Optimize account creation

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/server/lib/user.ts b/server/lib/user.ts
index 9884e566f..2d7b36b4f 100644
--- a/server/lib/user.ts
+++ b/server/lib/user.ts
@@ -5,16 +5,17 @@ import { database as db } from '../initializers'
 import { CONFIG } from '../initializers/constants'
 import { UserInstance } from '../models'
 import { createVideoChannel } from './video-channel'
+import { logger } from '../helpers/logger'
 
 async function createUserAccountAndChannel (user: UserInstance, validateUser = true) {
-  const res = await db.sequelize.transaction(async t => {
+  const { account, videoChannel } = await db.sequelize.transaction(async t => {
     const userOptions = {
       transaction: t,
       validate: validateUser
     }
 
     const userCreated = await user.save(userOptions)
-    const accountCreated = await createLocalAccount(user.username, user.id, null, t)
+    const accountCreated = await createLocalAccountWithoutKeys(user.username, user.id, null, t)
 
     const videoChannelName = `Default ${userCreated.username} channel`
     const videoChannelInfo = {
@@ -25,18 +26,23 @@ async function createUserAccountAndChannel (user: UserInstance, validateUser = t
     return { account: accountCreated, videoChannel }
   })
 
-  return res
+  // Set account keys, this could be long so process after the account creation and do not block the client
+  const { publicKey, privateKey } = await createPrivateAndPublicKeys()
+  account.set('publicKey', publicKey)
+  account.set('privateKey', privateKey)
+  account.save().catch(err => logger.error('Cannot set public/private keys of local account %d.', account.id, err))
+
+  return { account, videoChannel }
 }
 
-async function createLocalAccount (name: string, userId: number, applicationId: number, t: Sequelize.Transaction) {
-  const { publicKey, privateKey } = await createPrivateAndPublicKeys()
+async function createLocalAccountWithoutKeys (name: string, userId: number, applicationId: number, t: Sequelize.Transaction) {
   const url = getActivityPubUrl('account', name)
 
   const accountInstance = db.Account.build({
     name,
     url,
-    publicKey,
-    privateKey,
+    publicKey: null,
+    privateKey: null,
     followersCount: 0,
     followingCount: 0,
     inboxUrl: url + '/inbox',
@@ -56,5 +62,5 @@ async function createLocalAccount (name: string, userId: number, applicationId:
 
 export {
   createUserAccountAndChannel,
-  createLocalAccount
+  createLocalAccountWithoutKeys
 }
diff --git a/server/lib/video-channel.ts b/server/lib/video-channel.ts
index e69ec062f..6f9ae2d95 100644
--- a/server/lib/video-channel.ts
+++ b/server/lib/video-channel.ts
@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@ async function createVideoChannel (videoChannelInfo: VideoChannelCreate, account
   // Do not forget to add Account information to the created video channel
   videoChannelCreated.Account = account
 
-  await sendCreateVideoChannel(videoChannelCreated, t)
-  await shareVideoChannelByServer(videoChannelCreated, t)
-
+  // No need to seed this empty video channel to followers
   return videoChannelCreated
 }