Changing role permissions

[DannyBen]

Hello - hoping someone else is here,

I have browsed through the wiki and through the code and its docs - but still unsure what is the best way to do what I want.

I have created a simple CommandBot and all I want it to do is to add/remove one or two permissions from a role. In particular, I am trying to create a '!lockdowncommand where it just removes the ability to send messages from myMember` role.

I found CommandBot#set_role_permission but unsure it this is the correct place, and if so, what are the required arguments.

Ideally, I was hoping for some syntax close to bot.roles['Member'].permissions[:send_message] = false

[swarley]

Unfortunately the syntax you're describing isn't really how discord works. To achieve what you want you would likely need to remove all of a user's roles assuming your everyone role doesn't have send messages, or you would need to ensure they don't have any overrides with explicit send messages and apply a role that has an explicit deny send messages override on all channels. Alternatively I recently merged timeout support which is the path given by discord to handle things natively.

[swarley]

Apologies, I confused myself reading the member as a member and not a role. Yes, there is a way to set role permissions with a DSL. I'll get a snippet to you shortly

[DannyBen]

Even without a DSL - I just hoped it is not something that I need to get role ID first, and then calculate bitwise operations.

[DannyBen]

I found out how to do it - not sure it is the shortest way, but it seems to be working ok.

bot.command(:lock) do |event|
  break unless event.user.id == user_id
  member = event.server.roles.find { |a| a.name == 'Member' }
  member.permissions.can_send_messages = false
end

[swarley]

Really sorry about that, got caught up in some errands. I would say that's the most efficient way, except that I would recommend using an ID lookup for your roles whenever possible given that names can change. i.e.

event.server.role(553953362522144799).permissions.can_send_messages = false

If for some reason ID lookup is unfeasible for your use case then the code you have is fine

[DannyBen]

Thank you, I will use the ID.

[swarley]

For answer purposes see #115 (reply in thread)

I found out how to do it - not sure it is the shortest way, but it seems to be working ok.

bot.command(:lock) do |event|
  break unless event.user.id == user_id
  member = event.server.roles.find { |a| a.name == 'Member' }
  member.permissions.can_send_messages = false
end