When I send a DM to the corde bot i get "Cannot send messages to this user" error

[habdelra]

I want to write a test for a bot that has the ability to send DM's. However, when I send a DM to the corde bot I get an error:

events:guild-message failed to run command 'dm-ping' with args:      at toReturn async Object.run (/Users/hassan/codez/cardstack/packages/cardpay-bot/commands/guild/dm-ping.js:12:14)
  events:guild-message     at async run (/Users/hassan/codez/cardstack/packages/cardpay-bot/events/guild-message.js:53:9) {
  events:guild-message   name: 'DiscordAPIError',
  events:guild-message   message: 'Cannot send messages to this user',
  events:guild-message   method: 'post',
  events:guild-message   path: '/users/896093538297708564/channels',
  events:guild-message   code: 50007,
  events:guild-message   httpStatus: 400
  events:guild-message }

specifically this command throws:

let dm = await message.member.createDM();

This looks like the error you get when a user has their privacy settings set to not allow DM's from server members. When I interact with bot bot using a normal user it can send DM's just fine. Is there a setting that I need to specify to allow the corde bot to receive DM's?

[habdelra]

It looks like discord might not actually allow a bot to send a DM to another bot https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49266283/is-it-possible-to-have-one-discord-bot-dm-another-bot/49395167#:~:text=Both%20bots%20can%20receive%20DMs%20from%20users%20just%20fine.

[habdelra]

My approach is to basically do all the DM testing in a public channel with the process.env.NODE_ENV is corde_test using a helper function to return either a DMChannel or a TextChannel based on the env var that I use instead of Message.member.createDM():

export async function createDM(message: Message): Promise<Message['channel']> {
  if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'corde_test') {
    return message.channel;
  }
  if (!message.member) {
    throw new Error('Message must have a member');
  }
  return await message.member.createDM();
}

[lucasgmagalhaes]

Great! I just realise that corde's site doesn't seem to have a doc for that.