Merge pull request #38 from CMU-17313Q/anonymousbackend

Anonymous Can Now Post as Guest When They Select Anonymous.

src/posts/create.js

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ const privileges = require('../privileges');
 module.exports = function (Posts) {
 	Posts.create = async function (data) {
 		// This is an internal method, consider using Topics.reply instead
+
+		// Might be a good idea to do some testing here to see what happens, but we'll see
 		const { uid } = data;
 		const { tid } = data;
 		const content = data.content.toString();

src/topics/create.js

@@ -117,6 +117,10 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 			await user.isReadyToPost(uid, data.cid);
 		}
 
+		if (data.isAnonymous) {
+			data.uid = 0;
+		}
+
 		const tid = await Topics.create(data);
 
 		let postData = data;
@@ -193,6 +197,10 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 			data.timestamp = topicData.lastposttime + 1;
 		}
 
+		if (data.isAnonymous) {
+			data.uid = 0;
+		}
+
 		data.ip = data.req ? data.req.ip : null;
 		let postData = await posts.create(data);
 		postData = await onNewPost(postData, data);

src/topics/posts.js

@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ module.exports = function (Topics) {
 				postObj.replies = replies[i];
 				postObj.selfPost = parseInt(uid, 10) > 0 && parseInt(uid, 10) === postObj.uid;
 
+				// Trying to work on this file to try and customize anonymous more
+
 				// Username override for guests, if enabled
 				if (meta.config.allowGuestHandles && postObj.uid === 0 && postObj.handle) {
 					postObj.user.username = validator.escape(String(postObj.handle));