regal blade
My bot creates threads in a specific channel that has "hide after inactivity" of 3 days. Someone complained that the threads were disappearing after only one day of inactivity.
I looked at the channel.default_auto_archive_duration for that specific channel and it says 1 day. Is there some other place I need to be looking to get the configured 3 days for the channel?
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frozen tulip
I think you can set that value when creating the thread no?
regal blade
yes, but I'd really like to be able to see what the server admins have set the value to, rather than hard-coding it.
frozen tulip
I think you can get it using channel.default_auto_archive_duration
regal blade
that's what I'm saying. if you pull up edit channel in a discord client, it shows a duration of 3 days, but the channel.default_auto_archive_duration is 1 day.
frail gorge
that sounds like the discord client being messed up
frozen tulip
that sounds like the discord client being messed up
nah it's just that the lib passes 1 day by default instead of taking the set channel duration
frail gorge
well, no, i dont think thats what theyre talking about
they explicitly said channel.default_auto_archive_duration is one day
regal blade
no, actually Max has it. Why doesn't the create_*_thread functions use what the channel has been configured for, in terms of "hide after inactivity"?
I'm all sorts of confused, and don't know if this is by design, or not.
frail gorge
presumably because theres no easy way of doing that with defaults
which begs the question of "why wasnt MISSING used" granted
unfortunately, to fix it would be breaking
so you'll just have to pass in the default archive date yourself (until v6 comes out)
regal blade
yeah, once I saw that the threads were defaulting to one day, I began digging into what was visible in the channel, and couldn't find anything other than that default_auto_archive_duration.
frozen tulip
yep should have been a case of MISSING default, retrieve the set value or the one the user provides
regal blade
ok, so I'm not going crazy... just need to hard-code the duration
frail gorge
point is - someone fucked up, and fixing the mistake isnt possible right now without breaking peoples code
so yeah, just need to hard code it in
frozen tulip
and the "channel" in that case is the actual channel or the thread?
what about that?
regal blade
no worries, at least I can put my mind at ease and put this issue to rest 😉
frozen tulip
did you try something like: channel.create_thread(xxx, auto_archive_duration=channel.default_auto_archive_duration)
regal blade
no, I was just calling create_thread with just a title. I'm sure if I used channel.default_auto_archive_duration that it'd still set it to one day, since that's the value I'm printing as a debug step
I wonder if I go back up the chain into guild then back down to channels if the value is different
frail gorge
well thats frightening
frozen tulip
uh that's weird
frail gorge
im pretty sure those values are directly from the api 😅
regal blade
yeah, this is what I'm seeing:
dir(ctx.channel.default_auto_archive_duration)= ['__class__', '__doc__', '__module__', 'as_integer_ratio', 'bit_count', 'bit_length', 'conjugate', 'denominator', 'from_bytes', 'imag', 'name', 'numerator', 'real', 'to_bytes', 'value']
ctx.channel.default_auto_archive_duration= AutoArchiveDuration.ONE_DAY```well, that doesnt say its one day
unless you mean the final line, which is reassigning it to one day
you have an enum - i would suggest just directly printing it out instead of doing a type check
regal blade
yeah, that's what the last line is, just printing it
frail gorge
okay makes more sense
regal blade
print(f"{fname}: ctx.channel.default_auto_archive_duration=",ctx.channel.default_auto_archive_duration)
frail gorge
okay i have a theory
ipy assigns a default for default_auto_archive_duration thats indeed one day
for some reason channels can just not have a default archive duration value already filled in
hence the behavior
as for why one day - im pretty sure that was the default at some point
regal blade
oh, so it's likely a combination of issues. one being the library defaulting to one day, and two being the api not returning the proper info
frail gorge
yes, though knowing discord the api wont be fixed to return the correct info, so we're stuck fixing it ourselves
regal blade
meh, not going to concern myself with it. It's just one of those things I'll have to keep in mind if server admins change stuff.
Thanks much for the help Max and Astrea!
frail gorge
np!
time for another pr to my current pr list lmao
(unless someone steals it which like go ahead)