make role buttons persistent across restarts

app.py

@@ -544,14 +544,20 @@ async def on_voice_state_update(member, before, after):
         print(f"on_voice_state_update Error: {e}")  
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Custom persistent button that toggles a role for the clicking user.
 class RoleToggleButton(Button):
     def __init__(self, role: discord.Role):
-        # Set the button label to the role name and use a primary style.
-        super().__init__(label=role.name, style=discord.ButtonStyle.primary)
+        # Assign a fixed custom_id that uniquely identifies this button.
+        # Ensure that the custom ID is unique among all buttons in your bot.
+        super().__init__(
+            label=role.name, 
+            style=discord.ButtonStyle.primary,
+            custom_id=f"persistent_role_toggle_{role.id}"
+        )
         self.role = role
 
     async def callback(self, interaction: discord.Interaction):
-        # Check if the user already has the role
         if self.role in interaction.user.roles:
             try:
                 await interaction.user.remove_roles(self.role)
@@ -573,11 +579,12 @@ class RoleToggleButton(Button):
                     f"Error adding role: {e}", ephemeral=True
                 )
 
-# A view that holds one toggle button per role.
-class RoleSelectionView(View):
+# Persistent view that holds one toggle button per role.
+class PersistentRoleSelectionView(View):
     def __init__(self, roles: list):
-        # Setting timeout to None allows the view to persist indefinitely.
+        # Set timeout to None to keep the view indefinitely active.
         super().__init__(timeout=None)
+        # Create a button for each role
         for role in roles:
             self.add_item(RoleToggleButton(role))
 
@@ -591,17 +598,18 @@ async def role_buttons(ctx):
 
     # List the role IDs you want to include (replace these with your actual role IDs).
     role_ids = [1014517792550166630, 1014548568238997616, 1014548769355862036, 1077250031180071023, 1093982736961785877]
-    # Retrieve the Role objects from the guild.
     roles = [ctx.guild.get_role(rid) for rid in role_ids if ctx.guild.get_role(rid) is not None]
 
-    # Create the view with buttons for each role.
-    view = RoleSelectionView(roles)
-    # Send a message with the view attached.
+    # Create the persistent view.
+    view = PersistentRoleSelectionView(roles)
+    # Send the message with the persistent view attached.
     await ctx.send("Click the buttons below to toggle roles:", view=view)
 
 
 
 
+
+
 # github test stuff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 """
 async def check_github():
@@ -627,6 +635,13 @@ async def on_ready():
     await asyncio.sleep(5)
     print(bot.log_channel)
     guild = bot.get_guild(879548962464493619)
+    
+    if guild:
+        role_ids = [1014517792550166630, 1014548568238997616, 1014548769355862036, 1077250031180071023, 1093982736961785877]
+        roles = [guild.get_role(rid) for rid in role_ids if guild.get_role(rid) is not None]
+        persistent_view = PersistentRoleSelectionView(roles)
+        bot.add_view(persistent_view)  # This makes the view persistent across restarts.
+    
     for channel in guild.text_channels: # helps with more accurate logging across restarts
         try:
             message_cache.update({m.id: m async for m in channel.history(limit=10000)})
@@ -635,6 +650,11 @@ async def on_ready():
             print(f"An error occurred while fetching messages from {channel.name}: {e}")
         await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
 
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+
+
+
+
         
 def run_bot():
     bot.run(DISCORD_TOKEN)