Clamp pagination limits to at most 1000

synapse/streams/config.py

@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+MAX_LIMIT = 1000
+
+
 class SourcePaginationConfig(object):
 
     """A configuration object which stores pagination parameters for a
@@ -32,7 +35,7 @@ def __init__(self, from_key=None, to_key=None, direction='f',
         self.from_key = from_key
         self.to_key = to_key
         self.direction = 'f' if direction == 'f' else 'b'
-        self.limit = int(limit) if limit is not None else None
+        self.limit = min(int(limit), MAX_LIMIT) if limit is not None else None
 
     def __repr__(self):
         return (
@@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ def __init__(self, from_token=None, to_token=None, direction='f',
         self.from_token = from_token
         self.to_token = to_token
         self.direction = 'f' if direction == 'f' else 'b'
-        self.limit = int(limit) if limit is not None else None
+        self.limit = min(int(limit), MAX_LIMIT) if limit is not None else None
 
     @classmethod
     def from_request(cls, request, raise_invalid_params=True,