This is the initial implementation for the new URL unfurling requirements. The
most important one is that only the message sender will pay the privacy cost for
unfurling and extracting metadata from websites. Once the message is sent, the
unfurled data will be stored at the protocol level and receivers will just
profit and happily decode the metadata to render it.
Further development of this URL unfurling capability will be mostly guided by
issues created on clients. For the moment in status-mobile:
https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/labels/url-preview
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15918
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15917
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15910
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15909
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15908
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15906
- https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/15905
### Terminology
In the code, I've tried to stick to the word "unfurl URL" to really mean the
process of extracting metadata from a website, sort of lower level. I use "link
preview" to mean a higher level structure which is enriched by unfurled data.
"link preview" is also how designers refer to it.
### User flows
1. Carol needs to see link previews while typing in the chat input field. Notice
from the diagram nothing is persisted and that status-go endpoints are
essentially stateless.
```
#+begin_src plantuml :results verbatim
Client->>Server: Call wakuext_getTextURLs
Server-->>Client: Normalized URLs
Client->>Client: Render cached unfurled URLs
Client->>Server: Unfurl non-cached URLs.\nCall wakuext_unfurlURLs
Server->>Website: Fetch metadata
Website-->>Server: Metadata (thumbnail URL, title, etc)
Server->>Website: Fetch thumbnail
Server->>Website: Fetch favicon
Website-->>Server: Favicon bytes
Website-->>Server: Thumbnail bytes
Server->>Server: Decode & process images
Server-->>Client: Unfurled data (thumbnail data URI, etc)
#+end_src
```
```
,------. ,------. ,-------.
|Client| |Server| |Website|
`--+---' `--+---' `---+---'
| Call wakuext_getTextURLs | |
| ---------------------------------------> |
| | |
| Normalized URLs | |
| <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
| | |
|----. | |
| | Render cached unfurled URLs | |
|<---' | |
| | |
| Unfurl non-cached URLs. | |
| Call wakuext_unfurlURLs | |
| ---------------------------------------> |
| | |
| | Fetch metadata |
| | ------------------------------------>
| | |
| | Metadata (thumbnail URL, title, etc)|
| | <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| | |
| | Fetch thumbnail |
| | ------------------------------------>
| | |
| | Fetch favicon |
| | ------------------------------------>
| | |
| | Favicon bytes |
| | <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| | |
| | Thumbnail bytes |
| | <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| | |
| |----. |
| | | Decode & process images |
| |<---' |
| | |
| Unfurled data (thumbnail data URI, etc)| |
| <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
,--+---. ,--+---. ,---+---.
|Client| |Server| |Website|
`------' `------' `-------'
```
2. Carol sends the text message with link previews in the RPC request
wakuext_sendChatMessages. status-go assumes the link previews are good
because it can't and shouldn't attempt to re-unfurl them.
```
#+begin_src plantuml :results verbatim
Client->>Server: Call wakuext_sendChatMessages
Server->>Server: Transform link previews to\nbe proto-marshalled
Server->DB: Write link previews serialized as JSON
Server-->>Client: Updated message response
#+end_src
```
```
,------. ,------. ,--.
|Client| |Server| |DB|
`--+---' `--+---' `+-'
| Call wakuext_sendChatMessages| |
| -----------------------------> |
| | |
| |----. |
| | | Transform link previews to |
| |<---' be proto-marshalled |
| | |
| | |
| | Write link previews serialized as JSON|
| | -------------------------------------->
| | |
| Updated message response | |
| <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
,--+---. ,--+---. ,+-.
|Client| |Server| |DB|
`------' `------' `--'
```
3. The message was sent over waku and persisted locally in Carol's device. She
should now see the link previews in the chat history. There can be many link
previews shared by other chat members, therefore it is important to serve the
assets via the media server to avoid overloading the ReactNative bridge with
lots of big JSON payloads containing base64 encoded data URIs (maybe this
concern is meaningless for desktop). When a client is rendering messages with
link previews, they will have the field linkPreviews, and the thumbnail URL
will point to the local media server.
```
#+begin_src plantuml :results verbatim
Client->>Server: GET /link-preview/thumbnail (media server)
Server->>DB: Read from user_messages.unfurled_links
Server->Server: Unmarshal JSON
Server-->>Client: HTTP Content-Type: image/jpeg/etc
#+end_src
```
```
,------. ,------. ,--.
|Client| |Server| |DB|
`--+---' `--+---' `+-'
| GET /link-preview/thumbnail (media server)| |
| ------------------------------------------> |
| | |
| | Read from user_messages.unfurled_links|
| | -------------------------------------->
| | |
| |----. |
| | | Unmarshal JSON |
| |<---' |
| | |
| HTTP Content-Type: image/jpeg/etc | |
| <- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |
,--+---. ,--+---. ,+-.
|Client| |Server| |DB|
`------' `------' `--'
```
### Some limitations of the current implementation
The following points will become separate issues in status-go that I'll work on
over the next couple weeks. In no order of importance:
- Improve how multiple links are fetched; retries on failure and testing how
unfurling behaves around the timeout limits (deterministically, not by making
real HTTP calls as I did). https://github.com/status-im/status-go/issues/3498
- Unfurl favicons and store them in the protobuf too.
- For this PR, I added unfurling support only for websites with OpenGraph
https://ogp.me/ meta tags. Other unfurlers will be implemented on demand. The
next one will probably be for oEmbed https://oembed.com/, the protocol
supported by YouTube, for example.
- Resize and/or compress thumbnails (and favicons). Often times, thumbnails are
huge for the purposes of link previews. There is already support for
compressing JPEGs in status-go, but I prefer to work with compression in a
separate PR because I'd like to also solve the problem for PNGs (probably
convert them to JPEGs, plus compress them). This would be a safe choice for
thumbnails, favicons not so much because transparency is desirable.
- Editing messages is not yet supported.
- I haven't coded any artificial limit on the number of previews or on the size
of the thumbnail payload. This will be done in a separate issue. I have heard
the ideal solution may be to split messages into smaller chunks of ~125 KiB
because of libp2p, but that might be too complicated at this stage of the
product (?).
- Link preview deletion.
- For the moment, OpenGraph metadata is extracted by requesting data for the
English language (and fallback to whatever is available). In the future, we'll
want to unfurl by respecting the user's local device language. Some websites,
like GoDaddy, are already localized based on the device's IP, but many aren't.
- The website's description text should be limited by a certain number of
characters, especially because it's outside our control. Exactly how much has
not been decided yet, so it'll be done separately.
- URL normalization can be tricky, so I implemented only the basics to help with
caching. For example, the url https://status.im and HTTPS://status.im are
considered identical. Also, a URL is considered valid for unfurling if its TLD
exists according to publicsuffix.EffectiveTLDPlusOne. This was essential,
otherwise the default Go url.Parse approach would consider many invalid URLs
valid, and thus the server would waste resources trying to unfurl the
unfurleable.
### Other requirements
- If the message is edited, the link previews should reflect the edited text,
not the original one. This has been aligned with the design team as well.
- If the website's thumbnail or the favicon can't be fetched, just ignore them.
The only mandatory piece of metadata is the website's title and URL.
- Link previews in clients should be generated in near real-time, that is, as
the user types, previews are updated. In mobile this performs very well, and
it's what other clients like WhatsApp, Telegram, and Facebook do.
### Decisions
- While the user typing in the input field, the client is constantly (debounced)
asking status-go to parse the text and extract normalized URLs and then the
client checks if they're already in its in-memory cache. If they are, no RPC
call is made. I chose this approach to achieve the best possible performance
in mobile and avoid the whole RPC overhead, since the chat experience is
already not smooth enough. The mobile client uses URLs as cache keys in a
hashmap, i.e. if the key is present, it means the preview is readily available
(naive, but good enough for now). This decision also gave me more flexibility
to find the best UX at this stage of the feature.
- Due to the requirement that users should be able to see independent loading
indicators for each link preview, when status-go can't unfurl a URL, it
doesn't return it in the response.
- As an initial implementation, I added the BLOB column unfurled_links to the
user_messages table. The preview data is then serialized as JSON before being
stored in this column. I felt that creating a separate table and the related
code for this initial PR would be inconvenient. Is that reasonable to you?
Once things stabilize I can create a proper table if we want to avoid this
kind of solution with serialized columns.
* fix mobile mention issue #15616
* add state != nil
* clear previous text when clear mentions
* fix: after selected mention user, and type @ not working
* bump version
Changes applied here introduce:
- improvements to sync wallet accounts among devices (including all account types)
- backing up wallet accounts to and fetch them from waku (an information about received
wallet accounts is sent via `waku.backedup.wallet-account` signal to a client)
* Community request to join changes
* Fix read state for request to join notification
* Bring back deleted notification when updated with response
* Update Request timeout to 7 days
* Update VERSION
- Display name is now backed up only as a part of `protobuf.BackedUpProfile` message,
it is not backed up via `protobuf.SyncSetting` any more (this refers only to backing up to
and fetching data from waku, regular syncing (among devices) remains unchanged)
- When saving the display name fetched from waku, before a clock was set to the current
time when that operation is made, which was incorrect, now we're using the clock from
backed up message (`SaveSyncDisplayName` function)
This adds an additional check for collectibles when community
permissions are validated.
Specifically this uses opensea to request all NFTs given an
owner wallet and a list of contract addresses (collectibles).
This adds checks to `HandleCommunityRequestToJoin` and
`AcceptRequestToJoinCommunity` that ensure a given user's revealed
wallet addresses own the token funds required by a community.
When community has token permissions of type `BECOME_MEMBER`, the
following happens when the owner receives a request:
1. Upon verifying provided wallet addresses by the requester, the owner
node accumulates all token funds related to the given wallets that
match the token criteria in the configured permissions
2. If the requester does not meet the necessary requirements, the
request to join will be declined. If the requester does have the
funds, he'll either be automatically accepted to the community, or
enters the next stage where an owner needs to manually accept the
request.
3. The the community does not automatically accept users, then the funds
check will happen again, when the owner tries to manually accept the
request. If the necessary funds do not exist at this stage, the
request will be declined
4. Upon accepting, whether automatically or manually, the owner adds the
requester's wallet addresses to the `CommunityDescription`, such that
they can be retrieved later when doing periodic checks or when
permissions have changed.
Also, make AccountManager a dependency of Messenger.
This is needed for community token permissions as we'll need a way to access wallet accounts
and sign messages when sending requests to join a community.
The APIs have been mostly taken from GethStatusBackend and personal service.
prefixes. Changed primary keys and API methods.
Fixed tests and added new ones.
Fixed saved addresses and transaction tests to use ':memory:' sqlite
DB instead of a tmp file to speed up testing by hundred of times.
Fixes#8599
* feat: refactor activity center endpoints
* fix: restore activity center tests using new endpoints
* feat: Remove from activity center endpoints accepted flag
* feat: Activity Center review fixes
Changes applied here introduce backing up keycards data to and fetch them from waku.
Information about received keycards data is sent via `sync.from.waku.keycards` signal.
Adds a new column named `deleted` to the table `activity_center_notifications`.
Related PR in Mobile https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/pull/15106 for a lot more details of the feature.
Why? Relying on the `dismissed` column for soft deletion is no longer viable because the mobile & desktop clients should display dismissed notifications (sometimes), hence the need for a new column to truly represent soft deletion.
* feat: add fetching notifications by activity center group
* feat: add api for counting notifications by activity center group
* chore: activity center query code refactor
* feat: add endpoint returning ActivityCenterType(s) by ActivityCenterGroup
* chore: Remove activityGroup from status-go level
* feat: add endpoint for counting notifications with different conditions
* chore: upgrade go-waku to v0.5
* chore: add println and logs to check what's being stored in the enr, and preemptively delete the multiaddr field (#3219)
* feat: add wakuv2 test (#3218)
* Outgoing contact requests
* Test fix
* Test fix
* Fixes
* Bugfixes
* Bugfixes
* Almost there
* Removed the activity center notification
* Test update
* Almost ready
* Fixes
* Fixes
* feat: Add seen/unseen activity center state
* feat: ActivityCenterState for grouping ActivityCenter unread messages cnt and seen state
* feat: always use messenger's addActivityCenterNotification & add state to the response
* Remove unused activity center endpoints form api and fix test
Summary
=======
- [x] Changes endpoint ActivityCenterNotificationsBy to support fetching
multiple types of notification in a single query.
- [x] Adds endpoint UnreadAndAcceptedActivityCenterNotificationsCount to
allow the mobile client to fetch the count of unread & accepted
notifications.
- [x] Add `golangci-lint` to Nix shell. This was possible since PR
https://github.com/status-im/status-go/pull/3087 was merged.
Notes
=====
- If you'd like to understand why these changes are needed, please see
the mobile PR https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/pull/14785,
or issue https://github.com/status-im/status-mobile/issues/14712
- All changes should be completely backwards compatible, and there
should be no impact for the desktop app.
- The mobile client has been already tested using this branch.
Changes applied here introduce backing up profile data (display name and identity
images) to waku and fetch them from waku. Information about those data is sent
as a separate signal to a client via `sync.from.waku.profile` signal.
New signal `sync.from.waku.progress` is introduced which will be used to notify a client
about the progress of fetching data from waku.
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.
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Mohamed Javid
Ibrahem Khalil
Igor Sirotin
Dario Gabriel Lipicar
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Andrea Maria Piana
Roman Volosovskyi
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