Spring Boot Starter for Telegram

This is a spring boot starter for Telegram Bot API. It's like Spring MVC but for Telegram!

• Download
  • Maven
  • Gradle
• Example
• @BotController
• @BotRequest
  • Request binding
  • Supported arguments
  • Supported return values
  • How to support a new one
• Configurations
  • Properties
  • Java-based configurations
    • Webhooks
• Metrics
• FAQ
• License
• Thanks

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Starting from spring 2.7.7 you should use starter version 0.29 and above

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.kshashov</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-telegram</artifactId>
  <version>0.29</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

implementation 'com.github.kshashov:spring-boot-starter-telegram:0.29'

Example

The only thing you need to do after adding the dependency is to create a bot controller

@BotController
@SpringBootApplication
public class MyBot implements TelegramMvcController {

    @Value("${bot.token}")
    private String token;

    @Override
    public String getToken() {
        return token;
    }

    @BotRequest(value = "/hello", type = {MessageType.CALLBACK_QUERY, MessageType.MESSAGE})
    public BaseRequest hello(User user, Chat chat) {
        return new SendMessage(chat.id(), "Hello, " + user.firstName() + "!");
    }

    @MessageRequest("/hello {name:[\\S]+}")
    public String helloWithName(@BotPathVariable("name") String userName) {
        // Return a string if you need to reply with a simple message
        return "Hello, " + userName;
    }

    @MessageRequest("/helloCallback")
    public String helloWithCustomCallback(TelegramRequest request, User user) {
        request.setCallback(new Callback() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(BaseRequest request, BaseResponse response) {
                // TODO
            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(BaseRequest request, IOException e) {
                // TODO
            }
        });
        return "Hello, " + user.firstName() + "!";
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MyBot.class);
    }
}

The bot will be registered automatically on startup.

BotController

Telegram requests are handled by the controllers that implemented TelegramMvcController interface and are marked by the @BotController annotation. It is supposed to use in combination with annotated handler methods based on the BotRequest annotation.

BotRequest

Request binding

There are two important parameters here:

• value or path: The request mapping templates (e.g. /foo). Ant-style path patterns are supported (e.g. /foo *, /foo {param:[0-9]}).
  • Values of the path variables can be bound to the method arguments by the @BotPathVariable annotation.
• type: the telegram request types to map. MessageType.ANY by default.

Aliases

If you want to handle only one type of telegram request, it is preferred to use one of the telegram method specific variants @MessageRequest, @EditedMessageRequest, @ChannelPostRequest, @EditedChannelPostRequest, @InlineQueryRequest, @CallbackQueryRequest, @ChosenInlineResultRequest, @ShippingQueryRequest, @PreCheckoutQueryRequest, @PollRequest.

Pattern matching

org.springframework.util.AntPathMatcher is used for patterns matching and variables extracting, so any Ant-style path patterns are supported (e.g. /foo *, /foo {param:[0-9]}):

• ? matches one character
• * matches zero or more characters
• ** matches zero or more directories in a path
• {spring:[a-z]+} matches the regexp [a-z]+ as a path variable named spring

An empty patterns list will be replaced with the ** pattern and matched with any requested text.

Routes sorting

If the telegram request matched with several route mappings at once, the most specific one is selected. By default the routes are sorted by:

• pattern complexity
• patterns list size. Be aware that the empty patterns list (= any pattern) has minimal priority.
• types count. MessageType.ANY has minimal priority.

For example, you can define the default handler in the following way:

    @BotRequest(type = {MessageType.ANY})
    public void default() {
        log.info("Default handler method");
    }

Custom behavior

You could override the matcher or process routes in a custom way, you can declare a new RequestMappingsMatcherStrategy component or override a global configuration. You can use DefaultRequestMappingsMatcherStrategy as an example.

Supported arguments

Some parameters may be nullable because they do not exist for all types of telegram requests

• TelegramRequest - entity that include all available parameters from the initial request, the path pattern and path variables. Provides an ability to set a custom callback
• TelegramSession - current session for the current chat (if any) or user
• com.pengrad.telegrambot.TelegramBot - bot instance that received the request
• Nullable String, Integer, Long, Double, Float, BigInteger, BigDecimal marked with BotPathVariable annotation - a value of the template variable from the path pattern
• com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.Update - the initial user request which is currently being processed
• Nullable String - the first non-empty object, if any, among message.text(), inlineQuery.query(), chosenInlineResult.query(), callbackQuery.data(), shippingQuery.invoicePayload(), prepreCheckoutQuery.invoicePayload()
• Nullable com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.User
• Nullable com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.Chat
• Nullable com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.Message - the first non-empty object, if any, among update.message(), update.editedMessage(), update.channelPost(), update.editedChannelPost()
• Nullable com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.InlineQuery, com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.ChosenInlineResult, com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.CallbackQuery, com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.ShippingQuery, com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.PreCheckoutQuery, com.pengrad.telegrambot.model.Poll

Supported return values

• String - automatically converted into com.pengrad.telegrambot.request.SendMessage. Use only if the chat value is not null for the current telegram request
• com.pengrad.telegrambot.request.BaseRequest
• void

How to support a new one

If you want to add additional arguments or result values types for your controller methods, you should declare a new component:

• BotHandlerMethodArgumentResolver to support an additional type of method argument
• BotHandlerMethodReturnValueHandler to support an additional type of method result
• TelegramBotGlobalPropertiesConfiguration to manually configure all enabled argument resolvers and result value handlers

Configurations

Properties

By default, you can configure only these properties:

Java-based configurations

You can use Java-based configurations for customization:

• TelegramBotGlobalPropertiesConfiguration to configure global and bot specific settings:

  @Component
  public class MyBotConfiguration implements TelegramBotGlobalPropertiesConfiguration {
      ...
  
      @Override
      public void configure(TelegramBotGlobalProperties.Builder builder) {
          OkHttpClient okHttp = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
              .connectTimeout(12, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
              .build();
  
          builder
              .configureBot(token, botBuilder -> {
                  botBuilder
                      .configure(builder1 -> builder1.okHttpClient(okHttp));
                      .withWebhook(new SetWebhook().url(url));
              })
              .processBot(token, bot -> {
                  bot.execute(new SendMessage(myChat, "test"));
              });
              .configureBot(token2, botBuilder -> {
                  botBuilder
                      .configure(builder1 -> builder1.updateListenerSleep(200L));
              });
      }
  }

Webhooks

If you want to use webhooks instead of long polling, you need to provide webhook url:

                //.setWebserverPort(8443) Here you can customize the port
                .configureBot(token,botBuilder->{
                        botBuilder
                        .useWebhook(new SetWebhook().url(url));
                        })

In this case the library

• starts local Javalin server on 8443 (by default) port.
• registers {url}/{random_uuid} webhook via Telegram API
• adds /{random_uuid} endpoint to the local server

By default, the webhook is removed when the application is shut down. To prevent it, you can pass an additinal boolean value as the second argument. Сan be useful when using app hostings like Heroku.

Metrics

You can check the following metrics via jmx in the bot.metrics domain:

FAQ

• None of my bots were found

  If no exceptions were thrown, make sure you use the correct Spring version.

• Is Spring 3 supported?

  You can use Spring 3 with 0.29+ plugin version.

• How can I use {any} telegram feature?

  This library uses https://github.com/pengrad/java-telegram-bot-api/

  You can find any information you need there. Also pay attention to BaseRequest implementations.

• How can I deploy my bot on Heroku?

  Just configure webhook usage (url and port number) and deploy your app as a regular Spring Boot application.

• How to get TelegramBot instance to use it outside?

  Configure the bot to store TelegramBot instance as a static variable:

  @Component
  public class BotConfig implements TelegramBotGlobalPropertiesConfiguration {
    @Getter
    @Value("${bot.token}")
    private String token;
  
    public static TelegramBot telegramBot;
  
    @Override
    public void configure(TelegramBotGlobalProperties.Builder builder) {
      builder.processBot(token, bot -> {
        telegramBot = bot;
      });
    }
  } 

  And use it wherever you want:

  TelegramBot bot = BotConfig.telegramBot;
  bot.execute(new SendMessage(chatId, "message"));

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 Kirill Shashov

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SOFTWARE.

Thanks

• @OlegNyr for his java-telegram-bot-mvc repository