Inform the client that historical messages were imported in the timeline and they should refresh the timeline in order to see the new events.
Companion `matrix-react-sdk` PR: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/8354
The `marker` events are being used as state now because this way they can't be lost in a timeline gap. Regardless of when they were sent, we will still have the latest version of the state to compare against. Any time we see our latest state value change for marker events, prompt the user that the timeline needs to refresh.
> In a [sync meeting with @ara4n](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCEmpnGr4J-I8EeaVQ8QJZKBDu53ViI7V62y5BzfXr0/edit#bookmark=id.67nio1ka8znc), we came up with the idea to make the `marker` events as state events. When the client sees that the `m.room.marker` state changed to a different event ID, it can throw away all of the timeline and re-fetch as needed.
>
> For homeservers where the [same problem](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2716#discussion_r782499674) can happen, we probably don't want to throw away the whole timeline but it can go up the `unsigned.replaces_state` chain of the `m.room.marker` state events to get them all.
>
> In terms of state performance, there could be thousands of `marker` events in a room but it's no different than room members joining and leaving over and over like an IRC room.
>
> *-- https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/2716#discussion_r782629097*
### Why are we just setting `timlineNeedsRefresh` (and [prompting the user](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/8354)) instead of automatically refreshing the timeline for the user?
If we refreshed the timeline automatically, someone could cause your Element client to constantly refresh the timeline by just sending marker events over and over. Granted, you probably want to leave a room like this 🤷. Perhaps also some sort of DOS vector since everyone will be refreshing and hitting the server at the exact same time.
In order to avoid the timeline maybe going blank during the refresh, we could re-fetch the new events first, then replace the timeline. But the points above still stand on why we shouldn't.
* use beacon info event type as beacon identifier
Signed-off-by: Kerry Archibald <kerrya@element.io>
* test cases
Signed-off-by: Kerry Archibald <kerrya@element.io>
* Parse extensible events on demand
* Decorate messages with MSC1767 when appropriate
We do this automatically to force a pool of messages in the wild we can use for testing.
* Include the SDK
* Appease linter and tests
* Change property name to appease linter
* Update SDK
Now that we're pointing at `src/` for tests, we can stop trying to load source maps from random places. With this dependency used, source maps are off by a few lines.
The earlier commit, d3ce0cb82f, has most of the juicy details on this. In addition to d3ce's changes, we also:
* Use `TestClient` in many integration tests due to subtle behaviour changes in imports when switching to ES6. Namely the behaviour where setting the request function is less reliable in the way we did it, but `TestClient` is very reliable.
* We now use the Olm loader more often to avoid having to maintain so much duplicate code. This makes the imports slightly easier to read.
getSentinelMember now does return a member (with just the userid) when there is no corresponding member yet.
With lazy loading it's perfectly possible the member is not available, and null breaks continuation in the timeline.
Much of this transformation has been done automatically:
* add expect import to each file
* replace `not.to` with `toNot`
* replace `to[Not]Be{Undefined,Null}` with equivalents
* replace `jasmine.createSpy(...)` with `except.createSpy`, and `andCallFake`
with `andCall`
Also:
* replace `jasmine.createSpyObj` with manual alternatives
* replace `jasmine.Clock` with `lolex`
Remove some we don't care about. Set some other ones we do care
about but don't currently adhere to to warn. Set the max warnings
threshold to the current number of warnings, so we don't introduce
more of them. Fix a bunch of legit lint errors and add exceptions
to various places in the test code that does funny things with
'this'.
