Remove frozendict_json_encoder and support frozendicts everywhere

Not being able to serialise `frozendicts` is fragile, and it's annoying to have
to think about which serialiser you want. There's no real downside to
supporting frozendicts, so let's just have one json encoder.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/util/__init__.py b/synapse/util/__init__.py

index d55b93d763..517686f0a6 100644
--- a/synapse/util/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/util/__init__.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import logging
 import re
 
 import attr
+from frozendict import frozendict
 
 from twisted.internet import defer, task
 
@@ -31,9 +32,26 @@ def _reject_invalid_json(val):
     raise ValueError("Invalid JSON value: '%s'" % val)
 
 
-# Create a custom encoder to reduce the whitespace produced by JSON encoding and
-# ensure that valid JSON is produced.
-json_encoder = json.JSONEncoder(allow_nan=False, separators=(",", ":"))
+def _handle_frozendict(obj):
+    """Helper for json_encoder. Makes frozendicts serializable by returning
+    the underlying dict
+    """
+    if type(obj) is frozendict:
+        # fishing the protected dict out of the object is a bit nasty,
+        # but we don't really want the overhead of copying the dict.
+        return obj._dict
+    raise TypeError(
+        "Object of type %s is not JSON serializable" % obj.__class__.__name__
+    )
+
+
+# A custom JSON encoder which:
+#   * handles frozendicts
+#   * produces valid JSON (no NaNs etc)
+#   * reduces redundant whitespace
+json_encoder = json.JSONEncoder(
+    allow_nan=False, separators=(",", ":"), default=_handle_frozendict
+)
 
 # Create a custom decoder to reject Python extensions to JSON.
 json_decoder = json.JSONDecoder(parse_constant=_reject_invalid_json)
diff --git a/synapse/util/frozenutils.py b/synapse/util/frozenutils.py

index bf094c9386..5f7a6dd1d3 100644
--- a/synapse/util/frozenutils.py
+++ b/synapse/util/frozenutils.py
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-import json
-
 from frozendict import frozendict
 
 
@@ -49,23 +47,3 @@ def unfreeze(o):
         pass
 
     return o
-
-
-def _handle_frozendict(obj):
-    """Helper for EventEncoder. Makes frozendicts serializable by returning
-    the underlying dict
-    """
-    if type(obj) is frozendict:
-        # fishing the protected dict out of the object is a bit nasty,
-        # but we don't really want the overhead of copying the dict.
-        return obj._dict
-    raise TypeError(
-        "Object of type %s is not JSON serializable" % obj.__class__.__name__
-    )
-
-
-# A JSONEncoder which is capable of encoding frozendicts without barfing.
-# Additionally reduce the whitespace produced by JSON encoding.
-frozendict_json_encoder = json.JSONEncoder(
-    allow_nan=False, separators=(",", ":"), default=_handle_frozendict,
-)