velesdb_memory/error.rs
1//! Error type for the memory layer.
2
3#[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
4use velesdb_core::agent::AgentMemoryError;
5use velesdb_core::Error as CoreError;
6
7use crate::embedder::EmbedError;
8use crate::extract::ExtractError;
9use crate::rerank::RerankError;
10
11/// The transport-neutral class of a [`MemoryError`] — the single source of
12/// truth every adapter maps onto its own error channel (JSON-RPC code, napi
13/// status, `PyO3` exception type), so the taxonomy can never drift between them.
14#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
15pub enum ErrorCategory {
16 /// The caller supplied bad input (empty fact, reserved key, malformed
17 /// filter) — a 4xx-style fault.
18 InvalidInput,
19 /// A referenced memory id does not exist.
20 NotFound,
21 /// An internal storage / embedding / extraction failure — a 5xx-style fault.
22 Internal,
23}
24
25/// Errors returned by [`crate::service::MemoryService`].
26#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
27pub enum MemoryError {
28 /// Failure in the underlying `VelesDB` storage engine.
29 #[error("storage error: {0}")]
30 Storage(#[from] CoreError),
31
32 /// Failure in the Agent Memory SDK. Only constructible with the
33 /// `persistence` feature (the native, file-backed store) — a
34 /// `persistence`-free backend (e.g. `velesdb-wasm`'s in-memory one) never
35 /// touches `velesdb-core`'s `agent` module, so this variant can't arise.
36 #[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
37 #[error("memory error: {0}")]
38 Memory(#[from] AgentMemoryError),
39
40 /// A fact was empty or whitespace-only.
41 #[error("fact text must not be empty")]
42 EmptyFact,
43
44 /// A `remember` link or a `relate` endpoint referenced a memory id that
45 /// does not exist.
46 #[error("memory {0} does not exist")]
47 UnknownMemory(u64),
48
49 /// Caller metadata or a recall filter named a reserved key (`content` or a
50 /// `_veles_`-prefixed system key), which callers may not set or filter on.
51 #[error("metadata key '{0}' is reserved")]
52 ReservedKey(String),
53
54 /// Caller-supplied `metadata` (on `remember`/`remember_with_ttl` or a
55 /// context-compiler fragment) exceeded [`crate::limits::MAX_METADATA_BYTES`]
56 /// — a `DoS` guard, since metadata is a keyed lookup facet, not a payload.
57 #[error("metadata of {bytes} bytes exceeds the cap of {max} bytes")]
58 MetadataTooLarge {
59 /// The serialized size of the rejected metadata, in bytes.
60 bytes: usize,
61 /// The cap that was exceeded ([`crate::limits::MAX_METADATA_BYTES`]).
62 max: usize,
63 },
64
65 /// Failure producing a text embedding.
66 #[error("embedding error: {0}")]
67 Embed(#[from] EmbedError),
68
69 /// Failure extracting facts from raw text in
70 /// [`crate::service::MemoryService::remember_extracted`].
71 #[error("extraction error: {0}")]
72 Extract(#[from] ExtractError),
73
74 /// Failure reranking a fused-recall candidate pool in
75 /// [`crate::service::MemoryService::recall_fused_reranked`].
76 #[error("rerank error: {0}")]
77 Rerank(#[from] RerankError),
78
79 /// A fused-recall filter referenced a field name that is not a plain
80 /// identifier, named a reserved key, or carried a non-scalar value.
81 #[error("invalid filter field: {0}")]
82 InvalidFilter(String),
83
84 /// A relation label supplied to [`crate::service::MemoryService::relate`] or
85 /// a [`crate::model::Link`] in
86 /// [`crate::service::MemoryService::remember`] was invalid — empty, too long,
87 /// or contained non-printable characters.
88 #[error("invalid relation label: {0}")]
89 InvalidRelation(String),
90
91 /// A context-compile request carried a token budget that cannot hold any
92 /// context: zero, or not larger than the response reserve the policy
93 /// keeps aside for the model's answer.
94 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
95 #[error("token budget {budget} cannot hold any context (reserve {reserve})")]
96 ContextBudget {
97 /// The caller-supplied token budget.
98 budget: u64,
99 /// The response reserve the policy subtracts from the budget.
100 reserve: u64,
101 },
102
103 /// A context-compile request exceeded a resource cap from
104 /// [`crate::limits`] — too many fragments, or one fragment larger than
105 /// the per-fragment byte ceiling.
106 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
107 #[error("context request over limit: {0}")]
108 ContextOverLimit(String),
109
110 /// A `ctx://source/<hash>` handle was malformed or nothing is stored
111 /// under it (the source was never stored, expired, or was forgotten).
112 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
113 #[error("unknown context source handle: {0}")]
114 UnknownHandle(String),
115
116 /// A persisted working context could not be (de)serialized — the stored
117 /// payload predates or postdates this crate's schema.
118 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
119 #[error("working context codec error: {0}")]
120 WorkingContextCodec(String),
121
122 /// A `remember` link failed after the fact was stored AND the
123 /// compensating rollback delete also failed — unlike every other error
124 /// from `remember`, the fact **remains stored**. Both errors are
125 /// carried so the caller can see why the write failed and why the
126 /// cleanup couldn't undo it.
127 ///
128 /// Neither field is `#[source]` — deliberately: the `Display` message
129 /// already embeds both errors, and a source chain would double-print
130 /// them in chain-style reports (anyhow, miette). Match on the variant
131 /// to inspect the two errors programmatically.
132 #[error(
133 "link failed ({cause}); rollback delete also failed ({rollback}) — the fact remains stored"
134 )]
135 RollbackFailed {
136 /// The link failure that triggered the rollback.
137 cause: Box<MemoryError>,
138 /// The storage failure that prevented the rollback delete.
139 rollback: Box<MemoryError>,
140 },
141}
142
143impl MemoryError {
144 /// Classify this error into a transport-neutral [`ErrorCategory`]. Adapters
145 /// map the *category*, not the variant, so the client-facing taxonomy stays
146 /// identical across the MCP server and every binding.
147 #[must_use]
148 pub fn category(&self) -> ErrorCategory {
149 match self {
150 Self::EmptyFact
151 | Self::ReservedKey(_)
152 | Self::InvalidFilter(_)
153 | Self::InvalidRelation(_)
154 | Self::MetadataTooLarge { .. } => ErrorCategory::InvalidInput,
155 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
156 Self::ContextBudget { .. } | Self::ContextOverLimit(_) => ErrorCategory::InvalidInput,
157 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
158 Self::UnknownHandle(_) => ErrorCategory::NotFound,
159 #[cfg(feature = "context")]
160 Self::WorkingContextCodec(_) => ErrorCategory::Internal,
161 Self::UnknownMemory(_) => ErrorCategory::NotFound,
162 #[cfg(feature = "persistence")]
163 Self::Memory(_) => ErrorCategory::Internal,
164 Self::Storage(_) | Self::Embed(_) | Self::Extract(_) | Self::Rerank(_) => {
165 ErrorCategory::Internal
166 }
167 // The rollback failure is the storage-level fault that matters
168 // to a client: the write is in an unexpected state.
169 Self::RollbackFailed { .. } => ErrorCategory::Internal,
170 }
171 }
172}