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Should allow to send message without payload.text

See original GitHub issue

This is a valid usage to send with only attachments and no text.

Line 13 of slack.js should be

if (!message.text && !Array.isArray(message.attachments)) {

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shamasiscommented, Sep 1, 2015

Currently you can bypass that check by providing text as

{
      toString: function () { return '' }
}

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shamasiscommented, Oct 8, 2016

#31

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