NOTE: please see my second post below for the real issue. I am attempting to programatically create groups via the DiscourseApi (ruby gem). The Groups module seems to indicate that owner_usernames is an optional param: lib/discourse_api/api/groups.rb c8a9724ec :flair_url, :flair_bg_color, :flair_color, :bio_raw, :public_admission, :public_exit, :allow_membership_requests, :full_name, :default_notification_level, :usernames, :owner_usernames, :membership_request_template) .to_h post("/admin/groups", group: args) end def update_group(group_id, args) args = API.params(args) .default(visibility_level: 0) .optional(:mentionable_level, :messageable_level, and I’m passing it through as: owner_usernames: ['ben'] However the actual request to Discourse is not working because that parameter is not a whitelisted parameter: Processing by Admin::GroupsController#create as JSON Parameters: {"group"=>{"full_name"=>"Super Test Group", "mentionable_level"=>"3", "messageable_level"=>"3", "name"=>"super-test-group", "owner_usernames"=>["ben"], "visibility_level"=>"1"}, "api_key"=>"[FILTERED]", "api_username"=>"ben"} Unpermitted parameter: :owner_usernames. Is this intentional/by design or should I submit a PR to allow owner_usernames to be mass-assigned? For my integration’s purpose, I need the group to be “owned” by the username making the API request.

Now that I’m looking at Discourse, I see where the owner_ids should be being assigned. Still looking at what user_groups.build does and where that relationship actually gets saved. I may be misunderstanding it, but it appears that those relationships are never saved, only the group.save is called whereas the group_users are only built [build]. Does group.save actually call throught to group.group_users to persist the relationships? app/controllers/admin/groups_controller.rb main can_not_modify_automatic else StaffActionLogger.new(current_user).log_group_deletion(group) group.destroy! render json: success_json end end def remove_owner group = Group.find_by(id: params.require(:id)) raise Discourse::NotFound unless group return can_not_modify_automatic if group.automatic guardian.ensure_can_edit_group!(group) if params[:user_id].present? users = [User.find_by(id: params[:user_id].to_i)] elsif usernames = group_params[:usernames].presence users = User.where(username: usernames.split(",")) else It may be that this use-case was missed because most folks create a group first and then assign an owner to it. In this case the group is already persisted and you’re then using add_owners? app/controllers/admin/groups_controller.rb main render json: success_json end def automatic_membership_count guardian.ensure_can_create_group! domains = Group.get_valid_email_domains(params.require(:automatic_membership_email_domains)) group_id = params[:id] user_count = 0 if domains.present? if group_id.present? group = Group.find_by(id: group_id) raise Discourse::NotFound unless group return can_not_modify_automatic if group.automatic existing_domains = group.automatic_membership_email_domains&.split("|") || [] domains -= existing_domains end If this is the bug I think it is, this would also apply to adding group users (not just owners) within the #create method.

[image] typeoneerror: users = User.where(username: group_params[:usernames].split(“,”)) And there it is. owner_usernames and usernames should be a comma-delimted string, not an array. Sorry for the false report.

Owners are not assignable when Group created via API call

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typeoneerror (Benjamin Borowski) August 16, 2018, 8:26pm 3

And there it is.

owner_usernames and usernames should be a comma-delimted string, not an array. Sorry for the false report.

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