v0.5.0

What's Changed

✨ Implemented enhancements

• Add idempotency to both whatsapp functions by @kzu in #13
• Throw on failed HTTP requests to WhatsApp by @kzu in #17
• Fetch all WhatsApp numbers from a contact by @kzu in #23
• Add support for optional address, name and url of location by @kzu in #24
• Fix typo in SendAsync, add ReplyAsync and message-based overloads by @kzu in #25
• Add first-class support for unsupported messages by @kzu in #29
• Add reaction message support, improve type safety by @kzu in #35
• Allow registering the WhatsApp handler separately by @kzu in #45
• Add overloads of Reply and Send with interactive buttons by @kzu in #47
• Normalize user's numbers automatically on every payload by @kzu in #48
• Add media content resolving to a media reference by @kzu in #55
• A document attachment should be considered media by @kzu in #56
• Return message identifier from send/reply by @kzu in #57
• Introduce pipeline of handlers by @kzu in #60
• Make handlers receive multiple messages instead of one by @kzu in #62
• Make JSON serialization context public for persistence scenarios by @kzu in #64
• Refactor UseWhatsApp > AddWhatsApp for IServiceCollection by @kzu in #65
• Add OpenTelemetry support by @kzu in #66
• Add an AsBuilder extension method for improved discoverability by @kzu in #72
• Merge use storage feature/capability into main by @kzu in #90
• Make usability extension methods public by @kzu in #103
• Generalize the former reengage as a general solution by @kzu in #101
• Rename Text to Reply as a message extension by @kzu in #104
• Add CancellationToken parameter consistently to all WhatsAppClientExtensions by @kzu in #102
• Rename To/From to Service/User by @kzu in #105
• When logging errors, also log payload by @kzu in #131
• Improve feature filter naming to avoid potential collisions by @kzu in #133
• Add WhatsApp CLI by @kzu in #145
• Add missing MessageType.Response by @kzu in #147
• Move MarkRead to just before invoking the pipeline by @kzu in #150
• Add missing Caption property to image and video content by @kzu in #155
• Allow pipeline handlers to send messages too by @kzu in #157
• Make sure we don't lose config in CLI by @kzu in #160
• Remove all loggers from the default host by @kzu in #161
• Improve rendering of person heads by @kzu in #162
• Wrap agent text at 80 chars for easier reading by @kzu in #163
• Add CLI options to avoid interactive prompts by @kzu in #164
• Allow message and content extensibility via AdditionalProperties by @kzu in #165
• Simplify by reusing M.E.AI AdditionalProperties by @kzu in #166
• Allow server-side to send formatted responses to console by @kzu in #171
• Allow configuring progress reactions in key built-in stages by @kzu in #172
• Allow flexible mark as read behavior for content messages by @kzu in #173
• Add support for pluggable async message processing strategies by @kzu in #176
• Add typing indicator support during webhook or process by @kzu in #179
• Typing indicators imply marking message read by @kzu in #180
• Add public API for typing indicators by @kzu in #181
• Render typing status in console too by @kzu in #182
• Allow updating messages in storage by @kzu in #183
• Make conversation window configurable via options by @kzu in #184
• Add a way to skip a handler in the pipeline by @kzu in #185
• Provide seamless continuity between CLI and WhatsApp by @kzu in #186
• Rename handlers Empty > Stop, Skip > Continue by @kzu in #187
• Allow clearing the CLI without restarting the app by @kzu in #190
• Don't reset typing status indicator on reactions by @kzu in #191
• Allow setting emoji column for render via message text by @kzu in #192
• Attempt to infer code blocks in more cases by @kzu in #193
• Allow alternative text for console consumption and console-only messages by @kzu in #194
• Set methods for setting console-only text and processing by @kzu in #195
• Improve CLI rendering of head, remove paddings, etc. by @kzu in #196
• Switch to CTS-based typing progress, align with WhatsApp indicator by @kzu in #197

🐛 Fixed bugs

• JQ dependency should exclude contentFiles by @kzu in #38
• Switch to IActionResult to fix callback registration by @kzu in #52
• Fix NRE when marking message read by @kzu in #58
• Add JQ to top-level app too by @kzu in #67
• Fix hang on main handler registration, cleanup sample handler by @kzu in #115
• Rename all records Service/User properties by @kzu in #139
• Massive timeout increase to aid local debugging by @kzu in #167

📝 Documentation updates

• Clarify license in readme for commercial use by @kzu in #12
• Add documentation and improve sample by @kzu in #19
• Document queue/table usage by @kzu in #20
• Add missing readme from package by @kzu in #21
• +Mᐁ includes by @kzu in #22
• +Mᐁ includes by @kzu in #26
• Allow sponsorships to imply commercial licensing by @kzu in #30
• Add screenshot showcase for impact by @kzu in #31
• Minor doc comment fix on options format for numbers by @kzu in #53
• Fix CLI image which is now in main branch by @kzu in #146
• Update readme with latest API changes by @kzu in #149
• Add concrete example of an ignoring messages pipeline by @kzu in #151

🔨 Other

• Minor tweaks to logging and test message by @kzu in #14
• Order enums alphabetically by @kzu in #18
• Logging fixes for local runs by @kzu in #36
• Bump tracing for functions by @kzu in #37
• Cleanup unnecessary usings by @kzu in #46
• Shorten name of extensions class by @kzu in #61
• Add full WhatsAppSuffix for clarity by @kzu in #63
• The sample is being deployed to a windows host by @kzu in #68
• Use func azure deploy by @kzu in #69
• Add missing local settings file by @kzu in #70
• Not using the distributed table storage package at all by @kzu in #71
• Make empty handler public by @kzu in #75
• Remove unnecessary ServiceDefaults project by @kzu in #82
• Place the fill attribute on the root node by @kzu in #83
• Converted WhatsApp.sln into the new .slnx format by @adalon in #84
• Refactored handlers to return async enum responses by @adalon in #74
• Added UseConversation feature/capability by @adalon in #91
• Minor renames and doc fixes by @kzu in #93
• Add dogfooding section to readme by @kzu in #99
• Improved the conversation handling to fully filter data in the backend by @adalon in #98
• Keep delegating if storage or conversation were not used by @adalon in #116
• Misc changes for improving the conversation support by @adalon in #124
• Disable inherntly flaky media resolving test by @kzu in #138
• Added the ability of receiving/sending messages from the a debug console by @adalon in #143
• Add end to end integration test for feature flags and storage by @kzu in #144
• Fix naming of parameters to match uniform usage in the API by @kzu in #148
• Revamp and simplify conversation management by @kzu in #153
• Improved interactive console renderings by @kzu in #158
• Update readme.md with CLI from main command by @kzu in #168
• Don't warn on hosting issues (like missing docker) by @kzu in #169
• Flag messages coming from the console for pipeline by @kzu in #170
• Detect and render code blocks within text output in CLI by @kzu in #188

Full Changelog: v1.0.0-alpha...v0.5.0