Bridge commands - more efficient way editing messages

[versed ingot]

Basically, what I'm trying to do is edit a message in a bridge command. I don't want to run try and except (so trying for message.edit, except it does message.edit_original_message) for every single command. It'll look messy and just havoc to maintain.

Using if statements is going to look the same thing, I don't want to repeat the same thing in every single command. Any ideas? Can I setup something globally for all commands?

I also want to do something similar with replying as well. For slash commands, it replies, but for normal prefix commands, no replies happen.

[atomic pawn]

taking the custom_context example, you can change it to work with bridgecontext

[cinder swan]

Here's the custom context example.

[versed ingot]

Hmmm, so where would I edit so:

• replies wouldn’t be done for normal prefix messages;
• editing messages is more straight forward.

[versed ingot]

And also how would I apply this in cogs?

[atomic pawn]

just like how you would normally

[versed ingot]

Oh, so it's just in my main.py file

[atomic pawn]

no

so something like:

from main import CustomContextClass

class CogThing(discord.Cog):
  @bridge.bridge.command()
  async def foo(self, ctx: CustomContextClass):
    ...

[versed ingot]

So I have to define what ctx is every time?

There's no better way of doing this?

[atomic pawn]

as far as I know, yes, but it's better than try excepts and if statements, right?

[versed ingot]

Could I write a function, perhaps? And then run that when editing things/replying?

[atomic pawn]

you definitely can

[versed ingot]

because omg this is making my eyes melt

[versed ingot]

How specifically? Could I do an async function and just do ctx.send() within the function somehow?

[atomic pawn]

pass it in as an arg

and then do your ifs there

[versed ingot]

Ooo kk cool, will do

How do you detect whether its a slash command/prefix command? @atomic pawn

(Sorry for ping, its getting quite late for me and really wanna get this done ASAP, sorry for my impatience)

[versed ingot]

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'created_at'
Am also getting this when dealing with embeds 😓

[atomic pawn]

@bot.bridge_command()
async def example(ctx: BridgeContext):
    if isinstance(ctx, BridgeExtContext):
        command_type = "Traditional (prefix-based) command"
    elif isinstance(ctx, BridgeApplicationContext):
        command_type = "Application command"
    await ctx.send(f"This command was invoked with a(n) {command_type}.")

[tawny finch]

@versed ingot if that fixed your problem please use /close :)