Add an admin API for shadow-banning users. (#9209)

This expands the current shadow-banning feature to be usable via
the admin API and adds documentation for it.

A shadow-banned users receives successful responses to their
client-server API requests, but the events are not propagated into rooms.

Shadow-banning a user should be used as a tool of last resort and may lead
to confusing or broken behaviour for the client.

1 files changed, 64 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/rest/admin/test_user.py b/tests/rest/admin/test_user.py
index e48f8c1d7b..ee05ee60bc 100644
--- a/tests/rest/admin/test_user.py
+++ b/tests/rest/admin/test_user.py
@@ -2380,3 +2380,67 @@ class WhoisRestTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(200, channel.code, msg=channel.json_body)
         self.assertEqual(self.other_user, channel.json_body["user_id"])
         self.assertIn("devices", channel.json_body)
+
+
+class ShadowBanRestTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
+
+    servlets = [
+        synapse.rest.admin.register_servlets,
+        login.register_servlets,
+    ]
+
+    def prepare(self, reactor, clock, hs):
+        self.store = hs.get_datastore()
+
+        self.admin_user = self.register_user("admin", "pass", admin=True)
+        self.admin_user_tok = self.login("admin", "pass")
+
+        self.other_user = self.register_user("user", "pass")
+
+        self.url = "/_synapse/admin/v1/users/%s/shadow_ban" % urllib.parse.quote(
+            self.other_user
+        )
+
+    def test_no_auth(self):
+        """
+        Try to get information of an user without authentication.
+        """
+        channel = self.make_request("POST", self.url)
+        self.assertEqual(401, int(channel.result["code"]), msg=channel.result["body"])
+        self.assertEqual(Codes.MISSING_TOKEN, channel.json_body["errcode"])
+
+    def test_requester_is_not_admin(self):
+        """
+        If the user is not a server admin, an error is returned.
+        """
+        other_user_token = self.login("user", "pass")
+
+        channel = self.make_request("POST", self.url, access_token=other_user_token)
+        self.assertEqual(403, int(channel.result["code"]), msg=channel.result["body"])
+        self.assertEqual(Codes.FORBIDDEN, channel.json_body["errcode"])
+
+    def test_user_is_not_local(self):
+        """
+        Tests that shadow-banning for a user that is not a local returns a 400
+        """
+        url = "/_synapse/admin/v1/whois/@unknown_person:unknown_domain"
+
+        channel = self.make_request("POST", url, access_token=self.admin_user_tok)
+        self.assertEqual(400, channel.code, msg=channel.json_body)
+
+    def test_success(self):
+        """
+        Shadow-banning should succeed for an admin.
+        """
+        # The user starts off as not shadow-banned.
+        other_user_token = self.login("user", "pass")
+        result = self.get_success(self.store.get_user_by_access_token(other_user_token))
+        self.assertFalse(result.shadow_banned)
+
+        channel = self.make_request("POST", self.url, access_token=self.admin_user_tok)
+        self.assertEqual(200, channel.code, msg=channel.json_body)
+        self.assertEqual({}, channel.json_body)
+
+        # Ensure the user is shadow-banned (and the cache was cleared).
+        result = self.get_success(self.store.get_user_by_access_token(other_user_token))
+        self.assertTrue(result.shadow_banned)