unicode emoji as slash command argument

[BKSalman]

Hello!

I'm trying to make a slash command (using poise) that would take any kind of emoji and later use a reaction, even tho there is Emoji that I can just add to the command arguments, unicode emojis like :smiling_face_with_tear: (:smiling_face_with_tear:) can't be parsed with that,

how can I also include unicode emojis in the command?

and would it make sense to also support that case in serenity directly?

[BKSalman]

I ended up using emojis crate just to check if the thing passed in was actually a unicode emoji, then if it's not, try to parse it with the convert function on Emoji, if that also fails, then I just return the error

pub async fn some_command(
    ctx: Context<'_>,
    msg: serenity::Message,
    emoji: String,
) -> Result<(), Error> {
    match emojis::get(&emoji) {
        Some(_unicode_emoji) => {
            msg.react(ctx, ReactionType::Unicode(emoji.clone())).await?;
        }
        None => {
            let emoji = Emoji::convert(
                &ctx.serenity_context(),
                ctx.guild_id(),
                Some(ctx.channel_id()),
                &emoji,
            )
            .await?;
            msg.react(
                ctx,
                ReactionType::Custom {
                    animated: emoji.animated,
                    id: emoji.id,
                    name: Some(emoji.name),
                },
            )
            .await?;
        }
    }
...

if there is a better way to do this, please do tell :)!