golem15.feedback

The shared feedback-widget plugin for SummerCMS applications: an embeddable widget's public config and submit API behind a widget key and an Origin allow-list, a per-user "hide the widget" preference, the widget settings, and a job that files every submission as a G15Office task.

import _ "git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-feedback-plugin"

Module git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-feedback-plugin, package feedback, plugin ID golem15.feedback.

Overview

The plugin is a compiled SummerCMS plugin ported from the WinterCMS Golem15.Feedback plugin. Its init registers it with the framework, so an application loads it by listing it in summer.yaml; summer build then emits the blank import above into the application's plugins.gen.go. It requires golem15.user.

The widget routes are public. The widget key in the URL is a public identifier (it ships in the embed snippet), not a secret: the real gate is the Origin check against the operator's allowed-origins list, backed by per-IP rate limits.

The plugin ID, the table names, the config keys and the settings code are a contract shared by every application that mounts the plugin: change them only in a backwards-compatible way.

Features

• Widget config. GET /_feedback/api/v1/{key}/config answers the widget's position, whether visitors may hide it, its colors and its labels (?lang=en selects the English labels, anything else the Polish ones). A disabled widget, an empty key or a key that differs (compared in constant time) is 404 {"error":true,"message":"Not found"}.
• Origin gate. A request without an Origin header passes. An Origin passes only when its URL host, lower-cased, is on the allowed-origins list (one entry per line; a line is reduced to its URL host when it has one). An empty list refuses every Origin with 403 {"error":true,"message":"Origin not allowed"}, so a widget that was never configured cannot be embedded anywhere.
• Rate limits. The named buckets feedback-config (60 a minute) and feedback-submit (10 a minute) count per client IP behind the configured trusted proxies.
• Settings. models.Settings is the singleton row of golem15_feedback_settings. models.Instance creates it on first access with the WinterCMS defaults and a new widget key (wk_ plus 32 random letters and digits).

Usage

Mount the plugin in an application as a git submodule at plugins/golem15/feedback:

git submodule add git@git.golem15.com:golem15/sm-feedback-plugin.git plugins/golem15/feedback

Add it to the application's go.work and go.mod:

use ./plugins/golem15/feedback

require git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-feedback-plugin v0.0.0

replace git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-feedback-plugin => ./plugins/golem15/feedback

List it in summer.yaml after golem15.user and run summer build:

module: git.golem15.com/golem15/acme
binary: acme
plugins:
  - id: golem15.user
    module: git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin
  - id: golem15.feedback
    module: git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-feedback-plugin

The application's http.cors.paths must list _feedback/api/*: the widget calls the API from other origins.

The plugin's own go.mod replaces the framework with ../../../../summercms.go and the user plugin with ../user, so it expects the framework checkout next to the application checkout and the user plugin mounted beside it.

API reference

• feedback: Plugin, the golem15.feedback plugin (config, lang, migrations, models, routes, buckets); BucketConfig, BucketSubmit.
• controllers/api: Config, KeyMatches, OriginAllowed.
• models: Settings (table golem15_feedback_settings), SettingsID, SettingsCode, DefaultSettings, Instance, NewWidgetKey, Labels, URLHost, ASCIILower; Submission (table golem15_feedback_submissions), StatusPending, StatusSent, StatusFailed, TypeBug, TypeFeature, TypeOther, ScreenshotField, G15OfficeTypeMap; UserPreference (table golem15_feedback_user_preferences), IsWidgetHidden, SetWidgetHidden; Register, All.
• updates: the migrations (202610030201_create_feedback_submissions, 202610030202_create_feedback_user_preferences, 202610030203_create_feedback_settings), Register, All.

Configuration

Defaults live in config/config.yaml and are merged under golem15.feedback.*.

Key	Default	Meaning
golem15.feedback.g15_office.base_url	empty	The G15Office base URL submissions are filed under.
golem15.feedback.g15_office.token	empty	The G15Office API token. Never commit it.
golem15.feedback.g15_office.project	empty	The G15Office project the tasks are created in.

Override them with SUMMER_GOLEM15__FEEDBACK__G15_OFFICE__BASE_URL, SUMMER_GOLEM15__FEEDBACK__G15_OFFICE__TOKEN and SUMMER_GOLEM15__FEEDBACK__G15_OFFICE__PROJECT.

Dependencies

• The SummerCMS framework, git.golem15.com/golem15/summercms (modules backpack, compass, lagoon, pact, party, surf, wire).
• The user plugin, git.golem15.com/golem15/sm-user-plugin.
• GORM and gormigrate, as pinned in go.mod.
• testcontainers-go for the Postgres-backed tests.

Testing

go test ./...   # starts Postgres with testcontainers (needs Docker)