Send PM to an email adress from a plugin

merefield · October 2, 2023, 6:54am

According to the specs, that should take a group name or a username:

spec/requests/posts_controller_spec.rb

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          it "can send a message to a group" do
            Group.refresh_automatic_groups!
            group = Group.create(name: "test_group", messageable_level: Group::ALIAS_LEVELS[:nobody])
            user1 = user
            group.add(user1)
          
            post "/posts.json",
                 params: {
                   raw: "I can haz a test",
                   title: "I loves my test",
                   target_recipients: group.name,
                   archetype: Archetype.private_message,
                 }
          
            expect(response).not_to be_successful
          
            # allow pm to this group
            group.update_columns(messageable_level: Group::ALIAS_LEVELS[:everyone])
          
            post "/posts.json",
                 params: {

github.com/discourse/discourse

spec/requests/posts_controller_spec.rb

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            fab!(:topic) { Fabricate(:topic) }
          
            it "errors when creating a private post" do
              user_2 = Fabricate(:user)
          
              post "/posts.json",
                   params: {
                     raw: "this is the test content",
                     archetype: "private_message",
                     title: "this is some post",
                     target_recipients: user_2.username,
                     topic_id: topic.id,
                   }
          
              expect(response.status).to eq(422)
              expect(response.parsed_body["errors"]).to include(I18n.t("create_pm_on_existing_topic"))
            end
          end
          
          context "with errors" do
            it "does not succeed" do

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Send PM to an email adress from a plugin

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