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+const { MIME_TYPES } = require('@semapps/mime-types');
+
+// Version-skew compatibility shim for the app registration handshake.
+//
+// `@activitypods/app` 2.3.2 (app side) and the local pod provider (HEAD) disagree on where
+// an AccessGrant records the access needs it satisfies. The app-side `app-registrations.verify`
+// tests `accessGrant['interop:satisfiesAccessNeed']` directly on the AccessGrant — the umbrella
+// grant the pod lists in `interop:hasAccessGrant`. The pod provider now writes
+// `interop:satisfiesAccessNeed` on the DataGrants instead, reached through
+// AccessGrant -> `interop:hasDataGrant` -> DataGrant. The original test therefore never matches,
+// verify returns `accessNeedsSatisfied: false`, the inbox processor throws
+// "One or more required access needs have not been granted", the local AppRegistration is never
+// stored, and the consent flow loops back to `/login?register_app=true`.
+//
+// This shim reimplements the original `verify` verbatim, with the access-need test resolving
+// through DataGrants (falling back to the grant itself when it carries no DataGrant, so it
+// tolerates both the old and the new pod-side shape). It is installed as a broker middleware
+// because the target action lives inside the `@activitypods/app` package: the service itself is
+// registered by that package, so the handler cannot be overridden by a normal mixin. The
+// middleware is added to `broker.middlewares` in `created()`, before the services that expose
+// `app-registrations.verify` are constructed, so it wraps every local action; only
+// `app-registrations.verify` is intercepted.
+//
+// This is a workaround for platform drift, not a Festipod concern: the proper fix belongs
+// upstream in `@activitypods/app`, and is reported to the provider rather than worked around there.
+
+const arrayOf = value => (value === undefined || value === null ? [] : Array.isArray(value) ? value : [value]);
+
+module.exports = {
+  name: 'apods-verify-compat',
+  created() {
+    this.broker.middlewares.add({
+      name: 'ApodsVerifyCompat',
+      localAction(next, action) {
+        if (action.name !== 'app-registrations.verify') return next;
+
+        return async ctx => {
+          const { appRegistrationUri } = ctx.params;
+
+          // Use local context to get all data
+          const jsonContext = await ctx.call('jsonld.context.get');
+
+          // Get from remote server, not local cache, to get latest version
+          const appRegistration = await ctx.call('ldp.remote.getNetwork', {
+            resourceUri: appRegistrationUri,
+            jsonContext
+          });
+
+          const accessGrants = await Promise.all(
+            arrayOf(appRegistration['interop:hasAccessGrant']).map(grantUri =>
+              ctx.call('ldp.remote.get', {
+                resourceUri: grantUri,
+                jsonContext,
+                accept: MIME_TYPES.JSON
+              })
+            )
+          );
+
+          // Resolve each grant's DataGrants, where the pod provider now records the
+          // satisfied access needs (AccessGrant -> interop:hasDataGrant -> DataGrant).
+          const grantsWithDataGrants = await Promise.all(
+            accessGrants.map(async grant => ({
+              grant,
+              dataGrants: await Promise.all(
+                arrayOf(grant['interop:hasDataGrant']).map(dataGrantUri =>
+                  ctx.call('ldp.remote.get', {
+                    resourceUri: dataGrantUri,
+                    jsonContext,
+                    accept: MIME_TYPES.JSON
+                  })
+                )
+              )
+            }))
+          );
+
+          const satisfiesAccessNeed = accessNeedUri =>
+            grantsWithDataGrants.some(
+              ({ grant, dataGrants }) =>
+                dataGrants.some(dataGrant => dataGrant['interop:satisfiesAccessNeed'] === accessNeedUri) ||
+                grant['interop:satisfiesAccessNeed'] === accessNeedUri
+            );
+
+          // Get required access need group(s)
+          const filteredContainer = await ctx.call('access-needs-groups.list', {
+            filters: {
+              'http://www.w3.org/ns/solid/interop#accessNecessity': 'http://www.w3.org/ns/solid/interop#AccessRequired'
+            },
+            accept: MIME_TYPES.JSON
+          });
+          const requiredAccessNeedGroups = arrayOf(filteredContainer['ldp:contains']);
+
+          // Return true if all access needs and special rights of the required AccessNeedGroup(s) are granted
+          const accessNeedsSatisfied = requiredAccessNeedGroups.every(
+            group =>
+              arrayOf(group['interop:hasAccessNeed']).every(accessNeedUri => satisfiesAccessNeed(accessNeedUri)) &&
+              arrayOf(group['interop:hasSpecialRights']).every(specialRightUri =>
+                appRegistration['apods:hasSpecialRights'].some(sr => sr === specialRightUri)
+              )
+          );
+
+          return { accessNeedsSatisfied, appRegistration, accessGrants };
+        };
+      }
+    });
+  }
+};