From e6f36f064959261f588c11f91aeb2fcb8164d70b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Agniva De Sarker <agnivade@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 09:09:22 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Pre-fill CreateAt to let link previews work. (#18698)

* Pre-fill CreateAt to let link previews work.

Because of the fact that getEmbedsAndImages has been now
refactored to work _before_ a post is saved. So the CreateAt
field of a post was absent.

This led to link previews being failed to save in the DB
because the timestamp wasn't there. So we just pre-fill
the field for it to work.

At the store layer, if the timestamp is present, it will just
reuse that.

https://community-daily.mattermost.com/boards/workspace/zyoahc9uapdn3xdptac6jb69ic/285b80a3-257d-41f6-8cf4-ed80ca9d92e5/495cdb4d-c13a-4992-8eb9-80cfee2819a4?c=305651ab-a96f-40d3-8bcf-8391c0d3e306

```release-note
NONE
```

* Do not override existing time

```release-note
NONE
```
---
 app/post.go | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/app/post.go b/app/post.go
index c45c5fd8d7..7be53bc516 100644
--- a/app/post.go
+++ b/app/post.go
@@ -266,6 +266,11 @@ func (a *App) CreatePost(c *request.Context, post *model.Post, channel *model.Ch
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Pre-fill the CreateAt field for link previews to get the correct timestamp.
+	if post.CreateAt == 0 {
+		post.CreateAt = model.GetMillis()
+	}
+
 	post = a.getEmbedsAndImages(post, true)
 	previewPost := post.GetPreviewPost()
 	if previewPost != nil {