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findCustomRoles and countCustomRoles in packages/models/src/models/Roles.ts select custom roles with an exact protected: false match.

protected was added to roles after roles already existed, so a role document older than the field does not carry false, it does not carry the field at all, and an exact match on false leaves it out. Every other place in the code decides whether a role is protected by reading the field for truthiness, for example the delete guard in apps/meteor/server/api/v1/roles.ts, the update guard in apps/meteor/ee/server/lib/roles/updateRole.ts, and the license check in apps/meteor/ee/server/api/roles.ts. So a missing field already means "custom" everywhere except these two queries.

Both queries now use protected: { $ne: true }, which lines the model up with how the rest of the code reads the field.

The issue mentions findCustomRoles. countCustomRoles carries the same filter, so the fix covers both, otherwise the count and the list would keep disagreeing.

Two callers are affected. getCustomRoles in the Apps-Engine roles bridge never returned those roles to apps, and statistics.totalCustomRoles undercounted them. Those are the only callers in the repo, so nothing relied on the exact-match behaviour.

Added packages/models/src/models/Roles.spec.ts, which asserts the filter handed to the driver, following the pattern already used by BaseRaw.spec.ts. It fails on develop and passes with this change.

On the pull requests already open for this issue: #40799, #40937, #41031, #41033, #41242 and #41329 all propose the same operator change, and to be straight about it, I found them after writing this. What this one adds is the unit test above, which covers both methods and needs no database. If you would rather take one of the earlier ones, I am happy to close this and offer the test to it instead, just say which.

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Closes #40798

Steps to test or reproduce

Insert a role that predates the field, which is what an upgraded workspace looks like:

db.rocketchat_role.insertOne({ _id: 'legacy-custom', name: 'legacy-custom', description: '', scope: 'Users' })

Before this change the role is missing from the roles an app reads through getCustomRoles, and totalCustomRoles in GET /api/v1/statistics does not count it. After the change both include it.

Unit test: yarn workspace @rocket.chat/models test.

Further comments

$ne: true does not cost anything here. Roles has no modelIndexes() override, so there is no index on protected for the operator to defeat, and the collection holds tens of documents.

One thing left out on purpose: IRole.protected is typed as a required boolean in packages/core-typings/src/IRole.ts while these old documents do not have it. Making the type honest, or backfilling the field in a migration, is a bigger change than this fix and I did not want to bundle it in. Happy to open a separate issue for it if that is useful.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Legacy custom roles without an explicit protection setting are now included in role listings.
    • Custom role totals now accurately include these legacy roles.
    • Role lists and reported counts now stay consistent.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage to verify filtering and counting behavior for legacy custom roles.

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Walkthrough

Custom role listing and counting now exclude only roles with protected: true. Legacy roles without a protected field are included. Tests verify both query methods use the updated filter.

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Custom role filtering

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Update custom role queries
packages/models/src/models/Roles.ts, .changeset/plain-otters-listen.md
findCustomRoles and countCustomRoles now use { protected: { $ne: true } }. The changeset records patches for the affected packages.
Validate legacy role handling
packages/models/src/models/Roles.spec.ts
Tests verify that roles without protected and roles with protected: false are included, and that listing and counting use the same filter.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1a844

The change includes the legacy-role query fix and coverage for both affected methods. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the only follow-up is minor cleanup of implementation comments.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement issue #40798 by including roles where protected is missing and applying the same filter to listing and counting.
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Comment on lines +132 to +135
// `protected` was added after roles already existed, so roles older than the field
// are missing it instead of holding `false`. Matching `false` exactly leaves those
// roles out, so match anything that is not explicitly protected. That is also how
// the callers read it, they all test `role.protected` for truthiness.

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Remove the implementation comments.

packages/models/src/models/Roles.ts is TypeScript implementation code. Keep the filter and remove these comments. The changeset already records the migration rationale.

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-		// `protected` was added after roles already existed, so roles older than the field
-		// are missing it instead of holding `false`. Matching `false` exactly leaves those
-		// roles out, so match anything that is not explicitly protected. That is also how
-		// the callers read it, they all test `role.protected` for truthiness.
 		const query: Filter<IRole> = {
 			protected: { $ne: true },
 		};
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-		// Same filter as findCustomRoles, see the note there.
 		const query: Filter<IRole> = {
 			protected: { $ne: true },
 		};

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In `@packages/models/src/models/Roles.ts` around lines 132 - 135, Remove the
implementation comments explaining the protected-role filtering near the role
filter, while preserving the filter logic and its behavior for roles without an
explicitly true protected value.

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