tornado: Add a web_reload_clients endpoint to notify web clients.

zerver/tornado/application.py

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ def create_tornado_application(*, autoreload: bool = False) -> tornado.web.Appli
         r"/api/v1/events",
         r"/api/v1/events/internal",
         r"/api/internal/notify_tornado",
+        r"/api/internal/web_reload_clients",
     )
 
     return tornado.web.Application(

zerver/tornado/event_queue.py

@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ def mark_clients_to_reload(queue_ids: Iterable[str]) -> None:
         web_reload_clients[qid] = True
 
 
-def send_web_reload_client_events(immediate: bool = False, count: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
+def send_web_reload_client_events(immediate: bool = False, count: Optional[int] = None) -> int:
     event: Dict[str, Any] = dict(
         type="web_reload_client",
         immediate=immediate,
@@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ def send_web_reload_client_events(immediate: bool = False, count: Optional[int]
         client = clients[qid]
         if client.accepts_event(event):
             client.add_event(event)
+    return len(queue_ids)
 
 
 async def setup_event_queue(

zerver/tornado/views.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.http import HttpRequest, HttpResponse
 from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
+from pydantic import Json
 from typing_extensions import ParamSpec
 
 from zerver.decorator import internal_api_view, process_client
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ from zerver.lib.exceptions import JsonableError
 from zerver.lib.queue import get_queue_client
 from zerver.lib.request import REQ, RequestNotes, has_request_variables
 from zerver.lib.response import AsynchronousResponse, json_success
+from zerver.lib.typed_endpoint import typed_endpoint
 from zerver.lib.validator import (
     check_bool,
     check_dict,
@@ -24,7 +26,12 @@ from zerver.models import Client, UserProfile
 from zerver.models.clients import get_client
 from zerver.models.users import get_user_profile_by_id
 from zerver.tornado.descriptors import is_current_port
-from zerver.tornado.event_queue import access_client_descriptor, fetch_events, process_notification
+from zerver.tornado.event_queue import (
+    access_client_descriptor,
+    fetch_events,
+    process_notification,
+    send_web_reload_client_events,
+)
 from zerver.tornado.sharding import get_user_tornado_port, notify_tornado_queue_name
 
 P = ParamSpec("P")
@@ -49,6 +56,26 @@ def notify(
     return json_success(request)
 
 
+@internal_api_view(True)
+@typed_endpoint
+def web_reload_clients(
+    request: HttpRequest,
+    *,
+    client_count: Optional[Json[int]] = None,
+    immediate: Json[bool] = False,
+) -> HttpResponse:
+    sent_events = in_tornado_thread(send_web_reload_client_events)(
+        immediate=immediate, count=client_count
+    )
+    return json_success(
+        request,
+        {
+            "sent_events": sent_events,
+            "complete": client_count is None or client_count != sent_events,
+        },
+    )
+
+
 @has_request_variables
 def cleanup_event_queue(
     request: HttpRequest, user_profile: UserProfile, queue_id: str = REQ()