a2a_protocol_server/handler/shutdown/

in_flight.rs

// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
// Copyright 2026 Tom F. <tomf@tomtomtech.net> (https://github.com/tomtom215)
//
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//! Ending in-flight work: the phase of shutdown that has to come first.
//!
//! An executor that delegates holds work somewhere else — a downstream task,
//! a stream from another agent — and only it can end that work. It does so
//! when its task's cancellation token fires. So shutdown has to fire those
//! tokens *while the process can still wait for the executors to act on
//! them*, and before the socket drain, because an open SSE stream is a
//! connection that does not close until its task ends. The old order drained
//! first: the drain waited out its whole timeout on streams nobody had
//! cancelled, and the tokens fired only after, with nothing waiting for the
//! executors — so a delegation's downstream tasks were orphaned and its
//! caller never saw a terminal event (audit S1).
//!
//! [`InFlight`] is what makes the right order possible: every task's token
//! is a child of one shutdown token, so one call reaches all of them —
//! including a task admitted a moment after the call, whose token is born
//! cancelled — and every executor and background event processor is spawned
//! on a tracker, so shutdown can *wait* for them rather than hope.

use std::time::Duration;

use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
use tokio_util::task::TaskTracker;

use super::super::RequestHandler;

/// The handler's record of the work it has spawned.
// `Clone` shares the token and both trackers: a clone spawns onto, and is
// shut down with, the handler it was taken from.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
pub struct InFlight {
    /// Parent of every task's cancellation token.
    shutdown: CancellationToken,
    /// Every spawned executor.
    executors: TaskTracker,
    /// Every background event processor and push delivery job: what persists
    /// an executor's last events and delivers them to webhooks after the
    /// executor itself has returned.
    background: TaskTracker,
}

impl InFlight {
    /// A token for a new task: cancelled by [`RequestHandler::cancel_in_flight`]
    /// and by the handler's `shutdown` methods, and — because it is a child —
    /// already cancelled if shutdown has begun.
    pub(crate) fn task_token(&self) -> CancellationToken {
        self.shutdown.child_token()
    }

    /// The shutdown token itself, for a spawned executor to tell a shutdown
    /// from a `CancelTask` (which cancels only its own task's child token).
    pub(crate) fn shutdown_token(&self) -> CancellationToken {
        self.shutdown.clone()
    }

    /// Where executors are spawned.
    pub(crate) const fn executors(&self) -> &TaskTracker {
        &self.executors
    }

    /// Where background processors and push jobs are spawned.
    pub(crate) const fn background(&self) -> &TaskTracker {
        &self.background
    }

    /// Fires every task's token, present and future.
    pub(crate) fn cancel_all(&self) {
        self.shutdown.cancel();
    }

    /// Waits until every tracked executor and background job has finished.
    ///
    /// Closing a tracker only lets `wait` complete once it is empty; anything
    /// spawned afterwards is still tracked and still waited for.
    pub(crate) async fn wait(&self) {
        self.executors.close();
        self.background.close();
        self.executors.wait().await;
        self.background.wait().await;
    }
}

/// What [`RequestHandler::cancel_in_flight`] did.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub struct InFlightReport {
    /// Executors that finished on their own during the completion window of
    /// [`RequestHandler::finish_in_flight`], before anything was cancelled —
    /// net of any admitted during the window, so a busy window can read low.
    /// Always zero from [`RequestHandler::cancel_in_flight`], which has no
    /// such window.
    pub completed: usize,
    /// Executors running when cancellation was signalled.
    pub cancelled: usize,
    /// Executors still running when the grace period ran out — work that may
    /// still be holding something downstream, and whose callers may never see
    /// a terminal event. Zero when every executor ended in time.
    pub still_running: usize,
    /// Whether every executor *and* every background job (the processors
    /// that persist an executor's last events and deliver its push
    /// notifications) finished within the grace period.
    pub finished: bool,
}

impl RequestHandler {
    /// Cancels every in-flight task and waits, up to `grace`, for their
    /// executors to act on it.
    ///
    /// This is the first thing a graceful shutdown must do, and
    /// [`Server::serve_with_shutdown`](crate::serve::Server::serve_with_shutdown)
    /// does it for you. Call it yourself when something else owns the
    /// sockets — with Axum, at the end of the future passed to
    /// `with_graceful_shutdown`, so it runs before Axum drains connections
    /// (the book's production chapter and `examples/deploy-agent` show it).
    ///
    /// Each running task's
    /// [`cancellation_token`](crate::request_context::RequestContext::cancellation_token)
    /// fires. An executor that observes it — the documented contract of
    /// [`AgentExecutor::execute`](crate::executor::AgentExecutor::execute) —
    /// can cancel what it delegated and return. If it returns without having
    /// written a terminal state, the handler then calls its
    /// [`cancel`](crate::executor::AgentExecutor::cancel) hook, exactly as a
    /// `CancelTask` would, so the default implementation writes `Canceled`
    /// and every open stream ends with a terminal event instead of simply
    /// stopping. The call returns once every executor and every background
    /// event processor has finished, or when `grace` runs out.
    ///
    /// A task admitted after this call starts with its token already
    /// cancelled. Calling it twice is harmless: the second call cancels
    /// nothing new and waits only for what is still running.
    ///
    /// An executor that never looks at its token cannot be stopped from
    /// here. It is counted in [`InFlightReport::still_running`], and it is
    /// cut off when the process exits.
    pub async fn cancel_in_flight(&self, grace: Duration) -> InFlightReport {
        let cancelled = self.in_flight.executors().len();
        self.in_flight.cancel_all();
        trace_info!(
            executors = cancelled,
            grace_ms = u64::try_from(grace.as_millis()).unwrap_or(u64::MAX),
            "shutdown: cancelling in-flight tasks"
        );
        let finished = tokio::time::timeout(grace, self.in_flight.wait())
            .await
            .is_ok();
        let still_running = self.in_flight.executors().len();
        if !finished {
            trace_warn!(
                still_running,
                "shutdown: grace period ended with work still running"
            );
        }
        InFlightReport {
            completed: 0,
            cancelled,
            still_running,
            finished,
        }
    }

    /// Lets in-flight tasks finish on their own for up to `completion`, then
    /// cancels whatever is still running and waits up to `grace` for it —
    /// [`cancel_in_flight`](Self::cancel_in_flight) with a window in front.
    ///
    /// This is the order
    /// [`Server::serve_with_shutdown`](crate::serve::Server::serve_with_shutdown)
    /// uses. Cancelling at once ends a two-second blocking send that would
    /// have succeeded as `Canceled`, on every rolling deploy, and its caller
    /// may then retry work that was nearly done. Waiting without ever
    /// cancelling orphans a delegation that will not finish in any window
    /// the platform allows. The window serves the first kind and the cancel
    /// serves the second; a `completion` of zero is `cancel_in_flight`.
    ///
    /// Requests that arrive during the window, on connections still open,
    /// are admitted as usual and cancelled with the rest when it closes.
    pub async fn finish_in_flight(&self, completion: Duration, grace: Duration) -> InFlightReport {
        let running = self.in_flight.executors().len();
        trace_info!(
            executors = running,
            completion_ms = u64::try_from(completion.as_millis()).unwrap_or(u64::MAX),
            "shutdown: letting in-flight tasks finish"
        );
        // Unconditional: a zero window polls once and returns, which is
        // `cancel_in_flight`'s behaviour, and an empty handler returns at
        // once. Timing out is the expected way out when a task is long; it is
        // not a failure, so the result is not inspected.
        let _ = tokio::time::timeout(completion, self.in_flight.wait()).await;
        let completed = running.saturating_sub(self.in_flight.executors().len());
        InFlightReport {
            completed,
            ..self.cancel_in_flight(grace).await
        }
    }
}