Bot replies are in a downloadable file called "files" - MatterMost

[waydh]

Environment

• Python version: 3.9.18
• Nautobot version: 2.2.0
• nautobot-chatops version: 3.0.2
• MatterMost version: 9.6.1

Expected Behavior

Bot to reply in a text message, not with the text in a downloadable file called "files".

Observed Behavior

All bot responses are in a downloadable file called "files"

Steps to Reproduce

1. Issue slash command
2. Bot responds with a downloadable file called "files" which contains the text of the response.
3. See the screenshot for more details.

[smk4664]

This is due to Mattermost limitations in message response. Any table is uploaded as a snippet. This is the same with Slack, but small snippets in Slack are automatically rendered by Slack.

[waydh]

Thank you for your reply. That's unfortunate.

[jvanderaa]

@smk4664 should we look at some alternate methods to support just straight text?

[smk4664]

We already support other methods, such as send_markdown. But many of the built-in commands such as get-devices were built using send_large_table which uses snippets.