Question: Supported way to use slackblocks with WebhookClient

[rileydakota]

Hello!

We have a few slack apps that rely on app based incoming webhooks. We utilize the WebhookClient class in the SDK to interface with this. It doesn't require a few of the fields, like channel or text. Is there a supported way to pass the blocks in (aside from dropping them into a Message instance and grabbing the blocks from that?)

[nicklambourne]

There isn't currently, but I'd be open to making something like a WebhookMessage class with just those required fields. Would that suit your use case? (Also happy to take other suggestions on board).

[rileydakota]

Yeah - I'd be cool with that. My current solution (not pretty) just has been:

msg = Message(channel='None', blocks=[SectionBlock(), ...]
webhook_client = WebhookClient(slack_webhook)

response = webhook_client.send(blocks=msg['blocks'])

Having a WebhookMessage class seems more elegant to me.

[nicklambourne]

Added in #70 / v1.0.3, let me know if anything is broken / can be improved.