Sapphire - Imagine a framework•7mo ago

Weird string argument behaviour

If the message has ":" in it then the bot takes the last slice of the message after ":". This may be due to how my command is made for example the URL remover code (kind of lazy) but it really shouldn't.

public async messageRun(message: CardinalCommand.Message, args: CardinalCommand.Args) {
        await args.repeat('url', { times: 50 }).catch(() => null); // remove urls from the message
        const isAfk = await this.container.db.afk.count({
            where: {
                memberId: message.member.id,
                guildId: message.guildId
            }
        });

        if (isAfk !== 0) {
            return sendTemporaryMessage(message, {
                embeds: [new CardinalEmbedBuilder().setStyle('fail').setDescription('You are already AFK')]
            });
        }

        let afkMessage = (await args.rest('string').catch(() => 'AFK')).slice(0, 250);
        return await this.goAfk(message, afkMessage);
    }

public async messageRun(message: CardinalCommand.Message, args: CardinalCommand.Args) {
        await args.repeat('url', { times: 50 }).catch(() => null); // remove urls from the message
        const isAfk = await this.container.db.afk.count({
            where: {
                memberId: message.member.id,
                guildId: message.guildId
            }
        });

        if (isAfk !== 0) {
            return sendTemporaryMessage(message, {
                embeds: [new CardinalEmbedBuilder().setStyle('fail').setDescription('You are already AFK')]
            });
        }

        let afkMessage = (await args.rest('string').catch(() => 'AFK')).slice(0, 250);
        return await this.goAfk(message, afkMessage);
    }

Solution:

anyway just use string then do ```ts const urlRegex = /https?://(www.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%.+~#=]{1,256}.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%+.~#?&//=]*)/g; afkMessage.replaceAll(urlRegex, '').replaceAll(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').trim();...

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Favna•7mo ago

(and once again I will say you would have none of these issues if you used slash commands which has superior arg parsing) Why don't you use args.rest('string')? That'll grab all the string content after the command name automatically. For example !afk: taking a dump becomes : taking a dump at which point you can just string slice the : (use startsWith to ensure you only ever slice that and nothing else)

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

Yeah I have a slash command option for the command too but users prefer using the prefix command. And that's basically what I'm doing right now as well

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

I'm just confused why it's behaving weird when there is a ":" in the message

Favna•7mo ago

Set a maximum as the second parameter: args.rest('string', { maximum: 250 }) and you don't need to slice it. I don't know what your URL argument is. You haven't shared it yet. That said, have you considered that there is a : in https:// Either way I don't see why you would use a URL arg type when you don't need to get a URL

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

Yeah I just use it to as a quick and lazy way to remove URLs from the afk message that users provide. But the main problem is if someone run the command >afk word: more words the afk message becomes more words instead of word: more words so I was just wondering what sapphire does for the URL arg and the string argument,

Favna•7mo ago

import { Result } from '@sapphire/result';
import { URL } from 'node:url';
import { Identifiers } from '../errors/Identifiers';

export function resolveHyperlink(parameter: string): Result<URL, Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError> {
    const result = Result.from(() => new URL(parameter));
    return result.mapErr(() => Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError) as Result<URL, Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError>;
}

import { Result } from '@sapphire/result';
import { URL } from 'node:url';
import { Identifiers } from '../errors/Identifiers';

export function resolveHyperlink(parameter: string): Result<URL, Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError> {
    const result = Result.from(() => new URL(parameter));
    return result.mapErr(() => Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError) as Result<URL, Identifiers.ArgumentHyperlinkError>;
}

it's very basic

Solution

Favna•7mo ago

anyway just use string then do

const urlRegex = /https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g;

afkMessage.replaceAll(urlRegex, '').replaceAll(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').trim();

const urlRegex = /https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{1,256}\.[a-zA-Z0-9()]{1,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g;

afkMessage.replaceAll(urlRegex, '').replaceAll(/\s{2,}/g, ' ').trim();

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

I still get the same behaviour

Favna•7mo ago

Hm I'd have to analyze it then ig Can you make a GH issue with a small repro command?

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

No need, i managed to get it working i just had to tweak the regex a bit for some weird reason but why was the url parsing messing with the final string anyways "word:" matches the url regex? for args.pick('url')

Favna•7mo ago

oh I grabbed the regex from strackoverflow the url arg doesnt use regex, I pasted what it does above. here

Oreo ™OP•7mo ago

okay so that matched "word:"

Favna•7mo ago

Node's URL is V8's URL and that follows, nay, is the spec

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