Don't apply retention policy based filtering on state events

As per MSC1763, 'Retention is only considered for non-state events.', so don't filter out state events based on the room's retention policy.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/rest/client/test_retention.py b/tests/rest/client/test_retention.py
index 41ea9db689..7b6f25a838 100644
--- a/tests/rest/client/test_retention.py
+++ b/tests/rest/client/test_retention.py
@@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ class RetentionTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(filtered_events[0].event_id, valid_event_id, filtered_events)
 
     def _test_retention_event_purged(self, room_id, increment):
+        # Get the create event to, later, check that we can still access it.
+        message_handler = self.hs.get_message_handler()
+        create_event = self.get_success(
+            message_handler.get_room_data(self.user_id, room_id, EventTypes.Create)
+        )
+
         # Send a first event to the room. This is the event we'll want to be purged at the
         # end of the test.
         resp = self.helper.send(
@@ -202,6 +208,10 @@ class RetentionTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
         valid_event = self.get_event(room_id, valid_event_id)
         self.assertEqual(valid_event.get("content", {}).get("body"), "2", valid_event)
 
+        # Check that we can still access state events that were sent before the event that
+        # has been purged.
+        self.get_event(room_id, create_event.event_id)
+
     def get_event(self, room_id, event_id, expected_code=200):
         url = "/_matrix/client/r0/rooms/%s/event/%s" % (room_id, event_id)