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Trap exceptions thrown within run_in_background #3144

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@richvdh richvdh commented Apr 27, 2018

I'm not completely convinced about this, and #3138 might make it redundant anyway; however:

It strikes me that there are two common usecases for run_in_background:

  • doing a bunch of stuff in parallel with defer.gatherResults()
  • firing off a thread you really don't care about.

In either case, it feels like having synchronous exceptions propagate outside run_in_background is unexpected. It feels better to have them turned into Failures so that they can either be handled by the defer.gatherResults(), or logged as unhandled errors for the background thread.

Turn any exceptions that get thrown synchronously within run_in_background into
Failures instead.
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I think this is probably fine because most exceptions will be turned into failures anyway, so this is just making things consistent.

@richvdh richvdh merged commit fdb6849 into develop Apr 30, 2018
@richvdh richvdh deleted the rav/run_in_background_exception_handling branch May 2, 2018 15:15
neilisfragile added a commit that referenced this pull request May 18, 2018
Changes in synapse v0.29.1 (2018-05-17)
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Changes:

* Update docker documentation (PR #3222)

Changes in synapse v0.29.0 (2018-05-16)
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Not changes since v0.29.0-rc1

Changes in synapse v0.29.0-rc1 (2018-05-14)
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Notable changes, a docker file for running Synapse (Thanks to @kaiyou!) and a
closed spec bug in the Client Server API. Additionally further prep for Python 3
migration.

Potentially breaking change:

* Make Client-Server API return 401 for invalid token (PR #3161).

  This changes the Client-server spec to return a 401 error code instead of 403
  when the access token is unrecognised. This is the behaviour required by the
  specification, but some clients may be relying on the old, incorrect
  behaviour.

  Thanks to @NotAFile for fixing this.

Features:

* Add a Dockerfile for synapse (PR #2846) Thanks to @kaiyou!

Changes - General:

* nuke-room-from-db.sh: added postgresql option and help (PR #2337) Thanks to @rubo77!
* Part user from rooms on account deactivate (PR #3201)
* Make 'unexpected logging context' into warnings (PR #3007)
* Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
* remove duplicates from groups tables (PR #3129)
* Improve exception handling for background processes (PR #3138)
* Add missing consumeErrors to improve exception handling (PR #3139)
* reraise exceptions more carefully (PR #3142)
* Remove redundant call to preserve_fn (PR #3143)
* Trap exceptions thrown within run_in_background (PR #3144)

Changes - Refactors:

* Refactor /context to reuse pagination storage functions (PR #3193)
* Refactor recent events func to use pagination func (PR #3195)
* Refactor pagination DB API to return concrete type (PR #3196)
* Refactor get_recent_events_for_room return type (PR #3198)
* Refactor sync APIs to reuse pagination API (PR #3199)
* Remove unused code path from member change DB func (PR #3200)
* Refactor request handling wrappers (PR #3203)
* transaction_id, destination defined twice (PR #3209) Thanks to @damir-manapov!
* Refactor event storage to prepare for changes in state calculations (PR #3141)
* Set Server header in SynapseRequest (PR #3208)
* Use deferred.addTimeout instead of time_bound_deferred (PR #3127, #3178)
* Use run_in_background in preference to preserve_fn (PR #3140)

Changes - Python 3 migration:

* Construct HMAC as bytes on py3 (PR #3156) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* run config tests on py3 (PR #3159) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Open certificate files as bytes (PR #3084) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Open config file in non-bytes mode (PR #3085) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Make event properties raise AttributeError instead (PR #3102) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Use six.moves.urlparse (PR #3108) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Add py3 tests to tox with folders that work (PR #3145) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Don't yield in list comprehensions (PR #3150) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Move more xrange to six (PR #3151) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* make imports local (PR #3152) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* move httplib import to six (PR #3153) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* Replace stringIO imports with six (PR #3154, #3168) Thanks to @NotAFile!
* more bytes strings (PR #3155) Thanks to @NotAFile!

Bug Fixes:

* synapse fails to start under Twisted >= 18.4 (PR #3157)
* Fix a class of logcontext leaks (PR #3170)
* Fix a couple of logcontext leaks in unit tests (PR #3172)
* Fix logcontext leak in media repo (PR #3174)
* Escape label values in prometheus metrics (PR #3175, #3186)
* Fix 'Unhandled Error' logs with Twisted 18.4 (PR #3182) Thanks to @Half-Shot!
* Fix logcontext leaks in rate limiter (PR #3183)
* notifications: Convert next_token to string according to the spec (PR #3190) Thanks to @mujx!
* nuke-room-from-db.sh: fix deletion from search table (PR #3194) Thanks to @rubo77!
* add guard for None on purge_history api (PR #3160) Thanks to @krombel!
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