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-rw-r--r--synapse/util/caches/dictionary_cache.py25
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/util/caches/dictionary_cache.py b/synapse/util/caches/dictionary_cache.py
index bdc21e348f..95793d466d 100644
--- a/synapse/util/caches/dictionary_cache.py
+++ b/synapse/util/caches/dictionary_cache.py
@@ -107,29 +107,28 @@ class DictionaryCache(object):
         self.sequence += 1
         self.cache.clear()
 
-    def update(self, sequence, key, value, full=False, known_absent=None):
+    def update(self, sequence, key, value, fetched_keys=None):
         """Updates the entry in the cache
 
         Args:
             sequence
-            key
-            value (dict): The value to update the cache with.
-            full (bool): Whether the given value is the full dict, or just a
-                partial subset there of. If not full then any existing entries
-                for the key will be updated.
-            known_absent (set): Set of keys that we know don't exist in the full
-                dict.
+            key (K)
+            value (dict[X,Y]): The value to update the cache with.
+            fetched_keys (None|set[X]): All of the dictionary keys which were
+                fetched from the database.
+
+                If None, this is the complete value for key K. Otherwise, it
+                is used to infer a list of keys which we know don't exist in
+                the full dict.
         """
         self.check_thread()
         if self.sequence == sequence:
             # Only update the cache if the caches sequence number matches the
             # number that the cache had before the SELECT was started (SYN-369)
-            if known_absent is None:
-                known_absent = set()
-            if full:
-                self._insert(key, value, known_absent)
+            if fetched_keys is None:
+                self._insert(key, value, set())
             else:
-                self._update_or_insert(key, value, known_absent)
+                self._update_or_insert(key, value, fetched_keys)
 
     def _update_or_insert(self, key, value, known_absent):
         # We pop and reinsert as we need to tell the cache the size may have