Refactor ResponseCache usage

Adds a `.wrap` method to ResponseCache which wraps up the boilerplate of a
(get, set) pair, and then use it throughout the codebase.

This will be largely non-functional, but does include the following functional
changes:

* federation_server.on_context_state_request: drops use of _server_linearizer
  which looked redundant and could cause incorrect cache misses by yielding
  between the get and the set.
* RoomListHandler.get_remote_public_room_list(): fixes logcontext leaks
* the wrap function includes some logging. I'm hoping this won't be too noisy
  on production.

1 files changed, 56 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/util/caches/response_cache.py b/synapse/util/caches/response_cache.py

index 066fa423fd..0c2c347953 100644
--- a/synapse/util/caches/response_cache.py
+++ b/synapse/util/caches/response_cache.py
@@ -12,9 +12,13 @@
 # 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.util.async import ObservableDeferred
 from synapse.util.caches import metrics as cache_metrics
+from synapse.util.logcontext import make_deferred_yieldable, run_in_background
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class ResponseCache(object):
@@ -31,6 +35,7 @@ class ResponseCache(object):
         self.clock = hs.get_clock()
         self.timeout_sec = timeout_ms / 1000.
 
+        self._name = name
         self._metrics = cache_metrics.register_cache(
             "response_cache",
             size_callback=lambda: self.size(),
@@ -47,7 +52,7 @@ class ResponseCache(object):
         so you'll probably want to make_deferred_yieldable it.
 
         Args:
-            key (str):
+            key (hashable):
 
         Returns:
             twisted.internet.defer.Deferred|None: None if there is no entry
@@ -76,7 +81,7 @@ class ResponseCache(object):
         to do it everywhere ResponseCache is used.)
 
         Args:
-            key (str):
+            key (hashable):
             deferred (twisted.internet.defer.Deferred):
 
         Returns:
@@ -97,3 +102,52 @@ class ResponseCache(object):
 
         result.addBoth(remove)
         return result.observe()
+
+    def wrap(self, key, callback, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Wrap together a *get* and *set* call, taking care of logcontexts
+
+        First looks up the key in the cache, and if it is present makes it
+        follow the synapse logcontext rules and returns it.
+
+        Otherwise, makes a call to *callback(*args, **kwargs)*, which should
+        follow the synapse logcontext rules, and adds the result to the cache.
+
+        Example usage:
+
+            @defer.inlineCallbacks
+            def handle_request(request):
+                # etc
+                defer.returnValue(result)
+
+            result = yield response_cache.wrap(
+                key,
+                handle_request,
+                request,
+            )
+
+        Args:
+            key (hashable): key to get/set in the cache
+
+            callback (callable): function to call if the key is not found in
+                the cache
+
+            *args: positional parameters to pass to the callback, if it is used
+
+            **kwargs: named paramters to pass to the callback, if it is used
+
+        Returns:
+            twisted.internet.defer.Deferred: yieldable result
+        """
+        result = self.get(key)
+        if not result:
+            logger.info("[%s]: no cached result for [%s], calculating new one",
+                        self._name, key)
+            d = run_in_background(callback, *args, **kwargs)
+            result = self.set(key, d)
+        elif result.called:
+            logger.info("[%s]: using completed cached result for [%s]",
+                        self._name, key)
+        else:
+            logger.info("[%s]: using incomplete cached result for [%s]",
+                        self._name, key)
+        return make_deferred_yieldable(result)