aion/error.rs
1//! Engine error taxonomy.
2
3use crate::schedule::{ScheduleError, ScheduleEvaluatorError};
4use aion_core::{RunId, ScheduleId, WorkflowId};
5use aion_package::{ContentHash, ContractIdentityError, PackageError};
6use aion_store::StoreError;
7
8use crate::durability::DurabilityError;
9
10/// Errors returned by the embedded workflow engine.
11#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
12pub enum EngineError {
13 /// The builder was asked to construct an engine without an event store.
14 #[error("engine store is required")]
15 MissingStore,
16
17 /// The builder was asked to construct an engine without a visibility store.
18 #[error(
19 "engine visibility store is required; call EngineBuilder::visibility_store() or EngineBuilder::in_memory_visibility()"
20 )]
21 MissingVisibilityStore,
22
23 /// A workflow package failed to load or validate for engine registration.
24 #[error("workflow package load failed: {reason}")]
25 Load {
26 /// Human-readable load failure reason.
27 reason: String,
28 },
29
30 /// A package offered for deployment declares a contract the engine cannot
31 /// enforce: at least one declared schema does not compile into a validator.
32 ///
33 /// Refused at the door rather than admitted, because the alternative is
34 /// silent: every admission boundary answers an uncompilable schema by
35 /// letting the value through unchecked, so a package that reaches the
36 /// catalog with one runs with that part of its declared contract switched
37 /// off and only a log line to say so.
38 #[error(
39 "workflow package `{workflow_type}` declares {count} type(s) the engine cannot compile into a validator, so nothing it declares there could ever be enforced: {detail}"
40 )]
41 UnenforceableContract {
42 /// Logical workflow type of the refused package.
43 workflow_type: String,
44 /// How many declarations could not be compiled.
45 count: usize,
46 /// Each unenforceable declaration, named, with the compiler's reason.
47 detail: String,
48 },
49
50 /// A route or unload targeted a `(workflow type, version)` that is not loaded.
51 #[error(
52 "workflow `{workflow_type}` version `{version}` is not loaded (loaded versions: {loaded})"
53 )]
54 UnknownVersion {
55 /// Logical workflow type requested by the caller.
56 workflow_type: String,
57 /// Content-hash version requested by the caller.
58 version: ContentHash,
59 /// Comma-separated loaded versions of the type, or `none`.
60 loaded: String,
61 },
62
63 /// An unload was refused because something still pins the version.
64 #[error("cannot unload workflow `{workflow_type}` version `{version}`: {pinned_by}")]
65 VersionPinned {
66 /// Logical workflow type targeted by the unload.
67 workflow_type: String,
68 /// Content-hash version targeted by the unload.
69 version: ContentHash,
70 /// What pins the version, naming the concrete holder.
71 pinned_by: PinHolder,
72 },
73
74 /// An unload was refused because the version is route-active for its type.
75 #[error(
76 "cannot unload workflow `{workflow_type}` version `{version}`: it is the route-active version; route another version first"
77 )]
78 RouteActive {
79 /// Logical workflow type targeted by the unload.
80 workflow_type: String,
81 /// Content-hash version targeted by the unload.
82 version: ContentHash,
83 },
84
85 /// An idempotent re-load presented the resident package identity with a
86 /// different manifest. V4 binds beams and the durable execution contract,
87 /// but not every packaging/admin field, so this remains the wrong-deploy
88 /// tripwire: the resident version is retained and the archive is refused.
89 #[error(
90 "workflow `{workflow_type}` version `{version}` is already loaded with a different manifest (resident digest {resident_digest}, incoming digest {incoming_digest}); rebuild the archive so its complete manifest matches the resident version, or change its contract-bound content"
91 )]
92 ManifestMismatch {
93 /// Logical workflow type targeted by the load.
94 workflow_type: String,
95 /// Content-hash version shared by both archives.
96 version: ContentHash,
97 /// Canonical digest of the resident manifest.
98 resident_digest: String,
99 /// Canonical digest of the incoming manifest.
100 incoming_digest: String,
101 },
102
103 /// The builder was given both `event_streaming` and an explicit event-publisher seam.
104 #[error(
105 "conflicting event publisher configuration: EngineBuilder::event_streaming installs the broadcast publisher and cannot be combined with EngineBuilder::event_publisher"
106 )]
107 ConflictingEventPublisher,
108
109 /// Live event streaming setup failed.
110 #[error("event streaming setup failed: {0}")]
111 EventStreaming(#[from] crate::publish::PublishError),
112
113 /// The configured event store returned an error.
114 #[error("store error: {0}")]
115 Store(#[from] StoreError),
116
117 /// The durability recorder or replay path returned an error.
118 #[error("durability error: {0}")]
119 Durability(#[from] DurabilityError),
120
121 /// A `.aion` package operation returned an error.
122 #[error("package error: {0}")]
123 Package(#[from] PackageError),
124
125 /// The selected package identity predates the `.v4` contract commitment.
126 #[error("workflow `{workflow_type}` cannot start: {source}")]
127 ContractIdentity {
128 /// Workflow type selected for the start.
129 workflow_type: String,
130 /// Typed migration refusal from the package identity boundary.
131 #[source]
132 source: ContractIdentityError,
133 },
134
135 /// The package names activities without a durable queue-scoped contract.
136 #[error(
137 "NO_QUEUE_DECLARATION: workflow `{workflow_type}` version `{version}` has unscoped activities {activities}; re-deploy from a checked AWL contract"
138 )]
139 NoQueueDeclaration {
140 /// Workflow type selected for the start.
141 workflow_type: String,
142 /// Exact `.v4` package identity selected for the run.
143 version: ContentHash,
144 /// Stable comma-separated unscoped activity names.
145 activities: String,
146 },
147
148 /// A start's input did not satisfy the declared input schema of the exact
149 /// package identity the start resolved to.
150 ///
151 /// Returned at the start boundary BEFORE any history is appended and
152 /// before any process is spawned, so a refused start leaves no trace: the
153 /// caller sees their own mistake at the moment they made it, with nothing
154 /// to clean up.
155 #[error(
156 "start input for workflow `{workflow_type}` does not satisfy the input type declared by package version `{version}`: {reason}"
157 )]
158 StartInputRefused {
159 /// Workflow type selected for the start.
160 workflow_type: String,
161 /// Exact `.v4` package identity the start resolved to.
162 version: ContentHash,
163 /// What did not match, naming every field that failed.
164 reason: String,
165 },
166
167 /// A signal was refused at the boundary: its name is not declared by the
168 /// target run's package, or its payload did not satisfy the declared
169 /// payload type.
170 ///
171 /// Returned BEFORE anything is recorded and before the arrival can be
172 /// consumed, so the target run's history is unchanged and it stays parked
173 /// on exactly the wait it was parked on. That ordering is the whole point:
174 /// a signal decoded after being consumed destroys a durable run that a
175 /// refusal merely inconveniences.
176 #[error(
177 "signal `{signal_name}` was refused for workflow `{workflow_id}` run `{run_id}` against the contract declared by package version `{version}`: {reason}"
178 )]
179 SignalRefused {
180 /// Workflow execution the signal targeted.
181 workflow_id: WorkflowId,
182 /// Concrete run the signal targeted.
183 run_id: RunId,
184 /// Signal name the caller sent.
185 signal_name: String,
186 /// Exact `.v4` package identity the target run is pinned to.
187 version: ContentHash,
188 /// Why the signal was refused — an undeclared name, or the fields of
189 /// the payload that did not match the declared type.
190 reason: String,
191 },
192
193 /// The embedded runtime returned an error.
194 #[error("runtime error: {reason}")]
195 Runtime {
196 /// Human-readable runtime failure reason.
197 reason: String,
198 },
199
200 /// A Gate-3 BIF required for tracked local fun spawns was not registered.
201 #[error("required Gate-3 BIF `{module}:{function}/{arity}` was missing during runtime startup")]
202 Gate3BifReplacementMissing {
203 /// Native module containing the required function.
204 module: String,
205 /// Required native function.
206 function: String,
207 /// Required native function arity.
208 arity: u8,
209 },
210
211 /// The runtime-owned cleanup executor's ownership state was poisoned.
212 #[error("process cleanup executor state was poisoned")]
213 CleanupExecutorPoisoned,
214
215 /// The runtime cleanup worker did not stop within the configured bound.
216 #[error("process cleanup executor did not stop within {timeout_millis}ms")]
217 CleanupExecutorShutdownTimedOut {
218 /// Configured shutdown observation bound in milliseconds.
219 timeout_millis: u128,
220 },
221
222 /// The process-exit registry lifecycle lock was poisoned.
223 #[error("process exit registry lifecycle state was poisoned")]
224 ProcessExitRegistryPoisoned,
225
226 /// A process exit record's installation/abort ownership gate was poisoned.
227 #[error("process exit ownership gate for process {process_id} was poisoned")]
228 ProcessExitOwnershipPoisoned {
229 /// Process whose monitor/abort ownership could not be serialized.
230 process_id: u64,
231 },
232
233 /// A process exit record's fan-out state was poisoned.
234 #[error("process exit outcome state for process {process_id} was poisoned")]
235 ProcessExitStatePoisoned {
236 /// Process whose cached exit state could not be accessed.
237 process_id: u64,
238 },
239
240 /// The scheduler's one exit-event subscription was already claimed.
241 #[error("beamr process exit-event subscription is already owned")]
242 ProcessExitSubscriptionUnavailable,
243
244 /// The singleton process-exit drainer could not be spawned.
245 #[error("process exit drainer could not start: {reason}")]
246 ProcessExitDrainerSpawn {
247 /// Operating-system thread creation failure.
248 reason: String,
249 },
250
251 /// The singleton process-exit drainer's ownership lock was poisoned.
252 #[error("process exit drainer state was poisoned")]
253 ProcessExitDrainerPoisoned,
254
255 /// beamr published an exit event without the promised durable outcome.
256 #[error("process {process_id} exit event had no takeable outcome")]
257 ProcessExitOutcomeMissingAfterEvent {
258 /// Process named by the contract-breaking event.
259 process_id: u64,
260 },
261
262 /// beamr disconnected its event publisher while the runtime still owned it.
263 #[error("beamr process exit-event publisher disconnected")]
264 ProcessExitEventStreamDisconnected,
265
266 /// The process-exit drainer did not stop within the configured bound.
267 #[error("process exit drainer did not stop within {timeout_millis}ms")]
268 ProcessExitDrainerShutdownTimedOut {
269 /// Configured shutdown observation bound in milliseconds.
270 timeout_millis: u128,
271 },
272
273 /// The process-exit drainer thread panicked.
274 #[error("process exit drainer terminated unexpectedly")]
275 ProcessExitDrainerPanicked,
276
277 /// The process-exit callback dispatcher's ownership state was poisoned.
278 #[error("process exit callback dispatcher state was poisoned")]
279 ProcessExitCallbackDispatcherPoisoned,
280
281 /// The process-exit callback dispatcher had already stopped.
282 #[error("process exit callback dispatcher is unavailable")]
283 ProcessExitCallbackDispatcherUnavailable,
284
285 /// The process-exit callback dispatcher did not stop within its configured bound.
286 #[error("process exit callback dispatcher did not stop within {timeout_millis}ms")]
287 ProcessExitCallbackDispatcherShutdownTimedOut {
288 /// Configured shutdown observation bound in milliseconds.
289 timeout_millis: u128,
290 },
291
292 /// A retired process generation cannot accept another outcome consumer.
293 #[error("process {process_id} already reached its terminal runtime outcome")]
294 ProcessExitAlreadyTerminal {
295 /// Process generation whose heavyweight exit record was retired.
296 process_id: u64,
297 },
298
299 /// A workflow's activity-delivery synchronization lock was poisoned.
300 #[error("activity delivery lock for process {process_id} was poisoned")]
301 ActivityDeliveryPoisoned {
302 /// Workflow process whose scoped delivery lock was poisoned.
303 process_id: u64,
304 },
305
306 /// The active workflow registry lock was poisoned.
307 #[error("active workflow registry lock was poisoned")]
308 RegistryPoisoned,
309
310 /// The workflow catalog lock was poisoned.
311 #[error("workflow catalog lock was poisoned")]
312 CatalogPoisoned,
313
314 /// A precondition on the target workflow's current state was not met.
315 ///
316 /// Raised by the reopen operation when the target run is not in a reopenable
317 /// state: not terminal, terminal for a non-reopenable reason
318 /// (Completed/`TimedOut`), or already Running. The `reason` names the actual
319 /// status so callers and operators can see why the reopen was rejected. Maps
320 /// to the `INVALID_STATE` wire code (gRPC `FailedPrecondition` / HTTP 409).
321 #[error("invalid workflow state: {reason}")]
322 InvalidState {
323 /// Human-readable precondition-failure reason naming the actual status.
324 reason: String,
325 },
326
327 /// The engine is already shutting down and no new workflow starts are accepted.
328 #[error("engine is shutting down")]
329 ShuttingDown,
330
331 /// No live, durable, or loaded workflow was found for the request.
332 #[error("workflow `{workflow_type}` was not found")]
333 WorkflowNotFound {
334 /// Logical workflow type requested by the caller.
335 workflow_type: String,
336 },
337
338 /// A terminal-writer reservation could not be taken because the workflow
339 /// already has a writer (#117(c)).
340 ///
341 /// The extraordinary cancellation path exists only for a run that can never
342 /// obtain a handle. A workflow that has one — or that another reservation is
343 /// already writing — is not that case, and taking a second writer would
344 /// break the single-writer invariant this refusal protects.
345 #[error("workflow `{workflow_id}` run `{run_id}` cannot take the terminal writer: {holder}")]
346 TerminalWriterUnavailable {
347 /// Workflow whose writer slot is occupied.
348 workflow_id: String,
349 /// Run the refused reservation named.
350 run_id: String,
351 /// What holds the slot, in the operator's terms.
352 holder: String,
353 },
354
355 /// A handle could not be registered because a terminal-writer reservation
356 /// holds this workflow's writer slot (#117(c)).
357 ///
358 /// The mirror of [`Self::TerminalWriterUnavailable`], and transient by
359 /// construction: a reservation lives only across one terminal transition.
360 #[error(
361 "workflow `{workflow_id}` cannot register a handle: run `{run_id}` holds the terminal writer"
362 )]
363 TerminalWriterHeld {
364 /// Workflow whose writer slot is reserved.
365 workflow_id: String,
366 /// Run holding the reservation.
367 run_id: String,
368 },
369
370 /// The extraordinary cancellation path was asked for a run whose pinned
371 /// package resolves right now, so the run is recoverable (#117(c)).
372 ///
373 /// Measured at the moment of the request, never cited from an earlier boot's
374 /// verdict: a redeploy between then and now is exactly the remedy that makes
375 /// the ordinary path work again, and the ordinary path must be used when it
376 /// does.
377 #[error(
378 "workflow `{workflow_id}` run `{run_id}` is recoverable: its pinned package version `{version}` resolves, so it must be recovered and cancelled through the ordinary path"
379 )]
380 RunIsRecoverable {
381 /// Workflow the request named.
382 workflow_id: String,
383 /// Run the request named.
384 run_id: String,
385 /// The pinned package version that resolved.
386 version: String,
387 },
388
389 /// A run holds no handle, cannot obtain one, and this engine has no recorded
390 /// reason why (#117(c)).
391 ///
392 /// Distinct from [`Self::WorkflowNotFound`] on purpose: the run EXISTS and
393 /// its history is readable. What is absent is a verdict from this process's
394 /// startup recovery, so the extraordinary cancellation path — which must
395 /// cite that verdict — has nothing to cite.
396 #[error(
397 "workflow `{workflow_id}` run `{run_id}` is not resident and this engine recorded no reason it could not be made resident; it exists but cannot be cancelled here"
398 )]
399 NoResidencyVerdict {
400 /// Workflow the request named.
401 workflow_id: String,
402 /// Run the request named.
403 run_id: String,
404 },
405
406 /// No durable schedule was found for the request.
407 #[error("schedule `{schedule_id}` was not found")]
408 ScheduleNotFound {
409 /// Schedule identifier requested by the caller.
410 schedule_id: ScheduleId,
411 },
412
413 /// Schedule trigger, projection, or evaluator side effect failed.
414 #[error("schedule error: {reason}")]
415 Schedule {
416 /// Human-readable schedule failure reason.
417 reason: String,
418 },
419
420 /// Native implemented function registration failed.
421 #[error("NIF registration failed: {reason}")]
422 NifRegistration {
423 /// Human-readable native implemented function registration failure reason.
424 reason: String,
425 },
426
427 /// Signal routing failed after the target was resolved.
428 #[error("signal router error: {0}")]
429 SignalRouter(#[from] SignalRouterError),
430
431 /// Live workflow query dispatch failed after the target was resolved.
432 #[error("query error: {0}")]
433 Query(#[from] crate::query::QueryError),
434}
435
436/// What pins a workflow version against unload, naming the concrete holder.
437#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
438pub enum PinHolder {
439 /// A start resolved this version but has not yet registered a handle.
440 InFlightStart,
441 /// A live, non-terminal run executes on this version.
442 LiveRun {
443 /// Pinning workflow id.
444 workflow_id: WorkflowId,
445 /// Pinning run id.
446 run_id: RunId,
447 },
448 /// A recoverable instance in the store is pinned to this version.
449 RecoverableRun {
450 /// Pinning workflow id.
451 workflow_id: WorkflowId,
452 },
453 /// A recorded-but-never-started child is pinned to this version.
454 RecordedChild {
455 /// Child workflow id pinned to the version.
456 child_workflow_id: WorkflowId,
457 /// Parent workflow whose history records the child.
458 recorded_by: WorkflowId,
459 },
460}
461
462impl std::fmt::Display for PinHolder {
463 fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
464 match self {
465 Self::InFlightStart => formatter.write_str("an in-flight start is pinned to it"),
466 Self::LiveRun {
467 workflow_id,
468 run_id,
469 } => write!(
470 formatter,
471 "live run `{workflow_id}/{run_id}` is pinned to it"
472 ),
473 Self::RecoverableRun { workflow_id } => {
474 write!(formatter, "recoverable run `{workflow_id}` is pinned to it")
475 }
476 Self::RecordedChild {
477 child_workflow_id,
478 recorded_by,
479 } => write!(
480 formatter,
481 "child `{child_workflow_id}` recorded by `{recorded_by}` is pinned to it and has not started"
482 ),
483 }
484 }
485}
486
487/// Errors surfaced by the signal routing boundary.
488#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
489pub enum SignalRouterError {
490 /// The target workflow is terminal and cannot receive new signals.
491 #[error("workflow {workflow_id}/{run_id} is terminal")]
492 Terminal {
493 /// Target workflow id.
494 workflow_id: WorkflowId,
495 /// Target run id.
496 run_id: RunId,
497 },
498
499 /// The router could not defer a recorded non-resident signal.
500 #[error("signal resume handoff failed: {reason}")]
501 Handoff {
502 /// Human-readable handoff failure reason.
503 reason: String,
504 },
505
506 /// The signal was durably recorded but could not be delivered to the live mailbox.
507 #[error(
508 "signal `{signal_name}` for workflow {workflow_id}/{run_id} could not be delivered to process {process_id}: {reason}"
509 )]
510 DeliveryFailed {
511 /// Target workflow id.
512 workflow_id: WorkflowId,
513 /// Target run id.
514 run_id: RunId,
515 /// Embedded runtime process identifier selected for delivery.
516 process_id: u64,
517 /// Signal name that was recorded and attempted.
518 signal_name: String,
519 /// Human-readable delivery failure reason.
520 reason: String,
521 },
522}
523
524impl From<ScheduleError> for EngineError {
525 fn from(error: ScheduleError) -> Self {
526 Self::Schedule {
527 reason: error.to_string(),
528 }
529 }
530}
531
532impl From<ScheduleEvaluatorError> for EngineError {
533 fn from(error: ScheduleEvaluatorError) -> Self {
534 match error {
535 ScheduleEvaluatorError::ScheduleNotFound { schedule_id } => {
536 Self::ScheduleNotFound { schedule_id }
537 }
538 other => Self::Schedule {
539 reason: other.to_string(),
540 },
541 }
542 }
543}