[Plugin development] Delete a Prop on a post update

Hi,

While working on a plugin making use of the MessageWillBeUpdated hook, I’m trying to delete a post custom prop (that was added to the post previously), but I can’t manage to.

To reproduce,

  1. Create&install&activate a plugin with the following hooks:
    func (p *Plugin) MessageWillBePosted(c *plugin.Context, post *model.Post) (*model.Post, string) {
    post.AddProp(“custom_test_prop”, 42)
    return post, “”
    }

    func (p *Plugin) MessageWillBeUpdated(c *plugin.Context, newPost, oldPost *model.Post) (*model.Post, string) {
    newPost.AddProp(“custom_another_test_prop”, 4242)
    newPost.DelProp(“custom_test_prop”)
    return newPost, “”
    }

  2. Post a message with “ORIGINAL” as content

  3. Edit that message with “EDITED” as content

  4. Check the post in the database:
    ±---------±--------------±--------------±---------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | Message | EditAt | DeleteAt | Message | Props |
    ±---------±--------------±--------------±---------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
    | EDITED | 1620681643944 | 0 | EDITED | {“custom_another_test_prop”:4242,“custom_test_prop”:42,“disable_group_highlight”:true} |
    | ORIGINAL | 0 | 1620681643946 | ORIGINAL | {“custom_test_prop”:42,“disable_group_highlight”:true} |
    ±---------±--------------±--------------±---------±---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Here we see that on editing, custom_another_test_prop was correctly added but custom_test_prop was NOT deleted, which is the goal.

The following code that deletes manually the property also fails to have any effect:
func (p *Plugin) MessageWillBeUpdated(c *plugin.Context, newPost, oldPost *model.Post) (*model.Post, string) {
props := newPost.GetProps()
delete(props, “custom_test_prop”)
newPost.SetProps(props)
newPost.AddProp(“custom_another_test_prop”, 4242)
return newPost, “”
}

What’s the correct way of deleting a custom prop?