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Gracefully handle failing to thumbnail images #16211

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog.d/16211.bugfix
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Fix bug where uploading images would fail if we could not generate thumbanils for them.
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5 changes: 5 additions & 0 deletions synapse/__init__.py
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import sys
from typing import Any, Dict

from PIL import ImageFile

from synapse.util.rust import check_rust_lib_up_to_date
from synapse.util.stringutils import strtobool

# Allow truncated JPEG images to be thumbnailed.
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What's a truncated JPEG? E.g. we only have the first say 60% of the JPEG file?

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Yup, which turns out to be relatively common for reasons beyond understanding.

ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True

# Check that we're not running on an unsupported Python version.
#
# Note that we use an (unneeded) variable here so that pyupgrade doesn't nuke the
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion synapse/media/media_repository.py
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user_id=auth_user,
)

await self._generate_thumbnails(None, media_id, media_id, media_type)
try:
await self._generate_thumbnails(None, media_id, media_id, media_type)
except Exception as e:
logger.info("Failed to generate thumbnails: %s", e)
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Maybe a warning? It is tough though since it is user content, what's an admin to do?

I think catching the error and having the image uploaded even if thumbnails fail is the correct thing to do though!

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FWIW my model of warning is "something went wrong, but it wasn't our fault". I can see this one going either way; no strong opinions from me.


return MXCUri(self.server_name, media_id)

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