message reply method not working as expected

[gekkedev]

Description

Replying to a message only works in one way for me, using the deprecated client.reply() API. The messages appear as regular messages but are not flagged as replies.
For the new way to reply, the API docs say I should use the ID parameter, but there is also t and both seem to work. What is the difference between them?

There is a possibility that I just do not understand how I'm supposed to implement it without using the deprecated method.

Environment

• WPPConnect version(s): 1.30.3
• WA-JS version(s): 3.3.0
• Browser: chrome-launcher@^0.15.2 / chromium-bidi@0.5.19
• OS: Windows 11
• Node version: Node v18.17.1
• WhatsApp version: 2.2411.x
• MultiDevice (BETA): no?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Receive a simple text
2. Send a text reply to it

Log Output

None, it does not throw an error, just does not work as expected. The messages are just sent as regular messages.

Your Code

    client.reply(message.chatId, "my reply", message.id) // works
    client.reply(message.chatId, "my reply", message.t) // works

    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgObj: message,
    });
    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgId: message.t
    });
    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgId: message.id
    });

[icleitoncosta]

Description

Replying to a message only works in one way for me, using the deprecated client.reply() API. The messages appear as regular messages but are not flagged as replies. For the new way to reply, the API docs say I should use the ID parameter, but there is also t and both seem to work. What is the difference between them?

There is a possibility that I just do not understand how I'm supposed to implement it without using the deprecated method.

Environment

• WPPConnect version(s): 1.30.3
• WA-JS version(s): 3.3.0
• Browser: chrome-launcher@^0.15.2 / chromium-bidi@0.5.19
• OS: Windows 11
• Node version: Node v18.17.1
• WhatsApp version: 2.2411.x
• MultiDevice (BETA): no?

Steps to Reproduce

1. Receive a simple text
2. Send a text reply to it

Log Output

None, it does not throw an error, just does not work as expected. The messages are just sent as regular messages.

Your Code

    client.reply(message.chatId, "my reply", message.id) // works
    client.reply(message.chatId, "my reply", message.t) // works

    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgObj: message,
    });
    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgId: message.t
    });
    //does not work
    return client.sendText(message.from, "my reply", {
      quotedMsgId: message.id
    });

Hi, use:

  // A message with reply
 client.sendText('<number>@c.us', 'A simple message', {
  quotedMsg: 'true_...@c.us_3EB01DE65ACC6_out'
 });

[gekkedev]

So I need to supply the right value to quotedMsg? I thought I had done that; I took the ID property of the incoming message. Is this the wrong field? The one I used is id which has a string value like 'false_[redacted phone number]@c.us_C1F[...]58'.
Once I understand how the non-deprecated approach works I can volunteer to amend an example into the documentation or add more JSDoc info.

[icleitoncosta]

So I need to supply the right value to quotedMsg? I thought I had done that; I took the ID property of the incoming message. Is this the wrong field? The one I used is id which has a string value like 'false_[redacted phone number]@c.us_C1F[...]58'. Once I understand how the non-deprecated approach works I can volunteer to amend an example into the documentation or add more JSDoc info.

Yes, exactly that way, you need to pass the id parameter. Regarding the documentation, I have already made a PR, but I am here analyzing other issues and fixing them to go along.

[gekkedev]

Your example worked for me when using the ID property:

client.sendText(message.chatId, "my reply", { quotedMsg: message.id })

Obrigado.

I also tried

client.sendText(message.chatId, "my reply", { quotedMsg: message })

which I thought should have worked according to the accepted types of quotedMsg where one accepted type is [MsgModel](https://wppconnect.io/wa-js/classes/whatsapp.MsgModel.html) (which I can see here is handled but it seems that the message object is not an instance of that WA.JS message class).
It yielded this error:

Error when sending predefined query:  Error: Invalid quotedMsg
    at [...]\node_modules\@wppconnect-team\wppconnect\dist\api\helpers\evaluate-and-return.js:107:31
    at step ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect-team\wppconnect\dist\api\helpers\evaluate-and-return.js:49:23)
    at Object.next ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect-team\wppconnect\dist\api\helpers\evaluate-and-return.js:30:53)
    at fulfilled ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect-team\wppconnect\dist\api\helpers\evaluate-and-return.js:21:58)
JS Stack: Error: Invalid quotedMsg
    at t.prepareRawMessage ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect\wa-js\dist\wppconnect-wa.js:2:174499)
    at async t.sendRawMessage ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect\wa-js\dist\wppconnect-wa.js:2:187654)
    at async t.sendTextMessage ([...]\node_modules\@wppconnect\wa-js\dist\wppconnect-wa.js:2:191842)
    at async pptr:evaluate;C%3A%5C[...]%5Cnode_modules%5C%40wppconnect-team%5Cwppconnect%5Cdist%5Capi%5Chelpers%5Cevaluate-and-return.js%3A99%3A56:56:26
Function: function (_a) {
                            var to = _a.to, content = _a.content, options = _a.options;
                            return WPP.chat.sendTextMessage(to, content, __assign(__assign({}, options), { waitForAck: true }));
                        } {
  code: 'invalid_quoted_msg',
  quotedMsg: {}
}

created a PR to adjust the docs: #2265

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