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+# Copyright 2016 OpenMarket Ltd
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+import pydot
+import cgi
+import simplejson as json
+import datetime
+import argparse
+
+from synapse.events import FrozenEvent
+from synapse.util.frozenutils import unfreeze
+
+
+def make_graph(file_name, room_id, file_prefix, limit):
+ print "Reading lines"
+ with open(file_name) as f:
+ lines = f.readlines()
+
+ print "Read lines"
+
+ events = [FrozenEvent(json.loads(line)) for line in lines]
+
+ print "Loaded events."
+
+ events.sort(key=lambda e: e.depth)
+
+ print "Sorted events"
+
+ if limit:
+ events = events[-int(limit):]
+
+ node_map = {}
+
+ graph = pydot.Dot(graph_name="Test")
+
+ for event in events:
+ t = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
+ float(event.origin_server_ts) / 1000
+ ).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S,%f')
+
+ content = json.dumps(unfreeze(event.get_dict()["content"]), indent=4)
+ content = content.replace("\n", "
\n")
+
+ print content
+ content = []
+ for key, value in unfreeze(event.get_dict()["content"]).items():
+ if value is None:
+ value = ""
+ elif isinstance(value, basestring):
+ pass
+ else:
+ value = json.dumps(value)
+
+ content.append(
+ "%s: %s," % (
+ cgi.escape(key, quote=True).encode("ascii", 'xmlcharrefreplace'),
+ cgi.escape(value, quote=True).encode("ascii", 'xmlcharrefreplace'),
+ )
+ )
+
+ content = "
\n".join(content)
+
+ print content
+
+ label = (
+ "<"
+ "%(name)s
"
+ "Type: %(type)s
"
+ "State key: %(state_key)s
"
+ "Content: %(content)s
"
+ "Time: %(time)s
"
+ "Depth: %(depth)s
"
+ ">"
+ ) % {
+ "name": event.event_id,
+ "type": event.type,
+ "state_key": event.get("state_key", None),
+ "content": content,
+ "time": t,
+ "depth": event.depth,
+ }
+
+ node = pydot.Node(
+ name=event.event_id,
+ label=label,
+ )
+
+ node_map[event.event_id] = node
+ graph.add_node(node)
+
+ print "Created Nodes"
+
+ for event in events:
+ for prev_id, _ in event.prev_events:
+ try:
+ end_node = node_map[prev_id]
+ except:
+ end_node = pydot.Node(
+ name=prev_id,
+ label="<%s>" % (prev_id,),
+ )
+
+ node_map[prev_id] = end_node
+ graph.add_node(end_node)
+
+ edge = pydot.Edge(node_map[event.event_id], end_node)
+ graph.add_edge(edge)
+
+ print "Created edges"
+
+ graph.write('%s.dot' % file_prefix, format='raw', prog='dot')
+
+ print "Created Dot"
+
+ graph.write_svg("%s.svg" % file_prefix, prog='dot')
+
+ print "Created svg"
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+ description="Generate a PDU graph for a given room by reading "
+ "from a file with line deliminated events. \n"
+ "Requires pydot."
+ )
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "-p", "--prefix", dest="prefix",
+ help="String to prefix output files with",
+ default="graph_output"
+ )
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "-l", "--limit",
+ help="Only retrieve the last N events.",
+ )
+ parser.add_argument('event_file')
+ parser.add_argument('room')
+
+ args = parser.parse_args()
+
+ make_graph(args.event_file, args.room, args.prefix, args.limit)