There were a bunch of places where we fire off a process to happen in the
background, but don't have any exception handling on it - instead relying on
the unhandled error being logged when the relevent deferred gets
garbage-collected.
This is unsatisfactory for a number of reasons:
- logging on garbage collection is best-effort and may happen some time after
the error, if at all
- it can be hard to figure out where the error actually happened.
- it is logged as a scary CRITICAL error which (a) I always forget to grep for
and (b) it's not really CRITICAL if a background process we don't care about
fails.
So this is an attempt to add exception handling to everything we fire off into
the background.
The redact_content option never worked because it read the wrong config
section. The PR introducing it
(https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/2301) had feedback suggesting the
name be changed to not re-use the term 'redact' but this wasn't
incorporated.
This reanmes the option to give it a less confusing name, and also
means that people who've set the redact_content option won't suddenly
see a behaviour change when upgrading synapse, but instead can set
include_content if they want to.
This PR also updates the wording of the config comment to clarify
that this has no effect on event_id_only push.
Includes https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/2422
Only prepend / append word bounary characters if the search
expression starts or ends with a word character, otherwise they
don't work because there's no word bounary between whitespace and
a non-word char.
Param in the data dict of a pusher that tells an HTTP pusher to
send just the event_id of the event it's notifying about and the
notification counts. For clients that want to go & fetch the body
of the event themselves anyway.
Initialising `result` to `{}` in the parameters meant that every call to
_flatten_dict used the *same* target dictionary.
I'm hopeful this will fix https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2270,
but I suspect it won't. (This code seems to have been here since forever,
unlike the bug, and I don't really think it explains the observed
behaviour). Still, it makes it hard to investigate the problem.
