What's the point of "meta_data" on a Quick Reply Option?

bobber205 · 2018-07-06T18:12:45.758Z

When I first started writing Twitter bots I thought that meta_data would be included in somewhere in the payload.

I just checked again and it’s not included anywhere in the payload that is delivered to the account activity webhook.

What’s the purpose of it? It’d be nice to use it!

joncipriano · 2018-07-16T17:59:49.892Z

Hi @bobber205, what is the meta_data you are referring to?

The answer may be obvious, so apologies in advance if I am not thinking correctly.

bobber205 · 2018-07-16T23:10:35.086Z

Good afternoon @joncipriano

When you specify a quick reply options there are two keys required: Label and “meta_data”.

If you leave it off there is an error. When supplied it never comes in any payload received.

joncipriano · 2018-07-17T17:27:59.200Z

Hi @bobber205, the meta data “should” be returned when a user only selects a quick reply response. In the JSON object it should be at:

event.message_create.message_data.quick_reply_response.metadata

If it is not, someone on the team here can look into it.

bobber205 · 2018-07-17T18:23:12.289Z

I just searched the last relevant json payload that was sent via a quick reply and there was no instance of the word “metadata” in it anywhere.

joncipriano · 2018-07-17T18:41:07.475Z

Hi @bobber205, if you are able to, please share the JSON posted to send the quick reply and the JSON generated by the user replying by selecting a quick reply. Thanks.

yusuke · 2018-08-13T00:55:57.797Z

I’m trying to send quick_reply_response via https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/events/new.json.
But the response is not populated in the response json.

Is responding back to quick reply options only allowed to official clients?

Here’s the log:
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]Request:
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/direct_messages/events/new.json
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]OAuth base string: POST&https%3A%2F%2Fapi.twitter.com%2F1.1%2Fdirect_messages%2Fevents%2Fnew.json&oauth_consumer_key%3DUF8zZg9gEX6msNx0WZn3mXx5U%26oauth_nonce%3D3107991648%26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp%3D1534121435%26oauth_token%3D1423387051-YYP8ifhdxbl1GcqwAllrE38lJCe6p48WCKnOLmO%26oauth_version%3D1.0
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]OAuth signature: 8+XDIt/vgzhiNA5RGBdrOyIKKBg=
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]Authorization: ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]X-Twitter-Client-Version: 4.0.7-SNAPSHOT
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]X-Twitter-Client-URL: http://twitter4j.org/en/twitter4j-4.0.7-SNAPSHOT.xml
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]X-Twitter-Client: Twitter4J
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]User-Agent: twitter4j http://twitter4j.org/ /4.0.7-SNAPSHOT
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]Accept-Encoding: gzip
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]Post Params: {“event”:{“type”:“message_create”,“message_create”:{“target”:{“recipient_id”:96372623},“message_data”:{“text”:“label2”,“quick_reply_response”:{“type”:“options”,“metadata”:“metadata2”}}}}}
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]Response:
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:50:35 GMT
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]server: tsa_m
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]content-length: 203
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-tsa-request-body-time: 0
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]expires: Tue, 31 Mar 1981 05:00:00 GMT
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-response-time: 173
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]content-encoding: gzip
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-transaction: 00c76ab500f7bec0
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]strict-transport-security: max-age=631138519
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]pragma: no-cache
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]set-cookie: guest_id=v1%3A153412143540022523; Expires=Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:50:35 GMT; Path=/; Domain=.twitter.com
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]set-cookie: lang=en; Path=/
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]set-cookie: personalization_id=“v1_wbQVzaeeJWdpp4V26m6soA==”; Expires=Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:50:35 GMT; Path=/; Domain=.twitter.com
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]last-modified: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 00:50:35 GMT
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block; report=https://twitter.com/i/xss_report
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-content-type-options: nosniff
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]content-disposition: attachment; filename=json.json
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-connection-hash: c2a2b6dddf91817c04c5772b03091f6f
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-access-level: read-write
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]x-twitter-response-tags: BouncerCompliant
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]content-type: application/json;charset=utf-8
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]status: 200 OK
[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]{“event”:{“type”:“message_create”,“id”:“1028805983491899397”,“created_timestamp”:“1534121435412”,“message_create”:{“target”:{“recipient_id”:“96372623”},“sender_id”:“1423387051”,“message_data”:{“text”:“label2”,“entities”:{“hashtags”:[],“symbols”:[],“user_mentions”:[],“urls”:[]}}}}}

[Mon Aug 13 09:50:35 JST 2018]{
“event”: {
“type”: “message_create”,
“id”: “1028805983491899397”,
“created_timestamp”: “1534121435412”,
“message_create”: {
“target”: {
“recipient_id”: “96372623”
},
“sender_id”: “1423387051”,
“message_data”: {
“text”: “label2”,
“entities”: {
“hashtags”: [],
“symbols”: [],
“user_mentions”: [],
“urls”: []
}
}
}
}
}

yusuke · 2018-08-13T00:56:22.983Z

Here’s the full log:
https://pastebin.com/eRPwUyEW

bobber205 · 2018-08-14T18:34:52.135Z

You just have to use the label text to do your matching not the meta data. Unless I am misunderstanding your question.

Also you should create a new thread.

bobber205 · 2018-08-22T17:06:44.056Z

@joncipriano
Sorry for the delay getting back to you –

I’m creating QRO just like the documentation says to.

My message data payload looks like this

			"message_data": {
				"text": "B. United States",
				"entities": {
					"hashtags": [],
					"symbols": [],
					"user_mentions": [],
					"urls": []
				},
				"quick_reply_response": {
					"type": "options"
				}
			}

I’m pretty sure next to “type” should be “metadata” right? That’s what the documentation says.

bobber205 · 2018-10-29T22:54:45.518Z

@andypiper @LeBraat

Afternoon all.

I am developing a feature where this would be a huge upside if this was working properly. The only thing I can think of that might prevent this from working is that i’m still using the default environment “env-beta” that was created for me during the beta phase. Could that be part of it?

I’ve seen changes over time to this same endpoint that’s been running interrupted for a few months so i don’t think destroying/recreating is necessary to receive updated payloads is it?