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Diffstat (limited to 'discord/abc.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | discord/abc.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/discord/abc.py b/discord/abc.py index 306f0157..4450693c 100644 --- a/discord/abc.py +++ b/discord/abc.py @@ -140,12 +140,17 @@ class MessageChannel(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta): raise NotImplementedError @asyncio.coroutine - def send_message(self, content, *, tts=False): + def send_message(self, content=None, *, tts=False, embed=None): """|coro| Sends a message to the channel with the content given. The content must be a type that can convert to a string through ``str(content)``. + If the content is set to ``None`` (the default), then the ``embed`` parameter must + be provided. + + If the ``embed`` parameter is provided, it must be of type :class:`Embed` and + it must be a rich embed type. Parameters ------------ @@ -153,6 +158,8 @@ class MessageChannel(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta): The content of the message to send. tts: bool Indicates if the message should be sent using text-to-speech. + embed: :class:`Embed` + The rich embed for the content. Raises -------- @@ -168,8 +175,11 @@ class MessageChannel(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta): """ channel_id, guild_id = self._get_destination() - content = str(content) - data = yield from self._state.http.send_message(channel_id, content, guild_id=guild_id, tts=tts) + content = str(content) if content else None + if embed is not None: + embed = embed.to_dict() + + data = yield from self._state.http.send_message(channel_id, content, guild_id=guild_id, tts=tts, embed=embed) return Message(channel=self, state=self._state, data=data) @asyncio.coroutine |