Add getThreadChannel() to Message Object

General Troubleshooting

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Feature Request

Discord provides an optional thread object in the Message object, but JDA as of right now does not have a simple way to obtain a thread through a Message object with a getter.

A simple getThreadChannel() which returns a nullable ThreadChannel instance would be enough here.

Example Use-Case

Example use-cases can be where you f.e. have a suggestion system where users submit suggestions through slash commands, which then get posted in a dedicated channel with a thread created for discussion. If you then want the bot to archive the Thread before deleting the parent message is this not doable, as there is no Getter for it. At most could you probably go through all non-archived threads and check if they have the right message attached…

With the getter could something like this be doable:

TextChannel tc = // Obtain Text channel

tc.retrieveMessageById(1234567890L).queue(msg -> {
    ThreadChannel thread = msg.getThreadChannel();
    if (thread == null || thread.isArchived()) { // Doesn't have a thread channel or it is already archived.
        return;
    }
    thread.getManager().setArchived(true).queue();
}

[MinnDevelopment]

This has been achieved with Message#getStartedThread in 5.0.0-alpha.12

[RealYusufIsmail]

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