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# MSC 1794 - Federation v2 Invite API
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This proposal adds a new `/invite` API to federation that supports different
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room versions.
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## Motivation
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It is planned for future room versions to be able to change the format of events
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in various ways. To support this, all servers must know the room version
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whenever they need to parse an event. Currently the `/invite` API does not
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include the room version, so the target server would be unable to parse the event included in the payload.
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## Proposal
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Add a new version of the invite API under the prefix `/_matrix/federation/v2`,
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which has a payload of:
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```
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PUT /_matrix/federation/v2/invite/<room_id>/<event_id>
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{
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"room_version": <room_version>,
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"event": { ... },
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"invite_room_state": [ ... ]
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}
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```
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The differences between this and `v1` are:
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1. The payload in `v1` is the event, while in `v2` the event is instead placed
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under an `"event"` key. This is for consistency with other APIs, and to allow
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extra data to be added to the request payload separately from the event.
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2. A required field called `"room_version"` is added that specifies the room
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version.
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3. The `"invite_room_state"` is moved from the `unsigned` section of the event
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to a top level key. The key `invite_room_state` being in the `event.unsigned`
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was a hack due to point 1. above.
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The response is identical to `v1`, except that:
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1. If the receiving server does not support the given room version the
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appropriate incompatible-room-version error is returned, in the same way
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as e.g. for `/make_join` APIs.
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2. The response payload is no longer in the format of `[200, { ... }]`, and is
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instead simply the `{ ... }` portion. This fixes a historical accident to
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bring the invite API into line with the rest of the federation API.
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If a call to `v2` `/invite` results in an unrecognised request exception **AND**
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the room version is `1` or `2` then the sending server should retry the request
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with the `v1` API.
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## Alternatives
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### Reusing V1 API
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One alternative is to add a `room_version` query string parameter to the `v1`
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`/invite` API in a similar way as for the `/make_join` APIs. However, older
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servers would ignore the query string parameter while processing an incoming
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`/invite` request, resulting in the server attempting to parse the event in the
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old `v1` format. This would likely result in either a `400` or `500` response,
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which the sending server could interpret as the receiving server not supporting
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the room version.
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This method, however, is fragile and could easily mask legitimate `400` and
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`500` errors that are not due to not supporting the room version.
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### Using V1 API for V1 room versions
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Instead of all servers attempting to use the new API and falling back if the API
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is not found, servers could instead always use the current API for V1 and V2
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rooms.
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However, this would not allow us to deprecate the `v1` API.
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