Allow configuring a range for the account validity startup job

When enabling the account validity feature, Synapse will look at startup for registered account without an expiration date, and will set one equals to 'now + validity_period' for them. On large servers, it can mean that a large number of users will have the same expiration date, which means that they will all be sent a renewal email at the same time, which isn't ideal.
In order to mitigate this, this PR allows server admins to define a 'max_delta' so that the expiration date is a random value in the [now + validity_period ; now + validity_period + max_delta] range. This allows renewal emails to be progressively sent over a configured period instead of being sent all in one big batch.
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Brendan Abolivier 2019-05-28 16:47:42 +01:00
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@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ class AccountValidityConfig(Config):
else:
self.renew_email_subject = "Renew your %(app)s account"
self.startup_job_max_delta = self.parse_duration(
config.get("startup_job_max_delta", 0),
)
if self.renew_by_email_enabled and "public_baseurl" not in synapse_config:
raise ConfigError("Can't send renewal emails without 'public_baseurl'")
@ -131,11 +135,18 @@ class RegistrationConfig(Config):
# after that the validity period changes and Synapse is restarted, the users'
# expiration dates won't be updated unless their account is manually renewed.
#
# If set, the ``startup_job_max_delta`` optional setting will make the startup job
# described above set a random expiration date between t + period and
# t + period + startup_job_max_delta, t being the date and time at which the job
# sets the expiration date for a given user. This is useful for server admins that
# want to avoid Synapse sending a lot of renewal emails at once.
#
#account_validity:
# enabled: True
# period: 6w
# renew_at: 1w
# renew_email_subject: "Renew your %%(app)s account"
# startup_job_max_delta: 2d
# The user must provide all of the below types of 3PID when registering.
#

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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
# limitations under the License.
import itertools
import logging
import random
import sys
import threading
import time
@ -247,6 +248,8 @@ class SQLBaseStore(object):
self._check_safe_to_upsert,
)
self.rand = random.SystemRandom()
if self._account_validity.enabled:
self._clock.call_later(
0.0,
@ -308,21 +311,37 @@ class SQLBaseStore(object):
res = self.cursor_to_dict(txn)
if res:
for user in res:
self.set_expiration_date_for_user_txn(txn, user["name"])
self.set_expiration_date_for_user_txn(
txn,
user["name"],
use_delta=True,
)
yield self.runInteraction(
"get_users_with_no_expiration_date",
select_users_with_no_expiration_date_txn,
)
def set_expiration_date_for_user_txn(self, txn, user_id):
def set_expiration_date_for_user_txn(self, txn, user_id, use_delta=False):
"""Sets an expiration date to the account with the given user ID.
Args:
user_id (str): User ID to set an expiration date for.
use_delta (bool): If set to False, the expiration date for the user will be
now + validity period. If set to True, this expiration date will be a
random value in the [now + period; now + period + max_delta] range,
max_delta being the configured value for the size of the range, unless
delta is 0, in which case it sets it to now + period.
"""
now_ms = self._clock.time_msec()
expiration_ts = now_ms + self._account_validity.period
if use_delta and self._account_validity.startup_job_max_delta:
expiration_ts = self.rand.randrange(
expiration_ts,
expiration_ts + self._account_validity.startup_job_max_delta,
)
self._simple_insert_txn(
txn,
"account_validity",

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@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ class AccountValidityBackgroundJobTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
def make_homeserver(self, reactor, clock):
self.validity_period = 10
self.max_delta = 10
config = self.default_config()
@ -459,8 +460,28 @@ class AccountValidityBackgroundJobTestCase(unittest.HomeserverTestCase):
"""
user_id = self.register_user("kermit", "user")
self.hs.config.account_validity.startup_job_max_delta = 0
now_ms = self.hs.clock.time_msec()
self.get_success(self.store._set_expiration_date_when_missing())
res = self.get_success(self.store.get_expiration_ts_for_user(user_id))
self.assertEqual(res, now_ms + self.validity_period)
def test_background_job_with_max_delta(self):
"""
Tests the same thing as test_background_job, except that it sets the
startup_job_max_delta parameter and checks that the expiration date is within the
allowed range.
"""
user_id = self.register_user("kermit_delta", "user")
self.hs.config.account_validity.startup_job_max_delta = self.max_delta
now_ms = self.hs.clock.time_msec()
self.get_success(self.store._set_expiration_date_when_missing())
res = self.get_success(self.store.get_expiration_ts_for_user(user_id))
self.assertLessEqual(res, now_ms + self.validity_period + self.delta)
self.assertGreaterEqual(res, now_ms + self.validity_period)