JDA - send message

Question

I have my own Discord BOT based on JDA. I need to send a text message to the specific channel. I know how to send the message as onEvent response, but in my situation I do n

Answer 1

Ok I think I know what you mean. You don't need to have an event to get an ID of a channel and send a message. The only thing you need to do is to instantiate the JDA, call awaitReady(), from the instance you can get all channels (MessageChannels, TextChannels, VoiceChannels, either by calling

• get[Text]Channels()
• get[Text]ChannelById(id=..)
• get[Text]ChannelsByName(name, ignore case))

So 1. Instantiate JDA

    JDABuilder builder; 
    JDA jda = builder.build();
    jda.awaitReady();

2. Get Channel

   List channels = jda.getTextChannelsByName("general", true);
   for(TextChannel ch : channels)
   {
       sendMessage(ch, "message");
   }
   

3. Send message

   static void sendMessage(TextChannel ch, String msg) 
   {
       ch.sendMessage(msg).queue();
   }
   

Hope it helps.