Auto edit oiriginal massage

[borgox]

Summary

A parameter of InteractionBot that avoids InteractionResponded and instead edits the original message

What is the feature request for?

The core library

The Problem

It became annoying that everytime i test things i have to spend lots of time figuring out what is conflicting in my code, it is annoying.

The Ideal Solution

i would like to add a simple parameter to InteractionBot which avoids raising an InteractionResponded error and insdtead it does self._parent.edit_original_message().

This would be useful for testing how your bot's functionality works, create small bots just to do a quick task, could also use it in bigger bots i believe it would be easier to code.

And that wouldn't, harm anyone, its just a parameter that defaults to False anyways.

The Current Solution

No response

Additional Context

No response

[Sharp-Eyes]

If I'm understanding correctly, I think you're describing exactly what Interaction.send already does (note: not Interaction.response.send_message)?

I don't really agree with the proposal itself for a handful of reasons:

1. I don't think many people would use this;
2. I think your usecase is already covered by Interaction.send, which checks whether to use Interaction.response.send_message or Interaction.followup.send before any errors get raised;
3. The proposed solution wouldn't work, InteractionResponded can be raised by more response types than just sending a message (e.g. modal creation). Editing the original response would not make sense for these;
4. I don't think silently discarding user errors is something we should get involved with.

[borgox]

Well your reasoning seems fair tho i still dont understand

2. I think your usecase is already covered by Interaction.send, which checks whether to use Interaction.response.send_message or Interaction.followup.send before any errors get raised;

[Sharp-Eyes]

inter.send simply does the following:

if self.response._response_type is not None:  # Check if there is a response already
    sender = self.followup.send  # YES: use inter.followup.send
else:
    sender = self.response.send_message  # NO: use inter.response.send_message
await sender(...)

source

You can do the same for editing if you want:

if inter.response.type is not None:
    editor = inter.followup.edit
else:
    editor = inter.edit_original_response
await editor(...)

If anything, we could maybe implement an Interaction.edit method that does this (mirroring Interaction.send).

[borgox]

Oh i didn't know that, then how come i was still getting InteractionResponded errors on .send?

[Sharp-Eyes]

Are you certain you're getting them on the .send call and not e.g. a prior .defer call?

[borgox]

Oh wait yeah i was getting them from defer