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Brian Chambers
Brian Chambers

Reputation: 25

Discord.js Delete message through an existing function

The Issue When executing my code i am really getting no errors at the moment but would like to add to a function but have tried almost every way of handling it. At this point the variable has been removed due to confusion and frustration.

What needs to happen is, the User that initiates the command, their message gets deleted after a short delay. I have tried message.delete(1000) and other Variants for v12 but no luck. Not able to pass the "message" variable from my active function?

Maybe i am completely off and just making it hard on myself, i don't know. Honestly embarrassing that i couldn't figure out a message.delete. Please help. Apologies for the ignorance.

const Discord = require('discord.js');
const bot = new Discord.Client();
const token = "";
const PREFIX = "!";

const fs = require('fs');
bot.commands = new Discord.Collection();

const commandFiles = fs.readdirSync('./commands/').filter(file => file.endsWith('.js'));
for(const file of commandFiles){
    const command = require(`./commands/${file}`);

    bot.commands.set(command.name, command);
}


bot.on('ready', () => {
    console.log("The bot is active and ready to go!");
});

      bot.on('message', function(message) {
        if(message.content[0] === PREFIX) {
            let command = message.content.substring(message.content.indexOf(" ") + 1, message.content.length);

        }
    });

bot.on('message', message => {
    let args = message.content.substring(PREFIX.length).split(" ");

    switch (args[0]) {

        case "crash":
            bot.commands.get('crash').execute(message, args);
        break;

        case "hello":
            bot.commands.get('hello').execute(message, args);
        break;

        case "purge":
            bot.commands.get('purge').execute(message, args);
        break;
    }

});

bot.login(token);

Here is an example of "crash.js" for reference. Don't know if i need to execute delete from there?

module.exports = {
    name: 'crash',
    description: "Crash",
    execute(message, args){
        message.author.send("Here is the link you requested");
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 547

Answers (1)

Tarazed
Tarazed

Reputation: 2665

You can execute delete from within your module. The message is passed as a full object so you just call the delete method on it. However, the Options are an Object which means it needs to be defined as such. For clarity, I'm going to use another variable but this can be done inline.

let options = {
    timeout: 1000,
    reason: 'Because I said so.'
}

message.delete(options);

or inline...

message.delete({timeout: 1000});

Upvotes: 1

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