Adds role to topics upon posting and post replies

src/categories/topics.js

@@ -16,7 +16,25 @@ module.exports = function (Categories) {
 		const tids = await Categories.getTopicIds(results);
 		let topicsData = await topics.getTopicsByTids(tids, data.uid);
 		topicsData = await user.blocks.filter(data.uid, topicsData);
+
+		const userRoles = await Promise.all(
+            topicsData.map(async (topic) => {
+                const isAdmin = await user.isAdministrator(topic.uid);
+                const isMod = await user.isModerator(topic.uid);
+
+                if (isAdmin) {
+                    return 'Administrator';
+                } else if (isMod) {
+                    return 'Moderator';
+                } else {
+                    return 'user'; 
+                }
+            })
+        );
 
+        topicsData.forEach((topic, index) => {
+            topic.authorRole = userRoles[index] || 'user';  
+        });
 		if (!topicsData.length) {
 			return { topics: [], uid: data.uid };
 		}

src/controllers/user.js

@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ const accountHelpers = require('./accounts/helpers');
 const userController = module.exports;
 
 userController.getCurrentUser = async function (req, res) {
-	if (!req.loggedIn) {
-		return res.status(401).json('not-authorized');
-	}
-	const userslug = await user.getUserField(req.uid, 'userslug');
-	const userData = await accountHelpers.getUserDataByUserSlug(userslug, req.uid, req.query);
-	res.json(userData);
+    if (!req.loggedIn) {
+        return res.status(401).json('not-authorized');
+    }
+    const userslug = await user.getUserField(req.uid, 'userslug');
+    const role = await user.isAdministrator(req.uid) ? 'Administrator' : 
+    (user.isModerator(req.uid) ? 'Moderator' : 'user');
+    const userData = await accountHelpers.getUserDataByUserSlug(userslug, req.uid, req.query);
+    userData.role = role;
+    res.json(userData);
 };
 
 userController.getUserByUID = async function (req, res, next) {

src/topics/posts.js

@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 		postData.forEach((postObj, i) => {
 			if (postObj) {
 				postObj.user = postObj.uid ? userData[postObj.uid] : { ...userData[postObj.uid] };
+				const isAdmin = user.isAdministrator(postObj.user);
+                const isMod = user.isModerator(postObj.user);
+                postObj.user.role = isAdmin ? 'Administrator' : (isMod ? 'Moderator' : 'user'); 
 				postObj.editor = postObj.editor ? editors[postObj.editor] : null;
 				postObj.bookmarked = bookmarks[i];
 				postObj.upvoted = voteData.upvotes[i];
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 				if (meta.config.allowGuestHandles && postObj.uid === 0 && postObj.handle) {
 					postObj.user.username = validator.escape(String(postObj.handle));
 					postObj.user.displayname = postObj.user.username;
+					postObj.user.role = 'guest';
 				}
 			}
 		});

src/views/partials/data/category.tpl

@@ -1 +1,10 @@
-data-tid="{topics.tid}" data-index="{topics.index}" data-cid="{topics.cid}" itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem"
+<div data-tid="{topics.tid}" 
+     data-index="{topics.index}" 
+     data-cid="{topics.cid}" 
+     data-role="{topics.authorRole}" 
+     itemprop="itemListElement" 
+     itemscope 
+     itemtype="https://schema.org/ListItem">
+  <span class="badge bg-info text-white ms-2">
+    {topics.authorRole}
+  </span>