Remove conditional check for block key when sending message with slack.

Author: nzlosh

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ### Removed
   - Removed `check_latest_version` function.
   - Removed CircleCI from project in favour of using Github Actions.
-  - Remove Python 3.7 & 3.8 from test matrix.
+  - Removed Python 3.7 & 3.8 from test matrix.
+  - Removed detection of 'block' key from _post_block_message() which was causing messages to be silently ignored.
 
 ##  [2.2.0] 2021-11-27
 ### Added

src/err-stackstorm/errst2lib/chat_adapters.py

@@ -399,13 +399,11 @@ def _post_block_message(self, whisper, message, target_id, extra):
         """
         Reference: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.postMessage
         """
-        if "blocks" in extra["slack"]:
-            extra["slack"]["text"] = message
-            extra["slack"]["channel"] = target_id
+        extra["slack"]["text"] = message
+        extra["slack"]["channel"] = target_id
 
-            LOG.debug(f"Sending Slack Block {extra['slack']}")
-
-            self.bot_plugin._bot.slack_web.api_call("chat.postMessage", data=extra["slack"])
+        LOG.debug(f"Sending Slack Block {extra['slack']}")
+        self.bot_plugin._bot.slack_web.api_call("chat.postMessage", data=extra["slack"])
 
     def format_help(self, help_strings):
         help_text = ""