basic interaction dashboard, interact callback function in consent module

modpol/orgs/requests.lua

@@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ function modpol.orgs:wipe_pending_actions(process_id)
     modpol.ocutil.log("Removed all pending actions for process #" .. process_id)
 end
 
+-- ======================
+-- returns a boolean to indicate whether a user has any active pending actions
+function modpol.orgs:has_pending_actions(user)
+    -- next() will return the next pair in a table
+    -- if next() returns nil, the table is empty
+    if not self.pending[user] then
+        return false
+    else
+        if not next(self.pending[user]) then
+            return false
+        else 
+            return true
+        end
+    end
+end
+
 -- ===========================
 -- compares to requests to see if they are identical
 function modpol.orgs.comp_req(req1, req2)