If autoupdates are too fast, the first one may not be fully executed. Especially when the maxChangeId is not yet updated, the second Autoupdate will trigger a refresh, because for the client it "lay in the future". This can be prevented by synchronizing the autoupdate-handling code with a mutex.
Since channels_redis does not support dedicated read-redis instances, the
autoupdate message may be received before the data was replicated. All workers
read the autoupdate message from the write host, so there is a race between
getting this message and a finished replication. For large payloads, the
replication is slower in the most cases (even more in a distributed setup, where
the master and replica are on different nodes). The easy way is to wait for
replication. But there is one difficulty: The number of replicas has to be
known. There is a new settings-variable "AMOUNT_REPLICAS" which defaults to 1.
It needs to be set correctly! If it is too high, every autoupdate will be
delayed by 1 seconds because of a timeout witing for non-existent replicas. If
it is too low, some autoupdates may be wrong (and not detectable by the client!)
becuase of reading from non-synchronised relicas.
The other possibility is to fork channel_redis and add the feature of a
read-only redis. This ould help, because on a single redis instance all commands
are ordered: First, the data is synced, then the autoupdate message. Attention:
This means, if redis-replicas are scaled up, one must make sure to read from the
same instance. I think this is not possible in the way how dockers overlay
networks work. The only way would be to open one connection and reuse the
connection from channels_redis in OpenSlides. This would mean a heavy
integration of channels_redis (meaning including the source code in our repo).
For the first fix, this one is easy and should work.
- Added settings.py docs
- Fixed left-overs from #4920
- Reworked all server messages to a new argument formet, so that the
client can translate server messages
- Removed the restricted data cache (it wasn't used since OS 3.0)
- unify functions for restricted and full data: Just one function, which
accteps an optional user_id: If it is None, full data is returned, and
with a user id given, the restricted data
- More atomic access to redis, especially for:
- Check for data-existance in redis and do an auto-ensure-cache.
- Speedup through hashing of scripts and redis' script cache.
- Save schema version into the redis cache and rebuild, if the version
changed
Client changes:
- Simplified the ConstantsService
- Fixed bug, when receiving an autoupdate with all_data=True from the
Server
