I am using the Discourse JS User Object to check upon the current user’s groups they are “in”. For some users, the groups array in the User’s JS Object returns a proper array of objects, each describing a group this user is part of. Example: groups: Array (5) 0 { id: 1, name: "admins", has…

[image] Beda: Can anyone help me spot why this happens You’re using the session endpoint for the currently logged in user (i.e. session/current). Only staff members will get the “automatic” groups (e.g. trust level groups) from that endpoint. For an example of that check out https://meta.dis…

@Lhc_fl , so what you did is get the current user’s username (I suppose with the same AJAX as I use?), then another AJAX to that user JSON, and from there the group? I like as well @angus ’ approach - my code though is on the discourse side… I could just use the same API key and authenticate with tha…

If you are developing components for discourse… I think the easiest way is to use discourse’s api. If you are developing a client, I think the user name should have been known long ago? For the former, here is an example; require("discourse/lib/plugin-api").withPluginApi("1.0.0", (api)=>{console.…

You should be able to access the current user object and that will show you what groups the user knows that they are a member of. It’s already loaded for every user, so you’ll access the plugin api like any other theme that looks at the current user. There are examples of your go through Theme Devel…

Thanks all While on this particular instance the groups still remains empty (even with the api of the user instead of the current session), I was able to achieve this by checking on the group ID in the group_users which as well stores the same data, just not with name I did use my original approac…

User JS Object `groups` array not populated for several users

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Lhc_fl (Linca) April 13, 2023, 3:11am 3

Really? I don’t think it should be so complicated?

This is from await $.ajax("/u/Lhc_fl.json")
Obviously I’m not a staff member of Meta, but I can see my “automatic” groups

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User JS Object `groups` array not populated for several users

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