discord.js - Imagine an app•2y ago

setTimeout with an async function

Hello, I'm currently trying to use a setTimeout function to wait for an interaction from the user, and if it doesn't receive it in time, remove the interactable components from the message. So, I have something like

async removeComponents(message) {
  await message.edit({content: "Timeout"}) 
}

async someOtherFunction() {
  const timeout = setTimeout(removeComponents(message), 120000)

async removeComponents(message) {
  await message.edit({content: "Timeout"}) 
}

async someOtherFunction() {
  const timeout = setTimeout(removeComponents(message), 120000)

This, however, gives me the error that

The "callback" argument must be of type function. Received an instance of Promise

The "callback" argument must be of type function. Received an instance of Promise

If I instead do

const timeout = setTimeout(await removeComponents, 120000)

const timeout = setTimeout(await removeComponents, 120000)

I receive

The "callback" argument must be of type function. Received a undefined.

The "callback" argument must be of type function. Received a undefined.

What can I do to get around this / what have other people done when trying to remove interactions after a certain amount of time?

2 Replies

Unknown User•2y ago

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Tyranasaurus•2y ago

yeah this was me paraphrasing my function, I actually do this

async function removeInteractions(message, embed) {
  await message.edit({
    embeds: [embed],
    components: [],
  });
}

async function removeInteractions(message, embed) {
  await message.edit({
    embeds: [embed],
    components: [],
  });
}

How am I meant to correctly use it? Ah yes, thank you! yeah, I did - typo oops My error got buried under some debugging so I just typed it out This worked, thank you so much!

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setTimeout with an async function