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authorErik Johnston <erikj@jki.re>2017-04-12 10:21:42 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-04-12 10:21:42 +0100
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parentRemove last reference to worker_replication_url (diff)
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Merge pull request #2117 from matrix-org/erikj/remove_http_replication
Remove HTTP replication APIs
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 Architecture
 ------------
 
-The Replication API
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Synapse will optionally expose a long poll HTTP API for extracting updates. The
-API will have a similar shape to /sync in that clients provide tokens
-indicating where in the log they have reached and a timeout. The synapse server
-then either responds with updates immediately if it already has updates or it
-waits until the timeout for more updates. If the timeout expires and nothing
-happened then the server returns an empty response.
-
-However unlike the /sync API this replication API is returning synapse specific
-data rather than trying to implement a matrix specification. The replication
-results are returned as arrays of rows where the rows are mostly lifted
-directly from the database. This avoids unnecessary JSON parsing on the server
-and hopefully avoids an impedance mismatch between the data returned and the
-required updates to the datastore.
-
-This does not replicate all the database tables as many of the database tables
-are indexes that can be recovered from the contents of other tables.
-
-The format and parameters for the api are documented in
-``synapse/replication/resource.py``.
+The Replication Protocol
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+See ``tcp_replication.rst``
 
 
 The Slaved DataStore