Prep work for removing `outlier` from `internal_metadata` (#9411)

* Populate `internal_metadata.outlier` based on `events` table

Rather than relying on `outlier` being in the `internal_metadata` column,
populate it based on the `events.outlier` column.

* Move `outlier` out of InternalMetadata._dict

Ultimately, this will allow us to stop writing it to the database. For now, we
have to grandfather it back in so as to maintain compatibility with older
versions of Synapse.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/events/__init__.py b/synapse/events/__init__.py
index 3ec4120f85..8f6b955d17 100644
--- a/synapse/events/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/events/__init__.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ class DefaultDictProperty(DictProperty):
 
 
 class _EventInternalMetadata:
-    __slots__ = ["_dict", "stream_ordering"]
+    __slots__ = ["_dict", "stream_ordering", "outlier"]
 
     def __init__(self, internal_metadata_dict: JsonDict):
         # we have to copy the dict, because it turns out that the same dict is
@@ -108,7 +108,10 @@ class _EventInternalMetadata:
         # the stream ordering of this event. None, until it has been persisted.
         self.stream_ordering = None  # type: Optional[int]
 
-    outlier = DictProperty("outlier")  # type: bool
+        # whether this event is an outlier (ie, whether we have the state at that point
+        # in the DAG)
+        self.outlier = False
+
     out_of_band_membership = DictProperty("out_of_band_membership")  # type: bool
     send_on_behalf_of = DictProperty("send_on_behalf_of")  # type: str
     recheck_redaction = DictProperty("recheck_redaction")  # type: bool
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ class _EventInternalMetadata:
         return dict(self._dict)
 
     def is_outlier(self) -> bool:
-        return self._dict.get("outlier", False)
+        return self.outlier
 
     def is_out_of_band_membership(self) -> bool:
         """Whether this is an out of band membership, like an invite or an invite