Package net.dv8tion.jda.api

Class JDABuilder

java.lang.Object

net.dv8tion.jda.api.JDABuilder

public class JDABuilder
extends Object

Used to create new JDA instances. This is also useful for making sure all of your EventListeners are registered before JDA attempts to log in.

A single JDABuilder can be reused multiple times. Each call to build() creates a new JDA instance using the same information. This means that you can have listeners easily registered to multiple JDA instances.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
JDABuilder	addEventListeners(Object... listeners)	Adds all provided listeners to the list of listeners that will be used to populate the JDA object.
JDA	build()	Builds a new JDA instance and uses the provided token to start the login process.
static JDABuilder	create(String token, Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with the predefined token.
static JDABuilder	create(String token, GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with the predefined token.
static JDABuilder	create(Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Creates a completely empty JDABuilder with the predefined intents.
static JDABuilder	create(GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Creates a completely empty JDABuilder with the predefined intents.
static JDABuilder	createDefault(String token)	Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
static JDABuilder	createDefault(String token, Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
static JDABuilder	createDefault(String token, GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
static JDABuilder	createLight(String token)	Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
static JDABuilder	createLight(String token, Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
static JDABuilder	createLight(String token, GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
JDABuilder	disableCache(Collection<CacheFlag> flags)	Disable specific cache flags.
JDABuilder	disableCache(CacheFlag flag, CacheFlag... flags)	Disable specific cache flags.
JDABuilder	disableIntents(Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Disable the specified GatewayIntents.
JDABuilder	disableIntents(GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Disable the specified GatewayIntents.
JDABuilder	enableCache(Collection<CacheFlag> flags)	Enable specific cache flags.
JDABuilder	enableCache(CacheFlag flag, CacheFlag... flags)	Enable specific cache flags.
JDABuilder	enableIntents(Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Enable the specified GatewayIntents.
JDABuilder	enableIntents(GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Enable the specified GatewayIntents.
JDABuilder	removeEventListeners(Object... listeners)	Removes all provided listeners from the list of listeners.
JDABuilder	setActivity(Activity activity)	Sets the Activity for our session.
JDABuilder	setAudioPool(ScheduledExecutorService pool)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the audio WebSocket connection.
JDABuilder	setAudioPool(ScheduledExecutorService pool, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the audio WebSocket connection.
JDABuilder	setAudioSendFactory(IAudioSendFactory factory)	Changes the factory used to create IAudioSendSystem objects which handle the sending loop for audio packets.
JDABuilder	setAutoReconnect(boolean autoReconnect)	Sets whether or not JDA should try to reconnect if a connection-error is encountered.
JDABuilder	setBulkDeleteSplittingEnabled(boolean enabled)	If enabled, JDA will separate the bulk delete event into individual delete events, but this isn't as efficient as handling a single event would be.
JDABuilder	setCallbackPool(ExecutorService executor)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA callback handler which mostly consists of RestAction callbacks.
JDABuilder	setCallbackPool(ExecutorService executor, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA callback handler which mostly consists of RestAction callbacks.
JDABuilder	setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter filter)	The ChunkingFilter to filter which guilds should use member chunking.
JDABuilder	setCompression(Compression compression)	Sets the compression algorithm used with the gateway connection, this will decrease the amount of used bandwidth for the running bot instance for the cost of a few extra cycles for decompression.
JDABuilder	setContextEnabled(boolean enable)	Whether JDA should use a synchronized MDC context for all of its controlled threads.
JDABuilder	setContextMap(ConcurrentMap<String,String> map)	Sets the MDC mappings to use in JDA.
JDABuilder	setDisabledIntents(Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Configures which events will be disabled.
JDABuilder	setDisabledIntents(GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Configures which events will be disabled.
JDABuilder	setEnabledIntents(Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)	Configures which events will be enabled.
JDABuilder	setEnabledIntents(GatewayIntent intent, GatewayIntent... intents)	Configures which events will be enabled.
JDABuilder	setEnableShutdownHook(boolean enable)	Enables/Disables the use of a Shutdown hook to clean up JDA.
JDABuilder	setEventManager(IEventManager manager)	Changes the internally used EventManager.
JDABuilder	setEventPassthrough(boolean enable)	Whether JDA should store the raw DataObject for every discord event, accessible through getRawData().
JDABuilder	setEventPool(ExecutorService executor)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used by the event proxy to schedule events.
JDABuilder	setEventPool(ExecutorService executor, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used by the event proxy to schedule events.
JDABuilder	setGatewayEncoding(GatewayEncoding encoding)	Choose which GatewayEncoding JDA should use.
JDABuilder	setGatewayPool(ScheduledExecutorService pool)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the main WebSocket connection for workers.
JDABuilder	setGatewayPool(ScheduledExecutorService pool, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the main WebSocket connection for workers.
JDABuilder	setHttpClient(okhttp3.OkHttpClient client)	Sets the OkHttpClient that will be used by JDAs requester.
JDABuilder	setHttpClientBuilder(okhttp3.OkHttpClient.Builder builder)	Sets the Builder that will be used by JDAs requester.
JDABuilder	setIdle(boolean idle)	Sets whether or not we should mark our session as afk This value can be changed at any time in the Presence from a JDA instance.
JDABuilder	setLargeThreshold(int threshold)	Decides the total number of members at which a guild should start to use lazy loading.
JDABuilder	setMaxBufferSize(int bufferSize)	The maximum size, in bytes, of the buffer used for decompressing discord payloads.
JDABuilder	setMaxReconnectDelay(int maxReconnectDelay)	Sets the maximum amount of time that JDA will back off to wait when attempting to reconnect the MainWebsocket.
JDABuilder	setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy policy)	Configure the member caching policy.
JDABuilder	setRateLimitElastic(ExecutorService pool)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA request handler.
JDABuilder	setRateLimitElastic(ExecutorService pool, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA request handler.
JDABuilder	setRateLimitScheduler(ScheduledExecutorService pool)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService that should be used in the JDA rate-limit handler.
JDABuilder	setRateLimitScheduler(ScheduledExecutorService pool, boolean automaticShutdown)	Sets the ScheduledExecutorService that should be used in the JDA rate-limit handler.
JDABuilder	setRawEventsEnabled(boolean enable)	Whether JDA should fire RawGatewayEvent for every discord event.
JDABuilder	setRequestTimeoutRetry(boolean retryOnTimeout)	Whether the Requester should retry when a SocketTimeoutException occurs.
JDABuilder	setRestConfig(RestConfig config)	Custom RestConfig to use for this JDA instance.
JDABuilder	setSessionController(SessionController controller)	Sets the SessionController for this JDABuilder instance.
JDABuilder	setStatus(OnlineStatus status)	Sets the OnlineStatus our connection will display.
JDABuilder	setToken(String token)	Sets the token that will be used by the JDA instance to log in when build() is called.
JDABuilder	setVoiceDispatchInterceptor(VoiceDispatchInterceptor interceptor)	Configures a custom voice dispatch handler which handles audio connections.
JDABuilder	setWebsocketFactory(WebSocketFactory factory)	Sets the WebSocketFactory that will be used by JDA's websocket client.
JDABuilder	useSharding(int shardId, int shardTotal)	This will enable sharding mode for JDA.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

createDefault

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createDefault(@Nullable
 String token)

Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.DEFAULT
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• setEnabledIntents(Collection) is set to GatewayIntent.DEFAULT
• This disables CacheFlag.ACTIVITY and CacheFlag.CLIENT_STATUS

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

See Also:

• disableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)
• enableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)

createDefault

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createDefault(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.DEFAULT
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• This disables CacheFlag.ACTIVITY and CacheFlag.CLIENT_STATUS

You can omit intents in this method to use GatewayIntent.DEFAULT and enable additional intents with enableIntents(Collection).

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intent - The intent to enable

intents - Any other intents to enable

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null intents

createDefault

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createDefault(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with recommended default settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.DEFAULT
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• This disables CacheFlag.ACTIVITY and CacheFlag.CLIENT_STATUS

You can omit intents in this method to use GatewayIntent.DEFAULT and enable additional intents with enableIntents(Collection).

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intents - The intents to enable

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null intents

createLight

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createLight(@Nullable
 String token)

Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setEnabledIntents(Collection) is set to GatewayIntent.DEFAULT
• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.NONE
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• This disables all existing CacheFlags

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

See Also:

• disableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)
• enableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)

createLight

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createLight(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.NONE
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• This disables all existing CacheFlags

You can omit intents in this method to use GatewayIntent.DEFAULT and enable additional intents with enableIntents(Collection).

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intent - The first intent to use

intents - The other gateway intents to use

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

createLight

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder createLight(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with low memory profile settings.
Note that these defaults can potentially change in the future.

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) is set to MemberCachePolicy.NONE
• setChunkingFilter(ChunkingFilter) is set to ChunkingFilter.NONE
• This disables all existing CacheFlags

You can omit intents in this method to use GatewayIntent.DEFAULT and enable additional intents with enableIntents(Collection).

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intents - The gateway intents to use

Returns:

The new JDABuilder

create

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder create(@Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Creates a completely empty JDABuilder with the predefined intents.
You can use JDABuilder.create(EnumSet.noneOf(GatewayIntent.class)) to disable all intents.
If you use this, you need to set the token using setToken(String) before calling build()

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

intent - The first intent

intents - The gateway intents to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided intents are null

See Also:

• setToken(String)

create

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder create(@Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Creates a completely empty JDABuilder with the predefined intents.
If you use this, you need to set the token using setToken(String) before calling build()

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

intents - The gateway intents to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided intents are null

See Also:

• setToken(String)

create

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder create(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with the predefined token.
You can use JDABuilder.create(token, EnumSet.noneOf(GatewayIntent.class)) to disable all intents.

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intent - The first gateway intent to use

intents - Additional gateway intents to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided intents are null

See Also:

• setToken(String)

create

@Nonnull
@CheckReturnValue
public static JDABuilder create(@Nullable
 String token,
 @Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Creates a JDABuilder with the predefined token.

If you don't enable certain intents, the cache will be disabled. For instance, if the GUILD_MEMBERS intent is disabled, then members will only be cached when a voice state is available. If both GUILD_MEMBERS and GUILD_VOICE_STATES are disabled then no members will be cached.

The individual CacheFlags will also be disabled if the required intent is not enabled.

Parameters:

token - The bot token to use

intents - The gateway intents to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided intents are null

See Also:

• setToken(String)

setGatewayEncoding

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setGatewayEncoding(@Nonnull
 GatewayEncoding encoding)

Choose which GatewayEncoding JDA should use.

Parameters:

encoding - The GatewayEncoding (default: JSON)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If null is provided

Since:

4.2.1

setRawEventsEnabled

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRawEventsEnabled(boolean enable)

Whether JDA should fire RawGatewayEvent for every discord event.
Default: false

Parameters:

enable - True, if JDA should fire RawGatewayEvent.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.0.0

setEventPassthrough

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEventPassthrough(boolean enable)

Whether JDA should store the raw DataObject for every discord event, accessible through getRawData().
You can expect to receive the full gateway message payload, including sequence, event name and dispatch type of the events
You can read more about payloads here and the different events here.
Warning: be aware that enabling this could consume a lot of memory if your event objects have a long lifetime.
Default: false

Parameters:

enable - True, if JDA should add the raw DataObject to every discord event.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• Event.getRawData()

setRestConfig

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRestConfig(@Nonnull
 RestConfig config)

Custom RestConfig to use for this JDA instance.
This can be used to customize how rate-limits are handled and configure a custom http proxy.

Parameters:

config - The RestConfig to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If null is provided

enableCache

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder enableCache(@Nonnull
 Collection<CacheFlag> flags)

Enable specific cache flags.
This will not disable any currently set cache flags.

Parameters:

flags - The CacheFlags to enable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• enableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...)
• disableCache(Collection)

enableCache

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder enableCache(@Nonnull
 CacheFlag flag,
 @Nonnull
 CacheFlag... flags)

Enable specific cache flags.
This will not disable any currently set cache flags.

Parameters:

flag - CacheFlag to enable

flags - Other flags to enable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• enableCache(Collection)
• disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...)

disableCache

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder disableCache(@Nonnull
 Collection<CacheFlag> flags)

Disable specific cache flags.
This will not enable any currently unset cache flags.

Parameters:

flags - The CacheFlags to disable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...)
• enableCache(Collection)

disableCache

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder disableCache(@Nonnull
 CacheFlag flag,
 @Nonnull
 CacheFlag... flags)

Disable specific cache flags.
This will not enable any currently unset cache flags.

Parameters:

flag - CacheFlag to disable

flags - Other flags to disable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• disableCache(Collection)
• enableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...)

setMemberCachePolicy

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setMemberCachePolicy(@Nullable
 MemberCachePolicy policy)

Configure the member caching policy. This will decide whether to cache a member (and its respective user).
All members are cached by default. If a guild is enabled for chunking, all members will be cached for it.

You can use this to define a custom caching policy that will greatly improve memory usage.

It is not recommended to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS when using MemberCachePolicy.ALL as the members cannot be removed from cache by a leave event without this intent.

Example

 public void configureCache(JDABuilder builder) {
     // Cache members who are in a voice channel
     MemberCachePolicy policy = MemberCachePolicy.VOICE;
     // Cache members who are in a voice channel
     // AND are also online
     policy = policy.and(MemberCachePolicy.ONLINE);
     // Cache members who are in a voice channel
     // AND are also online
     // OR are the owner of the guild
     policy = policy.or(MemberCachePolicy.OWNER);

     builder.setMemberCachePolicy(policy);
 }
 

Parameters:

policy - The MemberCachePolicy or null to use default MemberCachePolicy.ALL

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.0

See Also:

• MemberCachePolicy
• setEnabledIntents(Collection)

setContextMap

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setContextMap(@Nullable
 ConcurrentMap<String,String> map)

Sets the MDC mappings to use in JDA.
If sharding is enabled JDA will automatically add a jda.shard context with the format [SHARD_ID / TOTAL] where SHARD_ID and TOTAL are the shard configuration. Additionally it will provide context for the id via jda.shard.id and the total via jda.shard.total.

If provided with non-null map this automatically enables MDC context using setContextEnable(true)!

Parameters:

map - The modifiable context map to use in JDA, or null to reset

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• MDC Javadoc
• setContextEnabled(boolean)

setContextEnabled

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setContextEnabled(boolean enable)

Whether JDA should use a synchronized MDC context for all of its controlled threads.
Default: true

Parameters:

enable - True, if JDA should provide an MDC context map

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• MDC Javadoc
• setContextMap(java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap)

setCompression

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setCompression(@Nonnull
 Compression compression)

Sets the compression algorithm used with the gateway connection, this will decrease the amount of used bandwidth for the running bot instance for the cost of a few extra cycles for decompression. Compression can be entirely disabled by setting this to Compression.NONE.
Default: Compression.ZLIB

We recommend to keep this on the default unless you have issues with the decompression.
This mode might become obligatory in a future version, do not rely on this switch to stay.

Parameters:

compression - The compression algorithm to use with the gateway connection

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• Official Discord Documentation - Transport Compression

setRequestTimeoutRetry

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRequestTimeoutRetry(boolean retryOnTimeout)

Whether the Requester should retry when a SocketTimeoutException occurs.
Default: true

This value can be changed at any time with JDA.setRequestTimeoutRetry(boolean)!

Parameters:

retryOnTimeout - True, if the Request should retry once on a socket timeout

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setToken

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setToken(@Nullable
 String token)

Sets the token that will be used by the JDA instance to log in when build() is called.

To get a bot token:

1. Go to your Discord Applications
2. Create or select an already existing application
3. Verify that it has already been turned into a Bot. If you see the "Create a Bot User" button, click it.
4. Click the click to reveal link beside the Token label to show your Bot's token

Parameters:

token - The token of the account that you would like to login with.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setHttpClientBuilder

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setHttpClientBuilder(@Nullable
 okhttp3.OkHttpClient.Builder builder)

Sets the Builder that will be used by JDAs requester.
This can be used to set things such as connection timeout and proxy.

Parameters:

builder - The new Builder to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setHttpClient

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setHttpClient(@Nullable
 okhttp3.OkHttpClient client)

Sets the OkHttpClient that will be used by JDAs requester.
This can be used to set things such as connection timeout and proxy.

Parameters:

client - The new OkHttpClient to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setWebsocketFactory

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setWebsocketFactory(@Nullable
 WebSocketFactory factory)

Sets the WebSocketFactory that will be used by JDA's websocket client. This can be used to set things such as connection timeout and proxy.

Parameters:

factory - The new WebSocketFactory to use.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setRateLimitScheduler

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRateLimitScheduler(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService that should be used in the JDA rate-limit handler. Changing this can drastically change the JDA behavior for RestAction execution and should be handled carefully. Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.
This automatically disables the automatic shutdown of the rate-limit pool, you can enable it using setRateLimitScheduler(executor, true)

This is used mostly by the Rate-Limiter to handle backoff delays by using scheduled executions. Besides that it is also used by planned execution for RestAction.queueAfter(long, TimeUnit) and similar methods. Requests are handed off to the elastic pool for blocking execution.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 2 threads.

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for rate-limit handling

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setRateLimitScheduler

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRateLimitScheduler(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService that should be used in the JDA rate-limit handler. Changing this can drastically change the JDA behavior for RestAction execution and should be handled carefully. Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

This is used mostly by the Rate-Limiter to handle backoff delays by using scheduled executions. Besides that it is also used by planned execution for RestAction.queueAfter(long, TimeUnit) and similar methods. Requests are handed off to the elastic pool for blocking execution.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 2 threads.

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for rate-limit handling

automaticShutdown - Whether JDA.shutdown() should shutdown this pool

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setRateLimitElastic

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRateLimitElastic(@Nullable
 ExecutorService pool)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA request handler. Changing this can drastically change the JDA behavior for RestAction execution and should be handled carefully. Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.
This automatically disables the automatic shutdown of the rate-limit elastic pool, you can enable it using setRateLimitElastic(executor, true)

This is used mostly by the Rate-Limiter to execute the blocking HTTP requests at runtime.

Default: Executors.newCachedThreadPool().

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for executing http requests

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setRateLimitElastic

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setRateLimitElastic(@Nullable
 ExecutorService pool,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA request handler. Changing this can drastically change the JDA behavior for RestAction execution and should be handled carefully. Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

This is used mostly by the Rate-Limiter to execute the blocking HTTP requests at runtime.

Default: Executors.newCachedThreadPool().

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for executing http requests

automaticShutdown - Whether JDA.shutdown() should shutdown this pool

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setGatewayPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setGatewayPool(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the main WebSocket connection for workers. These workers spend most of their lifetime sleeping because they only activate for sending messages over the gateway.
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.
This automatically disables the automatic shutdown of the main-ws pool, you can enable it using setGatewayPool(pool, true)

This is used to send various forms of session updates such as:

• Voice States - (Dis-)Connecting from channels
• Presence - Changing current activity or online status
• Guild Setup - Requesting Members of newly joined guilds
• Heartbeats - Regular updates to keep the connection alive (usually once a minute)

When nothing has to be sent the pool will only be used every 500 milliseconds to check the queue for new payloads. Once a new payload is sent we switch to "rapid mode" which means more tasks will be submitted until no more payloads have to be sent.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 1 thread

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for WebSocket workers

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setGatewayPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setGatewayPool(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the main WebSocket connection for workers. These workers spend most of their lifetime sleeping because they only activate for sending messages over the gateway.
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

This is used to send various forms of session updates such as:

• Voice States - (Dis-)Connecting from channels
• Presence - Changing current activity or online status
• Guild Setup - Requesting Members of newly joined guilds
• Heartbeats - Regular updates to keep the connection alive (usually once a minute)

When nothing has to be sent the pool will only be used every 500 milliseconds to check the queue for new payloads. Once a new payload is sent we switch to "rapid mode" which means more tasks will be submitted until no more payloads have to be sent.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 1 thread

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for WebSocket workers

automaticShutdown - Whether JDA.shutdown() should shutdown this pool

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setCallbackPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setCallbackPool(@Nullable
 ExecutorService executor)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA callback handler which mostly consists of RestAction callbacks. By default JDA will use ForkJoinPool.commonPool()
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.
This automatically disables the automatic shutdown of the callback pool, you can enable it using setCallbackPool(executor, true)

This is used to handle callbacks of RestAction.queue(), similarly it is used to finish RestAction.submit() and RestAction.complete() tasks which build on queue.

Default: ForkJoinPool.commonPool()

Parameters:

executor - The thread-pool to use for callback handling

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setCallbackPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setCallbackPool(@Nullable
 ExecutorService executor,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used in the JDA callback handler which mostly consists of RestAction callbacks. By default JDA will use ForkJoinPool.commonPool()
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

This is used to handle callbacks of RestAction.queue(), similarly it is used to finish RestAction.submit() and RestAction.complete() tasks which build on queue.

Default: ForkJoinPool.commonPool()

Parameters:

executor - The thread-pool to use for callback handling

automaticShutdown - Whether JDA.shutdown() should shutdown this executor

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setEventPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEventPool(@Nullable
 ExecutorService executor)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used by the event proxy to schedule events. This will be done on the calling thread by default.

The executor will not be shutdown automatically when JDA is shutdown. To shut it down automatically use setEventPool(ExecutorService, boolean).

Parameters:

executor - The executor for the event proxy, or null to use calling thread

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.0

setEventPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEventPool(@Nullable
 ExecutorService executor,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ExecutorService that should be used by the event proxy to schedule events. This will be done on the calling thread by default.

Parameters:

executor - The executor for the event proxy, or null to use calling thread

automaticShutdown - True, if the executor should be shutdown when JDA shuts down

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.0

setAudioPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setAudioPool(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the audio WebSocket connection. Used for sending keepalives and closing the connection.
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 1 thread

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for the audio WebSocket

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.1

setAudioPool

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setAudioPool(@Nullable
 ScheduledExecutorService pool,
 boolean automaticShutdown)

Sets the ScheduledExecutorService used by the audio WebSocket connection. Used for sending keepalives and closing the connection.
Only change this pool if you know what you're doing.

Default: ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor with 1 thread

Parameters:

pool - The thread-pool to use for the audio WebSocket

automaticShutdown - Whether JDA.shutdown() should shutdown this pool

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.1

setBulkDeleteSplittingEnabled

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setBulkDeleteSplittingEnabled(boolean enabled)

If enabled, JDA will separate the bulk delete event into individual delete events, but this isn't as efficient as handling a single event would be. It is recommended that BulkDelete Splitting be disabled and that the developer should instead handle the MessageBulkDeleteEvent

Default: true (enabled)

Parameters:

enabled - True - The MESSAGE_DELETE_BULK will be split into multiple individual MessageDeleteEvents.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setEnableShutdownHook

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEnableShutdownHook(boolean enable)

Enables/Disables the use of a Shutdown hook to clean up JDA.
When the Java program closes shutdown hooks are run. This is used as a last-second cleanup attempt by JDA to properly close connections.

Default: true (enabled)

Parameters:

enable - True (default) - use shutdown hook to clean up JDA if the Java program is closed.

Returns:

Return the JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setAutoReconnect

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setAutoReconnect(boolean autoReconnect)

Sets whether or not JDA should try to reconnect if a connection-error is encountered.
This will use an incremental reconnect (timeouts are increased each time an attempt fails).

Default: true (enabled)

Parameters:

autoReconnect - If true - enables autoReconnect

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setEventManager

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEventManager(@Nullable
 IEventManager manager)

Changes the internally used EventManager.
There are 2 provided Implementations:

• InterfacedEventManager which uses the Interface EventListener (tip: use the ListenerAdapter).
  This is the default EventManager.
• AnnotatedEventManager which uses the Annotation @SubscribeEvent to mark the methods that listen for events.

You can also create your own EventManager (See IEventManager).

Parameters:

manager - The new IEventManager to use.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setAudioSendFactory

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setAudioSendFactory(@Nullable
 IAudioSendFactory factory)

Changes the factory used to create IAudioSendSystem objects which handle the sending loop for audio packets.
By default, JDA uses DefaultSendFactory.

Parameters:

factory - The new IAudioSendFactory to be used when creating new IAudioSendSystem objects.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

setIdle

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setIdle(boolean idle)

Sets whether or not we should mark our session as afk
This value can be changed at any time in the Presence from a JDA instance.

Parameters:

idle - boolean value that will be provided with our IDENTIFY package to mark our session as afk or not. (default false)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• Presence.setIdle(boolean)

setActivity

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setActivity(@Nullable
 Activity activity)

Sets the Activity for our session.
This value can be changed at any time in the Presence from a JDA instance.

Hint: You can create an Activity object using Activity.playing(String) or Activity.streaming(String, String).

Parameters:

activity - An instance of Activity (null allowed)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• Presence.setActivity(Activity)

setStatus

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setStatus(@Nonnull
 OnlineStatus status)

Sets the OnlineStatus our connection will display.
This value can be changed at any time in the Presence from a JDA instance.

Parameters:

status - Not-null OnlineStatus (default online)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the provided OnlineStatus is null or UNKNOWN

See Also:

• Presence.setStatus(OnlineStatus)

addEventListeners

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder addEventListeners(@Nonnull
 Object... listeners)

Adds all provided listeners to the list of listeners that will be used to populate the JDA object.
This uses the InterfacedEventListener by default.
To switch to the AnnotatedEventManager, use setEventManager(new AnnotatedEventManager()).

Note: When using the InterfacedEventListener (default), given listener(s) must be instance of EventListener!

Parameters:

listeners - The listener(s) to add to the list.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If either listeners or one of it's objects is null.

See Also:

• JDA.addEventListener(Object...)

removeEventListeners

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder removeEventListeners(@Nonnull
 Object... listeners)

Removes all provided listeners from the list of listeners.

Parameters:

listeners - The listener(s) to remove from the list.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If either listeners or one of it's objects is null.

See Also:

• JDA.removeEventListener(Object...)

setMaxReconnectDelay

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setMaxReconnectDelay(int maxReconnectDelay)

Sets the maximum amount of time that JDA will back off to wait when attempting to reconnect the MainWebsocket.
Provided value must be 32 or greater.

Default: 900

Parameters:

maxReconnectDelay - The maximum amount of time that JDA will wait between reconnect attempts in seconds.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - Thrown if the provided maxReconnectDelay is less than 32.

useSharding

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder useSharding(int shardId,
 int shardTotal)

This will enable sharding mode for JDA.
In sharding mode, guilds are split up and assigned one of multiple shards (clients).
The shardId that receives all stuff related to given bot is calculated as follows: shardId == (guildId >> 22) % shardTotal;
PMs are only sent to shard 0.

Please note, that a shard will not know about guilds which are not assigned to it.

Parameters:

shardId - The id of this shard (starting at 0).

shardTotal - The number of overall shards.

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided shard configuration is invalid (0 <= shardId < shardTotal with shardTotal > 0)

See Also:

• JDA.getShardInfo()
• ShardManager

setSessionController

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setSessionController(@Nullable
 SessionController controller)

Sets the SessionController for this JDABuilder instance. This can be used to sync behaviour and state between shards of a bot and should be one and the same instance on all builders for the shards.
When useSharding(int, int) is enabled, this is set by default.

When set, this allows the builder to build shards with respect to the login ratelimit automatically.

Parameters:

controller - The SessionController to use

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

See Also:

• SessionControllerAdapter

setVoiceDispatchInterceptor

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setVoiceDispatchInterceptor(@Nullable
 VoiceDispatchInterceptor interceptor)

Configures a custom voice dispatch handler which handles audio connections.

Parameters:

interceptor - The new voice dispatch handler, or null to use the default

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.0.0

See Also:

• VoiceDispatchInterceptor

setChunkingFilter

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setChunkingFilter(@Nullable
 ChunkingFilter filter)

The ChunkingFilter to filter which guilds should use member chunking.

Use setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy) to configure which members to keep in cache from chunking.

Parameters:

filter - The filter to apply

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.1.0

See Also:

• ChunkingFilter.NONE
• ChunkingFilter.include(long...)
• ChunkingFilter.exclude(long...)

setDisabledIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setDisabledIntents(@Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Configures which events will be disabled. Bots which did not enable presence/member updates in the developer dashboard are required to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_PRESENCES and GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS!

It is not recommended to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS when using MemberCachePolicy.ALL as the members cannot be removed from cache by a leave event without this intent.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intent - The first intent to disable

intents - Any other intents to disable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If null is provided

Since:

4.2.0

See Also:

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy)

setDisabledIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setDisabledIntents(@Nullable
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Configures which events will be disabled. Bots which did not enable presence/member updates in the developer dashboard are required to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_PRESENCES and GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS!

It is not recommended to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS when using MemberCachePolicy.ALL as the members cannot be removed from cache by a leave event without this intent.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intents - The intents to disable (default: none)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.0

See Also:

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy)

disableIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder disableIntents(@Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Disable the specified GatewayIntents.
This will not enable any currently unset intents.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intents - The intents to disable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• enableIntents(Collection)

disableIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder disableIntents(@Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Disable the specified GatewayIntents.
This will not enable any currently unset intents.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intent - The intent to disable

intents - Other intents to disable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• enableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)

setEnabledIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEnabledIntents(@Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Configures which events will be enabled. Bots which did not enable presence/member updates in the developer dashboard are required to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_PRESENCES and GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS!

It is not recommended to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS when using MemberCachePolicy.ALL as the members cannot be removed from cache by a leave event without this intent.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intent - The intent to enable

intents - Any other intents to enable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If null is provided

Since:

4.2.0

See Also:

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy)

setEnabledIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setEnabledIntents(@Nullable
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Configures which events will be enabled. Bots which did not enable presence/member updates in the developer dashboard are required to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_PRESENCES and GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS!

It is not recommended to disable GatewayIntent.GUILD_MEMBERS when using MemberCachePolicy.ALL as the members cannot be removed from cache by a leave event without this intent.

If you disable certain intents you also have to disable related CacheFlags. This can be achieved using disableCache(CacheFlag, CacheFlag...). The required intents for each flag are documented in the CacheFlag enum.

Parameters:

intents - The intents to enable (default: all)

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.2.0

See Also:

• setMemberCachePolicy(MemberCachePolicy)

enableIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder enableIntents(@Nonnull
 Collection<GatewayIntent> intents)

Enable the specified GatewayIntents.
This will not disable any currently set intents.

Parameters:

intents - The intents to enable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• disableIntents(Collection)

enableIntents

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder enableIntents(@Nonnull
 GatewayIntent intent,
 @Nonnull
 GatewayIntent... intents)

Enable the specified GatewayIntents.
This will not disable any currently set intents.

Parameters:

intent - The intent to enable

intents - Other intents to enable

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If provided with null

See Also:

• enableIntents(GatewayIntent, GatewayIntent...)

setLargeThreshold

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setLargeThreshold(int threshold)

Decides the total number of members at which a guild should start to use lazy loading.
This is limited to a number between 50 and 250 (inclusive). If the chunking filter is set to ChunkingFilter.ALL this should be set to 250 (default) to minimize the amount of guilds that need to request members.

Parameters:

threshold - The threshold in [50, 250]

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Since:

4.1.0

setMaxBufferSize

@Nonnull
public JDABuilder setMaxBufferSize(int bufferSize)

The maximum size, in bytes, of the buffer used for decompressing discord payloads.
If the maximum buffer size is exceeded a new buffer will be allocated instead.
Setting this to Integer.MAX_VALUE would imply the buffer will never be resized unless memory starvation is imminent.
Setting this to 0 would imply the buffer would need to be allocated again for every payload (not recommended).

Default: 2048

Parameters:

bufferSize - The maximum size the buffer should allow to retain

Returns:

The JDABuilder instance. Useful for chaining.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided buffer size is negative

build

@Nonnull
public JDA build()

Builds a new JDA instance and uses the provided token to start the login process.
The login process runs in a different thread, so while this will return immediately, JDA has not finished loading, thus many JDA methods have the chance to return incorrect information. For example JDA.getGuilds() might return an empty list or JDA.getUserById(long) might return null for arbitrary user IDs.

If you wish to be sure that the JDA information is correct, please use JDA.awaitReady() or register an EventListener to listen for the ReadyEvent.

Returns:

A JDA instance that has started the login process. It is unknown as to whether or not loading has finished when this returns.

Throws:

InvalidTokenException - If the provided token is invalid.

IllegalArgumentException - If the provided token is empty or null. Or the provided intents/cache configuration is not possible.

See Also:

• JDA.awaitReady()