TypeError: interaction.options.getString is not a function discord.js v14 error

Question

I'm making a discord bot and am using discord v14.3.0. I call const faction = interaction.options.getString(`${date}-faction`) with let date = Date.now() above it. I am calling this in a module with async execute(interaction) {} and call that module in bot.js like this:

// if interaction is from bot
if (!interaction.isCommand()) return;

const slashCom = client.slashCommands.get(interaction.commandName);

if (!slashCom) return;

try {
    await slashCom.execute(client, interaction);
 } catch(e) {
    console.error(e);
    await interaction.reply({ content: 'There was an error while executing this 
 command!', ephemeral: true });
 }

inside a client on interaction create. The application command data is this:

    data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
    .setName('faction')
    .setDescription('Choose a faction to join.')
    .addStringOption(option =>
        option.setName(`${date}-faction`)
            .setDescription('The faction you want to join. (BurningShadows, WaterLight, or JadeDawn.)')
            .setRequired(true)
            .addChoices({ 
                name: "BurningShadows", value: "BurningShadows" }, 
                { name: "WaterLight", value: "WaterLight" },
                { name: "JadeDawn", value: "JadeDawn" })
    ),

I have tried the other article on this but I did not find anything that solved my problem. What console.log(interaction.options) prints out is this:

{
intents: 46687,
 closeTimeout: 5000,
 waitGuildTimeout: 15000,
 shardCount: 1,
 makeCache: [Function (anonymous)],
 partials: [],
  failIfNotExists: true,
  presence: { status: 'online', user: { id: null } },
  sweepers: { threads: { interval: 3600, lifetime: 14400 } },
 ws: {
 large_threshold: 50,
  compress: false,
  properties: { os: 'darwin', browser: 'discord.js', device: 'discord.js' },
  version: 10,
  presence: { activities: [], afk: false, since: null, status: 'online' }
 },
 rest: {
 agent: [Getter],
 api: 'https://discord.com/api',
 authPrefix: 'Bot',
 cdn: 'https://cdn.discordapp.com',
 headers: {},
 invalidRequestWarningInterval: 0,
 globalRequestsPerSecond: 50,
 offset: 50,
 rejectOnRateLimit: null,
 retries: 3,
 timeout: 15000,
 userAgentAppendix: 'Node.js v16.17.0',
 version: '10',
 hashSweepInterval: 14400000,
 hashLifetime: 86400000,
 handlerSweepInterval: 3600000
 },
 jsonTransformer: [Function: toSnakeCase],
 shards: [ 0 ]
  }

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

The option name is set to the current date when it is created, then you try to get it using Date.now() which will have a different value by that time.

Original

I had this issue before but fixed it by changing getString() to just get().