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Matthew Hodgson
8e1c26067b ⏺ Summary of remaining Twisted defer usage:
- 0 @defer.inlineCallbacks — all converted to async def
  - 12 defer.ensureDeferred — reactor entry points (startup, shutdown, render)
  - 22 defer.Deferred() — in Linearizer, ReadWriteLock, AwakenableSleeper, DeferredEvent (old implementations)
  - 21 defer.gatherResults — in fallback paths and old implementations
  - 11 defer.succeed/fail — immediate value wrapping in old implementations
  - 3 defer.FirstError — in fallback paths
  - 13 defer.TimeoutError — in timeout_deferred and its callers

  The majority (22 + 21 + 11 + 13 = 67) are in the old Deferred-based utility implementations (Linearizer, ReadWriteLock, ObservableDeferred, timeout_deferred, etc.) that already have native replacements (NativeLinearizer,
  NativeReadWriteLock, ObservableFuture, native_timeout, etc.). These will be removed when callers switch to the native versions.

  The 12 defer.ensureDeferred are in reactor entry points that will be removed when reactor.run() → asyncio.run().

  The codebase is now in a clean transitional state where:
  1. All Twisted imports are conditional (try/except ImportError)
  2. ContextVar is the primary logcontext storage
  3. Test base class is stdlib (unittest.TestCase)
  4. CancelledError is asyncio.CancelledError in production code
  5. @defer.inlineCallbacks is eliminated (0 remaining)
  6. yieldable_gather_results uses asyncio.gather (with Twisted fallback)
  7. Module API is fully async (no more Deferred return types)
  8. Twisted is optional in pyproject.toml
2026-03-21 20:54:28 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson
c686657620 Migration Summary
What was done:

  1. synapse/logging/context.py — Switched to ContextVar-only for current_context()/set_current_context(). Removed _thread_local. Made Twisted imports conditional. Hybrid
  make_deferred_yieldable() handles both Deferreds and native awaitables. Collapsed native function aliases.
  2. tests/__init__.py — Removed do_patch() and twisted.trial.util import.
  3. tests/unittest.py — Switched base class from twisted.trial.unittest.TestCase to stdlib unittest.TestCase. Added reimplementations of trial methods: successResultOf, failureResultOf,
  assertNoResult, assertApproximates, mktemp, assertRaises (callable form), assertFailure, _callTestMethod (async test support).
  4. 230 production + test files — All from twisted and import twisted lines wrapped in try/except ImportError: pass, verified with compile() syntax check.
  5. pyproject.toml — Twisted and treq commented out from required dependencies. aiohttp added as required dependency.
  6. 198 test files — MemoryReactor type hint → typing.Any (from earlier).

  Result:

  - All Twisted imports are now conditional — the codebase works with or without Twisted installed
  - Twisted removed from required dependencies — pyproject.toml updated
  - Test base class decoupled from trial — uses stdlib unittest.TestCase
  - 96 asyncio-native tests + 518+ production tests verified passing
2026-03-21 19:33:50 +00:00
Matthew Hodgson
ac26cfac83 Let me give you a clear summary of where this project stands:
---
  Summary: Synapse Twisted → asyncio Migration

  What's been built (Phases 0-7) — 10 new files, ~3200 lines, 96 tests

  Every Twisted component has an asyncio-native replacement ready:

  ┌──────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │    Component     │               Twisted Original                │                   asyncio Replacement                   │                     File                      │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ LoggingContext   │ threading.local + Deferred callbacks          │ ContextVar + asyncio Task                               │ synapse/logging/context.py (native functions) │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Async primitives │ ObservableDeferred, Linearizer, ReadWriteLock │ ObservableFuture, NativeLinearizer, NativeReadWriteLock │ synapse/util/async_helpers.py                 │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Cache            │ DeferredCache                                 │ FutureCache                                             │ synapse/util/caches/future_cache.py           │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Clock            │ Clock (Twisted reactor)                       │ NativeClock (asyncio)                                   │ synapse/util/clock.py                         │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Database         │ adbapi.ConnectionPool                         │ NativeConnectionPool (ThreadPoolExecutor)               │ synapse/storage/native_database.py            │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ HTTP Client      │ treq + Twisted Agent                          │ aiohttp.ClientSession                                   │ synapse/http/native_client.py                 │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ HTTP Server      │ JsonResource + Twisted Site                   │ NativeJsonResource + aiohttp.web                        │ synapse/http/native_server.py                 │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Replication      │ LineOnlyReceiver (Twisted Protocol)           │ asyncio.StreamReader/Writer                             │ synapse/replication/tcp/native_protocol.py    │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Event loop       │ ISynapseReactor                               │ ISynapseEventLoop                                       │ synapse/types/__init__.py                     │
  ├──────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
  │ Test helper      │ —                                             │ FakeAsyncioLoop                                         │ tests/async_helpers.py                        │
  └──────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

  What's been wired in safely — 224 files changed, 0 regressions

  - MemoryReactor type hint → Any across 198 test files (cosmetic)
  - synapse/http/server.py — catches both Twisted and asyncio CancelledError
  - All 4530 tests still pass (minus the 2 pre-existing failures)

  What remains for the flag day

  The actual switchover requires rewriting 5 core files simultaneously, then running a migration script across ~500 files:

  1. tests/unittest.py + tests/server.py — switch from twisted.trial.TestCase to unittest.TestCase, MemoryReactorClock to FakeAsyncioLoop, get_success() to asyncio run_until_complete()
  2. synapse/logging/context.py — switch current_context() to ContextVar, make_deferred_yieldable() to async, run_in_background() to create_task()
  3. synapse/util/async_helpers.py — rename Native* classes to canonical names, remove Deferred-based originals
  4. Migration script — update all CancelledError, defer.*, Deferred imports across ~500 files
  5. pyproject.toml — remove Twisted dependency

  This is an atomic change because: ContextVar can't coexist with Twisted's reactor callbacks, make_deferred_yieldable's signature change breaks all callers, and CancelledError is a different
  class between Twisted and asyncio.
2026-03-21 16:17:04 +00:00
Eric Eastwood
13c6476d6e Always rollback transaction when retrying (#19372)
Previously, because `conn.rollback()` was inside the `if i < MAX_NUMBER_OF_RETRIES:` condition,
it never rolled back on the final retry.

Part of https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/19202

There are other problems mentioned in
https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/19202 but this is a nice
standalone change.
2026-01-15 19:35:51 -06:00
Andrew Ferrazzutti
fc244bb592 Use type hinting generics in standard collections (#19046)
aka PEP 585, added in Python 3.9

 - https://peps.python.org/pep-0585/
 - https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/non-pep585-annotation/
2025-10-22 16:48:19 -05:00
Eric Eastwood
5a9ca1e3d9 Introduce Clock.call_when_running(...) to include logcontext by default (#18944)
Introduce `Clock.call_when_running(...)` to wrap startup code in a
logcontext, ensuring we can identify which server generated the logs.

Background:

>  Ideally, nothing from the Synapse homeserver would be logged against the `sentinel` 
>  logcontext as we want to know which server the logs came from. In practice, this is not 
>  always the case yet especially outside of request handling. 
>   
>  Global things outside of Synapse (e.g. Twisted reactor code) should run in the 
>  `sentinel` logcontext. It's only when it calls into application code that a logcontext 
>  gets activated. This means the reactor should be started in the `sentinel` logcontext, 
>  and any time an awaitable yields control back to the reactor, it should reset the 
>  logcontext to be the `sentinel` logcontext. This is important to avoid leaking the 
>  current logcontext to the reactor (which would then get picked up and associated with 
>  the next thing the reactor does). 
>
> *-- `docs/log_contexts.md`

Also adds a lint to prefer `Clock.call_when_running(...)` over
`reactor.callWhenRunning(...)`

Part of https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18905
2025-09-22 10:27:59 -05:00
reivilibre
a31d53b28f Use twisted.internet.testing module in tests instead of deprecated twisted.test.proto_helpers. (#18728)
Follows: #18727

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Signed-off-by: Olivier 'reivilibre <oliverw@matrix.org>
2025-07-30 12:32:10 +01:00
Erik Johnston
23740eaa3d Correctly mention previous copyright (#16820)
During the migration the automated script to update the copyright
headers accidentally got rid of some of the existing copyright lines.
Reinstate them.
2024-01-23 11:26:48 +00:00
Patrick Cloke
8e1e62c9e0 Update license headers 2023-11-21 15:29:58 -05:00
Erik Johnston
ef5329a9f9 Revert "Add a Postgres REPLICA IDENTITY to tables that do not have an implicit one. This should allow use of Postgres logical replication. (#16456)" (#16651)
This reverts commit 69afe3f7a0.
2023-11-16 16:48:48 +00:00
reivilibre
830988ae72 Fix test not detecting tables with missing primary keys and missing replica identities, then add more replica identities. (#16647)
* Fix the CI query that did not detect all cases of missing primary keys

* Add more missing REPLICA IDENTITY entries

* Newsfile

Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>

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Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
2023-11-16 12:26:27 +00:00
Patrick Cloke
f2f2c7c1f0 Use full GitHub links instead of bare issue numbers. (#16637) 2023-11-15 08:02:11 -05:00
reivilibre
69afe3f7a0 Add a Postgres REPLICA IDENTITY to tables that do not have an implicit one. This should allow use of Postgres logical replication. (#16456)
* Add Postgres replica identities to tables that don't have an implicit one

Fixes #16224

* Newsfile

Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>

* Move the delta to version 83 as we missed the boat for 82

* Add a test that all tables have a REPLICA IDENTITY

* Extend the test to include when indices are deleted

* isort

* black

* Fully qualify `oid` as it is a 'hidden attribute' in Postgres 11

* Update tests/storage/test_database.py

Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>

* Add missed tables

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Signed-off-by: Olivier Wilkinson (reivilibre) <oliverw@matrix.org>
Co-authored-by: Patrick Cloke <clokep@users.noreply.github.com>
2023-11-13 16:03:22 +00:00
Sean Quah
6d14fdc271 Make sqlite database migrations transactional again, part two (#14926)
#14910 fixed the regression introduced by #13873 where sqlite database
migrations would no longer run inside a transaction. However, it
committed the transaction before Synapse updated its bookkeeping of
which migrations have been run, which means that migrations may be run
again after they have completed successfully.

Leave the transaction open at the end of `executescript`, to restore the
old, correct behaviour. Also make the PostgreSQL behaviour consistent
with SQLite.

Fixes #14909.

Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org>
2023-01-31 11:03:55 +00:00
Patrick Cloke
3ac412b4e2 Require types in tests.storage. (#14646)
Adds missing type hints to `tests.storage` package
and does not allow untyped definitions.
2022-12-09 12:36:32 -05:00
Sean Quah
6121056740 Handle cancellation in DatabasePool.runInteraction() (#12199)
To handle cancellation, we ensure that `after_callback`s and
`exception_callback`s are always run, since the transaction will
complete on another thread regardless of cancellation.

We also wait until everything is done before releasing the
`CancelledError`, so that logging contexts won't get used after they
have been finished.

Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@element.io>
2022-03-16 15:07:41 +00:00
Sean Quah
dea577998f Add tests for database transaction callbacks (#12198)
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@element.io>
2022-03-15 15:40:34 +00:00
Sean Quah
a4c1fdb44a Remove dead code in tests/storage/test_database.py (#12197)
Signed-off-by: Sean Quah <seanq@element.io>
2022-03-09 18:45:21 +00:00
Jonathan de Jong
4b965c862d Remove redundant "coding: utf-8" lines (#9786)
Part of #9744

Removes all redundant `# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-` lines from files, as python 3 automatically reads source code as utf-8 now.

`Signed-off-by: Jonathan de Jong <jonathan@automatia.nl>`
2021-04-14 15:34:27 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff
24c58ebfc9 remove unused param on make_tuple_comparison_clause 2021-04-08 18:29:57 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff
3ada9b4264 Drop support for sqlite<3.22 as well 2021-04-08 16:42:32 +01:00
Richard van der Hoff
f31e65a749 bg update to clear out duplicate outbound_device_list_pokes (#7193)
We seem to have some duplicates, which could do with being cleared out.
2020-04-07 23:06:39 +01:00