Unable to add attachments in InteractionType.APPLICATION_COMMAND

[coral cypress]

Hi there! I am new to creating Discord bots and recently followed the https://discord.com/developers/docs/getting-started tutorial, which uses discordJS with an interactions endpoint URL where Discord will send HTTP Requests and you return something of the form res.send(...). I am trying to do the following: respond with a local video file attached when a user does the /get-video command.
I've looked through all of the attachments documentation but have not been able to find an answer. I do NOT want this in an embed, just want it to be a good old attachment
Some more details

• The video file is saved in the same place as my app.js where the code below lives, so the file path is "video.mp4"
• My JS type is module, since I adapted it from the getting started tutorial, but I'm open to suggestions on refactoring my code to make it easier
• Right now, the bot will respond to my "/get-video" command, but it doesn't include the embed

Here is my code so far which does respond but fails to add an attachment
`if (type === InteractionType.APPLICATION_COMMAND) {
const { name } = data;

// The command I'm working on
if (name === 'get-video') {
  const userId = req.body.member.user.id;
  const videoPath = "video.mp4";
  const file = new AttachmentBuilder(videoPath);
  return res.send({
    type: InteractionResponseType.CHANNEL_MESSAGE_WITH_SOURCE,
    data: {
      content: `video for <@${userId}> and ${file} and path ${videoPath}`,
      flags: InteractionResponseFlags.EPHEMERAL,
      components: [
        {
          type: MessageComponentTypes.ACTION_ROW,
          components: [
            {
              type: MessageComponentTypes.BUTTON,
              // Append the ID to use later on
              custom_id: `accept_button_${req.body.id}`,
              label: 'my button',
              style: ButtonStyleTypes.PRIMARY,
            },
          ],
        },
      ],
      files: [file]
    },
  });

`
As you can see, I have put the attachment under "files", but nothing shows up! Would sincerely appreciate any help :)

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[coral cypress]

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[night quartz]

That tutorial does not use discord.js at all. Neither is your code you showed there

[swift epoch]

looks like you're using axios or something similar, but, if you want to upload files when using an endpoint, you need to append a form data to your body request

[coral cypress]

Oh interesting, I did import { AttachmentBuilder } from 'discord.js' in hopes of being able to use it, but is it incompatible?

[coral cypress]

I see, is this generally a less straightforward way of doing it than discord.js?

Why wouldn't the discord tutorial use discord.js 🤔

[night quartz]

Yes, you’d need to use that with discord.js methods to work

Because it doesn’t use any library but raw requests

To show how the api works (and because djs is not a library for http interactions in the first place)

[coral cypress]

Ohh okay got it, so would you rec that I scrap what they did in the tutorial and completely build on top of discord.js instead?

[night quartz]

That depends on what you intend to build

Djs is a gateway bot library, you won‘t make http interactions only bots with it

[dense patrol]

Suggestion for @coral cypress:
Reference: API Reference - Uploading Files
read more

[coral cypress]

Thanks for sharing the resource! I was kind of confused looking at this, does this mean I add an attachments key and put the file name there?

[coral cypress]

Oh I see, I want to make a bot that eventually calls an endpoint I have (makes a HTTP request), would Djs not be suitable for that?

[night quartz]

You need to decide: use djs and ask here; or not use djs and ask somewhere else (ddevs in #useful-servers for example)

[swift epoch]

right

[night quartz]

That can be done from any js code. It‘s about how the bot interacts with the discord API that you need to decide on

[coral cypress]

I'm not really clear on what the differences are? Gateway vs http interactions?

Ty for all the clarifications btw

[swift epoch]

Gateway is used to receive event like messageCreate, guildCreate
Http interactions used for interacting with interactions via https request and response

[coral cypress]

Could you clarify how that might look as just a video attachment (not embeds)? Would that go in the place where I have files rn
return res.send({ type: InteractionResponseType.CHANNEL_MESSAGE_WITH_SOURCE, data: { content: video for <@${userId}> and ${file} and path ${videoPath}, flags: InteractionResponseFlags.EPHEMERAL, components: [ { type: MessageComponentTypes.ACTION_ROW, components: [ { type: MessageComponentTypes.BUTTON, // Append the game ID to use later on custom_id: accept_button_${req.body.id}, label: 'pls accept', style: ButtonStyleTypes.PRIMARY, }, ], }, ], files: [file] }, });

[night quartz]

gateway: you got a full bot user that‘s logged in and can do anything a user can do in a server plus interactions like /commands, buttons, SelectMenu, …
Http interaction only: no bot user, only an app that can respond to interactions, but not do the other things users can do

(Technically that explanation is wrong, because you can still do some things directly via REST, but it won‘t show as an online user)

[coral cypress]

Thanks, that's a really good explanation! I think I only need HTTP interactions since my bot is intended to only respond to specific commands, but I really appreciate the time you took to explain it to me