#deploying slash commands properly

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ivory hill

i have a issue where my old slash commands are staying there forever, so i want to make a function that refreshes a guild, adds slash commands that dont exist, updates ones that exist, and deletes ones that dont exist in the code anymore, then ill also make a global function to refresh all guilds (which takes 1 hour, so thats why i also want a one-guild refresh one to allow for bot testing)

how do i go about making this, i already have a basic deploy commands

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sullen ore

global commands no longer take an hour to update, so recreating global commands by deploying every command as a guild command in every guild is unnecessary
using the "bulk overwrite commands" endpoint (making a PUT request to the appropriate endpoint) already creates, updates, and deletes commands all in one go, so if you followed the guide's deployment, that's all you should need

if you're observing old commands persisting beyond refreshing your discord client, then it's possible these are left over from the unnecessary guild command deployment

ivory hill

or should i keep it manual

sullen ore

that'd be completely unnecessary unless you change your commands on every launch (which you should not be doing)
it's recommended to keep it manual

ivory hill

alright

do you have some tutorial for the newest command deployment to make it easier for me or?

ill probably get some stuff wrong so tutorial would be good

sullen ore

I'm not sure what you mean by "the newest command deployment"
it hasn't changed since application commands were released, so if you already followed the guide, that's all you should need

ivory hill 
require("dotenv").config();
const { DISCORD_TOKEN: token } = process.env;
const { REST, Routes } = require("discord.js");
const { commands } = require("../models/commandSchema");

const commands_int_data = [];

for (const command of commands) {
  commands_int_data.push(command.data.toJSON());
}

const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(token);

(async () => {
  try {
    console.log(`Deploying ${commands.length} commands to guild!`)

    const data = await rest.put(
      Routes.applicationCommands(),
      { body: commands }
    );

    console.log(`Successfully refreshed ${data.length} slash commands!`)
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
})();

?

sullen ore

on the assmption you intend to put your client id in Routes.applicationCommands() at some point, sure

ivory hill

right missed that one

ivory hill
sullen ore on the assmption you intend to put your client id in `Routes.applicationCommands... 
require("dotenv").config();
const { DISCORD_TOKEN: token, CLIENT_ID: clientId } = process.env;
const { REST, Routes } = require("discord.js");
const { commands } = require(`./models/commandSchema`);

const commands_int_data = [];

for (const commandName in commands) {
  const command = commands[commandName];
  commands_int_data.push(command.int_data.toJSON());
}

console.log(commands_int_data);

const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(token);

(async () => {
  try {
    console.log(`Deploying ${commands_int_data.length} commands to guild!`);

    const data = await rest.put(Routes.applicationCommands(clientId), {
      body: commands_int_data,
    });

    console.log(`Successfully refreshed ${data.length} slash commands!`);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error(error);
  }
})();

the old slash commands are still remaining?

sullen ore
ivory hill

im not sure what to do

sullen ore

the route you used to deploy them determines whether they're guild/global
Routes.applicationCommands() is for global commands
Routes.applicationGuildCommands() is for guild commands
therefore if you're only bulk overwriting global commands, guild commands won't be deleted (and vice versa)

ivory hill

ah

do i kick my bot and add him back?

would that solve

sullen ore

I mean I suppose that would instantly remove guild commands for that guild

broken shadowBOT

If you have duplicate commands on your server, you registered both global and guild commands.

You can remove the duplicates by resetting either the global or guild commands

  • Resetting global commands: rest.put(Routes.applicationCommands(clientId), { body: [] })
  • Resetting guild commands: rest.put(Routes.applicationGuildCommands(clientId, guildId), { body: [] })
sullen ore

you could also do this

ivory hill

i have readded the bot it worked, but the new commands are not being created

no errors or nothing

sullen ore

how have you determined this?
do they entirely not appear in the integrations tab of your server's settings?
when deploying did it log Successfully refreshed n slash commands!?

ivory hill 
Successfully refreshed 1 slash commands!```
yep

let me check integrations

so there is a /balance command but its not appearing at all when typing /

sullen ore
ivory hill

yes

this time it worked upon restaritng

not the first

and i have to use task manager

could i prevent that discord has to be fully restarted

including its processes

do you recommend adding a response that the command doesnt exist, and they should restart discord with the task manager

to refresh the slash commands

it is a little annoying to test the bot aswell

sullen ore

could i prevent that discord has to be fully restarted including its processes
frankly the distinction makes me think you're unaware that you have the "Minimize to Tray" option enabled
the process is discord
it doesn't have to be restarted with the task manager, and because of electron, you can just use ctrl + r
do you recommend adding a response that the command doesnt exist, and they should restart discord with the task manager
that's entirely up to you, but discord also has some built in error messages relating to this

ivory hill

alright Ctrl + R works well enough

thanks duck