Builtin prosody use a working dir provided by Peertube.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## Not Released Yet
+
+### Features
+
+* Builtin prosody use a working dir provided by Peertube (needs Peertube >= 3.2.0)
+
 ## v2.2.0
 
 ### Features

server/@types/peertube.d.ts

@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ interface PeerTubeHelpers {
   user?: {
     getAuthUser: (res: express.Response) => Promise<MUserDefault | undefined>
   }
+  // Added in Peertube 3.2.0
+  plugin?: {
+    getBaseStaticRoute: () => string
+    getBaseRouterRoute: () => string
+    getDataDirectoryPath: () => string
+  }
 }
 
 interface RegisterServerOptions {

server/lib/diagnostic/prosody.ts

@@ -8,8 +8,13 @@ export async function diagProsody (test: string, options: RegisterServerOptions)
   result.label = 'Builtin Prosody and ConverseJS'
 
   try {
-    const dir = await getWorkingDir(options)
+    const workingDir = await getWorkingDir(options)
-    result.messages.push('The working dir is: ' + dir)
+    result.messages.push('The working dir is: ' + workingDir.dir)
+    if (workingDir.permanent) {
+      result.messages.push('The working dir is permanent')
+    } else {
+      result.messages.push('The working dir is a temporary directory')
+    }
   } catch (error) {
     result.messages.push('Error when requiring the working dir: ' + (error as string))
     return result

server/lib/prosody/config.ts

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@ import { ProsodyConfigContent } from './config/content'
 import { getProsodyDomain } from './config/domain'
 import { getAPIKey } from '../apikey'
 
-async function getWorkingDir ({ peertubeHelpers, storageManager }: RegisterServerOptions): Promise<string> {
+async function _getTemporaryWorkingDir ({ peertubeHelpers, storageManager }: RegisterServerOptions): Promise<string> {
-  const logger = peertubeHelpers.logger
-  logger.debug('Calling getWorkingDir')
-
   const tmpBaseDir = '/tmp/'
   let value: string = await storageManager.getData('tempDirId')
 
@@ -30,10 +27,34 @@ async function getWorkingDir ({ peertubeHelpers, storageManager }: RegisterServe
   }
 
   const dir = getPath(value)
-  logger.debug('getWorkingDir will return ' + dir)
   return dir
 }
 
+async function getWorkingDir (options: RegisterServerOptions): Promise<{
+  dir: string
+  permanent: boolean
+}> {
+  const peertubeHelpers = options.peertubeHelpers
+  const logger = peertubeHelpers.logger
+  logger.debug('Calling getWorkingDir')
+
+  if (peertubeHelpers.plugin?.getDataDirectoryPath) {
+    const dir = path.resolve(peertubeHelpers.plugin.getDataDirectoryPath(), 'prosody')
+    logger.debug('getWorkingDir will return the permanent dir ' + dir)
+    return {
+      dir: dir,
+      permanent: true
+    }
+  }
+
+  const dir = await _getTemporaryWorkingDir(options)
+  logger.debug('getWorkingDir will return the temporary dir ' + dir)
+  return {
+    dir: dir,
+    permanent: false
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Creates the working dir if needed, and returns it.
  * NB: for now, I try to create a directory in /tmp/.
@@ -68,9 +89,11 @@ async function getProsodyFilePaths (options: RegisterServerOptions): Promise<Pro
   const logger = options.peertubeHelpers.logger
   logger.debug('Calling getProsodyFilePaths')
 
-  const dir = await getWorkingDir(options)
+  const workingDir = await getWorkingDir(options)
+  const dir = workingDir.dir
   return {
     dir: dir,
+    permanent: workingDir.permanent,
     pid: path.resolve(dir, 'prosody.pid'),
     error: path.resolve(dir, 'prosody.err'),
     log: path.resolve(dir, 'prosody.log'),

server/lib/prosody/config/paths.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ interface ProsodyFilePaths {
   config: string
   data: string
   modules: string
+  permanent: boolean
 }
 
 export {