Improve follow request flow, federate rejections and delete rejections from database to properly handle future follow requests from same actor

app/FollowRequest.php

@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ class FollowRequest extends Model
         return $this->belongsTo(Profile::class, 'following_id', 'id');
     }
 
-    public function permalink($append = null)
+    public function permalink($append = null, $namespace = '#accepts')
     {
-        $path = $this->target->permalink("#accepts/follows/{$this->id}{$append}");
+        $path = $this->target->permalink("{$namespace}/follows/{$this->id}{$append}");
         return url($path);
     }
 }

app/Http/Controllers/AccountController.php

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ use App\Services\AccountService;
 use App\Services\UserFilterService;
 use App\Services\RelationshipService;
 use App\Jobs\FollowPipeline\FollowAcceptPipeline;
+use App\Jobs\FollowPipeline\FollowRejectPipeline;
 
 class AccountController extends Controller
 {
@@ -406,8 +407,11 @@ class AccountController extends Controller
 			break;
 
 			case 'reject':
-			$followRequest->is_rejected = true;
+				if($follower->domain != null && $follower->private_key === null) {
-			$followRequest->save();
+					FollowRejectPipeline::dispatch($followRequest);
+				} else {
+					$followRequest->delete();
+				}
 			break;
 		}
 

app/Jobs/FollowPipeline/FollowRejectPipeline.php

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Jobs\FollowPipeline;
+
+use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
+use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
+use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
+use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
+use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
+
+use Cache, Log;
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis;
+use League\Fractal;
+use League\Fractal\Serializer\ArraySerializer;
+use App\FollowRequest;
+use App\Util\ActivityPub\Helpers;
+use App\Transformer\ActivityPub\Verb\RejectFollow;
+
+class FollowRejectPipeline implements ShouldQueue
+{
+	use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
+
+	protected $followRequest;
+
+	/**
+	 * Delete the job if its models no longer exist.
+	 *
+	 * @var bool
+	 */
+	public $deleteWhenMissingModels = true;
+
+	/**
+	 * Create a new job instance.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function __construct(FollowRequest $followRequest)
+	{
+		$this->followRequest = $followRequest;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Execute the job.
+	 *
+	 * @return void
+	 */
+	public function handle()
+	{
+		$follow = $this->followRequest;
+		$actor = $follow->actor;
+		$target = $follow->target;
+
+		if($actor->domain == null || $actor->inbox_url == null || !$target->private_key) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		$fractal = new Fractal\Manager();
+		$fractal->setSerializer(new ArraySerializer());
+		$resource = new Fractal\Resource\Item($follow, new RejectFollow());
+		$activity = $fractal->createData($resource)->toArray();
+		$url = $actor->sharedInbox ?? $actor->inbox_url;
+
+		Helpers::sendSignedObject($target, $url, $activity);
+
+		$follow->delete();
+
+		return;
+	}
+}

app/Transformer/ActivityPub/Verb/RejectFollow.php

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Transformer\ActivityPub\Verb;
+
+use App\FollowRequest;
+use League\Fractal;
+
+class RejectFollow extends Fractal\TransformerAbstract
+{
+	public function transform(FollowRequest $follow)
+	{
+		return [
+			'@context'  => 'https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams',
+			'type'      => 'Reject',
+			'id'		=> $follow->permalink(null, '#rejects'),
+			'actor'     => $follow->target->permalink(),
+			'object' 	=> [
+				'type' 		=> 'Follow',
+				'id'        => $follow->activity && isset($follow->activity['id']) ? $follow->activity['id'] : null,
+				'actor'		=> $follow->actor->permalink(),
+				'object'	=> $follow->target->permalink()
+			]
+		];
+	}
+}