Preload Discord Roles

[kousu]

Once #395 is merged, expand it by adding a "Load Discord Roles" button to the UI.

Discord will not hand out Discord roles through the API except to guild members, so this will have to trigger a download.

Once that's done, replace the free form text field on the left here

with a <select> that lists the Discord roles by name.

(remember that Discord roles can change name at any time, so internally, continue to use role IDs)

[pktiuk]

That's a pretty good idea.
Checking role ID-s is a bit tedious

[pktiuk]

I wanted to try to implement this feature, but tbh I am way too bad ad PHP to deal with this.

Changing frontend part is really simple.

My Vue code

diff --git a/src/components/settings/GroupMapping.vue b/src/components/settings/GroupMapping.vue
index 9f14d1d..6fae07b 100644
--- a/src/components/settings/GroupMapping.vue
+++ b/src/components/settings/GroupMapping.vue
@@ -3,7 +3,18 @@
     {{ t(appName, 'Add group mapping') }}
   </button>
   <div v-for="(mapping, mappingIdx) in groupMapping" :key="mapping">
+  <!-- Only for discord checklist with names-->
+  <template v-if="appName === 'discord'">
+    <select class="foreign-group" v-model="mapping.foreign">
+      <option v-for="(name, id) in getGroupsForDiscord()" :key="id" :value="id">
+        {{ name }}
+      </option>
+    </select>
+  <!-- else -->
+  </template>
+  <template v-else>
     <input type="text" class="foreign-group" v-model="mapping.foreign" />
+  </template>
     <select class="local-group" :name="mapping.foreign ? inputNamePrefix + '['+mapping.foreign+']' : ''">
       <option v-for="group in groups" :key="group" :value="group" :selected="mapping.local === group">
         {{ group }}
@@ -17,6 +28,12 @@
 export default {
   props: ['groups', 'groupMapping', 'inputNamePrefix']
 }
+
+// Function to get names and IDs of all groups_for_discord as dictionary
+function getGroupsForDiscord() {
+  return {131232:"Role1"};
+}
+
 </script>
 
 <style scoped>

But obtaining a list of roles in a safe and reliable manner requires redownloading list of Roles before opening Settings panel and passing it to the settings view. And this is not doable for me (in a reasonable amount of time).

[zorn-v]

Backend is tricky part here, yes.
I wanted to see how you resolve it (frontend I can do by myself) 😄
Maybe sometime...