Sent attachments is not showing up

[ienam]

hello. before i ask away, great flutter chat package btw. keep it up! =)

so here's my problem/inquiry, i'm creating a chat feature which uses chatlio methods/api's. i already have the basic text messaging worked. now my problem is with the attachments, sending pictures and files works fine (i think) in the app (because i can see it with the help of '_handleMessageTap' and '_handlePreviewDataFetched' methods. the problem is when it has been sent to slack it shows as plain text. how do i make it work so that when an attachment has been sent to slack it will still preview or work as expected (like if it's a file or an image)?

thanks so much in advance. appreciate any help! =)

[demchenkoalex]

Hi @ienam thank you!

Honestly, I don't know how I can help. The package was designed in a way so it can be used with whatever, that's why you have all those callbacks for sending images, files etc. so you can write your own implementation. ATM I was only used this chat UI with Firebase and I used Cloud Storage to upload files and images, and, after upload, I attached generated URL to the ImageMessage or FileMessage so it is rendering in the UI. See example here.

In your case either your service has some storage or you use AWS or something, you pass the URL to our library attaching it to the File or Image message, so it is rendered correctly here and Slack should be smart to parse the URL and see whether it is image or file, showing preview, download etc. That is how I think this should work, but I don't know the service and all the details, so these are just my thoughts.

[ienam]

thanks @demchenkoalex. i'll give it a try. =)