discord.js - Imagine an app•6mo ago

Components timeout causing "Unknown Message" error on ephemeral messages

Hey all, I did a bit of research before posting this but I'm still a bit confused, I'm wondering what would be the best way (if possible) to disable components on ephemeral messages. I'm currently trying to disable select menus after a timeout period using my component handler, but I'm getting a DiscordAPIError[10008]: Unknown Message error. My current setup does majority of the component handling within my components.js file, the rest being within the command files itself. The handler disables components after a certain time (2 minutes in my case). The error occurs in the disableComponents function when trying to edit ephemeral messages. The message exists when the timeout triggers, but the edit fails. I've considered just letting the components expire naturally, but I'd prefer to have them visibly disabled for better UX. I've also tried checking if the message is ephemeral before attempting to edit, but I'm not sure where to extend from this other then just ignoring the error. Here's the relevant code from my component handler:

async function disableComponents(message) {
    try {
        const disabledRows = message.components.map(row => {
            const newRow = ActionRowBuilder.from(row);
            newRow.components = newRow.components.map(component => {
                if (component instanceof ButtonBuilder) {
                    return ButtonBuilder.from(component).setDisabled(true);
                } else if (component instanceof StringSelectMenuBuilder) {
                    return StringSelectMenuBuilder.from(component).setDisabled(true);
                }
                return component;
            });
            return newRow;
        });

        await message.edit({ components: disabledRows });
        
        messageTimeouts.delete(message.id);
        const key = generateCommandKey(message);
        cleanupCommandMap(key);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(`Error disabling components for message ${message.id}:`, error);
    }
}

async function disableComponents(message) {
    try {
        const disabledRows = message.components.map(row => {
            const newRow = ActionRowBuilder.from(row);
            newRow.components = newRow.components.map(component => {
                if (component instanceof ButtonBuilder) {
                    return ButtonBuilder.from(component).setDisabled(true);
                } else if (component instanceof StringSelectMenuBuilder) {
                    return StringSelectMenuBuilder.from(component).setDisabled(true);
                }
                return component;
            });
            return newRow;
        });

        await message.edit({ components: disabledRows });
        
        messageTimeouts.delete(message.id);
        const key = generateCommandKey(message);
        cleanupCommandMap(key);
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(`Error disabling components for message ${message.id}:`, error);
    }
}

Let me know if you want to see any other portions of my code :)

3 Replies

d.js toolkit•6mo ago

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Steve•6mo ago

you just can't edit ephemeral messages

StrangerOP•6mo ago

thank you, managed to fix my issue!

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Components timeout causing "Unknown Message" error on ephemeral messages

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