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Diffstat (limited to 'synapse/handlers/federation.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/handlers/federation.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/handlers/federation.py b/synapse/handlers/federation.py index bf2989aefd..72b63d64d0 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/federation.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/federation.py @@ -862,9 +862,9 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): # as otherwise we'll just spend a lot of resources to get redacted # events. # - # We do this by filtering all the extremities and seeing if any remain. - # Given we don't have the extremity events themselves, we need to - # actually check the events that reference them. + # We do this by filtering all the backwards extremities and seeing if + # any remain. Given we don't have the extremity events themselves, we + # need to actually check the events that reference them. # # *Note*: the spec wants us to keep backfilling until we reach the start # of the room in case we are allowed to see some of the history. However @@ -873,13 +873,16 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): # there is its often sufficiently long ago that clients would stop # attempting to paginate before backfill reached the visible history. # - # TODO: If we do do a backfill the we should filter the extremities to - # only include those that point to visible portions of history. + # TODO: If we do do a backfill then we should filter the backwards + # extremities to only include those that point to visible portions of + # history. # # TODO: Correctly handle the case where we are allowed to see the - # forward event but not the extremity, e.g. in the case of initial - # join of the server where we are allowed to see the join event but - # not anything before it. + # forward event but not the backward extremity, e.g. in the case of + # initial join of the server where we are allowed to see the join + # event but not anything before it. This would require looking at the + # state *before* the event, ignoring the special casing certain event + # types have. forward_events = yield self.store.get_successor_events( list(extremities), |