From cafa52c466e5e7831236e7d17b730edc84b864cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Ralston <travisr@matrix.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:40:51 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Special case redaction event sending from widgets per MSC2762

Fixes https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/18573
See https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2762/commits/853bed215743f3e04af8683ea5e1ea2b47b7845b
---
 src/stores/widgets/StopGapWidgetDriver.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/stores/widgets/StopGapWidgetDriver.ts b/src/stores/widgets/StopGapWidgetDriver.ts
index 13cd260ef0..57cf27764c 100644
--- a/src/stores/widgets/StopGapWidgetDriver.ts
+++ b/src/stores/widgets/StopGapWidgetDriver.ts
@@ -129,6 +129,9 @@ export class StopGapWidgetDriver extends WidgetDriver {
         if (stateKey !== null) {
             // state event
             r = await client.sendStateEvent(roomId, eventType, content, stateKey);
+        } else if (eventType === EventType.RoomRedaction) {
+            // special case: extract the `redacts` property and call redact
+            r = await client.redactEvent(roomId, content['redacts']);
         } else {
             // message event
             r = await client.sendEvent(roomId, eventType, content);