⚠️ This package is no longer maintained since all it's functionality has been merged into Telegram.Bot starting from v18.

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Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling

Provides ITelegramBotClient extensions for polling updates.

Usage

using System;
using System.Threading;
using Telegram.Bot;
using Telegram.Bot.Exceptions;
using Telegram.Bot.Types;
using Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling;

async Task HandleUpdateAsync(ITelegramBotClient botClient, Update update, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    if (update.Message is Message message)
    {
        await botClient.SendTextMessageAsync(message.Chat, "Hello");
    }
}

async Task HandleErrorAsync(ITelegramBotClient botClient, Exception exception, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    if (exception is ApiRequestException apiRequestException)
    {
        await botClient.SendTextMessageAsync(123, apiRequestException.ToString());
    }
}

ITelegramBotClient bot = new TelegramBotClient("<token>");

You have two ways of starting to receive updates

1. StartReceiving does not block the caller thread. Receiving is done on the ThreadPool.

   using System.Threading;
   using Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling;
   
   var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
   var cancellationToken = cts.Token;
   var receiverOptions = new ReceiverOptions
   {
       AllowedUpdates = {} // receive all update types
   };
   bot.StartReceiving(
       HandleUpdateAsync,
       HandleErrorAsync,
       receiverOptions,
       cancellationToken
   );

2. Awaiting ReceiveAsync will block until cancellation in triggered (both methods accept a CancellationToken)

   using System.Threading;
   using Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling;
   
   var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
   var cancellationToken = cts.Token;
   
   var receiverOptions = new ReceiverOptions
   {
       AllowedUpdates = {} // receive all update types
   };
   
   try
   {
       await bot.ReceiveAsync(
           HandleUpdateAsync,
           HandleErrorAsync,
           receiverOptions,
           cancellationToken
       );
   }
   catch (OperationCancelledException exception)
   {
   }

Trigger cancellation by calling cts.Cancel() somewhere to stop receiving update in both methods.

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In case you want to throw out all pending updates on start there is an option ReceiveOptions.ThrowPendingUpdates. If set to true ReceiveOptions.Offset property will be ignored even if it's set to non-null value and all implemented update receivers will attempt to throw out all pending updates before starting to call your handlers. In that case ReceiveOptions.AllowedUpdates property should be set to desired values otherwise it will be effectively set to allow all updates.

Example

using System.Threading;
using Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling;
using Telegram.Bot.Types.Enums;

var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();
var cancellationToken = cts.Token;

var receiverOptions = new ReceiverOptions
{
    AllowedUpdates = new { UpdateType.Message, UpdateType.CallbackQuery }
    ThrowPendingUpdates = true
};

try
{
    await bot.ReceiveAsync(
        HandleUpdateAsync,
        HandleErrorAsync,
        receiverOptions,
        cancellationToken
   );
}
catch (OperationCancelledException exception)
{
}

Update streams

With .Net Core 3.1+ comes support for an IAsyncEnumerable<Update> to stream Updates as they are received.

There are two implementations:

• BlockingUpdateReceiver blocks execution on every new getUpdates request
• QueuedUpdateReceiver enqueues updates in an internal queue in a background process to make Update interation faster so you don't have to wait on getUpdates requests to finish

Example:

using Telegram.Bot;
using Telegram.Bot.Types;
using Telegram.Bot.Extensions.Polling;

var bot = new TelegramBotClient("<token>");
var receiverOptions = new ReceiverOptions
{
    AllowedUpdates = {} // receive all update types
};
var updateReceiver = new QueuedUpdateReceiver(bot, receiverOptions);

// to cancel
var cts = new CancellationTokenSource();

try
{
    await foreach (Update update in updateReceiver.WithCancellation(cts.Token))
   {
       if (update.Message is Message message)
       {
           await bot.SendTextMessageAsync(
               message.Chat,
               $"Still have to process {updateReceiver.PendingUpdates} updates"
           );
       }
   }
}
catch (OperationCanceledException exception)
{
}