Prosody: use the user nickname.

server/lib/helpers.ts

@@ -48,11 +48,39 @@ function getAuthUser ({ peertubeHelpers }: RegisterServerOptions, res: Response)
   return res.locals.oauth?.token?.User
 }
 
+// FIXME: Peertube <= 3.1.0 has no way to obtain user nickname
+async function getUserNickname ({ peertubeHelpers }: RegisterServerOptions, id: number): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  const logger = peertubeHelpers.logger
+  if (!Number.isInteger(id)) {
+    logger.error('getUserNickname: Invalid User Id, should be an integer')
+    return undefined
+  }
+  const [results] = await peertubeHelpers.database.query(`SELECT name FROM "account" WHERE "userId" = ${id}`)
+  if (!Array.isArray(results)) {
+    logger.error('getUserNickname: query result is not an array.')
+    return undefined
+  }
+  if (!results[0]) {
+    logger.error(`getUserNickname: no result for id ${id}`)
+    return undefined
+  }
+  if (typeof results[0] !== 'object') {
+    logger.error('getUserNickname: query result is not an object')
+    return undefined
+  }
+  if (!('name' in results[0])) {
+    logger.error('getUserNickname: no name field in result')
+    return undefined
+  }
+  return results[0].name as string
+}
+
 export {
   getBaseRouter,
   getBaseStaticRoute,
   isUserAdmin,
   getAuthUser,
+  getUserNickname,
   pluginName,
   pluginShortName
 }

server/lib/routers/api.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import type { Router, Request, Response, NextFunction } from 'express'
 import { videoHasWebchat } from '../../../shared/lib/video'
 import { asyncMiddleware } from '../middlewares/async'
 import { prosodyCheckUserPassword, prosodyRegisterUser, prosodyUserRegistered } from '../prosody/auth'
-import { getAuthUser } from '../helpers'
+import { getAuthUser, getUserNickname } from '../helpers'
 
 // See here for description: https://modules.prosody.im/mod_muc_http_defaults.html
 interface RoomDefaults {
@@ -92,10 +92,17 @@ async function initApiRouter (options: RegisterServerOptions): Promise<Router> {
         res.sendStatus(403)
         return
       }
+      let userId: number | undefined
+      if (user.id) {
+        userId = parseInt(user.id)
+        if (Number.isNaN(userId)) { userId = undefined }
+      }
       const password: string = await prosodyRegisterUser(user.username)
+      const nickname: string | undefined = userId ? (await getUserNickname(options, userId)) : undefined
       res.status(200).json({
         jid: user.username + '@localhost',
-        password: password
+        password: password,
+        nickname: nickname
       })
     }
   ))