I'm working on a bot, and in each of my commands' files I have an execute function in the module.exports, for example: execute(msg, args), I was able to get just the parameters between the brackets in my index.js, and I want to use them to dynamically execute all the functions/variables (and also because I was having problems with the order in which I wrote them for each file) I need in the other file with module.exports. This is my (index.js) code:
const cmd = client.commands.get(command)
const stringifiedCmd = cmd.execute.toString()
var firstLine = stringifiedCmd.split('\n')[0]
// Gets only the first line with the execute function
var str = firstLine.substring(
firstLine.lastIndexOf(`(`) + 1,
firstLine.indexOf(`)`)
// Outputs msg, args for example
cmd.execute(str)
However when using the command it doesn't seem to be recognizing the parameters as valid, as they're still a string
EDIT:
If needed, here's an example of how all my commands' files are structured:
module.exports = {
name: 'command',
description: 'description of command',
execute(msg, args) {
// code
}
}
You got quite far along this solution. Having got everything between the opening and closing parenthesis, you'll want to split out that and trim the results
const argsStrings = firstLine.substring(
firstLine.lastIndexOf(`(`) + 1,
firstLine.indexOf(`)`)
).split(",").map(x => x.trim());
Now you have an array of strings representing the args (["msg","args"]). Now, where are you going to get the values from? Lets assume for a moment you have a map containing the arg as key, and the value as the arg value - eg
const container = {
"msg": "Some message",
"args": ["foo","bar"]
};
Now, its as easy as calling apply on the function passing the values looked up from container for each argument
function execute(msg, args) { // Use this method to demo the result
console.log(msg);
console.log(args);
}
const stringifiedCmd = execute.toString()
const firstLine = stringifiedCmd.split('\n')[0]
const argsStrings = firstLine.substring(
firstLine.lastIndexOf(`(`) + 1,
firstLine.indexOf(`)`)
).split(",").map(x => x.trim());
const container = { "msg":"Some message", "args":["foo","bar"] }
execute.apply(this, argsStrings.map(a => container[a]))Caveat: The only thing you might want to watch out for is there is nothing in javascript stopping you splitting the args of a function accross multiple lines
function thisIsValid(
arg1,
arg2
){
// code here
}