Is there any way to pass extra data to a button interaction?

[little bolt]

You can pass as much data as you would ever need

[carmine hamlet]

Like, when creating the button? ```js
new MessageActionRow().addComponents(new MessageButton()
.setCustomId('cancel')
.setLabel("Cancel")
.setStyle("DANGER")),

i.e., a specific user id since I'm handling buttons outside of the command generating the button. Or should I just handle it in the command?

[little bolt]

This is what I do, Idk if there are better ways:

.setCustomId(JSON.stringify({type: `cancel`, my_data: `sdfsdfdsf`}))

[little bolt]

I do the same, I'm kinda avoiding collectors altogether

[carmine hamlet]

How do you handle that in a manager then? Because I have it how the guide does events and commands. Where it goes through the folder and hooks to the button with the name of the file

Just parse the json in each button click and check the type against the name of the file?

[little bolt]

I have no idea what manager you're talking about, but here's how I handle it:

input.custom = JSON.parse(interaction_json);
handlers[custom.type](input);

And for every type I have a handler inside handlers

[carmine hamlet]

else if (interaction.isButton()) {
      const Client = interaction.client;
      const button = Client.buttons.get(interaction.customId);

      if (!button) return;

      try {
        await button.execute(Client, interaction);
      } catch (e) {
        console.error(`[ERROR] ${e}`);
        try {
          await interaction.reply({ content: `There was an error executing this button function!`, ephemeral: true });
        } catch(e) {
          await interaction.editReply({ content: `There was an error executing this button function!`, ephemeral: true })
        }
      }
    }```

[little bolt]

In the handle you can check against input.custom.my_data

[carmine hamlet]

Just switch out the interaction.custoimId there for parsing the json then use the customIdJSON.type?

[little bolt]

You have to parse customId, and then you got both your initial id (which would be type in our case) and some additional data

[carmine hamlet]

Yeah, alright