Add a module callback to set username at registration (#11790)

This is in the context of mainlining the Tchap fork of Synapse. Currently in Tchap usernames are derived from the user's email address (extracted from the UIA results, more specifically the m.login.email.identity step).
This change also exports the check_username method from the registration handler as part of the module API, so that a module can check if the username it's trying to generate is correct and doesn't conflict with an existing one, and fallback gracefully if not.

Co-authored-by: David Robertson <davidr@element.io>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/module_api/__init__.py b/synapse/module_api/__init__.py
index 662e60bc33..788b2e47d5 100644
--- a/synapse/module_api/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/module_api/__init__.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ from synapse.handlers.account_validity import (
 from synapse.handlers.auth import (
     CHECK_3PID_AUTH_CALLBACK,
     CHECK_AUTH_CALLBACK,
+    GET_USERNAME_FOR_REGISTRATION_CALLBACK,
     ON_LOGGED_OUT_CALLBACK,
     AuthHandler,
 )
@@ -177,6 +178,7 @@ class ModuleApi:
         self._presence_stream = hs.get_event_sources().sources.presence
         self._state = hs.get_state_handler()
         self._clock: Clock = hs.get_clock()
+        self._registration_handler = hs.get_registration_handler()
         self._send_email_handler = hs.get_send_email_handler()
         self.custom_template_dir = hs.config.server.custom_template_directory
 
@@ -310,6 +312,9 @@ class ModuleApi:
         auth_checkers: Optional[
             Dict[Tuple[str, Tuple[str, ...]], CHECK_AUTH_CALLBACK]
         ] = None,
+        get_username_for_registration: Optional[
+            GET_USERNAME_FOR_REGISTRATION_CALLBACK
+        ] = None,
     ) -> None:
         """Registers callbacks for password auth provider capabilities.
 
@@ -319,6 +324,7 @@ class ModuleApi:
             check_3pid_auth=check_3pid_auth,
             on_logged_out=on_logged_out,
             auth_checkers=auth_checkers,
+            get_username_for_registration=get_username_for_registration,
         )
 
     def register_background_update_controller_callbacks(
@@ -1202,6 +1208,22 @@ class ModuleApi:
         """
         return await defer_to_thread(self._hs.get_reactor(), f, *args, **kwargs)
 
+    async def check_username(self, username: str) -> None:
+        """Checks if the provided username uses the grammar defined in the Matrix
+        specification, and is already being used by an existing user.
+
+        Added in Synapse v1.52.0.
+
+        Args:
+            username: The username to check. This is the local part of the user's full
+                Matrix user ID, i.e. it's "alice" if the full user ID is "@alice:foo.com".
+
+        Raises:
+            SynapseError with the errcode "M_USER_IN_USE" if the username is already in
+            use.
+        """
+        await self._registration_handler.check_username(username)
+
 
 class PublicRoomListManager:
     """Contains methods for adding to, removing from and querying whether a room