discord.js - Imagine an app•8mo ago

Understanding the differences between various deleteReply functions

Discordjs version: discord.js@14.13.0 Node version: v20.8.1 I've got a SlashCommand that spawns the interaction shown in the picuture. The idea is to show a ephemeral message, click a button to "edit" various options and then after pressing "apply" show the new overview of the settings. I'm struggling to understand the differences between the various "deleteReply" functions. I have this function button_updateSettings to handle the click event for the "Apply" button.

async function button_updateSettings(interaction: ButtonInteraction) {
    const loadingMessage = await interaction.deferReply({ ephemeral: true })

    await new Promise((resolve, _reject) => setTimeout(() => resolve(undefined), 5000))

    // works! Deletes the deferReply() loading message
    // await interaction.deleteReply()

    // does not work! throws "DiscordAPIError[10008]: Unknown Message"
    // await interaction.deleteReply(loadingMessage.id)

    // works, but deletes the original interaction message and not the deferReply() loading message
    // await interaction.deleteReply(interaction.message.id)

    // does not work! throws "DiscordAPIError[10008]: Unknown Message"
    // await interaction.webhook.deleteMessage(loadingMessage.id)


    // update original message
    // works fine
    await interaction.editReply({
        message: interaction.message.id,
        content: "Edited",
        embeds: [],
        components: [],
    })
}

async function button_updateSettings(interaction: ButtonInteraction) {
    const loadingMessage = await interaction.deferReply({ ephemeral: true })

    await new Promise((resolve, _reject) => setTimeout(() => resolve(undefined), 5000))

    // works! Deletes the deferReply() loading message
    // await interaction.deleteReply()

    // does not work! throws "DiscordAPIError[10008]: Unknown Message"
    // await interaction.deleteReply(loadingMessage.id)

    // works, but deletes the original interaction message and not the deferReply() loading message
    // await interaction.deleteReply(interaction.message.id)

    // does not work! throws "DiscordAPIError[10008]: Unknown Message"
    // await interaction.webhook.deleteMessage(loadingMessage.id)


    // update original message
    // works fine
    await interaction.editReply({
        message: interaction.message.id,
        content: "Edited",
        embeds: [],
        components: [],
    })
}

What is the correct/best way to delete the "Bot is waiting..." message? Why do some options not work/throw an error?

3 Replies

d.js toolkit•8mo ago

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duck•8mo ago

<Interaction>.deleteReply() deletes a reply to an interaction by default it deletes the initial response, but you can delete a different message by specifying a message id this is why await interaction.deleteReply(interaction.message.id) deletes the message the component is on, because that's the message you told it to delete <Interaction>.deleteReply() internally just uses <Interaction>.webhook.deleteMessage(), so you're free to use either method the issue with using loadingMessage.id in your second and fourth examples is that deferReply resolves in an InterationResponse if you don't specify fetchReply: true in the options in this case, loadingMessage.id would be the button interaction's id, which isn't a valid message id all of this being said, is there a reason you're not just using <ButtonInteraction>.update() or <ButtonInteraction>.deferUpdate()?

Linus•8mo ago

thank you for the detailed response! This example was mostly for demonstration purposes because I was confused as to why the second and fourth example would differ from the third, I wasn't aware of the fetchReply: true option. Regarding update()/deferUpdate(), maybe I misunderstood the docs but isn't editReply supposed to be an alternative? Why would I still need to call update()/deferUpdate()? (I'm currently busy but I will try it later this day)

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