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| author | Mark Haines <mark.haines@matrix.org> | 2015-12-14 14:50:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Haines <mark.haines@matrix.org> | 2015-12-14 14:50:51 +0000 |
| commit | 28c5181dfebbce99a4981584a5761285522ed29b (patch) | |
| tree | 2b866674a906c472b229c85697ae17137c7f80bd /synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py | |
| parent | Merge branch 'release-v0.12.0' into develop (diff) | |
| download | synapse-28c5181dfebbce99a4981584a5761285522ed29b.tar.xz | |
Add commentary for fix in PR#442
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| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py b/synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py index 3f8ce701dc..adf77e13bf 100644 --- a/synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py +++ b/synapse/rest/client/v2_alpha/sync.py @@ -356,6 +356,12 @@ class SyncRestServlet(RestServlet): prev_content = timeline_event.unsigned.get('prev_content') prev_sender = timeline_event.unsigned.get('prev_sender') + # Empircally it seems possible for the event to have a + # "replaces_state" key but not a prev_content or prev_sender + # markjh conjectures that it could be due to the server not + # having a copy of that event. + # If this is the case the we ignore the previous event. This will + # cause the displayname calculations on the client to be incorrect if prev_event_id is None or not prev_content or not prev_sender: del result[event_key] else: |