Handle email verification for pods without notification support

src/controllers/integration.ts

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export const initializeIntegration: Middleware = async ctx => {
   await sendMail({
     from: config.emailSender,
     to: email,
-    subject: 'TODO',
+    subject: 'Verify your email for sleepy.bike notifications',
     html: `Please verify your email <a href="${emailVerificationLink}">click here</a>`,
     text: `Please verify your email ${emailVerificationLink}`,
   })
@@ -103,12 +103,18 @@ export const finishIntegration: Middleware = async ctx => {
   // save the integration to database
   await Integration.create(integrationData)
 
-  // subscribe to the inbox' webhook notifications
-  await subscribeForNotifications(integrationData.inbox)
-
-  ctx.response.body =
-    'Email notifications have been successfully integrated to your inbox'
-  ctx.response.status = 200
+  try {
+    // subscribe to the inbox' webhook notifications
+    await subscribeForNotifications(integrationData.inbox)
+    ctx.response.body =
+      'Email notifications have been successfully integrated to your inbox'
+  } catch (e) {
+    ctx.response.body =
+      "Email was successfully verified, but notifications won't work, yet. It looks like your Solid Pod doesn't support notifications. We'll implement a workaround in the future.\nError: " +
+      (e as Error).message
+  } finally {
+    ctx.response.status = 200
+  }
 }
 
 type Fetch = typeof fetch

src/test/css-config-no-notifications.json

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{
+  "@context": "https://linkedsoftwaredependencies.org/bundles/npm/@solid/community-server/^6.0.0/components/context.jsonld",
+  "import": [
+    "css:config/app/main/default.json",
+    "css:config/app/init/initialize-prefilled-root.json",
+    "css:config/app/setup/optional.json",
+    "css:config/app/variables/default.json",
+    "css:config/http/handler/default.json",
+    "css:config/http/middleware/default.json",
+    "css:config/http/notifications/disabled.json",
+    "css:config/http/server-factory/http.json",
+    "css:config/http/static/default.json",
+    "css:config/identity/access/public.json",
+    "css:config/identity/email/default.json",
+    "css:config/identity/handler/default.json",
+    "css:config/identity/ownership/token.json",
+    "css:config/identity/pod/static.json",
+    "css:config/identity/registration/enabled.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/authentication/dpop-bearer.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/authorization/webacl.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/handler/default.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/metadata-parser/default.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/metadata-writer/default.json",
+    "css:config/ldp/modes/default.json",
+    "css:config/storage/backend/memory.json",
+    "css:config/storage/key-value/resource-store.json",
+    "css:config/storage/middleware/default.json",
+    "css:config/util/auxiliary/acl.json",
+    "css:config/util/identifiers/suffix.json",
+    "css:config/util/index/default.json",
+    "css:config/util/logging/winston.json",
+    "css:config/util/representation-conversion/default.json",
+    "css:config/util/resource-locker/memory.json",
+    "css:config/util/variables/default.json"
+  ],
+  "@graph": [
+    {
+      "comment": "A Solid server that stores its resources in memory and uses WAC for authorization."
+    }
+  ]
+}

src/test/integration-finish.spec.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ import Mail from 'nodemailer/lib/mailer'
 import { SinonSandbox, SinonSpy, createSandbox } from 'sinon'
 import { baseUrl } from '../config'
 import * as mailerService from '../services/mailerService'
-import { authenticatedFetch, person } from './testSetup.spec'
+import {
+  authenticatedFetch,
+  authenticatedFetchNoNotifications,
+  person,
+  personNoNotifications,
+} from './testSetup.spec'
 
 describe('email verification via /verify-email?id=webId&token=base64Token', () => {
   let sendMailSpy: SinonSpy<[options: Mail.Options], Promise<void>>
@@ -85,4 +90,39 @@ describe('email verification via /verify-email?id=webId&token=base64Token', () =
   })
 
   it('when we send out multiple verification emails, the last link should work')
+
+  context("server doesn't support webhook notifications", () => {
+    beforeEach(async () => {
+      // initialize the integration
+      const initResponse = await authenticatedFetchNoNotifications(
+        `${baseUrl}/inbox`,
+        {
+          method: 'post',
+          headers: {
+            'content-type':
+              'application/ld+json;profile="https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"',
+          },
+          body: JSON.stringify({
+            '@context': 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
+            '@id': '',
+            '@type': 'Add',
+            actor: personNoNotifications.webId,
+            object: personNoNotifications.podUrl + 'profile/card',
+            target: '[email protected]',
+          }),
+        },
+      )
+
+      expect(initResponse.status).to.equal(200)
+      // email was sent
+      const emailMessage = sendMailSpy.secondCall.firstArg.html
+      const $ = cheerio.load(emailMessage)
+      verificationLink = $('a').first().attr('href') as string
+      expect(verificationLink).to.not.be.null
+    })
+    it("should verify email, but inform user that notifications aren't supported", async () => {
+      const response = await fetch(verificationLink)
+      expect(response.status).to.equal(200)
+    })
+  })
 })

src/test/testSetup.spec.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { createRandomAccount, getAuthenticatedFetch } from '../helpers'
 
 let server: Server<typeof IncomingMessage, typeof ServerResponse>
 let authenticatedFetch: typeof fetch
+let authenticatedFetchNoNotifications: typeof fetch
 let person: {
   idp: string
   podUrl: string
@@ -16,7 +17,16 @@ let person: {
   password: string
   email: string
 }
+let personNoNotifications: {
+  idp: string
+  podUrl: string
+  webId: string
+  username: string
+  password: string
+  email: string
+}
 let cssServer: css.App
+let cssServerNoNotifications: css.App
 
 before(async function () {
   this.timeout(60000)
@@ -51,6 +61,39 @@ after(async () => {
   await cssServer.stop()
 })
 
+before(async function () {
+  this.timeout(60000)
+  const start = Date.now()
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+  console.log('Starting CSS server without notifications')
+  // Community Solid Server (CSS) set up following example in https://github.com/CommunitySolidServer/hello-world-component/blob/main/test/integration/Server.test.ts
+  cssServerNoNotifications = await new css.AppRunner().create(
+    {
+      mainModulePath: css.joinFilePath(__dirname, '../../'), // ?
+      typeChecking: false, // ?
+      dumpErrorState: false, // disable CSS error dump
+    },
+    css.joinFilePath(__dirname, './css-config-no-notifications.json'), // CSS config
+    {},
+    // CSS cli options
+    // https://github.com/CommunitySolidServer/CommunitySolidServer/tree/main#-parameters
+    {
+      port: 3457,
+      loggingLevel: 'off',
+      // seededPodConfigJson: css.joinFilePath(__dirname, './css-pod-seed.json'), // set up some Solid accounts
+    },
+  )
+  await cssServerNoNotifications.start()
+
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-console
+  console.log('CSS server started in', (Date.now() - start) / 1000, 'seconds')
+})
+
+after(async () => {
+  await cssServerNoNotifications.stop()
+})
+
 before(done => {
   server = app.listen(port, done)
 })
@@ -89,4 +132,23 @@ beforeEach(async () => {
   })
 })
 
-export { authenticatedFetch, cssServer, person, server }
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  personNoNotifications = await createRandomAccount({
+    solidServer: 'http://localhost:3457',
+  })
+  authenticatedFetchNoNotifications = await getAuthenticatedFetch({
+    email: personNoNotifications.email,
+    password: personNoNotifications.password,
+    solidServer: 'http://localhost:3457',
+  })
+})
+
+export {
+  authenticatedFetch,
+  authenticatedFetchNoNotifications,
+  cssServer,
+  cssServerNoNotifications,
+  person,
+  personNoNotifications,
+  server,
+}