How to have a Discord bot repeat message?-CodePudding

I am new to discord.js and making a bot, and I want to make a simple magic 8-ball style command where you ask the bot a question and it responds with a random answer.

const commands = [
new SlashCommandBuilder().setName('ask').setDescription('Ask MUDBot a yes or no question')

I have this in my deploy-commands.js and

client.on('interactionCreate', async interaction => {
if (!interaction.isChatInputCommand()) return;
const { commandName } = interaction;

if (commandName === 'ping') {
    await interaction.reply('Pong!');
} else if (commandName === 'ask') {
    switch (getRandomInt(10)) {
        case 0:
            //interaction.reply(client.message.content);
            //interaction.reply('You asked, I reply: ')
            
            await interaction.reply('It is certain!');
            break;
        case 1:
            //interaction.reply('You asked, I reply: ')
            await interaction.reply('Without a doubt.');
            break;

etc in my bot.js.

currently the output doesn't repeat the question you asked so if you say: /ask are you a good bot?

the output is just:

... used /ask

MUDbot: (response)

How can I have the question you ask with the slash command be repeated by the bot? Thank you.

CodePudding user response：

This is what fetches the text the user sent to the bot

const message = await interaction.fetchReply();
//message.content is the user command

Then you can send the bot's answer in the following way:

const commandUser = message.content;

switch (getRandomInt(10)) {
    case 0:
        //interaction.reply(client.message.content);
        //interaction.reply('You asked, I reply: ')
        
        await interaction.reply(`commandUser: ${commandUser}, It is certain!`);
        break;
    case 1:
        //interaction.reply('You asked, I reply: ')
        await interaction.reply('Without a doubt.');
        break;

CodePudding user response：

I am not seeing a way the user can actually ask the question itself, so a way of doing that is to add an option.

const commands = [
new SlashCommandBuilder().setName('ask').setDescription('Ask MUDBot a yes or no question').addStringOption(option =>
    option.setName('question')
        .setDescription('The question that you want answered')
        .setRequired(true));

Then once you have the option on the slash command, get that when the command is ran and make a response string for it.

if (commandName === 'ask') {
    const question = interaction.options.getString('question');
    let response = `You asked "${question}", `;
    switch (getRandomInt(10)) {
        case 0:
            response  = 'It is certain!';
            break;
        case 1:
            response  = 'Without a doubt.';
            break;
    }
    // continue with other statements and then after switch reply
    interaction.reply(response);
}