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Diffstat (limited to 'internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go')
| -rw-r--r-- | internal/federation/dereferencing/account.go | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |