Create a persistent Inbox

[pfefferle]

This PR is primarily intended to log all incoming requests that start with Update and Create, to help debug whether all supported Activity types are being correctly processed.

Proposed changes:

• Introduce a global Inbox handler to manage all incoming requests, currently limited to Create and Update types.
• Add an Inbox Collection to persist the received entries.

Other information:

• Have you written new tests for your changes, if applicable?

Testing instructions:

• Follow one of your Mastodon Accounts
• Publish a new status update
• Check the Inbox for entries

Changelog entry

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Changelog Entry Details

Significance

• Patch
• Minor
• Major

Type

• Added - for new features
• Changed - for changes in existing functionality
• Deprecated - for soon-to-be removed features
• Removed - for now removed features
• Fixed - for any bug fixes
• Security - in case of vulnerabilities

Message

A global Inbox handler and persistence layer to log incoming Create and Update requests for debugging and verifying Activity handling.

[pfefferle]

@obenland This should be ready to review now.

[pfefferle]

@obenland added the user id to the getter.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces a global Inbox handler and persistence layer to log incoming ActivityPub Create and Update activities for debugging purposes.

• Adds a new Inbox collection to persist incoming Create and Update activities
• Introduces a global Inbox handler that processes and stores activities based on configurable filters
• Provides admin settings to enable/disable the inbox persistence feature

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 11 out of 11 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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File	Description
includes/handler/class-inbox.php	New global handler to filter and process incoming activities
includes/collection/class-inbox.php	New collection class to persist activities as custom posts
includes/class-activitypub.php	Registers the inbox post type and meta fields
includes/wp-admin/class-settings.php	Adds the inbox persistence setting
includes/wp-admin/class-advanced-settings-fields.php	Renders the inbox persistence admin field
includes/functions.php	Updates is_activity_public to accept Base_Object instances
includes/debug.php	Extends debug UI support to include inbox post type
includes/class-handler.php	Initializes the new inbox handler
tests/includes/handler/class-test-inbox.php	Test coverage for the inbox handler
tests/includes/collection/class-test-inbox.php	Test coverage for the inbox collection
.github/changelog/2009-from-description	Changelog entry

[obenland]

Let's

We should probably follow it up with a scheduled purge, similar to the Outbox.