set_permission_overrides not assigning permissions

[aarti98]

I am trying to configure a testing bot with dpytest. I want to create a bot which has permission to manage channels
Here is my code base:

@pytest_asyncio.fixture(params=BOT_FIXTURE)
async def bot(request) -> AsyncGenerator[Tuple[commands.Bot, str], None]:
    b = commands.Bot(
        command_prefix=settings.DISCORD_COMMAND_PREFIX,
        intents=intents,
        strip_after_prefix=True,
        help_command=None,
    )

    dpytest.configure(b)
    guild = dpytest.get_config().guilds[0]
    await dpytest.set_permission_overrides(
            target=guild.members[0], channel=guild.text_channels[0], manage_channels=True
    )
    
    # this statement returns false
    print('permissions?', guild.members[0].guild_permissions.manage_channels)

Can anyone help me what I am doing wrong?

[tylersfd2]

I am trying to configure a testing bot with dpytest. I want to create a bot which has permission to manage channels Here is my code base:

@pytest_asyncio.fixture(params=BOT_FIXTURE)
async def bot(request) -> AsyncGenerator[Tuple[commands.Bot, str], None]:
    b = commands.Bot(
        command_prefix=settings.DISCORD_COMMAND_PREFIX,
        intents=intents,
        strip_after_prefix=True,
        help_command=None,
    )

    dpytest.configure(b)
    guild = dpytest.get_config().guilds[0]
    await dpytest.set_permission_overrides(
            target=guild.members[0], channel=guild.text_channels[0], manage_channels=True
    )
    
    # this statement returns false
    print('permissions?', guild.members[0].guild_permissions.manage_channels)

Can anyone help me what I am doing wrong?

Well, you're telling dpytest to set permission overrides for a specific channel. This doesn't give that particular member the permission to manage all other channels. You also aren't passing the correct kwargs to the set_permission_overrides method either.

An example of granting permissions to a member to manage a specific channel:

guild = dpytest.get_config().guilds[0]
member = guild.members[0]
channel = guild.text_channels[0]

await dpytest.set_permission_overrides(target=member, channel=channel, overrides=PermissionOverwrite(manage_channels=True)))

One possible solution would be to create a new role with the "manage_channels" permission. Assign this role to your member(s) and they should have permissions to manage any channel.

manage_channels_role = await guild.create_role(name='manage_channels', permissions=Permissions(manage_channels=True))

await member.add_roles(manage_channels_role)
print(member.guild_permissions.manage_channels)
# returns True