Facet

Facet is a library to make writing Discord bots easier. Features include:

• Full coroutines support.
• A plugin system, with inspiration taken from Ktor to manage code organization.
• DSL syntax for commands, messages, and bot setup.
• Many useful extension functions for Discord4J objects.

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This documentation is a WIP

Setup

Add these to build.gradle.kts:

repositories {
    maven("https://maven.masterzach32.net/artifactory/releases")
}

dependencies {
    implementation("io.facet:core:0.4.0")
}

Creating a bot is easy:

fun main() {
    val client = DiscordClient.builder("<bot token>")
        // configure the DiscordClientBuilder here
        .build()

    client.gateway()
        // configure the Gateway here, for example
        .setEnabledIntents(IntentSet.all())
        .setSharding(ShardingStrategy.recommended())
        // This is the important part, and allows installing "plugins" into the gateway in a declarative syntax.
        .withPlugins(GatewayDiscordClient::configure)
        .block()
}

suspend fun GatewayDiscordClient.configure(scope: CoroutineScope) {
    // simple custom feature that manages a database table with guildIds and their prefixes
    install(scope, GuildStorage)

    // this is a pre-written command dispatcher that can be found in the core module
    install(scope, ChatCommands) {
        useDefaultHelpCommand = true

        commandPrefix { guildId: Snowflake? -> feature(GuildStorage).commandPrefixFor(guildId) }

        // how many commands can be executing at once
        commandConcurrency = 4

        registerCommands(
            HelloWorld
        )
    }

    // this is a pre-written command dispatcher that can be found in the core module
    install(scope, ApplicationCommands) {
        // how many commands can be executing at once
        commandConcurrency = 4
        
        registerCommands(
            HelloWorld
        )
    }
}

Coroutines and event listeners

Starting a new event listener is easy, all you need is a CoroutineScope and an instance of the gateway. This launches a new coroutine that collects the events from the gateway using a Flow. Eventually this will use context receivers once implemented into Kotlin.

// this: GatewayDiscordClient
// scope: CoroutineScope
listener<MessageCreateEvent>(scope) { event ->
    event.message.channel.await().createMessage("Hello!")
}

If needed, an actor variant exists which contains a Channel. This uses the same ActorScope that the kotlinx.coroutines library provides.

// this: GatewayDiscordClient
// scope: CoroutineScope
actorListener<MessageCreateEvent>(scope) {
    for (event in channel)
        println(event.message.content)
}