Integration Service Activities - Discord - Channel ID

[Vladyslav_Tkachov]

Good day, this is my first time on forums because I quite frankly have no idea how to solve this.

So I recently decided to make a fun little project outside my work to gain some new knowledge about UiPath capabilities / activities I’ve never touched before. I thought making a tool for handling images in bulk would be cool. So I made a downloader/uploader tool. Currently its only got a simple bulk downloader and im building a discord uploader where as it happens I ran into something quite annoying.

This is the activity in question. At the start of my workflow I get user input and I thought I could get channelId to use in this activity as a variable but no matter what I tried I get the same error:

Upload Image: Request failed with error: 
ProviderMessage : message - Invalid Form Body, code - 50035, errors - {channel_id={_errors=[{code=NUMBER_TYPE_COERCE, message=Value "in_channelId" is not snowflake.}]}}
ProviderErrorCode : 400
RequestId : 67045009e4b0553d0498b5ac
Message : Bad Request

Status code: BadRequest. Error code: DAP-RT-1101.

I looked into this a bit and apparently discord channel Ids are supposed to be in something called a snowflake, as the error suggests. However I don’t know if its even possible for me to convert the string input I get from the uiform into a snowflake. Please tell me if its possible and if not maybe someone has another idea for discord image uploads that would be user friendly allowing for customizible channels / servers.

By the way I already tried using channelId as a string (default input), int32, int64, uint64. Oh and in case I wasn’t clear, using the channel Id like it is in the screenshot works for some reason but only allows for that one channel to be specified.

Thanks in advance!

[muktadir]

Hi @Vladyslav_Tkachov

if you open the channel id in advanced editor it will show you what datatype it expects. you can use ctrl + k to create a variable with the same datatype then experiment with casts and see if you can convert your input string to the expected data type.

Also does it show channel id’s in the dropdown for that field?

[Vladyslav_Tkachov]

Thanks! I don’t know how that makes sense but it worked… It set the variable to string which was my first option initially but apparently the string set from inside the channel id field works but a regular string doesn’t. Anyway cheers!