discord.go - trying to check for permissions, always returns false while i do have the required perm | Discord Gophers | Page 1

west storm Mar 9, 2023, 7:23 AM

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It should be perms&discordgo.PermissionAdministrator == 8

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Or != 0

west storm Mar 9, 2023, 8:22 AM

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Maybe your perms variable isn’t set right?

west storm Mar 9, 2023, 3:20 PM

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No it shouldn’t. Discordgo has almost everything that discord supports and I’ve been using permissions checking forever

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You could try printing out the value of the bit fields instead of checking if it’s equal to 8, maybe that would help

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I just don’t remember the flag to print as a bitfield

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Permissions are just bits, for example the administrator one is

00000000000000100 which has a value of 8 because it’s in binary

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When you do perms & administrator you’re checking if that bit exists

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So there’s a way to print out the actual bitfield I just can’t remember the flag. When I get home today if no one else has helped with it I can find you the function

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Oh perfect

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Looks like it’s %b

fmt.Printf("%08b\n", 13) will print 00001101

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