Trait ConversationResource 

pub trait ConversationResource: Debug + Send {
    // Required methods
    fn message(&self, envelope: &MessageEnvelope) -> Result<(), ServerError>;
    fn participant_pids(&self) -> Vec<u64>;
    fn has_detected_crash(&self) -> bool;
    fn await_crash(&self, timeout: Duration) -> Option<Instant>;
    fn receive_reply(
        &self,
        timeout: Duration,
    ) -> Result<MessageEnvelope, ServerError>;
    fn close(self: Box<Self>) -> Result<(), ServerError>;
}

Marker for library conversation state owned by a single connection process.

Required Methods

fn message(&self, envelope: &MessageEnvelope) -> Result<(), ServerError>

Delegates one conversation message to the library resource.

Errors

Returns ServerError when the liminal library rejects the conversation message.

fn participant_pids(&self) -> Vec<u64>

Returns the participant PIDs linked to the supervised conversation, if any.

A trace-only conversation has no participant process and returns an empty slice; a real supervised conversation returns the linked participant PIDs.

fn has_detected_crash(&self) -> bool

Returns true if the conversation has structurally detected a participant crash via the trapped linked-EXIT path (never by polling/sleeping).

This is non-blocking: it observes whether the actor’s exit notifier has already fired (the link-EXIT event landed) and falls back to the actor’s structurally-set Failed phase. It does not sample liveness.

fn await_crash(&self, timeout: Duration) -> Option<Instant>

Blocks up to timeout waiting for a structural linked-EXIT crash signal, returning the Instant the EXIT was observed inside the actor’s link handler, or None if no crash is detected within the bound.

The wait is event-driven (parks on the exit notifier and is woken by the EXIT handler), not a poll loop. Used by tests to prove real detection.

fn receive_reply( &self, timeout: Duration, ) -> Result<MessageEnvelope, ServerError>

Receives the next reply the participant produced for this conversation, bounded by timeout.

A real participant processes each forwarded message and delivers a reply back through the conversation; this drains that reply. A trace-only or non-replying resource times out.

Errors

Returns ServerError when no reply arrives within timeout, the participant crashed, or the conversation is unavailable.

fn close(self: Box<Self>) -> Result<(), ServerError>

Releases or finishes the library conversation resource.

Errors

Returns ServerError when the liminal library reports a close failure.

Dyn Compatibility

This trait is dyn compatible.

In older versions of Rust, dyn compatibility was called "object safety".

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