Determining if a chat is a group or not to filter

[MvCast]

Hi there,

I want to create a function that filters incoming messages so that only users and groups registered are allowed to interact with this bot. The idea is to register users by sending a command in a registered group. I use the message.chat.is_group() method to evaluate this, but I must either be doing somehting wrong or not understanding how this works because I get that groups are not groups.

This is the function (I also upload a txt with the function since I'm having issues getting the whole thing wrapped in a code block):
`pub fn chat_and_user_id_checker(
msg: &Message
) -> Option {
let database_path = "./databases/Telegram_bot_db.db3";

if msg.chat.is_group() {
    log::warn!("is group");
    let check_result: bool = match check_group_id_is_registered(database_path, msg.chat.id.0) {
        Ok(DataStatus::Existe) => true,

        Ok(_) => false,

        Err(_) => {
            false
        }
    };

    Some(check_result)

} else {
    log::warn!("is not group");
    let user_id_u64 = msg.from().map(|user| user.id.0);
    let user_id_i64 = user_id_u64.unwrap_or_default() as i64;
    let check_result = match check_user_id_registered(database_path, user_id_i64) {
        Ok(DataStatus::Existe) => true,

        Ok(_) => false,

        Err(_) => {
            false
        }            
    };

    Some(check_result)
}

}`

function.txt

[TheAwiteb]

Hi @MvCast I think you tried this function with a supergroup not a group, the deference between supergroup and a group is that supergroup have a link (public for all telegram users) and the group is a private. try to check of it's a supergroup also.

- if msg.chat.is_group() {
+ if msg.chat.is_group() || msg.chat.is_supergroup() {

suggestion: Add a check for channels also, or if you want to handle it as a group you can check if the chat not a private chat (DM) then handle it as a group, supergroup and a channel.

[MvCast]

Thank you! You were spot on. I never thought it could be a supergroup.