Pagination Utils - JDA Pagination made easier!

With this library you will be using pages and categories in your bot commands in no time!

What is a page/category/button?

Have you been using a bot and came across one of those three GIFs and thought: "That must've been hard to make." or "I'd like one of those in my bot!". Fear no more, KuuHaKu to the rescue!

How do I paginate?

Before we start the fun stuff, there're a few things we need to check:

• You're using Java JDK 9 or above.
• Your bot has the following permissions:
  • MESSAGE_ADD_REACTION
  • MESSAGE_EXT_EMOJI
  • MESSAGE_READ/WRITE
  • VIEW_CHANNEL
• If using JDABuilder.createLight(), you added the following gateway intents:
  • GUILD_MESSAGES
  • GUILD_MESSAGE_REACTIONS

Now we can finally start, which is easier than it seems! The first step is to set a JDA client object as the event holder, which can be done in a single line:

JDA bot = ... // Creation of bot client
		
Pages.activate(PaginatorBuilder.createSimplePaginator(bot));

But if you want some customization of the library's behaviour, you can opt to use the full builder:

JDA bot = ... // Creation of bot client

Paginator paginator = PaginatorBuilder.createPaginator()
		// Defines which handler will be used
		.setHandler(bot)
		// Whether reactions will be removed on click
		.shouldRemoveOnReaction(false)
		// Prevents double-click on buttons and guarantee an event will only happen when previous processing has finished
		.shouldEventLock(true)
		// Finish configuration and activate the library
		.activate();

If you want to go even further and change the default buttons' emotes, don't worry, we got you covered:

JDA bot = ... // Creation of bot client

Paginator paginator = PaginatorBuilder.createPaginator()
		// Defines which handler will be used
		.setHandler(bot)
		// Whether reactions will be removed on click
		.shouldRemoveOnReaction(false)
		// Prevents double-click on buttons and guarantee an event will only happen when previous processing has finished
		.shouldEventLock(true)
		// Changes the next button to 😙
		.setEmote(Emote.NEXT, Emoji.fromMarkdown("😙"))
		// Changes the previous button to 😩
		.setEmote(Emote.PREVIOUS, Emoji.fromMarkdown("😩"))
		// Finish configuration and activate the library
		.activate();

Then all you need to do is create a Page (or InteractPage for interaction buttons) collection containing the type of the content and the Message/MessageEmbed object that you just created.

Example:

// Example using MessageBuilder
MessageBuilder mb = new MessageBuilder();
mb.setContent("Hello World!");

Page messagePage = new Page(mb.build());

// Example using EmbedBuilder
EmbedBuilder eb = new EmbedBuilder();
eb.setTitle("Example Embed");
eb.setDescription("Hello World!");

Page embedPage = new InteractPage(eb.build());

That said, you might want to create an ArrayList of pages to use the pagination, since a single page does not need to be paginated at all:

ArrayList<Page> pages = new ArrayList<>();
MessageBuilder mb = new MessageBuilder();

// Adding 10 pages to the list
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
	mb.clear();
	mb.setContent("This is entry Nº " + i);
	pages.add(new InteractPage(mb.build()));
}

Then all you have to do is call Pages.paginate() method:

// This method requires 3 arguments:
// The target message
// The list of pages
// Whether you want to use reactions (false) or interaction buttons (true).
exampleChannel.sendMessage((Message) pages.get(0).getContent()).queue(success -> {
	Pages.paginate(success, pages, /* Use buttons? */ true);
});

That's everything you have to do, the library will automatically add the navigation buttons to the target message, which will change its content based on the list's order.

How do I categorize?

To categorize it's almost the same process as paginating, however, the type of collection is HashMap instead of ArrayList:

HashMap<Emoji, Page> categories = new HashMap<>();
MessageBuilder mb = new MessageBuilder();

// Manually adding 3 categories to the map, you could use some kind of loop to fill it (see https://emojipedia.org/ for unicodes)
mb.setContent("This is category 1");
categories.put(Emoji.fromMarkdown("\u26f3"), new InteractPage(mb.build()));

mb.setContent("This is category 2");
categories.put(Emoji.fromMarkdown("\u26bd"), new InteractPage(mb.build()));

mb.setContent("This is category 3");
categories.put(Emoji.fromMarkdown("\u270f"), new InteractPage(mb.build()));

Then just call Pages.categorize() method just like you did before:

exampleChannel.sendMessage("This is a menu message").queue(success -> {
	// Third argument is whether you want to use reactions (false) or interaction buttons (true).
	Pages.categorize(success, categories, /* Use buttons? */ true);
});

How do I buttonize?

To do it, you first need to setup a few things:

// A Consumer is a callback function that uses one arguments and returns nothing
// Here, the member is the one that pressed the button, and message is the buttonized message itself
ThrowingConsumer<ButtonWrapper> customFunction = (wrapper) -> {
	// Example of giving a role to anyone who presses this button
	guild.addRoleToMember(wrapper.getMember(), guild.getRoleById("123456789")).queue();
};

exampleChannel.sendMessage("This is a sample message").queue(success -> {
	// Same arguments, except the second that must extend map collection
	// Third argument is whether you want to use reactions (false) or interaction buttons (true).
	// The last argument defines whether to show cancel button or not
	Pages.buttonize(success, Collections.singletonMap(Emoji.fromMarkdown("✅"), customFunction), /* Use buttons? */ true, /* Show cancel? */false);
});

I have low memory, what about me?

Yet again, don't worry, Pagination-Utils to the rescue!

// Could be anything, this is just an example.
List<String> data = new ArrayList<>();
// Adding 10 values to the list
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
	data.add("This is entry Nº " + i);
}

MessageBuilder mb = new MessageBuilder();
ThrowingFunction<Integer, Page> func = i -> {
	mb.setContent("This is entry Nº " + i);
	return new InteractPage(mb.build());
};

Then just call Pages.lazyPaginate() method:

// Second argument must be a function that takes an integer and returns a Page.
// Third argument is whether you want to use reactions (false) or interaction buttons (true).
// The last argument defines whether pages should be cached or not (will keep previously visited pages in memory).
exampleChannel.sendMessage((Message) pages.get(0).getContent()).queue(success -> {
	Pages.lazyPaginate(success, func, /* Use buttons? */ true, /* Cache? */ false);
});

Is it really that easy?

Yes, you can focus on creating epic menus, ranking, lists, whatever and leave the boring part for the library to do its job, isn't that awesome?

How do I get it?

This library is available for manual installation and through Jitpack:

To install manually

• Click on the releases tab on the top of this repository
• Download the latest release
• Put the .jar file somewhere in your project
• Add it to the buildpath
• Done!

To install via Maven Central

• Add this library as a dependency:

Gradle:

dependencies {
    implementation group: 'com.github.ygimenez', name: 'Pagination-Utils', version: 'VERSION'
}

Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.ygimenez</groupId>
    <artifactId>Pagination-Utils</artifactId>
    <version>VERSION</version>
</dependency>

• Replace VERSION with the one shown here (without "v"):
• Done!

Feedback

If you have any issues using this library, feel free to create a new issue or contact me on my server and I'll review it as soon as possible!