From 736a02216ef47481546da13f4f9e094748bc3ebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marian Soltys <41568766+maso7@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 12:12:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add channel_id output parameter

---
 action.yml        | 2 ++
 src/slack-send.js | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 7365646e..23fc7929 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ outputs:
     description: 'The timestamp on the message that was posted into Slack when using bot token'
   ts: # timestamp of message posted
     description: 'The timestamp on the message that was posted into Slack when using bot token'
+  channel_id: # Id of the channel. If channel name was used as input we can get ID from output for later use when updating message or posting to thread.
+    description: 'The channel id of the message that was posted into Slack when using bot token'
 runs:
   using: 'node16'
   main: 'dist/index.js'
diff --git a/src/slack-send.js b/src/slack-send.js
index e204c049..bae1a34d 100644
--- a/src/slack-send.js
+++ b/src/slack-send.js
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ module.exports = async function slackSend(core) {
       // return the thread_ts if it exists, if not return the ts
       const thread_ts = webResponse.thread_ts ? webResponse.thread_ts : webResponse.ts;
       core.setOutput('thread_ts', thread_ts);
+      // return id of the channel from the response
+      core.setOutput('channel_id', webResponse.channel);
     }
 
     const time = (new Date()).toTimeString();