Merge pull request #2117 from matrix-org/erikj/remove_http_replication

Remove HTTP replication APIs

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 33 deletions

diff --git a/docs/replication.rst b/docs/replication.rst
index 7e37e71987..310abb3488 100644
--- a/docs/replication.rst
+++ b/docs/replication.rst
@@ -26,28 +26,10 @@ expose the append-only log to the readers should be fairly minimal.
 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
diff --git a/docs/workers.rst b/docs/workers.rst
index 65b6e690f7..2d3df91593 100644
--- a/docs/workers.rst
+++ b/docs/workers.rst
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ across multiple processes is a recipe for disaster, plus you should be using
 postgres anyway if you care about scalability).
 
 The workers communicate with the master synapse process via a synapse-specific
-HTTP protocol called 'replication' - analogous to MySQL or Postgres style
+TCP protocol called 'replication' - analogous to MySQL or Postgres style
 database replication; feeding a stream of relevant data to the workers so they
 can be kept in sync with the main synapse process and database state.
 
@@ -21,16 +21,11 @@ To enable workers, you need to add a replication listener to the master synapse,
     listeners:
       - port: 9092
         bind_address: '127.0.0.1'
-        type: http
-        tls: false
-        x_forwarded: false
-        resources:
-          - names: [replication]
-            compress: false
+        type: replication
 
 Under **no circumstances** should this replication API listener be exposed to the
 public internet; it currently implements no authentication whatsoever and is
-unencrypted HTTP.
+unencrypted.
 
 You then create a set of configs for the various worker processes.  These should be
 worker configuration files should be stored in a dedicated subdirectory, to allow
@@ -50,14 +45,16 @@ e.g. the HTTP listener that it provides (if any); logging configuration; etc.
 You should minimise the number of overrides though to maintain a usable config.
 
 You must specify the type of worker application (worker_app) and the replication
-endpoint that it's talking to on the main synapse process (worker_replication_url).
+endpoint that it's talking to on the main synapse process (worker_replication_host
+and worker_replication_port).
 
 For instance::
 
     worker_app: synapse.app.synchrotron
 
     # The replication listener on the synapse to talk to.
-    worker_replication_url: http://127.0.0.1:9092/_synapse/replication
+    worker_replication_host: 127.0.0.1
+    worker_replication_port: 9092
 
     worker_listeners:
      - type: http
@@ -95,4 +92,3 @@ To manipulate a specific worker, you pass the -w option to synctl::
 All of the above is highly experimental and subject to change as Synapse evolves,
 but documenting it here to help folks needing highly scalable Synapses similar
 to the one running matrix.org!
-