Define the concept of a 'federation Query'; creating API for making and handling Queries on the Federation's increasingly-inaccurately-named ReplicationLayer

1 files changed, 50 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/federation/replication.py b/synapse/federation/replication.py
index bea5335f89..01020566cf 100644
--- a/synapse/federation/replication.py
+++ b/synapse/federation/replication.py
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ class ReplicationLayer(object):
 
         self.handler = None
         self.edu_handlers = {}
+        self.query_handlers = {}
 
         self._order = 0
 
@@ -84,6 +85,27 @@ class ReplicationLayer(object):
 
         self.edu_handlers[edu_type] = handler
 
+    def register_query_handler(self, query_type, handler):
+        """Sets the handler callable that will be used to handle an incoming
+        federation Query of the given type.
+
+        Args:
+            query_type (str): Category name of the query, which should match
+                the string used by make_query.
+            handler (callable): Invoked to handle incoming queries of this type
+
+        handler is invoked as:
+            result = handler(args)
+
+        where 'args' is a dict mapping strings to strings of the query
+          arguments. It should return a Deferred that will eventually yield an
+          object to encode as JSON.
+        """
+        if query_type in self.query_handlers:
+            raise KeyError("Already have a Query handler for %s" % (query_type))
+
+        self.query_handlers[query_type] = handler
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     @log_function
     def send_pdu(self, pdu):
@@ -137,6 +159,24 @@ class ReplicationLayer(object):
         # TODO, add errback, etc.
         self._transaction_queue.enqueue_edu(edu)
 
+    @log_function
+    def make_query(self, destination, query_type, args):
+        """Sends a federation Query to a remote homeserver of the given type
+        and arguments.
+
+        Args:
+            destination (str): Domain name of the remote homeserver
+            query_type (str): Category of the query type; should match the
+                handler name used in register_query_handler().
+            args (dict): Mapping of strings to strings containing the details
+                of the query request.
+
+        Returns:
+            a Deferred which will eventually yield a JSON object from the
+            response
+        """
+        return self.transport_layer.make_query(destination, query_type, args)
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     @log_function
     def paginate(self, dest, context, limit):
@@ -341,6 +381,16 @@ class ReplicationLayer(object):
         )
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def on_query_request(self, query_type, args):
+        if query_type in self.query_handlers:
+            response = yield self.query_handlers[query_type](args)
+            defer.returnValue((200, response))
+        else:
+            defer.returnValue((404, "No handler for Query type '%s'"
+                % (query_type)
+            ))
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
     @log_function
     def _get_persisted_pdu(self, pdu_id, pdu_origin):
         """ Get a PDU from the database with given origin and id.