How can i get the Bot Message ID and edit the Message – Discord JDA Java

For my school project i am learning how to set up a bot. I figured out how to get a message the Message ID. But the ID is not from the Bot, he get the ID from the Author who wrote the command. :

if (content.equals("!dim")){
            channel.sendMessage("TEST!").queue();

            Message bot = event.getMessage();
            long messageID = bot.getIdLong();
            String s = String.valueOf(messageID);
            System.out.print(s);
            channel.editMessageById(messageID, "text").queue();
}

Error in Console:

914706361378557982[ForkJoinPool.commonPool-worker-19] ERROR RestAction - RestAction queue returned failure: [ErrorResponseException] 50005: Cannot edit a message authored by another user
net.dv8tion.jda.api.exceptions.ContextException
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.exceptions.ContextException.here(ContextException.java:54)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.requests.Request.<init>(Request.java:71)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.requests.RestActionImpl.queue(RestActionImpl.java:197)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.requests.RestAction.queue(RestAction.java:573)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.requests.RestAction.queue(RestAction.java:539)
    at MessageListener.onMessageReceived(MessageListener.java:68)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.hooks.ListenerAdapter.onEvent(ListenerAdapter.java:483)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.api.hooks.InterfacedEventManager.handle(InterfacedEventManager.java:96)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.hooks.EventManagerProxy.handleInternally(EventManagerProxy.java:88)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.hooks.EventManagerProxy.handle(EventManagerProxy.java:70)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.JDAImpl.handleEvent(JDAImpl.java:160)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.handle.MessageCreateHandler.handleInternally(MessageCreateHandler.java:123)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.handle.SocketHandler.handle(SocketHandler.java:36)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.requests.WebSocketClient.onDispatch(WebSocketClient.java:952)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.requests.WebSocketClient.onEvent(WebSocketClient.java:839)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.requests.WebSocketClient.handleEvent(WebSocketClient.java:817)
    at net.dv8tion.jda.internal.requests.WebSocketClient.onBinaryMessage(WebSocketClient.java:991)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ListenerManager.callOnBinaryMessage(ListenerManager.java:385)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ReadingThread.callOnBinaryMessage(ReadingThread.java:276)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ReadingThread.handleBinaryFrame(ReadingThread.java:996)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ReadingThread.handleFrame(ReadingThread.java:755)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ReadingThread.main(ReadingThread.java:108)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.ReadingThread.runMain(ReadingThread.java:64)
    at com.neovisionaries.ws.client.WebSocketThread.run(WebSocketThread.java:45)

I can tell from the Error that my MessageId is not from the Bot. Is there anyway to get it from the MessageBot from the Bot. If you need any more Information, i will update this post asap.

Answer

I’m not sure what your issue is… the method you’re calling will edit the message for the given ID (you can get that ID in any message event through getMessageIdLong(), and be careful not to mistake that with getMessageId(), since it returns a String and editMessage() requires a long). Alternatively, you can call Message.editMessage(String newText).queue() (directly from your Message object) to perform the editing. In order to retrieve the aforementioned object, use getMessage() from any Message event. If you still have any doubts regarding this matter, check out the documentation.

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