From c12ea2c8c1e0e3a98050d93f7171df432b8144f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: notplants <max@mfowler.info>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 16:19:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Working on publish_description

---
 examples/ssb-client.rs |  3 +++
 src/sbot.rs            | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/examples/ssb-client.rs b/examples/ssb-client.rs
index 3c832e4..9df337f 100644
--- a/examples/ssb-client.rs
+++ b/examples/ssb-client.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ async fn run() -> Result<(), GolgiError> {
     let post_msg_ref = sbot_client.publish(post).await?;
     println!("{}", post_msg_ref);
 
+    let post_msg_ref = sbot_client.publish_description("this is a description").await?;
+    println!("description: {}", post_msg_ref);
+
     Ok(())
 }
 
diff --git a/src/sbot.rs b/src/sbot.rs
index aaf4788..ddfc3f7 100644
--- a/src/sbot.rs
+++ b/src/sbot.rs
@@ -122,6 +122,26 @@ impl Sbot {
         self.publish(msg).await
     }
 
+
+    /// Wrapper for publish which constructs and publishes an about description message appropriately from a string.
+    ///
+    /// # Arguments
+    ///
+    /// * `description` - A &str which represents the text to be published as an about description.
+    pub async fn publish_description(&mut self, description: &str) -> Result<String, GolgiError> {
+        let msg = TypedMessage::About {
+            about: self.id.to_string(),
+            name: None,
+            title: None,
+            branch: None,
+            image: None,
+            description: Some(description.to_string()),
+            location: None,
+            start_datetime: None,
+        };
+        self.publish(msg).await
+    }
+
     /*
     pub async fn publish_post(&mut self, post: Post) -> Result<String, GolgiError> {
         let req_id = self.client.publish_req_send(post).await?;