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authorLibravatar tobi <31960611+tsmethurst@users.noreply.github.com>2022-11-23 22:40:07 +0100
committerLibravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-11-23 21:40:07 +0000
commitc9d893fec18fbb638eda1ee03776ae34c562f39b (patch)
tree19b4dda4e4cebfe29babb0fb4ed98910a0245c25 /internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go
parent[docs] Clarify that reverse proxy setups need trusted-proxies (#1127) (diff)
downloadgotosocial-c9d893fec18fbb638eda1ee03776ae34c562f39b.tar.xz
[feature/performance] Fail fast when doing remote transport calls inside incoming request contexts (#1119)
* [feature/performance] Fail fast when doing remote transport calls inside incoming request contexts * [chore] Reduce outgoing request timeout to 15s * log error messages when fastfailing * use context.Value() instead of wrapped context, wrap error with fastfail instead of extra log entry * add fast-fail context key test Signed-off-by: kim <grufwub@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: kim <grufwub@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go b/internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go
index 6e107a11d..e351cd2fd 100644
--- a/internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go
+++ b/internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ type GetRemoteAccountParams struct {
//
// If a local account is passed into this function for whatever reason (hey, it happens!), then it
// will be returned from the database without making any remote calls.
+//
+// Even if a fastfail context is used, and something goes wrong, an account might still be returned instead
+// of an error, if we already had the account in our database (in other words, if we just needed to try
+// fingering/refreshing the account again). The rationale for this is that it's more useful to be able
+// to provide *something* to the caller, even if that something is not necessarily 100% up to date.
func (d *deref) GetRemoteAccount(ctx context.Context, params GetRemoteAccountParams) (foundAccount *gtsmodel.Account, err error) {
/*
In this function we want to retrieve a gtsmodel representation of a remote account, with its proper