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authorMatthew Hodgson <matthew@arasphere.net>2015-12-18 18:14:06 +0000
committerMatthew Hodgson <matthew@arasphere.net>2015-12-18 18:14:06 +0000
commitc8ea2d5b1f92eea52196978fdc021aa792d84034 (patch)
treebcebbf5b433589e270b552c42a0bb8ffc0c6871f /synapse/handlers/register.py
parentMerge branch 'release-v0.12.0' into develop (diff)
parentfix indentation level (diff)
downloadsynapse-c8ea2d5b1f92eea52196978fdc021aa792d84034.tar.xz
Merge pull request #450 from matrix-org/matthew/no-identicons
Matthew/no identicons
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-rw-r--r--synapse/handlers/register.py22
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/register.py b/synapse/handlers/register.py
index 19df5aa852..baf7c14e40 100644
--- a/synapse/handlers/register.py
+++ b/synapse/handlers/register.py
@@ -132,25 +132,9 @@ class RegistrationHandler(BaseHandler):
                         raise RegistrationError(
                             500, "Cannot generate user ID.")
 
-        # create a default avatar for the user
-        # XXX: ideally clients would explicitly specify one, but given they don't
-        # and we want consistent and pretty identicons for random users, we'll
-        # do it here.
-        try:
-            auth_user = UserID.from_string(user_id)
-            media_repository = self.hs.get_resource_for_media_repository()
-            identicon_resource = media_repository.getChildWithDefault("identicon", None)
-            upload_resource = media_repository.getChildWithDefault("upload", None)
-            identicon_bytes = identicon_resource.generate_identicon(user_id, 320, 320)
-            content_uri = yield upload_resource.create_content(
-                "image/png", None, identicon_bytes, len(identicon_bytes), auth_user
-            )
-            profile_handler = self.hs.get_handlers().profile_handler
-            profile_handler.set_avatar_url(
-                auth_user, auth_user, ("%s#auto" % (content_uri,))
-            )
-        except NotImplementedError:
-            pass  # make tests pass without messing around creating default avatars
+        # We used to generate default identicons here, but nowadays
+        # we want clients to generate their own as part of their branding
+        # rather than there being consistent matrix-wide ones, so we don't.
 
         defer.returnValue((user_id, token))