Backblaze B2 Storage Plugin

Heya guys. I have for my own forum put together a plugin for utilising Backblaze due to issues I was having with the S3 upload plugin on the 3.x version of nodeb. I have probably made mistakes and such as it's my first proper plugin and but it does work!

There might be issues or oversights with it that I have yet to encounter, so I cannot say that I would recommend using it, but it's here if anyone is interested or has feedback.

NPM Package: Link

Thanks again for you guys, NodeBB is great.

As said in the title. We're trying to make it so only those with a verified role can upload files into a specific sub-category. The idea being that all downloads only exist in a particular category.

If not possible, is it possible to make it so only posts in a certain area can be uploaded?

That was indeed the problem! Thank you very much.

Curious that it installed 4.0.0 - oh well. Cheers.

When installing the nodebb-plugin-gravatar, there is a warning during rebuild and saying: [meta/templates] Partial not loaded: admin/partials/save_button.tpl.

The nodebb instance this is running on is fresh, and this is the only plugin. The plugin is 4.0.0, and the nodebb instance is v2.8.7.

Any ideas why this partial error is occurring?

Hey friends. So. I reinstalled my forums after I accidentally deleted some stuff I wasn't meant to, and now stuff is properly borked. I completely cleaned NodeBB and MongoDB from the system.

I'm running off the master branch, and I'm fairly certain that the db search plugin is to blame, as the issue only occurs after installing that. I'm working off the master branch and upon restarting after activating that plugin, I'm met with the following error:

2019-08-11T09:44:59.042Z [4567/8372] - error: Your NodeBB schema is out-of-date. Please run the following command to bring your dataset up to spec:
2019-08-11T09:44:59.042Z [4567/8372] - error:     ./nodebb upgrade
[cluster] Child Process (8372) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)

That's fine, but when I go to run the upgrade, I get the following:

[2018/11/26] Changing dbsearch mongodb search schema to use _id...
2019-08-11T09:46:07.205Z [4567/8392] - error: ns not found {"ok":0,"errmsg":"ns not found","code":26,"codeName":"NamespaceNotFound","name":"MongoError"}
2019-08-11T09:46:07.207Z [4567/8392] - error: ns not found {"ok":0,"errmsg":"ns not found","code":26,"codeName":"NamespaceNotFound","name":"MongoError"}

and that leaves me pretty stuck. I've disabled the plugin for now, but I'd really like to know what's going on here.

As the title says, I'm trying to make it so only admins/mods can upload or adjust the cover images for people's profiles. I've looked around the various hooks and what not, but I'm at a loss of how to achieve this.

I was originally thinking I could edit the function of the upload/edit buttons and check if the person has the required permissions; but I cannot seem to find where their functionality is actually defined.

Beautiful. Thanks a bunch!

Alright, understood. I wasn't sure how it worked then it seems. Is there a 'global' build hook? Something that is fired on every page?

Hey again. When trying to run the build hook on a template file that is inside a folder, it doesn't seem to be run.

I have the following structure for my example:

Root Folder: Template -
File 1: users.tpl -
Subfolder: Partials -
File 2: users_list.tpl

If I was to use the following hooks:

{ "hook": "filter:users.build", "method": "usersBuild" },
{ "hook": "filter:user_list.build", "method": "userListBuild" }

The first hook would be executed, but the second one would not.
Is there something I am missing / not understanding?

If it were a bot, I could assign it a token from the ACP. I am creating a third party application that interfaces with NodeBB. It needs to be able to inherently create new user accounts, and then also login as them (which is where logging in via a token would come into play). I suppose it would be possible to create an account via a socket connection directly, but I imagine I could have uses to some of the write API methods anyways.

Is it possible to programmatically create user tokens for the Write API? If that's the case, I could use a socket to create the account, and then generate a JWT token specifically for that user rather than hacking something into the application itself. That would leave the only hurdle being logging in, but at that point I could just store encrypted login credentials in a config file, and login to the API using https://github.com/NicolasSiver/nodebb-plugin-ns-login

Hello again, people must be getting annoyed with my questions by this point.

I was wondering if it is possible to setup the write API plugin so that a user can only have access to certain routes. Specifically, I am looking to create a user token, that only has the ability to create other users. I have a third party application that someone can login to the forums with and, if they lack an account, create new accounts with.

Due to how the write API functions, or at least from what I can gather, once they have a token they can do anything their user can do. Is there a way to achieve what I am attempting, or perhaps a better method?

P.S. As a side note, and probably something that should be it's own topic, is it possible to login to the API/forums via a token based system? I want a user to be able to login with their username and password then store a token or something similar that will 'keep them logged in' as it were as long as the token is valid. I'd imagine doing this by storing the token, then logging in via the token itself, instead of a username/password.

That's probably the approach I'll take. I was just wondering if there was some inbuilt functionality, but it's not much work to do, so thanks. Have a nice day!

@omega Hi. I'm developing locally, but the theme does a lot of stuff that links it with the rest of our infrastructure. While I'm not expecting someone to do it, you can never be to careful if someone does something stupid. I'd rather have contingencies than relying on people not to let the curiosity get the better of them.

I am designing a theme for a forum from scratch and I'm worried that an admin there might turn it switch it accidentally at some point and absolutely break everything. Is there a way to prevent this?

That's great, thanks!

Recent and relevant, and filled with examples. Thank you kindly!

Hey again.

I've spent a while messing around with many of the hooks and and templates trying to figure this out. We can already get the post count of a user with relative ease, but much of the information from the user object is missing from the user object that we access via {posts.user} .

I was wondering if we could add fields from the main user object (the ones you'd see at /api/user/Person1) to the other object (more specifically, if it is possible, which hooks I'd need to access and a general method).

@PitaJ While researching this, I noticed that all posts and topics then when used will jump to them. In my case, my last post was:

community.nodebb.org/post/74396

Is there a way to replace all the text based urls with that instead?

Bumping this, as I'm still searching for a solution.

Heya @jtsimoes. The main issue with this approach is that it would disabled post jumping (i.e. if you add a /3 on the end of a topic url, for example, it would jump you to the third post). Also when people directly link to topic it'll still carry the full url.

Edit for example:

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/13917/remove-category-topic-names-from-url/3
# This would jump me to this post.
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/13917/3
# This would not.