Fall back to comment id when permalink is unavailable

Watchful1 · claude · Watchful1 · commit 736ec7d109dd · 2026-05-29T10:13:45.000-07:00
PRAW inbox Comments don't reliably include permalink in their lazy
payload, which was crashing the mention-detection log line. Catch the
AttributeError and substitute a comment-id string so the warning fires
cleanly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/messages.py b/src/messages.py
@@ -370,7 +370,10 @@ def process_messages(reddit, database):
 				has_command = comments.body_contains_command(message.body)
 				mention_type = 'with_command' if has_command else 'mention_only'
 				counters.mentions.labels(type=mention_type).inc()
-				permalink = utils.reddit_link(message.permalink)
+				try:
+					permalink = utils.reddit_link(message.permalink)
+				except AttributeError:
+					permalink = f"comment {message.id}"
 				if static.MENTION_DETECTION_WARN:
 					log.warning(f"Username mention from u/{utils.author_name(message.author)}: {message.id} : {permalink}")
 				else:
