Media Carousel Template

[mhaugestad]

I wanted to implement a media carousel template in my chatbot, but could not figure out if this was possible within the Pywa framework.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/business-management-api/message-templates/media-card-carousel-templates/

Anyone know if this is possible? If not happy to help implement!

[yehuda-lev]

Hey, no. That's not possible yet. It's too complex.
I created one manually. But adding it to PyWa would break a few things.
We'll have to think of a solution on how to best add it, but that will take time.

If you have an idea how to add this, we would love for you to contribute to the project.

[mhaugestad]

I will have a think, but will probably take a while as I am not that familiar with what's going on 'under the hood', and may take me a bit to get my head in to it.

My understanding from the WhatsApp documentation is you will have to upload media files to get an asset handle to use in the examples. As far as I can tell you cannot omit this.

Perhaps that element could be a method attached to the whatsapp class;

wa.upload_file(...):

• create the upload session
• upload media file
• return key value pair of media file and asset id

and then possibly store the key value pairs of filename and the asset id in the class or some other place convenient for later reference when creating the template.

At that point would it be the case of accomodating some new types in the types.template.py file like adding Carousel as a ComponentType and add a CardType?

[mhaugestad]

@yehuda-lev I have made an attempt at this and submitted a pull request at here:

#105