Q: Overwriting global application commands sad bot face

[mwpowellhtx]

I have slash commands sort of working. My registered commands are appearing in the list, and I even have the options being identified. I'm assuming I can do something like myoption 'colon' literally typing that up, and that is like saying name: value pairing. In the case where I have some options enumerated, what then, I am getting a sad bot face and "loading options failed". Is it a callback or something that I need to further somehow implement in the client service side code? If so what's the poing of actually enumerating AddOption and so forth, I'm not quite sure. So far so good I even get this far, however 👍 .

[mwpowellhtx]

So this is interesting. Only after I enter the expected value CORRECTLY does the autocomplete list appear.

Which up until that moment, getting a sad face.

The autocomplete responses are of course a TL;DR subset of what we want provided it ultimately functions correctly as expected.

How to we persuade autocomplete to receive the partially named values, and to coordinate with the set properly.

And along similar lines, just for example, what is the point of configuring the options during configuration, which the command is at least being built with name, options, etc, just not with the desired autocomplete. Here is the option, for example, in one instance.

static SlashCommandOptionBuilder GetVehicleClass() => new SlashCommandOptionBuilder()
    .WithName("class")
    .WithDescription("Class name which to locate.")
    .WithType(ApplicationCommandOptionType.String)
    .WithAutocomplete(true)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Barba, BPC_Barba)
    .AddChoice(BPC_BigRaft, BPC_BigRaft)
    .AddChoice(BPC_CityBike, BPC_CityBike)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Cruiser, BPC_Cruiser)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Dinghy, BPC_Dinghy)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Dirtbike, BPC_Dirtbike)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Kinglet_Duster, BPC_Kinglet_Duster)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Kinglet_Mariner, BPC_Kinglet_Mariner)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Laika, BPC_Laika)
    .AddChoice(BPC_MountainBike, BPC_MountainBike)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Rager, BPC_Rager)
    .AddChoice(BPC_RIS, BPC_RIS)
    .AddChoice(BPC_SidecarBike, BPC_SidecarBike)
    .AddChoice(BPC_SmallRaft, BPC_SmallRaft)
    .AddChoice(BPC_SUP, BPC_SUP)
    .AddChoice(BPC_Tractor, BPC_Tractor)
    .AddChoice(BPC_WolfsWagen, BPC_WolfsWagen);

In the other instance, based on an enumerated value.

static SlashCommandOptionBuilder GetVehicleType()
{
    var o = new SlashCommandOptionBuilder();

    o.WithName("type")
        .WithDescription("Vehicle type which to locate.")
        .WithType(ApplicationCommandOptionType.String)
        .WithAutocomplete(true);

    // Values being Passenger, Recreational, etc.
    ICollection< (string name, VehicleType value)> vehicleTypes = [];

    foreach (VehicleType vehicleType in Enum.GetValues<VehicleType>())
    {
        vehicleTypes.Add(($"{vehicleType}", vehicleType));
    }

    foreach (var (x, _) in vehicleTypes.OrderBy(x => x.name).ToArray())
    {
        o.AddChoice(x, x);
    }

    return o;
}

[mwpowellhtx]

And to the numeric range checking credit at least, that seems correct, acceptable values between 1 and 7 (kilometers).

[mwpowellhtx]

My goal there if possible is to at least auto complete based on partially named choices as auto complete does. Absent that, then if we can provide some sort of combo or drop down set of choices, that will work as well. Wondering what my options are, pardoning the pun.

[mwpowellhtx]

Of course then the other side of that issue is, in the case of the choices, what do we receive as arguments to the slash command handling? For the numeric range, that seems obvious, the value. But for the choices, will that be an index? Or the choice value itself?

[mwpowellhtx]

Another thing I am noticing, the overwrite does not seem to be overwriting anything. The PREVIOUS version of the commands are STILL there and the new set ARE NOT. Do I need to wait longer for the operation to actually complete, perhaps?

[mwpowellhtx]

Ah 💡 now I see, is ALSO necessary to sometimes refresh local client caching. I see in the server integrations, the commands ARE propogating. After refreshing the client, then I get the correct commands, INCLUDING the choices. NOICE! 👍👍👍

[Misha-133]

Discord's client cache is... well, it exists.
iirc only global commands get affected by this issue, but that's the majority of the commands. Nothing we (bot/lib devs) can do about this sadly, other than methodically doing Ctrl+R on every command update.

[mwpowellhtx]

Thanks...