From 2ee1bd124c2d9ac7f11d0b32c9e40a842db14fe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Johnston Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:34:36 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Limit number of extremeties in backfill request This works around a bug where if we make a backfill request with too many extremeties it causes the request URI to be too long. --- synapse/handlers/federation.py | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/synapse/handlers/federation.py b/synapse/handlers/federation.py index ff6bb475b..328f8f484 100644 --- a/synapse/handlers/federation.py +++ b/synapse/handlers/federation.py @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): @log_function @defer.inlineCallbacks - def backfill(self, dest, room_id, limit, extremities=[]): + def backfill(self, dest, room_id, limit, extremities): """ Trigger a backfill request to `dest` for the given `room_id` This will attempt to get more events from the remote. This may return @@ -284,9 +284,6 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): if dest == self.server_name: raise SynapseError(400, "Can't backfill from self.") - if not extremities: - extremities = yield self.store.get_oldest_events_in_room(room_id) - events = yield self.replication_layer.backfill( dest, room_id, @@ -455,6 +452,10 @@ class FederationHandler(BaseHandler): ) max_depth = sorted_extremeties_tuple[0][1] + # We don't want to specify too many extremities as it causes the backfill + # request URI to be too long. + extremities = dict(sorted_extremeties_tuple[:5]) + if current_depth > max_depth: logger.debug( "Not backfilling as we don't need to. %d < %d",