How can I get the message ID of a message I send?

[badp]

Say I send a message I would like to modify later. Do I have to look at the events to find that message ID (...or way better: the message object), or is there another way?

(It seems that chat does send you the new message ID in response to the POST to chats/.../messages/new, but I don't know how convoluted the process would be to bubble this response all the way to the Rooms class.)

[Manishearth]

Any watchers will get notified of the message (with the ID), of course, and you can just use edit()

I don't see any other way to record it, since sending messages is async I can't just return the ID.

Suggestions welcome.

[thomas-daniels]

@badp There is now an alternative way to do this: you can set the on_message_sent method on a Client object, which will get called when a message is sent through ChatExchange. The on_message_sent method needs two parameters, the first for the message ID and the second for the room ID.