Retrieving Author of the Message

Some time it's useful to get the author of a message.

For those cases Discapp provides you a quick way of retrieving the author of the message that invoked the command.

In this chapter we will improve the PokeCommand from the Mention Arguments section.

Improving `PokeCommand.ts`#

path/to/your/app/src/Commands/PokeCommand.ts

import {
  Command,
  BaseCommand,
  Argument,
  Mention,
  Author,
  UserContract,
} from "discapp";

@Command()
export class PokeCommand extends BaseCommand {
  @Argument()
  public user: Mention;

  @Author()
  public author: UserContract;

  public execute() {
    this.user.send("👉");

    return `${this.author.username} just poked ${this.user.username}`;
  }
}

For getting the author of the message, just declare a property and mark it with the @Author() decorator.

Testing `PokeCommand`#

When sending:

!poke @(you)

You should receive 👉 and the bot should send (your username) just poked (your username) in the server.

Improving PokeCommand.ts#

Testing PokeCommand#

Improving `PokeCommand.ts`#

Testing `PokeCommand`#