discord.js - Imagine an app•8mo ago

Editing a message to insert a new component gives "Interaction failed" message?

Pretty simple thing here. Within my Discord bot, after a user successfully selects an option from a StringSelectMenu that the bot sends to them, in the code I have the bot .edit() the message that contained the StringSelectMenu in it that the user just chose from.

const firstMessage = await interaction.reply({content:'Blah blah blah choose an option', components:[actionRow]});
const checkUserFilter = i => i.user.id === interaction.user.id;
const choiceSelected = await firstMessage.awaitMessageComponent({ filter: checkUserFilter, time: 60000 });

if (choiceSelected.values[0] == "someOption") {
                    const channelSelect = new ChannelSelectMenuBuilder({ custom_id: 'channelSelect', placeholder: 'Select a channel'});
                    const channelSelectActionRow = new ActionRowBuilder().addComponents(channelSelect);
                    
                    const chooseChannelMsg = await firstMessage.edit({ content: 'Now I am asking you to choose a channel!', components:[channelSelectActionRow]});

const firstMessage = await interaction.reply({content:'Blah blah blah choose an option', components:[actionRow]});
const checkUserFilter = i => i.user.id === interaction.user.id;
const choiceSelected = await firstMessage.awaitMessageComponent({ filter: checkUserFilter, time: 60000 });

if (choiceSelected.values[0] == "someOption") {
                    const channelSelect = new ChannelSelectMenuBuilder({ custom_id: 'channelSelect', placeholder: 'Select a channel'});
                    const channelSelectActionRow = new ActionRowBuilder().addComponents(channelSelect);
                    
                    const chooseChannelMsg = await firstMessage.edit({ content: 'Now I am asking you to choose a channel!', components:[channelSelectActionRow]});

Everything runs fine, and the bot correctly edits the firstMessage message and moves on. (It edits firstMessage by providing new text and new, separate ChannelSelectMenu.) But even though everything was correct and the message gets edited, the user still sees the warning "Interaction failed" in the Discord UI. I have no idea why this warning is being thrown, as everything is running successfully and there are not crashes? How do I ensure "Interaction failed" is not displayed to the user after they select an option from the initial StringSelectMenu (in firstMessage)?

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treble/luna•8mo ago

editing the message does not acknowlegde the interaction so you either have to reply, or if the interaction happened on the message you are trying to edit, call <Interaction>.update

2Flow2•8mo ago

Oh, I see. So if I use <Interaction>.update on firstMessage, it will register that the interaction was responded to?

treble/luna•8mo ago

no firstMessage is not an Interaction

2Flow2•8mo ago

Right. That's what I thought would be the issue. So I'd need to grab the interaction of the user clicking a specific Select menu option?

treble/luna•8mo ago

you have it choiceSelected

2Flow2•8mo ago

And then use .update() on that interaction? (In this case choiceSelected, right?)

treble/luna•8mo ago

yes do actually pass params into the update though

2Flow2•8mo ago

Okay, cool, that's what I thought too. Thanks, lemme try that. Sorry, what do you mean by this?

treble/luna•8mo ago

replace your edit with update

2Flow2•8mo ago

Fantastic, that seems to have worked! Thanks so much for helping to clear up the difference between those two! 💚 You've really improved my day. So seriously, thanks for your time.

treble/luna•8mo ago

you're welcome!

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