This commit makes a few changes to the community history archive
download routine to make it more robust:
1. Prior to this commit, even when there were no archives to be
downloaded, we were still trying to extract messages from archive
data.
2. Logs have been improved as they were sometimes showing confusing
information
3. We now handle interruption of ongoing download + data import much
better in case of multiple magnetlinks being processed in roughly the
same time.
4. We now keep track of which archive has been successfully imported
into the database. Without this, Status would consider any downloaded
archives as "done" even though they haven't actually been imported
into the database yet. This way Status should be able to pick up its
work were it left of the last time, in case a user closes the app, or
another magnetlink interrupts the ongoing process.
In order to give clients more insights about archive messages being
processed, we're adding this additional signal that informs clients when
the import of downloaded history archive messages has started.
* feat(ActivityCenter): Add community request AC notification
* feat(ActivityCenter): Add CommunityID to AC notification
* feat(ActivityCenter): Add membership status for community membership AC notifications
* feat(ActivityCenter): Add tests for community notifications and fix naming
* Add notification for kicked from community action
* feat(ActivityCenter): Fix for missing notification objects for tests
Prior to this commit we had a `CreateHistoryArchiveTorrent()` API which
takes a `startDate`, an `endDate` and a `partition` to create a bunch of
message archives, given a certain time range.
The function expects the messages to live in the database, which means,
all messages that need to be archived have to be saved there at some
point.
This turns out to be an issue when importing communities from third
party services, where, sometimes, there are several thousands of messages
including attachment payloads, that have to be save to the database
first.
There are only two options to get the messages into the database:
1. Make one write operation with all messages - this slow, takes a long
time and blocks the database until done
2. Create message chunks and perform multiple write operations - this is
also slow, takes long but makes the database a bit more responsive as
it's many smaller operations instead of one big one
Option 2) turned out to not be super feasible either as sometimes,
inserting even a single such message can take up to 10 seconds
(depending on payload)
Which brings me to the third option.
**A third option** is to not store those imported messages as waku
message into the database, just to later query them again to create the
archives, but instead create the archives right away from all the
messages that have been loaded into memory.
This is significantly faster and doesn't block the database.
To make this possible, this commit introduces
a `CreateHistoryArchiveTorrentFromMessages()` API, and
a `CreateHistoryArchiveTorrentFromDB()` API which can be used for
different use cases.
settings
Turns out `UpdateCommunitySettings()` has never worked. Two parameters
where in the wrong order, cause the SQL statement to never find the row
it has to update.
When fetching torrent info after receiving a magnet link,
it can happen that the request times out.
We want to retry downloading the data again at least once more
before giving up
The default logger writes to `geth.log`, which makes debugging
the archive protocol pretty hard.
This adds an additional logger that logs to stdout, while keeping
the default logger intact for production.
- added `SpectateCommunity` endpoint, it is supposed to be used in
scenarios where we want to "Go to public Community" and see its
content without joining
- added `spectated` field to `Community`, it means we are observing the
community and its chats but we are not members
Use case:
https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/issues/7072#issuecomment-1246560885
Usually, message IDs are generated by their payload and signature and
in receiving nodes calculated in based on the same data as well.
There's no ID attached to messages in-flight.
This turns out to be a bit of a problem for messages that are being
imported from third party systems like discord, as the conversion
and saving of such messages and handling of their possible assets and
attachments are done in separate steps, which changes the message
payloads after their IDs have been generated.
Hence, we're introducing a `ThirdPartyID` property to `common.Message`
and `protobuf.WakuMessage` so receiving nodes of such messages (via the
archive protocol primarily) can easily detect third party/imported
messages and give them special treatment.
This might look like a weird requirement at a fist glance.
The reason this is needed, is because some message signals require
admin rights to take effect (e.g. PinMessage).
When messages are imported from third-party services,
translated to status messages, signed by the community, and eventually distributed
via the archive protocol, we need to ensure that messages signed
by the community itself are considered as admin privileges as well,
so they can be correctly replayed into the database.
This adds a new `DownloadingHistoryArchivesFinished` signal to the
family of community archive signals. It's emitted when all to be
downloaded archives have been downloaded and handled.
`FirstMessageTimestamp` enables members of the community to determine if
there are any messages they can fetch on the community channel(chat).
`FirstMessageTimestamp` is advertised by admin for each community chat
through `CommunityDescription`. It assumes admin is online frequently
enough to capture the first channel message.
For existing communities admin determines first message timestamp by
finding oldest chat message in its local database.
task: status-im/status-desktop#6731
This is so that we can control whether we want to publish the community
when it, or it's categories and channels, are created.
This is needed for the discord import so that we can create communities,
channels and categories without publishing the community and have it
show up in UIs too early.
This commit introduces a few changes regarding users accessing
communities:
While the APIs still exist, community invites should no longer be
used, instead communities should merely be "shared".
Sharing a community to users allows users to "join" the community,
which in reality makes them request access to that community.
This means, users have to request access to any community, even if
the community has permissions set to NO_MEMBERSHIP
Only difference between ON_REQUEST and NO_MEMBERSHIP is that
ON_REQUEST communities require manual approval of the owner/admin
to access a community. NO_MEMBERSHIP communities accept
automatically (as soon as owner/admin receives the request).
This also implies that users are no longer optimistically added to the
member list of communities, but only after they have been accepted.
This introduces a bit of a message ping-pong for users to know that
someone is now part of a community
This commit introduces a new `clock` field in the
`communities_settings` table so that it can be leveraged for syncing
community settings across devices.
It alsoe exends existing `syncCommunity` APIs to generate
`SyncCommunitySettings` as well, avoiding sending additional sync messages
for community settings.
When editing communities however, we still sync community settings
explicitly are we aren't syncing the community itself in that case.
Add banner image as a special `IdentityImage` beside "thumbnail" and "large"
Banner input cropped image processing
- Resize to keep in the limits of `BannerDim`
- Encode to match the file size limits define for banner
- Don't scale up. This can be done efficiently in the UI
Changes to `images` module
- Refactor `EncodeToBestSize` as `EncodeToLimits` to accept arbitrary dimensions
and allow for custom size
- Define `DimensionLimits` for banner not to exceed 450 KB and a rough estimate
for the ideal size
This allows to store community admin settings that are meant to be propagated
to community members (as opposed to the already existing
`CommunitySettings` which are considered local to every account).
The first setting introduced as part of this commit is one that enables
community admins to configure whether or not members of the community
are allowed to pin messages in community channels.
Prior to this commit, this was not restricted at all on the protocol
level and only enforced by clients via UI (e.g. members don't see an
option to pin messages, although they could).
This config setting now ensures that:
1. If turned off, members cannot send a pin message
2. If turned off, pin messages from members are not handled/processed
This is needed by https://github.com/status-im/status-desktop/issues/5662
This introduces the ability for status notes to handle community
history archive magnetlinks. To make this work, a few things are needed:
1. A new database table has been introduced to store message archive
hashes. This is necessary so status nodes can determine whether or
not they need to download a certain archive
2. The messenger's `handleRetrievedMessages()` has been exteded to take
magnetlink messages into account
3. New APIs were added to download torrent data given a magnetlink and
also to extract messages from downloaded archives, which are then
later fed to `handleRetrievedMessages`
Closes#2568
This introduces logic needed to:
- Create WakuMessageArchives and and indices from store waku messages
- History archive torrent data to disk and create .torrent file from
that
- Seed and unseed history archive torrents as necessary
- Starting/stopping the torrent client
- Enabling/disabling community history support for individual components
and starting/stopping the routine intervals accordingly
This does not yet handle magnet links (#2568)
Closes#2567
This is needed so that when they are bundled into archives, receiving
nodes can still verify the messages payload using its signature.
This commit introduces a new `waku_messages` table and APIs to store
such messages. Waku message payload is store for any message that has
a topic that matches any of the admin communities chats.
Closes#2566
Jonathan Rainville
Pascal Precht
Pascal Precht
Michal Iskierko
frank
Boris Melnik
Mikhail Rogachev
Richard Ramos
Patryk Osmaczko
Vitaliy Vlasov
Stefan
Roman Volosovskyi
Andrea Maria Piana