From 19946509a4ddbdd647261f9f19358e6f1f0e337b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:06:08 +0100
Subject: Support generic events.

---
 synapse/api/events/factory.py | 9 ++++-----
 synapse/api/events/room.py    | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

(limited to 'synapse')

diff --git a/synapse/api/events/factory.py b/synapse/api/events/factory.py
index 23d2b0401c..b61dac7acd 100644
--- a/synapse/api/events/factory.py
+++ b/synapse/api/events/factory.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 
 from synapse.api.events.room import (
     RoomTopicEvent, MessageEvent, RoomMemberEvent, FeedbackEvent,
-    InviteJoinEvent, RoomConfigEvent, RoomNameEvent,
+    InviteJoinEvent, RoomConfigEvent, RoomNameEvent, GenericEvent,
 )
 
 from synapse.util.stringutils import random_string
@@ -43,10 +43,9 @@ class EventFactory(object):
         if "event_id" not in kwargs:
             kwargs["event_id"] = random_string(10)
 
-        try:
+        if etype in self._event_list:
             handler = self._event_list[etype]
-        except KeyError:  # unknown event type
-            # TODO allow custom event types.
-            raise NotImplementedError("Unknown etype=%s" % etype)
+        else:
+            handler = GenericEvent
 
         return handler(**kwargs)
diff --git a/synapse/api/events/room.py b/synapse/api/events/room.py
index 8136d495d5..d9b3d572fa 100644
--- a/synapse/api/events/room.py
+++ b/synapse/api/events/room.py
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
 from . import SynapseEvent
 
 
+class GenericEvent(SynapseEvent):
+    def get_content_template(self):
+        return {}
+
 class RoomTopicEvent(SynapseEvent):
     TYPE = "m.room.topic"
 
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