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Allow modules to create and send events into rooms #8479

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This PR allows Synapse modules making use of the ModuleApi to create and send non-membership events into a room. This can useful to have modules send messages, or change power levels in a room etc. Note that they must send event through a user that's already in the room.

The non-membership event limitation is currently arbitrary, as it's another chunk of work and not necessary at the moment.

I'm expecting this to conflict with #8463. I'd like to get that one merged first before merging this one.

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I'm not a fan of adding millions of parameters to functions to fine-tune their behaviour: we should look for ways to keep their behaviour consistent as far as possible; accordingly some questions below about why the new params are needed.

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anoadragon453 commented Oct 8, 2020

@richvdh I'm afraid I mindlessly git pull --rebased earlier which was not useful during a review.

The commits you're interested in since your last review are https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/8479/files/df81f68..d61457d, which mainly focus on removing the ignore_spam_check and ignore_third_party_event_rules arguments, fixing the cyclic dependency and adding a test for event sending from ThirdPartyEventRules modules.

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lgtm otherwise

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# Build event dictionary
event_dict = {
"type": event_type,
"content": content,
"room_id": room_id,
"sender": sender,
}

# Check whether this is intended to be a state event
if state_key is not None:
event_dict["state_key"] = state_key
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any reason not to put responsibility for this on the caller, and just have it pass in an event dict?

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Not really I suppose, other than a slightly simpler API surface. I suppose doing so might give the caller even greater flexibility in defining events though?

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imho a single dict is a simpler api than a dict and a type and a room id and a sender.

flexibility ftw

keeping ModuleApi as a very thin layer also ftw

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Heh, fair points all around. I've simplified it quite a bit in 16f979c.

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lgtm assuming CI passes

@anoadragon453 anoadragon453 merged commit 66ac4b1 into develop Oct 9, 2020
@anoadragon453 anoadragon453 deleted the anoa/module_api_send_events branch October 9, 2020 12:46
anoadragon453 added a commit to matrix-org/synapse-dinsic that referenced this pull request Oct 13, 2020
If the last admin of a room departs, and thus the room no longer has any admins within it, we "freeze" the room. Freezing a room means that the power level required to do anything in the room (sending messages, inviting others etc) will require power level 100.

At the moment, an admin can come back and unfreeze the room manually. The plan is to eventually make unfreezing of the room automatic on admin rejoin, though that will be in a separate PR.

This *could* work in mainline, however if the admin who leaves is on a homeserver without this functionality, then the room isn't frozen. I imagine this would probably be pretty confusing to people. Part of this feature was allowing Synapse modules to send events, which has been implemented in mainline at  matrix-org/synapse#8479, and cherry-picked to the `dinsic` fork in 62c7b10. The actual freezing logic has been implemented here in the RoomAccessRules module.
erikjohnston added a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 22, 2020
Synapse 1.22.0rc1 (2020-10-22)
==============================

Features
--------

- Add a configuration option for always using the "userinfo endpoint" for OpenID Connect. This fixes support for some identity providers, e.g. GitLab. Contributed by Benjamin Koch. ([\#7658](#7658))
- Add ability for `ThirdPartyEventRules` modules to query and manipulate whether a room is in the public rooms directory. ([\#8292](#8292), [\#8467](#8467))
- Add support for olm fallback keys ([MSC2732](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2732)). ([\#8312](#8312), [\#8501](#8501))
- Add support for running background tasks in a separate worker process. ([\#8369](#8369), [\#8458](#8458), [\#8489](#8489), [\#8513](#8513), [\#8544](#8544), [\#8599](#8599))
- Add support for device dehydration ([MSC2697](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2697)). ([\#8380](#8380))
- Add support for [MSC2409](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2409), which allows sending typing, read receipts, and presence events to appservices. ([\#8437](#8437), [\#8590](#8590))
- Change default room version to "6", per [MSC2788](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2788). ([\#8461](#8461))
- Add the ability to send non-membership events into a room via the `ModuleApi`. ([\#8479](#8479))
- Increase default upload size limit from 10M to 50M. Contributed by @Akkowicz. ([\#8502](#8502))
- Add support for modifying event content in `ThirdPartyRules` modules. ([\#8535](#8535), [\#8564](#8564))

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix a longstanding bug where invalid ignored users in account data could break clients. ([\#8454](#8454))
- Fix a bug where backfilling a room with an event that was missing the `redacts` field would break. ([\#8457](#8457))
- Don't attempt to respond to some requests if the client has already disconnected. ([\#8465](#8465))
- Fix message duplication if something goes wrong after persisting the event. ([\#8476](#8476))
- Fix incremental sync returning an incorrect `prev_batch` token in timeline section, which when used to paginate returned events that were included in the incremental sync. Broken since v0.16.0. ([\#8486](#8486))
- Expose the `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` to clients from the login API. This feature was added in v1.21.0, but was not exposed as a potential login flow. ([\#8504](#8504))
- Fix error code for `/profile/{userId}/displayname` to be `M_BAD_JSON`. ([\#8517](#8517))
- Fix a bug introduced in v1.7.0 that could cause Synapse to insert values from non-state `m.room.retention` events into the `room_retention` database table. ([\#8527](#8527))
- Fix not sending events over federation when using sharded event writers. ([\#8536](#8536))
- Fix a long standing bug where email notifications for encrypted messages were blank. ([\#8545](#8545))
- Fix increase in the number of `There was no active span...` errors logged when using OpenTracing. ([\#8567](#8567))
- Fix a bug that prevented errors encountered during execution of the `synapse_port_db` from being correctly printed. ([\#8585](#8585))
- Fix appservice transactions to only include a maximum of 100 persistent and 100 ephemeral events. ([\#8606](#8606))

Updates to the Docker image
---------------------------

- Added multi-arch support (arm64,arm/v7) for the docker images. Contributed by @maquis196. ([\#7921](#7921))
- Add support for passing commandline args to the synapse process. Contributed by @samuel-p. ([\#8390](#8390))

Improved Documentation
----------------------

- Update the directions for using the manhole with coroutines. ([\#8462](#8462))
- Improve readme by adding new shield.io badges. ([\#8493](#8493))
- Added note about docker in manhole.md regarding which ip address to bind to. Contributed by @maquis196. ([\#8526](#8526))
- Document the new behaviour of the `allowed_lifetime_min` and `allowed_lifetime_max` settings in the room retention configuration. ([\#8529](#8529))

Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- Drop unused `device_max_stream_id` table. ([\#8589](#8589))

Internal Changes
----------------

- Check for unreachable code with mypy. ([\#8432](#8432))
- Add unit test for event persister sharding. ([\#8433](#8433))
- Allow events to be sent to clients sooner when using sharded event persisters. ([\#8439](#8439), [\#8488](#8488), [\#8496](#8496), [\#8499](#8499))
- Configure `public_baseurl` when using demo scripts. ([\#8443](#8443))
- Add SQL logging on queries that happen during startup. ([\#8448](#8448))
- Speed up unit tests when using PostgreSQL. ([\#8450](#8450))
- Remove redundant database loads of stream_ordering for events we already have. ([\#8452](#8452))
- Reduce inconsistencies between codepaths for membership and non-membership events. ([\#8463](#8463))
- Combine `SpamCheckerApi` with the more generic `ModuleApi`. ([\#8464](#8464))
- Additional testing for `ThirdPartyEventRules`. ([\#8468](#8468))
- Add `-d` option to `./scripts-dev/lint.sh` to lint files that have changed since the last git commit. ([\#8472](#8472))
- Unblacklist some sytests. ([\#8474](#8474))
- Include the log level in the phone home stats. ([\#8477](#8477))
- Remove outdated sphinx documentation, scripts and configuration. ([\#8480](#8480))
- Clarify error message when plugin config parsers raise an error. ([\#8492](#8492))
- Remove the deprecated `Handlers` object. ([\#8494](#8494))
- Fix a threadsafety bug in unit tests. ([\#8497](#8497))
- Add user agent to user_daily_visits table. ([\#8503](#8503))
- Add type hints to various parts of the code base. ([\#8407](#8407), [\#8505](#8505), [\#8507](#8507), [\#8547](#8547), [\#8562](#8562), [\#8609](#8609))
- Remove unused code from the test framework. ([\#8514](#8514))
- Apply some internal fixes to the `HomeServer` class to make its code more idiomatic and statically-verifiable. ([\#8515](#8515))
- Factor out common code between `RoomMemberHandler._locally_reject_invite` and `EventCreationHandler.create_event`. ([\#8537](#8537))
- Improve database performance by executing more queries without starting transactions. ([\#8542](#8542))
- Rename `Cache` to `DeferredCache`, to better reflect its purpose. ([\#8548](#8548))
- Move metric registration code down into `LruCache`. ([\#8561](#8561), [\#8591](#8591))
- Replace `DeferredCache` with the lighter-weight `LruCache` where possible. ([\#8563](#8563))
- Add virtualenv-generated folders to `.gitignore`. ([\#8566](#8566))
- Add `get_immediate` method to `DeferredCache`. ([\#8568](#8568))
- Fix mypy not properly checking across the codebase, additionally, fix a typing assertion error in `handlers/auth.py`. ([\#8569](#8569))
- Fix `synmark` benchmark runner. ([\#8571](#8571))
- Modify `DeferredCache.get()` to return `Deferred`s instead of `ObservableDeferred`s. ([\#8572](#8572))
- Adjust a protocol-type definition to fit `sqlite3` assertions. ([\#8577](#8577))
- Support macOS on the `synmark` benchmark runner. ([\#8578](#8578))
- Update `mypy` static type checker to 0.790. ([\#8583](#8583), [\#8600](#8600))
- Re-organize the structured logging code to separate the TCP transport handling from the JSON formatting. ([\#8587](#8587))
- Remove extraneous unittest logging decorators from unit tests. ([\#8592](#8592))
- Minor optimisations in caching code. ([\#8593](#8593), [\#8594](#8594))
netbsd-srcmastr pushed a commit to NetBSD/pkgsrc that referenced this pull request Oct 30, 2020
Synapse 1.22.0 (2020-10-27)
===========================

No significant changes.


Synapse 1.22.0rc2 (2020-10-26)
==============================

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bugs where ephemeral events were not sent to appservices. Broke in v1.22.0rc1. ([\#8648](matrix-org/synapse#8648), [\#8656](matrix-org/synapse#8656))
- Fix `user_daily_visits` table to not have duplicate rows per user/device due to multiple user agents. Broke in v1.22.0rc1. ([\#8654](matrix-org/synapse#8654))

Synapse 1.22.0rc1 (2020-10-22)
==============================

Features
--------

- Add a configuration option for always using the "userinfo endpoint" for OpenID Connect. This fixes support for some identity providers, e.g. GitLab. Contributed by Benjamin Koch. ([\#7658](matrix-org/synapse#7658))
- Add ability for `ThirdPartyEventRules` modules to query and manipulate whether a room is in the public rooms directory. ([\#8292](matrix-org/synapse#8292), [\#8467](matrix-org/synapse#8467))
- Add support for olm fallback keys ([MSC2732](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2732)). ([\#8312](matrix-org/synapse#8312), [\#8501](matrix-org/synapse#8501))
- Add support for running background tasks in a separate worker process. ([\#8369](matrix-org/synapse#8369), [\#8458](matrix-org/synapse#8458), [\#8489](matrix-org/synapse#8489), [\#8513](matrix-org/synapse#8513), [\#8544](matrix-org/synapse#8544), [\#8599](matrix-org/synapse#8599))
- Add support for device dehydration ([MSC2697](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2697)). ([\#8380](matrix-org/synapse#8380))
- Add support for [MSC2409](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2409), which allows sending typing, read receipts, and presence events to appservices. ([\#8437](matrix-org/synapse#8437), [\#8590](matrix-org/synapse#8590))
- Change default room version to "6", per [MSC2788](matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#2788). ([\#8461](matrix-org/synapse#8461))
- Add the ability to send non-membership events into a room via the `ModuleApi`. ([\#8479](matrix-org/synapse#8479))
- Increase default upload size limit from 10M to 50M. Contributed by @Akkowicz. ([\#8502](matrix-org/synapse#8502))
- Add support for modifying event content in `ThirdPartyRules` modules. ([\#8535](matrix-org/synapse#8535), [\#8564](matrix-org/synapse#8564))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix a longstanding bug where invalid ignored users in account data could break clients. ([\#8454](matrix-org/synapse#8454))
- Fix a bug where backfilling a room with an event that was missing the `redacts` field would break. ([\#8457](matrix-org/synapse#8457))
- Don't attempt to respond to some requests if the client has already disconnected. ([\#8465](matrix-org/synapse#8465))
- Fix message duplication if something goes wrong after persisting the event. ([\#8476](matrix-org/synapse#8476))
- Fix incremental sync returning an incorrect `prev_batch` token in timeline section, which when used to paginate returned events that were included in the incremental sync. Broken since v0.16.0. ([\#8486](matrix-org/synapse#8486))
- Expose the `uk.half-shot.msc2778.login.application_service` to clients from the login API. This feature was added in v1.21.0, but was not exposed as a potential login flow. ([\#8504](matrix-org/synapse#8504))
- Fix error code for `/profile/{userId}/displayname` to be `M_BAD_JSON`. ([\#8517](matrix-org/synapse#8517))
- Fix a bug introduced in v1.7.0 that could cause Synapse to insert values from non-state `m.room.retention` events into the `room_retention` database table. ([\#8527](matrix-org/synapse#8527))
- Fix not sending events over federation when using sharded event writers. ([\#8536](matrix-org/synapse#8536))
- Fix a long standing bug where email notifications for encrypted messages were blank. ([\#8545](matrix-org/synapse#8545))
- Fix increase in the number of `There was no active span...` errors logged when using OpenTracing. ([\#8567](matrix-org/synapse#8567))
- Fix a bug that prevented errors encountered during execution of the `synapse_port_db` from being correctly printed. ([\#8585](matrix-org/synapse#8585))
- Fix appservice transactions to only include a maximum of 100 persistent and 100 ephemeral events. ([\#8606](matrix-org/synapse#8606))


Updates to the Docker image
---------------------------

- Added multi-arch support (arm64,arm/v7) for the docker images. Contributed by @maquis196. ([\#7921](matrix-org/synapse#7921))
- Add support for passing commandline args to the synapse process. Contributed by @samuel-p. ([\#8390](matrix-org/synapse#8390))


Improved Documentation
----------------------

- Update the directions for using the manhole with coroutines. ([\#8462](matrix-org/synapse#8462))
- Improve readme by adding new shield.io badges. ([\#8493](matrix-org/synapse#8493))
- Added note about docker in manhole.md regarding which ip address to bind to. Contributed by @maquis196. ([\#8526](matrix-org/synapse#8526))
- Document the new behaviour of the `allowed_lifetime_min` and `allowed_lifetime_max` settings in the room retention configuration. ([\#8529](matrix-org/synapse#8529))


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- Drop unused `device_max_stream_id` table. ([\#8589](matrix-org/synapse#8589))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Check for unreachable code with mypy. ([\#8432](matrix-org/synapse#8432))
- Add unit test for event persister sharding. ([\#8433](matrix-org/synapse#8433))
- Allow events to be sent to clients sooner when using sharded event persisters. ([\#8439](matrix-org/synapse#8439), [\#8488](matrix-org/synapse#8488), [\#8496](matrix-org/synapse#8496), [\#8499](matrix-org/synapse#8499))
- Configure `public_baseurl` when using demo scripts. ([\#8443](matrix-org/synapse#8443))
- Add SQL logging on queries that happen during startup. ([\#8448](matrix-org/synapse#8448))
- Speed up unit tests when using PostgreSQL. ([\#8450](matrix-org/synapse#8450))
- Remove redundant database loads of stream_ordering for events we already have. ([\#8452](matrix-org/synapse#8452))
- Reduce inconsistencies between codepaths for membership and non-membership events. ([\#8463](matrix-org/synapse#8463))
- Combine `SpamCheckerApi` with the more generic `ModuleApi`. ([\#8464](matrix-org/synapse#8464))
- Additional testing for `ThirdPartyEventRules`. ([\#8468](matrix-org/synapse#8468))
- Add `-d` option to `./scripts-dev/lint.sh` to lint files that have changed since the last git commit. ([\#8472](matrix-org/synapse#8472))
- Unblacklist some sytests. ([\#8474](matrix-org/synapse#8474))
- Include the log level in the phone home stats. ([\#8477](matrix-org/synapse#8477))
- Remove outdated sphinx documentation, scripts and configuration. ([\#8480](matrix-org/synapse#8480))
- Clarify error message when plugin config parsers raise an error. ([\#8492](matrix-org/synapse#8492))
- Remove the deprecated `Handlers` object. ([\#8494](matrix-org/synapse#8494))
- Fix a threadsafety bug in unit tests. ([\#8497](matrix-org/synapse#8497))
- Add user agent to user_daily_visits table. ([\#8503](matrix-org/synapse#8503))
- Add type hints to various parts of the code base. ([\#8407](matrix-org/synapse#8407), [\#8505](matrix-org/synapse#8505), [\#8507](matrix-org/synapse#8507), [\#8547](matrix-org/synapse#8547), [\#8562](matrix-org/synapse#8562), [\#8609](matrix-org/synapse#8609))
- Remove unused code from the test framework. ([\#8514](matrix-org/synapse#8514))
- Apply some internal fixes to the `HomeServer` class to make its code more idiomatic and statically-verifiable. ([\#8515](matrix-org/synapse#8515))
- Factor out common code between `RoomMemberHandler._locally_reject_invite` and `EventCreationHandler.create_event`. ([\#8537](matrix-org/synapse#8537))
- Improve database performance by executing more queries without starting transactions. ([\#8542](matrix-org/synapse#8542))
- Rename `Cache` to `DeferredCache`, to better reflect its purpose. ([\#8548](matrix-org/synapse#8548))
- Move metric registration code down into `LruCache`. ([\#8561](matrix-org/synapse#8561), [\#8591](matrix-org/synapse#8591))
- Replace `DeferredCache` with the lighter-weight `LruCache` where possible. ([\#8563](matrix-org/synapse#8563))
- Add virtualenv-generated folders to `.gitignore`. ([\#8566](matrix-org/synapse#8566))
- Add `get_immediate` method to `DeferredCache`. ([\#8568](matrix-org/synapse#8568))
- Fix mypy not properly checking across the codebase, additionally, fix a typing assertion error in `handlers/auth.py`. ([\#8569](matrix-org/synapse#8569))
- Fix `synmark` benchmark runner. ([\#8571](matrix-org/synapse#8571))
- Modify `DeferredCache.get()` to return `Deferred`s instead of `ObservableDeferred`s. ([\#8572](matrix-org/synapse#8572))
- Adjust a protocol-type definition to fit `sqlite3` assertions. ([\#8577](matrix-org/synapse#8577))
- Support macOS on the `synmark` benchmark runner. ([\#8578](matrix-org/synapse#8578))
- Update `mypy` static type checker to 0.790. ([\#8583](matrix-org/synapse#8583), [\#8600](matrix-org/synapse#8600))
- Re-organize the structured logging code to separate the TCP transport handling from the JSON formatting. ([\#8587](matrix-org/synapse#8587))
- Remove extraneous unittest logging decorators from unit tests. ([\#8592](matrix-org/synapse#8592))
- Minor optimisations in caching code. ([\#8593](matrix-org/synapse#8593), [\#8594](matrix-org/synapse#8594))
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babolivier pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 1, 2021
This PR allows Synapse modules making use of the `ModuleApi` to create and send non-membership events into a room. This can useful to have modules send messages, or change power levels in a room etc. Note that they must send event through a user that's already in the room.

The non-membership event limitation is currently arbitrary, as it's another chunk of work and not necessary at the moment.

This commit has been cherry-picked from mainline.
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