fix: dire le pari comme un pari, et distinguer deux manques d'inbox que rien ne distinguait

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Sylvain Duchesne
2026-08-20 10:47:39 +02:00
parent c507e79f8a
commit 6a99585efc
6 changed files with 370 additions and 41 deletions
+161 -17
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@@ -41,7 +41,11 @@ const SESSION: RegistrySession = { sessionId: "sid-1", privateStoreId: "PRIV" };
* exactly the assumption that cost this package a view that never re-read and an inbox that
* never notified, and a fake that holds it cannot fail on either.
*/
function makeFakeNg(failFor: Set<string> = new Set(), hangFor: Set<string> = new Set()) {
function makeFakeNg(
failFor: Set<string> = new Set(),
hangFor: Set<string> = new Set(),
queueFor: Set<string> = new Set(),
) {
const subs = new Map<string, (r: unknown) => void>();
// A call the broker has neither answered nor refused yet, so a LATER call can overtake it
// and this one can settle afterwards. Held on an object rather than in a `let` so its
@@ -52,15 +56,16 @@ function makeFakeNg(failFor: Set<string> = new Set(), hangFor: Set<string> = new
cb: ((r: unknown) => void) | null;
live: boolean;
} = { reject: null, resolve: null, cb: null, live: false };
const doc_subscribe = mock(async (nuri: string, _sid: unknown, cb: (r: unknown) => void) => {
if (failFor.has(nuri)) throw new Error(`RepoNotFound: ${nuri}`);
if (hangFor.has(nuri)) {
return await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
hung.reject = reject;
hung.resolve = resolve as (unsub: () => void) => void;
hung.cb = cb;
});
}
/**
* The broker's side of ONE `doc_subscribe`, at the moment it is SERVED — taking the branch
* over for `cb` and handing back the cancel.
*
* Apart from the call because ACCEPTING a call and SERVING it are two moments, and the
* broker does not promise they happen in the same order (see {@link queued}). Everything
* that decides who holds the branch is here, so serving is one function call and a test can
* make it happen when it likes.
*/
const serveBranch = (nuri: string, cb: (r: unknown) => void): (() => void) => {
subs.set(nuri, cb); // whoever held this branch is dropped, without a word
// Initial State push, delivered async (as the real RPC does) — and only while this
// callback still holds the branch.
@@ -70,7 +75,47 @@ function makeFakeNg(failFor: Set<string> = new Set(), hangFor: Set<string> = new
return () => {
if (subs.get(nuri) === cb) subs.delete(nuri);
};
};
/**
* Calls the broker has ACCEPTED and not yet SERVED, in the order they were issued.
*
* `subs.set` at call time would hardwire "served in the order issued", which is not
* something the platform offers: the whole call is serialised under one
* `async_std::sync::RwLock` (`sdk/rust/src/local_broker.rs:3057`) — but that IS
* `async_lock::RwLock` (async-std 1.13.2 `src/sync/mod.rs:181`), whose internal mutex is
* documented as "eventual fairness", explicitly not FIFO (async-lock 3.4.1
* `src/mutex.rs:22-24`), and whose anti-starvation fallback is compiled out on wasm
* (`src/mutex.rs:578-581`) — which is where this SDK runs. A fake that can only serve in
* issue order cannot fail on the state that assumption is wrong about.
*/
const queued: Array<() => void> = [];
const doc_subscribe = mock(async (nuri: string, _sid: unknown, cb: (r: unknown) => void) => {
if (failFor.has(nuri)) throw new Error(`RepoNotFound: ${nuri}`);
if (hangFor.has(nuri)) {
return await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
hung.reject = reject;
hung.resolve = resolve as (unsub: () => void) => void;
hung.cb = cb;
});
}
if (queueFor.has(nuri)) {
return await new Promise<() => void>((resolve) => {
queued.push(() => resolve(serveBranch(nuri, cb)));
});
}
return serveBranch(nuri, cb);
});
/**
* Serve the accepted calls, in the order given — `serveQueued(1, 0)` serves the SECOND
* call first, which is the inversion the module's release-the-loser reasoning bets against.
*/
const serveQueued = (...order: number[]): void => {
for (const i of order) {
const serve = queued[i];
if (!serve) throw new Error(`no call number ${i} was accepted (${queued.length} were)`);
serve();
}
};
const push = (nuri: string): void => {
subs.get(nuri)?.({ V0: { Patch: { doc: nuri } } });
};
@@ -120,12 +165,13 @@ function makeFakeNg(failFor: Set<string> = new Set(), hangFor: Set<string> = new
resolveHung,
pushHung,
hungIsLive,
serveQueued,
_subs: subs,
};
}
function inject(failFor?: Set<string>, hangFor?: Set<string>) {
const ng = makeFakeNg(failFor, hangFor);
function inject(failFor?: Set<string>, hangFor?: Set<string>, queueFor?: Set<string>) {
const ng = makeFakeNg(failFor, hangFor, queueFor);
configure({ ng: ng as any, useShape: (() => {}) as any });
// Synchronous fake store → no sync lag; disable the anti-fork retry backoff.
configureStoreRegistry({ getSession: async () => SESSION });
@@ -557,14 +603,112 @@ test("an establish SUPERSEDED while the session id resolves never reaches the br
gate.release?.();
await tick();
// ONE call, and it is the current attempt's. This is what makes "release a superseded
// attempt" safe rather than a coin flip: every attempt that OWNS a channel placed its call
// before the attempt replacing it existed, so the broker — which serialises the whole call
// under one lock — served it first, and whoever inserts last holds the branch. The
// superseded one is therefore always the evicted one, never the live channel.
// ONE call, and it is the current attempt's. What that buys is exact and worth stating
// exactly: an establish superseded in THIS window opens nothing, so there is no channel of
// its own to release and no second call for the broker to order. It does not make releasing
// a superseded attempt safe in general — that rests on a bet about SERVICE order, which the
// two tests below take apart.
expect(ng.doc_subscribe).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
expect(ng.isSubscribed(A)).toBe(true);
expect(seen.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
stop();
expect(ng.isSubscribed(A)).toBe(false);
});
/**
* Two attempts on ONE branch, and the broker free to serve them in either order.
*
* `resubscribeDocs` re-opens a fan-out whose first establish has not settled, and the last
* listener leaving mid-establish then re-joining does the same against the SAME session — so
* two calls contending for one branch is a state this module reaches. Which of them ends up
* holding the branch is the broker's to decide, not this module's: the call is serialised
* under one `async_std::sync::RwLock` (`sdk/rust/src/local_broker.rs:3057`), and serialised
* is not ordered. That lock IS `async_lock::RwLock` (async-std 1.13.2 `src/sync/mod.rs:181`),
* `write()` takes its internal `async_lock::Mutex` first (async-lock 3.4.1
* `src/rwlock/raw.rs:163-168`), and that mutex is documented as "eventual fairness" and
* explicitly not FIFO (`src/mutex.rs:22-24`) — with the anti-starvation fallback that would
* eventually force fairness compiled out on wasm (`src/mutex.rs:578-581`), which is where
* this SDK runs.
*
* Both orders are therefore real, and they do not end the same way. The fake serves on
* demand (`serveQueued`) rather than at call time precisely so both can be exercised: a fake
* that inserts in call order asserts the happy one into existence.
*/
async function twoAttemptsOnOneBranch(): Promise<{
ng: ReturnType<typeof makeFakeNg>;
seen: unknown[];
failures: unknown[];
stop: Unsubscribe;
}> {
const ng = inject(undefined, undefined, new Set([A]));
const seen: unknown[] = [];
const failures: unknown[] = [];
const stop = subscribeDocReportingSetupFailure(
A,
(r) => seen.push(r),
(e) => failures.push(e),
);
await tick(); // the first attempt has PLACED its call — the broker has it, unserved
expect(ng.doc_subscribe).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
resubscribeDocs(); // …and is superseded, after the call, not before it
await tick();
expect(ng.doc_subscribe).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2);
return { ng, seen, failures, stop };
}
test("served in the order issued, the superseded attempt is the one the broker evicted", async () => {
const { ng, seen, failures, stop } = await twoAttemptsOnOneBranch();
ng.serveQueued(0, 1); // the first call first — the order the module bets on
await tick();
// The current attempt inserted last, so it holds the branch; the superseded one released a
// channel that had already been displaced. The document is live and pushing.
expect(ng.isSubscribed(A)).toBe(true);
const before = seen.length;
ng.push(A);
expect(seen.length).toBe(before + 1);
expect(failures).toEqual([]);
stop();
expect(ng.isSubscribed(A)).toBe(false);
});
test("served in the INVERTED order, the document goes silently dead — nothing rejects, nothing logs", async () => {
const { ng, seen, failures, stop } = await twoAttemptsOnOneBranch();
const logged: string[] = [];
const realError = console.error;
console.error = ((...a: unknown[]) => {
logged.push(a.map(String).join(" "));
}) as typeof console.error;
try {
ng.serveQueued(1, 0); // the SECOND call served first — the bet, broken
await tick();
} finally {
console.error = realError;
}
// The superseded call inserted LAST, so it took the branch and closed the current
// attempt's sender (`engine/verifier/src/verifier.rs:361`); this module then released the
// channel that call had opened, because the attempt behind it is no longer current. What
// upstream is left holding is a closed sender, which `push_app_response` drops at the first
// push (`verifier.rs:258-261`) — here, a branch with nobody on it.
expect(ng.isSubscribed(A)).toBe(false);
const before = seen.length;
ng.push(A);
expect(seen.length).toBe(before); // the listener is subscribed and hears nothing
// And nothing anywhere says so. No rejection reaches the caller that ASKED to be told, and
// the log is clean: every call resolved, so there was no failure to report.
expect(failures).toEqual([]);
expect(logged).toEqual([]);
// The fan-out believes itself subscribed, which is what makes this last the session: it
// holds a `realUnsub` and `establishing` never went back to false, so the next joiner is
// handed the dead entry instead of opening a channel of its own.
const alsoStop = subscribeDoc(A, () => {});
await tick();
expect(ng.doc_subscribe).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2); // no third call — nobody re-opens it
alsoStop();
stop();
});