Inbox post is disabled but in the next patches I'll code and integrate a fixed
complete one, hopefully finally getting ticket comment federation ready for
testing.
I'm making this change because if an actor receives an activity due to being
addressed in bto, ot bcc, or being listed in some remote collection, the server
doesn't have a way to tell which actor(s) are the intended recipients, without
having an individual inbox URL for each actor. I could use a different hack for
this, but it wouldn't be compatible with other AP servers (unless the whole
fediverse agrees on a method).
I wasn't using sharedInbox anyway, and it's an optimization either way.
Each ticket has a single discussion ID, and each ticket has a unique one, so,
given an inner join of tickets and discussions, I think there should be exactly
1 way select a (ticket, discussion) pair given any of these.
But for some reason, PostgreSQL started complaining. Not sure what changed.
Anyway, for now, I switched the groupBy from discussion.id to ticket.id, which
is essentially the same, but for some reason makes PostgreSQL happy. It can't
tell that given a discussion ID, there's exactly 1 way to choose the ticket. Or
something like that. I wonder if I messed up something in DB migrations.
Before this patch, the shared fetch used plain insert, because it relied on
being the only place in the codebase where new RemoteActors get inserted. I was
hoping for that to be the case, but while I tweak things and handle fetching
URIs that can be an actor or a public key (for which ActorFetchShare isn't
sufficient without some smart modification), I'd like concurrent insertions to
be safe, without getting in the way of ActorFetchShare.
With this patch, it now uses insertBy', which doesn't mind concurrent
insertions.
I wrote a function handleOutboxNote that's supposed to do the whole outbox POST
handler process. There's an outbox item table in the DB now, I adapted things
in various source files. Ticket comment federation work is still in progress.
The custom module provides a parametric wrapper, allowing any specific
FromJSON/ToJSON instance to be used. It's a standalone module though, and not a
wrapper of persistent-postgresql, because persistent-postgresql uses aeson
Value and it prevents using toEncoding to get from the value directly to a
string.
* Adapt DB related code to return the InstanceId and RemoteSharerId
* Previously, when fetching a known shared key, we were running a DB
check/update for the shared usage record. I noticed - and hopefully I
correctly noticed - that this check already runs when we discover the keyId
points to a shared key we already know. So, after successful sig
verification, there's no need to run the check again. So I removed it.
- Exclude hosts without periods, so things like localhost and IPv6 are rejected
- Exclude hosts without letters, so things like IPv4 are rejected
- Exclude the instance's own host, just in case somehow some fake activity
slips in and gets approved, maybe even accidentally when delivered by another
server