go-fed-activity/pub/actor.go

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package pub
import (
"context"
"net/http"
)
// Actor represents ActivityPub's actor concept. It conceptually has an inbox
// and outbox that receives either a POST or GET request, which triggers side
// effects in the federating application.
//
// An Actor within an application may federate server-to-server (Federation
// Protocol), client-to-server (Social API), or both. The Actor represents the
// server in either use case.
//
// Not all Actors have the same behaviors depending on the constructor used to
// create them. Refer to the constructor's documentation to determine the exact
// behavior of the Actor on an application.
//
// The behaviors documented here are common to all Actors returned by any
// constructor.
type Actor interface {
// PostInbox returns true if the request was handled as an ActivityPub
// POST to an actor's inbox. If false, the request was not an
// ActivityPub request and may still be handled by the caller in
// another way, such as serving a web page.
//
// If the error is nil, then the ResponseWriter's headers and response
// has already been written. If a non-nil error is returned, then no
// response has been written.
//
// TODO: Move this to individual constructors.
// If the Federated Protocol is not enabled, writes the
// http.StatusMethodNotAllowed status code in the response. No side
// effects occur.
//
// If the Federated Protocol is enabled, side effects will occur.
PostInbox(c context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (bool, error)
// GetInbox returns true if the request was handled as an ActivityPub
// GET to an actor's inbox. If false, the request was not an ActivityPub
// request and may still be handled by the caller in another way, such
// as serving a web page.
//
// If the error is nil, then the ResponseWriter's headers and response
// has already been written. If a non-nil error is returned, then no
// response has been written.
//
// If the request is an ActivityPub request, the Actor will defer to the
// application to determine the correct authorization of the request and
// the resulting OrderedCollection to respond with. The Actor handles
// serializing this OrderedCollection and responding with the correct
// headers and http.StatusOK.
GetInbox(c context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (bool, error)
// PostOutbox returns true if the request was handled as an ActivityPub
// POST to an actor's outbox. If false, the request was not an
// ActivityPub request and may still be handled by the caller in another
// way, such as serving a web page.
//
// If the error is nil, then the ResponseWriter's headers and response
// has already been written. If a non-nil error is returned, then no
// response has been written.
PostOutbox(c context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (bool, error)
// GetOutbox returns true if the request was handled as an ActivityPub
// GET to an actor's outbox. If false, the request was not an
// ActivityPub request.
//
// If the error is nil, then the ResponseWriter's headers and response
// has already been written. If a non-nil error is returned, then no
// response has been written.
//
// If the request is an ActivityPub request, the Actor will defer to the
// application to determine the correct authorization of the request and
// the resulting OrderedCollection to respond with. The Actor handles
// serializing this OrderedCollection and responding with the correct
// headers and http.StatusOK.
GetOutbox(c context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (bool, error)
}