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kevinveenbirkenbachandClaude Opus 4.7 c6f4b7fb4b feat(web-app-fediwall): integrate Fediwall as multi-wall public timeline aggregator
New Ansible role rendering one Fediwall instance with one or more
configurable walls under https://fediwall.<DOMAIN_PRIMARY>/<slug>/. Each
wall's `wall-config.json` is forwarded VERBATIM from
meta/services.yml.fediwall.walls[*].config — the YAML there is the
single source of truth, the role's template applies no defaults. Two
matrix-deploy variants ship: variant 0 inherits the services.yml
default (one wall, polls all active Mastodon-API-compatible siblings via
the new `lookup('fediwall_active', ...)` plugin); variant 1 overrides
with two explicitly configured walls (default + mastodon-only) so the
per-wall server scoping is observable end-to-end.

End-to-end Playwright spec drives biber's first OIDC login on Mastodon
and ldapauth-mediated form login on Friendica through the same web UI a
human would use — biber's local accounts come into existence lazily on
first SSO login, exactly as in production. The cross-Fediverse test is
data-driven against each wall's `wall-config.json.servers`: a sibling's
post is visible iff its host is listed there.

Cross-cutting fixes that surfaced during the iteration ship alongside:

- utils/cache + utils/templating: type-preserving render path for
  single-Jinja-expression scalars in `lookup('config', ...)`.
  `_templar_render_best_effort` always coerced its output to `str`, so a
  list-returning lookup like `{{ lookup('fediwall_active', 'domains') }}`
  collapsed to its Python repr. `_render_scalar` now detects the
  `{{ ... }}`-only shape and routes it through the new
  `_templar_render_preserve_type` helper, which returns templar's
  native value (list/dict/etc.) instead of stringifying.

- web-app-friendica/tasks/04_addons.yml: force a `disable` + `enable`
  cycle for enabled addons. Friendica's `addon enable` only fires the
  `_install` hooks on the disabled→enabled transition, so an
  already-enabled-but-broken state (the addon shows up in `list
  enabled` but its `_install`-registered hooks are missing from the
  `hook` DB table) silently rejected every ldapauth login at runtime.
  Cycling through disable+enable reliably re-registers the hooks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-05 19:50:05 +02:00
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Shared Utilities (utils/)

This directory contains shared Python helpers used by custom modules and plugins.

Purpose

Use utils/ for reusable code that should not be duplicated across:

  • library/ modules,
  • plugins/action/,
  • plugins/filter/,
  • plugins/lookup/.

Typical shared utilities:

  • API clients,
  • validation/conversion helpers,
  • path and configuration helpers,
  • cross-plugin/module domain logic.
  • Shared HTTP(S) connection handler for multiple modules.
  • Common validation or transformation functions for user input.
  • Utility functions for interacting with Docker, LDAP, etc.
  • Grouped helper packages such as utils/domains/ for related domain logic.

Design Guidelines

  • Keep helpers focused and composable.
  • Avoid side effects during import.
  • Prefer explicit function/class APIs over implicit globals.
  • Keep dependencies minimal so modules/plugins stay lightweight.

Example Import

from utils.domains.primary_domain import get_primary_domain

What Does Not Belong Here

  • Standalone executable modules (put in library/).
  • Ansible plugin entrypoints (put in plugins/*).

References