expose roles of team member to apps

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Feature request

Expose the role of a team member to apps when loading information about the team.

Use case

There are different roles in a team that works together on a task. Ideally, these can be reflected in Teams and access to the resources it owns.

Right now, Teams has the roles owner, admin, moderator and member. We want to add a 'guest' role in the future.

We should allow apps to map these, for example:

• Only owners and admins can manage ACL's in Teamfolders
• Only owners and admins can create new Talk rooms for the team
• Moderator role and up are managers of all Deck boards
• Moderator role and up are moderator of all team-owned Talk rooms
• Moderator role and up can modify permission of Deck boards
• Guests can not edit anything in Deck boards and Collectives

For this, apps would need to know about the role of a member. So the API where apps can query information about membership of a team should be extended to also allow informing the app about the role of that team member.

This should be implemented under the assumption that roles in Teams can be expanded in the future, adding more roles, and perhaps even support the creation of custom roles.

For now, apps can act on the roles as defined (owner/admin/moderator/member) and implement some sane mapping of behavior.

Start by locating the API endpoint or entry point where apps query team membership information and review how current roles—owner, admin, moderator, and member—are represented. Define the API response and extension approach so apps can identify the current role and future roles without breaking existing consumers, then verify the membership information exposes the required role data.