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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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Configuration

Warp reads one YAML file. Every setting can also come from the environment, and the environment wins. With no file at all the defaults plus WARP_* variables are used, which is how the container image runs.

Where the file comes from, in order:

  1. --config <path>
  2. $WARP_CONFIG
  3. ./warp.yaml, if it exists
  4. nothing — defaults and environment only

An unknown field is a fatal error. A typo in a security-relevant setting must not be ignored.

List-valued variables are comma-separated. A single - clears a list: WARP_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS=-.

Settings

YAML Environment Default Notes
global.server_name WARP_SERVER_NAME — Required. Part of every ID; cannot be changed later.
global.private_key WARP_PRIVATE_KEY ./keys/signing.key Written by warp generate-keys.
global.well_known.client_base_url WARP_WELL_KNOWN_CLIENT_BASE_URL https://<server_name> Advertised to clients.
global.well_known.identity_server_base_url WARP_WELL_KNOWN_IDENTITY_SERVER_BASE_URL empty Omitted from the document when empty.
global.well_known.server_address WARP_WELL_KNOWN_SERVER_ADDRESS empty host:port for other homeservers. Empty = no delegation, other servers fall back to SRV/A.
listen.address WARP_LISTEN_ADDRESS :8008
listen.read_header_timeout WARP_READ_HEADER_TIMEOUT 10s
listen.read_timeout WARP_READ_TIMEOUT 60s
listen.write_timeout WARP_WRITE_TIMEOUT 120s Raise before long-polling /sync lands in Phase 4.
listen.idle_timeout WARP_IDLE_TIMEOUT 120s
listen.max_header_bytes WARP_MAX_HEADER_BYTES 1048576
listen.shutdown_timeout WARP_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT 30s Grace period for in-flight requests.
database.driver WARP_DB_DRIVER sqlite sqlite, postgres, pocketbase (not implemented).
database.connection_string WARP_DB_CONNECTION_STRING SQLite file in the working directory
database.max_open_conns WARP_DB_MAX_OPEN_CONNS 10 Ignored by SQLite: writes are serialised onto one connection.
database.max_idle_conns WARP_DB_MAX_IDLE_CONNS 5
database.conn_max_lifetime WARP_DB_CONN_MAX_LIFETIME 1h
database.auto_migrate WARP_DB_AUTO_MIGRATE true false makes startup fail while migrations are pending.
client_api.cors_allowed_origins WARP_CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS ["*"] The spec expects any origin.
client_api.trust_x_forwarded_for WARP_TRUST_X_FORWARDED_FOR false Only behind a proxy that overwrites the header; the rate limiter keys on the result.
client_api.access_token_lifetime WARP_ACCESS_TOKEN_LIFETIME 0s 0 = never expire. With a lifetime, clients may ask for a refresh token at login.
client_api.refresh_token_lifetime WARP_REFRESH_TOKEN_LIFETIME 0s 0 = never expire.
client_api.rate_limit.enabled WARP_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED true
client_api.rate_limit.default.burst / .interval — 30 / 100ms Every rate-limited endpoint without its own bucket.
client_api.rate_limit.login.burst / .interval — 10 / 1s /login and /refresh.
client_api.rate_limit.register.burst / .interval — 5 / 2s /register and /register/available.
client_api.rate_limit.room_create.burst / .interval — 10 / 1s /createRoom, which writes a dozen events per call.
client_api.rate_limit.join.burst / .interval — 10 / 1s The two join endpoints.
federation.enabled WARP_FEDERATION_ENABLED false
federation.allowlist WARP_FEDERATION_ALLOWLIST [] Non-empty = federate only with these.
federation.denylist WARP_FEDERATION_DENYLIST [] Always wins over the allowlist.
federation.allow_runtime_toggle WARP_FEDERATION_ALLOW_RUNTIME_TOGGLE true See below.
registration.enabled WARP_REGISTRATION_ENABLED false
registration.allow_runtime_toggle WARP_REGISTRATION_ALLOW_RUNTIME_TOGGLE true
registration.tokens WARP_REGISTRATION_TOKENS [] Non-empty = sign-up also needs one of these, as the m.login.registration_token stage.
logging.level WARP_LOG_LEVEL info debug, info, warn, error.
logging.format WARP_LOG_FORMAT text text or json.
logging.add_source WARP_LOG_ADD_SOURCE false File and line in every record.
metrics.enabled WARP_METRICS_ENABLED true
metrics.path WARP_METRICS_PATH /metrics Served on the same listener.

The three rate limit buckets share one Go type, so per-bucket environment variables would all collide on the same name; they are YAML only. WARP_RATE_LIMIT_ENABLED=false turns the whole limiter off, which is what a test harness wants.

Rate limiting

Each bucket allows burst requests back to back and returns one slot every interval, keyed per client address. Over the limit is 429 M_LIMIT_EXCEEDED with a retry_after_ms the client is expected to honour.

Buckets are per endpoint class, so a client hammering /login cannot spend the budget of /profile. The key is the client address and not the user, because the limiter runs before the access token is resolved — a limiter that had to query the database to find its own key would be a denial of service of its own. Behind a reverse proxy, set client_api.trust_x_forwarded_for: true, or every client shares one bucket.

The admin API under /_warp/admin/v1 is not rate limited: it needs an admin token, and bulk operations from the panel are exactly the traffic a limiter would get in the way of.

Settings that change at runtime

federation.enabled and registration.enabled are also stored in the server_settings database table, which is what the admin API writes to.

  • With allow_runtime_toggle: true (the default) the stored value wins over the config file at boot, and the admin API may change it. The change takes effect on the next request; no restart.
  • With allow_runtime_toggle: false the config file is authoritative and the admin API refuses to change the setting. Any previously stored value is kept but ignored, so re-enabling the toggle restores the administrator's last choice.

Everything else is read once at startup.

What federation off actually means

While federation.enabled is false:

  • /.well-known/matrix/server answers 404 M_UNRECOGNIZED, and so will /_matrix/federation/* and /_matrix/key/* once they exist.
  • Nothing outbound runs — in Phase 0 there is nothing outbound yet; from Phase 5 the transaction queue, key fetcher and remote media fetch stay stopped.
  • Client-Server endpoints that would need a remote server answer M_FORBIDDEN with a message saying federation is disabled.
  • Events are still signed with the server key, and room and event IDs are unchanged. A room created while federation is off federates normally once it is switched on.