Working on about messages

src/lib.rs

@@ -343,16 +343,22 @@ impl Sbot {
             .output()?;
         if output.status.success() {
             // TODO: figure out how to take a stream of messages, and filter down to just ones with the value we are looking for
+            // this code is not real dont look at it
             let stdout = String::from_utf8(output.stdout)?;
             let ssb_message : SsbMessageValue = serde_json::from_str(&stdout).map_err(|err| {
                 SbotCliError::GetAboutMsgs(format!("error deserializing ssb message while getting about message: {}", err))
             })?;
             let value = ssb_message.content.get(key);
             match value {
-                Some(val) => Ok(val),
+                Some(val) => {
-                None => SbotCliError::GetAboutMsgs(format!("error parsing {} from about message: {}", key, err))
+                    let value_as_str = val.as_str();
+                    match value_as_str {
+                        Some(v) => Ok(Some(v.to_string())),
+                        None => Err(SbotCliError::GetAboutMsgs(format!("error parsing {} from about message", key)))
+                    }
+                },
+                None => Err(SbotCliError::GetAboutMsgs(format!("error parsing {} from about message", key)))
             }
-            Ok(value)
         } else {
             let stderr = std::str::from_utf8(&output.stderr)?;
             // TODO: create a more generic error variant