From 84bb167ce6a96d89506499550a381145ea2a3854 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: admin <admin@samagsteribbe.nl>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:33:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: load bot chat list after TDLib auth to enable message
 forwarding

Without getChats after login, TDLib doesn't know about the destination
channel and forwardMessages fails with "Chat not found".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 bot/src/tdlib/client.ts | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bot/src/tdlib/client.ts b/bot/src/tdlib/client.ts
index 1b3fb64..e4485c8 100644
--- a/bot/src/tdlib/client.ts
+++ b/bot/src/tdlib/client.ts
@@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ export async function createBotClient(): Promise<tdl.Client> {
   }));
 
   log.info("Bot client authenticated successfully");
+
+  // Load chat list so TDLib knows about channels the bot has access to.
+  // Without this, forwardMessages/copyMessage will fail with "Chat not found".
+  try {
+    await client.invoke({
+      _: "getChats",
+      chat_list: { _: "chatListMain" },
+      limit: 200,
+    });
+    log.info("Chat list loaded");
+  } catch (err) {
+    log.warn({ err }, "Failed to load chat list — forwarding may fail");
+  }
+
   return client;
 }