Telegram expires an inline query and then rejects the answer with "query
is too old and response timeout expired or query ID is invalid". The
picker invited that: it listed the names and then read the store once per
name — up to 50 round trips per keystroke — and it was the only handler
in the module with no deadline of its own. Updates are dispatched one at
a time, so a single slow answer also held up the queries queued behind
it, each ageing while it waited, and one slow read expired a whole burst
of typing.
Add DocStore.Scan, which reads a key prefix with its values in one round
trip, ordered by key. The picker and /aliases both use it, so neither
grows a round trip per saved alias. Bound the inline handler at 3s: an
answer later than that is rejected anyway, and giving up frees the worker
for the fresher query behind it. When Telegram does reject an answer, the
error now carries how long it took, which separates a slow handler from a
query that was already stale on arrival.
The 50-result cap now counts results the picker can show, so a video-note
alias — which has no cached inline type — no longer consumes a slot.
/alias <name> saves a replied message under a name and /insert <name> sends it
back; /aliases lists every name and /unalias deletes one. Every Telegram format
is supported — sticker, photo, GIF, video, video note, audio, voice, document,
plain text — and each is kept as the file_id Telegram already issued, so nothing
is downloaded and an alias survives redeploys. The namespace is global and the
last assignment wins, matching the shared sticker pack; /unalias is open to
anyone for the same reason.
A saved name also works as its own command: /cheer rather than /insert cheer.
This needs two new seams in the module contract. Module.Fallback handles a
/command no module registered, and the dispatcher installs it after every
Command — the bot library returns the first matching handler, so code always
beats a name resolved at runtime, including an alias that shares a command
added in a later build. /alias refuses a name already in the registry for the
same reason, since such an alias would only reach /insert. An unknown command
stays silent: the fallback sees every unrecognised /foo in every chat, so
replying would make typos noisy and would confirm which names exist.
Module.Inline answers inline-mode queries — "@botname <prefix>" from any chat,
filtered by prefix and capped at Telegram's 50 results. Each result is a cached
inline type carrying the stored file_id, so the picker renders real previews
without an upload. Video notes are omitted because Telegram defines no
InlineQueryResultCachedVideoNote and substituting a plain video would change
what was saved. Inline mode must be enabled in BotFather before Telegram
delivers these updates.
Both slots are single-occupancy with conflict detection at Build. Auth.Permits
learns the inline sender so a gated inline handler would not deny everyone.
Build's command indexing and slot claiming move into addCommands/addSingletons,
keeping it under the project's cyclomatic cap.
Also restores the sticker module: /addsticker moves back out of util, which has
no store, into internal/modules/sticker as its only command.
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