dump and init whitelist with a json file.

ADDED DEP: jsonpickle

.gitignore

@@ -132,3 +132,4 @@ dmypy.json
 .idea/
 
 .envrc
+/test.json

autowl/Cogs/Whitelist.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import jsonpickle
 import discord
 import logging
 from autowl import config
@@ -37,6 +38,9 @@ class Whitelist(commands.Cog):
                     ] = config.WhitelistMember(interaction.user.name, steam64)
 
         if steam64_updated:
+            outFile = open("test.json", "w")
+            outFile.write(jsonpickle.encode(self.client.whitelist, unpicklable=False))
+            outFile.close()
             log.info(
                 f"Updated {interaction.user.name}'s ({interaction.user.id}) whitelist steam64 to {steam64}"
             )

autowl/bot.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import jsonpickle
 import logging
 import discord
 from discord.ext import commands
@@ -9,6 +10,11 @@ log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 class Bot(commands.Bot):
     whitelist = config.Whitelist({}).whitelist
 
+    infile = open("test.json", "r")
+    if infile:
+        whitelist = jsonpickle.decode(infile.read())
+        infile.close()
+
     def __init__(self, config: config.DiscordClientConfig):
         self.config = config
         intents = discord.Intents.default()

poetry.lock

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.0 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "aiohttp"
@@ -287,6 +287,23 @@ files = [
     {file = "idna-3.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:814f528e8dead7d329833b91c5faa87d60bf71824cd12a7530b5526063d02cb4"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jsonpickle"
+version = "3.0.1"
+description = "Python library for serializing any arbitrary object graph into JSON"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "jsonpickle-3.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:130d8b293ea0add3845de311aaba55e6d706d0bb17bc123bd2c8baf8a39ac77c"},
+    {file = "jsonpickle-3.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:032538804795e73b94ead410800ac387fdb6de98f8882ac957fcd247e3a85200"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+docs = ["jaraco.packaging (>=3.2)", "rst.linker (>=1.9)", "sphinx"]
+testing = ["ecdsa", "feedparser", "gmpy2", "numpy", "pandas", "pymongo", "pytest (>=3.5,!=3.7.3)", "pytest-black-multipy", "pytest-checkdocs (>=1.2.3)", "pytest-cov", "pytest-flake8 (>=1.1.1)", "scikit-learn", "sqlalchemy"]
+testing-libs = ["simplejson", "ujson"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "multidict"
 version = "6.0.4"
@@ -462,4 +479,4 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "4150717da98b5eb32609d7670dc1457938d4fff5799126847030c693503f0247"
+content-hash = "22e27ffb14d002d43920b5647c8fd824ca4487469c5687561af70c02aa8e3cca"

pyproject.toml

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.10"
 "discord.py" = "^2.1.0"
+jsonpickle = "^3.0.1"
 
 
 [build-system]