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49 lines
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Some notes on the database schema. Mostly for development, but maybe useful
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for administration as well.
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The config table contains settings, some of which may not be editable via the
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normal interface.
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The welcome message on the first page is stored as servermsg.
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For development purposes, adding a config value (debug, 1) to the database
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will disable caching and hot reload templates. It's not meant to be
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harmful in production, just less efficient.
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We don't use null, only empty strings. This is easier to work with on the go
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side.
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The main table is honks. This stores both locally created honks and incoming
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ActivityPub notes converted to honks. It is important to differentiate the two
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cases so that we don't accidentally publish external honks in the public web
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view. (Previously this was accomplished via separate tables. That made some
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queries more difficult, but I think it's possible to workaround this. It would
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be considerably safer.) The honker column will be empty for local honks.
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The what column further refines the type of honk. If a reply, tonk. If
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deleted, zonk. If shared, bonk. In particular for the case of bonk, there
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aren't enough columns to store original honker and bonker. This seems to work
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out okay though.
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The honkers table is used to manage follows and followers. The flavor column
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describes what. 'sub' is a follow. We have subscribed to their newsletter.
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'dub' is a follower. They get dubbed whenever we honk. We also use this table
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to store public keys for anyone we interact with. This is regrettable.
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The xid column generally corresponds to ActivityPub id. For local honks, it
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will be a short string, not a complete URL.
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Such explanation would be less necessary were the tables not misused for
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multiple purposes. Will probably split them apart again soon.
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Note that some logical seeming joins won't work. The honker column of honks
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does not have a correspondng entry in the honkers table, since we frequently
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receive messages from people we don't follow. Should we track everybody whose
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identity crosses our path? This seems unnecessary. The honkers table is more
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like a mapping of active relationships, not a directory of all peoples.
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Some deduping of honks is performed. Known shortcoming: only the first bonk is
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recorded. Subsequent bonks, even by different actors, are ignored. Bonus
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shortcoming: we download such bonks every time.
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