From 1df12e231b6c78d7b7197ed40a52ad53c75ae407 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sinan=20Selboe=20Karag=C3=BClle?=
 <sinan.karagulle@sparebank1.no>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:11:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Stop encoding text to generate unique dropdown identifier,
 use uuid instead

---
 app/server.js | 17 +++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/server.js b/app/server.js
index 647a0c5..592092e 100644
--- a/app/server.js
+++ b/app/server.js
@@ -59,10 +59,7 @@ app.event("message", async ({ event, client }) => {
     // Ignore everything except new messages
     return;
   }
-
-  const encodedText = btoa(event.text);
   console.log("Posting an ephemeral message to user:", event.user, "in channel:", event.channel);
-
   try {
     // Respond with an ephemeral message containing a dropdown menu
     await client.chat.postEphemeral({
@@ -78,7 +75,7 @@ app.event("message", async ({ event, client }) => {
           },
           accessory: {
             type: "external_select",
-            action_id: `category_select-${encodedText}`,
+            action_id: `category_select-${event.ts}`,
             placeholder: {
               type: "plain_text",
               text: "Select a category",
@@ -137,12 +134,20 @@ app.action(/category_select-.*/, async ({ body, ack, say }) => {
   // Acknowledge the action
   await ack();
   console.log("body", body);
-  const text = atob(body.actions[0].action_id.split("-")[1]);
+  // const text = atob(body.actions[0].action_id.split("-")[1]);  Currently not used since it caused bugs, so text is just an empty string
+  const text = "";
   console.log("text", text);
   // Respond to the user's selection
   const selectedCategory = body.actions[0].selected_option.text.text;
   const dropdown_id = body.actions[0].action_id;
-  addOrUpdateInc(body.user.username, text, selectedCategory, dropdown_id);
+  try {
+    addOrUpdateInc(body.user.username, text, selectedCategory, dropdown_id);
+    await say(`You selected: ${selectedCategory}`);
+  } catch (error) {
+    say("There was an error adding the incident. Please try again later.");
+    console.error("Error adding incident:", error);  
+  }
+
 });