Add "Bot is thinking"

[frank galleon]

        response_channel = await self.determine_response_channel(message)
        payload = self.construct_payload(message)
        logging.info(payload)
        agent = await self.spawn_agent(message)

        response = await self.process_message(response_channel, agent, payload)
        await self.send_response(response_channel, response)

How can I make this say the bot is thinking while it's waiting for the code to finish? I know you can use ctx.channel.typing(), but if we use async with response_channel.typing(): it fails, saying typing is not callable. The channel is a guild thread that is messagable.

[olive ibex]

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[gloomy solar]

channel.trigger_typing()

[olive ibex]

If your command takes more than 3 seconds to give a response, you might be getting an error back from Discord looking something like this:

This interaction failed. / Unknown interaction.

Discord expects you to respond to an interaction within 3 seconds in some manner. This may be restrictive, but Discord does allow for deferring - a type of response that specifies Discord to show a loading/thinking state for up to 15 minutes while you prepare your actual response.
To do this, add this to the beginning of your command's code:

# First way
@interactions.slash_command(...)
async def slash_command(ctx):
  await ctx.defer()
  ...

# Second way
@interactions.slash_command(...)
@interactions.auto_defer(...)
async def slash_command_2(ctx):
  ...

If you wish for all of your commands to defer, then you can specify the auto_defer kwarg in your Client:

bot = Client(auto_defer=True, ...)

# If you want more control...
bot = Client(auto_defer=AutoDefer(...))

[wild dawn]

have you tried deferring?

[formal bridge]

Deferring works on the commands, but we use a bot mention listener. I had a decorator before when we were using discord.py to wrap the function in an async with typing context, but it stopped working. I'll try the trigger_typing and get back to the OP