This will be useful for re-use for implementation of an endpoint for
obtaining the API by submitting a JWT in the next commits.
It's not a pure refactor, as it requires some tweaks to remote_user_jwt
behavior:
1. The expected format of the request is changed a bit. It used to
expect "user" and "realm" keys, from which the intended email was
just generated by joining with @. Now it just expects "email"
straight-up. The prior design was a bt strange to begin with, so this
might be an improvement actually.
2. In the case of the codepath of new user signup, this will no longer
pre-populate the Full Name in the registration form with the value
from the "user" key. This should be a very minor lost of
functionality, because the "user" value was not going to be a proper
Full Name anyway. This functionality can be restored in a future
commit if desired.
This is an API change, but this endpoint is nearly unused as far as
we're aware.
- Updates `.prettierignore` for the new directory.
- Updates any reference to the API documentation directory for
markdown files to be `api_docs/` instead of `zerver/api/`.
- Removes a reference link from `docs/documentation/api.md` that
hasn't referenced anything in the text since commit 0542c60.
- Update rendering of API documentation for new directory.
Moves the check for calling the `api-doc-template.md` directly,
so that we don't return a 500 error from the server, to happen
earlier with other checks for returning a 404 / missing page.
Also adds a specific test to `zerver/tests/test_urls` for this
template.
Prep commit for moving API documentation directory to be a top
level directory.
Black 23 enforces some slightly more specific rules about empty line
counts and redundant parenthesis removal, but the result is still
compatible with Black 22.
(This does not actually upgrade our Python environment to Black 23
yet.)
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
These files are not Jinja2 templates, so there's no reason that they needed
to be inside `templates/zerver`. Moving them to the top level reflects their
importance and also makes it feel nicer to work on editing the help center content,
without it being unnecessary buried deep in the codebase.
Changes the check for whether the documentation page is a policy
center page to be the `self.policies_view` boolean instead of the
`path_template` value as it reads much more clearly.
Moves a comment in the code to be contextually relevant.
Because of the overlap with the `DocumentationArticle` dataclass
field `article_path`, we rename the `article_path` variable used
in `MarkdownDirectoryView.get_context_data` for the absolute path
to be `article_absolute_path`.
In commit bbecd41, we added "not_index_page" to the context for
some documentation articles, but use of that context key/value was
removed when the help documentation was removed in commit 1cf7ee9.
Changes `not_index_page` to be a boolean value that's used to set
the page title, but is not then passed on as a context key/value.
Also removes an irrelevant comment about disabling "Back to home"
on the homepage.
Since we want to use `accounts/new/send_confirm` to know how many
users actually register after visiting the register page, we
added it to Google Tag Manager, but GTM tracks every user
registration separately due <email> in the URL
making it harder to track.
To solve this, we want to pass <email> as a GET parameter which
can be easily filtered inside GTM using a RegEx and all the
registrations can be tracked as one.
Previously, we got the directory path for all documentation pages
before checking for API method and path information in the OpenAPI
documentation. Instead, we now check the `path_template` is the
API documentation view template before getting the directory path.
Also, changes the confusingly named `article_path` variable, which
overlapped with the DocumentationArticle dataclass `article_path`
field, to now be `api_documentation_path`.
Prep commit for moving the help center documentation to a top level
directory.
When file uploads are stored in S3, this means that Zulip serves as a
302 to S3. Because browsers do not cache redirects, this means that
no image contents can be cached -- and upon every page load or reload,
every recently-posted image must be re-fetched. This incurs extra
load on the Zulip server, as well as potentially excessive bandwidth
usage from S3, and on the client's connection.
Switch to fetching the content from S3 in nginx, and serving the
content from nginx. These have `Cache-control: private, immutable`
headers set on the response, allowing browsers to cache them locally.
Because nginx fetching from S3 can be slow, and requests for uploads
will generally be bunched around when a message containing them are
first posted, we instruct nginx to cache the contents locally. This
is safe because uploaded file contents are immutable; access control
is still mediated by Django. The nginx cache key is the URL without
query parameters, as those parameters include a time-limited signed
authentication parameter which lets nginx fetch the non-public file.
This adds a number of nginx-level configuration parameters to control
the caching which nginx performs, including the amount of in-memory
index for he cache, the maximum storage of the cache on disk, and how
long data is retained in the cache. The currently-chosen figures are
reasonable for small to medium deployments.
The most notable effect of this change is in allowing browsers to
cache uploaded image content; however, while there will be many fewer
requests, it also has an improvement on request latency. The
following tests were done with a non-AWS client in SFO, a server and
S3 storage in us-east-1, and with 100 requests after 10 requests of
warm-up (to fill the nginx cache). The mean and standard deviation
are shown.
| | Redirect to S3 | Caching proxy, hot | Caching proxy, cold |
| ----------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- |
| Time in Django | 263.0 ms ± 28.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms | 258.0 ms ± 12.3 ms |
| Small file (842b) | 586.1 ms ± 21.1 ms | 266.1 ms ± 67.4 ms | 288.6 ms ± 17.7 ms |
| Large file (660k) | 959.6 ms ± 137.9 ms | 609.5 ms ± 13.0 ms | 648.1 ms ± 43.2 ms |
The hot-cache performance is faster for both large and small files,
since it saves the client the time having to make a second request to
a separate host. This performance improvement remains at least 100ms
even if the client is on the same coast as the server.
Cold nginx caches are only slightly slower than hot caches, because
VPC access to S3 endpoints is extremely fast (assuming it is in the
same region as the host), and nginx can pool connections to S3 and
reuse them.
However, all of the 648ms taken to serve a cold-cache large file is
occupied in nginx, as opposed to the only 263ms which was spent in
nginx when using redirects to S3. This means that to overall spend
less time responding to uploaded-file requests in nginx, clients will
need to find files in their local cache, and skip making an
uploaded-file request, at least 60% of the time. Modeling shows a
reduction in the number of client requests by about 70% - 80%.
The `Content-Disposition` header logic can now also be entirely shared
with the local-file codepath, as can the `url_only` path used by
mobile clients. While we could provide the direct-to-S3 temporary
signed URL to mobile clients, we choose to provide the
served-from-Zulip signed URL, to better control caching headers on it,
and greater consistency. In doing so, we adjust the salt used for the
URL; since these URLs are only valid for 60s, the effect of this salt
change is minimal.
Moving `/user_avatars/` to being served partially through Django
removes the need for the `no_serve_uploads` nginx reconfiguring when
switching between S3 and local backends. This is important because a
subsequent commit will move S3 attachments to being served through
nginx, which would make `no_serve_uploads` entirely nonsensical of a
name.
Serve the files through Django, with an offload for the actual image
response to an internal nginx route. In development, serve the files
directly in Django.
We do _not_ mark the contents as immutable for caching purposes, since
the path for avatar images is hashed only by their user-id and a salt,
and as such are reused when a user's avatar is updated.
The `django-sendfile2` module unfortunately only supports a single
`SENDFILE` root path -- an invariant which subsequent commits need to
break. Especially as Zulip only runs with a single webserver, and
thus sendfile backend, the functionality is simple to inline.
It is worth noting that the following headers from the initial Django
response are _preserved_, if present, and sent unmodified to the
client; all other headers are overridden by those supplied by the
internal redirect[^1]:
- Content-Type
- Content-Disposition
- Accept-Ranges
- Set-Cookie
- Cache-Control
- Expires
As such, we explicitly unset the Content-type header to allow nginx to
set it from the static file, but set Content-Disposition and
Cache-Control as we want them to be.
[^1]: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/xsendfile/
sendfile already applied a Content-Disposition header, but the
algorithm may provide both `filename=` and `filename*=` values (which
is potentially confusing to clients) and incorrectly slash-escapes
quotes in Unicode strings.
Django provides a correct implementation, but it is only accessible to
FileResponse objects. Since the entire point is to offload the
filehandle handling, we cannot use a FileResponse.
Django 4.2 will make the function available outside of FileResponse.
Until then, extract our own Content-Disposition handling, based on
Django's.
We remove the very verbose comment added in d4360e2287, describing
Content-Disposition headers, as it does not add much.
If `invite_as` is passed as a number outside the range of a PostgreSQL
`SMALLINT` field, the database throws an exception. Move this exception
to the glass as a validation error to allow better client-side error
handling and reduce database round-trips.
Moves files in `templates/zerver/help/include` that are used
specifically for integrations documentation to be in a new
directory: `templates/zerver/integrations/include`.
Adds a boolean parameter to `render_markdown_path` to be used
for integrations documentation pages.
Track `create_realm` and `new_realm_send_confirm` using
google analytics.
This will help us track number of users who want to
create a new Zulip organization.
Mateusz Mandera
Lauryn Menard
Anders Kaseorg
N-Shar-ma
Sahil Batra
Lauryn Menard
Aman Agrawal
Alex Vandiver
Josh Klar
Ujjawal Modi
Zixuan James Li