Support slash commands

[multimeric]

Discord recently added "slash commands", which is a platform-supported method of defining bot commands, subcommands and arguments. It gives features like command completion, a better UI and discoverability for commands: https://discord.com/developers/docs/interactions/slash-commands.

I think this would be a great feature for judgebot. I'm happy to implement this once I get time. Currently this isn't natively supported by discord.js, so it's probably not worth starting until this PR is merged: discordjs/discord.js#5106 discordjs/discord.js#5448.

[thetayloredman]

One thing: you are limited to 50 guild commands and 50 global commands.

[multimeric]

Why is this a problem? Judgebot has like 14 commands as is. If it ever grows to beyond 50 I think that subcommands could be used to shrink this number.

[thetayloredman]

Ah, okay

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On Dec 16, 2020, 8:16 PM -0800, Michael Milton ***@***.***>, wrote: Why is this a problem? Judgebot has like 14 commands as is. If it ever grows to beyond 50 I think that subcommands could be used to shrink this number. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[bra1n]

Ooh, nice feature! Thanks for the heads-up, when they finish the linked PR I think it could be used for judgebot. However, it looks like it would need a lot of rewriting and at least the webhook approach won't work with Emoji reactions, if I'm not mistaken. So we'll have to see how an "INTERACTION_CREATE" gateway event will be handled by Discord.JS.

[multimeric]

I think the bot can respond to the interaction with a regular message sent to the channel, at which point you can listen for reactions in the normal way. So I don't think this will be a huge issue.

[bra1n]

Let's hope that's going to be the case. :-)

[thetayloredman]

It appears so.

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On Dec 18, 2020, 6:30 AM -0800, Steffen ***@***.***>, wrote: Let's hope that's going to be the case. :-) — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.

[multimeric]

Okay slash commands are now enabled since discord.js 13.0.0 on August 6. So this feature is unblocked.

[multimeric]

Closed by #159.