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dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 3:39 PM

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I am using a discord bot as a logger to for an ASP.NET api. Its running as a background process

i just noticed that my logger hasn't logged anything in a month. so i dug into the process and noticed something weird. here's my simplified logging code:

 if (_client.ConnectionState == ConnectionState.Connected) {
...
}
else {
  Console.WriteLine($"Attempted to send a log to discord but bot is {_client.ConnectionState}:" +
  $"\n\t{log.Message}");
}

the point of this part of the code is to send logs to discord if your connected, but otherwise to dump the message on the console.

here's the console when i start the API:

Attempted to send a log to discord but bot is Disconnected:
        Discord.Net v3.15.3 (API v10)
Attempted to send a log to discord but bot is Connecting:
        Connecting
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[14]
      Now listening on: http://localhost:5154
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Hosting environment: Development
info: Microsoft.Hosting.Lifetime[0]
      Content root path: C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\Ward Management\MyWardDataLayer\MyWardDataLayer
Attempted to send a log to discord but bot is Connecting:
        Connected

the last line is the head-scratcher. why does the system think its connected?!

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Bot thinks its connected but isn't...

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:07 PM

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Have you tried debugging? To see what _client.ConnectionState actually is when it’s trying, since it going to else.

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:08 PM

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coral warren Have you tried debugging? To see what _client.ConnectionState actually is when i...

the message printed to the console tells me the current state of the connection.

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:08 PM

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I assume that’s a no then

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:09 PM

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in the last case the system tryes to log the message "connected" and my system sees that the bot is not connnected and sends that to the console with the message:

Attempted to send a log to discord but bot is Connecting:
        Connected

so no i didnt step though the program for this output, but I've done the next best thing. if the variable and the debugger disagree ive got bigger problems

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:13 PM

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Just put a breakpoint to find out. Thought it would be interesting to see what ConnectionState it is since it doesn’t think it’s Connected.

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Also it’s asynchronously so it might have changed state before it sends log

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:16 PM

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dusty breach in the last case the system tryes to log the message "connected" and my system s...

It could be that it is connected but ConnectionState hasn't been updated yet

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Is there any console logs after that one or does it start logging to discord

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:20 PM

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that throws a wrench in things...

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the issue is that i the system never sends the ready log

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:24 PM

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coral warren Just put a breakpoint to find out. Thought it would be interesting to see what C...

ive thrown in a breakpoint and its weird

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it briefly shows disconected before changing to connecting while i am in the breakpoint...

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is this something weird with async? i don't really understand how async works... i am kind of just winging it on that.

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:27 PM

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dusty breach the issue is that i the system never sends the ready log

Is the bot online

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:27 PM

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when i look at it on the server, yea

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so somehow the bot thinks its connecting to discords backend but its not

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:28 PM

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You could add some listeners instead.

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:29 PM

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Try hooking into the ready event and just have it put a console log when its fired

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:29 PM

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_client.Disconnected += async (ex) => Console.WriteLine($"Bot disconnected. Reason: {ex?.Message}");
_client.Ready += async () => Console.WriteLine("Bot is ready.");```

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Idk how to format as code on phone lol

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:30 PM

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coral warren Idk how to format as code on phone lol

3 ` on either side

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:30 PM

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Yeah don’t have that symbol on my keyboard lmao

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:30 PM

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Its under symbols

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:31 PM

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Or on iPhone

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Just this: ‘

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:31 PM

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Aaaah

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There we go had to hold down the ‘ symbol to pick the other one

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:33 PM

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young heron Try hooking into the ready event and just have it put a console log when its fir...

found it. My client ready method throws an exception that just... isnt logged for some reason

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test

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Look at that

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:34 PM

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dusty breach found it. My client ready method throws an exception that just... isnt logged fo...

Because you try logging to discord after the connected state and it can't

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:34 PM

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young heron Because you try logging to discord after the connected state and it can't

its not that, as part of my debugging i had a breakpoint in my logging method that would have tripped if anything tried to log

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ok. more logging implimented

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didnt help... i am looping though a list with one element and the loop tries to loop though a second item which is, unsuprisingly, null.

young heron Dec 28, 2024, 5:50 PM

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What is the exception that you get on the ready event

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 5:51 PM

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system.nullreferanceexception

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List<SocketGuild> guildList = _client.Guilds.ToList();
foreach (SocketGuild guild in guildList) {
    if (guild != null) {
        await CheckIfGuildAllowed(guild);
    }
    
}

system loops though the first (and only) guild in the list and then it jumps to in and throws the exception

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i am looking though the values of the exception rn trying to find what object its refering to to be sure.

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when i am stepping though the program the last step is in, but the message of the exception says int on the checkIfGuildAllowed() line. i assume this is some quirk of async.

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 5:57 PM

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What does checkifguildallowed ?

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What does it execute

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 6:02 PM

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its checking the server against a list of allowed servers and if its a member of a server thats not allowed it leaves.

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HA! i applied the wrong token! its trying to run as a differant bot which is a member of servers not on the allow its

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then it leaves the guild which makes the guild null which screws the loop

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i do need to fix this, i need this system to not crash if its a member of a server that's not on the whitelist, but i know the problem now.

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man async is weird...

coral warren Dec 28, 2024, 6:09 PM

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Basically, async marks a method as asynchronous, allowing it to perform non-blocking operations and return a Task or Task<T> that represents ongoing work. await pauses the execution of an async method until the awaited task completes, allowing the program to perform other work in the meantime.

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 7:58 PM

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yea, but it also screws the order of operations which makes debugging a nightmare. I see its nesisary and useful, but when i am trying to debug somthing i wish it would just do it the slow way

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ok, ive clearly missunderstood the situation.

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i redesigned they system to save a list of guilds to remove then remove them later, but i am still throwing an exception:

List<SocketGuild> guildList = _client.Guilds.ToList();
// make sure the bot is not in a guild that is not allowed
List<SocketGuild> guildsToLeave = new List<SocketGuild>();
foreach (SocketGuild guild in guildList) {
   if (!await CheckIfGuildAllowed(guild)) {
       guildsToLeave.Add(guild);
   }
}

foreach (SocketGuild guild in guildsToLeave) {
   await guild.LeaveAsync();
}

private static async Task<bool> CheckIfGuildAllowed(SocketGuild guild) {
if (_client.Guilds.Contains(guild)) {
   Debug.Assert(config != null, nameof(config) + " != null");
   if (!config.AllowedServers.Contains(guild.Id)) {
       await LogAsync(LogSeverity.Critical, $"errormsg");
       return false;
   }
}

return true;
}

whats up with this? why does the loop try and loop a second time? what is it pointing to thats null and why dont the stack trace and the debugger line up?

dusty breach Dec 28, 2024, 8:31 PM

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found it.

#Bot thinks its connected but isn't...