From b9c07b6f1666f9db12495ae7192585c407217eef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bodqhrohro <bodqhrohro@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 21:25:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Treat contact lookups as successful if user is found but chat
 is not

---
 telegram/utils.go | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/telegram/utils.go b/telegram/utils.go
index 8e2fdb9..ded9d2c 100644
--- a/telegram/utils.go
+++ b/telegram/utils.go
@@ -78,7 +78,12 @@ func (c *Client) GetContactByID(id int64, chat *client.Chat) (*client.Chat, *cli
 				ChatId: id,
 			})
 			if err != nil {
-				return nil, nil, err
+				// error is irrelevant if the user was found successfully
+				if user == nil {
+					return nil, nil, err
+				} else {
+					return nil, user, nil
+				}
 			}
 
 			c.cache.chats[id] = cacheChat