models/federation/federation.go

@@ -185,3 +185,28 @@ func GetRemoteUsersWithNoLocalFollowers(ctx context.Context, olderThan time.Dura
 	return users, nil
 
 }
+
+func GetRemotePersons(ctx context.Context, page int) ([]FederatedUser, error) {
+	limit := 1
+	offset := page * limit
+	var federatedUsers []FederatedUser
+
+	err := db.GetEngine(ctx).
+		Table("federated_user").
+		Limit(limit, offset).
+		Find(&federatedUsers)
+
+		//	TODO: this doesn't work, so fetching federated_user and then getting user. How to make this work?
+		//	var users []user.User
+		//	err := db.GetEngine(ctx).
+		//		Table("user").
+		//		Join("inner", "federated_user", "federated_user.user_id = user.id").
+		//		Limit(limit, offset).
+		//		Find(&users)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Trace("Error: GetRemotePersons: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return federatedUsers, nil
+}

options/locale/locale_en-US.ini

@@ -2922,6 +2922,7 @@ dashboard.sync_branch.started = Branches Sync started
 dashboard.sync_tag.started = Tags Sync started
 dashboard.rebuild_issue_indexer = Rebuild issue indexer
 dashboard.remote_actor_cleanup = Clean remote actors with no local followers
+dashboard.remote_actor_update = Update remote actors' data
 
 users.user_manage_panel = Manage user accounts
 users.new_account = Create User Account

services/cron/tasks_basic.go

@@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ func initBasicTasks() {
 
 	if setting.Federation.Enabled {
 		registerCleanupRemotePersonsWithNoFollowers()
+		registerUpdateRemotePersons()
 	}
 
 }
@@ -212,3 +213,15 @@ func registerCleanupRemotePersonsWithNoFollowers() {
 		return forgefed_service.CleanUpRemotePersons(ctx, acConfig.OlderThan)
 	})
 }
+
+func registerUpdateRemotePersons() {
+	RegisterTaskFatal("remote_actor_update", &OlderThanConfig{
+		BaseConfig: BaseConfig{
+			Enabled:    true,
+			RunAtStart: true,
+			Schedule:   "@every 6h",
+		},
+	}, func(ctx context.Context, _ *user_model.User, config Config) error {
+		return forgefed_service.UpdatePersonActor(ctx)
+	})
+}

services/forgefed/actor.go

@@ -43,6 +43,21 @@ func GetActor(id string) (*ap.Actor, error) {
 	return actorObj, nil
 }
 
+func GetPersonAvatar(ctx context.Context, person *ap.Person) ([]byte, error) {
+
+	avatarObj := new(ap.Image)
+	ap.CopyItemProperties(avatarObj, person.Icon)
+	log.Info("Getting avatar from link : %s", avatarObj.URL.GetLink().String())
+
+	r, err := http.Get(avatarObj.URL.GetLink().String())
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("Got error while fetching avatar fn: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer r.Body.Close()
+	return io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+}
+
 func SavePerson(ctx context.Context, person *ap.Person) (*user.User, error) {
 
 	fmt.Println(person.ID.String())
@@ -91,6 +106,16 @@ func SavePerson(ctx context.Context, person *ap.Person) (*user.User, error) {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
+	avatar, err := GetPersonAvatar(ctx, person)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Error("Got error while fetching avatar: %w", err)
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	if u.IsUploadAvatarChanged(avatar) {
+		_ = user_service.UploadAvatar(ctx, u, avatar)
+	}
+
 	if err = federation.CreateFederatedUser(ctx, u, &federatedHost); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -98,6 +123,20 @@ func SavePerson(ctx context.Context, person *ap.Person) (*user.User, error) {
 	return u, nil
 }
 
+func GetActorFromUser(ctx context.Context, u *user.User) (*ap.Actor, error) {
+
+	alias := u.Name
+
+	webfingerRes, err := WebFingerLookup(alias)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	actorID := webfingerRes.GetActorLink().Href
+
+	return GetActor(actorID)
+}
+
 // Clean up remote actors (persons) without any followers in local instance
 func CleanUpRemotePersons(ctx context.Context, olderThan time.Duration) error {
 	page := 0
@@ -122,3 +161,59 @@ func CleanUpRemotePersons(ctx context.Context, olderThan time.Duration) error {
 	}
 	return nil
 }
+
+func UpdatePersonActor(ctx context.Context) error {
+	// NOTE: change of any of these don't matter at this point since we are
+	// ignoring actor's PreferredUsername and using their address to generate
+	// username and email. Ask suggestions from other devs.
+	//
+	//	fmt.Println(person.ID.String())
+	//	hostname, err := GetHostnameFromResource(person.ID.String())
+	//
+	//
+	//	u := new(user.User)
+	//	u.Name = "@" + person.PreferredUsername.String() + "@" + hostname
+	//	//panic(u.Name)
+	//	u.Email = person.PreferredUsername.String() + "@" + hostname
+	//	u.Website = person.URL.GetID().String()
+	//	u.KeepEmailPrivate = true
+
+	page := 0
+	for {
+		federatedUsers, err := federation.GetRemotePersons(ctx, page)
+		if len(federatedUsers) == 0 {
+			break
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Trace("Error: UpdatePersonActor: %v", err)
+			return err
+		}
+
+		for _, f := range federatedUsers {
+			log.Info("Updating users, got %s", f.ExternalID)
+			u, err := user.GetUserByName(ctx, f.ExternalID)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Error("Got error while getting user: %w", err)
+				return err
+			}
+
+			person, err := GetActorFromUser(ctx, u)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Error("Got error while fetching actor: %w", err)
+				return err
+			}
+
+			avatar, err := GetPersonAvatar(ctx, person)
+			if err != nil {
+				log.Error("Got error while fetching avatar: %w", err)
+				return err
+			}
+
+			if u.IsUploadAvatarChanged(avatar) {
+				_ = user_service.UploadAvatar(ctx, u, avatar)
+			}
+		}
+		page += 1
+	}
+	return nil
+}