'Embed.author.name' positional argument

[mahtoid]

Summary

Trying to retrieve the embed.author.name returns missing positional argument.

Reproduction Steps

1. Create an embed
2. Send and capture the embed
3. Try to access the embed.author.name
4. See Missing 1 required positional argument: 'name' error

Minimal Reproducible Code

import discord
from discord.ext import commands

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=discord.Intents.all())


@bot.command()
async def embed(ctx: commands.Context):
    embed = discord.Embed(
        title="Hello",
        description="abc",
    )

    message: discord.Message = await ctx.send(embed=embed)
    print(message.embeds[0].author.name)

@bot.event
async def on_ready():
    print("Alive")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    bot.run("TOKEN")

Expected Results

Return of Author or EmbedEmpty

Actual Results

File "C:\Users\matth\PycharmProjects\repo\discordChatExporterPy\DiscordChatExporterPy\chat_exporter\construct\assets\embed.py", line 110, in build_author
    author_name = self.embed.author.name
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\matth\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\discord\embeds.py", line 704, in author
    return EmbedAuthor(**getattr(self, "_author", {}))  # type: ignore
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: EmbedAuthor.__init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'name'

Intents

all

System Information

- Python v3.11.1-final
- py-cord v2.4.1-final
- aiohttp v3.8.3
- system info: Windows 10 10.0.22621

Checklist

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Additional Context

No response

[Lulalaby]

Well if author isn't defined when you send the embed, it's obvious that it fails.
You need to check if author is missing I guess.
That doesn't seems to be a library bug.

But I might be wrong.

@Om1609 what do you think

[OmLanke]

Well if author isn't defined when you send the embed, it's obvious that it fails.
You need to check if author is missing I guess.
That doesn't seems to be a library bug.

But I might be wrong.

@Om1609 what do you think

If author was not defined then it should return EmbedEmpty or None, not raise an error.

Shouldn't name be optional here? https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/blob/master/discord/embeds.py#L125

Same for text here https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/blob/master/discord/embeds.py#L154

[plun1331]

Well if author isn't defined when you send the embed, it's obvious that it fails.
You need to check if author is missing I guess.
That doesn't seems to be a library bug.
But I might be wrong.
@Om1609 what do you think

If author was no defined then it should return EmbedEmpty or None, not raise an error.

Shouldn't name be optional here? https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/blob/master/discord/embeds.py#L125

Same for text here https://github.com/Pycord-Development/pycord/blob/master/discord/embeds.py#L154

I don't believe they should be optional, we should figure out why name is missing
It's probably because author has no check to see if there's actually any data there

[plun1331]

What was the behavior previously like?

[OmLanke]

What was the behavior previously like?

Docs state EmbedEmpty was returned if author is not set