PLT-3185 Added support for DMs in Channel Switcher (#3260)

* Added support for DMs

* Checked username beginning characters

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/webapp/utils/utils.jsx b/webapp/utils/utils.jsx
index fdce93ef0..452ee1f7d 100644
--- a/webapp/utils/utils.jsx
+++ b/webapp/utils/utils.jsx
@@ -1147,6 +1147,13 @@ export function getDirectChannelName(id, otherId) {
     return handle;
 }
 
+export function getDirectChannelNameByUsername(username, otherUsername) {
+    const id = UserStore.getProfileByUsername(username).id;
+    const otherId = UserStore.getProfileByUsername(otherUsername).id;
+
+    return getDirectChannelName(id, otherId);
+}
+
 // Used to get the id of the other user from a DM channel
 export function getUserIdFromChannelName(channel) {
     var ids = channel.name.split('__');