From ad45359a9d67d8e818ac710af436d03632cf698e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hansen <rhansen@rhansen.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 18:51:08 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chat: Silence accidental deprecation warnings

This fixes a bug introduced in commit
363a48b6d535c0a8501355a4d50f9885e2ee757e.
---
 src/static/js/ChatMessage.js | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/static/js/ChatMessage.js b/src/static/js/ChatMessage.js
index 98c5c4c0a..d7ff680d1 100644
--- a/src/static/js/ChatMessage.js
+++ b/src/static/js/ChatMessage.js
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ const {padutils: {warnDeprecated}} = require('./pad_utils');
  */
 class ChatMessage {
   static fromObject(obj) {
+    // The userId property was renamed to authorId, and userName was renamed to displayName. Accept
+    // the old names in case the db record was written by an older version of Etherpad.
+    obj = Object.assign({}, obj); // Don't mutate the caller's object.
+    if ('userId' in obj && !('authorId' in obj)) obj.authorId = obj.userId;
+    delete obj.userId;
+    if ('userName' in obj && !('displayName' in obj)) obj.displayName = obj.userName;
+    delete obj.userName;
     return Object.assign(new ChatMessage(), obj);
   }