a2a_protocol_server/streaming/event_queue/

mod.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Event queue for server-side streaming.
//!
//! The executor writes [`StreamResponse`] events to an [`EventQueueWriter`];
//! the HTTP layer reads them from an [`EventQueueReader`] and serializes them
//! as SSE frames.
//!
//! [`InMemoryQueueWriter`] and [`InMemoryQueueReader`] are backed by a
//! `tokio::sync::broadcast` channel, enabling multiple concurrent readers
//! (fan-out) for the same event stream. This allows `SubscribeToTask`
//! (resubscribe) to work even when another SSE stream is already active.

mod in_memory;
mod manager;

pub use in_memory::{InMemoryQueueReader, InMemoryQueueWriter};
pub(crate) use in_memory::{ReattachFn, Reattached, is_lag_error};
pub use manager::EventQueueManager;
pub(crate) use manager::QueueLease;

use std::future::Future;
use std::pin::Pin;

#[allow(unused_imports)] // Used in doc comments.
use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aError;
use a2a_protocol_types::error::A2aResult;
use a2a_protocol_types::events::StreamResponse;
use tokio::sync::{broadcast, mpsc};

/// Default channel capacity for event queues.
///
/// Set to 256 to avoid the 12× per-event cost inflection that occurs when the
/// broadcast channel overflows. At capacity 64, tasks producing >64 in-flight
/// events triggered `Lagged(n)` recovery in the broadcast receiver, causing
/// per-event cost to jump from ~4µs to ~53µs. The 256 capacity pushes this
/// inflection point above the typical event volume for most production tasks.
///
/// Deployments expecting >256 events/task should use
/// [`EventQueueManager::with_capacity()`] to set a higher value matching their
/// peak event volume.
pub const DEFAULT_QUEUE_CAPACITY: usize = 256;

/// Default maximum event size in bytes (16 MiB).
pub const DEFAULT_MAX_EVENT_SIZE: usize = 16 * 1024 * 1024;

/// Default deadline for handing one event to the background persistence
/// processor (5 seconds).
///
/// This bounds the *persistence* send, not the broadcast one. Broadcast sends
/// really are non-blocking — a lagging SSE consumer is dropped events, never a
/// stalled writer — and reasoning only about that channel is why this constant
/// was plumbed through four layers and applied by nothing until 2026-08-19.
/// The persistence channel is a bounded `mpsc`, and `send` on a full bounded
/// `mpsc` waits for a free slot with no deadline of its own. With the
/// background processor stalled (a webhook absorbing up to
/// [`HandlerLimits::push_delivery_timeout`] per config, or a slow store),
/// [`EventQueueWriter::write`] blocked forever once the channel filled —
/// measured at 1,024 events, still blocked eight seconds later.
///
/// Exceeding this deadline is reported to the executor as an error rather than
/// dropped: an event that cannot reach the persistence processor is task state
/// that will not be stored, and failing the task says so where silently
/// discarding it would leave the store disagreeing with what the agent did.
///
/// [`HandlerLimits::push_delivery_timeout`]: crate::handler::HandlerLimits::push_delivery_timeout
pub const DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(5);

// ── StreamEvent ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// One event as it travels the queue, carrying the position it holds in the
/// task's event log.
///
/// The position is assigned once, by [`InMemoryQueueWriter::write`], and then
/// travels on *both* channels — the persistence channel that writes the log
/// and the broadcast channel that feeds SSE. That is what makes the `id:` a
/// subscriber reads and the `seq` the store holds the same number by
/// construction rather than by agreement.
///
/// The alternative was to count frames at the SSE layer. It would agree with
/// the log until the first lagged consumer, a snapshot frame, or a failed
/// append, and a resumption offset that is off by one is worse than none:
/// the client silently misses an event and has no way to know.
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct StreamEvent {
    /// This event's position in its task's log, when it has one.
    ///
    /// `None` for frames the server synthesized rather than the agent
    /// emitting — the `SubscribeToTask` snapshot, and the terminal frame the
    /// reattach hook builds from stored state. Those are not in the log, so
    /// they carry no `id:` and a resuming client's offset is unaffected by
    /// having seen them.
    pub seq: Option<u64>,
    /// What the agent emitted.
    pub event: StreamResponse,
}

impl StreamEvent {
    /// An event at a known log position.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn at(seq: u64, event: StreamResponse) -> Self {
        Self {
            seq: Some(seq),
            event,
        }
    }

    /// An event with no log position: synthesized by the server, not emitted
    /// by the agent.
    #[must_use]
    pub const fn unpositioned(event: StreamResponse) -> Self {
        Self { seq: None, event }
    }
}

// ── EventQueueWriter ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Trait for writing streaming events.
///
/// Object-safe; used as `&dyn EventQueueWriter` in the executor.
pub trait EventQueueWriter: Send + Sync + 'static {
    /// Writes a streaming event to the queue.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`] if no receivers are active.
    fn write<'a>(
        &'a self,
        event: StreamResponse,
    ) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;

    /// Signals that no more events will be written.
    ///
    /// # Errors
    ///
    /// Returns an [`A2aError`] if closing fails.
    fn close<'a>(&'a self) -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = A2aResult<()>> + Send + 'a>>;
}

// ── EventQueueReader ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Trait for reading streaming events.
///
/// NOT object-safe (used as a concrete type internally). The `async fn` is
/// fine because this trait is never used behind `dyn`.
pub trait EventQueueReader: Send + 'static {
    /// Reads the next event, returning `None` when the stream is closed.
    fn read(&mut self)
    -> Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = Option<A2aResult<StreamEvent>>> + Send + '_>>;
}

// ── Constructor ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

/// Creates a new in-memory event queue pair with the default capacity,
/// default max event size, and default write timeout.
#[must_use]
pub fn new_in_memory_queue() -> (InMemoryQueueWriter, InMemoryQueueReader) {
    new_in_memory_queue_with_options(
        DEFAULT_QUEUE_CAPACITY,
        DEFAULT_MAX_EVENT_SIZE,
        DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT,
    )
}

/// Creates a new in-memory event queue pair with the specified capacity
/// and default max event size / write timeout.
#[must_use]
pub fn new_in_memory_queue_with_capacity(
    capacity: usize,
) -> (InMemoryQueueWriter, InMemoryQueueReader) {
    new_in_memory_queue_with_options(capacity, DEFAULT_MAX_EVENT_SIZE, DEFAULT_WRITE_TIMEOUT)
}

/// Creates a new in-memory event queue pair with the specified capacity,
/// maximum event size, and write timeout.
#[must_use]
pub fn new_in_memory_queue_with_options(
    capacity: usize,
    max_event_size: usize,
    write_timeout: std::time::Duration,
) -> (InMemoryQueueWriter, InMemoryQueueReader) {
    let (tx, rx) = broadcast::channel(capacity);
    (
        InMemoryQueueWriter::new(tx, max_event_size, write_timeout),
        InMemoryQueueReader::new(rx),
    )
}

/// Creates a new in-memory event queue pair with a dedicated persistence
/// channel.
///
/// Returns `(writer, sse_reader, persistence_rx)`. The writer sends every
/// event to BOTH the broadcast channel (for SSE fan-out) and the mpsc
/// channel (for the background persistence processor). The mpsc channel is
/// not affected by slow SSE consumers — that is what it is for, and it is
/// what "lagged" means on the broadcast side.
///
/// # It is not a delivery guarantee
///
/// This paragraph said "will never lose events" until 2026-08-19. It is a
/// bounded channel with two ways not to deliver, and knowing which one you are
/// looking at is the whole difference between an operator restarting a
/// processor and one chasing a phantom:
///
/// * **Full past the write deadline** — `write` returns an error naming the
///   stalled processor. The caller is producing state that will not be
///   persisted and only the caller can decide to stop.
/// * **Closed** — the event is dropped and `write` returns `Ok`. Deliberate:
///   the processor is gone, and the stream can still serve live subscribers.
///   Reported through [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`] as
///   [`persistence_operation::QUEUE_HANDOFF`] / `channel_closed` when the
///   writer carries a metrics handle (every writer the
///   [`EventQueueManager`] creates does), so the loss is visible on a default
///   build; the `trace_warn!` beside it needs the `tracing` feature.
///
/// [`Metrics::on_persistence_error`]: crate::metrics::Metrics::on_persistence_error
/// [`persistence_operation::QUEUE_HANDOFF`]: crate::metrics::persistence_operation::QUEUE_HANDOFF
/// [`EventQueueManager`]: super::EventQueueManager
#[must_use]
pub fn new_in_memory_queue_with_persistence(
    capacity: usize,
    max_event_size: usize,
    write_timeout: std::time::Duration,
) -> (
    InMemoryQueueWriter,
    InMemoryQueueReader,
    mpsc::Receiver<A2aResult<StreamEvent>>,
) {
    let (tx, rx) = broadcast::channel(capacity);
    // Use a large bounded mpsc channel for persistence — the background
    // processor is fast, and the capacity is sized so that it does not have
    // to be. "must never miss events" is what this comment used to say; see
    // the doc above for the two cases in which it does. The capacity is much
    // larger than the broadcast channel to provide ample headroom.
    let (persistence_tx, persistence_rx) = mpsc::channel(capacity.saturating_mul(16).max(1024));
    (
        InMemoryQueueWriter::new_with_persistence(
            tx,
            persistence_tx,
            max_event_size,
            write_timeout,
        ),
        InMemoryQueueReader::new(rx),
        persistence_rx,
    )
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    // ── new_in_memory_queue constructors ─────────────────────────────────

    #[test]
    fn new_in_memory_queue_returns_pair() {
        let (_writer, _reader) = new_in_memory_queue();
        // Should compile and not panic.
    }

    #[test]
    fn new_in_memory_queue_with_capacity_returns_pair() {
        let (_writer, _reader) = new_in_memory_queue_with_capacity(128);
    }

    #[test]
    fn new_in_memory_queue_with_options_returns_pair() {
        let (_writer, _reader) =
            new_in_memory_queue_with_options(32, 1024, std::time::Duration::from_secs(1));
    }
}