liminal_server/error.rs
1use std::net::SocketAddr;
2
3use crate::server::participant::ParticipantServiceFatal;
4
5const RESERVED_NAMESPACE_MESSAGE: &str =
6 "SELF_STREAM_NAMESPACE_REFUSED: connection publication to reserved namespace";
7
8/// Error taxonomy for standalone liminal server deployment failures.
9#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
10pub enum ServerError {
11 /// The configuration file could not be read or parsed.
12 #[error("configuration load failed: {message}")]
13 ConfigLoad { message: String },
14
15 /// The configuration file was read but failed semantic validation.
16 #[error("configuration validation failed: {message}")]
17 ConfigValidation { message: String },
18
19 /// A connection tried to publish into the server-owned namespace.
20 #[error("{RESERVED_NAMESPACE_MESSAGE}: {channel}")]
21 ReservedNamespace {
22 /// Reserved channel the connection addressed.
23 channel: String,
24 },
25
26 /// The server could not bind its configured listener address.
27 #[error("listener bind failed for {address}: {source}")]
28 ListenerBind {
29 /// Address the server attempted to bind.
30 address: SocketAddr,
31 /// Underlying operating-system bind failure.
32 #[source]
33 source: std::io::Error,
34 },
35
36 /// The server listener failed while accepting an inbound connection.
37 #[error("listener accept failed: {message}")]
38 ListenerAccept { message: String },
39
40 /// The connection scheduler was tearing down when a connection asked to
41 /// register or rearm its readiness: the server's own stop closed the
42 /// connection, which is no fault (SRV-043).
43 #[error("connection {pid} was closed by the server's stop before its readiness registered")]
44 ReadinessClosedByStop {
45 /// The connection process the stop closed.
46 pid: u64,
47 },
48
49 /// A prior publisher finish consumed the original error.
50 #[error("self-stream publisher already finished with an error: {first_error}")]
51 SelfStreamPublisherAlreadyFinished {
52 /// Full diagnostic returned by the first finish.
53 first_error: String,
54 },
55
56 /// Durable participant-incarnation startup or allocation failed before its
57 /// result could be published.
58 #[error("participant incarnation {phase} failed: {message}")]
59 ParticipantIncarnation {
60 /// Exact server seam that failed.
61 phase: &'static str,
62 /// Underlying durable or bounded-bridge diagnostic.
63 message: String,
64 },
65
66 /// A durable connection-fate Open could not be completed in this process.
67 ///
68 /// The normal runtime shutdown path returns this typed fatal only after it has
69 /// stopped both listeners and run the ordinary connection drain/flush sequence.
70 #[error("participant service fatal: {fatal}")]
71 ParticipantServiceFatal {
72 /// First process-wide post-Open failure; later failures cannot replace it.
73 fatal: ParticipantServiceFatal,
74 },
75
76 /// Startup found durable connection-fate work that the Decision A/C producer must complete
77 /// before listener or semantic-service publication.
78 #[error(
79 "participant startup requires recovery of {open_count} connection-fate Opens beginning at sequence {first_open_sequence}"
80 )]
81 ConnectionFateRecoveryRequired {
82 /// Number of replay-validated unmatched Opens.
83 open_count: usize,
84 /// Lowest unmatched Open sequence.
85 first_open_sequence: u64,
86 },
87
88 /// The durable server-incarnation namespace has no successor.
89 #[error("participant server-incarnation namespace is exhausted")]
90 ServerIncarnationExhausted,
91
92 /// Production participant startup restore failed: the durable
93 /// conversation streams could not be scanned or replayed, so the
94 /// server-scope capacity ledger cannot be made exact and the server
95 /// refuses to start over state it cannot account for.
96 #[error("participant startup restore failed: {message}")]
97 ParticipantStartupRestore {
98 /// Underlying durable, replay, or bridge diagnostic.
99 message: String,
100 },
101
102 /// The current durable server incarnation has no collision-free connection
103 /// ordinal left, so the accepted socket was not admitted.
104 #[error(
105 "connection incarnation exhausted for server incarnation {attempted_server_incarnation}"
106 )]
107 ConnectionIncarnationExhausted {
108 /// Server incarnation whose complete ordinal suffix was examined.
109 attempted_server_incarnation: u64,
110 },
111
112 /// A connection registration found a record already present under its pid.
113 /// Enforces the pids-fresh-per-spawn supervision invariant loudly: a silent
114 /// replace would drop the displaced record's teardown-held fd guard outside
115 /// the single record-removal funnel (orphaning a live connection's stream)
116 /// and increment the `liminal_connections_active` gauge a second time with
117 /// no paired decrement. The whole registration is refused instead, leaving
118 /// the prior record — and its teardown route — intact.
119 #[error("connection registration refused: pid {pid} already has a live registry record")]
120 ConnectionPidCollision {
121 /// The connection pid that already owned a registry record.
122 pid: u64,
123 },
124
125 /// A frame requested an operation the configured services profile does not
126 /// serve (e.g. ordinary publish/subscribe/conversation traffic against the
127 /// capability-scoped worker front door). Server-internal taxonomy, not wire
128 /// vocabulary: the connection process renders it as the operation's existing
129 /// typed error frame with this error's text as the message.
130 #[error("{operation} is not supported by the {profile} services profile")]
131 UnsupportedOperation {
132 /// Human-readable description of the refused operation.
133 operation: String,
134 /// The configured services profile that refused it.
135 profile: &'static str,
136 },
137
138 /// A server→client push reply slot was dropped before a correlated reply
139 /// arrived — the connection closed (the prompt worker-death signal). Distinct
140 /// from [`Self::PushReplyTimeout`] so consumers can tell a worker that DIED
141 /// (fast failover) from one that is merely SLOW, by type rather than message.
142 #[error(
143 "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: the connection closed before sending a correlated push reply"
144 )]
145 PushReplyDisconnected {
146 /// Correlation id of the push whose reply will never arrive.
147 correlation_id: u64,
148 },
149
150 /// A server→client push reply did not arrive within the awaiter's timeout —
151 /// the worker is still connected but did not reply in this wait quantum. This
152 /// is BENIGN: the reply slot survives untouched and the caller may re-arm
153 /// [`PushReplyAwaiter::receive`](crate::server::connection::PushReplyAwaiter::receive)
154 /// indefinitely. It is not a worker-death signal.
155 #[error(
156 "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: no correlated push reply arrived within the timeout"
157 )]
158 PushReplyTimeout {
159 /// Correlation id of the push whose wait quantum elapsed.
160 correlation_id: u64,
161 },
162
163 /// A server→client push carrying an explicit reply deadline (via
164 /// [`push_to_connection_with_deadline`](crate::server::connection::ConnectionSupervisor::push_to_connection_with_deadline))
165 /// reached that deadline before a correlated reply arrived. Unlike
166 /// [`Self::PushReplyTimeout`] this is TERMINAL: the reply slot has been
167 /// removed and its §5 `max_pending_pushes_per_connection` cap admission
168 /// released. Returned PROMPTLY once the deadline is due — a `receive` call
169 /// does not hold a due expiry until its caller's quantum ends, so the
170 /// terminal outcome is independent of how the caller polls. Distinct
171 /// variant so callers classify by type, not message.
172 #[error(
173 "push correlation {correlation_id} did not complete: its reply deadline passed before a correlated push reply arrived"
174 )]
175 PushReplyExpired {
176 /// Correlation id of the push whose reply deadline passed.
177 correlation_id: u64,
178 },
179
180 /// A server→client push's correlated reply ARRIVED and was refused by the
181 /// access decision on the subject the push was made on (ACCESS-001 R2: a
182 /// connection admitted on a Lys pass has its `PushReply` decided as `serve`
183 /// on the push's retained subject, the matrix's `push_binding`). TERMINAL:
184 /// the slot is removed and its §5 cap admission released, the reply payload
185 /// is never delivered. A push made with no subject
186 /// ([`push_to_connection`](crate::server::connection::ConnectionSupervisor::push_to_connection))
187 /// to such a connection reads here too, with `reason` saying so: the
188 /// subject is recorded at push time
189 /// ([`push_to_subject`](crate::server::connection::ConnectionSupervisor::push_to_subject))
190 /// or not at all. Distinct variant so callers classify by type.
191 #[error("push correlation {correlation_id} was refused: {reason}")]
192 PushReplyRefused {
193 /// Correlation id of the push whose reply was refused.
194 correlation_id: u64,
195 /// The refusal, rendered as the four-field access refusal.
196 reason: String,
197 },
198
199 /// A server→client push was never queued for the wire: its encoded frame is
200 /// larger than the WHOLE of the connection's bounded outbound buffer, so no
201 /// amount of draining could ever make room for it. TERMINAL and CERTAIN — the
202 /// reply slot is removed, its §5 `max_pending_pushes_per_connection` admission
203 /// released, and the client never saw a `Push` frame for this correlation id.
204 ///
205 /// Deliberately NARROW. A frame that would fit an empty buffer but not the
206 /// current free space is CONGESTION, not a size defect: it keeps the
207 /// connection-teardown path and its retryable
208 /// [`Self::PushReplyDisconnected`] reading, because waiting is the correct
209 /// answer there. Sharing one outcome between the certain case and the
210 /// recoverable one would leave the caller unable to tell them apart — which
211 /// is the exact fault this variant exists to end. Distinct variant so callers
212 /// classify by type, not message.
213 ///
214 /// The WORDS carry the bound's value and say the bound was chosen, because a
215 /// reader who meets this without that context blames the server for a number
216 /// an operator set. Since every outbound bound now comes from
217 /// [`max_connection_outbound_bytes`](crate::config::types::LimitsConfig::max_connection_outbound_bytes),
218 /// that sentence is true on every occurrence rather than usually.
219 #[error(
220 "push correlation {correlation_id} was never sent: its {needed}-byte frame exceeds this \
221 connection's whole outbound buffer of {capacity} bytes, which is operator-set by \
222 `limits.max_connection_outbound_bytes`"
223 )]
224 PushFrameExceedsOutboundCapacity {
225 /// Correlation id of the push that could not be queued.
226 correlation_id: u64,
227 /// Encoded size of the rejected frame. Exceeds `capacity` on its own.
228 needed: usize,
229 /// The outbound buffer's whole capacity, which `needed` exceeds.
230 capacity: usize,
231 /// Bytes already queued when the frame was rejected. Context for the log
232 /// only: the decision is `needed` against `capacity` alone, so this frame
233 /// would not have fitted an empty buffer either.
234 queued: usize,
235 },
236
237 /// The server could not join the configured beamr distribution cluster.
238 #[error("cluster join failed: {message}")]
239 ClusterJoin { message: String },
240
241 /// Cluster state propagation through beamr distribution failed.
242 #[error("cluster sync failed: {message}")]
243 ClusterSync { message: String },
244
245 /// Graceful shutdown did not drain within the configured timeout.
246 #[error("shutdown timed out: {message}")]
247 ShutdownTimeout { message: String },
248
249 /// Durable state could not be flushed during graceful shutdown.
250 #[error("shutdown flush failed: {message}")]
251 ShutdownFlush { message: String },
252
253 /// A clean stop could not complete every connection fate parked on
254 /// candidate-lane `Precedence`. Each named durable Open is reconciled by
255 /// the next boot instead, so the stop was not clean.
256 #[error(
257 "shutdown left connection fates unsettled for the next boot to reconcile: durable Opens \
258 {open_sequences:?}"
259 )]
260 ShutdownUnsettledConnectionFates {
261 /// Durable Open sequences still parked when the stop finished.
262 open_sequences: Vec<u64>,
263 },
264
265 /// The health endpoint failed to start or serve requests.
266 #[error("health endpoint failed: {message}")]
267 HealthEndpoint { message: String },
268
269 /// A new connection was refused because the configured `max_connections`
270 /// cap (§5) is already reached. The listener drops the freshly accepted
271 /// stream, refusing the connection, rather than admitting an unbounded fleet.
272 #[error(
273 "connection refused: the configured max_connections limit of {limit} live connections is reached"
274 )]
275 ConnectionLimitReached {
276 /// The configured `max_connections` cap that was hit.
277 limit: usize,
278 },
279
280 /// An admission-time per-connection cap (§5) refused an operation: too many
281 /// subscriptions, conversations, in-flight pushes, or pending conversation
282 /// replies on one connection. The connection process renders it as the
283 /// operation's existing typed error frame with this text as the message.
284 #[error("{operation} refused: the per-connection {cap} limit of {limit} is reached")]
285 ConnectionCapReached {
286 /// Human-readable description of the refused operation.
287 operation: String,
288 /// The name of the cap that refused it (a `limits.*` config key).
289 cap: &'static str,
290 /// The configured cap value that was hit.
291 limit: usize,
292 },
293
294 /// A publish whose append outcome is not known: the server cannot tell
295 /// whether the row was stored. Distinct from every definite publish failure
296 /// so the connection process answers it with its own reason code
297 /// (`PUBLISH_UNRESOLVED_CODE`) and a producer classifies it by type, never
298 /// by message; it is never a Reject, a Defer or a backpressure signal.
299 #[error(
300 "publish to channel {channel} is unresolved{}: {message}",
301 UnresolvedPublishDetail(.idempotency_key, .sequence)
302 )]
303 PublishUnresolved {
304 /// Channel the unresolved publish was addressed to.
305 channel: String,
306 /// Idempotency key the publish carried, when it carried one.
307 idempotency_key: Option<String>,
308 /// Sequence the append expected, when one was assigned.
309 sequence: Option<u64>,
310 /// The underlying append diagnostic, kept as evidence.
311 message: String,
312 },
313
314 /// The offline participant log migration refused.
315 #[error(transparent)]
316 ParticipantLogMigration(#[from] crate::server::participant::ParticipantLogMigrationError),
317
318 /// An agent seat refused, in the agent's own words.
319 #[error(transparent)]
320 Agent(#[from] crate::agents::error::AgentError),
321}
322
323/// Renders the optional idempotency key and sequence of
324/// [`ServerError::PublishUnresolved`], naming each only when it is present.
325struct UnresolvedPublishDetail<'a>(&'a Option<String>, &'a Option<u64>);
326
327impl std::fmt::Display for UnresolvedPublishDetail<'_> {
328 fn fmt(&self, formatter: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
329 if let Some(key) = self.0 {
330 write!(formatter, " (idempotency key {key})")?;
331 }
332 if let Some(sequence) = self.1 {
333 write!(formatter, " (sequence {sequence})")?;
334 }
335 Ok(())
336 }
337}