Prevent expired events from being filtered out when retention is disabled (#12611)

Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>

synapse/storage/databases/main/room.py

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ from synapse.storage.database import (
 from synapse.storage.databases.main.cache import CacheInvalidationWorkerStore
 from synapse.storage.types import Cursor
 from synapse.storage.util.id_generators import IdGenerator
-from synapse.types import JsonDict, ThirdPartyInstanceID
+from synapse.types import JsonDict, RetentionPolicy, ThirdPartyInstanceID
 from synapse.util import json_encoder
 from synapse.util.caches.descriptors import cached
 from synapse.util.stringutils import MXC_REGEX
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
         await self.db_pool.runInteraction("delete_ratelimit", delete_ratelimit_txn)
 
     @cached()
-    async def get_retention_policy_for_room(self, room_id: str) -> Dict[str, int]:
+    async def get_retention_policy_for_room(self, room_id: str) -> RetentionPolicy:
         """Get the retention policy for a given room.
 
         If no retention policy has been found for this room, returns a policy defined
@@ -707,12 +707,20 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
         the 'max_lifetime' if no default policy has been defined in the server's
         configuration).
 
+        If support for retention policies is disabled, a policy with a 'min_lifetime' and
+        'max_lifetime' of None is returned.
+
         Args:
             room_id: The ID of the room to get the retention policy of.
 
         Returns:
             A dict containing "min_lifetime" and "max_lifetime" for this room.
         """
+        # If the room retention feature is disabled, return a policy with no minimum nor
+        # maximum. This prevents incorrectly filtering out events when sending to
+        # the client.
+        if not self.config.retention.retention_enabled:
+            return RetentionPolicy()
 
         def get_retention_policy_for_room_txn(
             txn: LoggingTransaction,
@@ -736,10 +744,10 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
         # If we don't know this room ID, ret will be None, in this case return the default
         # policy.
         if not ret:
-            return {
-                "min_lifetime": self.config.retention.retention_default_min_lifetime,
-                "max_lifetime": self.config.retention.retention_default_max_lifetime,
-            }
+            return RetentionPolicy(
+                min_lifetime=self.config.retention.retention_default_min_lifetime,
+                max_lifetime=self.config.retention.retention_default_max_lifetime,
+            )
 
         min_lifetime = ret[0]["min_lifetime"]
         max_lifetime = ret[0]["max_lifetime"]
@@ -754,10 +762,10 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
         if max_lifetime is None:
             max_lifetime = self.config.retention.retention_default_max_lifetime
 
-        return {
-            "min_lifetime": min_lifetime,
-            "max_lifetime": max_lifetime,
-        }
+        return RetentionPolicy(
+            min_lifetime=min_lifetime,
+            max_lifetime=max_lifetime,
+        )
 
     async def get_media_mxcs_in_room(self, room_id: str) -> Tuple[List[str], List[str]]:
         """Retrieves all the local and remote media MXC URIs in a given room
@@ -994,7 +1002,7 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
 
     async def get_rooms_for_retention_period_in_range(
         self, min_ms: Optional[int], max_ms: Optional[int], include_null: bool = False
-    ) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Optional[int]]]:
+    ) -> Dict[str, RetentionPolicy]:
         """Retrieves all of the rooms within the given retention range.
 
         Optionally includes the rooms which don't have a retention policy.
@@ -1016,7 +1024,7 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
 
         def get_rooms_for_retention_period_in_range_txn(
             txn: LoggingTransaction,
-        ) -> Dict[str, Dict[str, Optional[int]]]:
+        ) -> Dict[str, RetentionPolicy]:
             range_conditions = []
             args = []
 
@@ -1047,10 +1055,10 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
             rooms_dict = {}
 
             for row in rows:
-                rooms_dict[row["room_id"]] = {
-                    "min_lifetime": row["min_lifetime"],
-                    "max_lifetime": row["max_lifetime"],
-                }
+                rooms_dict[row["room_id"]] = RetentionPolicy(
+                    min_lifetime=row["min_lifetime"],
+                    max_lifetime=row["max_lifetime"],
+                )
 
             if include_null:
                 # If required, do a second query that retrieves all of the rooms we know
@@ -1065,10 +1073,7 @@ class RoomWorkerStore(CacheInvalidationWorkerStore):
                 # policy in its state), add it with a null policy.
                 for row in rows:
                     if row["room_id"] not in rooms_dict:
-                        rooms_dict[row["room_id"]] = {
-                            "min_lifetime": None,
-                            "max_lifetime": None,
-                        }
+                        rooms_dict[row["room_id"]] = RetentionPolicy()
 
             return rooms_dict