Discord Webhook question

[raw cargo]

To support such nested json you need to use a map[string]any

[lavish gust]

the current var type im using is map[string]string

[raw cargo]

yes
Which doesn't allow you to nest json

[lavish gust]

ahh

[raw cargo]

I recommend you just make a short type for stuff and avoid map[string]any all together

It would be less error prone

[lavish gust]

expected operand, found '{'syntax

these are the kind of issues im getting

and wdym short type?

[raw cargo]

You're trying to write json where you should write go

[lavish gust]

yes im just unsure what go i should be writing

in place

[raw cargo]

values := map[string]any{
  "embeds": []map[string]any{
    {
      "color": nil,
      "fields": []map[string]any{
        {
          "name": "name",
          "value": "value",
         }
      }
     }
  }
}

That should do it

[lavish gust]

thank you

[raw cargo]

That's super messy imo

[lavish gust]

as long as it gets it done tbh

i understand what im doing wrong now lol cheers

[raw cargo]

Instead you can have struct definitions like this https://github.com/disgoorg/disgo/blob/master/discord/webhook_message_create.go

If you need this just once it doesn't matter too much I guess

[vital sluice]

use structs

type Webhook struct {
    Content   string  `json:"content,omitempty"`
    Username  string  `json:"username,omitempty"`
    AvatarUrl string  `json:"avatar_url,omitempty"`
    Tts       bool    `json:"tts,omitempty"`
    Embeds    []Embed `json:"embeds,omitempty"`
}

type Embed struct {
    Title       string         `json:"title,omitempty"`
    Description string         `json:"description,omitempty"`
    Url         string         `json:"url,omitempty"`
    Timestamp   string         `json:"timestamp,omitempty"`
    Color       int            `json:"color,omitempty"`
    Footer      EmbedFooter    `json:"footer,omitempty"`
    Image       EmbedImage     `json:"image,omitempty"`
    Thumbnail   EmbedThumbnail `json:"thumbnail,omitempty"`
    Video       EmbedVideo     `json:"video,omitempty"`
    Provider    EmbedProvider  `json:"provider,omitempty"`
    Author      EmbedAuthor    `json:"author,omitempty"`
    Fields      []EmbedFields  `json:"fields,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedFooter struct {
    Text         string `json:"text,omitempty"`
    IconUrl      string `json:"icon_url,omitempty"`
    ProxyIconUrl string `json:"proxy_icon_url,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedImage struct {
    Url      string `json:"url,omitempty"`
    ProxyUrl string `json:"proxy_url,omitempty"`
    Height   int    `json:"height,omitempty"`
    Width    int    `json:"width,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedThumbnail struct {
    Url      string `json:"url,omitempty"`
    ProxyUrl string `json:"proxy_url,omitempty"`
    Height   int    `json:"height,omitempty"`
    Width    int    `json:"width,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedVideo struct {
    Url      string `json:"url,omitempty"`
    ProxyUrl string `json:"proxy_url,omitempty"`
    Height   int    `json:"height,omitempty"`
    Width    int    `json:"width,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedProvider struct {
    Name string `json:"name,omitempty"`
    Url  string `json:"url,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedAuthor struct {
    Name         string `json:"name,omitempty"`
    Url          string `json:"url,omitempty"`
    IconUrl      string `json:"icon_url,omitempty"`
    ProxyIconUrl string `json:"proxy_icon_url,omitempty"`
}

type EmbedFields struct {
    Name   string `json:"name,omitempty"`
    Value  string `json:"value,omitempty"`
    Inline bool   `json:"inline,omitempty"`
}

these r the discord webhook structs

[lavish gust]

I find this pretty confusing but thanks I'll have a look oh wait I kinda get it

I'll give it a go when I get home

[vital sluice]

it shouldn’t be confusing, what you do is just create a new webhook struct and fill the data, then JSON marshal it and send a post request to your webhook URL

[lavish gust]

it worked thank you