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Phase 3: rooms, local only
Implements PLAN.md Phase 3: the roomserver, the room half of storage, the
Client-Server room endpoints and the admin room endpoints. A client can now
create a room, invite, join, leave, kick, ban, send messages and state,
redact, name a room with an alias and find one in the public directory.
Nothing talks to another server; every operation that would need to is
refused with a message that says so rather than a bare M_FORBIDDEN.

roomserver: one input pipeline every event goes through, whatever sent it —
validate, authorise, resolve, persist, emit. The rules are not
reimplemented here; internal/matrix is pure library code and this is what
connects it to a database and to a room's history. The Client-Server
handlers do no authorisation of their own, deliberately: whether Alice may
kick Bob is a question about the room's power levels, and the one place
that is answered correctly is the authorisation rules inside the pipeline.

A mutex per room serialises writers. Two events racing into one room would
each read the same forward extremities, both become one, and fork the room
for no reason — which would then need state resolution to put back
together. State resolution is wired in anyway for the multi-extremity
case. It is unreachable from outside in this phase, and the alternative is
a pipeline that authorises against one arbitrary branch of a fork without
saying so.

Room versions 3 to 12 all work and are each tested end to end. Version 12
earns that coverage: its room ID is the create event's own ID, its create
event carries no room_id, and the create event is excluded from every other
event's auth_events — so the state auth.Check is given is the event's
auth_events plus the create event, which that version identifies by room ID
rather than citing.

createRoom sends the spec's events in the spec's order, each authorised
against what the ones before it produced. A failure part-way leaves an
incomplete room, which is the lesser evil: the alternative is holding every
event of a new room in memory and writing them in one transaction, making
the pipeline that authorises them a special case. The one failure a second
client can cause at any time, an alias clash, takes the room row back out.

Redactions stay two decisions, as the spec keeps them. The rules let almost
any redaction into the room; whether it applies to its target is a separate
test, run inside the same transaction as the redaction itself so that a
client holding an event ID can always read the stripped event.

storage: events keyed by event ID rather than by a surrogate, since an
event ID appears in prev_events, auth_events, state snapshots and client
requests alike. Stream ordering comes from a counter row bumped inside the
write transaction, because a PostgreSQL sequence is explicitly not
transactional and a rolled-back write would leave a hole in the stream that
/sync would have to be taught to skip. State snapshots are stored per event
and deduplicated by content hash, so the table grows with state changes
rather than with traffic — and that is what makes "the state after a
forward extremity" answerable at all. The room's listing columns are
denormalised onto its row because the public directory orders every
published room by member count and pages the result, which cannot be done
by reading each room's state in turn.

Federation-disabled behaviour from PLAN.md section 3 is enforced here.
Restricted joins are the exception that works: the rule needs a signature
from the authorising user's server verified, and while federation is off
that server is always this one.

adminapi: room list and detail, purge, force-leave, and room and event
counters on the dashboard. clientapi gains its own rate-limit buckets for
createRoom and for joining, both of which write events rather than read
them.

Tested against the real event core and a real database rather than fakes:
what is under test is whether an event this server signs is one the
authorisation rules accept, and a fake of either would only prove that the
pipeline calls what the fake expects. The storage tests run against both
SQL drivers. docs/rooms.md describes the pipeline, the storage decisions
and the known gaps — chief among them that history visibility is
room-level rather than per-event, and that /sync still reports no rooms,
both of which belong with the event stream in Phase 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-16 10:34:57 +02:00

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Admin API

Everything under /_warp/admin/v1 is Warp's own, not Matrix. Clients use the Client-Server API; this is the operator's surface and the backend for the admin panel (apps/admin, PLAN.md section 8.1).

Authentication

A normal Matrix access token belonging to an account with the admin flag. The panel logs in the way any client does, so there is no second credential to manage:

TOKEN=$(curl -s localhost:8008/_matrix/client/v3/login \
  -d '{"type":"m.login.password","identifier":{"type":"m.id.user","user":"root"},"password":"..."}' \
  | jq -r .access_token)

curl localhost:8008/_warp/admin/v1/stats -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

The token must be in the Authorization header. Unlike the C-S API, the ?access_token= form is not accepted here: an admin token in a URL ends up in every access log between the browser and the server.

A valid token without the admin flag gets 403 M_FORBIDDEN rather than a 404. The caller is a legitimate user of this server who is not allowed here, and pretending the endpoint does not exist only makes the panel harder to debug.

Make the first admin from the command line:

./bin/warp create-account --username root --admin

Endpoints

GET /federation, PUT /federation

The runtime federation switch of PLAN.md section 3.

{
  "enabled": false,
  "toggleable": true,
  "allowlist": [],
  "denylist": []
}

PUT {"enabled": true} takes effect on the next request, with no restart, and answers with the same document. toggleable is false when federation.allow_runtime_toggle pinned the setting in the config file; a PUT then returns 409 and the panel should grey the switch out rather than offer something that will bounce.

Editing the allow and deny lists is Phase 9. They are reported now because the dashboard has to show which servers a running Warp will talk to.

GET /registration, PUT /registration

The same shape, without the lists, for open registration.

GET /users

GET /users?search=ali&limit=50&offset=0

Ordered by localpart. search matches a substring of the localpart or the display name, case-insensitively. total is the number of users matching the query rather than the number returned, so the panel can page.

{
  "users": [
    {
      "user_id": "@alice:warp.example",
      "display_name": "Alice",
      "admin": false,
      "deactivated": false,
      "created_at_ms": 1760000000000
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0
}

POST /users

{"username": "alice", "password": "...", "display_name": "Alice", "admin": false}

201 with the created user. This is how an operator adds an account to a server with registration turned off — which is the normal state of a private Warp — so it ignores the registration switch deliberately: it is the admin's own action, not a public sign-up. username is normalised (lower-cased) like any other localpart. A taken name is 400 M_USER_IN_USE, an unusable one 400 M_INVALID_USERNAME.

GET /rooms

GET /rooms?search=ops&limit=50&offset=0

Ordered by joined-member count, biggest first, then by room ID — the second key is not decoration, because paging an order that is not total can show the same room on two pages and skip another, and ties in member count are the common case. search matches a substring of the room ID, name, topic or canonical alias, case-insensitively.

{
  "rooms": [
    {
      "room_id": "!abc:warp.example",
      "room_version": "11",
      "creator": "@alice:warp.example",
      "name": "Operations",
      "topic": "Ops chat",
      "canonical_alias": "#ops:warp.example",
      "join_rule": "public",
      "history_visibility": "shared",
      "guest_access": "forbidden",
      "published": true,
      "joined_members": 12,
      "created_at_ms": 1760000000000
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0
}

Everything after creator is read from the room's current state and kept in the room's own row. That is denormalisation on purpose: this listing and the public room directory both order every room by member count and page the result, which cannot be done by reading each room's state in turn.

GET /rooms/{roomID}

The list row plus the things only a count can answer.

{
  "room_id": "!abc:warp.example",
  "members": 15,
  "invited_members": 2,
  "joined_members": 12,
  "aliases": ["#ops:warp.example"],
  "forward_extremities": ["$sPfXR..."]
}

members counts every m.room.member event in the current state whatever the membership, because a room with one member and forty bans is not the same room as one with a single member. forward_extremities is where the room's DAG ends; there is normally exactly one, and more than one means the room has forked.

DELETE /rooms/{roomID}

Purges the room: its events, its state, its aliases and its row. There is no undo and the members are not told — the only way to tell them would have been to add an event to a room that no longer exists.

It is a DELETE on the room rather than a POST to an action because that is what it is, and because the method makes a panel's confirm dialog mandatory in a way a POST does not. Purging a room that is not there is 404, not a silent success: an operator who sees an OK has to be able to believe the room was there.

POST /rooms/{roomID}/force_leave

{"user_id": "@alice:warp.example"}

Makes a user leave without asking the room's rules whether they may. A user stuck in a room — one whose power levels are broken, or whose last moderator has gone — is what this exists for, and in such a room the rules are exactly what is in the way. It is still an ordinary membership event, signed and added to the room, so the other members see what happened.

A user who is not in the room gets 403: there is nothing to leave.

GET /stats

The dashboard payload.

{
  "server_name": "warp.example",
  "version": "0.0.0-dev",
  "database": "sqlite",
  "users": 12,
  "admins": 1,
  "deactivated": 0,
  "devices": 19,
  "rooms": 4,
  "published_rooms": 1,
  "events": 312,
  "federation_enabled": false,
  "registration_enabled": false
}

The three room counters are zero on a server that started without a signing key, which has no roomserver and so no rooms.

Errors

The same envelope as the Client-Server API — {"errcode": ..., "error": ...} — so the panel needs one error path, not two. 409 M_FORBIDDEN is specific to this API: the request was well formed and the server's own configuration is what refuses it.

Not here yet

Phase 9 completes the admin API: deactivating users, resetting passwords, revoking devices, granting the admin flag, registration token management, the federation allow/deny list editor, server notices, media quotas and an audit log of admin actions.

The room endpoints will grow with it: a room's state and its recent events for an operator looking at a report, and a way to publish or withdraw a room from the directory without borrowing a member's token.

A server started without a signing key has no roomserver, and the four room endpoints then answer 503 rather than failing on the first call.