"SetTypingRequest" Telethon equivalent in Gramme.rs

[foodornt]

Is there any?

[Lonami]

Currently there is no "friendly method" for it. We should brainstorm how this should work in grammers. In Telethon, we can use a context manager, and the typing status is sent for as long as the context manager is open. But Rust doesn't have that. We could emulate one with a closure, but I don't know if that's the best option. What ideas do you have, or how would you like to use it?

[foodornt]

Personally I'd just emulate it manually for n amount of time

[Lonami]

Could you sketch some code on how you'd imagine it? Then we can discuss tradeoffs.

[foodornt]

maybe something like:

client.set_typing_status(chat_id, true);

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[Lonami]

This will only show it for a few seconds. It would be annoying to use, with, say, file uploads, which need to send this request evwry so often (but there's no need to do it too often).

[foodornt]

oh sorry didn't know telegram does it this way

What about keep sending it until the library user set it to false?

[Lonami]

Then not only does the library have to spawn a long-lived task (which I would rather avoid), but it would also make it easy to accidentally always leave it on.