Channel Categories/Groups Missing

[Zamiell]

Hello; this is an excellent library, and thanks so much for providing it.

Does this library allow me to create channels INTO a channel category/group?

I see that the GuildChannelCreate(guildID, name, ctype string) function creates channels without ANY category attached to them.

Or is there a way with this library to move an existing channel into a category/group? Because then I can just do a two step process.

[Seklfreak]

You should be able to add an existing channel to a category using the newly added ChannelEditComplex function (ParentID).

[Zamiell]

Ah, I see, its on the "develop" branch. Thank you @Seklfreak , I'll try it out!

[Seklfreak]

You should probably always use the develop branch. master doesn't get updated very often, and develop is stable enough.

[Zamiell]

Through trial and error, I've found that I can query the Discord API directly by myself using curl in order to get the ID of the category from the parent_id parameter:

curl --header "Authorization: Bot [key]" https://discordapp.com/api/channels/392872395116904448

{"guild_id": "392182453248458762", "name": "r-1-zamiel-vs-xunhingedmoose", "permission_overwrites": [], "topic": null, "parent_id": "392884552407711744", "nsfw": false, "position": 5, "last_message_id": "392872395381276682", "type": 0, "id": "392872395116904448"}

Ideally, I'd like to be able to use the DiscordGo library to enumerate through all of the categories on a server so that I can find the ID programmatically without having to do this process manually. Is that possible?

[Seklfreak]

If you are using the develop branch you can access a channels parent id:

channel, err := session.State.Channel("392872395116904448")
fmt.Println(channel.ParentID)

you can then get the get the parent channel from the state

parent, err := session.State.Channel(channel.ParentID)
fmt.Println(parent.Name)

[Zamiell]

@Seklfreak Are all channel categories just channels themselves?

[Seklfreak]

You can find the name of an existing category from it's ID using session.State.Channel(channelID), no need to iterate over all categories.

But here is how to iterate over all categories:

guild, err := session.State.Guild("392182453248458762")
for _, guildChannel := range guild.Channels {
    if guildChannel.Type == discordgo.ChannelTypeGuildCategory {
        fmt.Println(guildChannel.Name)
    }
}

[Zamiell]

Thank you! I see now that all categories are just channels themselves, which is kind of confusing at first, but makes sense.

[Seklfreak]

@Zamiell I think this issue can be closed. :)

[Zamiell]

It might be best to close it when the change gets merged into master?

[Seklfreak]

Oh, maybe, I don't know to be honest. 🤔

[Zamiell]

@bwmarrin Can you put it on master?

[bwmarrin]

It will be, fairly soon.