Update of existing slack post does not work with channel name, only channel id

[brownjeff]

Description

When using update-ts: to update a previous action's slack post, the error Error: An API error occurred: channel_not_found is thrown.

The update works fine when using the channel ID, but does not work when using channel name.

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Steps to reproduce:

1. Create subsequent actions like:

      - name: Post to a Slack channel
        id: slack
        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.22.0
        with:
          channel-id: '#mychannel'
          payload: |
            {
              "text": "first message"
            }
      - name: Update Existing Message in Slack
        id: slack_update
        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.22.0
        with:
          channel-id: '#mychannel'
          update-ts: ${{ steps.slack.outputs.ts }}
          payload: |
            {
              "text": "UPDATED MESSAGE"
            }

2. Note: token set in env at global level
3. Execute the workflow
4. Notice first message is posted to slack
5. Notice the slack post if never updated.
6. Notice in github action page an error has occur with message: Error: An API error occurred: channel_not_found

Expected result:

Existing post is updated with the subsequent action.

Actual result:

Notice in github action page an error has occur with message: Error: An API error occurred: channel_not_found

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[WilliamBergamin]

Hi @brownjeff thanks for writing in!

I suspect this may be related to the way the channel information is provided. When posting a message the postMessage method accepts a channel encoded ID, or a name as input. And based on the documentation, in the case of updateMessage only the channel encoded ID can be provided.

let me know if using the channel name instead of the channel_id is the source of this issue

[brownjeff]

Thanks for the reply @WilliamBergamin

You are correct. Using the channel name instead of the channel_id is the source of this issue.

Thanks for the links to the methods' docs.

I suppose this should not be a bug report here, but a feature request to the Slack API for adding channel-name as a valid alternative to channel-id in the updateMessage call.

Thanks again.