first and foremost, I’m very new to this. I’ve been following the tutorials at the Discord.js Site, with the goal being to make a discord bot for the Play by Post DnD server I’m in where everyone wants to gain experience via word count.
I mention I’m new to this because this is my first hands-on experience with Javascript, a lot of the terminology goes over my head.
So, the problem seems to be where I’ve broken away from the tutorial. It goes over command handlers, which I want to stick with because it seems to be good practice and easier to work with down the line when something most breaks (And I know it will). But the tutorial for Databases (Currency/Sequelizer) doesn’t really touch on command handlers beyond “Maintain references”.
But that’s enough foreword, the problem is in trying to get a command that checks the database for a player’s current experience points and level.
I have the relevant (seemingly) files organized with the index.js and dbObjects.js together, a models folder for the Users, and LevelUp(CurrencyShop in the tutorial) and a separate folder for the Commands like the problematic one, xpcheck.js
I can get the command to function without breaking, using the following,
const { Client, Collection, Formatters, Intents } = require('discord.js');
const { SlashCommandBuilder } = require('@discordjs/builders');
const experience = new Collection();
const level = new Collection();
Reflect.defineProperty(experience, 'getBalance', {
/* eslint-disable-next-line func-name-matching */
value: function getBalance(id) {
const user = experience.get(id);
return user ? user.balance : 0;
},
});
Reflect.defineProperty(level, 'getBalance', {
/* eslint-disable-next-line func-name-matching */
value: function getBalance(id) {
const user = level.get(id);
return user ? user.balance : 1;
},
});
module.exports = {
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('xpcheck')
.setDescription('Your current Experience and Level'),
async execute(interaction) {
const target = interaction.options.getUser('user') ?? interaction.user;
return interaction.reply(`${target.tag} is level ${level.getBalance(target.id)} and has ${experience.getBalance(target.id)} experience.`);;
},
};
The problem is that the command doesn’t reference the database. It returns default values (1st level, 0 exp) every time.
I tried getting the command to reference the database, one of many attempts being this one;
const { Client, Collection, Formatters, Intents } = require('discord.js');
const { SlashCommandBuilder } = require('@discordjs/builders');
const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const { Users, LevelUp } = require('./DiscordBot/dbObjects.js');
module.exports = {
data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
.setName('xpcheck')
.setDescription('Your current Experience and Level'),
async execute(interaction) {
const experience = new Collection();
const level = new Collection();
const target = interaction.options.getUser('user') ?? interaction.user;
return interaction.reply(`${target.tag} is level ${level.getBalance(target.id)} and has ${experience.getBalance(target.id)} experience.`);;
},
};
However, when I run node deploy-commands.js, it produces
Error: Cannot find module ‘./DiscordBot/dbObjects.js’
It does the same thing even if I remove the /DiscordBot, or any other way I’ve attempted to make a constant for it. I’m really uncertain what I should do to alleviate this issue, and I already know I have a lot of other hurdles to get through (like making the bot count words and award experience for word count). In my attempts to maintain motivation for learning something complicated like this- I thank you for any help, guidance, constructive criticism or advice on good practices you can provide. Thank you.
