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Version: 1.4

Messenger Routing

Bottender offers a bunch of helpers to route within your Messenger or multi-platform app. For example, you may use Messenger particular routes within your router:

const { router, messenger } = require('bottender/router');

function App() {
return router([
messenger.message(HandleMessage),
messenger.accountLinking.linked(HandleAccountLinkingLinked),
messenger.accountLinking.unlinked(HandleAccountLinkingUnlinked),
messenger.accountLinking(HandleAccountLinking),
messenger.delivery(HandleDelivery),
messenger.echo(HandleEcho),
messenger.gamePlay(HandleGamePlay),
messenger.passThreadControl(HandlePassThreadControl),
messenger.takeThreadControl(HandleTakeThreadControl),
messenger.requestThreadControl(HandleRequestThreadControl),
messenger.appRoles(HandleAppRoles),
messenger.optin(HandleOptin),
messenger.policyEnforcement(HandlePolicyEnforcement),
messenger.postback(HandlePostback),
messenger.reaction.react(HandleReactionReact),
messenger.reaction.unreact(HandleReactionUnreact),
messenger.reaction(HandleReaction),
messenger.read(HandleRead),
messenger.referral(HandleReferral),
messenger.standby(HandleStandby),
messenger.any(HandleMessenger),
]);
}

/* Note: You need to implement those functions */
async function HandleMessage(context) {}
async function HandleAccountLinkingLinked(context) {}
async function HandleAccountLinkingUnlinked(context) {}
async function HandleAccountLinking(context) {}
async function HandleDelivery(context) {}
async function HandleEcho(context) {}
async function HandleGamePlay(context) {}
async function HandlePassThreadControl(context) {}
async function HandleTakeThreadControl(context) {}
async function HandleRequestThreadControl(context) {}
async function HandleAppRoles(context) {}
async function HandleOptin(context) {}
async function HandlePolicyEnforcement(context) {}
async function HandlePostback(context) {}
async function HandleReactionReact(context) {}
async function HandleReactionUnreact(context) {}
async function HandleReaction(context) {}
async function HandleRead(context) {}
async function HandleReferral(context) {}
async function HandleStandby(context) {}
async function HandleMessenger(context) {}

All available routes in messenger that recognize different kind of events:

  • messenger.any - triggers the action when receiving any Messenger events.
  • messenger.message - triggers the action when receiving Messenger message events.
  • messenger.accountLinking.linked - triggers the action when receiving Messenger account_linking events with status linked.
  • messenger.accountLinking.unlinked - triggers the action when receiving Messenger account_linking events with status unlinked.
  • messenger.accountLinking - triggers the action when receiving Messenger account_linking events.
  • messenger.delivery - triggers the action when receiving Messenger delivery events.
  • messenger.echo - triggers the action when receiving Messenger echo events.
  • messenger.gamePlay - triggers the action when receiving Messenger game_play events.
  • messenger.passThreadControl - triggers the action when receiving Messenger pass_thread_control events.
  • messenger.takeThreadControl - triggers the action when receiving Messenger take_thread_control events.
  • messenger.requestThreadControl - triggers the action when receiving Messenger request_thread_control events.
  • messenger.appRoles - triggers the action when receiving Messenger app_roles events.
  • messenger.optin - triggers the action when receiving Messenger optin events.
  • messenger.policyEnforcement - triggers the action when receiving Messenger policy_enforcement events.
  • messenger.postback - triggers the action when receiving Messenger postback events.
  • messenger.preCheckout - triggers the action when receiving Messenger pre_checkout events.
  • messenger.reaction.react - triggers the action when receiving Messenger reaction events with action react.
  • messenger.reaction.unreact - triggers the action when receiving Messenger reaction events with action unreact.
  • messenger.reaction - triggers the action when receiving Messenger reaction events.
  • messenger.read - triggers the action when receiving Messenger read events.
  • messenger.referral - triggers the action when receiving Messenger referral events.
  • messenger.standby - triggers the action when receiving Messenger standby events.

Note: You must subscribe corresponding events for your page to receive the events.