model__id syntax implies needing a JOIN on the model table to fetch the
id. That's usually redundant, because the first table in the query
simply has a 'model_id' column, so the id can be fetched directly.
Django is actually smart enough to not do those redundant joins, but we
should still avoid this misguided syntax.
The exceptions are ManytoMany fields and queries doing a backward
relationship lookup. If "streams" is a many-to-many relationship, then
streams_id is invalid - streams__id syntax is needed. If "y" is a
foreign fields from X to Y:
class X:
y = models.ForeignKey(Y)
then object x of class X has the field x.y_id, but y of class Y doesn't
have y.x_id. Thus Y queries need to be done like
Y.objects.filter(x__id__in=some_list)
This commit defines a new function `get_muting_users`
which will return a list of IDs of users who have muted
a given user.
Whenever someone mutes/unmutes a user, the cache will be
flushed, and subsequently when that user sends a message,
the cache will be populated with the list of people who
have muted them (maybe empty).
This data is a good candidate for caching because-
1. The function will later be called from the message send
codepath, and we try to minimize database queries there.
2. The entries will be pretty tiny.
3. The entries won't churn too much. An average user will
send messages much more frequently than get muted/unmuted,
and the first time penalty of hitting the db and populating
the cache should ideally get amortized by avoiding several
DB lookups on subsequent message sends.
The actual code to call this function will be written in
further commits.
Previously, when unmuting a user, we used to make
two database fetches - one to verify that the user
is has been muted before, and one while actually
unmuting the user.
This reduces that to one, by passing around the
`MutedUser` object fetched in the first round.
Since the new function returns `Optional[MutedUser]`,
we need to use a hack for events tests, because
mypy does not yet use the type inferred from
`assert foo is not None` in nested functions like lambdas.
See python/mypy@8780d45507.
Instead of using internal functions for data setup,
we use the API so that these tests are more
end-to-end.
This commit also removes a now unnecessary
`if date_muted is None` check.
Adds backend code for the mute users feature.
This is just infrastructure work (database
interactions, helpers, tests, events, API docs
etc) and does not involve any behavioral/semantic
aspects of muted users.
Adds POST and DELETE endpoints, to keep the
URL scheme mostly consistent in terms of `users/me`.
TODOs:
1. Add tests for exporting `zulip_muteduser` database table.
2. Add dedicated methods to python-zulip-api to be used
in place of the current `client.call_endpoint` implementation.
Mateusz Mandera
Abhijeet Prasad Bodas