rtm.start response is changing - appears to be a breaking one

[Jade Ahking]

According to a new entry from slack it appears that on September 20th, 2022 the rtm.start() response will be truncated and become identical to the rtm.connect() response see docs

This response will be missing the users, channels, groups, and ims keys that this library uses on initialization of a new client

I believe these changes will break this client on that date. Is my analysis correct and if so, are there any plans to update this library to survive these changes?

[lior-parsi]

Hi
Thank you for your work
Do you know if this change is planned to be merged soon?

[Shuai Lin]

Thanks all for the discussion. This is fixed in bfdbef9.

[Dave]

Hey @lins05 I'm using 1.0.1 released yesterday but still getting this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 8, in <module>
    main()
  File "run.py", line 4, in main
    bot = Bot()
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/bot.py", line 27, in __init__
    'BOT_EMOJI') else None
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 60, in __init__
    self.rtm_connect()
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 65, in rtm_connect
    self.parse_slack_login_data(reply)
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 88, in parse_slack_login_data
    self.parse_channel_data(self.list_channels())
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 81, in list_channels
    return webapi_generic_list(self.webapi, 'conversations', 'channels')
  File "/opt/bot/jobs/env/lib/python3.5/site-packages/slackbot/slackclient.py", line 30, in webapi_generic_list
    response = getattr(webapi, resource_key).list(**args)
AttributeError: 'Slacker' object has no attribute 'conversations'

[eduardobrazil]

I faced the same error and realized I was using slacker 0.1.2.0.

The error went away after updating slacker to its latest (0.14.0) version.