From acaa18f7dd0d12dec5742e64705f9bf3c45abffe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 21:12:36 +0000
Subject: Fix/improve some docstrings in the replication code. (#4949)

---
 changelog.d/4949.misc              |  1 +
 synapse/replication/tcp/client.py  | 14 +++++++++++---
 synapse/replication/tcp/streams.py | 12 ++++++++----
 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/4949.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/4949.misc b/changelog.d/4949.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25c4e05a64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/4949.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix/improve some docstrings in the replication code.
diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py
index e558f90e1a..150975608f 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/client.py
@@ -103,10 +103,18 @@ class ReplicationClientHandler(object):
         hs.get_reactor().connectTCP(host, port, self.factory)
 
     def on_rdata(self, stream_name, token, rows):
-        """Called when we get new replication data. By default this just pokes
-        the slave store.
+        """Called to handle a batch of replication data with a given stream token.
 
-        Can be overriden in subclasses to handle more.
+        By default this just pokes the slave store. Can be overriden in subclasses to
+        handle more.
+
+        Args:
+            stream_name (str): name of the replication stream for this batch of rows
+            token (int): stream token for this batch of rows
+            rows (list): a list of Stream.ROW_TYPE objects.
+
+        Returns:
+            Deferred|None
         """
         logger.debug("Received rdata %s -> %s", stream_name, token)
         return self.store.process_replication_rows(stream_name, token, rows)
diff --git a/synapse/replication/tcp/streams.py b/synapse/replication/tcp/streams.py
index e23084baae..42b8a25bd3 100644
--- a/synapse/replication/tcp/streams.py
+++ b/synapse/replication/tcp/streams.py
@@ -162,8 +162,10 @@ class Stream(object):
         until the `upto_token`
 
         Returns:
-            (list(ROW_TYPE), int): list of updates plus the token used as an
-                upper bound of the updates (i.e. the "current token")
+            Deferred[Tuple[List[Tuple[int, Any]], int]:
+                Resolves to a pair ``(updates, current_token)``, where ``updates`` is a
+                list of ``(token, row)`` entries. ``row`` will be json-serialised and
+                sent over the replication steam.
         """
         updates, current_token = yield self.get_updates_since(self.last_token)
         self.last_token = current_token
@@ -176,8 +178,10 @@ class Stream(object):
         stream updates
 
         Returns:
-            (list(ROW_TYPE), int): list of updates plus the token used as an
-                upper bound of the updates (i.e. the "current token")
+            Deferred[Tuple[List[Tuple[int, Any]], int]:
+                Resolves to a pair ``(updates, current_token)``, where ``updates`` is a
+                list of ``(token, row)`` entries. ``row`` will be json-serialised and
+                sent over the replication steam.
         """
         if from_token in ("NOW", "now"):
             defer.returnValue(([], self.upto_token))
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