feat: Add Solid-PREP Notifications

Add Solid/Activity Streams format notifications:
+ Provides notifictions in JSON-LD and Turtle.
+ Extends notifications to PUT and POST methods.
+ Add Event-ID header field to the response of a write method.

lib/handlers/delete.js

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
   try {
     await ldp.delete(req)
     debug('DELETE -- Ok.')
+    // Add event-id for notifications
+    res.setHeader('Event-ID', res.setEventID())
     res.sendStatus(200)
     next()
   } catch (err) {

lib/handlers/get.js

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ const error = require('../http-error')
 const RDFs = require('../ldp').mimeTypesAsArray()
 const isRdf = require('../ldp').mimeTypeIsRdf
 
+const prepConfig = 'accept=("message/rfc822" "application/ld+json" "text/turtle")'
+
 async function handler (req, res, next) {
   const ldp = req.app.locals.ldp
   const includeBody = req.method === 'GET'
@@ -104,7 +106,7 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
       debug('   sending data browser file: ' + dataBrowserPath)
       res.sendFile(dataBrowserPath)
       return
-    } else if (stream) {
+    } else if (stream) { // EXIT text/html
       res.setHeader('Content-Type', contentType)
       return stream.pipe(res)
     }
@@ -137,7 +139,7 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
     }
 
     if (isRdf(contentType) && !res.sendEvents({
-      config: { prep: '' },
+      config: { prep: prepConfig },
       body: stream,
       isBodyStream: true,
       headers
@@ -159,7 +161,7 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
       'Content-Type': possibleRDFType
     }
     if (isRdf(contentType) && !res.sendEvents({
-      config: { prep: '' },
+      config: { prep: prepConfig },
       body: data,
       headers
     })) return

lib/handlers/notify.js

@@ -1,12 +1,101 @@
 module.exports = handler
 
+const libPath = require('path/posix')
+
+const headerTemplate = require('express-prep/templates').header
+const solidRDFTemplate = require('../rdf-notification-template')
+
+const ALLOWED_RDF_MIME_TYPES = [
+  'application/ld+json',
+  'application/activity+json',
+  'text/turtle'
+]
+
+function getActivity (method) {
+  if (method === 'DELETE') {
+    return 'Delete'
+  }
+  return 'Update'
+}
+
+function getParentActivity (method, status) {
+  if (method === 'DELETE') {
+    return 'Remove'
+  }
+  if (status === 201) {
+    return 'Add'
+  }
+  return 'Update'
+}
+
 function handler (req, res, next) {
-  res.events.prep.trigger({
-    generateNotifications () {
-      return res.events.prep.defaultNotification({
-        ...(res.method === 'POST') && { location: res.getHeader('Content-Location') }
-      })
-    }
-  })
+  const { trigger, defaultNotification } = res.events.prep
+
+  const { method } = req
+  const { statusCode } = res
+  const eventID = res.getHeader('event-id')
+
+  const parent = `${libPath.dirname(req.path)}/`
+  const parentID = res.setEventID(parent)
+  const fullUrl = new URL(req.path, `${req.protocol}://${req.hostname}/`)
+  const parentUrl = new URL(parent, fullUrl)
+
+  // Date is a hack since node does not seem to provide access to send date.
+  // Date needs to be shared with parent notification
+  const eventDate = res._header.match(/^Date: (.*?)$/m)?.[1] ||
+    new Date().toUTCString()
+
+  // If the resource itself newly created,
+  // it could not have been subscribed for notifications already
+  if (!((method === 'PUT' || method === 'PATCH') && statusCode === 201)) {
+    trigger({
+      generateNotification (
+        negotiatedFields
+      ) {
+        const mediaType = negotiatedFields['content-type']
+
+        if (ALLOWED_RDF_MIME_TYPES.includes(mediaType?.[0])) {
+          return `${headerTemplate(negotiatedFields)}\r\n${solidRDFTemplate({
+            activity: getActivity(method),
+            eventID,
+            object: String(fullUrl),
+            date: eventDate,
+            // We use eTag as a proxy for state for now
+            state: res.getHeader('ETag'),
+            mediaType
+          })}`
+        } else {
+          return defaultNotification({
+            ...(res.method === 'POST') && { location: res.getHeader('Content-Location') }
+          })
+        }
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
+  // Write a notification to parent container
+  // POST in Solid creates a child resource
+  if (method !== 'POST') {
+    trigger({
+      path: parent,
+      generateNotification (
+        negotiatedFields
+      ) {
+        const mediaType = negotiatedFields['content-type']
+        if (ALLOWED_RDF_MIME_TYPES.includes(mediaType?.[0])) {
+          return `${headerTemplate(negotiatedFields)}\r\n${solidRDFTemplate({
+            activity: getParentActivity(method, statusCode),
+            eventID: parentID,
+            date: eventDate,
+            object: String(parentUrl),
+            target: statusCode === 201 ? String(fullUrl) : undefined,
+            eTag: undefined,
+            mediaType
+          })}`
+        }
+      }
+    })
+  }
+
   next()
 }

lib/handlers/patch.js

@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ async function patchHandler (req, res, next) {
       return writeGraph(graph, resource, ldp.resourceMapper.resolveFilePath(req.hostname), ldp.serverUri)
     })
 
+    // Add event-id for notifications
+    res.setHeader('Event-ID', res.setEventID())
     // Send the status and result to the client
     res.status(resourceExists ? 200 : 201)
     res.send(result)

lib/handlers/post.js

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
     // Handled by backpressure of streams!
     busboy.on('finish', function () {
       debug('Done storing files')
+      // Add event-id for notifications
+      res.setHeader('Event-ID', res.setEventID())
       res.sendStatus(200)
       next()
     })
@@ -91,6 +93,8 @@ async function handler (req, res, next) {
         debug('File stored in ' + resourcePath)
         header.addLinks(res, links)
         res.set('Location', resourcePath)
+        // Add event-id for notifications
+        res.setHeader('Event-ID', res.setEventID())
         res.sendStatus(201)
         next()
       },

lib/handlers/put.js

@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ async function putStream (req, res, next, stream = req) {
     // Fails with Append on existing resource
     if (!req.originalUrl.endsWith('.acl')) await checkPermission(req, resourceExists)
     await ldp.put(req, stream, getContentType(req.headers))
+    // Add event-id for notifications
+    res.setHeader('Event-ID', res.setEventID())
     res.sendStatus(resourceExists ? 204 : 201)
     return next()
   } catch (err) {

lib/ldp-middleware.js

@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ function LdpMiddleware (corsSettings) {
 
   router.copy('/*', allow('Write'), copy)
   router.get('/*', index, allow('Read'), header.addPermissions, get)
-  router.post('/*', allow('Append'), post)
+  router.post('/*', allow('Append'), post, notify)
   router.patch('/*', allow('Append'), patch, notify)
-  router.put('/*', allow('Append'), put)
+  router.put('/*', allow('Append'), put, notify)
   router.delete('/*', allow('Write'), del, notify)
 
   return router

lib/rdf-notification-template.js

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+const CONTEXT_ACTIVITYSTREAMS = 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams'
+const CONTEXT_NOTIFICATION = 'https://www.w3.org/ns/solid/notification/v1'
+const CONTEXT_XML_SCHEMA = 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'
+
+function generateJSONNotification ({
+  activity: type,
+  eventId: id,
+  date: published,
+  object,
+  target,
+  state = undefined
+}) {
+  return {
+    published,
+    type,
+    id,
+    object,
+    ...(type === 'Add') && { target },
+    ...(type === 'Remove') && { origin: target },
+    ...(state) && { state }
+  }
+}
+
+function generateTurtleNotification ({
+  activity,
+  eventId,
+  date,
+  object,
+  target,
+  state = undefined
+}) {
+  const stateLine = `\n    notify:state "${state}" ;`
+
+  return `@prefix as: <${CONTEXT_ACTIVITYSTREAMS}#> .
+@prefix notify: <${CONTEXT_NOTIFICATION}#> .
+@prefix xsd: <${CONTEXT_XML_SCHEMA}#> .
+
+<${eventId}> a as:${activity} ;${state && stateLine}
+    as:object ${object} ;
+    as:published "${date}"^^xsd:dateTime .`.replaceAll('\n', '\r\n')
+}
+
+function serializeToJSONLD (notification, isActivityStreams = false) {
+  notification['@context'] = [CONTEXT_NOTIFICATION]
+  if (!isActivityStreams) {
+    notification['@context'].unshift(CONTEXT_ACTIVITYSTREAMS)
+  }
+  return JSON.stringify(notification, null, 2)
+}
+
+function rdfTemplate (props) {
+  const { mediaType } = props
+  if (mediaType[0] === 'application/activity+json' || (mediaType[0] === 'application/ld+json' && mediaType[1].get('profile')?.toLowerCase() === 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams')) {
+    return serializeToJSONLD(generateJSONNotification(props), true)
+  }
+
+  if (mediaType[0] === 'application/ld+json') {
+    return serializeToJSONLD(generateJSONNotification(props))
+  }
+
+  if (mediaType[0] === 'text/turtle') {
+    return generateTurtleNotification(props)
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = rdfTemplate