From f1b8f3fe4ffab3698cee2e8f213444252f273450 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 11:33:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: assertTopic incorrectly creating new id if passed-in id
 did not match the actual object's id

---
 src/activitypub/notes.js | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/activitypub/notes.js b/src/activitypub/notes.js
index 2bc4f4f871..4d48fcdd95 100644
--- a/src/activitypub/notes.js
+++ b/src/activitypub/notes.js
@@ -62,6 +62,12 @@ Notes.getParentChain = async (uid, input) => {
 			}
 		} else {
 			let object = await activitypub.get('uid', uid, id);
+
+			// Handle incorrect id passed in
+			if (id !== object.id) {
+				return await traverse(uid, object.id);
+			}
+
 			object = await activitypub.mocks.post(object);
 			if (object) {
 				chain.add(object);