Pulling any missing posts by ID

We have the post ID, so why would Pleroma not send us the post? Request any missing posts it hasn't sent us, to try and get a thread that doesn't lose all its replies.

brutaldon/threadtree.py

@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 from pprint import pprint
 
-def maketree(descendants):
+def maketree(mastodon, descendants):
     lookup = dict((descendant.id, descendant) for descendant in descendants)
     replies = {}
     roots = set()
+    def lookup_or_fetch(id):
+        if not id in lookup:
+            lookup[id] = mastodon.status(id)
+        return lookup[id]
     def getreps(id):
         if id in replies:
             reps = replies[id]
@@ -30,12 +34,12 @@ def maketree(descendants):
             seen.add(rep)
             subreps = replies.get(rep)
             if subreps:
-                yield lookup[rep], onelevel(subreps)
+                yield lookup_or_fetch(rep), onelevel(subreps)
             else:
-                yield lookup[rep], ()
+                yield lookup_or_fetch(rep), ()
     def leftovers():
         for leftover in set(lookup.keys()) - seen:
-            yield lookup[leftover]
+            yield lookup_or_fetch(leftover)
     return onelevel(roots), leftovers
 
 # returns (status, gen[(status, gen[(status, ...), (status, ())]), ...])
@@ -60,15 +64,13 @@ def unmaketree(tree):
             yield from unmaketree(children)
             yield OUT
 
-def build(descendants):
+def build(mastodon, descendants):
-    herp, derp = maketree(descendants)
+    tree, leftover = maketree(mastodon, descendants)
     yield IN
-    yield from unmaketree(herp)
+    yield from unmaketree(tree)
     yield OUT
     yield IN
-    derp = tuple(derp())
+    leftover = tuple(leftover())
-    pprint(("derp", derp))
+    for post in leftover:
-    for post in derp:
-        pprint(("derp?", post))
         yield POST(post)
     yield OUT

brutaldon/views.py

@@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ def thread(request, id):
     # descendants = [
     #     x for x in context.descendants if not toot_matches_filters(x, filters)
     # ]
-    posts = tuple(threadtree.build(context.descendants))
+    posts = tuple(threadtree.build(mastodon, context.descendants))
     return render(
         request,
         "main/thread.html",