Get Thread ID from New Thread

[kevinterrobang]

I am trying to write a bot that creates a new thread and later responds in that same thread. However, I can't seem to find a thread ID, whether I use envelope.newMessage = true nor robot.messageRoom

Is there something I am not seeing? How would I get the thread ID that was created by one of these messages so that I can later send a message to the same thread?

[PseudoCoding]

Has there been any update on this?

@ntrrobng were you able to figure something out?

[kevinterrobang]

@PseudoCoding sorry I was never able to find the new thread ID.

For my purposes, a user creates an initial thread that Hubot can match and then continue using. It's not as great as I want but it is sufficient for now due to our workflow. If someone was able to extract a new thread ID, that would still be preferable.

[PseudoCoding]

@ntrrobng Thanks. I'm trying to get my bot to create a thread from a webhook and then any webhooks coming in with the same ID would show up in the same conversation

[kevinterrobang]

@PseudoCoding github webhooks to kick a deployment? same. in our workflow, we manually post to the channel first to say we're going to deploy, so I have hubot setup to listen to that message and store the thread in robot.brain, then when the webhook comes in it knows where to continue posting. a little clunky but working for us for now.