Not getting @here in routes

[kendrickm]

I'm trying to write a plugin that listens for someone to use '@here' in a channel. It would then compare them against a specific group, and if they're not in that group give them a polite private message asking them not to notify everyone in the channel. The issue I'm having is it seems that @here isn't getting handled like normal text is. I created a test route that simply echoed any text back it heard, and it did fine until @here was used. I then see this stack trace

Slack API call to chat.postMessage returned an error: no_text.
Full backtrace:
/var/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/lita-slack-1.8.0/lib/lita/adapters/slack/api.rb:99:in call_api' /var/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/lita-slack-1.8.0/lib/lita/adapters/slack/api.rb:59:insend_messages'
/var/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/lita-slack-1.8.0/lib/lita/adapters/slack.rb:43:in send_messages' /var/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/robot.rb:129:insend_messages'
/var/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/lita-4.7.1/lib/lita/message.rb:93:in `reply'
Is this a slack issue(not sending that message through their bot api) or something on the lita side? I'm not finding much searching around for other people trying to do this.

Thanks

[codewithtyler]

Hi @kendrickm we've been doing something similar with our bot. We're listening for the @channel and then posting a message based on that. You're welcome to see how we're doing it here.

I believe we were able to implement it via the lita-static-meme plugin.

[kendrickm]

@RandomlyKnighted Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried that out and it looks like @channel works, but @here doesn't. I'm wondering if Slack doesn't view a bot user as 'here' when it builds a list of users to send the message to?