simple without making any changes.

var slackID = session.message.address.user.id

With above, I am able to identify the user.

Thanks.