Generate a help text file when deploying commands

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Michael 2022-12-17 16:45:31 -06:00
parent 25eca4ed60
commit 651125d18c
2 changed files with 81 additions and 16 deletions

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.gitignore vendored
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@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ config.json
presence.json
node_modules
data

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@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ const { clientId, token } = require('./config.json');
const fs = require('node:fs');
const commands = [];
const commandsHelp = [];
// Grab all the command files from the commands directory you created earlier
const commandFiles = fs.readdirSync('./commands').filter(file => file.endsWith('.js'));
@ -17,12 +19,69 @@ const commandFiles = fs.readdirSync('./commands').filter(file => file.endsWith('
for (const file of commandFiles) {
const command = require(`./commands/${file}`);
commands.push(command.data.toJSON());
commandsHelp.push(command.data);
}
// Construct and prepare an instance of the REST module
const rest = new REST({ version: '10' }).setToken(token);
// and deploy your commands!
// Generate help-text.json
try {
console.log(`Generating ${commands.length} help text entries.`);
let helpJSONString = '{\n';
for (let i = 0; i < commandsHelp.length; i++) {
helpJSONString += ` "${commandsHelp[i].name}": {\n`;
helpJSONString += ` "description": "${commandsHelp[i].description}",\n`;
helpJSONString += ' "options": {\n';
for (let j = 0; j < commandsHelp[i].options.length; j++) {
helpJSONString += ` "${commandsHelp[i].options[j].name}": {\n`;
helpJSONString += ` "description": "${commandsHelp[i].options[j].description}",\n`;
helpJSONString += ` "required": "${commandsHelp[i].options[j].required}",\n`;
helpJSONString += ' "choices": {\n';
if (typeof commandsHelp[i].options[j].choices !== 'undefined') {
for (let k = 0; k < commandsHelp[i].options[j].choices.length; k++) {
helpJSONString += ` "${commandsHelp[i].options[j].choices[k].name}": {\n`;
helpJSONString += ` "value": "${commandsHelp[i].options[j].choices[k].value}",\n`;
helpJSONString += ' },\n';
}
}
helpJSONString += ' },\n';
helpJSONString += ' },\n';
}
helpJSONString += ' },\n';
helpJSONString += ' },\n';
}
helpJSONString += '}';
// Lazy way out of removing trailing commas
// See https://stackoverflow.com/a/34347475
const helpJSON = JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(helpJSONString.replace(/,(?!\s*?[{["'\w])/g, '')), null, 4);
// write file to disk
fs.writeFile('./data/help-text.json', helpJSON, err => {
if (err) {
console.log(`Unable to write help-text.json: ${err}`);
console.log('Stopping...');
return;
}
});
console.log(`Successfully generated ${commandsHelp.length} help text entries.`);
console.log();
// Update slash commands on Discord's side
(async () => {
try {
console.log(`Started refreshing ${commands.length} application (/) commands.`);
@ -40,3 +99,8 @@ const rest = new REST({ version: '10' }).setToken(token);
console.error(error);
}
})();
}
catch (error) {
// And of course, make sure you catch and log any errors!
console.error(error);
}