users.profile.set leads to encoding issue

[plaetzchen]

Description

When using SlackClient to call users.profile.set I get a invalid_profile error which is documented as a missing URL encoding of the payload.

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Reproducible in:

slackclient version: 1.0.7

python version: 3.6

OS version(s): macOS 10.12 & AWS Lambda

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use sc.api_call() to call "users.profile.set" with a valid status_text & status_emoji payload
2. print() the results
3. You see a invalid_profile error

Expected result:

Write the profile changes

Actual result:

Getting an error

[aoberoi]

i haven't gotten around to trying to reproduce this one just yet, but i want you to know that you're issue isn't being ignored. thanks!

[Roach]

Can you post the code you're running?

This is working for me:

sc.api_call(
  "users.profile.set",
  profile={
      "status_text": "riding a train",
      "status_emoji": ":mountain_railway:"
  }
)

Does your token have the users.profile:write scope?