Support reading PeerTube application/activity+json

[jg10-mastodon-social]

I managed to get use rdflib.js to read the JSON-LD in https://spectra.video/videos/watch/3a0159d9-4f12-4dd7-b025-afbb663cd19c

Here's what I ended up doing (from a SolidOS instance):

let kb=panes.UI.store
panes.UI.store.fetcher.mediatypes["application/activity+json"]={}
panes.UI.store.fetcher.handlers[6].pattern=new RegExp("application/activity\\+json")
panes.UI.store.fetcher.load(kb.sym("https://spectra.video/videos/watch/3a0159d9-4f12-4dd7-b025-afbb663cd19c"),{force:true,headers:{},credentials: "omit"}).then(
 ()=>console.log(kb.match(kb.sym("https://spectra.video/videos/watch/3a0159d9-4f12-4dd7-b025-afbb663cd19c")))
)

Specifying the media type is required to adjust the accept header, otherwise PeerTube returns html.
The new accept header is image/*;q=0.9, */*;q=0.1, application/rdf+xml;q=0.9, application/xhtml+xml, text/xml;q=0.5, application/xml;q=0.5, text/html;q=0.9, text/plain;q=0.5, text/n3;q=1.0, text/turtle;q=1, application/ld+json;q=0.9, application/activity+json

Specifying the handler pattern is required so that load recognises the media type as parseable by the jsonldparser. To still support jsonld, this should probably be something like pattern=new RegExp("application/(ld|activity)\\+json")

I don't know why the options to load are needed but they seem to be.

[jeswr]

I think the better push here is to get ActivityPub and PeerTube to respond with application/activity+ld+json content types. I've opened w3c/activitypub#501 on the AP spec repo.

Ignore: see Teds comment below

[TallTed]

Note that application/activity+ld+json is not and probably will never be a validly registered IANA media type. Multiple plus signs are disallowed.

[nightpool]

Peertube should already respond to the LD JSON header IMO, based on my reading of the spec. There's no harm in including the activity+json header as well though

[nightpool]

Ah, I see the issue. you're listing text/html and application/ld+json at the same priority level. So Peertube is going to respond with HTML to break the tie. Instead, you should put html at a lower priority level than ld+json

[jg10-mastodon-social]

Instead, you should put html at a lower priority level than ld+json

Can confirm that works:

let kb=panes.UI.store
panes.UI.store.fetcher.mediatypes["text/html"]={q:0.8}
panes.UI.store.fetcher.handlers[6].pattern=new RegExp("application/activity\\+json")
panes.UI.store.fetcher.load(kb.sym("https://spectra.video/videos/watch/3a0159d9-4f12-4dd7-b025-afbb663cd19c"),{force:true,headers:{},credentials: "omit"}).then(
 ()=>console.log(kb.match(kb.sym("https://spectra.video/videos/watch/3a0159d9-4f12-4dd7-b025-afbb663cd19c")))
)