Intents are not used when using the raw `Http` client about serenity

[Kerollmops]

If it is 2., could you verify if you have this toggle switch turned on?

You are my savior! It was indeed the issue, thank you very much 👍

[arqunis]

Is there a way to provide the intent to the Http client?

There is none, because intents are for the gateway only. Discord's HTTP API does not allow you to provide intents, even for ones that aren't associated with any gateway event in particular, like MESSAGE_CONTENT.

[Kerollmops]

So, is there a way to get all message content in a specific channel? Should the HTTP API always return the content? Because I am constantly seeing an empty string as the content?

[arqunis]

I am honestly not sure. I haven't had the need to fetch a Message object with the content via the HTTP API, and the documentation for the Get Channel Messages endpoint does not mention the intent at all (nor other related endpoints). I can only speculate two things:

1. You may only receive the content of a message via the gateway. Similar for being able to receive the full Guild object rather than the PartialGuild object you get from the HTTP API.
2. When you work with the gateway, to enable or disable intents you must specify them in the "Identify" payload upon first connecting to the gateway. Certain intents, however, require you to enable them first in your bot's developer settings, because they are privileged. MESSAGE_CONTENT is one of these. Since the HTTP API does not let you enable or disable intents much like the gateway does, it could be assumed that all intents are enabled by default. It's just that for privileged intents, they also have to be enabled in the bot settings.

If it is 2., could you verify if you have this toggle switch turned on?