public IActionResult SendEmail([FromForm] string email, [FromForm] string messageToSend)
{
//Create client with default bearer token header:
var Client = new HttpClient();
Client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", configuration["SlackToken"]);
//Create an email user lookup request:
var emailLookupRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://slack.com/api/users.lookupByEmail");
var list = new List <KeyValuePair <string, string> >();
list.Add(new KeyValuePair <string, string>("email", email));
emailLookupRequest.Content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(list);
var response = Client.SendAsync(emailLookupRequest).Result;
EmailLookupResponse responseObject = new EmailLookupResponse();
//Deserialize the response (first create a string from the request's content,
//then deserialize it.
responseObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <EmailLookupResponse>(response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result);
//Create the post message request:
var postMessageRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://slack.com/api/chat.postMessage");
var messageRequestBody = new List <KeyValuePair <string, string> >();
messageRequestBody.Add(new KeyValuePair <string, string>("channel", responseObject.user.id));
messageRequestBody.Add(new KeyValuePair <string, string>("text", messageToSend));
postMessageRequest.Content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(messageRequestBody);
Client.SendAsync(postMessageRequest);
return(Ok(new { addressee = email, userID = responseObject.user.id, message = messageToSend }));
}
public async Task <EmailLookupResponse> EmailLookup(string email)
{
//Create an email user lookup request:
var emailLookupRequest = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Post, "https://slack.com/api/users.lookupByEmail");
var list = new List <KeyValuePair <string, string> >();
list.Add(new KeyValuePair <string, string>("email", email));
emailLookupRequest.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", configuration["SlackOAuthAccessToken"]);
emailLookupRequest.Content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(list);
var response = await httpClient.SendAsync(emailLookupRequest);
EmailLookupResponse responseObject = new EmailLookupResponse();
//Deserialize the response (first create a string from the request's content,
//then deserialize it.
responseObject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <EmailLookupResponse>(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
return(responseObject);
}