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"Send" does not exist on type "channel"

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

Hi. Trying to make a discord bot that will send a message to a specific channel on startup. I try the method of caching the channel and then sending the message. An error is thrown saying "Send" does not exist on type "channel".

const channel = client.channels.cache.get('1076251641625456700');
channel.send("Hi");

const channel = client.channels.cache.get('1076251641625456700');
channel.send("Hi");

Any thoughts why?

Solution:

Solution(For Future People trying to solve this issue) ```ts const channel = await client.channels.fetch("1076251641625456700"); if(channel?.isTextBased() ) {...

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BBen

2/18/2023

Channel might net be a text based channel. Use channel.isTextBased() to ensure that it is before trying to send a message

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

it is

BBen

2/18/2023

You may know that it is but the code doesnt. You still need to preform the check in the code.

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

BBen

2/18/2023

Two things. First, remove the casting to a TextChannel because you cant be sure its a text channel. Second, channel is not a TextChannel, its undefined.

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

yes so how do I make it not undefined and make it send a message?

BBen

2/18/2023

Well, are you sure that the id your using is correct? If so, it probably is not cached so you will need to fetch it with client.channels.fetch(...)

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

yes that worked alrighty thank you very much.

BBen

2/18/2023

Solution

Cchpsterz

2/18/2023

Solution(For Future People trying to solve this issue)

const channel =  await client.channels.fetch("1076251641625456700");
        if(channel?.isTextBased() ) {
            channel.send("Hello World!")
        }

const channel =  await client.channels.fetch("1076251641625456700");
        if(channel?.isTextBased() ) {
            channel.send("Hello World!")
        }

Fetch the channel, make sure it is text based.

FFavna

2/18/2023

Wrong solution, see <#769862166131245066> in the DiscordJS server. Use isStageChannel function from @sapphire/discord.js-utilities and update to the latest sapphire framework as announced in #Announcements Specifically !isStageChannel(channel)

BBen

2/18/2023

oop. I didn't see the djs anouncment. But why would you use isStageChannel instead of isTextBased? Wouldnt !isStageChannel(channel) return true for categries & voice channels?

KKrish

2/18/2023

You can send messages in VC

BBen

2/18/2023

Right I forgot they had text channels now. But you still cant send messages in a category channel Also I dont think .send exists on forum channels but I could be wrong about that

KKrish

2/18/2023

Favna could answer

FFavna

2/18/2023

because stage channels are also text channels so isTextChannel doesn't exclude stage channel stage channels can have messages now as of like last week or so which is why the change was made to discord-api-types to begin with

BBen

2/18/2023

So stage channels can now have text channels once djs updates to support it but checking !isStageChannel still assumes that you can send a message to a category which I'm pretty sure you cant.

FFavna

2/18/2023

stage channels can now have messages and therefore they are text channels because the definition of a text channel is "can have messages"

BBen

2/18/2023

Right so then why would you check if a channel is not a stage channel before sending a message to it then?

FFavna

2/18/2023

because at least for now DJS doesnt support sending a message to a stage channel until an update rolls out anyway yes you should do

if (!isTextChannel(channel) || isStageChannel(channel) {
  return;
}

// do other stuff

if (!isTextChannel(channel) || isStageChannel(channel) {
  return;
}

// do other stuff

for now

BBen

2/18/2023

Right so you would need to do that check in addition to the isTextBased. If you just did the stage check then you could end up sending to a category Yep I thought you were saying to just do the stage check, not both.

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