Deep copy events to avoid modifying original event log data.

Author: Farzad Hayatbakhsh

modules/ROOT/partials/plugin-apis/comments-apis.adoc

@@ -144,15 +144,19 @@ console.log(comments.getEventLog(
 
 const eventLog = comments.getEventLog();
 const events = eventLog.events;
+
 // Ensure that the mentioned users are valid users in the database
-events.forEach((event) => {
+const validatedEvents = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(events));
+validatedEvents.forEach((event) => {
+  // Filter out invalid users - change this to your own validation logic
   event.mentionedUids = event.mentionedUids ? event.mentionedUids.filter((uid) => users[uid]) : undefined;
 });
-const mentionedUsers = events.flatMap(({ mentionedUids }) => mentionedUids || []);
+
+const mentionedUsers = validatedEvents.flatMap(({ mentionedUids }) => mentionedUids || []);
 console.log(mentionedUsers);
 
 let whoMentionedWho = {};
-events.forEach((event) => {
+validatedEvents.forEach((event) => {
   if ((event.type === "create" || event.type === "reply") && event.mentionedUids !== undefined) {
     console.log(event);
     if (whoMentionedWho[event.conversationAuthor.author] === undefined) {