Merge branch 'develop' of github.com:matrix-org/synapse into matrix-org-hotfixes

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/handlers/room.py b/synapse/handlers/room.py

index 6150b7e226..003b848c00 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/room.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/room.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ from twisted.internet import defer
 
 from synapse.api.constants import EventTypes, JoinRules, RoomCreationPreset
 from synapse.api.errors import AuthError, Codes, StoreError, SynapseError
-from synapse.types import RoomAlias, RoomID, RoomStreamToken, UserID
+from synapse.types import RoomAlias, RoomID, RoomStreamToken, StreamToken, UserID
 from synapse.util import stringutils
 from synapse.visibility import filter_events_for_client
 
@@ -418,8 +418,6 @@ class RoomContextHandler(object):
         before_limit = math.floor(limit / 2.)
         after_limit = limit - before_limit
 
-        now_token = yield self.hs.get_event_sources().get_current_token()
-
         users = yield self.store.get_users_in_room(room_id)
         is_peeking = user.to_string() not in users
 
@@ -462,11 +460,15 @@ class RoomContextHandler(object):
         )
         results["state"] = list(state[last_event_id].values())
 
-        results["start"] = now_token.copy_and_replace(
+        # We use a dummy token here as we only care about the room portion of
+        # the token, which we replace.
+        token = StreamToken.START
+
+        results["start"] = token.copy_and_replace(
             "room_key", results["start"]
         ).to_string()
 
-        results["end"] = now_token.copy_and_replace(
+        results["end"] = token.copy_and_replace(
             "room_key", results["end"]
         ).to_string()