ExpiringCache required that `start()` be called before it would actually
start expiring entries. A number of places didn't do that.
This PR removes `start` from ExpiringCache, and automatically starts
backround reaping process on creation instead.
We should explicitly close any db connections we open, because failing to do so
can block other transactions as per
https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3682.
Let's also try to factor out some of the boilerplate by having server classes
define their datastore class rather than duplicating the whole of `setup`.
(instead of everywhere that writes a response. Or rather, the subset of places
which write responses where we haven't forgotten it).
This also means that we don't have to have the mysterious version_string
attribute in anything with a request handler.
Unfortunately it does mean that we have to pass the version string wherever we
instantiate a SynapseSite, which has been c&ped 150 times, but that is code
that ought to be cleaned up anyway really.
This avoids the scenario where we have four different PreviewUrlResources
configured on a single app, each of which have their own caches and cache
clearing jobs.
This fixes a class of 'Unexpected logcontext' messages, which were happening
because the logcontext was somewhat arbitrarily swapping between the sentinel
and the `run` logcontext.
The empty string is a valid setting for the bind_address option, so
explicitly check for None here instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Löthberg <johannes@kyriasis.com>
Amber Brown