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+# Pleroma: A lightweight social networking server
+# Copyright © 2017-2019 Pleroma Authors <https://pleroma.social/>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+
+defmodule Pleroma.Web.Federator.Publisher do
+ @moduledoc """
+ Defines the contract used by federation implementations to publish messages to
+ their peers.
+ """
+
+ @doc """
+ Determine whether an activity can be relayed using the federation module.
+ """
+ @callback is_representable?(Pleroma.Activity.t()) :: boolean()
+
+ @doc """
+ Relays an activity to a specified peer, determined by the parameters. The
+ parameters used are controlled by the federation module.
+ """
+ @callback publish_one(Map.t()) :: {:ok, Map.t()} | {:error, any()}
+
+ @doc """
+ Relays an activity to all specified peers.
+ """
+ @callback publish(Pleroma.User.t(), Pleroma.Activity.t()) :: :ok | {:error, any()}
+
+ @doc """
+ Enqueues work generated by the federation module.
+ """
+ @spec enqueue(module(), keyword()) :: :ok
+ def enqueue(module, args), do: PleromaJobQueue.enqueue(:federation_outgoing, module, args)
+
+ @doc """
+ Enqueue publishing a single activity.
+ """
+ @spec enqueue_one(module(), Map.t()) :: :ok
+ def enqueue_one(module, %{} = args), do: enqueue(module, [:publish_one, args])
+end