(To be clear, since I realized just now that to non-devs the title might be misleading: This feature does not add AI bots to your comments plugin by default! The comments plugin and the AI plugins are completely distinct. But plugins can of course interact with one another, and this new feature of the comments plugin allows for some interesting interactions - the title just gives one of those as a fun example.)
You can now “programmatically” submit comments on behalf of the user, and you can also get/set the contents of the input text box.
If a comment was programmatically submitted, then a little icon is shown on the comment to indicate that the user didn’t personally click the submit button.
This feature, used alongside the onComment/onLoad feature can e.g. be used to create an AI bot that “lives in” your comments box, or create a multiplayer game of chess, or maybe add an auto-error-report log using window.onerror, and so on.
Edit: Also, you can now use c.comments to get an array/list of the comments - but make sure to do that only after onLoad has triggered, since c.comments only returns loaded comments - so if comments box hasn’t loaded yet, you’ll get an empty array.
Let me know if you find any bugs/issues!
https://perchance.org/programmatic-get-set-submit-comments-plugin-example#edit
I’ll probably create a little AI bot example at some point, but you’re welcome to beat me to it! (Please post it here on lemmy if you do)
Thanks! The latter bug should be fixed now (but of course let me know if not). The former ideally isn’t a bug - it’s just because some comments were cached and so loaded immediately, but some recent ones needed an extra server fetch. In my experiments with this, this is fine, because my code needs to be “robust” to newly added comments right after load anyway, and the comment objects have
timeattached. But let me know if you come up against cases where it makes something difficultthank you!