discord.js - Imagine ❄•3y ago

More concise way to edit sent embeds

I am currently dealing editing the fields of an existing embed as a reply, where I'm only changing the fields and not the base content. However, so far the only way I've seen to edit embeds is to redefine the entire embed. I tried making a

baseEmbed

baseEmbed

which only containts

setTitle()

setTitle()

,

.setDescription

.setDescription

etc, and using

.addFields()

.addFields()

for the editable content. However,

.addFields()

.addFields()

mutates the existing embed rather than making a new one and as such it simply keeps adding new copies of the fields. Is there any way to get this to work without having to repeat the

.setTitle()

.setTitle()

etc.?

d.js toolkit

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d.js toolkit•8/18/23, 12:23 PM

What's your exact discord.js

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and node

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Val

VVal I am currently dealing editing the fields of an existing embed as a reply, where...

Manny ⟡

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Manny ⟡•8/18/23, 6:48 PM

I may be wrong but I believe EmbedBuilder accepts an APIembed as a constructor

Manny ⟡

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Manny ⟡•8/18/23, 6:49 PM

Unless I'm misunderstanding your question

d.js docs

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d.js docsAPP•8/18/23, 6:53 PM

Structures from the API cannot be edited directly. To do so, you can create a new structure (a builder) using the method

duck

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duck•8/18/23, 6:54 PM

as a side note, exists and completely overwrites all fields

duck

Dduck as a side note, `<EmbedBuilder>.setFields()` exists and completely overwrites al...

Val

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ValOP•8/19/23, 10:04 AM

that's really useful, thank you