use JDA delete message 10 seconds after sending

Question

I am making a discord bot that sends an embed to display a users inventory(im making a game bot). To avoid clutter I want to delete the message after 10-20 seconds. Anyone know

Answer 1

You can use queueAfter which will delay the execution of the RestAction provided by delete().

public static void deleteAfter(Message message, int delay) {
    message.delete().queueAfter(delay, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

This method can be used inside the success callback for your sendMessage action.

someMethod().queue((result) -> { // the type for "result" is the T in RestAction
    System.out.println(result);
}, (failure) -> { // failure is always a Throwable
    failure.printStackTrace();
});

I recommend reading the documentation and wiki:

• RestAction javadocs
• JDA wiki