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Passive Application Services
----------------------------
"Passive" application services can only observe events from a given home server.
They cannot prevent events from being sent, nor can they modify the event being
sent.
.. TODO-spec
API that extends the client-server API to allow events to be
received with better-than-client permissions.
In order to observe events from a home server, the application service needs
to register itself and tell the home server what kinds of events it wants
to receive.
Application Service -> Home Server API
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This contains home server APIs which are used by the application service.
Registration API
++++++++++++++++
This API registers the application service with its host homeserver to offer its
services.
Inputs:
- Credentials (e.g. some kind of string token)
- Namespace[users]
- Namespace[room aliases]
- URL base to receive inbound comms
Output:
- The credentials the HS will use to query the AS with in return. (e.g. some
kind of string token)
Side effects:
- The HS will start delivering events to the URL base specified if this 200s.
API called when:
- The application service wants to register with a brand new home server.
Notes:
- An application service can state whether they should be the only ones who
can manage a specified namespace. This is referred to as an "exclusive"
namespace. An exclusive namespace prevents humans and other application
services from creating/deleting entities in that namespace. Typically,
exclusive namespaces are used when the rooms represent real rooms on
another service (e.g. IRC). Non-exclusive namespaces are used when the
application service is merely augmenting the room itself (e.g. providing
logging or searching facilities).
- Namespaces are represented by POSIX extended regular expressions in JSON.
They look like::
users: [
{
"exclusive": true,
"regex": "@irc\.freenode\.net/.*"
}
]
::
POST /register
Request format
{
url: "https://my.application.service.com/matrix/",
as_token: "some_AS_token",
namespaces: {
users: [
{
"exclusive": true,
"regex": "@irc\.freenode\.net/.*"
}
],
aliases: [
{
"exclusive": true,
"regex": "#irc\.freenode\.net/.*"
}
],
rooms: [
{
"exclusive": true,
"regex": "!irc\.freenode\.net/.*"
}
]
}
}
Returns:
200 : Registration accepted.
400 : Namespaces do not conform to regex
401 : Credentials need to be supplied.
403 : AS credentials rejected.
200 OK response format
{
hs_token: "string"
}
Unregister API
++++++++++++++
This API unregisters a previously registered AS from the home server.
Inputs:
- AS token
Output:
- None.
Side effects:
- The HS will stop delivering events to the URL base specified for this AS if
this 200s.
API called when:
- The application service wants to stop receiving all events from the HS.
::
POST /unregister
Request format
{
as_token: "string"
}
Home Server -> Application Service API
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This contains application service APIs which are used by the home server. All
application services MUST implement these APIs.
User Query
++++++++++
This API is called by the HS to query the existence of a user on the Application
Service's namespace.
Inputs:
- User ID
- HS Credentials
Output:
- Whether the user exists.
Side effects:
- User is created on the HS by the AS via CS APIs during the processing of this request.
API called when:
- HS receives an event for an unknown user ID in the AS's namespace, e.g. an
invite event to a room.
Notes:
- When the AS receives this request, if the user exists, it must create the user via
the CS API.
- It can also set arbitrary information about the user (e.g. display name, join rooms, etc)
using the CS API.
- When this setup is complete, the AS should respond to the HS request. This means the AS
blocks the HS until the user is created.
- This is deemed more flexible than alternative methods (e.g. returning a JSON blob with the
user's display name and get the HS to provision the user).
Retry notes:
- The home server cannot respond to the client's request until the response to
this API is obtained from the AS.
- Recommended that home servers try a few times then time out, returning a
408 Request Timeout to the client.
::
GET /users/$user_id?access_token=$hs_token
Returns:
200 : User is recognised.
404 : User not found.
401 : Credentials need to be supplied.
403 : HS credentials rejected.
200 OK response format
{}
Room Alias Query
++++++++++++++++
This API is called by the HS to query the existence of a room alias on the
Application Service's namespace.
Inputs:
- Room alias
- HS Credentials
Output:
- Whether the room exists.
Side effects:
- Room is created on the HS by the AS via CS APIs during the processing of
this request.
API called when:
- HS receives an event to join a room alias in the AS's namespace.
Notes:
- When the AS receives this request, if the room exists, it must create the room via
the CS API.
- It can also set arbitrary information about the room (e.g. name, topic, etc)
using the CS API.
- It can send messages as other users in order to populate scrollback.
- When this setup is complete, the AS should respond to the HS request. This means the AS
blocks the HS until the room is created and configured.
- This is deemed more flexible than alternative methods (e.g. returning an initial sync
style JSON blob and get the HS to provision the room). It also means that the AS knows
the room ID -> alias mapping.
Retry notes:
- The home server cannot respond to the client's request until the response to
this API is obtained from the AS.
- Recommended that home servers try a few times then time out, returning a
408 Request Timeout to the client.
::
GET /rooms/$room_alias?access_token=$hs_token
Returns:
200 : Room is recognised.
404 : Room not found.
401 : Credentials need to be supplied.
403 : HS credentials rejected.
200 OK response format
{}
Pushing
+++++++
This API is called by the HS when the HS wants to push an event (or batch of
events) to the AS.
Inputs:
- HS Credentials
- Event(s) to give to the AS
- HS-generated transaction ID
Output:
- None.
Data flows:
::
Typical
HS ---> AS : Home server sends events with transaction ID T.
<--- : AS sends back 200 OK.
AS ACK Lost
HS ---> AS : Home server sends events with transaction ID T.
<-/- : AS 200 OK is lost.
HS ---> AS : Home server retries with the same transaction ID of T.
<--- : AS sends back 200 OK. If the AS had processed these events
already, it can NO-OP this request (and it knows if it is the same
events based on the transacton ID).
Retry notes:
- If the HS fails to pass on the events to the AS, it must retry the request.
- Since ASes by definition cannot alter the traffic being passed to it (unlike
say, a Policy Server), these requests can be done in parallel to general HS
processing; the HS doesn't need to block whilst doing this.
- Home servers should use exponential backoff as their retry algorithm.
- Home servers MUST NOT alter (e.g. add more) events they were going to
send within that transaction ID on retries, as the AS may have already
processed the events.
Ordering notes:
- The events sent to the AS should be linearised, as they are from the event
stream.
- The home server will need to maintain a queue of transactions to send to
the AS.
::
PUT /transactions/$transaction_id?access_token=$hs_token
Request format
{
events: [
...
]
}
Client-Server v2 API Extensions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Passive application services can utilise a more powerful version of the
client-server API by identifying itself as an application service to the
home server.
Identity assertion
++++++++++++++++++
The client-server API infers the user ID from the ``access_token`` provided in
every request. It would be an annoying amount of book-keeping to maintain tokens
for every virtual user. It would be preferable if the application service could
use the CS API with its own ``as_token`` instead, and specify the virtual user
they wish to be acting on behalf of. For real users, this would require
additional permissions granting the AS permission to masquerade as a matrix user.
Inputs:
- Application service token (``access_token``)
Either:
- User ID in the AS namespace to act as.
Or:
- OAuth2 token of real user (which may end up being an access token)
Notes:
- This will apply on all aspects of the CS API, except for Account Management.
- The ``as_token`` is inserted into ``access_token`` which is usually where the
client token is. This is done on purpose to allow application services to
reuse client SDKs.
::
/path?access_token=$token&user_id=$userid
Query Parameters:
access_token: The application service token
user_id: The desired user ID to act as.
/path?access_token=$token&user_token=$token
Query Parameters:
access_token: The application service token
user_token: The token granted to the AS by the real user
Timestamp massaging
+++++++++++++++++++
The application service may want to inject events at a certain time (reflecting
the time on the network they are tracking e.g. irc, xmpp). Application services
need to be able to adjust the ``origin_server_ts`` value to do this.
Inputs:
- Application service token (``as_token``)
- Desired timestamp
Notes:
- This will only apply when sending events.
::
/path?access_token=$token&ts=$timestamp
Query Parameters added to the send event APIs only:
access_token: The application service token
ts: The desired timestamp
Server admin style permissions
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The home server needs to give the application service *full control* over its
namespace, both for users and for room aliases. This means that the AS should
be able to create/edit/delete any room alias in its namespace, as well as
create/delete any user in its namespace. No additional API changes need to be
made in order for control of room aliases to be granted to the AS. Creation of
users needs API changes in order to:
- Work around captchas.
- Have a 'passwordless' user.
This involves bypassing the registration flows entirely. This is achieved by
including the AS token on a ``/register`` request, along with a login type of
``m.login.application_service`` to set the desired user ID without a password.
::
/register?access_token=$as_token
Content:
{
type: "m.login.application_service",
user: "<desired user localpart in AS namespace>"
}
Application services which attempt to create users or aliases *outside* of
their defined namespaces will receive an error code ``M_EXCLUSIVE``. Similarly,
normal users who attempt to create users or alises *inside* an application
service-defined namespace will receive the same ``M_EXCLUSIVE`` error code,
but only if the application service has defined the namespace as ``exclusive``.
ID conventions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. NOTE::
- Giving HSes the freedom to namespace still feels like the Right Thing here.
- Exposing a public API provides the consistency which was the main complaint
against namespacing.
- This may have knock-on effects for the AS registration API. E.g. why don't
we let ASes specify the *URI* regex they want?
This concerns the well-defined conventions for mapping 3P network IDs to matrix
IDs, which we expect clients to be able to do by themselves.
User IDs
++++++++
Matrix users may wish to directly contact a virtual user, e.g. to send an email.
The URI format is a well-structured way to represent a number of different ID
types, including:
- MSISDNs (``tel``)
- Email addresses (``mailto``)
- IRC nicks (``irc`` - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04)
- XMPP (xep-0032)
- SIP URIs (RFC 3261)
As a result, virtual user IDs SHOULD relate to their URI counterpart. This
mapping from URI to user ID can be expressed in a number of ways:
- Expose a C-S API on the HS which takes URIs and responds with user IDs.
- Munge the URI with the user ID.
Exposing an API would allow HSes to internally map user IDs however they like,
at the cost of an extra round trip (of which the response can be cached).
Munging the URI would allow clients to apply the mapping locally, but would force
user X on service Y to always map to the same munged user ID. Considering the
exposed API could just be applying this munging, there is more flexibility if
an API is exposed.
::
GET /_matrix/app/v1/user?uri=$url_encoded_uri
Returns 200 OK:
{
user_id: <complete user ID on local HS>
}
Room Aliases
++++++++++++
We may want to expose some 3P network rooms so Matrix users can join them directly,
e.g. IRC rooms. We don't want to expose every 3P network room though, e.g. mailto,
tel. Rooms which are publicly accessible (e.g. IRC rooms) can be exposed as an alias by
the application service. Private rooms (e.g. sending an email to someone) should not
be exposed in this way, but should instead operate using normal invite/join semantics.
Therefore, the ID conventions discussed below are only valid for public rooms which
expose room aliases.
Matrix users may wish to join XMPP rooms (e.g. using XEP-0045) or IRC rooms. In both
cases, these rooms can be expressed as URIs. For consistency, these "room" URIs
SHOULD be mapped in the same way as "user" URIs.
::
GET /_matrix/app/v1/alias?uri=$url_encoded_uri
Returns 200 OK:
{
alias: <complete room alias on local HS>
}
Event fields
++++++++++++
We recommend that any gatewayed events should include an ``external_url`` field
in their content to provide a way for Matrix clients to link into the 'native'
client from which the event originated. For instance, this could contain the
message-ID for emails/nntp posts, or a link to a blog comment when gatewaying
blog comment traffic in & out of matrix
Active Application Services
----------------------------

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