Auto create threads for suggestions

[Taz03]

Auto create thread for suggestions in suggestions channel.

Closes #468 .

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[Taz03]

what to do about the spotless check?

[Zabuzard]

Also, the code is not passing spotless.

[Zabuzard]

what to do about the spotless check?

If you have set up the code locally and use the gradle commands, it would run spotless already for you. See our wiki for details on that.

[Taz03]

what the thread title should be "Discussion on User's suggestion" or "Discussion for User's suggestion" or something else

[Zabuzard]

what the thread title should be "Discussion on User's suggestion" or "Discussion for User's suggestion" or something else

I dont care. Imo it is fine as u did it :)

[Zabuzard]

This is a bit more tricky, but currently the UX suffers from the generic thread names:

I think we can not release it like that and need some way to distinguish them.

I would suggest we determine the title based on the first x characters from the message. It is not perfect, but enough to make it clear what the thread is about. So in this case Discussion for 'I have a great idea' or just I have a great idea without the fuzz around it.

Code-wise, it could look something like message.getContent() and then substring(0, Math.min(MAX_LENGTH, content.length()). Where the max length could be something around 60 maybe.

If you want, you can also make the substring smarter by cutting off at the last "word" to not have something like I have a gre where its cut in the middle of the word. The code for something like already exists in ImplicitAskListener#createTitle where you can get some inspiration, if you want to.

[Taz03]

is this better?

[Zabuzard]

is this better?

Yes, but you have to ensure that its within the limit of thread names. So limit it to 60 characters for example. And if you do not want to cut it off in between a word, use a logic as shown earlier.

[Taz03]

yes, i did

    private static void createThread(@NotNull Message message) {
        String messageContent = message.getContentRaw();

        String title = messageContent;
        if (messageContent.length() >= TITLE_MAX_LENGTH) {
            int lastWordEnd = messageContent.lastIndexOf(' ', TITLE_MAX_LENGTH);

            if (lastWordEnd == -1) {
                lastWordEnd = TITLE_MAX_LENGTH;
            }

            title = messageContent.substring(0, lastWordEnd);
        }

        message
            .createThreadChannel(title)
            .queue();
    }

[Taz03]

[Zabuzard]

Good stuff. Another thing that came to my mind, could you auto-invite the message author to the thread? Just add the user to it 🙂

[Taz03]

Any thread created will automatically invite the author and the member who created the thread

[Zabuzard]

Seems to work well

[Zabuzard]

Waiting for a second approval. Otherwise merging in latest 7 days.

Thanks for your contribution, well done! 🎉