Dereference remote replies (#132)

* decided where to put reply dereferencing

* fiddling with dereferencing threads

* further adventures

* tidy up some stuff

* move dereferencing functionality

* a bunch of refactoring

* go fmt

* more refactoring

* bleep bloop

* docs and linting

* start implementing replies collection on gts side

* fiddling around

* allow dereferencing our replies

* lint, fmt

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/federation/dereferencing/instance.go b/internal/federation/dereferencing/instance.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..80f626662
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+++ b/internal/federation/dereferencing/instance.go
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+/*
+   GoToSocial
+   Copyright (C) 2021 GoToSocial Authors admin@gotosocial.org
+
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
+
+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+   GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+package dereferencing
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/url"
+
+	"github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/internal/gtsmodel"
+)
+
+func (d *deref) GetRemoteInstance(username string, remoteInstanceURI *url.URL) (*gtsmodel.Instance, error) {
+	if blocked, err := d.blockedDomain(remoteInstanceURI.Host); blocked || err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("GetRemoteInstance: domain %s is blocked", remoteInstanceURI.Host)
+	}
+
+	transport, err := d.transportController.NewTransportForUsername(username)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("transport err: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	return transport.DereferenceInstance(context.Background(), remoteInstanceURI)
+}