Try federation when backfill fails to find events in the database (#2113)

* Try to backfill via federation in error cases

* Cleaner retry for backfill

* Simpler condition
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Neil Alexander 2022-01-27 15:52:32 +00:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -82,10 +82,14 @@ func (r *Backfiller) PerformBackfill(
return err
}
// Retrieve events from the list that was filled previously.
// Retrieve events from the list that was filled previously. If we fail to get
// events from the database then attempt once to get them from federation instead.
var loadedEvents []*gomatrixserverlib.Event
loadedEvents, err = helpers.LoadEvents(ctx, r.DB, resultNIDs)
if err != nil {
if _, ok := err.(types.MissingEventError); ok {
return r.backfillViaFederation(ctx, request, response)
}
return err
}