Vesper Framework

vesper is a slash command framework meant to be used by twilight

Note: The framework is new and might have some problems, all contributions are appreciated

This crate is independent from the twilight ecosystem

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vesper is a command framework which uses slash commands, it mainly offers variable argument parsing.

Parsing is done with the Parse trait, so users can implement the parsing of their own types.

Argument parsing is done in a named way, this means the argument name shown on discord gets parsed into the arguments named the same way in the handler function.

The framework itself doesn't spawn any tasks by itself, so you might want to wrap it in an Arc and call tokio::spawn before calling the .process method.

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Usage example

use std::sync::Arc;
use futures_util::StreamExt;
use twilight_gateway::{stream::{self, ShardEventStream}, Config};
use twilight_http::Client;
use twilight_model::gateway::event::Event;
use twilight_model::gateway::Intents;
use twilight_model::http::interaction::{InteractionResponse, InteractionResponseData, InteractionResponseType};
use twilight_model::id::Id;
use twilight_model::id::marker::{ApplicationMarker, GuildMarker};
use vesper::prelude::*;

#[command]
#[description = "Says hello"]
async fn hello(ctx: &mut SlashContext<()>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    ctx.interaction_client.create_response(
        ctx.interaction.id,
        &ctx.interaction.token,
        &InteractionResponse {
            kind: InteractionResponseType::ChannelMessageWithSource,
            data: Some(InteractionResponseData {
                content: Some(String::from("Hello world")),
                ..Default::default()
            })
        }
    ).await?;

    Ok(())
}

async fn handle_events(http_client: Arc<Client>, mut events: ShardEventStream, app_id: Id<ApplicationMarker>) {
    let framework = Arc::new(Framework::builder(http_client, app_id, ())
        .command(hello)
        .build());

    // vesper can register commands in guilds or globally.
    framework.register_guild_commands(Id::<GuildMarker>::new("<GUILD_ID>")).await.unwrap();

    while let Some((_, event)) = events.next().await {
        match event {
            Event::InteractionCreate(i) => {
                let clone = Arc::clone(&framework);
                tokio::spawn(async move {
                    let inner = i.0;
                    clone.process(inner).await;
                });
            },
            _ => (),
        }
    }
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>> {
    let token = std::env::var("DISCORD_TOKEN")?;
    let app_id = Id::<ApplicationMarker>::new(std::env::var("APP_ID")?.parse()?);
    let client = Arc::new(Client::new(token.clone()));

    let config = Config::new(token, Intents::empty());
    let mut shards = stream::create_recommended(
        &client,
        config,
        |_, builder| builder.build()

    ).await.unwrap().collect::<Vec<_>>();
    let mut shard_stream = ShardEventStream::new(shards.iter_mut());

    handle_events(client, shard_stream, app_id).await;

    Ok(())
}

Usage guide

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Creating commands

Every command is an async function, having always as the first parameter a &mut SlashContext<T>

Non mutable references can also be used, but the framework will convert them to mutable under the hood.

The framework supports chat, message and user commands, let's take a look at each of them

Chat command

#[command(chat)] // or #[command]
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>, // The context must always be the first parameter.
    #[description = "A description for the argument"] some_arg: String,
    #[rename = "other_arg"] #[description = "other description"] other: Option<Id<UserMarker>>
) -> DefaultCommandResult 
{
    // Command body
    
    Ok(())
}

User command

#[command(user)]
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>, // The context must always be the first parameter.
) -> DefaultCommandResult 
{
    // Command body
    
    Ok(())
}

Message command

#[command(message)]
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>, // The context must always be the first parameter.
) -> DefaultCommandResult 
{
    // Command body
    
    Ok(())
}

As you can see, the only difference between them is the usage of #[command({chat, user, message}) and the fact that only chat commands can take arguments.

The command macro defaults to a chat command, so if none of {chat, user, message} specifiers is used, the macro will treat it as a chat command, so #[command] is equivalent to #[command(chat)].

If a non-chat command takes arguments in it's handler, the framework will allow it, but it won't send them to discord.

The framework also provides a #[only_guilds] attribute which will mark the command to only be available on guilds and an #[nsfw] for nsfw commands.

The same command used before as an example could be marked only for guilds/nsfw the following way:

#[command]
#[nsfw] // This command is now marked as nsfw
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>,
    #[description = "A description for the argument"] some_arg: String,
    #[rename = "other_arg"] #[description = "other description"] other: Option<Id<UserMarker>>
) -> DefaultCommandResult 
{
    // Command body
    
    Ok(())
}

#[command(chat)]
#[only_guilds] // This command is now only marked as only available inside of guilds
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>,
    #[description = "A description for the argument"] some_arg: String,
    #[rename = "other_arg"] #[description = "other description"] other: Option<Id<UserMarker>>
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Command body

    Ok(())
}

#[command(chat)]
#[only_guilds] // This command is now marked as nsfw and only available inside guilds
#[nsfw]
#[description = "This is the description of the command"]
async fn command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type of context*/>, // The context must always be the first parameter.
    #[description = "A description for the argument"] some_arg: String,
    #[rename = "other_arg"] #[description = "other description"] other: Option<Id<UserMarker>>
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Command body

    Ok(())
}

Using localizations

The framework allows localizations in commands and its arguments, to do this we have #[localized_names] and #[localized_descriptions] attributes, these attributes accept a comma separated list of items. Let's take a look at them:

Locales must be valid, to see them, refer to Discord locales reference

#[command]
#[localized_names("en-US" = "US name", "en-GB" = "GB name", "es-ES" = "Spanish name")]
#[localized_descriptions("en-US" = "US description", "en-GB" = "GB description", "es-ES" = "Spanish description")]
#[description = "My description"]
async fn my_localized_command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Data type */>,
    #[localized_names("en-US" = "US name", "en-GB" = "GB name", "es-ES" = "Spanish name")]
    #[description = "Another description"]
    #[localized_descriptions("en-US" = "US description", "en-GB" = "GB description", "es-ES" = "Spanish description")]
    my_argument: String
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Code here
    Ok(())
}

Using functions to provide localizations

Localizations can also be set by using a closure or function pointer, for this we have the #[localized_names_fn] and #[localized_descriptions_fn].

These functions must have the following signature:

fn(&Framework<D, T, E>, &Command<D, T, E>) -> HashMap<String, String>

To use a closure directly, the attribute has to be used like #[localized_{names/descriptions}_fn = |f, c| ...]

To use a function pointer, the attribute accepts both #[localized_{names/descriptions}_fn = myfn] and #[localized_{names/descriptions}_fn(myfn)]

Command functions

Command functions must include a description attribute, which will be seen in discord when the user tries to use the command.

The #[command] macro also allows to rename the command by passing the name of the command to the attribute like #[command({chat, user, message}, name = "Command name here")]. If the name is not provided, the command will use the function name.

If using the short form of #[command] while creating a chat command, the rename can be passed directly like #[command("Command name")], that is equivalent to #[command(chat, name = "Command name")]

Command arguments

Command arguments are very similar to command functions, they also need a #[description] attribute that will be seen in discord by the user when filling up the command argument.

As shown in the example, a #[rename] attribute can also be used, this will change the name of the argument seen in discord. If the attribute is not used, the argument will have the same name as in the function.

Arguments can also be marked with a #[skip] attribute. Arguments marked as #[skip] don't allow#[description] nor#[rename] attributes and won't be seen in discord when using the command, but they will be parsed by the framework. This can be useful for extracting data that has nothing to do with the command input from the interaction. Let's take a look at an example:

pub struct ExtractSomething {
    //...
}

#[async_trait]
impl Parse<T> for ExtractSomething
where T: Send + Sync
{
    async fn parse(
        http_client: &WrappedClient,
        data: &T,
        value: Option<&CommandOptionValue>, // <- will be empty since the option was not sent
        resolved: Option<&mut CommandInteractionDataResolved>
    ) -> Result<Self, ParseError>
    {
        // implement parsing logic
    }

    fn kind() -> CommandOptionType {
        // Since the struct will be marked as #[skip] this method won't be used.
        unreachable!()
    }
}

#[command]
#[description = "Something here"]
async fn my_command(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Data type */>,
    #[skip] my_extractor: ExtractSomething // This won't be seen on discord, but will be parsed
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Command logic here
    Ok(())
}

Important: All command functions must have as the first parameter a &mut SlashContext<T>

Setting choices as command arguments

Choices are a very useful feature of slash commands, allowing the developer to set some choices from which the user has to choose.

vesper allows doing this in an easy way, to allow this, a derive macro is provided by the framework. This macro is named the same way as Parse trait and can only be used in enums to define the options. Renaming is also allowed here by using the #[parse(rename)] attribute and allows to change the option name seen in discord.

#[derive(Parse)]
enum Choices {
    First,
    Second,
    Third,
    #[parse(rename = "Forth")]
    Other
}

#[command]
#[description = "Some description"]
async fn choices(
    ctx: &mut SlashContext<()>,
    #[description = "Some description"] choice: Choices
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Command body
    Ok(())
}

Autocompleting commands

Autocomplete user input is made easy with vesper, just use the autocomplete macro provided by the framework.

Here, take a look at this example. We'll use as the base an empty command like this

#[command]
#[description = "Some description"]
async fn some_command(
    ctx: &mut SlashCommand</* Some type */>,
    #[autocomplete = "autocomplete_arg"] #[description = "Some description"] arg: String
) -> DefaultCommandResult
{
    // Logic goes here
    Ok(())
}

As you may have noticed, we added an autocomplete attribute to the argument arg. The input specified on it must point to a function marked with the #[autocomplete] attribute like this one:

#[autocomplete]
async fn autocomplete_arg(ctx: AutocompleteContext</* Some type */>) -> Option<InteractionResponseData> {
    // Function body
}

Autocompleting functions must have an AutocompleteContext<T> as the sole parameter, it allows you to access to the data stored at the framework while also allowing you to access the raw interaction, the framework's http client and the user input, if exists.

Permissions

To specify required permissions to run a command, just use the #[required_permissions] attribute when declaring a command, or the .required_permissions method when declaring a command group.

The attribute accepts as input a comma separated list of twilight's permissions. Let's take a look at what it would look like to create a command needing MANAGE_CHANNELS and MANAGE_MESSAGES permissions:

#[command]
#[description = "Super cool command"]
#[required_permissions(MANAGE_CHANNELS, MANAGE_MESSAGES)]
async fn super_cool_command(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type */>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    // Body
    Ok(())
}

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Command Groups

vesper supports both SubCommands and SubCommandGroups by default.

To give examples, let's say we have created the following command:

#[command]
#[description = "Something"]
async fn something(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type */>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    // Command block
    Ok(())
}

With this we can now create both subcommands and subcommand groups

Creating subcommands

To create a subcommand you need to create a group, then you can add all the subcommands.

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let framework = Framework::builder()
        .group(|g| {
            g.name("<GROUP_NAME>")
                .description("<GROUP_DESCRIPTION>")
                .add_command(something)
                .add_command(..)
                ..
        })
        .build();
}

Creating subcommand groups

Subcommand groups are very similar to subcommands, they are created almost the same way, but instead of using .add_command directly, we have to use .group before to register a group.

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let framework = Framework::builder()
        .group(|g| {
            g.name("<GROUP_NAME>")
                .description("<GROUP_DESCRIPTION>")
                .group(|sub| { // With this we have created a subcommand group.
                    sub.name("<SUBGROUP_NAME>")
                        .description("<SUBGROUP_DESCRIPTION>")
                        .add_command(something)
                        .add_command(..)
                        ..
                })
        })
        .build();
}

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Hooks

There are three hooks available, before, after and error_handler.

Before

The before hook is triggered before the command and has to return a bool indicating if the command should be executed or not.

#[before]
async fn before_hook(ctx: &mut SlashContext</*Your type*/>, command_name: &str) -> bool {
    // Do something
    
    true // <- if we return true, the command will be executed normally.
}

After

The after hook is triggered after the command execution, and it provides the result of the command.

#[after]
async fn after_hook(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Your type */>, command_name: &str, result: Option<DefaultCommandResult>) {
    // Do something with the result.
}

Specific error handling

Commands can have specific error handlers. When an error handler is set to a command, if the command (or any of its checks) fails, the error handler will be called, and the after hook will receive None as the third argument. However, in case the command execution finishes without raising errors, the after hook will receive the result of the command.

Let's take a look at a simple implementation:

#[error_handler]
async fn handle_ban_error(_ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>, error: DefaultError) {
    println!("The ban command had an error");
    
    // Handle the error
}


#[command]
#[description = "Tries to ban the bot itself, raising an error"]
#[error_handler(handle_ban_error)]
async fn ban_itself(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    // A bot cannot ban itself, so this will result in an error.
    ctx.http_client().ban(ctx.interaction.guild_id.unwrap(), Id::new(ctx.application_id.get()))
        .await?;
    
    Ok(())
}

Since the command will always fail because a bot cannot ban itself, the error handler will be called everytime the command executes, thus passing None to the after hook if set.

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Checks

Checks are pretty similar to the Before hook, but unlike it, they are not global. Instead, they need to be assigned to each command.

Let's take a look on how to use it:

Let's create some checks like this:

#[check]
async fn only_guilds(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> Result<bool, DefaultError> {
    // Only execute the command if we are inside a guild.
    Ok(ctx.interaction.guild_id.is_some())
}

#[check]
async fn other_check(_ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> Result<bool, DefaultError> {
    // Some other check here.
    Ok(true)
}

Then we can assign them to our command using the check attribute, which accepts a comma separated list of checks:

#[command]
#[description = "Some description"]
#[checks(only_guilds, other_check)]
async fn my_command(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    // Do something
    Ok(())
}

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Using custom return types

The framework allows the user to specify what types to return from command/checks execution. The framework definition is like this:

pub struct Framework<D, T = (), E = DefaultError>

Where D is the type of the data held by the framework and T and E are the return types of a command in form of Result<T, E>, however, specifying custom types is optional, and the framework provides a DefaultCommandResult and DefaultError for those who don't want to have a custom error.

The types of the after, error_handler and check hook arguments change accordingly to the generics specified in the framework, so their signatures could be interpreted like this:

After hook:

async fn(&mut SlashContext</* Some type */>, &str, Option<Result<T, E>>)

Error handler hook:

async fn(&mut SlashContext</* Some type */>, E)

Command checks:

async fn(&mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> Result<bool, E>

Note that those are not the real signatures, since the functions return Boxed futures.

Modals

Since version 0.8.0, the framework provides a derive macro to make modals as easy as possible. Let's take a look at an example:

use vesper::prelude::*;

#[derive(Modal, Debug)]
#[modal(title = "Test modal")]
struct MyModal {
    field: String,
    #[modal(paragraph, label = "Paragraph")]
    paragraph: String,
    #[modal(placeholder = "This is an optional field")]
    optional: Option<String>
}

#[command]
#[description = "My command description"]
async fn my_command(ctx: &mut SlashContext</* Some type */>) -> DefaultCommandResult {
    let modal_waiter = ctx.create_modal::<MyModal>().await?;
    let output = modal_waiter.await?;
    
    println!("{output:?}");
    
    Ok(())
}

Here the ´Modal´ derive macro derives the modal trait which allows us to create them, then we can modify how it will be shown to the user using the #[modal(..)} attributes. To see the full list of allowed attributes, take a look at the macro declaration.

Currently, only String and Option<String> fields are allowed.

Bulk Commands Overwrite

If you'd like to use Discord's Bulk Overwrite Global Application Commands enpoint, perhaps in tandem with a commands lockfile, you'll want to use Framework#twilight_commands.

Note This requires the bulk feature.

fn create_framework(
    http_client: Arc<Client>,
    app_id: Id<ApplicationMarker>
) -> Framework<()> {
    Framework::builder(http_client, app_id, ())
        .command(hello)
        .build()
}

fn create_lockfile(framework: Framework<()>) -> Result<()> {
    let commands = framework.twilight_commands();
    let content = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&commands)?;

    let path = concat!(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR"), "/commands.lock.json").to_string();
	std::fs::write(path, content).unwrap();

    Ok(())
}