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| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/handlers/__init__.py | 18 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/__init__.py b/synapse/handlers/__init__.py index d28e07f0d9..c512077cb5 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/__init__.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/__init__.py @@ -31,10 +31,22 @@ from .search import SearchHandler class Handlers(object): - """ A collection of all the event handlers. + """ + Deprecated. + + At some point most of the classes whose name ended "Handler" were + accessed through this class. + + However this makes it painful to unit test the handlers and to run cut + down versions of synapse that only use specific handlers because using a + single handler required creating all of the handlers. So some of the + handlers have been lifted out of the Handlers object and are now accessed + directly through the homeserver object itself. + + Any new handlers should follow the new pattern of being accessed through + the homeserver object and should not be added to the Handlers object. - There's no need to lazily create these; we'll just make them all eagerly - at construction time. + The remaining handlers should be moved out of the handlers object. """ def __init__(self, hs): |