[RedStar071]

🔗 Linked issue

Refs #216

🧭 Context

Section 5 of the tracking issue #216 ("To verify before closing", step 4 of its proposal) asked to compare the thread, direct message, crosspost and createMessage paths with discord.js main and to turn each finding into a fix or a documented difference. The manager work of steps 1 to 3 is merged (#219, #221, #222, #226, #236, #238, #252, #253). This PR is the verification pass.

📚 Description

Each check was run against the current packages/plugin-gateway code and against GuildTextThreadManager, GuildForumThreadManager, DMMessageManager, PartialGroupDMMessageManager, GuildMessageManager#crosspost and ChannelManager#createMessage of discord.js main. Where Pullfrog's correction on the issue applied (create already branches on message; rateLimitPerUser is not forum-only), it was followed: the option check is about message, appliedTags, type and invitable.

Two real defects were fixed:

• threads.create dropped options silently (appliedTags without message, type/invitable with it), and let a forum or media channel without message, or a text channel with one, reach Discord.
• The messages of a direct message had crosspost, bulkDelete and startThread, which Discord always refuses there. discord.js has no such methods on DMMessageManager, and this package already leaves bulkDelete off the DM channel itself.

The shared ChannelThreadManager and ChannelMessageManager classes are kept (the cheap option of the plan): the options are typed as a union and checked at runtime, and the guild-only methods throw. Departure from the plan: no compile-time omission of crosspost on DMChannel#messages, because TextBasedChannel is a union that includes DMs, so message.channel.messages.crosspost(...) would stop compiling for current users. The runtime error is clear and non-breaking, and it can be narrowed later if wanted.

Key changes

#	Check	Result	Action
1a	Forum-only options on a text thread (appliedTags, message)	appliedTags without message was dropped silently; message in a text or announcement channel went to Discord	Fixed: ThreadOptionsPostOnly thrown before any request, in ThreadManager#create (shape) and ChannelThreadManager#create (channel type)
1b	Thread-only options on a forum post (type, invitable)	Dropped silently when message was set	Fixed: ThreadOptionsThreadOnly
1c	Forum or media channel without message	A plain thread request was sent, which Discord refuses (discord.js throws GuildForumMessageRequired)	Fixed: ThreadPostMessageRequired
1d	Typing of the options	One flat interface	Fixed: ThreadCreateOptions = TextThreadCreateOptions | ForumThreadCreateOptions, mixing is a compile error (type test added)
1e	rateLimitPerUser, autoArchiveDuration	Valid for threads and posts in discord.js and in the API	No change, documented as shared options
1f	startMessage of GuildTextThreadManager; type forced to an announcement thread in announcement channels	Here a thread from a message is message.startThread(); an explicit type is honoured in announcement channels	Documented difference (README, TSDoc)
2a	DM fetch, send, edit, delete, pin, unpin	Work through the same paths as discord.js's DMMessageManager; messages have guildId === null, no member	No change, tests added for every cache mode
2b	DM crosspost, bulkDelete, startThread	Sent to Discord, which always refuses (crosspostable/threadable already return false for DMs)	Fixed: ChannelMessagesGuildOnly thrown before any request when the manager belongs to a DM or group DM
2c	Group DM send	GroupDMChannel has send/messages while discord.js's PartialGroupDMChannel has no send (bots cannot use group DMs)	Documented, no change (Discord is the authority)
2d	Managers built by hand or client.messages.*	Cannot know the channel type synchronously	Documented: they send the request and Discord refuses it
3a	crosspost typing	crosspost(messageId: string): Promise<Message>; discord.js takes a MessageResolvable and resolves to Message. Same convention as delete/pin/edit of ChannelMessageManager	Documented difference, type test added
3b	ChannelManager#createMessage	No such method; client.messages.send(channelId, string | options | MessagePayload) and channel.send resolve to Message	Documented difference, type test added. JSONEncodable and FileBodyEncodable bodies of discord.js are not accepted
4	rawFetchGuildActiveThreads	Still absent; ChannelThreadManager#fetchActive covers the public part	Left out: no consumer

Status of the checklist of #216 against main (verified in the code):

• Section 1: ApplicationCommandManager, GuildApplicationCommandManager, ApplicationCommandPermissionsManager (plugin-gateway: port ApplicationCommandManager and ApplicationCommandPermissionsManager (discord.js parity) #209) and ClientApplication (plugin-gateway: add ClientApplication and client.application (discord.js parity) #208) are done. ApplicationEmojiManager (plugin-gateway: port ApplicationEmoji (with its manager) and ApplicationCommand (discord.js parity) #207) is still open.
• Section 2: EntitlementManager, SubscriptionManager, Entitlement, Subscription, SKU are done.
• Section 3: guild.members, guild.roles, guild.presences, guild.voiceStates, guild.commands, category.children and answer.voters are done.
• Section 4: fetchSoundboardSounds, widgetImageURL, channelCountWithoutThreads, DataManager#valueOf and GuildEmojiManager#resolveIdentifier are done; rawFetchGuildActiveThreads is intentionally not ported.

Type of Change

• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation change
• Workflow / CI change

The options that used to be dropped now throw, and ThreadCreateOptions is a union: code that only passed valid options is unaffected.

Pre-flight Checklist

• I have read the Contributing Guidelines (if applicable)
• My code follows the code style of this project
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• I have updated the documentation accordingly
• I added a changeset with pnpm changeset (or pnpm changeset add --empty if no release is needed). See .changeset/README.md.

Verification: pnpm build, pnpm typecheck and pnpm test (124 files, 1826 tests) pass locally; oxlint exits 0 with only the warnings main already has. oxfmt --check passes on the changed files (it fails for every file in my Windows checkout because of CRLF line endings, as it does on a clean tree).

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Review

1 finding on the diff · reviewed 6e15510

• 🟠 ChannelMessagesGuildOnly message calls a group DM ”a direct message” · errors/Messages.ts:66-67

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes — the full single-commit diff (11 files) of the thread options and guild-only message validation.

• Typed thread options — ThreadCreateOptions is now TextThreadCreateOptions | ForumThreadCreateOptions, told apart by message, with the opposite kind's options typed ?: undefined.
• Runtime option checks — ThreadManager#create throws ThreadOptionsPostOnly / ThreadOptionsThreadOnly before any request, and ChannelThreadManager#create adds ThreadPostMessageRequired and the channel-type check when the type is known.
• Guild-only message paths — ChannelMessageManager takes an optional channelType, and crosspost, bulkDelete and startThread throw ChannelMessagesGuildOnly in DMs and group DMs. They are now async, so the error is a rejection, not a sync throw.
• Wiring — ChannelThreadsMixin and TextChannelMixin pass this.type. Forum and media channels have no messages, and thread channels pass thread types, so nothing else is newly guarded. client.messages.* and hand-built managers stay unguarded, as documented.
• Docs, changeset, tests — README differences from discord.js, a minor changeset, runtime tests for every cache mode, and a type test that tsconfig.consumption.json already includes.

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ChannelMessagesGuildOnly message calls a group DM ”a direct message”

assertGuild throws for ChannelType.GroupDM too, but the message built from ChannelMessagesGuildOnly always reads ”channel ‹id› is a direct message”, so a group direct message is reported as a DM, contradicting the check and the README that separates the two.

Fix: Take the channel kind (or the type) as an argument in ChannelMessagesGuildOnly and pass this.channelType from assertGuild, so a group DM says ”a group direct message”.

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1. [medium, correctness] packages/plugin-gateway/src/errors/Messages.ts lines 66-67
   Problem: `ChannelMessagesGuildOnly` message calls a group DM "a direct message". `assertGuild` throws for `ChannelType.GroupDM` too, but the message built from `ChannelMessagesGuildOnly` always reads "channel <id> is a direct message", so a group direct message is reported as a DM, contradicting the check and the README that separates the two.
   Fix: Take the channel kind (or the type) as an argument in `ChannelMessagesGuildOnly` and pass `this.channelType` from `assertGuild`, so a group DM says "a group direct message".