Java Telegram Bot：如何发送具有 file_id 的照片？

Question

A few years ago I created a bot with telegrambots version 3.6.1. Unfortunately there was a problem: every time that a user with user_ID>2147483647 joined the group, the bot crashed, as described here .

I've just found out how to update the version of telegrambots , but now I've another problem.

I need to use the setPhoto(String file_id) method as described here in Telegram ot JAVA API page (Pass a file_id as String to send a photo that exists on the Telegram servers).

It looks like that method doesn't accept String parameter anymore since telegrambots version 5.0.0 .

Infact it worked until telegrambots version 4.9.2 .

So my bot pins a message in the group with a list of many places, each one can have up till 2 photos. Each of these photos has its file_id saved in a field of a MySql database.

So basically when we use the command to see a pic associated to a place, my code uses setPhoto(file_id) getting the file_id string from the database.

Now it looks like setPhoto(String) doesn't work anymore, so how can I solve this problem? I still need to use all the photo we saved in those years. How can i convert these file_id into InputFile argument?

I've tried to use version 4.9.2 of telegrambots and setPhoto(String) works, but I don't know if in that version, my original problem (numeric value out of range) was already solved and anyway I would like to use the latest version (6.4.0).

I've no idea how to convert String (fileID from database) to InputFile.

Thanks you very much.

Answer 1

The documentation is not really documenting anything, but it looks like the FileInput constructor can take String called attach(ement).