Remove pdu_failures from transactions

The field is never read from, and all the opportunities given to populate it are not utilized. It should be very safe to remove this.

synapse/federation/send_queue.py

@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
 
         self.edus = SortedDict()  # stream position -> Edu
 
-        self.failures = SortedDict()  # stream position -> (destination, Failure)
-
         self.device_messages = SortedDict()  # stream position -> destination
 
         self.pos = 1
@@ -79,7 +77,7 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
 
         for queue_name in [
             "presence_map", "presence_changed", "keyed_edu", "keyed_edu_changed",
-            "edus", "failures", "device_messages", "pos_time",
+            "edus", "device_messages", "pos_time",
         ]:
             register(queue_name, getattr(self, queue_name))
 
@@ -149,12 +147,6 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
             for key in keys[:i]:
                 del self.edus[key]
 
-            # Delete things out of failure map
-            keys = self.failures.keys()
-            i = self.failures.bisect_left(position_to_delete)
-            for key in keys[:i]:
-                del self.failures[key]
-
             # Delete things out of device map
             keys = self.device_messages.keys()
             i = self.device_messages.bisect_left(position_to_delete)
@@ -204,13 +196,6 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
 
         self.notifier.on_new_replication_data()
 
-    def send_failure(self, failure, destination):
-        """As per TransactionQueue"""
-        pos = self._next_pos()
-
-        self.failures[pos] = (destination, str(failure))
-        self.notifier.on_new_replication_data()
-
     def send_device_messages(self, destination):
         """As per TransactionQueue"""
         pos = self._next_pos()
@@ -285,17 +270,6 @@ class FederationRemoteSendQueue(object):
         for (pos, edu) in edus:
             rows.append((pos, EduRow(edu)))
 
-        # Fetch changed failures
-        i = self.failures.bisect_right(from_token)
-        j = self.failures.bisect_right(to_token) + 1
-        failures = self.failures.items()[i:j]
-
-        for (pos, (destination, failure)) in failures:
-            rows.append((pos, FailureRow(
-                destination=destination,
-                failure=failure,
-            )))
-
         # Fetch changed device messages
         i = self.device_messages.bisect_right(from_token)
         j = self.device_messages.bisect_right(to_token) + 1
@@ -417,34 +391,6 @@ class EduRow(BaseFederationRow, namedtuple("EduRow", (
         buff.edus.setdefault(self.edu.destination, []).append(self.edu)
 
 
-class FailureRow(BaseFederationRow, namedtuple("FailureRow", (
-    "destination",  # str
-    "failure",
-))):
-    """Streams failures to a remote server. Failures are issued when there was
-    something wrong with a transaction the remote sent us, e.g. it included
-    an event that was invalid.
-    """
-
-    TypeId = "f"
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def from_data(data):
-        return FailureRow(
-            destination=data["destination"],
-            failure=data["failure"],
-        )
-
-    def to_data(self):
-        return {
-            "destination": self.destination,
-            "failure": self.failure,
-        }
-
-    def add_to_buffer(self, buff):
-        buff.failures.setdefault(self.destination, []).append(self.failure)
-
-
 class DeviceRow(BaseFederationRow, namedtuple("DeviceRow", (
     "destination",  # str
 ))):
@@ -471,7 +417,6 @@ TypeToRow = {
         PresenceRow,
         KeyedEduRow,
         EduRow,
-        FailureRow,
         DeviceRow,
     )
 }
@@ -481,7 +426,6 @@ ParsedFederationStreamData = namedtuple("ParsedFederationStreamData", (
     "presence",  # list(UserPresenceState)
     "keyed_edus",  # dict of destination -> { key -> Edu }
     "edus",  # dict of destination -> [Edu]
-    "failures",  # dict of destination -> [failures]
     "device_destinations",  # set of destinations
 ))
 
@@ -503,7 +447,6 @@ def process_rows_for_federation(transaction_queue, rows):
         presence=[],
         keyed_edus={},
         edus={},
-        failures={},
         device_destinations=set(),
     )
 
@@ -532,9 +475,5 @@ def process_rows_for_federation(transaction_queue, rows):
                 edu.destination, edu.edu_type, edu.content, key=None,
             )
 
-    for destination, failure_list in iteritems(buff.failures):
-        for failure in failure_list:
-            transaction_queue.send_failure(destination, failure)
-
     for destination in buff.device_destinations:
         transaction_queue.send_device_messages(destination)