Fetching a newly created Voice Channel from a SocketClient will always return null

[modern axle]

I'm creating voice channels and want to retrieve the object as a SocketVoiceChannel after creation, so I can check for users which are connected.
The check happens every minute and if the check detects no users twice, the channel is deleted again.

Sadly, the CreateVoiceChannel task returns the channel as a Rest VoiceChannel and not as a SocketVoiceChannel, even when using a SocketGuild.

I then try to fetch the channel using the socketGuild.GetVoiceChannel() call, which returns null every time.
I feel this is because the channels are not in the current guilds cache.
Do you have any pointers on how to refresh the cache, or download the channel info directly?

This is in a SocketModal interaction, so I only have the Guild Id.
client.GetGuild() returns the same cached object every time, so that also doesn't work for me.

Thanks! 🙂

client.GetChannelAsync() returns a restchannel in this case, which is not what I need.
A ConnectedUsers property is only available on the SocketChannel

[tawny grail]

Either it's because your code is running on the gateway task/thread, meaning until your code finishes the gateway event for the channel creation won't be processed, or the gateway event hasn't been received yet. CreateVoiceChannelAsync doesn't immediately update the cache

can you just retrieve the channel after that 1 minute timer elapses?

if you're not blocking the incoming gateway events, it'll be available in the cache at that point

[modern axle]

Yeah that’s how I did it now, works a lot better.
I’m storing the id and retrieving it for the check every minute

Thanks!

[tawny grail]

np

[quaint crypt]

Just thought I'd also put this here but you can cast the rest channel to a socket channel

[tawny grail]

No, you can't? They share common interfaces, but that's it

[quaint crypt]

I'm 99% confident I've casted a channel after creating it to a socket and it worked fine...

[tawny grail]

u didn't I promise

[idle onyx]

very unrelated sorry but what app did you use to make that nice image

[spare bough]

Looks like https://carbon.now.sh to me