Remove fallback for missing /federation/v1/state_ids API (#6488)

This API was added way back in 0.17.0; the code here is annoying to maintain
and entirely redundant.

changelog.d/6488.removal

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove fallback for federation with old servers which lack the /federation/v1/state_ids API.

synapse/federation/federation_client.py

@@ -324,87 +324,32 @@ def get_state_for_room(self, destination, room_id, event_id):
                 A list of events in the state, and a list of events in the auth chain
                 for the given event.
         """
-        try:
-            # First we try and ask for just the IDs, as thats far quicker if
-            # we have most of the state and auth_chain already.
-            # However, this may 404 if the other side has an old synapse.
-            result = yield self.transport_layer.get_room_state_ids(
-                destination, room_id, event_id=event_id
-            )
-
-            state_event_ids = result["pdu_ids"]
-            auth_event_ids = result.get("auth_chain_ids", [])
-
-            fetched_events, failed_to_fetch = yield self.get_events_from_store_or_dest(
-                destination, room_id, set(state_event_ids + auth_event_ids)
-            )
-
-            if failed_to_fetch:
-                logger.warning(
-                    "Failed to fetch missing state/auth events for %s: %s",
-                    room_id,
-                    failed_to_fetch,
-                )
-
-            event_map = {ev.event_id: ev for ev in fetched_events}
-
-            pdus = [event_map[e_id] for e_id in state_event_ids if e_id in event_map]
-            auth_chain = [
-                event_map[e_id] for e_id in auth_event_ids if e_id in event_map
-            ]
-
-            auth_chain.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
-
-            return pdus, auth_chain
-        except HttpResponseException as e:
-            if e.code == 400 or e.code == 404:
-                logger.info("Failed to use get_room_state_ids API, falling back")
-            else:
-                raise e
-
-        result = yield self.transport_layer.get_room_state(
+        result = yield self.transport_layer.get_room_state_ids(
             destination, room_id, event_id=event_id
         )
 
-        room_version = yield self.store.get_room_version(room_id)
-        format_ver = room_version_to_event_format(room_version)
-
-        pdus = [
-            event_from_pdu_json(p, format_ver, outlier=True) for p in result["pdus"]
-        ]
+        state_event_ids = result["pdu_ids"]
+        auth_event_ids = result.get("auth_chain_ids", [])
 
-        auth_chain = [
-            event_from_pdu_json(p, format_ver, outlier=True)
-            for p in result.get("auth_chain", [])
-        ]
-
-        seen_events = yield self.store.get_events(
-            [ev.event_id for ev in itertools.chain(pdus, auth_chain)]
+        fetched_events, failed_to_fetch = yield self.get_events_from_store_or_dest(
+            destination, room_id, set(state_event_ids + auth_event_ids)
         )
 
-        signed_pdus = yield self._check_sigs_and_hash_and_fetch(
-            destination,
-            [p for p in pdus if p.event_id not in seen_events],
-            outlier=True,
-            room_version=room_version,
-        )
-        signed_pdus.extend(
-            seen_events[p.event_id] for p in pdus if p.event_id in seen_events
-        )
+        if failed_to_fetch:
+            logger.warning(
+                "Failed to fetch missing state/auth events for %s: %s",
+                room_id,
+                failed_to_fetch,
+            )
 
-        signed_auth = yield self._check_sigs_and_hash_and_fetch(
-            destination,
-            [p for p in auth_chain if p.event_id not in seen_events],
-            outlier=True,
-            room_version=room_version,
-        )
-        signed_auth.extend(
-            seen_events[p.event_id] for p in auth_chain if p.event_id in seen_events
-        )
+        event_map = {ev.event_id: ev for ev in fetched_events}
 
-        signed_auth.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
+        pdus = [event_map[e_id] for e_id in state_event_ids if e_id in event_map]
+        auth_chain = [event_map[e_id] for e_id in auth_event_ids if e_id in event_map]
+
+        auth_chain.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
 
-        return signed_pdus, signed_auth
+        return pdus, auth_chain
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_events_from_store_or_dest(self, destination, room_id, event_ids):

synapse/federation/transport/client.py

@@ -38,30 +38,6 @@ def __init__(self, hs):
         self.server_name = hs.hostname
         self.client = hs.get_http_client()
 
-    @log_function
-    def get_room_state(self, destination, room_id, event_id):
-        """ Requests all state for a given room from the given server at the
-        given event.
-
-        Args:
-            destination (str): The host name of the remote homeserver we want
-                to get the state from.
-            context (str): The name of the context we want the state of
-            event_id (str): The event we want the context at.
-
-        Returns:
-            Deferred: Results in a dict received from the remote homeserver.
-        """
-        logger.debug("get_room_state dest=%s, room=%s", destination, room_id)
-
-        path = _create_v1_path("/state/%s", room_id)
-        return self.client.get_json(
-            destination,
-            path=path,
-            args={"event_id": event_id},
-            try_trailing_slash_on_400=True,
-        )
-
     @log_function
     def get_room_state_ids(self, destination, room_id, event_id):
         """ Requests all state for a given room from the given server at the