Restrict access to room user permissions data by excluding this information
from room serializer response for non-admin/owner users. Previously all
members could see complete access lists. Change enforces stricter information
access control based on user role.
Spotted in #YWH-PGM14336-5.
Add user language and timezone to serialized user data to enable frontend
customization. Allows backend email notifications to respect user's
localization preferences for improved communication relevance.
Implement new endpoint allowing admin/owner to invite participants via email.
Provides explicit way to search users and send meeting invitations with
direct links.
In upcoming commits, frontend will call ResourceAccess endpoint to add
invited people as members if they exist in visio, bypassing waiting room
for a smoother experience.
Necessary in cross browser context situation, where we need to
pass data of a room newly created between two different windows.
This happens in Calendar integration.
Add new endpoint to access the event-handler matching service. Route is
protected by LiveKit authentication, handle at the service level.
Enables webhook event processing through standardized API.
Introduce new intermediate access level between public and restricted that
allows authenticated users to join rooms without admin approval. Not making
this the default level yet as current 12hr sessions would create painful
user experience for accessing rooms. Will reconsider default settings after
improving session management.
This access level definition may evolve to become stricter in the future,
potentially limiting access to authenticated users who share the same
organization as the room admin.
Implement lobby service using cache as LiveKit doesn't natively support
secure lobby functionality. Their teams recommended to create our own
system in our app's backend.
The lobby system is totally independant of the DRF session IDs,
making the request_entry endpoint authentication agnostic.
This decoupling prevents future DRF changes from breaking lobby functionality
and makes participant tracking more explicit.
Security audit is needed as current LiveKit tokens have excessive privileges
for unprivileged users. I'll offer more option ASAP for the admin to control
participant privileges.
Race condition handling also requires improvements, but should not be critical
at this point.
A great enhancement, would be to add a webhook, notifying the backend when the
room is closed, to reset cache.
This commit makes redis a prerequesite to run the suite of tests. The readme
and CI will be updated in dedicated commits.
Replace unused is_public boolean field with access_level to allow for more
granular control. Initially maintains public/restricted functionality while
enabling future addition of "trusted" access level.
Avoided unnecessary manipulation of the room name to prevent issues when
starting an egress worker. Previously, hyphens were stripped from the room
name, likely inherited from the legacy setup with Jitsi in Magnify, though
the purpose of this change is unclear and might be an undesired legacy
feature.
To ensure accurate room matching during egress worker requests, this update
removes any manipulation of the room name. This approach minimizes the risk
of errors when initiating recordings and maintains the integrity of the
original room name throughout the process.
The LiveKit egress worker interactions are proxied through the backend for
security reasons. Allowing clients to directly use tokens with sufficient
grants to start recordings could lead to misuse, enabling users to spam the
egress worker API and potentially initiate a DDOS attack on the egress
service. To prevent this, only users with room-specific privileges can
initiate recordings.
We make sure only one recording at the time can be made on a room.
The requested recording mode is stored so it can be referenced later when
the recording is saved, triggering a callback action as needed.
A feature flag was also introduced for this capability; while this is a simple
approach, a more robust system for managing feature flags could be valuable
long-term. For now, KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) applies.
The viewset endpoints were designed to be as straightforward as possible—
let me know if anything can be improved.
Recent updates of dev/ruff and dev/pylint dependencies led
to new linting warnings.
Pylint 3.2.0 introduced a new check `possibly-used-before-assignment`,
which ensures variables are defined regardless of conditional statements.
Some if/else branches were missing defaults. These have been fixed.
Quick and dirty approach. It works, that's essential.
Frontend can pass a desired username for the user. This would
be the name displayed in the room to other participants.
Usernames don't need to be unique, but user identities do
If no username is passed, API will fall back to a default username.
Why? This serves as a security mechanism. If the API is called
incorrectly by a client, it maintains the previous behavior.
It seems appropriate that backend owns the responsability of knowing any
information/configurations of the LiveKit server. Then, it shares those
with the frontend.
Please see my previous commit to understand why environment variables are
not appropriate for deployment in several remove environments.
As of today, the LiveKit server URL is the only configuration exposed
dynamically to the frontend. Thus, it doesn't justify adding a new route
to the API, responsible for exposing configurations (e.g. /configuration).
As the frontend needs to call the backend when it wants to initiate a new
webconference room, let's pass the server URL when retrieving the room's token.
It is relevant, to get both the room location and the keys to open the room in
the same call.
I prefered to be pragmatic, if the need appears any soon, I would refactor
these parts.
I have updated all references of "Impress" to "Meet".
Migrations were manually updated and not regenerated. Never-mind,
they all will be squashed before the first release.
I have also searched for reference to "Magnify", and replaced them
by "Meet".
While updating the backend sources, I have also fixed other parts of
the project, namely:
- Compose file
- Github documentation and CI
- Makefile commands
Introduce CRUD API endpoints for the Rooms and ResourceAccess models.
The code follows the Magnify logic, with the exception that token generation
has been removed and replaced by a TODO item with a mocked value.
Proper integration of LiveKit will be added in future commits.
With the removal of group logic, some complex query sets can be simplified.
Previously, we checked for both direct and indirect access to a room.
Indirect access meant a room was shared with a group, and the user was a
member of that group. I haven’t simplified those query set, as I preferred
isolate changes in dedicated commits.
Additionally, all previous tests are still passing, although tests related
to groups have been removed.
lebaudantoine