Pretty sure we haven't *needed it* for a while, it was always generally
hazardous in terms of IPC msg types, AND it's definitely incompatible
with a dynamically applied typed msg spec: you can't just expect
a `None` to be willy nilly handled all the time XD
For now I'm masking out all the code and leaving very detailed
surrounding notes but am not removing it quite yet in case for strange
reason it is needed by some edge case (though I haven't found according
to the test suite).
Backstory:
------ - ------
Originally (i'm pretty sure anyway) it was added as a super naive
"remote cancellation" mechanism (back before there were specific `Actor`
methods for such things) that was mostly (only?) used before IPC
`Channel` closures to "more gracefully cancel" the connection's parented
RPC tasks. Since we now have explicit runtime-RPC endpoints for
conducting remote cancellation of both tasks and full actors, it should
really be removed anyway, because:
- a `None`-msg setinel is inconsistent with other RPC endpoint handling
input patterns which (even prior to typed msging) had specific
msg-value triggers.
- the IPC endpoint's (block) implementation should use
`Actor.cancel_rpc_tasks(parent_chan=chan)` instead of a manual loop
through a `Actor._rpc_tasks.copy()`..
Deats:
- mask the `Channel.send(None)` calls from both the `Actor._stream_handler()` tail
as well as from the `._portal.open_portal()` was connected block.
- mask the msg loop endpoint block and toss in lotsa notes.
Unrelated tweaks:
- drop `Actor._debug_mode`; unused.
- make `Actor.cancel_server()` return a `bool`.
- use `.msg.pretty_struct.Struct.pformat()` to show any msg that is
ignored (bc invalid) in `._push_result()`.
Add both the `.send()` and `.recv()` handling blocks to a common
`_raise_msg_type_err()` which includes detailed error msg formatting:
- the `.recv()` side case does introspection of the `Msg` fields and
attempting to report the exact (field type related) issue
- `.send()` side does some boxed-error style tb formatting like
`RemoteActorError`.
- add a `strict_types: bool` to `.send()` to allow for just
warning on bad inputs versus raising, but always raise from any
`Encoder` type error.
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()`.
Such that the current `kwargs: dict` field can eventually be strictly
msg-typed (eventually directly from a `@context` def) using modern typed
python's hippest syntactical approach B)
Also proto a new `CancelAck(Return)` subtype msg for supporting msg-spec
agnostic `Actor.cancel_xx()` method calls in the runtime such that
a user can't break cancellation (and thus SC) by dynamically setting
a codec that doesn't allow `bool` results (as an eg. in this case).
Note that the msg isn't used yet in `._rpc` but that's a comin!
Since I needed the `break_ipc()` helper from the
`examples/advanced_faults/ipc_failure_during_stream.py` used in the
`test_advanced_faults` suite, might as well move it into a pkg-wide
importable module. Also changed the default break method to be
`socket_close` which just calls `Stream.socket.close()` underneath in
`trio`.
Also tweak that example to not keep sending after the stream has been
broken since with new `trio` that will raise `ClosedResourceError` and
in the wrapping test we generally speaking want to see a hang and then
cancel via simulated user sent SIGINT/ctl-c.
Yes, this is "the switch" and will likely cause the test suite to bail
until a few more fixes some in.
Tweaked a couple `.msg` pkg exports:
- remove `__spec__` (used by modules) and change it to `__msg_types:
lists[Msg]` as well as add a new `__msg_spec__: TypeAlias`, being the
default `Any` paramed spec.
- tweak the naming of `msg.types` lists of runtime vs payload msgs to:
`._runtime_msgs` and `._payload_msgs`.
- just build `__msg_types__` out of the above 2 lists.
Since `contextvars.ContextVar` seems to reset to the default in every
new task, switching to using `trio.lowlevel.RunVar` kinda gets close to
what we'd like where a child scope can override what's in the rent but
ideally without modifying the rent's. I tried `tricycle.TreeVar` as well
but it also seems to reset across (embedded) nurseries in our runtime;
need to try it again bc apparently that's not how it's suppose to work?
NOTE that for now i'm keeping the `.msg.types._ctxvar_MsgCodec` set to
the `msgspec` default (`Any` types) so that the test suite will still
pass until the runtime is ported to the new msg-spec + codec.
Surrounding and in support of all this the `Msg`-set impl deats changed
a bit as well as various stuff in `.msg` sub-mods:
- drop the `.pld` struct types for `Error`, `Start`, `StartAck` since we
don't really need the `.pld` payload field in those cases since
they're runtime control msgs for starting RPC tasks and handling
remote errors; we can just put the fields directly on each msg since
the user will never want/need to override the `.pld` field type.
- add a couple new runtime msgs and include them in `msg.__spec__`
and make them NOT inherit from `Msg` since they are runtime-specific
and thus have no need for `.pld` type constraints:
- `Aid` the actor-id identity handshake msg.
- `SpawnSpec`: the spawn data passed from a parent actor down to a
a child in `Actor._from_parent()` for which we need a shuttle
protocol msg, so might as well make it a pendatic one ;)
- fix some `Actor.uid` field types that were type-borked on `Error`
- add notes about how we need built-in `debug_mode` msgs in order to
avoid msg-type errors when using the TTY lock machinery and
a different `.pld` spec then the default `Any` is in use..
-> since `devx._debug.lock_tty_for_child()` and it's client side
`wait_for_parent_stdin_hijack()` use `Context.started('Locked')`
and `MsgStream.send('pdb_unlock')` string values as their `.pld`
contents we'd need to either always do a `ipc_pld_spec | str` or
pre-define some dedicated `Msg` types which get `Union`-ed in
for this?
- break out `msg.pretty_struct.Struct._sin_props()` into a helper func
`iter_fields()` since the impl doesn't require a struct instance.
- as mentioned above since `ContextVar` didn't work as anticipated
I next tried `tricycle.TreeVar` but that too didn't seem to keep
the `apply_codec()` setting intact across
`Portal.open_context()`/`Context.open_stream()` (it kept reverting to
the default `.pld: Any` default setting) so I finalized on
a trio.lowlevel.RunVar` for now despite it basically being
a `global`..
-> will probably come back to test this with `TreeVar` and some hot
tips i picked up from @mikenerone in the `trio` gitter, which i put in
comments surrounding proto-code.
Only warn log on a non-`trio` async lib when in the main thread to
avoid a name error when in the non-`asyncio` non-main-thread case.
=> To cherry into the `.pause_from_sync()` feature branch.
Turns out the generics based payload speccing API, as in
https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/supported-types.html#generic-types,
DOES WORK properly as long as we don't rely on inheritance from `Msg`
a parent `Generic`..
So let's get real pedantic in the `mk_msg_spec()` internals as well as
verification in the test suite!
Fixes in `.msg.types`:
- implement (as part of tinker testing) multiple spec union building
methods via a `spec_build_method: str` to `mk_msg_spec()` and leave a
buncha notes around what did and didn't work:
- 'indexed_generics' is the only method THAT WORKS and the one that
you'd expect being closest to the `msgspec` docs (link above).
- 'defstruct' using dynamically defined msgs => doesn't work!
- 'types_new_class' using dynamically defined msgs but with
`types.new_clas()` => ALSO doesn't work..
- explicitly separate the `.pld` type-constrainable by user code msg
set into `types._payload_spec_msgs` putting the others in
a `types._runtime_spec_msgs` and the full set defined as `.__spec__`
(moving it out of the pkg-mod and back to `.types` as well).
- for the `_payload_spec_msgs` msgs manually make them inherit `Generic[PayloadT]`
and (redunantly) define a `.pld: PayloadT` field.
- make `IpcCtxSpec.functype` an in line `Literal`.
- toss in some TODO notes about choosing a better `Msg.cid` type.
Fixes/tweaks around `.msg._codec`:
- rename `MsgCodec.ipc/pld_msg_spec` -> `.msg/pld_spec`
- make `._enc/._dec` non optional fields
- wow, ^facepalm^ , make sure `._ipc.MsgpackTCPStream.__init__()` uses
`mk_codec()` since `MsgCodec` can't be (easily) constructed directly.
Get more detailed in testing:
- inside the `chk_pld_type()` helper ensure `roundtrip` is always set to
some value, `None` by default but a bool depending on legit outcome.
- drop input `generic`; no longer used.
- drop the masked `typedef` loop from `Msg.__subclasses__()`.
- for add an `expect_roundtrip: bool` and use to jump into debugger
when any expectation doesn't match the outcome.
- use new `MsgCodec` field names (as per first section above).
- ensure the encoded msg matches the decoded one from both the ad-hoc
decoder and codec loaded values.
- ensure the pld checking is only applied to msgs in the
`types._payload_spec_msgs` set by `typef.__name__` filtering
since `mk_msg_spec()` now returns the full `.types.Msg` set.
Instead just instantiate `msgpack.Encoder/Decoder` instances inside
`mk_codec()` and assign them directly as `._enc/._dec` fields.
Explicitly take in named-args to both and proxy to the coder/decoder
instantiation calls directly.
Shuffling some codec internals:
- rename `mk_codec()` inputs as `ipc_msg_spec` and `ipc_pld_spec`, make
them mutex such that a payload type spec can't be passed if the
built-in msg-spec isn't used.
=> expose `MsgCodec.ipc_pld_spec` directly from `._dec.type`
=> presume input `ipc_msg_spec` is `Any` by default when no
`ipc_pld_spec` is passed since we have no way atm to enable
a similar type-restricted-payload feature without a wrapping
"shuttle protocol" ;)
- move all the payload-sub-decoders stuff prototyped in GH#311
(inside `.types`) to `._codec` as commented-for-later-maybe `MsgCodec`
methods including:
- `.mk_pld_subdec()` for registering
- `.enc/dec_payload()` for sub-codec field loading.
- also comment out `._codec.mk_tagged_union_dec()` as the orig
tag-to-decoder table factory, now mostly superseded by
`.types.mk_msg_spec()` which takes the generic parameterizing approach
instead.
- change naming to `types.mk_msg_spec(payload_type_union)` input, making
it more explicit that it expects a `Union[Type]`.
Oh right, and start exposing all the `.types.Msg` subtypes in the `.msg`
subpkg in prep for usage throughout the runtime B)
Re-arranging such that element-orders are line-arranged to our new
IPC `.msg.types.Msg` fields spec in prep for replacing the current
`dict`-as-msg impls with the `msgspec.Struct` native versions!
As per the long outstanding GH issue this starts our rigorous journey
into an attempt at a type-safe, cross-actor SC, IPC protocol Bo
boop -> https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/36
The idea is to "formally" define our SC "shuttle (dialog) protocol" by
specifying a new `.msg.types.Msg` subtype-set which can fully
encapsulate all IPC msg schemas needed in order to accomplish
cross-process SC!
The msg set deviated a little in terms of (type) names from the existing
`dict`-msgs currently used in the runtime impl but, I think the name
changes are much better in terms of explicitly representing the internal
semantics of the actor runtime machinery/subsystems and the
IPC-msg-dialog required for SC enforced RPC.
------ - ------
In cursory, the new formal msgs-spec includes the following msg-subtypes
of a new top-level `Msg` boxing type (that holds the base field schema
for all msgs):
- `Start` to request RPC task scheduling by passing a `FuncSpec` payload
(to replace the currently used `{'cmd': ... }` dict msg impl)
- `StartAck` to allow the RPC task callee-side to report a `IpcCtxSpec`
payload immediately back to the caller (currently responded naively via
a `{'functype': ... }` msg)
- `Started` to deliver the first value from `Context.started()`
(instead of the existing `{'started': ... }`)
- `Yield` to shuttle `MsgStream.send()`-ed values (instead of
our `{'yield': ... }`)
- `Stop` to terminate a `Context.open_stream()` session/block
(over `{'stop': True }`)
- `Return` to deliver the final value from the `Actor.start_remote_task()`
(which is a `{'return': ... }`)
- `Error` to box `RemoteActorError` exceptions via a `.pld: ErrorData`
payload, planned to replace/extend the current `RemoteActorError.msgdata`
mechanism internal to `._exceptions.pack/unpack_error()`
The new `tractor.msg.types` includes all the above msg defs as well an API
for rendering a "payload type specification" using a
`payload_type_spec: Union[Type]` that can be passed to
`msgspec.msgpack.Decoder(type=payload_type_spec)`. This ensures that
(for a subset of the above msg set) `Msg.pld: PayloadT` data is
type-parameterized using `msgspec`'s new `Generic[PayloadT]` field
support and thus enables providing for an API where IPC `Context`
dialogs can strictly define the allowed payload-datatype-set via type
union!
Iow, this is the foundation for supporting `Channel`/`Context`/`MsgStream`
IPC primitives which are type checked/safe as desired in GH issue:
- https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/365
Misc notes on current impl(s) status:
------ - ------
- add a `.msg.types.mk_msg_spec()` which uses the new `msgspec` support
for `class MyStruct[Struct, Generic[T]]` parameterize-able fields and
delivers our boxing SC-msg-(sub)set with the desired `payload_types`
applied to `.pld`:
- https://jcristharif.com/msgspec/supported-types.html#generic-types
- as a note this impl seems to need to use `type.new_class()` dynamic
subtype generation, though i don't really get *why* still.. but
without that the `msgspec.msgpack.Decoder` doesn't seem to reject
`.pld` limited `Msg` subtypes as demonstrated in the new test.
- around this ^ add a `.msg._codec.limit_msg_spec()` cm which exposes
this payload type limiting API such that it can be applied per task
via a `MsgCodec` in app code.
- the orig approach in https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/pull/311 was
the idea of making payload fields `.pld: Raw` wherein we could have
per-field/sub-msg decoders dynamically loaded depending on the
particular application-layer schema in use. I don't want to lose the
idea of this since I think it might be useful for an idea I have about
capability-based-fields(-sharing, maybe using field-subset
encryption?), and as such i've kept the (ostensibly) working impls in
TODO-comments in `.msg._codec` wherein maybe we can add
a `MsgCodec._payload_decs: dict` table for this later on.
|_ also left in the `.msg.types.enc/decmsg()` impls but renamed as
`enc/dec_payload()` (but reworked to not rely on the lifo codec
stack tables; now removed) such that we can prolly move them to
`MsgCodec` methods in the future.
- add an unused `._codec.mk_tagged_union_dec()` helper which was
originally factored out the #311 proto-code but didn't end up working
as desired with the new parameterized generic fields approach (now
in `msg.types.mk_msg_spec()`)
Testing/deps work:
------ - ------
- new `test_limit_msgspec()` which ensures all the `.types` content is
correct but without using the wrapping APIs in `._codec`; i.e. using
a in-line `Decoder` instead of a `MsgCodec`.
- pin us to `msgspec>=0.18.5` which has the needed generic-types support
(which took me way too long yester to figure out when implementing all
this XD)!
Leave all the proto native struct-msg stuff in `.types` since i'm
thinking it's the right name for the mod that will hold all the built-in
SCIPP msgspecs longer run. Obvi the naive codec stack stuff needs to be
cleaned out/up and anything useful moved into `._codec` ;)
The greasy details are strewn throughout a `msgspec` issue:
https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec/issues/140
and specifically this code was mostly written as part of POC example in
this comment:
https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec/issues/140#issuecomment-1177850792
This work obviously pertains to our desire and prep for typed messaging
and capabilities aware msg-oriented-protocols in #196. I added a "wants
to have" method to `Context` showing how I think we could offer a pretty
neat msg-type-set-as-capability-for-protocol system.
XXX NOTE XXX: this commit was rewritten during a rebase from a very old
version as per the prior commit.
XXX NOTE XXX: this is a heavily modified commit from the original
(ec226463) which was super out of date when rebased onto the current
branch. I went through a manual conflict rework and removed all the
legacy segments as well as rename-moved this original mod
`tractor.msg.py` -> `tractor.msg/_old_msg.py`. Further the
`NamespacePath` type def was discarded from this mod since it was from
a super old version which was already moved to a `.msg.ptr` submod.
As per original questions and discussion with `msgspec` author:
- https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec/issues/25
- https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec/issues/140
this prototypes a new (but very naive) `msgspec.Struct` codec
implementation which will be more filled out in the next commit.
Fitting in line with the issues outstanding:
- #36: (msg)spec-ing out our SCIPP (structured-con-inter-proc-prot).
(https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/36)
- #196: adding strictly typed IPC msg dialog schemas, more or less
better described as "dialog/transaction scoped message specs"
using `msgspec`'s tagged unions and custom codecs.
(https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/196)
- #365: using modern static type-annots to drive capability based
messaging and RPC.
(statically https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/365)
This is a first draft of a new API for dynamically overriding IPC msg
codecs for a given interchange lib from any task in the runtime. Right
now we obviously only support `msgspec` but ideally this API holds
general enough to be used for other backends eventually (like
`capnproto`, and apache arrow).
Impl is in a new `tractor.msg._codec` with:
- a new `MsgCodec` type for encapsing `msgspec.msgpack.Encoder/Decoder`
pairs and configuring any custom enc/dec_hooks or typed decoding.
- factory `mk_codec()` for creating new codecs ad-hoc from a task.
- `contextvars` support for a new `trio.Task` scoped
`_ctxvar_MsgCodec: ContextVar[MsgCodec]` named 'msgspec_codec'.
- `apply_codec()` for temporarily modifying the above per task
as needed around `.open_context()` / `.open_stream()` operation.
A new test (suite) in `test_caps_msging.py`:
- verify a parent and its child can enable the same custom codec (in
this case to transmit `NamespacePath`s) with tons of pedantic ctx-vars
checks.
- ToDo: still need to implement #36 msg types in order to be able to get
decodes working (as in `MsgStream.receive()` will deliver an already
created `NamespacePath` obj) since currently all msgs come packed in `dict`-msg
wrapper packets..
-> use the proto from PR #35 to get nested `msgspec.Raw` processing up
and running Bo
By simply allowing an input `codec: tuple` of funcs for now to the
`MsgpackTCPStream` transport but, ideally wrapping this in a `Codec`
type with an API for dynamic extension of the interchange lib's msg
processing settings. Right now we're tied to `msgspec.msgpack` for this
transport but with the right design this can likely extend to other libs
in the future.
Relates to starting feature work toward #36, #196, #365.
It's **almost** there, we're just missing the final translation code to
get from an `asyncio` side task to be able to call
`.devx._debug..wait_for_parent_stdin_hijack()` to do root actor TTY
locking. Then we just need to ensure internals also do the right thing
with `greenback()` for equivalent sync `breakpoint()` style pause
points.
Since i'm deferring this until later, tossing in some xfail tests to
`test_infected_asyncio` with TODOs for the needed implementation as well
as eventual test org.
By "provision" it means we add:
- `greenback` init block to `_run_asyncio_task()` when debug mode is
enabled (but which will currently rte when `asyncio` is detected)
using `.bestow_portal()` around the `asyncio.Task`.
- a call to `_debug.maybe_init_greenback()` in the `run_as_asyncio_guest()`
guest-mode entry point.
- as part of `._debug.Lock.is_main_trio_thread()` whenever the async-lib
is not 'trio' error lock the backend name (which is obvi `'asyncio'`
in this use case).
In the particular case of the `Portal.open_context().__aexit__()` frame,
due to usage of `contextlib.asynccontextmanager`, we can't easily hook
into monkeypatching a `__tracebackhide__` set nor catch-n-reraise around
the block exit without defining our own `.__aexit__()` impl. Thus, it's
prolly most sane to do something with an override of
`contextlib._AsyncGeneratorContextManager` or the public exposed
`AsyncContextDecorator` (which uses the former internally right?).
Also fixup some old `._invoke` mod paths in comments and just show
`str(eoc)` in `.open_stream().__aexit__()` terminated-by-EoC log msg
since the `repr()` form won't pprint the IPC msg nicely..
Change the name to `Lock.is_main_trio_thread()` indicating that when
`True` the thread is both the main one **and** the one that called
`trio.run()`. Add a todo for just copying the
`trio._util.is_main_thread()` impl (since it's private / may change) and
some brief notes about potential usage of
`trio.from_thread.check_cancelled()` to detect non-`.to_thread` thread
spawns.
Now supports use from any `trio` task, any sync thread started with
`trio.to_thread.run_sync()` AND also via `breakpoint()` builtin API!
The only bit missing now is support for `asyncio` tasks when in infected
mode.. Bo
`greenback` setup/API adjustments:
- move `._rpc.maybe_import_gb()` to -> `devx._debug` and factor out the cached
import checking into a sync func whilst placing the async `.ensure_portal()`
bootstrapping into a new async `maybe_init_greenback()`.
- use the new init-er func inside `open_root_actor()` with the output
predicating whether we override the `breakpoint()` hook.
core `devx._debug` implementation deatz:
- make `mk_mpdb()` only return the `pdp.Pdb` subtype instance since
the sigint unshielding func is now accessible from the `Lock`
singleton from anywhere.
- add non-main thread support (at least for `trio.to_thread` use cases)
to our `Lock` with a new `.is_trio_thread()` predicate that delegates
directly to `trio`'s internal version.
- do `Lock.is_trio_thread()` checks inside any methods which require
special provisions when invoked from a non-main `trio` thread:
- `.[un]shield_sigint()` methods since `signal.signal` usage is only
allowed from cpython's main thread.
- `.release()` since `trio.StrictFIFOLock` can only be called from
a `trio` task.
- rework `.pause_from_sync()` itself to directly call `._set_trace()`
and don't bother with `greenback._await()` when we're already calling
it from a `.to_thread.run_sync()` thread, oh and try to use the
thread/task name when setting `Lock.local_task_in_debug`.
- make it an RTE for now if you try to use `.pause_from_sync()` from any
infected-`asyncio` task, but support is (hopefully) coming soon!
For testing we add a new `test_debugger.py::test_pause_from_sync()`
which includes a ctrl-c parametrization around the
`examples/debugging/sync_bp.py` script which includes all currently
supported/working usages:
- `tractor.pause_from_sync()`.
- via `breakpoint()` overload.
- from a `trio.to_thread.run_sync()` spawn.
This is what was breaking the nested debugger test (where it was failing
on the traceback content matching) and it makes sense.. XD
=> We always want to use the locally boxed `RemoteActorError`'s
traceback content NOT overwrite it with that from the src actor..
Also gets rid of setting the `'relay_uid'` since it's pulled from the
final element in the `'relay_path'` anyway.
I swear long ago it used to operate this way but, I guess this finalizes
the design decision. It makes a lot more sense to *not* propagate any
`trio.EndOfChannel` raised from a `Context.open_stream() as stream:`
block when that EoC is due to graceful-explicit stream termination.
We use the EoC much like a `StopAsyncIteration` where the error
indicates termination of the stream due to either:
- reception of a stop IPC msg indicating the far end ended the stream
(gracecfully),
- closure of the underlying `Context._recv_chan` either by the runtime
or due to user code having called `MsgStream.aclose()`.
User code shouldn't expect to handle EoC outside the block since the
`@acm` having closed should indicate the exactly same lifetime state
(of said stream) ;)
Deats:
- add special EoC handler in `.open_stream()` which silently "absorbs"
the error only when the stream is already marked as closed (meaning
the EoC indeed corresponds to IPC closure) with an assert for now
ensuring the error is the same as set to `MsgStream._eoc`.
- in `MsgStream.receive()` break up the handlers for EoC and
`trio.ClosedResourceError` since the error instances are saved to
different variables and we **don't** want to rewrite the exception in
the eoc case (normally to mask `trio` internals in tbs) bc we need the
instance to be the exact one for doing checks inside
`.open_stream().__aexit__()` to absorb it.
Other surrounding "improvements":
- start using the new `Context.maybe_raise()` helper where it can easily
replace existing equivalent block-sections.
- use new `RemoteActorError.src_uid` as required.
The misname of `._boxed_type` as `._src_type` was only manifesting as
a reallly strange boxing error with a packed exception-group, not sure
how or why only that but it's fixed now XD
Start refining/cleaning out stuff for sure we don't need (based on
multiple local test runs):
- discard `.src_actor_uid` fully since test set has been moved over to
`.src_uid`; this means also removing the `.msgdata` insertion from
`pack_error()`; a patch to all internals is coming next obvi!
- don't pass `boxed_type` to `RemoteActorError.__init__()` from
`unpack_error()` since it's now set directly via the
`.msgdata["boxed_type_str"]`/`error_msg: dict` input , but in the case
where **it is passed as an arg** (only for ctxc in `._rpc._invoke()`
rn) make sure we only do the `.__init__()` insert when `boxed_type is
not None`.
Since adding more complex inter-peer (actor) testing scenarios, we
definitely have an immediate need for `trio`'s style of "inceptions" but
for nesting `RemoteActorError`s as they're relayed through multiple
actor-IPC hops. So for example, a remote error relayed "through" some
proxy actor to another ends up packing a `RemoteActorError` into another
one such that there are 2 layers of RAEs with the first
containing/boxing an original src actor error (type).
In support of this extension to `RemoteActorError` we add:
- `get_err_type()` error type resolver helper (factored fromthe
body of `unpack_error()`) to be used whenever rendering
`.src_type`/`.boxed_type`.
- `.src_type_str: str` which is pulled from `.msgdata` and holds the
above (eventually when unpacked) type as `str`.
- `._src_type: BaseException|None` for the original
"source" actor's error as unpacked in any remote (actor's) env and
exposed as a readonly property `.src_type`.
- `.boxed_type_str: str` the same as above but for the "last" boxed
error's type; when the RAE is unpacked at its first hop this will
be **the same as** `.src_type_str`.
- `._boxed_type: BaseException` which now similarly should be "rendered"
from the below type-`str` field instead of passed in as a error-type
via `boxed_type` (though we still do for the ctxc case atm, see
notes).
|_ new sanity checks in `.__init__()` mostly as a reminder to handle
that ^ ctxc case ^ more elegantly at some point..
|_ obvi we discard the previous `suberror_type` input arg.
- fully remove the `.type`/`.type_str` properties instead expecting
usage of `.boxed_/.src_` equivalents.
- start deprecation of `.src_actor_uid` and make it delegate to new
`.src_uid`
- add `.relay_uid` propery for the last relay/hop's actor uid.
- add `.relay_path: list[str]` which holds the per-hop updated sequence
of relay actor uid's which consecutively did boxing of an RAE.
- only include `.src_uid` and `.relay_path` in reprol() output.
- factor field-to-str rendering into a new `_mk_fields_str()`
and use it in `.__repr__()`/`.reprol()`.
- add an `.unwrap()` to (attempt to) render the src error.
- rework `pack_error()` to handle inceptions including,
- packing the correct field-values for the new `boxed_type_str`, `relay_uid`,
`src_uid`, `src_type_str`.
- always updating the `relay_path` sequence with the uid of the
current actor.
- adjust `unpack_error()` to match all these changes,
- pulling `boxed_type_str` and passing any resolved `boxed_type` to
`RemoteActorError.__init__()`.
- use the new `Context.maybe_raise()` convenience method.
Adjust `._rpc` packing to `ContextCancelled(boxed_type=trio.Cancelled)`
and tweak some more log msg formats.
- `trio_typing` is nearly obsolete since `trio >= 0.23`
- `exceptiongroup` is built-in to python 3.11
- `async_generator` primitives have lived in `contextlib` for quite
a while!
Since `._runtime` was getting pretty long (> 2k LOC) and much of the RPC
low-level machinery is fairly isolated to a handful of task-funcs, it
makes sense to re-org the RPC task scheduling and driving msg loop to
its own code space.
The move includes:
- `process_messages()` which is the main IPC business logic.
- `try_ship_error_to_remote()` helper, to box local errors for the wire.
- `_invoke()`, the core task scheduler entrypoing used in the msg loop.
- `_invoke_non_context()`, holds impls for non-`@context` task starts.
- `_errors_relayed_via_ipc()` which does all error catch-n-boxing for
wire-msg shipment using `try_ship_error_to_remote()` internally.
Also inside `._runtime` improve some `Actor` methods docs.
Finally, since normally you need the content from `._context.Context`
and surroundings in order to effectively grok `Portal.open_context()`
anyways, might as well move the impl to the ctx module as
`open_context_from_portal()` and just bind it on the `Portal` class def.
Associated/required tweaks:
- avoid circ import on `.devx` by only import
`.maybe_wait_for_debugger()` when debug mode is set.
- drop `async_generator` usage, not sure why this hadn't already been
changed to `contextlib`?
- use `@acm` alias throughout `._portal`
Previously i was trying to approach this using lots of
`__tracebackhide__`'s in various internal funcs but since it's not
exactly straight forward to do this inside core deps like `trio` and the
stdlib, it makes a bit more sense to optionally catch and re-raise
certain classes of errors from their originals using `raise from` syntax
as per:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#exception-context
Deats:
- litter `._context` methods with `__tracebackhide__`/`hide_tb` which
were previously being shown but that don't need to be to application
code now that cancel semantics testing is finished up.
- i originally did the same but later commented it all out in `._ipc`
since error catch and re-raise instead in higher level layers
(above the transport) seems to be a much saner approach.
- add catch-n-reraise-from in `MsgStream.send()`/.`receive()` to avoid
seeing the depths of `trio` and/or our `._ipc` layers on comms errors.
Further this patch adds some refactoring to use the
same remote-error shipper routine from both the actor-core in the RPC
invoker:
- rename it as `try_ship_error_to_remote()` and call it from
`._invoke()` as well as it's prior usage.
- make it optionally accept `cid: str` a `remote_descr: str` and of
course a `hide_tb: bool`.
Other misc tweaks:
- add some todo notes around `Actor.load_modules()` debug hooking.
- tweak the zombie reaper log msg and timeout value ;)
Since importing from our top level `conftest.py` is not scaleable
or as "future forward thinking" in terms of:
- LoC-wise (it's only one file),
- prevents "external" (aka non-test) example scripts from importing
content easily,
- seemingly(?) can't be used via abs-import if using
a `[tool.pytest.ini_options]` in a `pyproject.toml` vs.
a `pytest.ini`, see:
https://docs.pytest.org/en/8.0.x/reference/customize.html#pyproject-toml)
=> Go back to having an internal "testing" pkg like `trio` (kinda) does.
Deats:
- move generic top level helpers into pkg-mod including the new
`expect_ctxc()` (which i needed in the advanced faults testing script.
- move `@tractor_test` into `._testing.pytest` sub-mod.
- adjust all the helper imports to be a `from tractor._testing import <..>`
Rework `test_ipc_channel_break_during_stream()` and backing script:
- make test(s) pull `debug_mode` from new fixture (which is now
controlled manually from `--tpdb` flag) and drop the previous
parametrized input.
- update logic in ^ test for "which-side-fails" cases to better match
recently updated/stricter cancel/failure semantics in terms of
`ClosedResouruceError` vs. `EndOfChannel` expectations.
- handle `ExceptionGroup`s with expected embedded errors in test.
- better pendantics around whether to expect a user simulated KBI.
- for `examples/advanced_faults/ipc_failure_during_stream.py` script:
- generalize ipc breakage in new `break_ipc()` with support for diff
internal `trio` methods and a #TODO for future disti frameworks
- only make one sub-actor task break and the other just stream.
- use new `._testing.expect_ctxc()` around ctx block.
- add a bit of exception handling with `print()`s around ctxc (unused
except if 'msg' break method is set) and eoc cases.
- don't break parent side ipc in loop any more then once
after first break, checked via flag var.
- add a `pre_close: bool` flag to control whether
`MsgStreama.aclose()` is called *before* any ipc breakage method.
Still TODO:
- drop `pytest.ini` and add the alt section to `pyproject.py`.
-> currently can't get `--rootdir=` opt to work.. not showing in
console header.
-> ^ also breaks on 'tests' `enable_modules` imports in subactors
during discovery tests?
Found exactly why trying this won't work when playing around with
opening workspaces in `modden` using a `Portal.open_context()` back to
the 'bigd' root actor: the RPC machinery only registers one entry in
`Actor._contexts` which will get overwritten by each task's side and
then experience race-based IPC msging errors (eg. rxing `{'started': _}`
on the callee side..). Instead make opening a ctx back to the self-actor
a runtime error describing it as an invalid op.
To match:
- add a new test `test_ctx_with_self_actor()` to the context semantics
suite.
- tried out adding a new `side: str` to the `Actor.get_context()` (and
callers) but ran into not being able to determine the value from in
`._push_result()` where it's needed to figure out which side to push
to.. So, just leaving the commented arg (passing) in the runtime core
for now in case we can come back to trying to make it work, tho i'm
thinking it's not the right hack anyway XD
Call it `allow_msg_keys: list[str] = ['yield']` and set it to accept
`['yield', 'return']` from the drain loop in `.aclose()`. Only pass the
last key error to `_raise_from_no_key_in_msg()` in the fall-through
case.
Somehow this seems to prevent all the intermittent test failures i was
seeing in local runs including when running the entire suite all in
sequence; i ain't complaining B)
Much like similar recent changes throughout the core, build out `msg:
str` depending on error cases and emit with `.cancel()` level as
appropes. Also mute (via level) some duplication in the cancel case
inside `_run_asyncio_task()` for console noise reduction.
Since apparently `str(KeyboardInterrupt()) == ''`? So instead add little
`<str> or repr(merr)` expressions throughout to avoid blank strings
rendering if various `repr()`/`.__str__()` outputs..
Such that it's set to whatever `Actor.reg_addrs: list[tuple]` is during
the actor's init-after-spawn guaranteeing each actor has at least the
registry infos from its parent. Ensure we read this if defined over
`_root._default_lo_addrs` in `._discovery` routines, namely
`.find_actor()` since it's the one API normally used without expecting
the runtime's `current_actor()` to be up.
Update the latest inter-peer cancellation test to use the `reg_addr`
fixture (and thus test this new runtime-vars value via `find_actor()`
usage) since it was failing if run *after* the infected `asyncio` suite
due to registry contact failure.
Not sure if it's really that useful other then for reporting errors from
`current_actor()` but at least it alerts `tractor` devs and/or users
when the runtime has already terminated vs. hasn't been started
yet/correctly.
Set the `._last_actor_terminated: tuple` in the root's final block which
allows testing for an already terminated tree which is the case where
`._state._current_actor == None` and the last is set.
We're passing a `extra_frames_up_when_async=2` now (from prior attempt
to hide `CancelScope.__exit__()` when `shield=True`) and thus both
`debug_func`s must accept it 🤦
On the brighter side found out that the `TypeError` from the call-sig
mismatch was actually being swallowed entirely so add some
`.exception()` msgs for such cases to at least alert the dev they broke
stuff XD
Changes the condition logic to be more strict and moves it to a private
`._is_self_cancelled() -> bool` predicate which can be used elsewhere
(instead of having almost similar duplicate checks all over the
place..) and allows taking in a specific `remote_error` just for
verification purposes (like for tests).
Main strictness distinctions are now:
- obvi that `.cancel_called` is set (this filters any
`Portal.cancel_actor()` or other out-of-band RPC),
- the received `ContextCancelled` **must** have its `.canceller` set to
this side's `Actor.uid` (indicating we are the requester).
- `.src_actor_uid` **must** be the same as the `.chan.uid` (so the error
must have originated from the opposite side's task.
- `ContextCancelled.canceller` should be already set to the `.chan.uid`
indicating we received the msg via the runtime calling
`._deliver_msg()` -> `_maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()` which
ensures the error is specifically destined for this ctx-task exactly
the same as how `Actor._cancel_task()` sets it from an input
`requesting_uid` arg.
In support of the above adjust some impl deats:
- add `Context._actor: Actor` which is set once in `mk_context()` to
avoid issues (particularly in testing) where `current_actor()` raises
after the root actor / runtime is already exited. Use `._actor.uid` in
both `.cancel_acked` (obvi) and '_maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()`
when deciding whether to call `._scope.cancel()`.
- always cast `.canceller` to `tuple` if not null.
- delegate `.cancel_acked` directly to new private predicate (obvi).
- always set `._canceller` from any `RemoteActorError.src_actor_uid` or
failing over to the `.chan.uid` when a non-remote error (tho that
shouldn't ever happen right?).
- more extensive doc-string for `.cancel()` detailing the new strictness
rules about whether an eventual `.cancel_acked` might be set.
Also tossed in even more logging format tweaks by adding a
`type_only: bool` to `.repr_outcome()` as desired for simpler output in
the `state: <outcome-repr-here>` and `.repr_rpc()` sections of the
`.__str__()`.
Like how we set `Context._cancel_msg` in `._deliver_msg()` (in
which case normally it's an `{'error': ..}` msg), do the same when any
RPC task is remotely cancelled via `Actor._cancel_task` where that task
doesn't yet have a cancel msg set yet.
This makes is much easier to distinguish between ctx cancellations due
to some remote error vs. Explicit remote requests via any of
`Actor.cancel()`, `Portal.cancel_actor()` or `Context.cancel()`.
It's been on the todo for a while and I've given up trying to properly
hide the `trio.CancelScope.__exit__()` frame for now instead opting to
just `log.pdb()` a big apology XD
Users can obvi still just not use the flag and wrap `tractor.pause()` in
their own cs block if they want to avoid having to hit `'up'` in the pdb
REPL if needed in a cancelled task-scope.
Impl deatz:
- factor orig `.pause()` impl into new `._pause()` so that we can more tersely
wrap the original content depending on `shield: bool` input; only open
the cancel-scope when shield is set to avoid aforemented extra strack
frame annoyance.
- pass through `shield` to underlying `_pause` and `debug_func()` so we
can actually know when so log our apology.
- add a buncha notes to new `.pause()` wrapper regarding the inability
to hide the cancel-scope `.__exit__()`, inluding that overriding the
code in `trio._core._run.CancelScope` doesn't seem to solve the issue
either..
Unrelated `maybe_wait_for_debugger()` tweaks:
- don't read `Lock.global_actor_in_debug` more then needed, rename local
read var to `in_debug` (since it can also hold the root actor uid, not
just sub-actors).
- shield the `await debug_complete.wait()` since ideally we avoid the
root cancellation child-actors in debug even when the root calls this
func in a cancelled scope.
Since this was changed as part of overall project wide logging format
updates, and i ended up changing the both the crash and pause `.pdb()`
msgs to include some multi-line-ascii-"stuff", might as well make the
pre-prompt checks in the test suite more flexible to match.
As such, this exposes 2 new constants inside the `.devx._debug` mod:
- `._pause_msg: str` for the pre `tractor.pause()` header emitted via
`log.pdb()` and,
- `._crash_msg: str` for the pre `._post_mortem()` equiv when handling
errors in debug mode.
Adjust the test suite to use these values and thus make us more capable
to absorb changes in the future as well:
- add a new `in_prompt_msg()` predicate, very similar to `assert_before()`
but minus `assert`s which takes in a `parts: list[str]` to match
in the pre-prompt stdout.
- delegate to `in_prompt_msg()` in `assert_before()` since it was mostly
duplicate minus `assert`.
- adjust all previous `<patt> in before` asserts to instead use
`in_prompt_msg()` with separated pre-prompt-header vs. actor-name
`parts`.
- use new `._pause/crash_msg` values in all such calls including any
`assert_before()` cases.
Since eventually we want to implement all other RPC "func types" as
contexts underneath this starts the rework to move all the other cases
into a separate func not only to simplify the main `._invoke()` body but
also as a reminder of the intention to do it XD
Details of re-factor:
- add a new `._invoke_non_context()` which just moves all the old blocks
for non-context handling to a single def.
- factor what was basically just the `finally:` block handler (doing all
the task bookkeeping) into a new `@acm`: `_errors_relayed_via_ipc()`
with that content packed into the post-`yield` (also with a `hide_tb:
bool` flag added of course).
* include a `debug_kbis: bool` for when needed.
- since the `@context` block is the only type left in the main
`_invoke()` body, de-dent it so it's more grok-able B)
Obviously this patch also includes a few improvements regarding
context-cancellation-semantics (for the `context` RPC case) on the
callee side in order to match previous changes to the `Context` api:
- always setting any ctxc as the `Context._local_error`.
- using the new convenience `.maybe_raise()` topically (for now).
- avoiding any previous reliance on `Context.cancelled_caught` for
anything public of meaning.
Further included is more logging content updates:
- being pedantic in `.cancel()` msgs about whether termination is caused
by error or ctxc.
- optional `._invoke()` traceback hiding via a `hide_tb: bool`.
- simpler log headers throughout instead leveraging new `.__repr__()` on
primitives.
- buncha `<= <actor-uid>` sent some message emissions.
- simplified handshake statuses reporting.
Other subsys api changes we need to match:
- change to `Channel.transport`.
- avoiding any `local_nursery: ActorNursery` waiting when the
`._implicit_runtime_started` is set.
And yes, lotsa more comments for #TODOs dawg.. since there's always
somethin!
In the case where the callee side delivers us a ctxc with `.canceller`
set we can presume that remote cancellation already has taken place and
thus we don't need to do the normal call-`Context.cancel()`-on-error
step. Further, in the case where we do call it also handle any
`trio.CloseResourceError` gracefully with a `.warning()`.
Also, originally I had added a post-`yield`-maybe-raise to attempt
handling any remote ctxc the same as for the local case (i.e. raised
from `yield` line) wherein if we get a remote ctxc the same handler
branch-path would trigger, thus avoiding different behaviour in that
case. I ended up masking it out (but can't member why.. ) as it seems
the normal `.result()` call and its internal handling gets the same
behaviour? I've left in the heavily commented code in case it ends up
being the better way to go; likely making the move to having a single
code in both cases is better even if it is just a matter of deciding
whether to swallow the ctxc or not in the `.cancel_acked` case.
Further teensie improvements:
- obvi improve/simplify log msg contents as in prior patches.
- use the new `maybe_wait_for_debugger(header_msg: str)` if/when waiting
to exit in debug mode.
- another `hide_tb: bool` frame hider flag.
- rando type-annot updates of course :)
Spanning from the pub API, to instance `repr()` customization (for
logging/REPL content), to the impl details around the notion of a "final
outcome" and surrounding IPC msg draining mechanics during teardown.
A few API and field updates:
- new `.cancel_acked: bool` to replace what we were mostly using
`.cancelled_caught: bool` for but, for purposes of better mapping the
semantics of remote cancellation of parallel executing tasks; it's set
only when `.cancel_called` is set and a ctxc arrives with
a `.canceller` field set to the current actor uid indicating we
requested and received acknowledgement from the other side's task
that is cancelled gracefully.
- strongly document and delegate (and prolly eventually remove as a pub
attr) the `.cancelled_caught` property entirely to the underlying
`._scope: trio.CancelScope`; the `trio` semantics don't really map
well to the "parallel with IPC msging" case in the sense that for
us it breaks the concept of the ctx/scope closure having "caught"
something instead of having "received" a msg that the other side has
"acknowledged" (i.e. which for us is the completion of cancellation).
- new `.__repr__()`/`.__str__()` format that tries to tersely yet
comprehensively as possible display everything you need to know about
the 3 main layers of an SC-linked-IPC-context:
* ipc: the transport + runtime layers net-addressing and prot info.
* rpc: the specific linked caller-callee task signature details
including task and msg-stream instances.
* state: current execution and final outcome state of the task pair.
* a teensie extra `.repr_rpc` for a condensed rpc signature.
- new `.dst_maddr` to get a `libp2p` style "multi-address" (though right
now it's just showing the transport layers so maybe we should move to
to our `Channel`?)
- new public instance-var fields supporting more granular remote
cancellation/result/error state:
* `.maybe_error: Exception|None` for any final (remote) error/ctxc
which computes logic on the values of `._remote_error`/`._local_error`
to determine the "final error" (if any) on termination.
* `.outcome` to the final error or result (or `None` if un-terminated)
* `.repr_outcome()` for a console/logging friendly version of the
final result or error as needed for the `.__str__()`.
- new private interface bits to support all of ^:
* a new "no result yet" sentinel value, `Unresolved`, using a module
level class singleton that `._result` is set too (instead of
`id(self)`) to both determine if and present when no final result
from the callee has-yet-been/was delivered (ever).
=> really we should get rid of `.result()` and change it to
`.wait_for_result()` (or something)u
* `_final_result_is_set()` predicate to avoid waiting for an already
delivered result.
* `._maybe_raise()` proto-impl that we should use to replace all the
`if re:` blocks it can XD
* new `._stream: MsgStream|None` for when a stream is opened to aid
with the state repr mentioned above.
Tweaks to the termination drain loop `_drain_to_final_msg()`:
- obviously (obvi) use all the changes above when determining whether or
not a "final outcome" has arrived and thus breaking from the loop ;)
* like the `.outcome` `.maybe_error` and `._final_ctx_is_set()` in
the `while` pred expression.
- drop the `_recv_chan.receive_nowait()` + guard logic since it seems
with all the surrounding (and coming soon) changes to
`Portal.open_context()` using all the new API stuff (mentioned in
first bullet set above) we never hit the case of inf-block?
Oh right and obviously a ton of (hopefully improved) logging msg content
changes, commented code removal and detailed comment-docs strewn about!
After some deep logging improvements to many parts of `._runtime`,
I realized a silly detail where we are always waiting on any opened
`local_nursery: ActorNursery` to signal exit from
`Actor._stream_handler()` even in the case of being an implicitly opened
root actor (`open_root_actor()` wasn't called by user/app code) via
`._supervise.open_nursery()`..
So, to address this add a `ActorNursery._implicit_runtime_started: bool`
that can be set and then checked to avoid doing the unnecessary
`.exited.wait()` (and any subsequent warn logging on an exit timeout) in
that special but most common case XD
Matching with other subsys log format refinements, improve readability
and simplicity of the actor-nursery supervisory log msgs, including:
- simplify and/or remove any content that more or less duplicates msg
content found in emissions from lower-level primitives and sub-systems
(like `._runtime`, `_context`, `_portal` etc.).
- add a specific `._open_and_supervise_one_cancels_all_nursery()`
handler block for `ContextCancelled` to log with `.cancel()` level
noting that the case is a "remote cancellation".
- put the nursery-exit and actor-tree shutdown status into a single msg
in the `implicit_runtime` case.
- rename `.soft_wait()` -> `.soft_kill()`
- rename `.do_hard_kill()` -> `.hard_kill()`
- adjust any `trio.Process.__repr__()` log msg contents to have the
little tree branch prefix: `'|_'`
Our remote error box types `RemoteActorError`, `ContextCancelled` and
`StreamOverrun` needed a console display makeover particularly for
logging content and `repr()` in higher level primitives like `Context`.
This adds a more "dramatic" str-representation to showcase the
underlying boxed traceback content more sensationally (via ascii-art
emphasis) as well as support a more terse `.reprol()` (representation
for one-line) format that can be used for types that track remote
errors/cancels like with `Context._remote_error`.
Impl deats:
- change `RemoteActorError.__repr__()` formatting to show (sub-type
specific) `.msgdata` fields in a multi-line format (similar to our new
`.msg.types.Struct` style) followed by some ascii accented delimiter
lines to emphasize any `.msgdata["tb_str"]` packed by the remote
- for rme and subtypes allow picking the specifically relevant fields
via a type defined `.reprol_fields: list[str]` and pick for each
subtype:
|_ `RemoteActorError.src_actor_uid`
|_ `ContextCancelled.canceller`
|_ `StreamOverrun.sender`
- add `.reprol()` to show a `repr()`-on-one-line formatted string that
can be used by other multi-line-field-`repr()` styled composite types
as needed in (high level) logging info.
- toss in some mod level `_body_fields: list[str]` for summary of such
fields (if needed).
- add some new rae (remote-actor-error) props:
- `.type` around a newly named `.boxed_type`
- `.type_str: str`
- `.tb_str: str`
Hit a reallly weird bug in the `._runtime` IPC msg handling loop where
it seems that by `str.format()`-ing a `Channel` before initializing it
would put the `._MsgTransport._agen()` in an already started state
causing an irrecoverable core startup failure..
I presume it's something to do with delegating to the
`MsgpackTCPStream.__repr__()` and, something something.. the
`.set_msg_transport(stream)` getting called to too early such that
`.msgstream.__init__()` is called thus init-ing the `._agen()` before
necessary? I'm sure there's a design lesson to be learned in here
somewhere XD
This was discovered while trying to add more "fancy" logging throughout
said core for the purposes of cobbling together an init attempt at
libp2p style multi-address representations for our IPC primitives. Thus
I also tinker here with adding some new fields to `MsgpackTCPStream`:
- `layer_key`: int = 4
- `name_key`: str = 'tcp'
- `codec_key`: str = 'msgpack'
Anyway, just changed it so that if `.msgstream` ain't set then we just
return a little "null repr" `str` value thinger.
Also renames `Channel.msgstream` internally to `._transport` with
appropriate pub `@property`s added such that everything else won't break
;p
Also drops `Optional` typing vis-a-vi modern union syntax B)
Obviously we can't deterministic-ally call `.load_ref()` (since you'd
have to point to an `id()` or something and presume a particular
py-runtime + virt-mem space for it to exist?) but it at least helps with
the `str` formatting for logging purposes (like `._cancel_rpc_tasks()`)
when `repr`-ing ctxs and their specific "rpc signatures".
Maybe in the future getting this working at least for singleton types
per process (like `Actor` XD ) will be a thing we can support and make
some sense of.. Bo
Allow callers to stick in a header to the `.pdb()` level emitted msg(s)
such that any "waiting status" content is only shown if the caller
actually get's blocked waiting for the debug lock; use it inside the
`._spawn` sub-process reaper call.
Also, return early if `Lock.global_actor_in_debug == None` and thus
only enter the poll loop when actually needed, consequently raise
if we fall through the loop without acquisition.
Besides improving a bunch more log msg contents similarly as before this
changes the cancel method signatures slightly with different arg names:
for `.cancel()`:
- instead of `requesting_uid: str` take in a `req_chan: Channel`
since we can always just read its `.uid: tuple` for logging and
further we can then offer the `chan=None` case indicating a
"self cancel" (since there's no "requesting channel").
- the semantics of "requesting" here better indicate that the IPC connection
is an IPC peer and further (eventually) will allow permission checking
against given peers for cancellation requests.
- when `chan==None` we also define a meth-internal `requester_type: str`
differently for logging content :)
- add much more detailed `.cancel()` content around the requester, its
type, and any debugger related locking steps.
for `._cancel_task()`:
- change the `chan` arg to `parent_chan: Channel` since "parent"
correctly indicates that the channel is the parent of the locally
spawned rpc task to cancel; in fact no other chan should be able to
cancel tasks parented/spawned by other channels obvi!
- also add more extensive meth-internal `.cancel()` logging with a #TODO
around showing only the "relevant/lasest" `Context` state vars in such
logging content.
for `.cancel_rpc_tasks()`:
- shorten `requesting_uid` -> `req_uid`.
- add `parent_chan: Channel` to be similar as above in `._cancel_task()`
(since it's internally delegated to anyway) which replaces the prior
`only_chan` and use it to filter to only tasks spawned by this channel
(thus as their "parent") as before.
- instead of `if tasks:` to enter, invert and `return` early on
`if not tasks`, for less indentation B)
- add WIP str-repr format (for `.cancel()` emissions) to show
a multi-address (maddr) + task func (via the new `Context._nsf`) and
report all cancel task targets with it a "tree"; include #TODO to
finalize and implement some utils for all this!
To match ensure we adjust `process_messages()` self/`Actor` cancel
handling blocks to provide the new `kwargs` (now with `dict`-merge
syntax) to `._invoke()`.
Such that you see the children entries prior to exit instead of the
prior somewhat detail/use-less logging. Also, rename all `anursery` vars
to just `an` as is the convention in most examples.
Since that's what we're now doing in `MsgStream._eoc` internal
assignments (coming in future patch), do the same in this exception
re-raise-helper and include more extensive doc string detailing all
the msg-type-to-raised-error cases. Also expose a `hide_tb: bool` like
we have already in `unpack_error()`.
As similarly improved in other parts of the runtime, adds much more
pedantic (`.cancel()`) logging content to indicate the src of remote
cancellation request particularly for `Actor.cancel()` and
`._cancel_task()` cases prior to `._invoke()` task scheduling. Also add
detailed case comments and much more info to the
"request-to-cancel-already-terminated-RPC-task" log emission to include
the `Channel` and `Context.cid` deats.
This helped me find the src of a race condition causing a test to fail
where a callee ctx task was returning a result *before* an expected
`ctx.cancel()` request arrived B). Adding much more pedantic
`.cancel()` msg contents around the requester's deats should ensure
these cases are much easier to detect going forward!
Also, simplify the `._invoke()` final result/error log msg to only put
*one of either* the final error or returned result above the `Context`
pprint.
The only case where we can't is in `Portal.run_from_ns()` usage (since we
pass a path with `self:<Actor.meth>`) and because `.to_tuple()`
internally uses `.load_ref()` which will of course fail on such a path..
So or now impl as,
- mk `Actor.start_remote_task()` take a `nsf: NamespacePath` but also
offer a `load_nsf: bool = False` such that by default we bypass ref
loading (maybe this is fine for perf long run as well?) for the
`Actor`/'self:'` case mentioned above.
- mk `.get_context()` take an instance `nsf` obvi.
More logging msg format tweaks:
- change msg-flow related content to show the `Context._nsf`, which,
right, is coming follow up commit..
- bunch more `.runtime()` format updates to show `msg: dict` contents
and internal primitives with trailing `'\n'` for easier reading.
- report import loading `stackscope` in subactors.
When entered by the root actor avoid excessive polling cycles by,
- blocking on the `Lock.no_remote_has_tty: trio.Event` and breaking
*immediately* when set (though we should really also lock
it from the root right?) to avoid extra loops..
- shielding the `await trio.sleep(poll_delay)` call to avoid any local
cancellation causing the (presumably root-actor task) caller to move
on (possibly to cancel its children) and instead to continue
poll-blocking until the lock is actually released by its user.
- `break` the poll loop immediately if no remote locker is detected.
- use `.pdb()` level for reporting lock state changes.
Also add a #TODO to handle calls by non-root actors as it pertains to
If `stackscope` is importable and debug_mode is enabled then we by
default call and report `.devx.enable_stack_on_sig()` is set B)
This makes debugging unexpected (SIGINT ignoring) hangs a cinch!
Given i just similarly revamped a buncha `._runtime` log msg formatting,
might as well do something similar inside the spawning machinery such
that groking teardown sequences of each supervising task is much more
sane XD
Mostly this includes doing similar `'<field>: <value>\n'` multi-line
formatting when reporting various subproc supervision steps as well as
showing a detailed `trio.Process.__repr__()` as appropriate.
Also adds a detailed #TODO according to the needs of #320 for which
we're going to need some internal mechanism for intermediary parent
actors to determine if a given debug tty locker (sub-actor) is one of
*their* (transitive) children and thus stall the normal
cancellation/teardown sequence until that locker is complete.
Can be optionally enabled via a new `enable_stack_on_sig()` which will
swap in the SIGUSR1 handler. Much thanks to @oremanj for writing this
amazing project, it's thus far helped me fix some very subtle hangs
inside our new IPC-context cancellation machinery that would have
otherwise taken much more manual pdb-ing and hair pulling XD
Full credit for `dump_task_tree()` goes to the original project author
with some minor tweaks as was handed to me via the trio-general matrix
room B)
Slight changes from orig version:
- use a `log.pdb()` emission to pprint to console
- toss in an ex sh CLI cmd to trigger the dump from another terminal
using `kill` + `pgrep`.
As part of solving some final edge cases todo with inter-peer remote
cancellation (particularly a remote cancel from a separate actor
tree-client hanging on the request side in `modden`..) I needed less
dense, more line-delimited log msg formats when understanding ipc
channel and context cancels from console logging; this adds a ton of
that to:
- `._invoke()` which now does,
- better formatting of `Context`-task info as multi-line
`'<field>: <value>\n'` messages,
- use of `trio.Task` (from `.lowlevel.current_task()` for full
rpc-func namespace-path info,
- better "msg flow annotations" with `<=` for understanding
`ContextCancelled` flow.
- `Actor._stream_handler()` where in we break down IPC peers reporting
better as multi-line `|_<Channel>` log msgs instead of all jammed on
one line..
- `._ipc.Channel.send()` use `pformat()` for repr of packet.
Also tweak some optional deps imports for debug mode:
- add `maybe_import_gb()` for attempting to import `greenback`.
- maybe enable `stackscope` tree pprinter on `SIGUSR1` if installed.
Add a further stale-debugger-lock guard before removal:
- read the `._debug.Lock.global_actor_in_debug: tuple` uid and possibly
`maybe_wait_for_debugger()` when the child-user is known to have
a live process in our tree.
- only cancel `Lock._root_local_task_cs_in_debug: CancelScope` when
the disconnected channel maps to the `Lock.global_actor_in_debug`,
though not sure this is correct yet?
Started adding missing type annots in sections that were modified.
Since it's generally useful to know who is the cause of an overrun (say
bc you want your system to then adjust the writer side to slow tf down)
might as well pack an extra `.sender: tuple[str, str]` actor uid field
which can be relayed through `RemoteActorError` boxing. Add an extra
case for the exc-type to `unpack_error()` to match B)
Originally designed and used throughout `piker`, the subtype adds some
handy pprinting and field diffing extras often handy when viewing struct
types in logging or REPL console interfaces B)
Obvi this rejigs the `tractor.msg` mod into a sub-pkg and moves the
existing namespace obj-pointer stuff into a new `.msg.ptr` sub mod.
Since we use basically the exact same set of logic in
`Portal.open_context()` when expecting the first `'started'` msg factor
and generalize `._streaming._raise_from_no_yield_msg()` into a new
`._exceptions._raise_from_no_key_in_msg()` (as per the lingering todo)
which obvi requires a more generalized / optional signature including
a caller specific `log` obj. Obvi call the new func from all the other
modules X)
Apparently (and i don't know if this was always broken [i feel like no?]
or is a recent change to stdlib's `logging` stuff) we need increment the
`stacklevel` input by one for our custom level methods now? Without this
you're going to see the path to the method's-callstack-frame on every
emission instead of to the caller's. I first noticed this when debugging
the workspace layer spawning in `modden.bigd` and then verified it in
other depended projects..
I guess we should add some tests for this as well XD
Took me longer then i wanted to figure out the source of
a failed-response to a remote-cancellation (in this case in `modden`
where a client was cancelling a workspace layer.. but disconnects before
receiving the ack msg) that was triggering an IPC error when sending the
error msg for the cancellation of a `Actor._cancel_task()`, but since
this (non-rpc) `._invoke()` task was trying to send to a now
disconnected canceller it was resulting in a `BrokenPipeError` (or similar)
error.
Now, we except for such IPC errors and only raise them when,
1. the transport `Channel` is for sure up (bc ow what's the point of
trying to send an error on the thing that caused it..)
2. it's definitely for handling an RPC task
Similarly if the entire main invoke `try:` excepts,
- we only hide the call-stack frame from the debugger (with
`__tracebackhide__: bool`) if it's an RPC task that has a connected
channel since we always want to see the frame when debugging internal
task or IPC failures.
- we don't bother trying to send errors to the context caller (actor)
when it's a non-RPC request since failures on actor-runtime-internal
tasks shouldn't really ever be reported remotely, only maybe raised
locally.
Also some other tidying,
- this properly corrects for the self-cancel case where an RPC context
is cancelled due to a local (runtime) task calling a method like
`Actor.cancel_soon()`. We now set our own `.uid` as the
`ContextCancelled.canceller` value so that other-end tasks know that
the cancellation was due to a self-cancellation by the actor itself.
We still need to properly test for this though!
- add a more detailed module doc-str.
- more explicit imports for `trio` core types throughout.
This took way too long to get right but hopefully will give us grok-able
and correct context exit semantics going forward B)
The main fixes were:
- always shielding the `MsgStream.aclose()` call on teardown to avoid
bubbling a `Cancelled`.
- properly absorbing any `ContextCancelled` in cases due to "self
cancellation" using the new `Context.canceller` in the logic.
- capturing any error raised by the `Context.result()` call in the
"normal exit, result received" case and setting it as the
`Context._local_error` so that self-cancels can be easily measured via
`Context.cancelled_caught` in same way as remote-error caused
cancellations.
- extremely detailed comments around all of the cancellation-error cases
to avoid ever getting confused about the control flow in the future XD
As part of extremely detailed inter-peer-actor testing, add much more
granular `Context` cancellation state tracking via the following (new)
fields:
- `.canceller: tuple[str, str]` the uuid of the actor responsible for
the cancellation condition - always set by
`Context._maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()` and replaces
`._cancelled_remote` and `.cancel_called_remote`. If set, this value
should normally always match a value from some `ContextCancelled`
raised or caught by one side of the context.
- `._local_error` which is always set to the locally raised (and caller
or callee task's scope-internal) error which caused any
eventual cancellation/error condition and thus any closure of the
context's per-task-side-`trio.Nursery`.
- `.cancelled_caught: bool` is now always `True` whenever the local task
catches (or "silently absorbs") a `ContextCancelled` (a `ctxc`) that
indeed originated from one of the context's linked tasks or any other
context which raised its own `ctxc` in the current `.open_context()` scope.
=> whenever there is a case that no `ContextCancelled` was raised
**in** the `.open_context().__aexit__()` (eg. `ctx.result()` called
after a call `ctx.cancel()`), we still consider the context's as
having "caught a cancellation" since the `ctxc` was indeed silently
handled by the cancel requester; all other error cases are already
represented by mirroring the state of the `._scope: trio.CancelScope`
=> IOW there should be **no case** where an error is **not raised** in
the context's scope and `.cancelled_caught: bool == False`, i.e. no
case where `._scope.cancelled_caught == False and ._local_error is not
None`!
- always raise any `ctxc` from `.open_stream()` if `._cancel_called ==
True` - if the cancellation request has not already resulted in
a `._remote_error: ContextCancelled` we raise a `RuntimeError` to
indicate improper usage to the guilty side's task code.
- make `._maybe_raise_remote_err()` a sync func and don't raise
any `ctxc` which is matched against a `.canceller` determined to
be the current actor, aka a "self cancel", and always set the
`._local_error` to any such `ctxc`.
- `.side: str` taken from inside `.cancel()` and unused as of now since
it might be better re-written as a similar `.is_opener() -> bool`?
- drop unused `._started_received: bool`..
- TONS and TONS of detailed comments/docs to attempt to explain all the
possible cancellation/exit cases and how they should exhibit as either
silent closes or raises from the `Context` API!
Adjust the `._runtime._invoke()` code to match:
- use `ctx._maybe_raise_remote_err()` in `._invoke()`.
- adjust to new `.canceller` property.
- more type hints.
- better `log.cancel()` msging around self-cancels vs. peer-cancels.
- always set the `._local_error: BaseException` for the "callee" task
just like `Portal.open_context()` now will do B)
Prior we were raising any `Context._remote_error` directly and doing
(more or less) the same `ContextCancelled` "absorbing" logic (well
kinda) in block; instead delegate to the method
Since it's handy to be able to debug the *writing* of this instance var
(particularly when checking state passed down to a child in
`Actor._from_parent()`), rename and wrap the underlying
`Actor._reg_addrs` as a settable `@property` and add validation to
the `.setter` for sanity - actor discovery is a critical functionality.
Other tweaks:
- fix `.cancel_soon()` to pass expected argument..
- update internal runtime error message to be simpler and link to GH issues.
- use new `Actor.reg_addrs` throughout core.
Specifically in the `.__aexit__()` phase to ensure remote,
runtime-internal, and locally raised error-during-cancelled-handling
exceptions are NEVER masked by a local `ContextCancelled` or any
exception group of `trio.Cancelled`s.
Also adds a ton of details to doc strings including extreme detail
surrounding the `ContextCancelled` raising cases and their processing
inside `.open_context()`'s exception handler blocks.
Details, details:
- internal rename `err`/`_err` stuff to just be `scope_err` since it's
effectively the error bubbled up from the context's surrounding (and
cross-actor) "scope".
- always shield `._recv_chan.aclose()` to avoid any `Cancelled` from
masking the `scope_err` with a runtime related `trio.Cancelled`.
- explicitly catch the specific set of `scope_err: BaseException` that
we can reasonably expect to handle instead of the catch-all parent
type including exception groups, cancels and KBIs.
Well first off, turns out it's never used and generally speaking
doesn't seem to help much with "runtime hacking/debugging"; why would
we need to "fabricate" a msg when `.cancel()` is called to self-cancel?
Also (and since `._maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()` now takes an
`error: BaseException` as input and thus expects error-msg unpacking
prior to being called), we now manually set `Context._cancel_msg: dict`
just prior to any remote error assignment - so any case where we would
have fabbed a "cancel msg" near calling `.cancel()`, just do the manual
assign.
In this vein some other subtle changes:
- obviously don't set `._cancel_msg` in `.cancel()` since it's no longer
an input.
- generally do walrus-style `error := unpack_error()` before applying
and setting remote error-msg state.
- always raise any `._remote_error` in `.result()` instead of returning
the exception instance and check before AND after the underlying mem
chan read.
- add notes/todos around `raise self._remote_error from None` masking of
(runtime) errors in `._maybe_raise_remote_err()` and use it inside
`.result()` since we had the inverse duplicate logic there anyway..
Further, this adds and extends a ton of (internal) interface docs and
details comments around the `Context` API including many subtleties
pertaining to calling `._maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()`.
Bump type annotations to 3.10+ style throughout module as well as fill
out doc strings a bit. Inside `unpack_error()` pop any `error_dict: dict`
and,
- return `None` early if not found,
- versus pass directly as `**error_dict` to the error constructor
instead of a double field read.
Since both `MsgStream.receive()` and `.receive_nowait()` need the same
raising logic when a non-stream msg arrives (so that maybe an
appropriate IPC translated error can be raised) move the `KeyError`
handler code into a new `._streaming._raise_from_no_yield_msg()` func
and call it from both methods to make the error-interface-raising
symmetrical across both methods.
Previously we weren't raising a remote error if the local scope was
cancelled during a call to `Context.result()` which is problematic if
the caller WAS NOT the requester for said remote cancellation; in that
case we still want a `ContextCancelled` raised with the `.canceller:
str` set to the cancelling actor uid.
Further fix a naming bug where the (seemingly older) `._remote_err` was
being set to such an error instead of `._remote_error` XD
Implement it like you'd expect using simply a wrapping
`trio.CancelScope` which is itself shielded by the input `shield: bool`
B)
There's seemingly still some issues with the frame selection when the
REPL engages and not sure how to resolve it yet but at least this does
indeed work for practical purposes. Still needs a test obviously!
Starting of with just a `typer` (and thus transitively `click`)
`typer.Typer.callback` hook which allows passthrough of the `--ll
<loglevel: str>` and `--pdb <debug_mode: bool>` flags for use when
building CLIs that use the runtime Bo
Still needs lotsa refinement and obviously better docs but, the doc
string for `load_runtime_vars()` shows how to use the underlying
`.devx._debug.open_crash_handler()` via a wrapper that can be passed the
`--pdb` flag and then enable debug mode throughout the entire actor
system.
Where `.devx` is "developer experience", a hopefully broad enough subpkg
name for all the slick stuff planned to augment working on the actor
runtime 💥
Move the `._debug` module into the new subpkg and adjust rest of core
code base to reflect import path change. Also add a new
`.devx._debug.open_crash_handler()` manager for wrapping any sync code
outside a `trio.run()` which is handy for eventual CLI addons for
popular frameworks like `click`/`typer`.
Since we'd like to eventually allow a diverse set of transport
(protocol) methods and stacks, and a multi-peer discovery system for
distributed actor-tree applications, this reworks all runtime internals
to support multi-homing for any given tree on a logical host. In other
words any actor can now bind its transport server (currently only
unsecured TCP + `msgspec`) to more then one address available in its
(linux) network namespace. Further, registry actors (now dubbed
"registars" instead of "arbiters") can also similarly bind to multiple
network addresses and provide discovery services to remote actors via
multiple addresses which can now be provided at runtime startup.
Deats:
- adjust `._runtime` internals to use a `list[tuple[str, int]]` (and
thus pluralized) socket address sequence where applicable for transport
server socket binds, now exposed via `Actor.accept_addrs`:
- `Actor.__init__()` now takes a `registry_addrs: list`.
- `Actor.is_arbiter` -> `.is_registrar`.
- `._arb_addr` -> `._reg_addrs: list[tuple]`.
- always reg and de-reg from all registrars in `async_main()`.
- only set the global runtime var `'_root_mailbox'` to the loopback
address since normally all in-tree processes should have access to
it, right?
- `._serve_forever()` task now takes `listen_sockaddrs: list[tuple]`
- make `open_root_actor()` take a `registry_addrs: list[tuple[str, int]]`
and defaults when not passed.
- change `ActorNursery.start_..()` methods take `bind_addrs: list` and
pass down through the spawning layer(s) via the parent-seed-msg.
- generalize all `._discovery()` APIs to accept `registry_addrs`-like
inputs and move all relevant subsystems to adopt the "registry" style
naming instead of "arbiter":
- make `find_actor()` support batched concurrent portal queries over
all provided input addresses using `.trionics.gather_contexts()` Bo
- syntax: move to using `async with <tuples>` 3.9+ style chained
@acms.
- a general modernization of the code to a python 3.9+ style.
- start deprecation and change to "registry" naming / semantics:
- `._discovery.get_arbiter()` -> `.get_registry()`
We were using a `all(<yielded values>)` condition which obviously won't
work if the batched managers yield any non-truthy value. So instead see
the `unwrapped: dict` with the `id(mngrs)` and only unblock once all
values have been filled in to be something that is not that value.
Detect if the input ref is a non-func (like an `object` instance) in
which case grab its type name using `type()`. Wrap all the name-getting
into a new `_mk_fqpn()` static meth: gets the "fully qualified path
name" and returns path and name in tuple; port other methds to use it.
Refine and update the docs B)
For whatever reason pdb(p), and in general, will show the frame of the
*next* python instruction/LOC on initial entry (at least using
`.set_trace()`), as such remove the `try/finally` block in the sync
code entrypoint `.pause_from_sync()`, and also since doesn't seem like
we really need it anyway.
Further, and to this end:
- enable hidden frames support in our default config.
- fix/drop/mask all the frame ref-ing/mangling we had prior since it's no
longer needed as well as manual `Lock` releasing which seems to work
already by having the `greenback` spawned task do it's normal thing?
- move to no `Union` type annots.
- hide all frames that can add "this is the runtime confusion" to
traces.
This works now for supporting a new `tractor.pause_from_sync()`
`tractor`-aware-replacement for `Pdb.set_trace()` from sync functions
which are also scheduled from our runtime. Uses `greenback` to do all
the magic of scheduling the bg `tractor._debug._pause()` task and
engaging the normal TTY locking machinery triggered by `await
tractor.breakpoint()`
Further this starts some public API renaming, making a switch to
`tractor.pause()` from `.breakpoint()` which IMO much better expresses
the semantics of the runtime intervention required to suffice
multi-process "breakpointing"; it also is an alternate name for the same
in computer science more generally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakpoint
It also avoids using the same name as the `breakpoint()` built-in which
is important since there **is alot more going on** when you call our
equivalent API.
Deats of that:
- add deprecation warning for `tractor.breakpoint()`
- add `tractor.pause()` and a shorthand, easier-to-type, alias `.pp()`
for "pause-point" B)
- add `pause_from_sync()` as the new `breakpoint()`-from-sync-function
hack which does all the `greenback` stuff for the user.
Still TODO:
- figure out where in the runtime and when to call
`greenback.ensure_portal()`.
- fix the frame selection issue where
`trio._core._ki._ki_protection_decorator:wrapper` seems to be always
shown on REPL start as the selected frame..
First attempt at getting `multiprocessing.shared_memory.ShareableList`
working; we wrap the stdlib type with a readonly attr and a `.key` for
cross-actor lookup. Also, rename all `numpy` specific routines to have
a `ndarray` suffix in the func names.
More or less a verbatim copy-paste minus some edgy variable naming and
internal `piker` module imports. There is a bunch of OHLC related
defaults that need to be dropped and we need to adjust to an optional
dependence on `numpy` by supporting shared lists as per the mp docs.
- `Context._cancel_called_remote` -> `._cancelled_remote` since "called"
implies the cancellation was "requested" when it could be due to
another error and the actor uid is the value - only set once the far
end task scope is terminated due to either error or cancel, which has
nothing to do with *what* caused the cancellation.
- `Actor._cancel_called_remote` -> `._cancel_called_by_remote` which
emphasizes that this variable is **only set** IFF some remote actor
**requested that** this actor's runtime be cancelled via
`Actor.cancel()`.
Turns out you can get a case where you might be opening multiple
ctx-streams concurrently and during the context opening phase you block
for all contexts to open, but then when you eventually start opening
streams some slow to start context has caused the others become in an
overrun state.. so we need to let the caller control whether that's an
error ;)
This also needs a test!
Because obviously we probably want to support `allow_overruns` on the
remote callee side as well XD
Only found the bugs fixed in this patch this thanks to writing a much
more exhaustive test set for overrun cases B)
This actually caught further runtime bugs so it's gud i tried..
Add overrun-ignore enabled / disabled cases and error catching for all
of them. More or less this should cover every possible outcome when
it comes to setting `allow_overruns: bool` i hope XD
This adds remote cancellation semantics to our `tractor.Context`
machinery to more closely match that of `trio.CancelScope` but
with operational differences to handle the nature of parallel tasks interoperating
across multiple memory boundaries:
- if an actor task cancels some context it has opened via
`Context.cancel()`, the remote (scope linked) task will be cancelled
using the normal `CancelScope` semantics of `trio` meaning the remote
cancel scope surrounding the far side task is cancelled and
`trio.Cancelled`s are expected to be raised in that scope as per
normal `trio` operation, and in the case where no error is raised
in that remote scope, a `ContextCancelled` error is raised inside the
runtime machinery and relayed back to the opener/caller side of the
context.
- if any actor task cancels a full remote actor runtime using
`Portal.cancel_actor()` the same semantics as above apply except every
other remote actor task which also has an open context with the actor
which was cancelled will also be sent a `ContextCancelled` **but**
with the `.canceller` field set to the uid of the original cancel
requesting actor.
This changeset also includes a more "proper" solution to the issue of
"allowing overruns" during streaming without attempting to implement any
form of IPC streaming backpressure. Implementing task-granularity
backpressure cross-process turns out to be more or less impossible
without augmenting out streaming protocol (likely at the cost of
performance). Further allowing overruns requires special care since
any blocking of the runtime RPC msg loop task effectively can block
control msgs such as cancels and stream terminations.
The implementation details per abstraction layer are as follows.
._streaming.Context:
- add a new contructor factor func `mk_context()` which provides
a strictly private init-er whilst allowing us to not have to define
an `.__init__()` on the type def.
- add public `.cancel_called` and `.cancel_called_remote` properties.
- general rename of what was the internal `._backpressure` var to
`._allow_overruns: bool`.
- move the old contents of `Actor._push_result()` into a new
`._deliver_msg()` allowing for better encapsulation of per-ctx
msg handling.
- always check for received 'error' msgs and process them with the new
`_maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()` **before** any msg delivery to
the local task, thus guaranteeing error and cancellation handling
despite any overflow handling.
- add a new `._drain_overflows()` task-method for use with new
`._allow_overruns: bool = True` mode.
- add back a `._scope_nursery: trio.Nursery` (allocated in
`Portal.open_context()`) who's sole purpose is to spawn a single task
which runs the above method; anything else is an error.
- augment `._deliver_msg()` to start a task and run the above method
when operating in no overrun mode; the task queues overflow msgs and
attempts to send them to the underlying mem chan using a blocking
`.send()` call.
- on context exit, any existing "drainer task" will be cancelled and
remaining overflow queued msgs are discarded with a warning.
- rename `._error` -> `_remote_error` and set it in a new method
`_maybe_cancel_and_set_remote_error()` which is called before
processing
- adjust `.result()` to always call `._maybe_raise_remote_err()` at its
start such that whenever a `ContextCancelled` arrives we do logic for
whether or not to immediately raise that error or ignore it due to the
current actor being the one who requested the cancel, by checking the
error's `.canceller` field.
- set the default value of `._result` to be `id(Context()` thus avoiding
conflict with any `.result()` actually being `False`..
._runtime.Actor:
- augment `.cancel()` and `._cancel_task()` and `.cancel_rpc_tasks()` to
take a `requesting_uid: tuple` indicating the source actor of every
cancellation request.
- pass through the new `Context._allow_overruns` through `.get_context()`
- call the new `Context._deliver_msg()` from `._push_result()` (since
the factoring out that method's contents).
._runtime._invoke:
- `TastStatus.started()` back a `Context` (unless an error is raised)
instead of the cancel scope to make it easy to set/get state on that
context for the purposes of cancellation and remote error relay.
- always raise any remote error via `Context._maybe_raise_remote_err()`
before doing any `ContextCancelled` logic.
- assign any `Context._cancel_called_remote` set by the `requesting_uid`
cancel methods (mentioned above) to the `ContextCancelled.canceller`.
._runtime.process_messages:
- always pass a `requesting_uid: tuple` to `Actor.cancel()` and
`._cancel_task` to that any corresponding `ContextCancelled.canceller`
can be set inside `._invoke()`.
To handle both remote cancellation this adds `ContextCanceled.canceller:
tuple` the uid of the cancel requesting actor and is expected to be set
by the runtime when servicing any remote cancel request. This makes it
possible for `ContextCancelled` receivers to know whether "their actor
runtime" is the source of the cancellation.
Also add an explicit `RemoteActor.src_actor_uid` which better formalizes
the notion of "which remote actor" the error originated from.
Both of these new attrs are expected to be packed in the `.msgdata` when
the errors are loaded locally.
Previously we were leaking our (pdb++) override into the Python runtime
which would always result in a runtime error whenever `breakpoint()` is
called outside our runtime; after exit of the root actor . This
explicitly restores any previous hook override (detected during startup)
or deletes the hook and restores the environment if none existed prior.
Also adds a new WIP debugging example script to ensure breakpointing
works as normal after runtime close; this will be added to the test
suite.
Tyler Goodlet