Allow responses by DM

devvit.yaml

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 name: social-links-bot
-version: 0.0.18
+version: 0.0.19

src/handleCommentCreate.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { TriggerContext, User, UserSocialLink } from "@devvit/public-api";
 import { CommentCreate } from "@devvit/protos";
 import { isLinkId } from "@devvit/shared-types/tid.js";
 import Ajv, { JSONSchemaType } from "ajv";
-import { AppSetting } from "./settings.js";
+import { AppSetting, ResponseMethod } from "./settings.js";
 import { addCleanup } from "./cleanup.js";
 import { addMinutes } from "date-fns";
 
@@ -112,13 +112,24 @@ export async function handleCommentCreate (event: CommentCreate, context: Trigge
         });
     }
 
-    await context.reddit.submitComment({
-        id: event.comment.id,
-        text: JSON.stringify(userSocialLinks),
-    });
+    const [responseMethod] = settings[AppSetting.ResponseMethod] as [ResponseMethod] | undefined ?? [ResponseMethod.Reply];
 
-    console.log("Comment left.");
+    if (responseMethod === ResponseMethod.Reply) {
+        await context.reddit.submitComment({
+            id: event.comment.id,
+            text: JSON.stringify(userSocialLinks),
+        });
+
+        console.log("Comment left.");
+
+        await addCleanup(event.comment.id, context);
+    } else {
+        await context.reddit.sendPrivateMessage({
+            subject: "social-links-bot response",
+            to: event.author.name,
+            text: JSON.stringify(userSocialLinks),
+        });
+    }
 
-    await addCleanup(event.comment.id, context);
     await context.redis.set(redisKey, new Date().getTime().toString(), { expiration: addMinutes(new Date(), 20) });
 }

src/settings.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ import { SettingsFormField } from "@devvit/public-api";
 export enum AppSetting {
     PostId = "postId",
     AccountNames = "accountName",
+    ResponseMethod = "responseMethod",
+}
+
+export enum ResponseMethod {
+    Reply = "reply",
+    PrivateMessage = "privateMessage",
 }
 
 export const appSettings: SettingsFormField[] = [
@@ -19,4 +25,19 @@ export const appSettings: SettingsFormField[] = [
         helpText: "Comma separated, not case sensitive",
         defaultValue: "DrRonikBot",
     },
+    {
+        name: AppSetting.ResponseMethod,
+        type: "select",
+        label: "Response method",
+        options: [
+            { label: "Reply to comment", value: ResponseMethod.Reply },
+            { label: "Private message", value: ResponseMethod.PrivateMessage },
+        ],
+        defaultValue: [ResponseMethod.Reply],
+        onValidate: ({ value }) => {
+            if (!value || value.length === 0) {
+                return "You must choose a response method";
+            }
+        },
+    },
 ];