[Feature request] @mention support?

[dcsan]

In a group it is so convenient to message the bot using @botName

I was looking at the message API and trying to see how @mentions work

but looking at output from console.log(inspect(m)) . I don't see any special data that refers to the mentioned users.
Their names are included in the text of the message. If you change your name, then the mention will use the updated name (not the wechat ID)

So I guess the only way is to use message and match against the Room.memberList()
It just seems surprising this is left encoded in the message text and not as a userId in the data somewhere...

I guess that the memberList requires room.ready() and maybe not available all the time?
So we could provide this as an async API helper on the message object?

[huan]

Thanks for the great feature suggestion!

I agree that if we have a room-mention / mention event for the room when we got mentioned will be very convenience.

How about let's design it like this:

// Global Event
Wechaty.instance()
.on('room-mention', (room, message) => {
  // here we got message mentioned us
})

// or a specific Room Event

Room.find({ name: 'test' })
.then(room => {
  room.on('mention', message => {
    // here we got message mentioned us
  })
})

Before we implement that, I suggest you can have a try with Room.member(name) to get the Contact by name in a Room. And I think you should not worry about room.ready() because the room will always be called ready() by Wechaty Framework before you received the event. (If it's not updated with the latest data, call room.refresh() instead)

[lijiarui]

It may fix as it can on #362

[huan]

I'll close this issue because we have message.mentioned() now.