Conversation
This change will: - provision verified OIDC identities as permissionless contact users - isolate customer ticket APIs from agent authorization - show each contact only their own public conversation history - reserve agent access for admin-managed agent accounts
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a customer portal with contact-only authentication, ticket APIs, ticket creation, conversation history, portal-required custom attributes, and frontend views. OIDC login now provisions contacts and validates redirects. Automated replies preserve eligible CC recipients from incoming messages. ChangesCustomer portal and authentication
Automated reply CC propagation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The portal introduces customer authentication and ticket creation, but the current implementation can misbind an external identity and allows customers to submit internal conversation attributes, creating security and data-integrity risk; it also hides older ticket and message history after the first 100 records. These issues should be fixed before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PortalBrowser
participant portalAuth
participant PortalHandlers
participant ConversationManager
participant Database
PortalBrowser->>portalAuth: Send authenticated portal request
portalAuth->>PortalHandlers: Pass authorized contact context
PortalHandlers->>ConversationManager: Create or retrieve conversation
ConversationManager->>Database: Query or persist conversation data
Database-->>ConversationManager: Return conversation and message data
ConversationManager-->>PortalHandlers: Return portal models
PortalHandlers-->>PortalBrowser: Return JSON response
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In `@cmd/portal.go`:
- Around line 110-129: Update the custom-attribute loop in the portal handler to
skip any attribute whose PortalRequired is false before accessing
req.CustomAttributes, so only portal fields are persisted. Replace the current
string-based required validation involving ReplaceAll with a type-specific check
that preserves valid non-checkbox values such as “false”, while retaining
required validation for empty or unset values.
In `@frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue`:
- Around line 375-389: Update frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue
lines 375-389 to use the ticket response pagination metadata to fetch and append
all later pages, and expose the server-reported total in the portal UI; update
lines 335-336 to load subsequent message pages or add message pagination
controls so complete conversation history is accessible.
In `@internal/auth/auth.go`:
- Around line 259-265: The UserInfo response is currently decoded into the
verified ID-token claims, allowing unverified or mismatched identity data to be
trusted. In the UserInfo handling around provider.UserInfo and userInfo.Claims,
decode into separate claims, reject missing or mismatched sub values, and only
replace the token email when UserInfo explicitly has email_verified=true; add
regression tests covering the mismatched-sub and unverified-email cases.
In `@internal/custom_attribute/custom_attribute.go`:
- Line 83: Update validateCustomAttribute to enforce that PortalRequired is only
true when AppliesTo is conversation: normalize it to false or reject invalid
input, and add a matching database constraint so both persistence paths enforce
the same invariant.
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| validAttributes := make(map[string]any) | ||
| for _, attribute := range attributes { | ||
| value, exists := req.CustomAttributes[attribute.Key] | ||
| if attribute.PortalRequired && (!exists || strings.TrimSpace(strings.ReplaceAll(strings.TrimSpace(toString(value)), "false", "")) == "") { | ||
| return r.SendErrorEnvelope(fasthttp.StatusBadRequest, attribute.Name+" is required.", nil, envelope.InputError) | ||
| } | ||
| if !exists { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| if attribute.Regex != "" { | ||
| pattern, compileErr := regexp.Compile(attribute.Regex) | ||
| if compileErr != nil || !pattern.MatchString(toString(value)) { | ||
| message := attribute.RegexHint | ||
| if message == "" { | ||
| message = attribute.Name + " is invalid." | ||
| } | ||
| return r.SendErrorEnvelope(fasthttp.StatusBadRequest, message, nil, envelope.InputError) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| validAttributes[attribute.Key] = value |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Restrict submitted attributes to portal fields.
The loop persists every known conversation attribute when the request contains its key. handleGetPortalCustomAttributes exposes only PortalRequired attributes, but a contact can submit a non-portal key directly. This bypasses the portal attribute boundary and lets a contact write internal conversation metadata.
Skip attributes where !attribute.PortalRequired before reading req.CustomAttributes. Use a type-specific required check. The current ReplaceAll(..., "false", "") check also rejects valid non-checkbox values such as "false".
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In `@cmd/portal.go` around lines 110 - 129, Update the custom-attribute loop in
the portal handler to skip any attribute whose PortalRequired is false before
accessing req.CustomAttributes, so only portal fields are persisted. Replace the
current string-based required validation involving ReplaceAll with a
type-specific check that preserves valid non-checkbox values such as “false”,
while retaining required validation for empty or unset values.
| api.getPortalConversations({ page_size: 100 }), | ||
| api.getConfig() | ||
| ]) | ||
| currentUser.value = meResponse.data.data | ||
| siteName.value = configResponse.data.data?.['app.site_name'] || siteName.value | ||
| portalInboxes.value = inboxesResponse.data.data || [] | ||
| portalAttributes.value = attributesResponse.data.data || [] | ||
| newTicket.custom_attributes = Object.fromEntries( | ||
| portalAttributes.value.map((attribute) => [ | ||
| attribute.key, | ||
| attribute.data_type === 'checkbox' ? false : '' | ||
| ]) | ||
| ) | ||
| newTicket.inbox_id = portalInboxes.value[0]?.id || 0 | ||
| tickets.value = ticketsResponse.data.data.results || [] |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Load later portal pages.
The portal requests one fixed page of 100 records and has no pagination control. Contacts with more than 100 tickets cannot access older tickets. Tickets with more than 100 messages have incomplete history.
frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue#L375-L389: use the response pagination data to load later ticket pages and display the server total.frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue#L335-L336: load later message pages, or add message pagination controls.
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In `@frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue` around lines 375 - 389,
Update frontend/apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue lines 375-389 to use
the ticket response pagination metadata to fetch and append all later pages, and
expose the server-reported total in the portal UI; update lines 335-336 to load
subsequent message pages or add message pagination controls so complete
conversation history is accessible.
| userInfo, err := provider.UserInfo(ctx, oauth2.StaticTokenSource(tk)) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| return "", OIDCclaim{}, fmt.Errorf("error getting OIDC userinfo: %v", err) | ||
| } | ||
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Bind UserInfo claims to the verified ID token.
userInfo.Claims(&claims) decodes into the existing ID-token claims. If UserInfo returns another email but omits email_verified, EmailVerified=true remains. The callback can then authenticate or provision the other email. It also does not compare the UserInfo sub with the verified ID-token sub.
Decode UserInfo into a separate value. Reject a missing or mismatched sub. Replace the email only when UserInfo explicitly sets its own email_verified claim to true. Add regression tests for both cases.
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In `@internal/auth/auth.go` around lines 259 - 265, The UserInfo response is
currently decoded into the verified ID-token claims, allowing unverified or
mismatched identity data to be trusted. In the UserInfo handling around
provider.UserInfo and userInfo.Claims, decode into separate claims, reject
missing or mismatched sub values, and only replace the token email when UserInfo
explicitly has email_verified=true; add regression tests covering the
mismatched-sub and unverified-email cases.
| func (m *Manager) Create(attr models.CustomAttribute) (models.CustomAttribute, error) { | ||
| var createdAttr models.CustomAttribute | ||
| if err := m.q.InsertCustomAttribute.Get(&createdAttr, attr.AppliesTo, attr.Name, attr.Description, attr.Key, pq.Array(attr.Values), attr.DataType, attr.Regex, attr.RegexHint); err != nil { | ||
| if err := m.q.InsertCustomAttribute.Get(&createdAttr, attr.AppliesTo, attr.Name, attr.Description, attr.Key, pq.Array(attr.Values), attr.DataType, attr.Regex, attr.RegexHint, attr.PortalRequired); err != nil { |
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Enforce the conversation-only portal_required invariant.
validateCustomAttribute does not restrict PortalRequired by AppliesTo. Normalize PortalRequired to false when AppliesTo is not conversation, or reject the input and add a matching database constraint before both persistence paths.
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In `@internal/custom_attribute/custom_attribute.go` at line 83, Update
validateCustomAttribute to enforce that PortalRequired is only true when
AppliesTo is conversation: normalize it to false or reject invalid input, and
add a matching database constraint so both persistence paths enforce the same
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I'd like the customer portal to not live inside apps/main. That app is the agent dashboard, so customers end up loading the admin bundle and sharing its router and session handling. The help center already establishes the pattern: Go-rendered templates in static/public/web-templates/help/ A portal under static/public/web-templates/portal/ with its own layout would keep the customer-facing surface fully separate from the agent app. On auth, OIDC being the only way in means the portal is unusable without a provider configured, magic links should be default with OIDC kept as an option on top. That's why I was waiting for the help center to land - I wasn't sure how the portal would fit until it did. For features this size, please open an issue with the approach first as per CONTRIBUTING.md - that way we can agree on the shape before you put the work in. |
Fair enough, can refactor it.
SSO-only is just one optional setting, not a hard-coded default.
I did but I didn't had the feeling that it has much priority on your end (fair enough) or a rough ETA. So I went ahead and built it. With that in place, I am also able to showcase it much better than talking about theoretical concepts. Happy to refactor so it fits your needs. If it doesn't, that also OK, as I can then move forward with other alternatives or use a forked version 🙂️. I just can't/don't want to wait for multiple weeks/months seeing other features prioritized which to me are not of interest. (fully OK if they are for you, everyone has different priorities and needs). |
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Hey, Missed replying to this. I’m also prioritizing this. I'll start work on this now, With server side rendered site served from |
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Closing this, will open a new PR |
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@abhinavxd May I ask what the status is here? Based on your statement that you want to prioritize this, I haven't seen any work related to the portal yet. OTOH a lot of AI-agent related work is being done. I've meanwhile went ahead and improved the portal and editing experience in it a lot. I can re-open the PR if you want and also make adjustments if needed. I don't yet understand why you closed it without a replacement and time to work on it 🤔 |
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Hey, I closed it because the customer portal is a fairly large, user-facing feature, and I felt the back-and-forth needed to get it aligned with how I want it to work would take quite a bit of time. I do still want to work on it, but priorities have shifted in the meantime and I haven’t gotten to it yet. I’d prefer to finish this particular feature myself rather than keep iterating on a large PR. If you feel it’s taking too long, you’re of course free to fork the repository and build on top of it however you’d like. |
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We would also much prefer a customer portal like this compared to the AI features (there I only want 1 feature - the off-toggle to remove them) |
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Summary
Userrole and backfill it onto existing contacts.Why
LibreDesk currently treats OIDC as agent-only authentication.
An external identity that is not already an agent receives
User not found, so customers cannot use SSO to access their ticket history.The portal uses a separate authentication middleware instead of widening the existing agent middleware.
Conversation ownership is included in the database lookup, private messages are excluded, and portal DTOs omit internal assignment, metadata, and author email fields.
Screenshots
Customer ticket portal, shown with synthetic example data:
New-ticket form with additional email recipients and a required custom field:
Closes #221.
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go test ./...bun x eslint apps/main/src/views/portal/PortalView.vue apps/main/src/router/index.js apps/main/src/api/index.js --ignore-path .gitignorebun run build:mainSummary by CodeRabbit