Merge pull request #808 from matrix-org/dbkr/room_list_spider

Add secondary_directory_servers option to fetch room list from other servers

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 0b5f462e44..c2d8f8a52f 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         self.user_agent_suffix = config.get("user_agent_suffix")
         self.use_frozen_dicts = config.get("use_frozen_dicts", True)
         self.public_baseurl = config.get("public_baseurl")
+        self.secondary_directory_servers = config.get("secondary_directory_servers", [])
 
         if self.public_baseurl is not None:
             if self.public_baseurl[-1] != '/':
@@ -156,6 +157,15 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # hard limit.
         soft_file_limit: 0
 
+        # A list of other Home Servers to fetch the public room directory from
+        # and include in the public room directory of this home server
+        # This is a temporary stopgap solution to populate new server with a
+        # list of rooms until there exists a good solution of a decentralized
+        # room directory.
+        # secondary_directory_servers:
+        #     - matrix.org
+        #     - vector.im
+
         # List of ports that Synapse should listen on, their purpose and their
         # configuration.
         listeners: