Reply slash command

[onegentig]

DisTube.play() function currently returns a Promise<void>. When making any command, I usually want to send a reply to that command at the end of its file using message.reply(), which is not possible when this function returns [a promise to] nothing. Last added song could be obtained, yes, but a playlist, not so much.

Instead, events are expected to be used for "Added to queue" messages in DisTube, which isn't a bad way to do it, until one wants to work with slash commands. Slash commands expect a reply using CommandInteraction.reply() function and show an error when not replied to ("This interaction failed"). The event approach doesn't really work with slash commands, so it would be nice if this function could return its result (possibly as a Promise<Song|Playlist>^?) to be processed for a proper reply.

It is entirely possible I missed something in the docs that could make slash commands and DisTube.play() work. If that's the case, I apologize and would be happy to hear about how to do it.

Thank you,
- Onegen

[skick1234]

Use metadata option to attach your interaction to the song/playlist

interaction.deferReply();

DisTube.play(channel, url, { metadata: { i: interaction } })

DisTube.on("addSong", (q, song) => {
    song.metadata.i.editReply(...)
})

[D3FAU4T]

I'm using typescript and I get the error: Property 'on' does not exist on type 'Promise<void>'. Are the types missing there by any chance? I'm also using the Slash Commands technique and I did ensured that I'm using the latest version of distube (v 4.0.4) @skick1234

[skick1234]

I'm using typescript and I get the error: Property 'on' does not exist on type 'Promise'. Are the types missing there by any chance? I'm also using the Slash Commands technique and I did ensured that I'm using the latest version of distube (v 4.0.4) @skick1234

Please create a new discussions or post on discord forum since this is not related to this issue.
And provide your code too.

[MTGPROD]

There's a big issue with that. When the error event is emit, I have only two parameters "channel" and the error. How I can access the actual interaction ?

[skick1234]

Because the error event emits whenever the stream encounters an error. You shouldn't use interaction in this case since the interaction tokens are valid for only 15 minutes (Discord docs)

[MTGPROD]

AH right, personally I find it a bit ugly to have an empty interaction where it says "is thinking" and a simple error message just below.

[skick1234]

AH right, personally I find it a bit ugly to have an empty interaction where it says "is thinking" and a simple error message just below.

Catch the error from DisTube#play, stable v4 throws the error if it cannot play a song/playlist