So I am trying to send an embed to a different channel than the command was used in as a log channel how ever I have tried a few different methods however where I am at now is the error i get is qChann.send is not a function it is yelling at the .send part.
This is the part referenced in index.js Yes I know it is bad practice to reference and export from main file but I am desperate for a solution
client.on('ready', async () => {
console.log('Online');
const qChann = client.channels.cache.get('960425106964885535');
console.log(qChann);
})
The second part is in a command file call deposit.js
It uses a 2 part collector ignore date and time stuff thats from express
I am also using mongoDB and it works completely fine how ever that last little statement is giving me a hard time qChann.send({embed: steelEmbed}); also qChann is included as const qChann = require('../index');
if (collected.content.toLowerCase() === 'steel') {
message.reply('Enter the amount youd like to deposit');
collector.stop('user entered steel');
const steelCollector = message.channel.createMessageCollector({
filter,
max: 1,
time: 1000 * 20,
});
steelCollector.on('collect', async (collected) => {
const steelAmount = collected.content;
await steelSchema.findOneAndUpdate({
$inc: {
steel: +steelAmount,
}
})
steelNewCount = await steelSchema.findOne({steelSchema}, {_id: 0});
const steelEmbed = new MessageEmbed()
.setColor('#4278f5')
.setTitle(`Ammo11 Stash Update`)
.setDescription(`Steel Count Updated`)
.addField(`Stash Updated`, `by <#${message.author.id}>`, true)
.addField(`Date Log`, `${date} / ${month} / ${year}`, true)
.addField(`Steel Deposited`, `${steelAmount}`, true)
.addField(`New Steel Count`, `${steelNewCount}`, true )
.setTimestamp()
.setFooter({text:'THIS MESSAGE IS NOT TO BE DELETED'});
qChann.send({embed: steelEmbed});
})
}
You need to define channel and then export it. You didn't export so you can't take it from another file as i know.
// outside of events
const qChann = client.channels.cache.get("960425106964885535")
module.exports = { qChann }
After this edit on your main file, you can access your channel with importing it with require in your command files.
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Background:
I am building a discord bot that operates as a Dungeons & Dragons DM of sorts. We want to store game data in a database and during the execution of certain commands, query data from said database for use in the game.
All of the connections between our Discord server, our VPS, and the VPS' backend are functional and we are now implementing slash commands since traditional ! commands are being removed from support in April.
We are running into problems making the slash commands though. We want to set them up to be as efficient as possible which means no hard-coded choices for options. We want to build those choice lists via data from the database.
The problem we are running into is that we can't figure out the proper way to implement the fetch to the database within the SlashCommandBuilder.
Here is what we currently have:
const {SlashCommandBuilder} = require('#discordjs/builders');
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
const {REST} = require('#discordjs/rest');
const test = require('../commonFunctions/test.js');
var options = async function getOptions(){
let x = await test.getClasses();
console.log(x);
return ['test','test2'];
}
module.exports = {
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('get-test-data')
.setDescription('Return Class and Race data from database')
.addStringOption(option =>{
option.setName('class')
.setDescription('Select a class for your character')
.setRequired(true)
for(let op of options()){
//option.addChoice(op,op);
}
return option
}
),
async execute(interaction){
},
};
This code produces the following error when start the npm for our bot on our server:
options is not a function or its return value is not iterable
I thought that maybe the function wasn't properly defined, so I replaced the contents of it with just a simple array return and the npm started without errors and the values I had passed showed up in the server.
This leads me to think that the function call in the modules.exports block is immediatly attempting to get the return value of the function and as the function is async, it isn't yet ready and is either returning undefined or a promise or something else not iteratable.
Is there a proper way to implement the code as shown? Or is this way too complex for discord.js to handle?
Is there a proper way to implement the idea at all? Like creating a json object that contains the option data which is built and saved to a file at some point prior to this command being registered and then having the code above just pull in that file for the option choices?
Alright, I found a way. Ian Malcom would be proud (LMAO).
Here is what I had to do for those with a similar issues:
I had to basically re-write our entire application. It sucks, I know, but it works so who cares?
When you run your index file for your npm, make sure that you do the following things.
Note: you can structure this however you want, this is just how I set up my js files.
Setup a function that will setup the data you need, it needs to be an async function as does everything downstream from this point on relating to the creation and registration of the slash commands.
Create a js file to act as your application setup "module". "Module" because we're faking a real module by just using the module.exports method. No package.jsons needed.
In the setup file, you will need two requires. The first is a, as of yet, non-existent data manager file; we'll do that next. The second is a require for node:fs.
Create an async function in your setup file called setup and add it to your module.exports like so:
module.exports = { setup }
In your async setup function or in a function that it calls, make a call to the function in your still as of yet non-existent data manager file. Use await so that the application doesn't proceed until something is returned. Here is what mine looks like, note that I am writing my data to a file to read in later because of my use case, you may or may not have to do the same for yours:
async function setup(){
console.log('test');
//build option choice lists
let listsBuilt = await buildChoiceLists();
if (listsBuilt){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
async function buildChoiceLists(){
let classListBuilt = await buildClassList();
return true;
}
async function buildClassList(){
let classData = await classDataManager.getClassData();
console.log(classData);
classList = classData;
await writeFiles();
return true;
}
async function writeFiles(){
fs.writeFileSync('./CommandData/classList.json', JSON.stringify(classList));
}
Before we finish off this file, if you want to store anything as a property in this file and then get it later on, you can do so. In order for the data to return properly though, you will need to define a getter function in your exports. Here is an example:
var classList;
module.exports={
getClassList: () => classList,
setup
};
So, with everything above you should have something that looks like this:
const classDataManager = require('./DataManagers/ClassData.js')
const fs = require('node:fs');
var classList;
async function setup(){
console.log('test');
//build option choice lists
let listsBuilt = await buildChoiceLists();
if (listsBuilt){
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
async function buildChoiceLists(){
let classListBuilt = await buildClassList();
return true;
}
async function buildClassList(){
let classData = await classDataManager.getClassData();
console.log(classData);
classList = classData;
await writeFiles();
return true;
}
async function writeFiles(){
fs.writeFileSync('./CommandData/classList.json', JSON.stringify(classList));
}
module.exports={
getClassList: () => classList,
setup
};
Next that pesky non-existent DataManager file. For mine, each data type will have its own, but you might want to just combine them all into a single .js file for yours.
Same with the folder name, I called mine DataManagers, if you're combining them all into one, you could just call the file DataManager and leave it in the same folder as your appSetup.js file.
For the data manager file all we really need is a function to get our data and then return it in the format we want it to be in. I am using node-fetch. If you are using some other module for data requests, write your code as needed.
Instead of explaining everything, here is the contents of my file, not much has to be explained here:
const fetch = require('node-fetch');
async function getClassData(){
return new Promise((resolve) => {
let data = "action=GetTestData";
fetch('http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/backend/characterHandler.php', {
method: 'post',
headers: { 'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'},
body: data
}).then(response => {
response.json().then(res => {
let status = res.status;
let clsData = res.classes;
let rcData = res.races;
if (status == "Success"){
let text = '';
let classes = [];
let races = [];
if (Object.keys(clsData).length > 0){
for (let key of Object.keys(clsData)){
let cls = clsData[key];
classes.push({
"name": key,
"code": key.toLowerCase()
});
}
}
if (Object.keys(rcData).length > 0){
for (let key of Object.keys(rcData)){
let rc = rcData[key];
races.push({
"name": key,
"desc": rc.Desc
});
}
}
resolve(classes);
}
});
});
});
}
module.exports = {
getClassData
};
This file contacts our backend php and requests data from it. It queries the data then returns it. Then we format it into an JSON structure for use later on with option choices for the slash command.
Once all of your appSetup and data manager files are complete, we still need to create the commands and register them with the server. So, in your index file add something similar to the following:
async function getCommands(){
let cmds = await comCreator.appSetup();
console.log(cmds);
client.commands = cmds;
}
getCommands();
This should go at or near the top of your index.js file. Note that comCreator refers to a file we haven't created yet; you can name this require const whatever you wish. That's it for this file.
Now, the "comCreator" file. I named mine deploy-commands.js, but you can name it whatever. Once again, here is the full file contents. I will explain anything that needs to be explained after:
const {Collection} = require('discord.js');
const {REST} = require('#discordjs/rest');
const {Routes} = require('discord-api-types/v9');
const app = require('./appSetup.js');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const config = require('./config.json');
async function appSetup(){
console.log('test2');
let setupDone = await app.setup();
console.log(setupDone);
console.log(app.getClassList());
return new Promise((resolve) => {
const cmds = [];
const cmdFiles = fs.readdirSync('./commands').filter(f => f.endsWith('.js'));
for (let file of cmdFiles){
let cmd = require('./commands/' + file);
console.log(file + ' added to commands!');
cmds.push(cmd.data.toJSON());
}
const rest = new REST({version: '9'}).setToken(config.token);
rest.put(Routes.applicationGuildCommands(config.clientId, config.guildId), {body: cmds})
.then(() => console.log('Successfully registered application commands.'))
.catch(console.error);
let commands = new Collection();
for (let file of cmdFiles){
let cmd = require('./commands/' + file);
commands.set(cmd.data.name, cmd);
}
resolve(commands);
});
}
module.exports = {
appSetup
};
Most of this is boiler plate for slash command creation though I did combine the creation and registering of the commands into the same process. As you can see, we are grabbing our command files, processing them into a collection, registering that collection, and then resolving the promise with that variable.
You might have noticed that property, was used to then set the client commands in the index.js file.
Config just contains your connection details for your discord server app.
Finally, how I accessed the data we wrote for the SlashCommandBuilder:
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('get-test-data')
.setDescription('Return Class and Race data from database')
.addStringOption(option =>{
option.setName('class')
.setDescription('Select a class for your character')
.setRequired(true)
let ops = [];
let data = fs.readFileSync('./CommandData/classList.json','utf-8');
ops = JSON.parse(data);
console.log('test data class options: ' + ops);
for(let op of ops){
option.addChoice(op.name,op.code);
}
return option
}
),
Hopefully this helps someone in the future!
I am trying to update a field in my document in Firestore. The general location of the document would be "/games/{userId}/userGames/{gameId}. And in this game, there is a property called "status" which changes accordingly to the games start and end time.
As you can guess, the if the start time is bigger than the "now" timestamp and the status is "TO_BE_PLAYED", the game will begin and the status will be 1, "BEING_PLAYED". Also, if the end time is bigger than the "now" timestamp and the status is "BEING_PLAYED", the game will end, therefore the status will be 2, "PLAYED". I want to create a cloud function that is capable to do so.
However, even if the function logs output 'ok', the values are never updated. Unfortunately, I do not have that much experience in Javascript too.
THE CODE
const functions = require('firebase-functions');
const admin = require('firebase-admin');
admin.initializeApp();
const STATUS_PLAYED = 2;
const STATUS_BEING_PLAYED = 1;
const STATUS_TO_BE_PLAYED = 0;
exports.handleBeingPlayedGames = functions.runWith({memory: "2GB"}).pubsub.schedule('* * * * *')
.timeZone('Europe/Istanbul') // Users can choose timezone - default is America/Los_Angeles
.onRun(async () => {
// current time & stable
// was Timestamp.now();
const now = admin.firestore.Timestamp.fromDate( new Date());
const querySnapshot = await db.collection("games").get();
const promises = [];
querySnapshot.forEach( doc => {
const docRef = doc.ref;
console.log(docRef);
promises.push(docRef.collection("userGames").where("status", "==", STATUS_BEING_PLAYED).where("endtime", "<", now).get());
});
const snapshotArrays = await Promise.all(promises);
const promises1 = [];
snapshotArrays.forEach( snapArray => {
snapArray.forEach(snap => {
promises1.push(snap.ref.update({
"status": STATUS_PLAYED,
}));
});
});
return Promise.all(promises1);
});
exports.handleToBePlayedGames = functions.runWith({memory: "2GB"}).pubsub.schedule('* * * * *')
.onRun(async () => {
// current time & stable
// was Timestamp.now();
const now = admin.firestore.Timestamp.fromDate(new Date());
const querySnapshot = await db.collection("games").get();
const promises = [];
querySnapshot.forEach( async doc => {
const docData = await doc.ref.collection("userGames").where("status", "==", STATUS_TO_BE_PLAYED).where("startTime", ">", now).get();
promises.push(docData);
});
const snapshotArrays = await Promise.all(promises);
const promises1 = [];
snapshotArrays.forEach( snapArray => {
snapArray.forEach(snap => {
promises1.push(snap.ref.update({
"status": STATUS_BEING_PLAYED,
}));
});
});
return Promise.all(promises1);
});
Okay, so this answer goes to lurkers trying to solve this problem.
First I tried to solve this problem by brute force and not including much thinking and tried to acquire the value in subcollection. However, as I searched, I've found that denormalizing (flattening) data actually solves the problem a bit.
I created a new directory under /status/{gameId} with the properties
endTime, startTime, and status field and I actually did it on a single level by using promises. Sometimes denormalizing data can be your savior.
How can startTime be greater than now? Is it set by default to a date in the future?
My current assumption is that a game cannot set it's status to STATUS_BEING_PLAYED because of the inconsistency with startTime. Moreover, a game cannot have the status STATUS_PLAYED because it depends on having STATUS_BEING_PLAYED, which cannot have.
My recommendation would be to set the field startTime and endTime to null by default. If you do so you can check if a game has to be set to STATUS_BEING_PLAYED with this:
doc.ref.collection("userGames")
.where("status", "==", STATUS_TO_BE_PLAYED)
.where("startTime", "<", now)
.where("endTime", "==", null)
.get();
You could check if a game has to be on STATUS_PLAYED with this (exactly as you did):
docRef.collection("userGames")
.where("status", "==", STATUS_BEING_PLAYED)
.where("endtime", "<", now)
.get();
Now there's something that you should wonder, is this the best approach to change a game's status? You are querying the whole game library of a user every single minute as you know read operations are charged so this approach would imply meaningful charges. Maybe you should simply use update the game's status when the game is started and closed.
Also notice that the equals operation is ==, not =.
Im trying to extract the contents of variable topPost and place it into const options under url. I cant seem to get it to work. Im using the snoowrap/Reddit API and image-downloader.
var subReddit = r.getSubreddit('dankmemes');
var topPost = subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1,}).map(post => post.url).then(console.log);
var postTitle = subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1 }).map(post => post.title).then(console.log);
const options = {
url: topPost,
dest: './dank_memes/photo.jpg'
}
async function downloadIMG() {
try {
const { filename, image } = await download.image(options)
console.log(filename) // => /path/to/dest/image.jpg
} catch (e) {
console.error(e)
}
}
the recommended formatting for the image downloader is as follows:
const options = {
url: 'http://someurl.com/image.jpg',
dest: '/path/to/dest'
}
async function downloadIMG() {
try {
const { filename, image } = await download.image(options)
console.log(filename) // => /path/to/dest/image.jpg
} catch (e) {
console.error(e)
}
}
downloadIMG()
so it looks like i have to have my url formatted in between ' ' but i have no idea how to get the url from var topPost and place it in between those quotes.
any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
topPost is a Promise, not the final value.
Promises existence is to work with asynchronous data easily. Asynchronous data is data that returns at a point in the future, not instantly, and that's why they have a then method. When a Promise resolves to a value, the then callback is called.
In this case, the library will connect to Reddit and download data from it, which is not something that can done instantly, so the code will continue running and later will call the then callback, when the data has finished downloading. So:
var subReddit = r.getSubreddit('dankmemes');
// First we get the top posts, and register a "then" callback to receive all these posts
subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1,}).map(post => post.url).then((topPost) => {
// When we got the top posts, we connect again to Reddit to get the top posts title.
subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1 }).map(post => post.title).then((postTitle) => {
// Here you have both topPost and postTitle (which will be both arrays. You must access the first element)
console.log("This console.log will be called last");
});
});
// The script will continue running at this point, but the script is still connecting to Reddit and downloading the data
console.log("This console.log will be called first");
With this code you have a problem. You first connect to Reddit to get the top post URL, and then you connect to Reddit again to get the post Title. Is like pressing F5 in between. Simply think that if a new post is added between those queries, you will get the wrong title (and also you are consuming double bandwidth consumption, which is not optimal too). The correct way of doing this is to get both the title and the url on the same query. How to do so?, like this:
var subReddit = r.getSubreddit('dankmemes');
// We get the top posts, and map BOTH the url and title
subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1,}).map(post => {
return {
url: post.url,
title: post.title
};
}).then((topPostUrlAndTitle) => {
// Here you have topPostUrlAndTitle[0].url and topPostUrlAndTitle[0].title
// Note how topPostUrlAndTitle is an array, as you are actually asking for "all top posts" although you are limiting to only one.
});
BUT this is also weird to do. Why don't you just get the post data directly? Like so:
var subReddit = r.getSubreddit('dankmemes');
// We get the top posts
subReddit.getTop({time: 'hour' , limit: 1,}).then((posts) => {
// Here you have posts[0].url and posts[0].title
});
There's a way to get rid of JavaScript callback hell with async/await, but I'm not going to enter into matter because for a newbie is a bit difficult to explain why is not synchronous code although it seems to look like so.
I have per guild settings on my discord bot. However, for some reason if the guild doesn't exist it errors. I have over 150 guilds that my bot is in, and this was only recently added. I don't know what to do to make it work ...
I have tried different methods of calling if the data is null but I always get an error and end up with this original chunk of code
client.updateGuild = async (guild, settings) => {
let data = await client.getGuild(guild);
if (typeof data !== 'object') data = {};
for (const key in settings) {
if (data[key] !== settings[key]) data[key] = settings[key];
else return;
}
console.log(`Guild "${data.guildName}" updated settings: ${Object.keys(settings)}`);
return await data.updateOne(settings);
};
If the guild does not exist it should make a new entry for the guild and save the updated config settings when someone runs the config command
client.createGuild = async settings => {
const defaults = Object.assign({ _id: mongoose.Types.ObjectId() }, client.config.defaultSettings);
const merged = Object.assign(defaults, settings);
const newGuild = await new Guild(merged);
return newGuild.save()
.then(console.log(`Default settings saved for guild "${merged.guildName}" (${merged.guildID})`));
};
This is the command run when it is added to a guild after the update, but like I said theres over 150 old ones ;-;
If I understand it right, the problem is somewhere here:
return await data.updateOne(settings);
data should be an actual collection/model and according to let data = await client.getGuild(guild); it should return a model, but I'm 99% sure that it's not. Well, I don't see what client.getGuild does, so.. that's why I'm sure only for 99%
The second vector of the problem lies here, settings object should be equal to these schema: {filter_field: value},{update_field: value},{upsert:true} and as a result:
... = await model_name.updateOne({filter: value},{update: field},{upsert:true}).exec(callback)
And for the more, if you want to:
I need the updateGuild function to run the createGuild function if there is no database entry
I guess that updateGuild inside, should looks like this, w/o createGuild method:
let result = await model_name.findOneAndUpdate(
{
fieldName: filterValue,
},
new Class(object),
{
upsert : true,
new: true,
setDefaultsOnInsert: true,
runValidators: true,
lean: true
}
).exec();
in that case, result variable have updated docs data, and some values could be displayed to the user of the bot, via destructive method if it succeeded.
Or trigger await createGuild(); directly, in updateGuild without upside code snippet if it allows to.
I've got the following firebase function to run once a file is uploaded to firebase storage.
It basically gets its URL and saves a reference to it in firestore. I need to save them in a way so that I can query them randomly from my client. Indexes seem to be to best fit this requirement.
for the firestore reference I need the following things:
doc ids must go from 0 to n (n beeing the index of the last
document)
have a --stats-- doc keeping track of n (gets
incremented every time a document is uploaded)
To achieve this I've written the following node.js script:
const incrementIndex = admin.firestore.FieldValue.increment(1);
export const image_from_storage_to_firestore = functions.storage
.object()
.onFinalize(async object => {
const bucket = gcs.bucket(object.bucket);
const filePath = object.name;
const splittedPath = filePath!.split("/");
// se siamo nelle immagini
// path = emotions/$emotion/photos/$photographer/file.jpeg
if (splittedPath[0] === "emotions" && splittedPath[2] === "photos") {
const emotion = splittedPath[1];
const photographer = splittedPath[3];
const file = bucket.file(filePath!);
const indexRef = admin.firestore().collection("images")
.doc("emotions").collection(emotion).doc("--stats--");
const index = await indexRef.get().then((doc) => {
if (!doc.exists) {
return 0;
} else {
return doc.data()!.index;
}
});
if (index === 0) {
await admin.firestore().collection("images")
.doc("emotions")
.collection(emotion)
.doc("--stats--")
.set({index: 0});
}
console.log("(GOT INDEX): " + index);
let imageURL;
await file
.getSignedUrl({
action: "read",
expires: "03-09-2491"
})
.then(signedUrls => {
imageURL = signedUrls[0];
});
console.log("(GOT URL): " + imageURL);
var docRef = admin.firestore()
.collection("images")
.doc("emotions")
.collection(emotion)
.doc(String(index));
console.log("uploading...");
await indexRef.update({index: incrementIndex});
await docRef.set({ imageURL: imageURL, photographer: photographer });
console.log("finished");
return true;
}
return false;
});
Getting to the problem:
It works perfectly if I upload the files one by one.
It messes up the index if I upload more than one file at once, because two concurrent uploads will read the same index value from --stats-- and one will overwrite the other.
How would you solve this problem? would you use another approach instead of the indexed one?
You should use a Transaction in which you:
read the value of the index (from "--stats--" document),
write the new index and
write the value of the imageURL in the "emotion" doc.
See also the reference docs about transactions.
This way, if the index value is changed in the "--stats--" document while the Transaction is being executed, the Cloud Function can catch the Transaction failure and generates an error which finishes it.
In parallel, you will need to enable retries for this background Cloud Function, in order it is retried if the Transaction failed in a previous run.
See this documentation item https://firebase.google.com/docs/functions/retries, including the video from Doug Stevenson which is embedded in the doc.