Global commands will be sent to Discord to register only if it differs from the existing global commands from Discord's servers

discord/bot.py

@@ -214,51 +214,101 @@ async def sync_commands(self) -> None:
 
     async def register_commands(self) -> None:
         """|coro|
-
         Registers all commands that have been added through :meth:`.add_application_command`.
         This method cleans up all commands over the API and should sync them with the internal cache of commands.
-
+        This will only be rolled out to Discord if :meth:`.http.get_global_commands` has certain keys that differ from :data:`.pending_application_commands`
         By default, this coroutine is called inside the :func:`.on_connect`
         event. If you choose to override the :func:`.on_connect` event, then
         you should invoke this coroutine as well.
-
         .. versionadded:: 2.0
         """
-        commands = []
+        commands_to_bulk = []
+
+        needs_bulk = False
 
         # Global Command Permissions
         global_permissions: List = []
 
         registered_commands = await self.http.get_global_commands(self.user.id)
+        # 'Your app cannot have two global commands with the same name. Your app cannot have two guild commands within the same name on the same guild.'
+        # We can therefore safely use the name of the command in our global slash commands as a unique identifier
+        registered_commands_dict = {cmd["name"]:cmd for cmd in registered_commands}
+        global_pending_application_commands_dict = {}
+
         for command in [
             cmd for cmd in self.pending_application_commands if cmd.guild_ids is None
         ]:
             as_dict = command.to_dict()
-            if len(registered_commands) > 0:
-                matches = [
-                    x
-                    for x in registered_commands
-                    if x["name"] == command.name and x["type"] == command.type
-                ]
-                # TODO: rewrite this, it seems inefficient
-                if matches:
-                    as_dict["id"] = matches[0]["id"]
-            commands.append(as_dict)
-
-        cmds = await self.http.bulk_upsert_global_commands(self.user.id, commands)
-
-        for i in cmds:
+
+            global_pending_application_commands_dict[command.name] = as_dict
+            if command.name in registered_commands_dict:
+                match = registered_commands_dict[command.name]
+            else:
+                match = None
+            # TODO: There is probably a far more efficient way of doing this
+            # We want to check if the registered global command on Discord servers matches the given global commands
+            if match:
+                as_dict["id"] = match["id"]
+
+                keys_to_check = {"default_permission": True, "name": True, "description": True, "options": ["type", "name", "description", "autocomplete", "choices"]}
+                for key, more_keys in {
+                    key:more_keys
+                    for key, more_keys in keys_to_check.items()
+                    if key in as_dict.keys()
+                    if key in match.keys()
+                }.items():
+                    if key == "options":
+                        for i, option_dict in enumerate(as_dict[key]):
+                            if command.name == "recent":
+                                print(option_dict, "|||||", match[key][i])
+                            for key2 in more_keys:
+                                pendingVal = None
+                                if key2 in option_dict.keys():
+                                    pendingVal = option_dict[key2]
+                                    if pendingVal == False or pendingVal == []: # Registered commands are not available if choices is an empty array or if autocomplete is false
+                                        pendingVal = None
+                                matchVal = None
+                                if key2 in match[key][i].keys():
+                                    matchVal = match[key][i][key2]
+                                    if matchVal == False or matchVal == []: # Registered commands are not available if choices is an empty array or if autocomplete is false
+                                        matchVal = None
+
+                                if pendingVal != matchVal:
+                                    # When a property in the options of a pending global command is changed
+                                    needs_bulk = True
+                    else:
+                        if as_dict[key] != match[key]:
+                            # When a property in a pending global command is changed
+                            needs_bulk = True
+            else:
+                # When a name of a pending global command is not registered in Discord
+                needs_bulk = True
+
+            commands_to_bulk.append(as_dict)
+
+        for name, command in registered_commands_dict.items():
+            if not name in global_pending_application_commands_dict.keys():
+                # When a registered global command is not available in the pending global commands
+                needs_bulk = True
+
+        if needs_bulk:
+            commands = await self.http.bulk_upsert_global_commands(self.user.id, commands_to_bulk)
+        else:
+            commands = registered_commands
+
+        for i in commands:
             cmd = get(
                 self.pending_application_commands,
                 name=i["name"],
                 guild_ids=None,
                 type=i["type"],
             )
-            cmd.id = i["id"]
-            self._application_commands[cmd.id] = cmd
+            if cmd:
+                cmd.id = i["id"]
+                self._application_commands[cmd.id] = cmd
 
-            # Permissions (Roles will be converted to IDs just before Upsert for Global Commands)
-            global_permissions.append({"id": i["id"], "permissions": cmd.permissions})
+                # Permissions (Roles will be converted to IDs just before Upsert for Global Commands)
+                global_permissions.append({"id": i["id"], "permissions": cmd.permissions})
 
         update_guild_commands = {}
         async for guild in self.fetch_guilds(limit=None):
@@ -275,7 +325,7 @@ async def register_commands(self) -> None:
 
         for guild_id, guild_data in update_guild_commands.items():
             try:
-                cmds = await self.http.bulk_upsert_guild_commands(
+                commands = await self.http.bulk_upsert_guild_commands(
                     self.user.id, guild_id, update_guild_commands[guild_id]
                 )
 
@@ -287,7 +337,7 @@ async def register_commands(self) -> None:
                 print(f"Failed to add command to guild {guild_id}", file=sys.stderr)
                 raise
             else:
-                for i in cmds:
+                for i in commands:
                     cmd = find(lambda cmd: cmd.name == i["name"] and cmd.type == i["type"] and int(i["guild_id"]) in cmd.guild_ids, self.pending_application_commands)
                     cmd.id = i["id"]
                     self._application_commands[cmd.id] = cmd