slackbot.js

const { App } = require('@slack/bolt');
const WPAPI = require( 'wpapi' );//add in http://wp-api.org/node-wpapi


// Initializes your app with your bot token and signing secret
const app = new App({
  token: process.env.SLACK_BOT_TOKEN,
  signingSecret: process.env.SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET
});

app.command('/courseupdate', async ({ command, ack, body, client }) => {
  // Acknowledge the command request
  await ack();

  try {
    // Call views.open with the built-in client
    const result = await client.views.open({
      // Pass a valid trigger_id within 3 seconds of receiving it
      trigger_id: body.trigger_id,
      // View payload
      view: {
        type: 'modal',
        // View identifier
        callback_id: 'course-submit',
        title: {
          type: 'plain_text',
          text: 'Course Update'
        },
        blocks: [{
            type: "input",
            block_id: 'course_selection',
            element: {
              type: "static_select",
              placeholder: {
                type: "plain_text",
                text: "Select your course",
                emoji: true
              },
              options: [
                {
                  text: {
                    type: "plain_text",
                    text: "ICC Global Leadership",
                    emoji: true
                  },
                  value: "icc-global-leadership"//9
                },
                {
                  text: {
                    type: "plain_text",
                    text: "Japanese Ethnography",
                    emoji: true
                  },
                  value: "japanese-ethnography-as-a-window-to-japanese-language-and-society"//10
                },
                 {
                  text: {
                    type: "plain_text",
                    text: "Japanese Introduction to Japanese Pedagogy",
                    emoji: true
                  },
                  value: "japanese-introduction-to-japanese-pedagogy"//11
                },
                {
                  text: {
                    type: "plain_text",
                    text: "Program Management",
                    emoji: true
                  },
                  value: "program-management"//12
                },
                {
                  text: {
                    type: "plain_text",
                    text: "Software Internationalization and Localization",
                    emoji: true
                  },
                  value: "software-internationalization-and-localization"//13
                }
              ],
              action_id: "course_input"
            },
            label: {
              type: "plain_text",
              text: "Course selection",
              emoji: true
            }
          },
          {
            type: 'input',
            block_id: 'good_stuff',
            optional: true,
            label: {
              type: 'plain_text',
              text: 'What is going well this week?'
            },
            element: {
              type: 'plain_text_input',
              action_id: 'good_input',
              multiline: true,
            }
          },{
            type: 'input',
            block_id: 'flag_stuff',
            optional: true,
            label: {
              type: 'plain_text',
              text: 'Yellow or red flags this week?'
            },
            element: {
              type: 'plain_text_input',
              action_id: 'flag_input',
              multiline: true
            }
          },{
            type: 'input',
            block_id: 'other_stuff',
            optional: true,
            label: {
              type: 'plain_text',
              text: 'Anything else to share?'
            },
            element: {
              type: 'plain_text_input',
              action_id: 'other_input',
              multiline: true
            }
          }
        ],
        submit: {
          type: 'plain_text',
          text: 'Submit',
        }
      }
    });
    //console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
  }
  catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
});
//update modal
app.view('course-submit', async ({ ack, body, view, client }) => {
  // Acknowledge the action
    await ack();
    console.log(JSON.stringify(body));//see the data getting passed
    let msg = '';

    const user = body['user']['id'];
    const results = await createWpUpdate(body['user']['username'],body);

    if (results){
      msg = 'Your update was successful.'
    } else {
      msg = 'I am a failure but I do not know why.'
    }

    //message the user 

    try {
      await client.chat.postMessage({
        channel: user,
        text: msg
      });
    }
    catch (error){
      console.error(error);
    }
 
});

(async () => {
  // Start your app
  await app.start(process.env.PORT || 3000);

  console.log('⚡️ Bolt app is running!');
})();


function createWpUpdate(slackuser, body){

    const values = body.view.state.values;
    let good = values.good_stuff.good_input.value;
    let flag = values.flag_stuff.flag_input.value;
    let other = values.other_stuff.other_input.value;
    let course = values.course_selection.course_input.selected_option.value;//easy to miss selected_option
    let courseId = courseTagToID(course);
    var wp = new WPAPI({
      endpoint: 'http://experiments.middcreate.net/slack/wp-json',
      // This assumes you are using basic auth, as described further below
      username: process.env.WP_USER,
      password: process.env.WP_PASS
  });
    var user = process.env.WP_USER;
  
  //establish route for custom post type update ***************** from https://github.com/WP-API/node-wpapi/issues/275
  const namespace = 'wp/v2';
  const updateRoute = '/update/';
  
  wp.update = wp.registerRoute(namespace, updateRoute);

//date
  const currentDate = new Date();
  const currentDayOfMonth = currentDate.getDate();
  const currentMonth = currentDate.getMonth(); // Be careful! January is 0, not 1
  const currentYear = currentDate.getFullYear();

  const dateString = currentDayOfMonth + "-" + (currentMonth + 1) + "-" + currentYear;

  wp.update().create({ //leave as post instead of update if just regular post
      // "title" and "content" are the only required properties
      title: slackuser + ' via slackbot on ' + dateString,
      content: 'nothing to see here',
      post_type: 'update',
             //  },
      meta: {
        going_well: good,//tied to defining them on the WP side w register_meta
        flags: flag,
        else: other
      },
      tags: [ courseId ],
      // Post will be created as a draft by default if a specific "status"
      // is not specified
      status: 'publish'
  }).then(function( response ) {
      // "response" will hold all properties of your newly-created post,
      // including the unique `id` the post was assigned on creation
      //console.log( response.id );
  })
  return true;
}


function courseTagToID(course){
  let courses = {
    'icc-global-leadership': 9,
    'japanese-ethnography-as-a-window-to-japanese-language-and-society': 10,
    'japanese-introduction-to-japanese-pedagogy': 11,
    'program-management': 12,
    'software-internationalization-and-localization': 13,
  };
  if (courses[course]){
      return courses[course];//remember the issue with hyphens in json
  } else {
    return 1;
  }

}