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