How to retrieve group owners? (Rails code question)

[tshenry (Taylor)]

@JQ331

Can you say briefly why a serializer is necessary here? (trying to understand not only for this but also other customizations)

Sure The data isn’t exposed by default in the BasicGroupSerializer. We only include what we need.

It’s a bit of a maze to follow, but the only reason the groups-info component has what it has available is because it’s passed group from it’s parent template:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/d3c972c30cafb8ca595a60233a30f75b2f95336c/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/groups/index.hbs#L53-L53

And the parent template gets it from the controller:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/d3c972c30cafb8ca595a60233a30f75b2f95336c/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/controllers/groups-index.js#L37-L37

@JQ331

could I achieve this just in my dashboard

I’m afraid not. Unless there’s some magic I’m not aware of!