Improvement: Add `type` optional param for `create_post(...)` function

[datorr2]

For example: to create an emote, you would create a post with a type of me.

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If you want to reply with a reaction you can use driver.react_to(message, "emoji-name").

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Additional mattermost driver actions can be found in mattermost-autodriver documentation.

[datorr2]

If you want to reply with a reaction you can use driver.react_to(message, "emoji-name").

The use case I was looking to do was not an emoji reaction, but a /me emote message.

Like, when the bot first starts up, it could do:

/me enters stage left.

And when it shuts down:

/me exits stage right.

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I can't find much about this type argument.
It seems poorly documented and a little obscure.

I think a pull request adding this feature would be acceptable but I would like to know if this is just for /me or other post types are possible?
And if so, can you provide a link to documentation that lists the post types?

[datorr2]

I can't find much about this type argument. It seems poorly documented and a little obscure.

That is correct. I haven't been able to find much on it. I found it when I was trying to figure out how to have the bot send /me messages.

I think a pull request adding this feature would be acceptable but I would like to know if this is just for /me or other post types are possible? And if so, can you provide a link to documentation that lists the post types?

No documentation found so far, but there's an entire list of types in the mattermost/mattermost-server project:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/c943ed6859b1be013e4da92b1952c607a35258bc/model/post.go

Lines 22 through 53.

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https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/blob/c943ed6859b1be013e4da92b1952c607a35258bc/model/post.go

This is interesting. #377 might benefit from this as well (system_join_channel) even if on the listen side.

If you are able to propose a pull request, I'd happily review.

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I think this could also be a nice feature to showcase in the documentation. Some screenshots of how the different post types look like. It's surprising how many of them there are. I didn't expect the list to be so extensive.