From 07b88c546de1b24f5cbc9b4cb6da98400a8155af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morgan <1342360+anoadragon453@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 14:26:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Convert http.HTTPStatus objects to their int equivalent
 (#7188)

---
 changelog.d/7188.misc | 1 +
 synapse/api/errors.py | 9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/7188.misc

diff --git a/changelog.d/7188.misc b/changelog.d/7188.misc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f72955b95b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/7188.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix consistency of HTTP status codes reported in log lines.
diff --git a/synapse/api/errors.py b/synapse/api/errors.py
index 11da016ac5..d54dfb385d 100644
--- a/synapse/api/errors.py
+++ b/synapse/api/errors.py
@@ -86,7 +86,14 @@ class CodeMessageException(RuntimeError):
 
     def __init__(self, code, msg):
         super(CodeMessageException, self).__init__("%d: %s" % (code, msg))
-        self.code = code
+
+        # Some calls to this method pass instances of http.HTTPStatus for `code`.
+        # While HTTPStatus is a subclass of int, it has magic __str__ methods
+        # which emit `HTTPStatus.FORBIDDEN` when converted to a str, instead of `403`.
+        # This causes inconsistency in our log lines.
+        #
+        # To eliminate this behaviour, we convert them to their integer equivalents here.
+        self.code = int(code)
         self.msg = msg