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[keyserver] Add dontCheckJoinPermissions override option to createThread for sidebar
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Authored by will on Tue, Oct 29, 3:25 PM.
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Summary

This adds the dontCheckJoinPermissions option to createThread. commbot when creating the sidebar will require this as it will not be a member

Depends on D13813

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Tested later in the stack when used to create sidebars.

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Harbormaster returned this revision to the author for changes because remote builds failed.Tue, Oct 29, 3:40 PM
Harbormaster failed remote builds in B32414: Diff 45441!

rename dontCheckPermissions to dontCheckJoinPermissions

will requested review of this revision.Tue, Oct 29, 4:40 PM
ashoat requested changes to this revision.Tue, Oct 29, 7:06 PM
ashoat added inline comments.
keyserver/src/creators/thread-creator.js
65 ↗(On Diff #45442)

This only applies for the changeRole for the viewer, not for the initial members / ghost members

I think we should either give it a more specific name to clarify that, or make it apply for all of the changeRole calls

367–369 ↗(On Diff #45442)

I might be misremembering, but I recall we had settled on having a flag that would avoid adding a commbot as a member at all, eg. we would skip this changeRole entirely

Was there a reason that approach no longer made sense?

keyserver/src/updaters/thread-permission-updaters.js
93 ↗(On Diff #45442)

This flag seems to do two things:

  • Ignore KNOW_OF check inside getRoleForPermissions
  • Ignore memberOfContainingThread check on line 257

It would be good to at least add a code comment explaining that both of these things are affected

This revision now requires changes to proceed.Tue, Oct 29, 7:06 PM
keyserver/src/creators/thread-creator.js
367–369 ↗(On Diff #45442)

(I suppose we'd need to add commbot as a ghost at least)

keyserver/src/creators/thread-creator.js
367–369 ↗(On Diff #45442)

I think we might have discussed having commbot as a ghost for the sidebar thread:

// if the tagger is a user on Comm, then:
// - call joinThread for them, not changeRole. we want the robotext
// - construct a viewer with them
// if the tagger is NOT a user on Comm, then:
// - call changeRole/commitMembershipChangeset for commbot
// - construct a viewer using commbot
// we'll use the same viewer to create the sidebar later

I was just working on a flag for not setting commbot to an admin. I think I approached it as setting commbot as a normal user first but I think setting it to a ghost user altogether makes sense to me. As you said, it removes the need to remove commbot

will marked an inline comment as not done.Tue, Oct 29, 7:40 PM
keyserver/src/creators/thread-creator.js
367–369 ↗(On Diff #45442)

I wrote the above comment with a misunderstanding. I'm thinking back and now I think I understand.

Didn't think to just skip the entire changeRole entirely and still thought we needed a dont check permission option. Will update to just skip the changeRole

Abandoning. We're no longer planning to override permissions