Migration guide for version 19.0

Topics in Groups

New topics functionality allow bots interact with users in topic specified by messageThreadId parameter.

We try to keep our Bot API implementation as close to Telegram Bot API as possible. This means, that the new messageThreadId now the first optional parameter for a variety of methods.

Consider to use named parameters to avoid confusion with changed parameter order.

-Message message = await BotClient.SendTextMessageAsync(
-    _fixture.SupergroupChat.Id,
-    "Please click on *Notify* button.",
-    cancellationToken);
+Message message = await BotClient.SendTextMessageAsync(
+    chatId: _fixture.SupergroupChat.Id,
+    text: "Please click on *Notify* button.",
+    messageThreadId: threadId,
+    cancellationToken: cancellationToken);

New InputFile Hierarchy

Old InputMedia* class hierarchy poorly reflected actual file-related APIs.

We removed old hierarchy of InputFile related classes such as InputOnlineFile, InputTelegramFile, InputFileStream, etc., and also removed all implicit casts to them. From now on you should explicitly specify one of file types: InputFileStream for Stream content, InputFileUrl for URL and InputFileId if you want to use existing file_id. For convenience the base InputType class has factory methods to create the correct types:

• InputFile.FromStream(Stream stream, string? fileName = default) for streams
• InputFile.FromString(string urlOrFileId) for URLs or file ids
• InputFile.FromUri(Uri url) - for URLs as strings
• InputFile.FromUri(string url) - for URLs as URIs
• InputFile.FromFileId(string fileId) - for file ids

The migration scheme looks like that:

ChatId implicit conversion

Implicit conversion from ChatId to string was removed due to complaints and problems it caused. The migration path is to explicitly call ChatId.ToString() method.

Stickers

• All methods and types with animated, static and video sticker distinction were removed and replaced with a single set of sticker related methods per new Bot API updates: AddAnimatedStickerToSetAsync, AddStaticStickerToSetAsync, AddVideoStickerToSetAsync, etc. Remove the words Static, Animated and Video from sticker related methods in your code
• Associated emojies and masks were moved to a separate type InputSticker, use them there instead, consult the official Bot API docs for a more detailed information

.NET Core 3.1 removed as a separate target framework

Since .NET Core 3.1 LTS status is not officialy supported anymore we changed the target to netstandard2.0 and net6.0 instead. If you're using .NET Core 3.1 or .NET 5 runtimes you need to use the build for netstandard2.0 instead. If you relied on IAsyncEnumerable implementation of poller you need to move to .NET 6 instead.

Other changes

• Message.Type returns MessageType.Animation when the message contains an Animation, use MessageType.Animation instead of MessageType.Document to check if the message contains an animation
• Property CanSendMediaMessages was removed from the types ChatMemberRestricted and ChatPermissions and replaced with more granular permissions, use them instead
• Removed method GetChatMembersCountAsync, use GetChatMemberCountAsync
• Removed method KickChatMemberAsync, use BanChatMemberAsync
• Properties and types VoiceChatEnded, VoiceChatParticipantsInvited, VoiceChatScheduled, VoiceChatStarted removed, use methods and types which start with Video* instead
• All propties with the word Thumb in them were renamed to contain the word Thumbnail per new Bot API updates
• A new type InlineQueryResultsButton is used instead of SwitchPmText and SwitchPmParameter properties, consult the official Bot API docs