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Serve saved activities and objects of every type over ActivityPub - #177
Serves resources saved by the common write operations over ActivityPub, following the decisions recorded in #149. docs/internals/federation-reads.md states the full rules. Tests cover the completion criteria on both PGlite and PostgreSQL.
Review after the record was posted changed these rules.
Replaces “opaque extension values are not descended into”. A JSON-LD processor reads the node objects in extension values with the context they inherit, so their bto and bcc are removed and they follow the rules of embedded documents: recipients by href for a Link and by id otherwise, and an object referring to a deleted local object hides the document unless the node object is a Delete. The write path checks identity claims in them.
Replaces “a page can hold fewer items than the page size”. A page reads further batches until it is full and links a next page only when a served activity follows, so only the last page is short.
The deletion rule also reads the object of embedded activities. An Undo of a Like of a deleted object is hidden, and a Delete embedded in an Announce is still served.
A document whose recipients or references cannot be determined is not served, and publicDocument() returns null for it: an extension node object with a @context of its own, @nest, @reverse, a blank node reference or an id used elsewhere in the document than in its own properties, or two embedded documents that share an id. The validator does not interpret nested contexts. The write path still saves such documents. They, and documents the validator cannot read, answer 404, are left out of outbox pages and the counter, and are logged once per revision.
Fedify does not parse served documents, so values Fedify 2.4.3 cannot read, such as a Link in audience or object, are served as saved. parseVocab() throws for such documents.
Identity claims include the href of a Link under actor or attributedTo, and of a Link embedded elsewhere with the id such a value names.
Validation no longer expands a blank node identifier as a compact IRI, so a type such as _:Delete is unsupported, and reads the payload of a JSON literal whose @type is spelled with an alias as plain JSON.
Limitations
The outbox counter reads every saved activity document in the outbox on each request, so its cost grows with the outbox. A follow-up will store these inputs with each revision before 0.2.0.
A new activity nested in another, such as the Like in an Undo, has an IRI that answers 404, since only the root activity enters the outbox.
The preview does not warn about a document that federation reads will refuse.
An activity whose context redefines a term the context of Fedify'
addressing indexes saved before this change are not rebuilt. GraphQL saves only through createLegacyObject(), whose documents are unaffected, so no migration is included.
AI disclosure
The user wrote the plan with assistance from Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1) and instructed Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5) to implement it and incorporate feedback from reviews by Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1) and Codex (gpt-6-astra, gpt-6-sol). The user verified the changes.
Resources saved by the common write operations had revisions only, so no
dispatcher served them and /ap/activities/{id} always answered 404. The
dispatchers now serve a resource without legacy typed rows from the
document of its current revision, as saved, without bto and bcc in it or
in any document it embeds. Legacy Note, Article and Create rows keep
their serializers, and no IRI changes.
Every read needs the request's authority to be the instance of a live
local actor and Public to or cc addressing. An activity must also be in
such an actor's outbox. A document that embeds content addressed to
others, or a deleted local object, at any depth is not served, and an
activity referring to a deleted object is served only if it is a Delete.
A deleted object is answered with a Tombstone. Fedify does not parse a
served document: a vocabulary object whose toJsonLd() returns the
document is handed to it, so values Fedify 2.4.3 cannot read, such as a
Link in audience or object, are served as saved too.
Outbox pages now follow collection_items positions and mix legacy and
saved activities in one order; the cursor is the position of the
previous page's last item. The serialization is exported as
@drfed/federation/serving for outgoing payloads.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to carry out a local plan for #153.
Claude Code wrote the serving modules, the shared SQL predicates, the
outbox paging, the tests, the documentation and the changelog entries.
The contributor then supplied review findings on nested visibility,
deletion inside embedded documents, documents without @context, embedded
Public recipients and Link values; Claude Code reproduced each with a
test before fixing it. Codex reviewed the result and found that a Link
href written as a singleton list escaped the deletion rule, which Claude
Code fixed with a regression test.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Three gaps in the outbox reads of saved activities:
- A saved document the write path would refuse, as after a manual
edit, made inspectRevision() throw, so one bad activity answered
the whole outbox page and counter with 500. It is now logged
under ["drfed", "federation", "serving"] and left out; its own
resource answers 404.
- A page left out the activities its documents hide only after
selecting rows, so it could be empty while still linking a next
page, and consumers that stop at an empty page missed the rest.
A page now reads further batches until it is full, and links a
next page only when a served activity follows.
- Pages required an item position but direct activity reads did
not. Both now share listedItem(), so an item no page can reach
is not served either.
The counter still reads every saved document in the outbox on each
request; the internals document now states that cost.
#153
The contributor supplied the review findings. Claude Code reproduced
each with a test before fixing it and updated the documentation.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Gaps that a review of the serving changes found:
- A node object inside an extension value, such as a Note under a
custom property, kept its bto and bcc, and its addressing did not
restrict the document around it, although a JSON-LD processor reads
it with the context it inherits. describeDocument() now lists such
node objects as the extensions of the document that holds them.
Their blind recipients are removed, and the visibility and deletion
rules read them as embedded documents. A document with one that has
a @context of its own is neither served nor returned by
publicDocument(), since the validator does not read that context.
- Only the root's object was checked against deleted objects, so an
Undo of a Like of a deleted note was still served. The object of
every embedded activity other than a Delete is checked as well.
- The outbox counter looked up deleted objects with every IRI of the
outbox in one statement, which fails past the 65,535 parameters
PostgreSQL binds. Lookups now take 1,000 IRIs at a time, and the
counter reads documents 100 at a time.
- Pages read past hidden activities 21 at a time; their batches now
double up to 1,000 items. An unservable revision is logged once per
process instead of on every page and counter request.
Tests also cover saved objects and their Tombstones requested on a host
that is no instance, on another instance's authority, and after the
actor is deleted.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex, which also cross-checked each other's findings.
Claude Code verified each finding against the code, reproduced the
visibility and deletion gaps with tests that failed before the fix, and
wrote the changes, tests, documentation and changelog entries. A
finding that nested activities advertise IRIs answering 404 was left
for the contributor, since publishing only the root activity is the
documented contract. mise run check and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The second review round found ways around the reading of node objects
in extension values:
- A key was matched to a standard property only when its container
matched too, so a bcc alias with a @list container kept its blind
recipients. Keys of extension node objects are now matched by IRI
alone.
- Recipients and node objects wrapped in @set or @list objects were
not read, so a Note addressed to {"@set": [bob]} was served. Values
are now read through those objects, and a node object records the
node object holding it as its parent. A value object where a
reference belongs makes the node object uninterpreted, and its
document is not served.
- A JSON literal spelled with the type alias of @type was read as
nested JSON-LD, so its contents lost keys named bcc. Keyword aliases
are now resolved when telling literals and value objects apart.
- The object of an activity inside an extension value was not checked
against deleted objects. Extension node objects now carry their
types, and the object of every one but a Delete is checked.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the second
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests, documentation and changelog
entry. mise run check and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The third review round found references in extension node objects that
were read differently from how a JSON-LD processor reads them:
- A Link with both an id and an href was read by its id, so a Note
addressed to {"type": "Link", "id": Public, "href": bob} was served,
and a Link to a deleted object escaped the deletion rule. Extension
node objects now carry the kind of their known types; a Link is read
as a recipient by its href, and every href is checked as a
reference.
- A string under a key that does not coerce it to an IRI, such as a
compact as:to key, is a literal, not a recipient, but counted as
one. A relative reference, such as an id of /notes/1, was compared
with absolute IRIs, so the deletion rule missed it. A @set or @list
object with a @context of its own was read with the outer context.
A reference property holding any of these now leaves its node object
uninterpreted, and its document is not served.
- Validation still read the payload of a JSON literal spelled with the
type alias of @type as JSON-LD keywords, so a payload with an @id of
1 refused the document. Validation and description now tell JSON
literals apart in the same way.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the third
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and documentation. mise run check
and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The fourth review round found readings of extension node objects that
still differed from a JSON-LD processor's:
- A blank node identifier, such as an id of _:b0, failed the absolute
IRI check and left a document unservable. It is now read as the
name of no resource.
- A language map under an alias of to with a @language container was
read as a node object, so its id language tag counted as a Public
recipient. A language map in a reference property, and more than
one id or href, or a node object as one, now leave a node object
uninterpreted, so that every href of a Link is checked.
- A JSON literal whose @type alias came from a @context of its own was
not recognized, and its payload refused its document. The value of
a value object is a scalar or a JSON literal, so it is no longer read
for node objects, however its type is spelled.
- A document refused because an extension node object is
uninterpreted was not logged. It is now logged once per revision as
a warning.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the fourth
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and documentation. mise run check
and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The fifth review round found two more readings of extension values that
differed from a JSON-LD processor's:
- A blank node identifier was expanded as a compact IRI, so with a
prefix named _ for ActivityStreams, a recipient of _:Public counted
as the public. Blank node identifiers are no longer expanded.
- A language map under a custom property with a @language container
was read as a node object, so a language tag such as id made an
accepted document unservable. The value of a key with a @language
container is no longer read for node objects.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the fifth
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and documentation. mise run check
and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The sixth review round found these gaps:
- A blank node identifier was still expanded where a term or type was
read, so with a prefix named _ for ActivityStreams, a type of
_:Delete counted as a Delete. JSON-LD never expands _: values;
the validator now does not either, so such a type is unsupported in
a document, and stays a blank node in an extension value.
- A Link recipient whose href was a singleton list, which validation
accepts, was left out of the addressing index, so a Public activity
addressed to {"type": "Link", "href": [Public]} was not served. The
index now reads a singleton list too. Documents indexed earlier
keep their index.
- Properties nested by @nest in an extension value were read as a
separate node object. Such a node object is now left
uninterpreted, so its document is not served.
- The log of unservable revisions was cleared when full, so every one
was logged again. Only the revision logged longest ago is now
forgotten.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the sixth
round against the code, found the same blank node expansion in document
types, reproduced each gap with a test that failed before the fix, and
wrote the changes, tests and documentation. Findings on a preview
diagnostic for documents that are not served and on the cost of the
outbox counter were left for the contributor. mise run check and mise
run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
Validation accepts a functional property as a list with one non-null
entry at any position, but the addressing index read a Link's href list
only at its first position. A Public activity addressed to
{"type": "Link", "href": [null, Public]} was therefore left out of the
index and not served, while serving read the same Note embedded in
another document as Public. The index now reads the one value wherever
it is in the list.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex, which all reported this in the seventh round.
Claude Code verified it against the code, reproduced it with a test that
failed before the fix, and wrote the change and test. A finding that
documents indexed before these fixes keep their index was left for the
contributor, since repairing it needs a data migration. mise run check
and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The eighth review round found two gaps opened by serving the node
objects of extension values:
- Identity claims were checked in described documents only, so an
extension value could embed an object with an unregistered id on an
instance host, or attributed to an actor of another instance, and
federation reads served it from the instance's own host. The write
path now checks the node objects of extension values in the same
way.
- A value or list object with other properties, such as
{"@set": [], "bcc": ...}, is no valid JSON-LD, but was not read as a
node object, so its bcc was served. Such an object is now reported
as an uninterpreted node object, so its document is not served. So
is one with a context of its own whose keys may alias keywords,
since they cannot be told apart from properties.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the eighth
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and documentation. A finding that
the once-per-revision log is untested was left, since the LogTape test
helper captures no records. mise run check and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The ninth review round found these gaps:
- A node object in an extension value that was no Link was read as a
recipient by its href when it had no id, so a Note addressed to bob
with a cc of {"type": "Note", "href": Public} was served. Only a
Link now names a recipient by its href.
- The href of a Link under actor or attributedTo was not checked as an
identity claim, in a described document or in an extension value,
so a Note could be attributed to an actor of another instance
through {"type": "Link", "href": ...}. It is now checked as the id
of a document embedded there is.
- Properties reversed by @reverse in an extension value make other
node objects their subjects, and were read as the node object's own.
A value object whose value is an object but no JSON literal is no
valid JSON-LD, and its payload was served unread. Both now leave
the node object uninterpreted, so their documents are not served.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. Claude Code verified each finding of the ninth
round against the code, reproduced each with a test that failed before
the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and documentation. mise run check
and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
A blank node identifier joins the node objects of a document that use
it, so a reference to one may name a node object defined apart. An
extension value could therefore attribute a Note to "_:author" and
define "_:author" elsewhere as a Link to an actor of another instance,
which neither node object's claims showed. A blank node identifier is
now read only as the id of the node object that has it; as any other
reference, it leaves the node object uninterpreted, so its document is
not served.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. In the tenth round Fable and Sol found no
issues and Astra reported this one. Claude Code verified it against the
code, reproduced it with a test that failed before the fix, and wrote
the change, tests and documentation. mise run check and mise run test
pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Node objects that share an id are one JSON-LD node, and a node object
whose id another value refers to says more of what that value names.
An extension value could therefore attribute a Note to {"id": "_:author"}
and define "_:author" apart as a Link to an actor of another instance,
or define an id the document refers to as a Link to a deleted object,
while each node object was read on its own. A node object in an
extension value whose id is used elsewhere in the document, as another
node object's id or as a reference, is now uninterpreted, so its
document is not served.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. In the eleventh round Sol found no issues, and
Fable and Astra reported this one. Claude Code verified it against the
code, reproduced it with a test that failed before the fix, and wrote
the change, tests and documentation. mise run check and mise run test
pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
The twelfth review round found these gaps:
- Embedded documents that share an id are one JSON-LD node, so an Add
whose object was {"type": "Link", "id": L} and whose target was
{"type": "Link", "id": L, "href": N} referred to N through its
object, which the deletion rule did not see. A document in which
two node objects share an id is now not served. An object reference
now also names the href of a Link that the document embeds elsewhere
with that id.
- An object in a language map is no valid JSON-LD, and its keys,
including bcc, were served as saved. It is now reported as an
uninterpreted node object, so its document is not served.
- Tests now show that a legacy Create answers 404 at the general
activity route.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. In the twelfth round Sol found no issues, and
Fable and Astra reported these. Claude Code verified each against the
code, reproduced the gaps with tests that failed before the fix, and
wrote the changes, tests and documentation. mise run check and mise run
test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
The thirteenth review round found these gaps:
- An attributedTo or actor value naming the id of a Link embedded
elsewhere in the document is attributed to the Link's href, but only
a Link embedded in place was checked as an identity claim. So a Note
attributed to a remote IRI that a target Link defined with the href
of another instance's actor was saved and served. The href of a
Link embedded elsewhere with the id such a value names is now
checked as an identity claim, in described documents and extension
values. A blank node reference in an extension node object is
listed for this check, while still leaving the node object
uninterpreted.
- The value of a key with a @language container is a language map only
when it is an object; a list there expands as ordinary values, but
its node objects were not read, and the document was refused only by
accident. They are now read as other node objects are.
- Tests now request a saved object and its Tombstone at the route of
another live actor of the same instance, which the attribution
predicate refuses.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the branch
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex, and to stop after this round. In the
thirteenth round Sol found no issues, and Fable and Astra reported
these. Claude Code verified each against the code, reproduced the gaps
with tests that failed before the fix, and wrote the changes, tests and
documentation. mise run check and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Federation reads were tested with eight representative documents only.
A new test saves a document of every activity type that saved
activities cover, Activity, IntransitiveActivity and the 28 types
ActivityStreams names, each Public with a blind recipient and an
extension value, and requests each one at its route: a Create at
/ap/creates/, the others at /ap/activities/, and 404 at the other one.
Each is served as publicDocument() makes it, keeps its extension value,
and parses with parseVocab() as its own type into an object that
serializes back to the same document. The outbox counts all 30 and
pages them newest first across its two pages. The same loop runs, with
fewer checks, on PostgreSQL, where the visibility SQL and the JSON
columns could behave apart from PGlite. Both tests take the types and
the document from one fixture module.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to carry out a local plan for the
completion criterion still open, fixtures of every activity type through
serialization, which only the storage round trip in @drfed/models
covered. Claude Code wrote the tests and the fixture module. mise run
build, mise run check and mise run test pass, and mise run test:postgres
passes against a local PostgreSQL 18 container.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
@drfed/federation/serving exported serveDocument() and its
ServedDocument type beside publicDocument(), though nothing outside the
package used them and publicDocument() returns the same document. They
are internal now, so the subpath exports publicDocument(), parseVocab(),
loadActivitySnapshot() and its ActivitySnapshot type, as its changelog
entry says.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to carry out a local plan that found
the unused exports. Claude Code made the change. mise run build, mise
run check and mise run test pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
The first review round of the two previous commits found these gaps:
- The loop over every activity type checked that a served document had
no bto or bcc, but not that the saved one still had the fixture's
bto, so it would pass without removing anything if the write path
dropped it. It now checks the saved bto first.
- The list of activity types was a copy kept in step only by a
comment, so a type the validator came to accept would go untested.
A test now compares it with the Fedify activity classes the
validator accepts, without exporting anything new from
@drfed/models.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the two
previous commits with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code,
and GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. In the first round Fable
reported these; Astra and Sol confirmed the first, and Sol confirmed the
second while Astra judged it preventive. Claude Code verified both
against the code, showed that the new comparison fails when a type is
left out of the list, and wrote the changes. mise run check, mise run
test and mise run test:postgres pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
The second review round found that both loops over every activity type
checked the blind recipient only in the document the write returned,
which is the prepared one, not what the database stored. A storage
path that dropped bto on PGlite or PostgreSQL would have left both the
expected and the served document without it. Each loop now reads the
stored activity back with loadActivitySnapshot(), checks that it equals
the saved document and keeps the fixture's bto, and expects the served
document to be the public form of that stored one.
#153
The contributor asked Claude Code to run a review loop on the commits
with three reviewers: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code, and GPT-6 Astra
and GPT-6 Sol in Codex. In the second round Sol reported this for the
PostgreSQL loop, Fable and Astra confirmed it, and Astra noted that the
PGlite loop had the same gap. Claude Code verified it against the code
and wrote the change. mise run check, mise run test and mise run
test:postgres pass.
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5-5
Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-fable-5-1
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-astra
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-6-sol
This change adds federation reads for eligible saved resources, including activity and object routes, tombstones, and position-based outbox pages. It adds extension-node descriptions and identity checks, public-document serialization helpers, tests, and documentation.
describeDocument() now reports extension-node metadata. Local-write checks inspect extension nodes and embedded Link identifiers when validating identity claims.
Public document serialization and serving exports packages/federation/src/serving/document.ts, packages/federation/src/serving/vocab.ts, packages/federation/src/serving.ts, packages/federation/package.json, packages/federation/src/serving.test.ts, docs/internals/federation-reads.md, changes.d/javascript/federation-serving.md, CHANGES.md
The new serving API removes blind-recipient properties, supplies a missing ActivityStreams context, and exposes document serialization, vocabulary parsing, and activity snapshot loading.
Federation routes now resolve eligible saved revisions and legacy resources. Deleted objects are returned as tombstones. Outbox pages and counts use collection positions and omit unservable activities.
sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant ActivityDispatcher
participant findServedActivity
participant Database
participant inspectDocument
Client->>ActivityDispatcher: Request an activity IRI
ActivityDispatcher->>findServedActivity: Look up by UUID and route
findServedActivity->>Database: Load outbox activity and saved revision
Database-->>findServedActivity: Activity record and current document
findServedActivity->>inspectDocument: Inspect saved document
inspectDocument-->>findServedActivity: Document inspection or no result
findServedActivity-->>ActivityDispatcher: Served activity or null
ActivityDispatcher-->>Client: ActivityStreams response or not found
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Possibly related issues
fedify-dev/drfed#178 — The new test covers the protected-term redefinition case that this issue describes as awaiting an upstream Fedify fix.
fedify-dev/drfed#155 — The generic serving path applies to saved Question activities, although this change does not add the issue’s Question-specific validation and poll behavior.
fedify-dev/drfed#171 — parseVocab() uses Fedify parsing and the new documentation describes cases where that parser cannot read documents accepted by the validator.
Possibly related PRs
fedify-dev/drfed#164 — Adds the resource revisions and current-head read path used by this PR’s saved-resource serving.
fedify-dev/drfed#173 — Adds the common local-write path and activity dispatcher that this PR updates to serve saved activities.
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docs/.vitepress/config.mts (+12/-9) contains changes unrelated to serving saved activities: - The Docker image-tag regular expression is moved into a shared IMAGE_REFERENCE constant. `publishedIma…
Remove the Docker image-tag regular expression refactor and the SVG constant move from docs/.vitepress/config.mts. Keep only the “Federation reads” sidebar link in that file, or move the unrelated edits to a separate pull request.
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The title "Serve saved activities and objects of every type over ActivityPub" matches the main change: serving resources saved by common write operations over ActivityPub, including activity types bey…
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The description states the goal (serving resources saved by common write operations over ActivityPub), links the issues it closes and is part of, and summarizes the serving rules, recipient handling, …
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[#153] Objectives covered by the reviewed head:
1. Typed serialization and per-type routes. object-dispatchers.ts keeps /ap/creates/{id} for saved Create and adds /ap/activities/{id} for othe…
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The title "Serve saved activities and objects of every type over ActivityPub" matches the main change: serving resources saved by common write operations over ActivityPub, including activity types beyond the legacy Create. The changeset adds serving modules, outbox pagination, and federation-read tests for every ACTIVITY_TYPES entry, which supports the title.
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The description states the goal (serving resources saved by common write operations over ActivityPub), links the issues it closes and is part of, and summarizes the serving rules, recipient handling, limitations, and test coverage. These all relate directly to the changeset, which adds serving modules, outbox logic, visibility predicates, and tests.
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[#153] Objectives covered by the reviewed head:
Typed serialization and per-type routes. object-dispatchers.ts keeps /ap/creates/{id} for saved Create and adds /ap/activities/{id} for other saved activities through findServedActivity. serving/vocab.ts returns a Create wrapper only for CREATE_TYPE and an Activity wrapper otherwise, so non-Create activities are not rebuilt as Create. Existing Create and object routes are unchanged.
Historical documents. serving/resource.ts serves the saved revision, and loadActivitySnapshot returns the stored snapshot. The changelog states that edits preserve embedded historical versions. Tests for changed current objects are described in serving.test.ts.
Host, deletion, visibility, blind addressing. visibility.ts adds inLocalOutbox(id, host), deletedLocalObject, and servedObjectRevision. document.ts removes bto and bcc at document and extension-node paths. publicDocument() returns null for unservable documents. The object route returns a Tombstone for deleted objects.
Common serialization interface. packages/federation/src/serving.ts exports publicDocument, parseVocab, loadActivitySnapshot, and ActivitySnapshot. Nothing in that module delivers or dereferences documents.
Cross-instance protection. Host checks in resource.ts and inLocalOutbox apply to direct fetches.
Tests [#153]: serving-fixture.test.ts defines ACTIVITY_TYPES and acceptedActivityTypeIds(). local-write-postgres.test.ts checks stored and served documents for every ACTIVITY_TYPES entry, and serving.test.ts covers federation reads, tombstones, embedded documents, and outbox paging. Extension-value preservation is implemented in models/src/document.ts.
Residual uncertainty (does not change the verdict):
The PR description states the PostgreSQL test was not run. The test code exists, but its result is not established.
Explicit Undo(Like), Accept(Follow), and intransitive cases were not confirmed by inspection. Their coverage is inferred from the ACTIVITY_TYPES fixture and the described embedded-document rules.
The PR description says one test for protected-term redefinition in outbox pages is marked to fail, pending Fedify issue #1394. That case is documented as a limitation and depends on upstream behavior. It is not one of the named #153 criteria.
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docs/.vitepress/config.mts (+12/-9) contains changes unrelated to serving saved activities:
The Docker image-tag regular expression is moved into a shared IMAGE_REFERENCE constant. publishedImage is adjusted to use it.
The hackers.pub star-orbit SVG constant and its attribution comments are moved earlier in the file.
Only the “Federation reads” Internals sidebar link relates to this pull request. The other edits have no connection to federation reads, saved-activity serving, or the linked issues (#153, #149).
Other changes are supported by the objectives. These include the /ap/activities/ route, outbox paging and counting, the serving subpath, validator extension traversal, identity checks in extension values, and the documentation and changelog entries. The DIAGNOSTIC_REASONS rename in models/src/document.ts, existing.ts, and fixtures is a refactor and is related only to the validator changes in the same files. Its relation is not separately demonstrated, but it is not evidence of an unrelated change.
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Remove the Docker image-tag regular expression refactor and the SVG constant move from docs/.vitepress/config.mts. Keep only the “Federation reads” sidebar link in that file, or move the unrelated edits to a separate pull request.
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382-394: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Use keys that expose key-order normalization.
The current mood keys are already in ascending length order. The assertion can miss length-based reordering, and deepEqual does not compare object key order.
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Review comment at @packages/federation/src/local-write-postgres.test.ts around
lines 382 - 394:
Update the `mood` fixture and its `Object.keys` assertion so the inserted keys
are not already ordered by key length; include a shorter key after longer ones
and assert the intended insertion order. Keep the assertion on `Object.keys`,
since the `deepEqual` comparison of the document does not detect object
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In general, some function names sound confusing, for example, in findDeletedObjects() sounds more function-like than deletedObjects() (some makes sense, some doesn't). Also constant should be uppercase, and i prefer to place it near the top. I don't have concerns for now besides @ dahlia already raised.
Compare IRI prefixes with startsWith() instead of regular expressions
built from the instance host, whose unescaped dots matched any
character.
Order the extension value in the PostgreSQL read test so that jsonb
would reorder its keys. The previous order was already the one jsonb
stores, so a switch away from the json column went unnoticed.
Compare a legacy Create's response before and after an edit of its
object that changes both its content and its recipients, so that the
test shows an edit does not rewrite a past activity response.
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set; PGlite showed that jsonb reorders the new key order and json
keeps it.
#177 (comment)#177 (review)#177 (comment)
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describeDocument() counted an extension node object's own identifiers
when it decided whether its id was used elsewhere, so a Link whose
href is its own id was left uninterpreted. Such a document was saved
but answered 404 and was left out of outbox pages and the counter,
although the same Link was served in object. Only uses by other
documents and node objects count now, counted so that the check stays
linear in a long list of the node's own references.
deniedClaims() reported a path once for every claim that reached it,
so a Link under attributedTo whose id and href name one local IRI
that is no actor produced three identical href diagnostics. Each
denied path is reported once now, keeping the distinct id and href.
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instead. The new tests fail on the previous code and pass with this
change. The build, mise run check and mise run test passed, and a
node with 50,000 references to its own id is described in 29 ms.
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An activity whose context redefines a term protected by the context
of Fedify's collection pages, such as proof, is served on its own,
but the outbox page that embeds it is invalid JSON-LD: it answers
200 OK, yet OrderedCollectionPage.fromJsonLd() fails with "protected
term redefinition", and no JSON-LD client can read the page's other
activities either. The cause is upstream context composition.
The test parses such a page and is marked to fail with that error
until the dependency includes the upstream fix. It then fails until
the mark is removed, so the bump that the tracking issue asks for
before 0.2.0 cannot leave it behind.
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#177 (comment)#178fedify-dev/fedify#1394
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Constants in the files this pull request changes are now named in
CAPITAL_LETTERS and declared at the top of their file, or at the top of
the closure they belong to. A constant here is a value fixed when the
code is written: a literal, a template literal of other constants, or
an immutable collection of such values. Functions, runtime values,
mutable state and test fixture literals keep their names.
@drfed/models/document exports DIAGNOSTIC_REASONS and
ADDRESSING_PROPERTIES instead of diagnosticReasons and
addressingProperties; neither name was in 0.1.0.
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accesses and object keys and expands shorthand properties, then moved
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The private helpers of serving/resource.ts that read the database get
verb names: deletedObjects() becomes findDeletedObjects() and
servedRevisions() becomes serveRevisions(). isServable() becomes
canServe().
Their documentation now says what they do. inspectRevision() returns
null only for a document that is not a JSON object the validator reads
or whose id is missing or not the resource's; an uninterpreted
document is inspected and canServe() refuses it. canServe() decides
only the rules a saved document tells, while callers apply the actor
and resource rules when they select rows and the route on the served
document's type. ActivitySnapshot explains why it keeps blind
recipients and that the sender of #145 will dispatch it.
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returns null, and described the unwritten sender as current; Codex
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three, which this commit fixes. The build, mise run check and mise
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In general, some function names sound confusing, for example, in findDeletedObjects() sounds more function-like than deletedObjects() (some makes sense, some doesn't). Also constant should be uppercase, and i prefer to place it near the top. I don't have concerns for now besides @ dahlia already raised.
Addressed in 14c17d9 and 1f576bd. Functions have verb names and constants are uppercase at the top.
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Closes #153. Part of #138.
Serves resources saved by the common write operations over ActivityPub, following the decisions recorded in #149. docs/internals/federation-reads.md states the full rules. Tests cover the completion criteria on both PGlite and PostgreSQL.
Changes to the #149 record
Review after the record was posted changed these rules.
btoandbccare removed and they follow the rules of embedded documents: recipients byhreffor aLinkand byidotherwise, and anobjectreferring to a deleted local object hides the document unless the node object is aDelete. The write path checks identity claims in them.objectof embedded activities. AnUndoof aLikeof a deleted object is hidden, and aDeleteembedded in anAnnounceis still served.publicDocument()returnsnullfor it: an extension node object with a@contextof its own,@nest,@reverse, a blank node reference or anidused elsewhere in the document than in its own properties, or two embedded documents that share anid. The validator does not interpret nested contexts. The write path still saves such documents. They, and documents the validator cannot read, answer 404, are left out of outbox pages and the counter, and are logged once per revision.Linkinaudienceorobject, are served as saved.parseVocab()throws for such documents.hrefof aLinkunderactororattributedTo, and of aLinkembedded elsewhere with theidsuch a value names._:Deleteis unsupported, and reads the payload of a JSON literal whose@typeis spelled with an alias as plain JSON.Limitations
Likein anUndo, has an IRI that answers 404, since only the root activity enters the outbox.addressingindexes saved before this change are not rebuilt. GraphQL saves only throughcreateLegacyObject(), whose documents are unaffected, so no migration is included.AI disclosure
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