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Contributing to owobot
Thanks for your interest in contributing to owobot! This page contains information that you should know before contributing.
Code structure
Systems
owobot consists of several independent systems, such as the starboard system, members system, commands system, etc. These systems are what actually interact with users and they're all in the internal/systems directory.
All the systems that require initialization have an init.go file with an Init(*discordgo.Session) error function, which does things like registers all the commands and handlers, and performs any other initialization steps that need to be done for that system. These Init functions are called by main.go when the bot starts up.
The commands system always starts last because the other systems register commands that it needs to know about before it does its initialization.
System file structure:
init.go: This file contains the Init function that does all the required initialization, as well as any functions meant to be imported by other systems, such as thecommands.Register()andeventlog.Log()functions.handlers.go: This file contains all the event handler functions.commands.go: This file contains all the command handler functions.
Database
All the database code is in internal/db. owobot doesn't use any ORM or framework for the database, it directly executes SQL queries. Database migrations are stored in internal/db/migrations. They are sql files whose names contain the date when they were made and an extra number to avoid collisions in case multiple migrations are ever made in the same day.
If you change anything in the database, always make a new migration file rather than editing existing ones. This way, owobot will automatically apply the the changes whenever it's run next. Changing migrations requires a full recompile because they're embedded into the binary.
Testing
If you want to test out your changes, you'll need to make a test server and bot account. To do that, go to https://discord.com/developers/applications and create a new application. Then, go to Bot in the sidebar, and enable the privileged gateway intents for Message Content and Server Members. Now, go to OAuth2 > URL Generator, select bot in Scopes, and then Administrator in Bot Permissions. That will give you a URL. Next, go to Discord and make a new server that you'll use for testing. Then, paste the URL you generated into your browser and invite your test bot into your new server.