force reply

I’m tryng to use force_reply without success… any suggestion?

if (messaggio == '/love') {
    var opts = {
        ReplyKeyboardHide: {},
        reply_to_message_id: msg.message_id,

        reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
            "keyboard": [["Ti amo alla follia"], ["Mi spiace ma non fai per me"]], 
            "one_time_keyboard": true,
            "force_reply": true
        })

    };

bot.sendMessage(chatId, ‘Mi ami?’, opts); }

[yagop]

To be honest I haven’t tested force_reply and if I did I can’t remember. According with Telegram docs sendMessage can receive an optional reply_markup with a JSON serialized ReplyKeyboardMarkup OR ReplyKeyboardHide OR a ForceReply.

According with that, ReplyKeyboardHide and ForceReply doesn’t have to be JSON serialized. So I would do something like:

reply_markup: {
  "force_reply": true
};

But that makes no sense if you want to send a ReplyKeyboardMarkup too which is the common scenario so I would come with:

reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
  "keyboard": [["Ti amo alla follia"], ["Mi spiace ma non fai per me"]], 
  "one_time_keyboard": true,
  "force_reply": true
});

But you said isn’t working so, no idea.

[yagop]

Regarding with force_reply is working as expected:

var opts = {
  reply_markup: JSON.stringify(
    {
      force_reply: true,
      keyboard: [['Over 18'],['Under 18']]
    }
  )};
bot.sendMessage(USER, 'How old are you?', opts)

I added the bot.onReplyToMessage function which makes much easier to handle responses. See an example here.