bovine-process 0.5.17

Processing of Side Effects of ActivityPub Activities for an ActivityPub Server

bovine_process

Note: Development of bovine_process will probably be discontinued

bovine_process consists of the side effect logic of Activity objects. This means it contains the code, the logic that for an incoming object, one executes:

• Store object in bovine_store
• Add reference to inbox
• Perform side effects
• Enque object for bovine_pubsub

And a similar list of effects for outgoing objects, i.e

• Store object in bovine_store
• Add reference to outbox
• Perform side effects
• Send objects to follower's inbox
• Enque object for bovine_pubsub

The behavior defined in this package corresponds to 6. Client to Server Interactions and 7. Server to Server Interactions of the ActivityPub specification. However, only a small subset of side effects is implemented.

Implemented Side Effects

• Create, Update, Delete on objects, i.e. basic crud

• Like, Dislike, EmojiReact -> add to likes collection; Undo removes

• Announce -> add to share collection; Undo removes

• The same person can Like, Announce, etc.. multiple times

• Create with inReplyTo -> add to replies collection; Delete removes

• Follow and Accept

  • Outgoing Accept of Follow adds to followers
  • Incoming Accept of Follows adds to following

• Specify Update checks

• Authority checks.

• Refactor for easier customization / extension. Adding a new side effect currently requires publishing a new package. This should not be the case.

Tests

The folder tests/data contains test cases what side effects happen in the database for certain cases.