From 4807a52284250e1663da0ba31c57a0c05861b797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 05:46:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] user: support creating an actor which represents the instance
 itself

---
 lib/pleroma/user.ex | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/pleroma/user.ex b/lib/pleroma/user.ex
index df22d29a8..640c34aec 100644
--- a/lib/pleroma/user.ex
+++ b/lib/pleroma/user.ex
@@ -637,6 +637,22 @@ defmodule Pleroma.User do
     end
   end
 
+  def get_or_create_instance_user do
+    if user = get_by_ap_id(Pleroma.Web.Endpoint.url()) do
+      user
+    else
+      changes =
+        %User{}
+        |> cast(%{}, [:ap_id, :nickname, :local])
+        |> put_change(:ap_id, Pleroma.Web.Endpoint.url())
+        |> put_change(:nickname, nil)
+        |> put_change(:local, true)
+
+      {:ok, user} = Repo.insert(changes)
+      user
+    end
+  end
+
   # AP style
   def public_key_from_info(%{
         "source_data" => %{"publicKey" => %{"publicKeyPem" => public_key_pem}}