Mission Permission When Adding a Role to a Member Discord4J

Question

In my program I try to add a role to a (new) member of a guild. But when I try to add the role to the member I get an error with the message: "Missing Permissions". What's confusing is that the bot already has permissions to manage roles. After I gave the bot admin rights but the error still came up.


Role studentRole = getRole(STUDENT_ROLE_NAME, tempMem.getGuild().block());
if(studentRole == null){
        tempMem.getPrivateChannel().block().createMessage("Sorry the Server doesn't have a \"Student\" Role contact admins for help!");
        return;
}
tempMem.addRole(studentRole.getId()).block();
tempMem.getPrivateChannel().block().createMessage("Successfully added you as a Student! Have fun :smile:");

Some further explaination to the code: Member tempMem: is the member which should recieve the student role. Role getRole(String name, Guild guild): is a method which just looks through the list of roles in a guild and returns the Role which has the right name given as a parameter. Every guild this bot is on should have a role with a name of STUDENT_ROLE_NAME. This snippet should just get the Student-role and assign it to the tempMem if everything works correctly.

yes, the member has actually no role at all right now, and the role for the bot has admin rights — jonas

jonas jonas · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-19T10:16:22

As already said above i tried giving the bot "higher" permissions than the student role, but the solution was litteraly to move the role of the bot over the role of a student. So the missing permission error was actually correct

Mission Permission When Adding a Role to a Member Discord4J

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