core.moduleapi: Expand permission name ':' prefix earlier

Ensures it applies to the context as string case

Somehow this fixes everything

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/core/moduleapi.lua b/core/moduleapi.lua
index 0652e032..fe248c20 100644
--- a/core/moduleapi.lua
+++ b/core/moduleapi.lua
@@ -615,6 +615,9 @@ function api:default_permissions(role_name, permissions)
 end
 
 function api:may(action, context)
+	if action:byte(1) == 58 then -- action begins with ':'
+		action = self.name..action; -- prepend module name
+	end
 	if type(context) == "string" then -- check JID permissions
 		local role;
 		local node, host = jid_split(context);
@@ -638,9 +641,6 @@ function api:may(action, context)
 	if not session then
 		error("Unable to identify actor session from context");
 	end
-	if action:byte(1) == 58 then -- action begins with ':'
-		action = self.name..action; -- prepend module name
-	end
 	if session.type == "s2sin" or (session.type == "c2s" and session.host ~= self.host) then
 		local actor_jid = context.stanza.attr.from;
 		local role = hosts[self.host].authz.get_jid_role(actor_jid);