The existing 'pendingEventOrdering'=='end' semantics had been substantially
broken by the introduction of timelines and gappy syncs: after a gappy
sync, pending events would get stuck in the old timeline section. (Part of
https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1120).
This is some preparatory work for fixing up the problems with te timeline
ordering of unsent messages
(https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1120). The functional changes
here should be minimal (bar an extra `Room.localEchoUpdated` when the local
echo is first added to the timeline).
Give `MatrixClient.sendEvent` its own entry point `Room.addPendingMessage`
instead of pushing it through `addEventsToTimeline`; this considerably
simplifies the implementation of the latter and also means that we can contain
the `_txnId` ming to MatrixClient.
Move the code which deals with a successful `/send` response from
`MatrixClient` into `Room.updatePendingEvent`, since it involves fiddling with
the innards of the Room.
Also adds a new EventStatus 'SENT' for events which have been successfully sent
but whose remote echo we still haven't received.
We need to reset things at the UI level when we get a gappy sync, so give the
clients something to listen for.
Also add a bunch of tests for that bit of code.
Removing the last event in an EventTimeline (as we might, for instance, if it
was a local echo in an empty timeline) got us into a state where the baseIndex
would increment when adding events to the end of the timeline, causing much
confusion.
* This should fix the problem where we could end up with two concurrent syncs
due to both retrying /sync and hitting /versions. There is now one and only
one mechanism for connection recovery.
* Hit /versions a little less often as I think every 2 seconds is a little
over-aggressive. Also introduce randomness to minimize possibility of
thundering herds.
* Add a listener for the 'online' event in case any browser is nice enough
to ever fire it.
* Treat a 400 response from /versions as successful since older synapses
will not support it.
In order to resolve the conflict between local and remote read-receipts, try to
give precedence to the read-receipt which refers to the most recent event.
Also fix the read-receipt synthesis in _addLiveEvents so that it actually works
(drop the spurious MatrixEvent wrapper), and remove the synthesis in
recalculate() (which appears to be redundant).
David Baker