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liminal_server/
error.rs

1use std::net::SocketAddr;
2
3use crate::server::participant::ParticipantServiceFatal;
4
5/// Error taxonomy for standalone liminal server deployment failures.
6#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
7pub enum ServerError {
8    /// The configuration file could not be read or parsed.
9    #[error("configuration load failed: {message}")]
10    ConfigLoad { message: String },
11
12    /// The configuration file was read but failed semantic validation.
13    #[error("configuration validation failed: {message}")]
14    ConfigValidation { message: String },
15
16    /// The server could not bind its configured listener address.
17    #[error("listener bind failed for {address}: {source}")]
18    ListenerBind {
19        /// Address the server attempted to bind.
20        address: SocketAddr,
21        /// Underlying operating-system bind failure.
22        #[source]
23        source: std::io::Error,
24    },
25
26    /// The server listener failed while accepting an inbound connection.
27    #[error("listener accept failed: {message}")]
28    ListenerAccept { message: String },
29
30    /// Durable participant-incarnation startup or allocation failed before its
31    /// result could be published.
32    #[error("participant incarnation {phase} failed: {message}")]
33    ParticipantIncarnation {
34        /// Exact server seam that failed.
35        phase: &'static str,
36        /// Underlying durable or bounded-bridge diagnostic.
37        message: String,
38    },
39
40    /// A durable connection-fate Open could not be completed in this process.
41    ///
42    /// The normal runtime shutdown path returns this typed fatal only after it has
43    /// stopped both listeners and run the ordinary connection drain/flush sequence.
44    #[error("participant service fatal: {fatal}")]
45    ParticipantServiceFatal {
46        /// First process-wide post-Open failure; later failures cannot replace it.
47        fatal: ParticipantServiceFatal,
48    },
49
50    /// Startup found durable connection-fate work that the Decision A/C producer must complete
51    /// before listener or semantic-service publication.
52    #[error(
53        "participant startup requires recovery of {open_count} connection-fate Opens beginning at sequence {first_open_sequence}"
54    )]
55    ConnectionFateRecoveryRequired {
56        /// Number of replay-validated unmatched Opens.
57        open_count: usize,
58        /// Lowest unmatched Open sequence.
59        first_open_sequence: u64,
60    },
61
62    /// The durable server-incarnation namespace has no successor.
63    #[error("participant server-incarnation namespace is exhausted")]
64    ServerIncarnationExhausted,
65
66    /// Production participant startup restore failed: the durable
67    /// conversation streams could not be scanned or replayed, so the
68    /// server-scope capacity ledger cannot be made exact and the server
69    /// refuses to start over state it cannot account for.
70    #[error("participant startup restore failed: {message}")]
71    ParticipantStartupRestore {
72        /// Underlying durable, replay, or bridge diagnostic.
73        message: String,
74    },
75
76    /// The current durable server incarnation has no collision-free connection
77    /// ordinal left, so the accepted socket was not admitted.
78    #[error(
79        "connection incarnation exhausted for server incarnation {attempted_server_incarnation}"
80    )]
81    ConnectionIncarnationExhausted {
82        /// Server incarnation whose complete ordinal suffix was examined.
83        attempted_server_incarnation: u64,
84    },
85
86    /// A connection registration found a record already present under its pid.
87    /// Enforces the pids-fresh-per-spawn supervision invariant loudly: a silent
88    /// replace would drop the displaced record's teardown-held fd guard outside
89    /// the single record-removal funnel (orphaning a live connection's stream)
90    /// and increment the `liminal_connections_active` gauge a second time with
91    /// no paired decrement. The whole registration is refused instead, leaving
92    /// the prior record — and its teardown route — intact.
93    #[error("connection registration refused: pid {pid} already has a live registry record")]
94    ConnectionPidCollision {
95        /// The connection pid that already owned a registry record.
96        pid: u64,
97    },
98
99    /// A frame requested an operation the configured services profile does not
100    /// serve (e.g. ordinary publish/subscribe/conversation traffic against the
101    /// capability-scoped worker front door). Server-internal taxonomy, not wire
102    /// vocabulary: the connection process renders it as the operation's existing
103    /// typed error frame with this error's text as the message.
104    #[error("{operation} is not supported by the {profile} services profile")]
105    UnsupportedOperation {
106        /// Human-readable description of the refused operation.
107        operation: String,
108        /// The configured services profile that refused it.
109        profile: &'static str,
110    },
111
112    /// A server→client push reply slot was dropped before a correlated reply
113    /// arrived — the connection closed (the prompt worker-death signal). Distinct
114    /// from [`Self::PushReplyTimeout`] so consumers can tell a worker that DIED
115    /// (fast failover) from one that is merely SLOW, by type rather than message.
116    #[error(
117        "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: the connection closed before sending a correlated push reply"
118    )]
119    PushReplyDisconnected {
120        /// Correlation id of the push whose reply will never arrive.
121        correlation_id: u64,
122    },
123
124    /// A server→client push reply did not arrive within the awaiter's timeout —
125    /// the worker is still connected but did not reply in this wait quantum. This
126    /// is BENIGN: the reply slot survives untouched and the caller may re-arm
127    /// [`PushReplyAwaiter::receive`](crate::server::connection::PushReplyAwaiter::receive)
128    /// indefinitely. It is not a worker-death signal.
129    #[error(
130        "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: no correlated push reply arrived within the timeout"
131    )]
132    PushReplyTimeout {
133        /// Correlation id of the push whose wait quantum elapsed.
134        correlation_id: u64,
135    },
136
137    /// A server→client push carrying an explicit reply deadline (via
138    /// [`push_to_connection_with_deadline`](crate::server::connection::ConnectionSupervisor::push_to_connection_with_deadline))
139    /// reached that deadline before a correlated reply arrived. Unlike
140    /// [`Self::PushReplyTimeout`] this is TERMINAL: the reply slot has been
141    /// removed and its §5 `max_pending_pushes_per_connection` cap admission
142    /// released. Returned PROMPTLY once the deadline is due — a `receive` call
143    /// does not hold a due expiry until its caller's quantum ends, so the
144    /// terminal outcome is independent of how the caller polls. Distinct
145    /// variant so callers classify by type, not message.
146    #[error(
147        "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: its reply deadline passed before a correlated push reply arrived"
148    )]
149    PushReplyExpired {
150        /// Correlation id of the push whose reply deadline passed.
151        correlation_id: u64,
152    },
153
154    /// A server→client push was never queued for the wire: its encoded frame is
155    /// larger than the WHOLE of the connection's bounded outbound buffer, so no
156    /// amount of draining could ever make room for it. TERMINAL and CERTAIN — the
157    /// reply slot is removed, its §5 `max_pending_pushes_per_connection` admission
158    /// released, and the client never saw a `Push` frame for this correlation id.
159    ///
160    /// Deliberately NARROW. A frame that would fit an empty buffer but not the
161    /// current free space is CONGESTION, not a size defect: it keeps the
162    /// connection-teardown path and its retryable
163    /// [`Self::PushReplyDisconnected`] reading, because waiting is the correct
164    /// answer there. Sharing one outcome between the certain case and the
165    /// recoverable one would leave the caller unable to tell them apart — which
166    /// is the exact fault this variant exists to end. Distinct variant so callers
167    /// classify by type, not message.
168    ///
169    /// The WORDS carry the bound's value and say the bound was chosen, because a
170    /// reader who meets this without that context blames the server for a number
171    /// an operator set. Since every outbound bound now comes from
172    /// [`max_connection_outbound_bytes`](crate::config::types::LimitsConfig::max_connection_outbound_bytes),
173    /// that sentence is true on every occurrence rather than usually.
174    #[error(
175        "push correlation {correlation_id} was never sent: its {needed}-byte frame exceeds this \
176         connection's whole outbound buffer of {capacity} bytes, which is operator-set by \
177         `limits.max_connection_outbound_bytes`"
178    )]
179    PushFrameExceedsOutboundCapacity {
180        /// Correlation id of the push that could not be queued.
181        correlation_id: u64,
182        /// Encoded size of the rejected frame. Exceeds `capacity` on its own.
183        needed: usize,
184        /// The outbound buffer's whole capacity, which `needed` exceeds.
185        capacity: usize,
186        /// Bytes already queued when the frame was rejected. Context for the log
187        /// only: the decision is `needed` against `capacity` alone, so this frame
188        /// would not have fitted an empty buffer either.
189        queued: usize,
190    },
191
192    /// The server could not join the configured beamr distribution cluster.
193    #[error("cluster join failed: {message}")]
194    ClusterJoin { message: String },
195
196    /// Cluster state propagation through beamr distribution failed.
197    #[error("cluster sync failed: {message}")]
198    ClusterSync { message: String },
199
200    /// Graceful shutdown did not drain within the configured timeout.
201    #[error("shutdown timed out: {message}")]
202    ShutdownTimeout { message: String },
203
204    /// Durable state could not be flushed during graceful shutdown.
205    #[error("shutdown flush failed: {message}")]
206    ShutdownFlush { message: String },
207
208    /// The health endpoint failed to start or serve requests.
209    #[error("health endpoint failed: {message}")]
210    HealthEndpoint { message: String },
211
212    /// A new connection was refused because the configured `max_connections`
213    /// cap (§5) is already reached. The listener drops the freshly accepted
214    /// stream, refusing the connection, rather than admitting an unbounded fleet.
215    #[error(
216        "connection refused: the configured max_connections limit of {limit} live connections is reached"
217    )]
218    ConnectionLimitReached {
219        /// The configured `max_connections` cap that was hit.
220        limit: usize,
221    },
222
223    /// An admission-time per-connection cap (§5) refused an operation: too many
224    /// subscriptions, conversations, in-flight pushes, or pending conversation
225    /// replies on one connection. The connection process renders it as the
226    /// operation's existing typed error frame with this text as the message.
227    #[error("{operation} refused: the per-connection {cap} limit of {limit} is reached")]
228    ConnectionCapReached {
229        /// Human-readable description of the refused operation.
230        operation: String,
231        /// The name of the cap that refused it (a `limits.*` config key).
232        cap: &'static str,
233        /// The configured cap value that was hit.
234        limit: usize,
235    },
236}