Bypass category permissions to post topic

[Brophy]

Hello,

I've currently created a plugin that adds a "ban appeal form" to our website, and it works as intended, however, we want to force people to use this form rather than manually create a topic in the category.

However when I disable the topic creation permission, obviously when the form is filled out and submitted, it cannot create the topic.

I'm currently using this to post the topic:

const topics = require.main.require('./src/topics');
.....
topics.post(payload, (error, data) => {..........

Is there an alternative method I can use to bypass the permission to allow the plugin to post in the category?

[PitaJ]

You could try intercepting the privileges hook https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/master/src/privileges/helpers.js#L26. But I'm not sure how you'd only enable it for your call. Maybe you could use async local storage. https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/async-local-storage

[julian]

@brophy A workaround to this would be to have a special robot user that you grant the topic creation privilege to. In that case, your ban appeal would be posted by that bot user on behalf of another user account.

[Brophy]

@julian unfortunately I will be using the support plugin in the same category because I only want the people to see their own topics and have access to reply to our responses