Add reading:autoplay:gifs to /api/v1/preferences

[j-f1]

This allows apps to pick up the user’s choice on whether to auto-play GIFs or not.

[xmflsct]

This is great! However there is no way to update this preference (or all preferences) through the API right?

[j-f1]

Not as far as I could tell — might be nice to add though!

[xmflsct]

Not as far as I could tell — might be nice to add though!

I was wrong - digging through Mastodon's doc is challenging. 😂

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accounts/#update_credentials In fact, some of the preferences can be updated with this call. Shall we add it in there as well?

[j-f1]

That would be nice! I’ll open a PR to cross-link those parts of the docs :)

[xmflsct]

Awesome, thank you so much!

@Gargron would it make sense to have a dedicated /preferences update method instead of using the profile one?

[trwnh]

@xmflsct @j-f1 from what i can see, this PR only lets you read the autoplay preference via the preferences API. it does not seem to touch the credentials controller at all, and update_credentials is not intended to be the way to set all preferences, either -- you can only set three specific preferences related to authoring statuses, and only for historical reasons. see #7021 (and consider it half-done), i suppose.