@staticmethod
def create_reply(message, ephemeral=False) ->dict:
    """
        Create a reply suitable to send directly back to the invoking HTTP request

        Args:
          message: Text to send
          ephemeral: Whether the response should be limited to a single user, or to
                broadcast the reply (_and_ the user's original invocation) to the
                channel publicly
        """
    if ephemeral:
        return {'text': message, 'response_type': 'ephemeral'}
    else:
        return {'text': message, 'response_type': 'in_channel'}
