[WIP] Federated Comments

[mediaformat]

Restarting a fresh PR from #95

This currently includes code for Comments & Posts

Posts:

• [x] Fixes Post Updates
• [x] Fixes Deletes

Comments: Adds the ability to reply to comments from the Moderation page

• [x] Comments support threading
• [x] Local / Remote comments can be deleted
• [x] Local / Remote comments can be updated

TODOs:

• [ ] Complete Replies Collection
• [x] Refactor AP object ID ( migrate from permalink to non-pretty permalinks example.com/?p={post_ID}) Discuss in #16
• [ ] Upgrade script

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[johnspurlock]

👀

[mediaformat]

@pfefferle just a note that SonarCloud code smell uses rules that conflict with phpcs.

[pfefferle]

Yea, ignore sonar cube!

[pfefferle]

@mediaformat but there seems to be a conflict in activitypub.php.

[mediaformat]

@mediaformat but there seems to be a conflict in activitypub.php.

@pfefferle I'm not seeing anything out of ordinary, any chance you could pinpoint the error? EDIT: Just saw the conflict and resolved it

[pfefferle]

Nice, thanks. Is it still [WIP]?

[mediaformat]

There is one last piece to this, a tools page for manually federating updates (deletes, or delete and announce with new ID).

[mediaformat]

Ready to go!

[mediaformat]

One more fix coming ;-)

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[mediaformat]

Pagination of migrate-list.php / wp-admin/tools.php?page=activitypub_tools is not working, will fix, but shouldn't block review.

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[pfefferle]

We should also add some tests.

[mediaformat]

@pfefferle I added a view Posts with (activitypub) Comments to the Migration page.

There is a column which displays number of (published) comments. However some posts in this view may display 0 comment count (this number is only for published comments). Do you find that confusing? or have any suggestion?

[pfefferle]

@mediaformat I will fokus on this PR during the holidays and had a look at the migration part... I am not sure if this is a good idea, because it could be very distructive! I think we should stick with backwards compatibility in the first place.

[mediaformat]

@mediaformat had a look at the migration part... I am not sure if this is a good idea, because it could be very distructive! I think we should stick with backwards compatibility in the first place.

Ok, I'll remove all that code. Backwards Compat then will only be checking first for permalink...

[pfefferle]

What do you think about this way (at least as quick fix) https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/pull/231 ?

[mediaformat]

@pfefferle the \add_post_meta( $post_id, 'activitypub_canonical_url', \get_permalink( $post_id ), true ); looks good

[johnspurlock]

Is there a public WP instance where this is available to read from? Curious in how the AP payloads look for comments and posts.

[sunjam]

It is a pull request and not actually in stable afaik

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[johnspurlock]

I know, I'm just wondering if there is a staging server or something

[mediaformat]

There isn't a staging server, I'm testing this locally with ngrok, and mastodon. The AP payloads are pretty typical/similar to other implementations

[johnspurlock]

Congrats on the acquisition - can't wait to unlock ActivityPub comments/replies for WP posts - hopefully this is still a priority!

[mediaformat]

Ok, a few things broke and are left to fix

• processing remote comments (update, delete)

Also, I'll probably extract the post/comments replies collection into a separate PR, to reduce the scope of this one.

[pfefferle]

@mediaformat are you fine with me adding some changes directly to your PR?

[pfefferle]

@mediaformat I planned to also work a bit more on the topic but then came the https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/523.

I would love to:

• [ ] simplify the code a bit (move global functions to transformer and similar stuff)
• [ ] Start with inbox-handlers to have the code a bit more structured. If we have a good idea how to do it, we can adapt it for follow and Delete afterwards. Something like
  • /handler/class-create.php
  • /handler/class-like.php
  • /handler/class-update.php
• [x] use the Mention class also for comments

What do you think?

[mediaformat]

I would love to: * simplify the code a bit (move global functions to transformer and similar stuff) * Start with inbox-handlers to have the code a bit more structured. What do you think?

I agree with the simplification, and inbox handlers and all.

I ended up re-added some of the code that was removed, because I wanted to fix some bugs from where I left off last time (federation wasn't working well for deletes, edits). But it took a while to figure out why things weren't working. 😅

Anyhow everything is working again: threads, mentions, replies, edits, deletes. 🎉

[pfefferle]

I would love to keep in in draft state for the next week, that it will not be merged by accident.

[pfefferle]

?replytocom=1 seems to redirect even with ActivityPub Accept header.