Move catchup of replication streams to worker. (#7024)

This changes the replication protocol so that the server does not send down `RDATA` for rows that happened before the client connected. Instead, the server will send a `POSITION` and clients then query the database (or master out of band) to get up to date.

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/replication/http/streams.py b/synapse/replication/http/streams.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Copyright 2020 The Matrix.org Foundation C.I.C.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import logging
+
+from synapse.api.errors import SynapseError
+from synapse.http.servlet import parse_integer
+from synapse.replication.http._base import ReplicationEndpoint
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class ReplicationGetStreamUpdates(ReplicationEndpoint):
+    """Fetches stream updates from a server. Used for streams not persisted to
+    the database, e.g. typing notifications.
+
+    The API looks like:
+
+        GET /_synapse/replication/get_repl_stream_updates/events?from_token=0&to_token=10&limit=100
+
+        200 OK
+
+        {
+            updates: [ ... ],
+            upto_token: 10,
+            limited: False,
+        }
+
+    """
+
+    NAME = "get_repl_stream_updates"
+    PATH_ARGS = ("stream_name",)
+    METHOD = "GET"
+
+    def __init__(self, hs):
+        super().__init__(hs)
+
+        # We pull the streams from the replication steamer (if we try and make
+        # them ourselves we end up in an import loop).
+        self.streams = hs.get_replication_streamer().get_streams()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _serialize_payload(stream_name, from_token, upto_token, limit):
+        return {"from_token": from_token, "upto_token": upto_token, "limit": limit}
+
+    async def _handle_request(self, request, stream_name):
+        stream = self.streams.get(stream_name)
+        if stream is None:
+            raise SynapseError(400, "Unknown stream")
+
+        from_token = parse_integer(request, "from_token", required=True)
+        upto_token = parse_integer(request, "upto_token", required=True)
+        limit = parse_integer(request, "limit", required=True)
+
+        updates, upto_token, limited = await stream.get_updates_since(
+            from_token, upto_token, limit
+        )
+
+        return (
+            200,
+            {"updates": updates, "upto_token": upto_token, "limited": limited},
+        )
+
+
+def register_servlets(hs, http_server):
+    ReplicationGetStreamUpdates(hs).register(http_server)