How to turn off caching

[NiJeTi]

Hello!

Is there any way to turn off or at least reset caching in slash commands?

I have a slash command that sets user limit to voice channel. It takes voice channel caller currently in, takes it's number of users and sets the limit. But because of caching the actual behavior is unpredictable. It can lock another channel where user was an hour ago or lock it to wrong number of users.

Thank you!

[bman46]

You can just delete and re-add all of the slash commands. The caching is internal to Discord and cannot be disabled.

The following code worked for me:

// Load all registered commands:
var commands = await _client.Rest.GetGlobalApplicationCommands();
// Delete all commands:
foreach(var command in commands)
{
    await command.DeleteAsync();
}
// Re-register commands:
await _interact.RegisterCommandsGloballyAsync(true);

You can view this in context in my bot's code.

[NiJeTi]

If I convert all my commands from global to per-guild local, will it fix my problem? Unfortunately, there is no information about caching in Discord docs

[bman46]

Don't convert them to guild commands. That won't scale well and could cause more issues.

[NiJeTi]

My bot is not public and only in use on 1 server, so I think scaling problems can be ignored for the moment. Will conversion fix the caching issue?

[NiJeTi]

I've tested both yours and mine solution and they did not resolve my problem

[bman46]

I can confirm that my method works as I used it myself. Did you wait an hour for the changes to process? It’s not instant.

[csmir]

You don't need to do any of this. Discord has an endpoint for application commands called BulkOverwrite. if you call client.Rest.BulkOverwriteApplicationCommands(range), ALL old commands will be replaced with the new set you're uploading.