What's the preferred way of accessing collections in a command file?

Currently I have something like this

try {
        if (interaction.commandName === 'user') {
            await command.execute(interaction, currency)  // Currency is a Collection of user ids and balances
        } else {
            await command.execute(interaction)
        }
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(error)
        if (interaction.replied || interaction.deferred) {
            await interaction.followUp({ content: 'There was an error while executing this command!', ephemeral: true })
        } else {
            await interaction.reply({ content: 'There was an error while executing this command!', ephemeral: true })
        }
    }

try {
        if (interaction.commandName === 'user') {
            await command.execute(interaction, currency)  // Currency is a Collection of user ids and balances
        } else {
            await command.execute(interaction)
        }
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(error)
        if (interaction.replied || interaction.deferred) {
            await interaction.followUp({ content: 'There was an error while executing this command!', ephemeral: true })
        } else {
            await interaction.reply({ content: 'There was an error while executing this command!', ephemeral: true })
        }
    }

Where I just send the collections along when I execute the command from the main file, depending on the command but this feels a bit hacky, as does having a separate file exporting collections. What should I be doing? Thanks! npm list discord.js: 14.14.1 node -v: v21.1.0

11 Replies

d.js toolkit•5mo ago

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dank•5mo ago

get your collection within the command module?

ras•5mo ago

Yeah, if like if I was following the guide for making a currency system, except I wanted my commands to broken down into individual files. How would I access the collections defined to modify them from within that command file. Or is that not what you're asking?

import { SlashCommandBuilder } from 'discord.js'

export default {
    data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
        .setName('user')
        .setDescription('Provides information about the user.'),
    async execute(interaction, currency) {
        const user = currency.get(interaction.member.id)
        await interaction.reply(`${interaction.user.username} has ${user.balance}`)
    }
}

import { SlashCommandBuilder } from 'discord.js'

export default {
    data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
        .setName('user')
        .setDescription('Provides information about the user.'),
    async execute(interaction, currency) {
        const user = currency.get(interaction.member.id)
        await interaction.reply(`${interaction.user.username} has ${user.balance}`)
    }
}

I suppose I could also define it on the client object like the commands collection but I'm not sure what the right hing to do here is.

dank•5mo ago

How is your collection defined

ras•5mo ago

just

const currency = new Collection()

const currency = new Collection()

in the main file where that try catch block from the top is

dank•5mo ago

So it doesn’t persist between restarts, is that not what you want for a currency statement System **

ras•5mo ago

I have an sqlite database for that

dank•5mo ago

I see, I mean the better approach would be to always pass uniform arguments to your interactions instead of hard coding the same function but executing different arguments In this case attaching it to client would be best or you b can get access to the collection (or the date of the database) within your indiv command handling

ras•5mo ago

Okay, thanks! I'll attach it to the client, that makes sense to me. Would accessing the collection within the command handling just be an import statement, or?

dank•5mo ago

interaction.client.currency

ras•5mo ago

right, that's if i attach it to the client, I meant when you said "or you b can get access to the collection (or the date of the database) within your indiv command handling". Sorry for the confusion

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What's the preferred way of accessing collections in a command file?