Look into a single instance of bot handling multiple servers

[sjstein]

Can the bot tell which discord server it is running from? Do we keep a separate db for each discord server? How to associate each discord server with each run8 server (HostSecurity)

[sjstein]

As of now, I can find the server (which Discord refers to as a guild) name off of the Interaction object:

server_name = interaction.guild.name

From reading a bit more on this, there appear to be some privacy concerns about a bot actually being able to access this info, so this functionality may not be around long...

[sjstein]

So given that (for now) I can identify which server is sending me a command, it is feasible on the surface to separate functionality for how the bot handles back-end (run8) admin.

This may be a can of worms however - at least with how the bot authorizes who can access what commands. Those role names are specified in the configuration file and are tied to a specific discord server at present.

Perhaps it is time to abandon the authorizing of commands locally (at the bot level) and just push that responsibility to the Discord server admin

[sjstein]

Channel names are also a dependency - for example the name of the channel on a specific server in which to write the log of bot executed commands

I suppose we could specify a server name as part of these parameters - would have to look into what that means from the configuration parser - probably maintaining a dict of log channels with the keys being the server names: {server_name1 : log_channel_name, server_name2: log_channel_name} etc.

given the current dependency in the codebase on an implied single-server, this may be a lot of work

[sjstein]

Channel names are also a dependency - for example the name of the channel on a specific server in which to write the log of bot executed commands

I suppose we could specify a server name as part of these parameters - would have to look into what that means from the configuration parser - probably maintaining a dict of log channels with the keys being the server names: {server_name1 : log_channel_name, server_name2: log_channel_name} etc.

given the current dependency in the codebase on an implied single-server, this may be a lot of work

Maybe not that big of a deal seeing as the idea of channel restrictions wasn't really a feature that was wanted and can also be restricted by the Discord server admin

[sjstein]

I rescind my previous hopeful thoughts - I think the initial design decisions and assumptions making disconnecting the 1-1 association between a bot instance and a run8 server instance beyond the effort I'm willing to expend at this time.

[sjstein]

Since this issue isn't really closed - I'll reopen. Branch created (70_multiple_discord_servers) to hold first bit of investigation