Sending a private message without cc causes a 500 error
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The logs from this are already cleared on my server, but when I sent a private message (standard Create/Note with a single recipient who also has a Mention in the tag property) from my custom software to my account here, I received a 500 error saying something like "cc is not iterable" (though I don't know the exact phrasing). When I included cc as an empty array, it started working. Not sure whether it was missing on Create or Note, maybe it was both.
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The logs from this are already cleared on my server, but when I sent a private message (standard Create/Note with a single recipient who also has a Mention in the tag property) from my custom software to my account here, I received a 500 error saying something like "cc is not iterable" (though I don't know the exact phrasing). When I included cc as an empty array, it started working. Not sure whether it was missing on Create or Note, maybe it was both.
@rikudou thanks, can you file an issue on the GitHub repo?
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@rikudou As far as I understand things, a 'private message' in ActivityPub is Create / ChatMessage, not Create / Note. I think NodeBB wouldn't be the only software to complain if 'cc' is missing from either part of Create / Note (although it's not expected in either part of Create / ChatMessage).
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@rikudou As far as I understand things, a 'private message' in ActivityPub is Create / ChatMessage, not Create / Note. I think NodeBB wouldn't be the only software to complain if 'cc' is missing from either part of Create / Note (although it's not expected in either part of Create / ChatMessage).
@freamon
Create(ChatMessage)is not part of ActivityPub. From my light research online it is something added by a Pleroma extension and possibly supported by Lemmy.NodeBB will automatically slot received non-public notes as chat messages.
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@julian Oh, right. Thanks. But yeah, it's what Lemmy (and PieFed) uses, so I just assumed it was part of AP, and never looked into it any further.
I was thinking while typing this "I bet that means that chat messages from NodeBB to PieFed will fail", which I just tested, and sure enough they do (I'll make an Issue for it on PieFed's repo).
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@julian Oh, right. Thanks. But yeah, it's what Lemmy (and PieFed) uses, so I just assumed it was part of AP, and never looked into it any further.
I was thinking while typing this "I bet that means that chat messages from NodeBB to PieFed will fail", which I just tested, and sure enough they do (I'll make an Issue for it on PieFed's repo).
Ah, that's unfortunate. When NodeBB sends a chat message out, it is just a regular Note with the recipients directly addressed, with no
as:Publicpseudo-user.So as long as PieFed handles mentioned-only notes the activity should be processed...
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@julian It currently doesn't. If someone is Mentioned, the assumption is that it was part of post / comment in a community, and it fails because it can't find the community. I know that, for Lemmy, if you Mention someone in a comment, and they don't have a copy of the community (or they do and there's no local subscribers to it), then it will reject it. I don't know what it does if there's no community at all (I'll figure out a way to test it, on a server I can control).
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@julian It currently doesn't. If someone is Mentioned, the assumption is that it was part of post / comment in a community, and it fails because it can't find the community. I know that, for Lemmy, if you Mention someone in a comment, and they don't have a copy of the community (or they do and there's no local subscribers to it), then it will reject it. I don't know what it does if there's no community at all (I'll figure out a way to test it, on a server I can control).
@freamon Update: no, Lemmy doesn't understand them either. It rejects Create / Note without a community with the usual "did not match any variant of untagged enum AnnouncableActivities"
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FYI the next Lemmy version will use
Create/Notefor private messages. You can test it on voyager.lemmy.ml -
FYI the next Lemmy version will use
Create/Notefor private messages. You can test it on voyager.lemmy.ml@nutomic@lemmy.ml thanks for the update! That's awesome to hear
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@julian I've added support to PieFed to successfully receive Create / Note as a PM from NodeBB.
From Nutomic's PR, it looks like you'll continue you get Create / ChatMessage from them, as also you will from PieFed. This currently fails, as I guess that it converts them into a Create / Note, but then complains of there being no 'cc'.
It doesn't make sense for PMs to be 'carbon copied' to anyone, so I'll raise an Issue at your repo.
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@julian I've added support to PieFed to successfully receive Create / Note as a PM from NodeBB.
From Nutomic's PR, it looks like you'll continue you get Create / ChatMessage from them, as also you will from PieFed. This currently fails, as I guess that it converts them into a Create / Note, but then complains of there being no 'cc'.
It doesn't make sense for PMs to be 'carbon copied' to anyone, so I'll raise an Issue at your repo.
@freamon thanks! Happy to look into handling
Create(ChatMessage)... I think the error aside, NodeBB would drop it anyway sinceChatMessageisn't an expected post type.
