Support acknowledgement responses to user interactions about slackblocks HOT 5 CLOSED

Hey Andrew, apologies for the delayed response to this, I've been a bit busy with research and thesis work. I like the proposal and will aim to have it implemented in the next day or two.

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Working on this now. I forgot to mention that as a stopgap I'd made the channel field optional on Message for the time being.

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I think I've implemented what is was you're after. It's difficult to run an integration test for this kind of thing without setting up a sever. Let me know if I've overlooked anything.

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Looks good! I'll test it out when I get a chance.

It looks like I slightly misread the different ways Slack allows an API server to respond to an interaction. Apparently an "Acknowledgement response" is just a plain HTTP request with a 200 status, which must be sent within 3 seconds (this just prevents a little error icon from appearing next to the button the user clicked in Slack).

What you implemented, and what I originally thought of as an acknowledgement response, actually has the very generic name of "Message response". Besides not needing a channel (Slack can figure that out from the response URL it gives you), it's basically a typical message with two additional attributes: the boolean replace__original, which you already implemented, and response_type, which can be set to "ephemeral" to send a message only visible to the interacting user.

TL:DR; You can add response_type to the AcknowledgementResponse constructor (or just add an ephemeral boolean argument since that's the only value it can take anyway). You could also rename AcknowledgementResponse to MessageResponse, although imo Slack's terminology is a little confusing. Lastly, the default value for replace_original should probably be False instead of True, but it's not a big deal. Thanks for taking the time to implement it!

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That makes a lot of sense wrt the availability of documentation for AcknowledgementResponses. I've made the suggested changes in the latest version. If you do end up using it, let me know how it goes.

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