Toot implements a REST API server that matches the Mastodon REST API. It plugs into your existing application seamlessly (using router adapter) making your Go application accessible to any Mastodon-compatible client app.
Most client apps use the Mastodon REST API instead of the official ActivityPub Client-to-Server (C2S) API. However, the Mastodon API is very large, with a huge number of routes, handlers, and scopes required to support. Toot provides a consistent catalog of all of these values, and handles lots of busywork -- matching the specific routes, authorization, parameters, and results that Mastodon requires -- so that you can write happly little API handlers like this:
api.PostStatus = func(authorization model.Authorization, values txn.PostStatus) (object.Status, error) {
// Do the thing that:
// 1) creates a new `status`
// 2) writes it to the database
// 3) returns the value to the caller
}
// Once your handlers are defined, connect Toot to your router like this:
e := echo.New()
tootecho.Register(e, api)Currently, I have only written a connector to the echo Router (because that's what I'm using for my own applications). It should, however, be a simple project to write adapters for other routers, such as Chi, Gin, Fiber, or others. If you'd like to use Toot with a different router, please get in touch and let's work together.
This project is still in early alpha testing, as I continue filling out the Mastodon support in Emissary. Some interfaces may change in the future if I run into trouble making things work with this reference implementation.
However, at this point, feedback from other developers will be immensely helpful in making Tooth a useful tool for the Go community. Please feel free to open issues, or submit pull requests.