Add stopPolling method

[smmoosavi]

usage:

var bot = new TelegramBot(token, {});

bot.initPolling(); // polling started

bot.initPolling(); // polling restart

bot.stopPolling(); // new method: polling stoped

[phillipadsmith]

@yagop Any timeline on merging in one of the two PRs to implement a stopPolling method?

[yagop]

This can be achieved by:

this._polling.abort = true;
this._polling.lastRequest.cancel('Stop polling');

Which is what the stopPolling does.

[phillipadsmith]

This can be achieved by:

Yes, I realize that, and yet I'm wondering why there is not stopPolling() method in node-telegram-bot-api when there are two PRs in the queue that propose implementing it? Is there a reason not to have a stopPolling() method?

[icdevin]

I kind of agree, and really the ._polling typically denotes an internal property, which you typically want to avoid calling or setting if you can help it.

Just for my own knowledge, what is the use case for this...? I saw somewhere else saying there's some issues with messages getting caught and looping, offsets acting funny and such?

[smmoosavi]

until this and other poll request (#118) merged, you can use this monkey patch

[phillipadsmith]

@yagop Bump.

[GochoMugo]

This has already been implemented in our codebase. Thanks for your time and effort.