Unable to use await in a view callback.

[e0lithic]

Hi,

I have the following Dropdown view:

class Dropdown(discord.ui.Select):
    def __init__(self, bot_: discord.Bot):
        self.bot = bot_
        options = [discord.SelectOption(label=name) for name in (["All"]+list(usernameMap))]

        super().__init__(
            placeholder="Select users : ",
            min_values=1,
            max_values=len(usernameMap) + 1,
            options=options,
        )

    async def callback(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
        day = 0
        # Point of contention, get_questions ideally makes some api calls
        # to return the submissions of each user as a dictionary.
        user_submissions = await get_questions(users=self.values,day=day)
        embed = discord.Embed(
            title = f"Questions solved by users [{dateMap.get(day, f'Day {day}')}]",
            color=discord.Colour.blurple()
        )
        for user,submissions in user_submissions.items():
            format_subs = "".join(["\t" + sub + "\n" for sub in submissions])
            embed.add_field(name=f"**{user}**", value=format_subs)

        await interaction.response.send_message(None, embed=embed)

Now if I remove the line user_submissions = await get_questions(users=self.values,day=day) and replace it with a hardcoded value, things work just fine, however when get_questions makes actual calls to different apis to get the data I get the following error :

Ignoring exception in view <DropdownView timeout=180.0 children=1> for item <Dropdown placeholder='Select users : ' min_values=1 max_values=7 options=[<SelectOption label='All' value='All' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='e0lithic' value='user1' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='user2' value='user2' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='user3' value='user3' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='user4' value='user4' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='user6' value='user6' description=None emoji=None default=False>, <SelectOption label='user7' value='user7' description=None emoji=None default=False>] disabled=False>:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/aigenedge/.pyenv/versions/discord/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/ui/view.py", line 375, in _scheduled_task
    await item.callback(interaction)
  File "main.py", line 42, in callback
    await interaction.response.send_message(None, embed=embed)
  File "/home/xyz/.pyenv/versions/discord/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/interactions.py", line 709, in send_message
    await self._locked_response(
  File "/home/xyz/.pyenv/versions/discord/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/interactions.py", line 956, in _locked_response
    await coro
  File "/home/xyz/.pyenv/versions/discord/lib/python3.8/site-packages/discord/webhook/async_.py", line 211, in request
    raise NotFound(response, data)
discord.errors.NotFound: 404 Not Found (error code: 10062): Unknown interaction

I have already ensured that the get_questions works in a standalone environment. Perhaps I am required to defer however, using defer gives the error that the interaction has already been responded to before. Can someone please give me pointers where I am making a mistake.

[e0lithic]

I realized that I am required to use the interaction.followup.send() while using the interaction.response.defer for this use-case. Thanks !