Q: How to work with Discord polling

[mwpowellhtx]

Hello,

Is it possible to work with Discord polling somehow? To create them? To inquire about them, are they ended or not, results, and so forth?

Edit: Should probably qualify that, I did search the repository, there are results for "poll", but what I am interested in is a Discord.WebSocket interface.

Thank you...

[CottageDwellingCat]

https://docs.discordnet.dev/guides/polls/polls.html
You have to use rest to make any outgoing requests, including fetching messages. Discord.Websocket depends on Discord.Rest, so it will already be an import in your project:

Discord.Net/src/Discord.Net.WebSocket/Discord.Net.WebSocket.csproj

Lines 17 to 20 in 6e7b3c2

	<ItemGroup>
	<ProjectReference Include="..\Discord.Net.Core\Discord.Net.Core.csproj" />
	<ProjectReference Include="..\Discord.Net.Rest\Discord.Net.Rest.csproj" />
	</ItemGroup>

If you need a rest client you can use myDiscordSocketClient.Rest

[mwpowellhtx]

Appreciate the feedback. Yes, did some cursory inspecfion of the Discord.WebSocket family of classes, polling, etc. Seems like it has all the utilities I need, just a matter of gathering that into a cohesive service area. Thanks!

[mwpowellhtx]

I do have a follow on question actually.

PollAnswer has an uint AnswerId, right. So far so good. Can align that with the corresponding PollMedia.Text.

However, if I understand the model correctly, the corresponding PollAnswerCounts suggests an ulong AnswerId.

Given the Discord MO to this point, I would believe ulong over uint. However, which is it?

[mwpowellhtx]

I wonder perhaps a confusion between uint Count morphology and the identifier.

[mwpowellhtx]

I am attempting the following, after I have the guid and textChannel.

var questionText = $"...";

var answers = answerSource.Select(x => new PollMediaProperties { Text = x.Name }).ToList();

var restMessage = await textChannel.SendMessageAsync(poll: new()
{
    Question = new() { Text = questionText },
    Answers = answers,
    AllowMultiselect = singleSelectOnly,
    Duration = pollDuration
});

Running into HttpException...

InnerException    {"The server responded with error 50035: Invalid Form Body
Inner Errors:
BASE_TYPE_CHOICES: Value must be one of (1,).
NUMBER_TYPE_MIN: int32 value should be greater than or equal to 1."}
System.Exception {Discord.Net.HttpException}

Not quite sure what's going on there.

[mwpowellhtx]

At the time of this message, running against 3.15.3, although I see a couple of versions in recent months since.

[mwpowellhtx]

From what I can determine, PollProperties.LayoutType defaults somehow to 0, not PollLayout.Default, in spite of Default being literally the ONLY enumerated value. Why wouldn't Default be the default value there?

Will try with that and see if we get better results.

[mwpowellhtx]

So that was the issue, again, in spite of Default being literally the only defined enumeration, not even assumed that is the genuine PollProperties default value.

namespace Discord;

public enum PollLayout
{
    Default = 1
}

I do not know what the roadmap is re: PollLayout, but enum default values are typically 0 at any rate, to start with. That or intentionally set the PollProperties property to Default by default, if that is the intention.

Easy enough to do it as a consumer of the package, but IMO is an unnecessary implementation detail.