This patch removes the `settings` argument of
`RoomListService::subscribe_to_rooms`. The settings were mostly composed
of:
* `required_state`: now shared with `all_rooms`, so that we are
sure they are synced; except that `m.room.create` is added for
subscriptions.
* `timeline_limit`: now defaults to 20.
This patch thus creates the `DEFAULT_REQUIRED_STATE` and
`DEFAULT_ROOM_SUBSCRIPTION_TIMELINE_LIMIT` constants.
Finally, this patch updates the tests, and updates all usages of
`subscribe_to_rooms`.
... and add accessors instead.
I'm going to change the inner structure of `SyncTimelineEvent`, meaning that
access will have to be via an accessor in future. Let's start by making the
fields private, and use accessors where we previously used direct access.
This patch changes the `SlidingSync::subscribe_to_room` method to
`subscribe_to_rooms`. Note the plural form. It's now mandatory to
subscribe to a set of rooms. The idea is to avoid calling this method
repeatedly. Why? Because each time the method is called, it sends a
`SlidingSyncInternalMessage` of kind `SyncLoopSkipOverCurrentIteration`,
i.e. it cancels the in-flight sliding sync request, to start over with
a new one (with the new room subscription). A problem arises when the
async runtime (here, Tokio) is busy: in this case, the internal message
channel can be filled pretty easily because its size is 8. Messages
are not consumed as fast as they are inserted. By changing this API:
subscribing to multiple rooms will result in a single internal message,
instead of one per room.
Consequently, the rest of the patch moves the `subscribe` method of
`room_list_service::Room` to `room_list_service::RoomListService`
because it now concerns multiple rooms instead of a single one.
The patch renames `RoomInfoUpdate` to `RoomInfoNotableUpdate`.
The functions, methods or variables whose names start with
`roominfo_update(.*)`` are renamed `room_info_notable_update$1`.
This allows seeing the events directly from the room event cache. I'm
hoping this will give us some interesting insights about duplicates,
among other things.
This patch makes `RoomListService::room` synchronous. It no longer reads
a `SlidingSyncRoom` from `SlidingSync`, then it not needs to be async
anymore. This patch replaces the `RwLock` of `RoomListService::rooms`
from `tokio::sync` to `std::sync`.
The patch updates all calls to `RoomListService::room` to remove the
`.await` point.
Using async when not required will increase compile times, and propagate async-ness to the callers, transitively.
See also the [lint description](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#/unused_async).
Since we only had a few false positives, I've enabled it by default.
Since rendering is sync, and I want the computed display name (which
retrieval is async), I have to fetch the display name early, just after
getting the room. Oh well :)
* event cache: reuse the paginator internally
Fixes#3355.
* event cache: move the `pagination_token_notifier` into the `RoomPaginationData` as well
* event cache: introduce a `RoomPagination` API object and move code around
Only code motion. No changes in functionality.
* event cache: remove "paginate" (et al.) in `RoomPagination` method names
No changes in functionality, just renamings.
* event_cache/timeline: have the event cache handle restarting a back-pagination that failed under our feet
When a timeline reset happens while we're back-paginating, the event
cache method to run back pagination would return an success result
indicating that the pagination token disappeared. After thinking about
it, it's not the best API in the world; ideally, the backpagination
mechanism would restart automatically.
Now, this was handled in the timeline before, and the reason it was
handled there was because it was possible to back-paginate and ask for a
certain number of events. I've removed that feature, so that
back-pagination on a live timeline matches the capabilities of a
focused-timeline back-pagination: one can only ask for a given number of
*events*, not timeline items.
As a matter of fact, this simplifies the code a lot by removing many
data structures, that were also exposed (and unused, since recent
changes) in the FFI layer.
* Address review comments
This introduces the `TimelineFocus`, a new enum to declare if the
timeline is "live" aka looking at events from sync and displaying them
as they come in, or focused on an event (e.g. after clicking a
permalink).
When in the second mode, the timeline can paginate forwards and
backwards, without interacting with the event cache (as this would
require some complicated reconciliation of known events with events
received from pagination, with no guarantee that those events are event
connected in whatever way).
An event-focused timeline will also show edits/reactions/redactions in
real-time (as the events are received from the sync), but will not show
new timeline items, be they for local echoes or events received from the
sync.
