Add the ability to delete a message (#53)

Message.deleted_at has existed since the initial schema but was never
wired up -- no WS envelope, no permission check, no frontend concept of
it at all. Soft delete, author-only (mirrors the existing edit
permission exactly): content and any attached image/file are cleared
and the underlying MessageImage/MessageFile row and stored file are
actually removed, not just detached, so the message becomes a "This
message was deleted" tombstone with nothing left to recover through a
stale attachment URL. A deleted message can no longer be edited or
reacted to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-08-28 16:35:00 -06:00
co-authored by Claude Sonnet 5
parent 157f1e30ac
commit ef615e1ef4
13 changed files with 477 additions and 8 deletions
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@@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ async def _message_payload(db: AsyncSession, message: Message, username: str) ->
"reactions": [],
"created_at": message.created_at.isoformat(),
"edited_at": message.edited_at.isoformat() if message.edited_at else None,
# Always null here -- a message just being created can't already be
# deleted -- but included for wire-format parity with MessageRead
# and message_deleted (#53).
"deleted_at": None,
}
@@ -204,6 +208,16 @@ async def broadcast_message_update(
_maybe_fetch_link_preview(broadcaster, room_id, message)
async def broadcast_message_delete(broadcaster: Broadcaster, room_id: uuid.UUID, message_id: uuid.UUID) -> None:
# #53: no dispatch_event() call, deliberately -- same scope cut as
# broadcast_reaction_update's, and for the same reason (see
# backend/README.md): message.deleted isn't an outgoing-webhook event
# type here.
await broadcaster.publish(
room_id, {"type": "message_deleted", "id": str(message_id), "room_id": str(room_id)}
)
async def broadcast_reaction_update(
broadcaster: Broadcaster,
room_id: uuid.UUID,