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============================
Synapse Server-to-Server API
============================
===========================
Matrix Server-to-Server API
===========================
A description of the protocol used to communicate between Synapse home servers;
A description of the protocol used to communicate between Matrix home servers;
also known as Federation.
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========
The server-server API is a mechanism by which two home servers can exchange
Synapse event messages, both as a real-time push of current events, and as a
Matrix event messages, both as a real-time push of current events, and as a
historic fetching mechanism to synchronise past history for clients to view. It
uses HTTP connections between each pair of servers involved as the underlying
transport. Messages are exchanged between servers in real-time by active pushing
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can also be performed.
{ Synapse entities } { Synapse entities }
{ Matrix clients } { Matrix clients }
^ | ^ |
| events | | events |
| V | V
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only to the pair of home servers that exchanged it; they are not globally-
meaningful.
Each transaction has an opaque ID and timestamp (UNIX epoch time in miliseconds)
generated by its origin server, an origin and destination server name, a list of
"previous IDs", and a list of PDUs - the actual message payload that the
Transaction carries.
Each transaction has an opaque ID and timestamp (UNIX epoch time in
milliseconds) generated by its origin server, an origin and destination server
name, a list of "previous IDs", and a list of PDUs - the actual message payload
that the Transaction carries.
{"transaction_id":"916d630ea616342b42e98a3be0b74113",
"ts":1404835423000,
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previous IDs that this origin has sent. This list may refer to other PDUs sent
by the same origin as the current one, or other origins.
Because of the distributed nature of participants in a Synapse conversation, it
Because of the distributed nature of participants in a Matrix conversation, it
is impossible to establish a globally-consistent total ordering on the events.
However, by annotating each outbound PDU at its origin with IDs of other PDUs it
has received, a partial ordering can be constructed allowing causallity