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+# Pleroma: A lightweight social networking server
+# Copyright © 2017-2019 Pleroma Authors <https://pleroma.social/>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
+
+defmodule Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.SubchainPolicyTest do
+  use Pleroma.DataCase
+
+  alias Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.DropPolicy
+  alias Pleroma.Web.ActivityPub.MRF.SubchainPolicy
+
+  @message %{
+    "actor" => "https://banned.com",
+    "type" => "Create",
+    "object" => %{"content" => "hi"}
+  }
+
+  test "it matches and processes subchains when the actor matches a configured target" do
+    Pleroma.Config.put([:mrf_subchain, :match_actor], %{
+      ~r/^https:\/\/banned.com/s => [DropPolicy]
+    })
+
+    {:reject, _} = SubchainPolicy.filter(@message)
+  end
+
+  test "it doesn't match and process subchains when the actor doesn't match a configured target" do
+    Pleroma.Config.put([:mrf_subchain, :match_actor], %{
+      ~r/^https:\/\/borked.com/s => [DropPolicy]
+    })
+
+    {:ok, _message} = SubchainPolicy.filter(@message)
+  end
+end