Need help making a slash command (again) but this time with with arguments

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Hello! I had a question for making a slash command with my Discord bot (Fixed, link is here: Need help making a slash command)
Now I have another question: How do I add arguments?

client = discord.Client(intents=intents)
tree = app_commands.CommandTree(client)


@tree.command(name = "initiate-all", description = "Initiate the PyGoose command g4-sAB.GXC")
async def initiate(interaction):
    commandname = "g4-sAB.GXC"
    await interaction.response.send_message(f"`initiated {commandname}.`")

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f'Using discord.py version {discord.__version__}')
    print('Logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))
    await tree.sync()

The most important part is the @tree.command, where I declare my command as I learned, but I would like to have initiate-all written as initiate followed by an optional argument (in this case, all). How do I do this?

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Specify the parameters in your command function. For example you can add an argument called option to the initiate function and give it a default value, like None or anything like that.

@tree.command(name="initiate", description="Initiate a command with an optional argument")
@app_commands.describe(option="The optional argument, can be 'all'")
async def initiate(interaction: discord.Interaction, option: str = None):
    commandname = "g4-sAB.GXC"
    if option == 'all':
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"`initiated {commandname} with option {option}.`")
    else:
        await interaction.response.send_message(f"`initiated {commandname}.`")
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Alright, got it! And can the default value be anything? And how will it show up?

Also, I get an error when I write @app_commands.initiate(), it says “describe is not a known member of module ‘discord’”, even though it works.

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Yes it can! Just remember to match the type of the parameter you’re defining.

Check to see if you are using the latest version.

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I’m on v2.3.2, but it works anyway. Also, I made a mistake. Instead of @app.commands.initiate(), it’s .describe.

Another thing, what are all the types for a discord.Interaction aside from str?

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There’s a ton of them (str, boolean, int, float, discord.user, discord.emoji, etc), you can check the docs and see what you want to use.

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And how can I make predefined choices? I can’t quite understand the docs on that topic.

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You can use the choice class (discord.app_commands.Choice), which allows you to create a list of options that the user can select from when using the command.

For example:

# Define your choices
color_choices = [
    app_commands.Choice(name="Red", value="red"),
    app_commands.Choice(name="Blue", value="blue"),
    app_commands.Choice(name="Green", value="green"),

And then

# You can use the @app_commands.choices decorator and add the parameter
@tree.command(name="choose_color", description="Choose a color")
@app_commands.choices(color=color_choices)
async def choose_color(interaction: discord.Interaction, color: app_commands.Choice[str]):
    await interaction.response.send_message(f"You chose the color {color.value}!")
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