diff --git a/synapse/events/__init__.py b/synapse/events/__init__.py
index 89d41d82b6..a842661a90 100644
--- a/synapse/events/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/events/__init__.py
@@ -16,12 +16,13 @@
import os
from distutils.util import strtobool
+from typing import Optional, Type
import six
from unpaddedbase64 import encode_base64
-from synapse.api.room_versions import EventFormatVersions
+from synapse.api.room_versions import EventFormatVersions, RoomVersion, RoomVersions
from synapse.types import JsonDict
from synapse.util.caches import intern_dict
from synapse.util.frozenutils import freeze
@@ -407,7 +408,7 @@ class FrozenEventV3(FrozenEventV2):
return self._event_id
-def event_type_from_format_version(format_version):
+def event_type_from_format_version(format_version: int) -> Type[EventBase]:
"""Returns the python type to use to construct an Event object for the
given event format version.
@@ -427,3 +428,14 @@ def event_type_from_format_version(format_version):
return FrozenEventV3
else:
raise Exception("No event format %r" % (format_version,))
+
+
+def make_event_from_dict(
+ event_dict: JsonDict,
+ room_version: RoomVersion = RoomVersions.V1,
+ internal_metadata_dict: JsonDict = {},
+ rejected_reason: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> EventBase:
+ """Construct an EventBase from the given event dict"""
+ event_type = event_type_from_format_version(room_version.event_format)
+ return event_type(event_dict, internal_metadata_dict, rejected_reason)
diff --git a/synapse/events/builder.py b/synapse/events/builder.py
index 8d63ad6dc3..a0c4a40c27 100644
--- a/synapse/events/builder.py
+++ b/synapse/events/builder.py
@@ -28,11 +28,7 @@ from synapse.api.room_versions import (
RoomVersion,
)
from synapse.crypto.event_signing import add_hashes_and_signatures
-from synapse.events import (
- EventBase,
- _EventInternalMetadata,
- event_type_from_format_version,
-)
+from synapse.events import EventBase, _EventInternalMetadata, make_event_from_dict
from synapse.types import EventID, JsonDict
from synapse.util import Clock
from synapse.util.stringutils import random_string
@@ -256,8 +252,8 @@ def create_local_event_from_event_dict(
event_dict.setdefault("signatures", {})
add_hashes_and_signatures(room_version, event_dict, hostname, signing_key)
- return event_type_from_format_version(format_version)(
- event_dict, internal_metadata_dict=internal_metadata_dict
+ return make_event_from_dict(
+ event_dict, room_version, internal_metadata_dict=internal_metadata_dict
)
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