Channel.type undefined

[Calculamatrise]

Which package is this bug report for?

discord.js

Issue description

• Create a listener for the GuildMemberAdd/GuildMemberRemove events
• Attempt to get/fetch a VoiceChannel type to send a message alert
• Print out the channel type

Code sample

// GuildMemberAdd & GuildMemberRemove event listeners:
// 'entry' references a database entry
let channel = member.guild.channels.cache.get(entry.alerts.memberPart);
if (!channel) {
	channel = await member.guild.channels.fetch(entry.alerts.memberPart).catch(() => {
		// This isn't important, but I'll leave it here just in case
		this.database.guilds.update(member.guild.id, {
			alerts: { memberPart: null }
		})
	});
	if (!channel) {
		return;
	}
}
if (channel.type > 0) return;
// channel.type is returning undefined when it is a VoiceChannel instance. I ran an eval command to get the same channel by its ID and it shows channel.type as 2, so I'm not sure why this is happening. I

Versions

Discord.js: 14.15.2
Node: v20.15.1
npm: 10.8.3

Issue priority

Medium (should be fixed soon)

Which partials do you have configured?

No Partials

Which gateway intents are you subscribing to?

Not applicable

I have tested this issue on a development release

No response

[monbrey]

Seems unlikely to be a bug, as a channel can't be constructed without a type unless Discord isn't providing one: https://github.com/discordjs/discord.js/blob/14.16.1/packages/discord.js/src/structures/BaseChannel.js#L23

Normally when I see this sort of issue, channel isn't actually a Channel type object at all. Could you log it and confirm that other than channel.type, the rest of the properties are as expected? My guess, without additional info, would be that you're fetching channels with an undefined value and actually returning a Collection.

[Calculamatrise]

I apologize for the delayed response. I had to wait until the issue reoccurred so I can see what happened. I made a silly mistake. What happened was the channel id was being set (in the database) to false instead of null, and I was checking if it wasn't null, so it was returning a Collection instead of the target channel.