public SlackResponse PostMessage(SlackMessage message)
{
var httpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(string.Format("{0}/chat.postMessage", ApiBaseUrl));
SlackResponse response = null;
// At the moment, slack does not support json encoded bodies in messages WHICH IS REALLY REALLY CRAZY, everything has to be URI encoded. Who knew!
//httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
//httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
//using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
//{
// var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(message);
// streamWriter.Write(json);
// streamWriter.Flush();
//}
ASCIIEncoding ascii = new ASCIIEncoding();
var messageEncoded = message.EncodeAsURI();
byte[] postBytes = ascii.GetBytes(messageEncoded);
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
httpWebRequest.ContentLength = postBytes.Length;
using (var stream = httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
stream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
stream.Flush();
}
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
response = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject <SlackResponse>(result);
}
return(response);
}
