Make `Context.started()` a type checked IPC send
As detailed in the surrounding notes, it's pretty advantageous to always have the child context task ensure the first msg it relays back is msg-type checked against the current spec and thus `MsgCodec`. Implement the check via a simple codec-roundtrip of the `Started` msg such that the `.pld` payload is always validated before transit. This ensures the child will fail early and notify the parent before any streaming takes place (i.e. the "nasty" dialog protocol phase). The main motivation here is to avoid inter-actor task syncing bugs that are hard(er) to recover from and/or such as if an invalid typed msg is sent to the parent, who then ignores it (depending on config), and then the child thinks the parent is in some presumed state while the parent is still thinking a first msg has yet to arrive. Doing the stringent check on the sender side (i.e. the child is sending the "first" application msg via `.started()`) avoids/sidesteps dealing with such syncing/coordinated-state problems by keeping the entire IPC dialog in a "cheap" or "control" style transaction up until a stream is opened. Iow, the parent task's `.open_context()` block entry can't occur until the child side is definitely (as much as is possible with IPC msg type checking) in a correct state spec wise. During any streaming phase in the dialog the msg-type-checking is NOT done for performance (the "nasty" protocol phase) and instead any type errors are relayed back from the receiving side. I'm still unsure whether to take the same approach on the `Return` msg, since at that point erroring early doesn't benefit the parent task if/when a msg-type error occurs? Definitely more to ponder and tinker out here.. Impl notes: - a gotcha with the roundtrip-codec-ed msg is that it often won't match the input `value` bc in the `msgpack` case many native python sequence/collection types will map to a common array type due to the surjection that `msgpack`'s type-sys imposes. - so we can't assert that `started == rt_started` but it may be useful to at least report the diff of the type-reduced payload so that the caller can at least be notified how the input `value` might be better type-casted prior to call, for ex. pre-casting to `list`s. - added a `._strict_started: bool` that could provide the stringent checking if desired in the future. - on any validation error raise our `MsgTypeError` from it. - ALSO change over the lingering `.send_yield()` deprecated meth body to use a `Yield()`.runtime_to_msgspec
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from functools import partial
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import inspect
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import msgspec
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from pprint import pformat
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from typing import (
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Any,
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Started,
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Stop,
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Yield,
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current_codec,
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MsgCodec,
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pretty_struct,
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)
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from ._ipc import Channel
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from ._streaming import MsgStream
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_in_overrun: bool = False
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_allow_overruns: bool = False
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# TODO: figure out how we can enforce this without losing our minds..
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_strict_started: bool = False
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def __str__(self) -> str:
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ds: str = '='
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DeprecationWarning,
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stacklevel=2,
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)
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await self.chan.send({'yield': data, 'cid': self.cid})
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# await self.chan.send({'yield': data, 'cid': self.cid})
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await self.chan.send(
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Yield(
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cid=self.cid,
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pld=data,
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)
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)
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async def send_stop(self) -> None:
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# await pause()
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f'called `.started()` twice on context with {self.chan.uid}'
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)
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# await self.chan.send(
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# {
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# 'started': value,
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# 'cid': self.cid,
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# }
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# )
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await self.chan.send(
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Started(
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cid=self.cid,
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pld=value,
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started = Started(
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cid=self.cid,
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pld=value,
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)
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# XXX MEGA NOTE XXX: ONLY on the first msg sent with
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# `Context.started()` do we STRINGENTLY roundtrip-check
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# the first payload such that the child side can't send an
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# incorrect value according to the currently applied
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# msg-spec!
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#
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# HOWEVER, once a stream is opened via
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# `Context.open_stream()` then this check is NEVER done on
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# `MsgStream.send()` and instead both the parent and child
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# sides are expected to relay back msg-type errors when
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# decode failures exhibit on `MsgStream.receive()` calls thus
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# enabling a so-called (by the holy 0mq lords)
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# "cheap-or-nasty pattern" un-protocol design Bo
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#
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# https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter7/#The-Cheap-or-Nasty-Pattern
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#
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codec: MsgCodec = current_codec()
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msg_bytes: bytes = codec.encode(started)
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try:
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# be a "cheap" dialog (see above!)
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rt_started = codec.decode(msg_bytes)
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if rt_started != started:
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# TODO: break these methods out from the struct subtype?
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diff = pretty_struct.Struct.__sub__(rt_started, started)
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complaint: str = (
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'Started value does not match after codec rountrip?\n\n'
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f'{diff}'
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# TODO: rn this will pretty much always fail with
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# any other sequence type embeded in the
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# payload...
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if self._strict_started:
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raise ValueError(complaint)
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else:
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log.warning(complaint)
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await self.chan.send(rt_started)
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# raise any msg type error NO MATTER WHAT!
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except msgspec.ValidationError as verr:
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from tractor._ipc import _raise_msg_type_err
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_raise_msg_type_err(
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msg=msg_bytes,
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codec=codec,
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validation_err=verr,
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verb_header='Trying to send payload'
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# > 'invalid `Started IPC msgs\n'
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)
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self._started_called = True
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async def _drain_overflows(
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