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liminal_sdk/remote/tcp/
subscription.rs

1//! Client-side subscription stream: the receive half of the delivery pump.
2//!
3//! Where [`PushClient`](super::push_client::PushClient) consumes server-initiated
4//! *pushes*, a [`SubscriptionStream`] consumes server-initiated *deliveries*: the
5//! server writes a [`Frame::Deliver`] on the subscription's stream every time a
6//! message is published to the subscribed channel. This client owns a dedicated
7//! connection whose socket is drained by a background reader thread that routes
8//! each `Deliver` into an mpsc queue the caller pulls with
9//! [`SubscriptionStream::recv_timeout`].
10//!
11//! # v1 shape
12//!
13//! One subscription per dedicated connection. Multiplexing several subscriptions
14//! over one connection arrives with the v2 credit mode (which also adds explicit
15//! per-delivery acks); until then a `SubscriptionStream` is a single channel
16//! subscription bound to its own socket, mirroring the one-connection-per-role
17//! shape the `PushClient` already uses.
18
19use alloc::format;
20use alloc::string::ToString;
21use alloc::vec;
22use alloc::vec::Vec;
23use core::time::Duration;
24
25use std::io::{Read, Write};
26use std::net::{Shutdown, TcpStream};
27use std::sync::mpsc::{self, Receiver, RecvTimeoutError, Sender};
28use std::thread::JoinHandle;
29use std::time::Instant;
30
31use liminal::protocol::{
32    Frame, ProtocolError, ProtocolVersion, SchemaId, decode, encode, encoded_len,
33};
34
35use crate::SdkError;
36use crate::remote::SETUP_TIMEOUT;
37
38/// Minimum protocol version this client advertises during the handshake.
39const CLIENT_MIN_VERSION: ProtocolVersion = ProtocolVersion::new(1, 0);
40/// Maximum protocol version this client advertises during the handshake.
41const CLIENT_MAX_VERSION: ProtocolVersion = ProtocolVersion::new(1, 0);
42/// Bound on a single socket write.
43const WRITE_TIMEOUT: Duration = Duration::from_secs(5);
44/// Read chunk size used when draining the socket into the frame buffer.
45const READ_CHUNK_BYTES: usize = 4096;
46/// Upper bound on a single buffered frame, guarding against runaway buffering.
47const MAX_FRAME_BYTES: usize = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
48/// The single application stream this subscription's deliveries ride on. One
49/// subscription per connection in v1, so a fixed stream id is sufficient.
50const SUBSCRIPTION_STREAM_ID: u32 = 1;
51/// In-flight window advertised on subscribe. The v1 server does not gate delivery
52/// on credit, so this is advisory; a generous value avoids any future pacing
53/// surprise while the credit mode is still v2 work.
54const SUBSCRIBE_MAX_IN_FLIGHT: u32 = 1024;
55
56/// A message the server delivered on this subscription.
57#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
58pub struct DeliveredMessage {
59    delivery_seq: u64,
60    schema_id: SchemaId,
61    payload: Vec<u8>,
62}
63
64impl DeliveredMessage {
65    /// The per-subscription monotonic delivery sequence (starts at 1). The anchor
66    /// the future ack/resume protocol will acknowledge against.
67    #[must_use]
68    pub const fn delivery_seq(&self) -> u64 {
69        self.delivery_seq
70    }
71
72    /// The schema id the server selected for this subscription's stream.
73    #[must_use]
74    pub const fn schema_id(&self) -> SchemaId {
75        self.schema_id
76    }
77
78    /// The delivered payload bytes.
79    #[must_use]
80    pub fn payload(&self) -> &[u8] {
81        &self.payload
82    }
83
84    /// Consumes the message, returning the owned payload bytes.
85    #[must_use]
86    pub fn into_payload(self) -> Vec<u8> {
87        self.payload
88    }
89}
90
91/// A connected subscription whose background reader surfaces delivered messages.
92///
93/// Construct with [`SubscriptionStream::open`]; the background reader starts
94/// immediately and runs until the stream is dropped. Pull delivered messages with
95/// [`SubscriptionStream::recv_timeout`].
96#[derive(Debug)]
97pub struct SubscriptionStream {
98    /// Write half, used only by setup and the best-effort teardown on drop.
99    writer: TcpStream,
100    /// Server-assigned subscription id, echoed on `Unsubscribe` at teardown.
101    subscription_id: u64,
102    /// Delivered messages surfaced by the background reader.
103    inbound: Receiver<DeliveredMessage>,
104    /// Background reader handle, joined on drop.
105    reader: Option<JoinHandle<()>>,
106}
107
108impl SubscriptionStream {
109    /// Connects to `address`, performs the handshake, subscribes to `channel`, and
110    /// starts the background reader that drains delivered messages.
111    ///
112    /// `accepted_schemas` is the client's schema-compatibility list; pass an empty
113    /// vector to let the server select the channel's configured schema (the
114    /// server's negotiation contract).
115    ///
116    /// # Errors
117    ///
118    /// Returns [`SdkError::Connection`] when the TCP connection or socket
119    /// configuration fails, and [`SdkError::Protocol`] when the handshake or
120    /// subscribe is rejected, or the socket cannot be cloned for the reader thread.
121    pub fn open(
122        address: &str,
123        channel: &str,
124        accepted_schemas: Vec<SchemaId>,
125    ) -> Result<Self, SdkError> {
126        Self::open_with_auth(address, channel, accepted_schemas, &[])
127    }
128
129    /// Connects, handshakes carrying `auth_token`, subscribes to `channel`, and
130    /// starts the background reader.
131    ///
132    /// A subscription owns a dedicated connection (the v1 shape), so it presents
133    /// its own credential in its own `Connect` frame; the token a
134    /// request/response transport was built with lives on that transport's
135    /// socket and cannot travel here. Additive to [`open`]: an empty token is
136    /// exactly the open-access handshake `open` performs, so an ungated server
137    /// sees byte-identical bytes either way.
138    ///
139    /// The server compares the token during the handshake and answers a
140    /// mismatch with `ConnectError` before closing, which surfaces here as
141    /// [`SdkError::Connection`].
142    ///
143    /// `accepted_schemas` is the client's schema-compatibility list; pass an
144    /// empty vector to let the server select the channel's configured schema.
145    ///
146    /// # Errors
147    ///
148    /// Returns [`SdkError::Connection`] when the TCP connection or socket
149    /// configuration fails or the token is rejected, and [`SdkError::Protocol`]
150    /// when the subscribe is rejected, or the socket cannot be cloned for the
151    /// reader thread.
152    ///
153    /// [`open`]: Self::open
154    pub fn open_with_auth(
155        address: &str,
156        channel: &str,
157        accepted_schemas: Vec<SchemaId>,
158        auth_token: &[u8],
159    ) -> Result<Self, SdkError> {
160        let mut stream = connect_socket(address)?;
161        // A single buffer threads through the whole synchronous setup so any bytes
162        // the setup reads past the control-frame reply are preserved. The server
163        // may coalesce a `SubscribeAck` with the first `Deliver` frames into one TCP
164        // segment (the delivery pump runs in the same slice that acks the
165        // subscribe), and a socket read pulls up to `READ_CHUNK_BYTES` at once — so
166        // this buffer can hold whole (or partial) `Deliver` frames after the ack.
167        // Handing that residue to the reader thread is what keeps those deliveries
168        // from being dropped and, worse, from desyncing a reader that would
169        // otherwise start mid-frame on a fresh empty buffer.
170        let mut buffer = Vec::new();
171        handshake(&mut stream, &mut buffer, auth_token)?;
172        let subscription_id = subscribe(&mut stream, &mut buffer, channel, accepted_schemas)?;
173
174        // The control exchange is over, so its deadline comes off: the reader
175        // blocks on socket input with no read window at all. Teardown shuts the
176        // socket down, which surfaces as a typed terminal — the socket signals,
177        // nothing sweeps. A window left armed here would be a wake cadence in
178        // steady state, which is the defect this retires, whatever period it
179        // carried.
180        stream
181            .set_read_timeout(None)
182            .map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
183                description: format!("failed to clear the subscription read deadline: {source}"),
184            })?;
185        let read_stream = stream.try_clone().map_err(|source| SdkError::Protocol {
186            description: format!("failed to clone subscription socket for reader thread: {source}"),
187        })?;
188        let (sender, inbound) = mpsc::channel();
189        let reader = std::thread::Builder::new()
190            .name("liminal-subscription-reader".to_string())
191            .spawn(move || run_reader(read_stream, buffer, &sender))
192            .map_err(|source| SdkError::Protocol {
193                description: format!("failed to start subscription reader thread: {source}"),
194            })?;
195
196        Ok(Self {
197            writer: stream,
198            subscription_id,
199            inbound,
200            reader: Some(reader),
201        })
202    }
203
204    /// Blocks up to `timeout` for the next delivered message from the server.
205    ///
206    /// # Errors
207    ///
208    /// Returns [`SdkError::Connection`] when no message arrives within `timeout`
209    /// or the background reader has stopped (e.g. the server closed the stream).
210    pub fn recv_timeout(&self, timeout: Duration) -> Result<DeliveredMessage, SdkError> {
211        self.inbound.recv_timeout(timeout).map_err(|error| {
212            let detail = match error {
213                RecvTimeoutError::Timeout => "no delivery arrived within the timeout",
214                RecvTimeoutError::Disconnected => {
215                    "the subscription reader stopped before a delivery arrived"
216                }
217            };
218            SdkError::Connection {
219                description: format!("subscription receive failed: {detail}"),
220            }
221        })
222    }
223
224    /// The server-assigned id for this subscription.
225    #[must_use]
226    pub const fn subscription_id(&self) -> u64 {
227        self.subscription_id
228    }
229}
230
231impl Drop for SubscriptionStream {
232    fn drop(&mut self) {
233        // Best-effort clean teardown: tell the server to drop the subscription and
234        // close the connection. Failures are ignored — the connection close alone
235        // frees the server-side subscription when its subscriber process exits.
236        let unsubscribe = Frame::Unsubscribe {
237            flags: 0,
238            stream_id: SUBSCRIPTION_STREAM_ID,
239            subscription_id: self.subscription_id,
240        };
241        let _ = write_frame(&mut self.writer, &unsubscribe);
242        let _ = write_frame(&mut self.writer, &Frame::Disconnect { flags: 0 });
243        // Then TELL the reader. It blocks on socket input with no read window, so
244        // nothing but the socket can end its wait — a stop flag it never wakes to
245        // sample would be a lie about how it stops. Shutting the socket down
246        // surfaces a typed terminal to the blocked reader, exactly as the
247        // WebSocket sibling does, and the shutdown of the write half flushes the
248        // frames just written before its FIN. The join is therefore bounded by the
249        // shutdown, not by a peer's goodwill.
250        let _ = self.writer.shutdown(Shutdown::Both);
251        if let Some(reader) = self.reader.take() {
252            reader.join().ok();
253        }
254    }
255}
256
257/// Opens and configures the subscription socket (Nagle off, bounded read/write
258/// timeouts) before any framing.
259fn connect_socket(address: &str) -> Result<TcpStream, SdkError> {
260    let stream = TcpStream::connect(address).map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
261        description: format!("failed to connect subscription client to {address}: {source}"),
262    })?;
263    stream
264        .set_nodelay(true)
265        .map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
266            description: format!("failed to disable Nagle for {address}: {source}"),
267        })?;
268    // The named deadline for a synchronous control-frame reply, and nothing
269    // else: it covers the `Connect`/`ConnectAck` and `Subscribe`/`SubscribeAck`
270    // exchanges that run on the calling thread, and `open` takes it back off
271    // before the background reader ever sees the socket.
272    stream
273        .set_read_timeout(Some(SETUP_TIMEOUT))
274        .map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
275            description: format!(
276                "failed to set the subscription setup deadline for {address}: {source}"
277            ),
278        })?;
279    stream
280        .set_write_timeout(Some(WRITE_TIMEOUT))
281        .map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
282            description: format!(
283                "failed to set subscription write timeout for {address}: {source}"
284            ),
285        })?;
286    Ok(stream)
287}
288
289/// Drives the client handshake (`Connect` -> `ConnectAck`) on a fresh socket,
290/// presenting `auth_token` (empty for an open, non-auth server).
291///
292/// `buffer` carries any residue read past the reply forward to the next setup step
293/// (and ultimately the reader thread) rather than discarding it.
294fn handshake(
295    stream: &mut TcpStream,
296    buffer: &mut Vec<u8>,
297    auth_token: &[u8],
298) -> Result<(), SdkError> {
299    let connect = Frame::Connect {
300        flags: 0,
301        min_version: CLIENT_MIN_VERSION,
302        max_version: CLIENT_MAX_VERSION,
303        auth_token: auth_token.to_vec(),
304    };
305    write_frame(stream, &connect)?;
306    match read_one_frame(stream, buffer)? {
307        Frame::ConnectAck { .. } => Ok(()),
308        Frame::ConnectError {
309            reason_code,
310            message,
311            ..
312        } => Err(SdkError::Connection {
313            description: format!(
314                "server rejected subscription connection (reason {reason_code}): {}",
315                message.unwrap_or_else(|| "no detail".to_string())
316            ),
317        }),
318        other => Err(SdkError::Protocol {
319            description: format!(
320                "expected ConnectAck during subscription handshake, received {:?}",
321                other.frame_type()
322            ),
323        }),
324    }
325}
326
327/// Drives the synchronous subscribe round trip (`Subscribe` -> `SubscribeAck`) on
328/// a handshaken socket, returning the server-assigned subscription id.
329fn subscribe(
330    stream: &mut TcpStream,
331    buffer: &mut Vec<u8>,
332    channel: &str,
333    accepted_schemas: Vec<SchemaId>,
334) -> Result<u64, SdkError> {
335    let frame = Frame::Subscribe {
336        flags: 0,
337        stream_id: SUBSCRIPTION_STREAM_ID,
338        channel: channel.to_string(),
339        accepted_schemas,
340        max_in_flight: SUBSCRIBE_MAX_IN_FLIGHT,
341    };
342    write_frame(stream, &frame)?;
343    match read_one_frame(stream, buffer)? {
344        Frame::SubscribeAck {
345            subscription_id, ..
346        } => Ok(subscription_id),
347        Frame::SubscribeError {
348            reason_code,
349            message,
350            ..
351        } => Err(SdkError::Protocol {
352            description: format!(
353                "server rejected subscribe (reason {reason_code}): {}",
354                message.unwrap_or_else(|| "no detail".to_string())
355            ),
356        }),
357        other => Err(SdkError::Protocol {
358            description: format!(
359                "expected SubscribeAck during subscribe, received {:?}",
360                other.frame_type()
361            ),
362        }),
363    }
364}
365
366/// Background loop: drains the socket, surfacing each `Deliver` frame's message on
367/// `sender`.
368///
369/// The socket carries no read window here, so the loop blocks until the server
370/// sends or the connection ends: nothing wakes it on a timer and nothing sweeps.
371/// It returns (ending the thread) when the connection closes — including the
372/// `shutdown` teardown performs — when a `Disconnect` arrives, when the consumer
373/// has gone away, or on a fatal decode/IO error.
374///
375/// `buffer` is seeded with the setup residue (see [`SubscriptionStream::open`]): any
376/// `Deliver` bytes the synchronous subscribe read past the `SubscribeAck` are
377/// already here, so the loop decodes them first — before its next socket read —
378/// instead of losing them and starting mid-stream.
379fn run_reader(mut stream: TcpStream, mut buffer: Vec<u8>, sender: &Sender<DeliveredMessage>) {
380    loop {
381        // Connection closed or a fatal read/decode error: end the thread. The
382        // dropped `sender` surfaces as a `Disconnected` on the receiver side.
383        let Ok(frame) = next_frame(&mut stream, &mut buffer) else {
384            return;
385        };
386        match frame {
387            Frame::Deliver {
388                delivery_seq,
389                envelope,
390                ..
391            } => {
392                let message = DeliveredMessage {
393                    delivery_seq,
394                    schema_id: envelope.schema_id,
395                    payload: envelope.payload,
396                };
397                if sender.send(message).is_err() {
398                    // The receiver was dropped; nothing will consume further
399                    // deliveries, so stop reading.
400                    return;
401                }
402            }
403            // A server `Disconnect` ends the subscription cleanly.
404            Frame::Disconnect { .. } => return,
405            // Any other frame on a subscription connection is unexpected; ignore it
406            // rather than tearing the reader down so a stray frame cannot silently
407            // drop subsequent deliveries.
408            _ => {}
409        }
410    }
411}
412
413/// Reads until one complete frame decodes on the windowless steady-state socket.
414///
415/// There is no read window to expire here, so a [`FillOutcome::TimedOut`] would
416/// mean one was re-armed behind the reader's back. That is reported as the
417/// invariant break it is, rather than swallowed into a spin — a reader that
418/// looped on it would be a busy-wait, which is worse than the cadence this
419/// retired.
420fn next_frame(stream: &mut TcpStream, buffer: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<Frame, SdkError> {
421    loop {
422        match decode(buffer) {
423            Ok((frame, consumed)) => {
424                buffer.drain(..consumed);
425                return Ok(frame);
426            }
427            Err(
428                ProtocolError::IncompleteHeader { .. } | ProtocolError::TruncatedPayload { .. },
429            ) => match fill_buffer(stream, buffer)? {
430                FillOutcome::Read => {}
431                FillOutcome::TimedOut => {
432                    return Err(SdkError::Connection {
433                        description: "the subscription reader's steady-state socket reported a \
434                                      read deadline it should not carry"
435                            .to_string(),
436                    });
437                }
438            },
439            Err(error) => return Err(protocol_error(&error)),
440        }
441    }
442}
443
444/// Reads one complete control-frame reply under the named [`SETUP_TIMEOUT`]
445/// deadline — used for the synchronous handshake and subscribe replies, on the
446/// calling thread, before the background reader starts.
447///
448/// A socket read window elapsing is NOT the end: the reply may simply be slow, or
449/// arriving in pieces. Only the total deadline for this reply ends the wait.
450fn read_one_frame(stream: &mut TcpStream, buffer: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<Frame, SdkError> {
451    let deadline = Instant::now() + SETUP_TIMEOUT;
452    loop {
453        match decode(buffer) {
454            Ok((frame, consumed)) => {
455                buffer.drain(..consumed);
456                return Ok(frame);
457            }
458            Err(
459                ProtocolError::IncompleteHeader { .. } | ProtocolError::TruncatedPayload { .. },
460            ) => match fill_buffer(stream, buffer)? {
461                FillOutcome::Read => {}
462                FillOutcome::TimedOut => {
463                    if Instant::now() >= deadline {
464                        return Err(SdkError::Connection {
465                            description:
466                                "subscription connection timed out waiting for a control-frame reply"
467                                    .to_string(),
468                        });
469                    }
470                }
471            },
472            Err(error) => return Err(protocol_error(&error)),
473        }
474    }
475}
476
477/// Appends one socket read into `buffer`, mapping a read timeout to a non-fatal
478/// [`FillOutcome::TimedOut`] so the setup reader can weigh it against its
479/// deadline.
480fn fill_buffer(stream: &mut TcpStream, buffer: &mut Vec<u8>) -> Result<FillOutcome, SdkError> {
481    if buffer.len() > MAX_FRAME_BYTES {
482        return Err(SdkError::Protocol {
483            description: format!(
484                "subscription frame exceeded {MAX_FRAME_BYTES} bytes without a complete frame"
485            ),
486        });
487    }
488    let mut chunk = [0_u8; READ_CHUNK_BYTES];
489    match stream.read(&mut chunk) {
490        Ok(0) => Err(SdkError::Connection {
491            description: "server closed the subscription connection".to_string(),
492        }),
493        Ok(read) => {
494            let Some(received) = chunk.get(..read) else {
495                return Err(SdkError::Protocol {
496                    description:
497                        "subscription socket read reported more bytes than the buffer holds"
498                            .to_string(),
499                });
500            };
501            buffer.extend_from_slice(received);
502            Ok(FillOutcome::Read)
503        }
504        Err(error)
505            if matches!(
506                error.kind(),
507                std::io::ErrorKind::WouldBlock | std::io::ErrorKind::TimedOut
508            ) =>
509        {
510            Ok(FillOutcome::TimedOut)
511        }
512        Err(error) => Err(SdkError::Connection {
513            description: format!("failed to read from subscription connection: {error}"),
514        }),
515    }
516}
517
518/// Outcome of one non-fatal socket read attempt.
519#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
520enum FillOutcome {
521    Read,
522    TimedOut,
523}
524
525/// Encodes and writes one frame to the socket, flushing it.
526fn write_frame(stream: &mut TcpStream, frame: &Frame) -> Result<(), SdkError> {
527    let len = encoded_len(frame).map_err(|error| protocol_error(&error))?;
528    let mut bytes = vec![0_u8; len];
529    let written = encode(frame, &mut bytes).map_err(|error| protocol_error(&error))?;
530    let encoded = bytes.get(..written).ok_or_else(|| SdkError::Protocol {
531        description: "subscription wire encoder reported an invalid byte count".to_string(),
532    })?;
533    stream
534        .write_all(encoded)
535        .map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
536            description: format!("failed to write subscription frame: {source}"),
537        })?;
538    stream.flush().map_err(|source| SdkError::Connection {
539        description: format!("failed to flush subscription frame: {source}"),
540    })
541}
542
543/// Maps a wire codec error into the SDK error taxonomy.
544fn protocol_error(error: &ProtocolError) -> SdkError {
545    SdkError::Protocol {
546        description: format!("subscription wire codec error: {error}"),
547    }
548}
549
550#[cfg(test)]
551#[path = "subscription_tests.rs"]
552mod tests;