Additional info

This section contains explanations of some library mechanics which may be useful to know.

App command sync

If you’re using disnake.ext.commands – Bot commands framework for application commands (slash commands, context menus) you should understand how your commands show up in Discord. By default, the library registers / updates all commands automatically. Based on the application commands defined in your code the library automatically determines which commands should be registered, edited or deleted, but there’re some edge cases you should keep in mind.

Unknown Commands

Unlike global commands, per-guild application commands are synced in a lazy fashion. This is due to Discord ratelimits, as checking all guilds for application commands is infeasible past two or three guilds. This can lead to situations where a command no longer exists in the code but still exists in a server.

To rectify this, just run the command. It will automatically be deleted.

This will also occur when IDs are removed from the test_guilds kwarg of Bot (or a similar class) or from the guild_ids kwarg of slash_command, user_command, or message_command.

Command Sync with Multiple Clusters

If your bot requires shard distribution across several clusters, you should disable command sync on all clusters except one. This will prevent conflicts and race conditions. Discord API doesn’t provide users with events related to application command updates, so it’s impossible to keep the cache of multiple machines synced. Having only 1 cluster with sync_commands set to True is enough because global registration of application commands doesn’t depend on sharding.

Why do Param and Injection-related functions return Any?

If your editor of choice supports type-checking, you may have noticed that Param(), inject(), and injection() do not have a specific return type, but at runtime these return ParamInfo and Injection respectively.

A typical example of a slash command might look like this:

@bot.slash_command(description="Replies with the given text!")
async def echo(
    inter: disnake.ApplicationCommandInteraction,
    text: str = commands.Param(description="Echo~"),
) -> None:
    await inter.response.send_message(text)

Here, you have two parameters in your command’s function: inter, an instance of disnake.ApplicationCommandInteraction, and text, which is somewhat unusual: you annotate text as str, but at the same time, assign a ParamInfo instance to it. That’s the thing. When your editor type-checks your (any library’s) code, it would normally complain if you tried to do the above, because you’re trying to assign a ParamInfo to a str - however, since the library declares Param’s return type as Any, the type-checker accepts your code, because str (and any type) is a subtype of Any.

The same thing applies to inject() and injection().