If the root calls `trio.Process.kill()` on immediate child proc teardown
when the child is using pdb, we can get stdstreams clobbering that
results in a pdb++ repl where the user can't see what's been typed. Not
killing such children on cancellation / error seems to resolve this
issue whilst still giving reliable termination. For now, code that
special path until a time it becomes a problem for ensuring zombie
reaps.
Another face palm that was causing serious issues for code that is using
the `.shielded` feature..
Add a bunch more detailed comments for all this subtlety and hopefully
get it right once and for all. Also aggregated the `trio` errors that
should trigger closure inside `.aclose()`, hopefully that's right too.
Revert this change since it really is poking at internals and doesn't
make a lot of sense. If the context is going to be cancelled then the
msg loop will tear down the feed memory channel when ready, we don't
need to be clobbering it and confusing the runtime machinery lol.
Add clear teardown semantics for `Context` such that the remote side
cancellation propagation happens only on error or if client code
explicitly requests it (either by exit flag to `Portal.open_context()`
or by manually calling `Context.cancel()`). Add `Context.result()`
to wait on and capture the final result from a remote context function;
any lingering msg sequence will be consumed/discarded.
Changes in order to make this possible:
- pass the runtime msg loop's feeder receive channel in to the context
on the calling (portal opening) side such that a final 'return' msg
can be waited upon using `Context.result()` which delivers the final
return value from the callee side `@tractor.context` async function.
- always await a final result from the target context function in
`Portal.open_context()`'s `__aexit__()` if the context has not
been (requested to be) cancelled by client code on block exit.
- add an internal `Context._cancel_called` for context "cancel
requested" tracking (much like `trio`'s cancel scope).
- allow flagging a stream as terminated using an internal
`._eoc` flag which will mark the stream as stopped for iteration.
- drop `StopAsyncIteration` catching in `.receive()`; it does
nothing.
A context is the natural fit (vs. a receive stream) for locking the root
proc's tty usage via it's `.started()` sync point. Simplify the
`_breakpoin()` routine to be a simple async func instead of all this
"returning a coroutine" stuff from before we decided that
`tractor.breakpoint()` must be async. Use `runtime` level for locking
logging making it easier to trace.
This mostly adds the api described in
https://github.com/goodboy/tractor/issues/53#issuecomment-806258798
The first draft summary:
- formalize bidir steaming using the `trio.Channel` style interface
which we derive as a `MsgStream` type.
- add `Portal.open_context()` which provides a `trio.Nursery.start()`
remote task invocation style for setting up and tearing down tasks
contexts in remote actors.
- add a distinct `'started'` message to the ipc protocol to facilitate
`Context.start()` with a first return value.
- for our `ReceiveMsgStream` type, don't cancel the remote task in
`.aclose()`; this is now done explicitly by the surrounding `Context`
usage: `Context.cancel()`.
- streams in either direction still use a `'yield'` message keeping the
proto mostly symmetric without having to worry about which side is the
caller / portal opener.
- subtlety: only allow sending a `'stop'` message during a 2-way
streaming context from `ReceiveStream.aclose()`, detailed comment
with explanation is included.
Relates to #53
This change some super old (and bad) code from the project's very early
days. For some redic reason i must have thought masking `trio`'s
internal stream / transport errors and a TCP EOF as `StopAsyncIteration`
somehow a good idea. The reality is you probably
want to know the difference between an unexpected transport error
and a simple EOF lol. This begins to resolve that by adding our own
special `TransportClosed` error to signal the "graceful" termination of
a channel's underlying transport. Oh, and this builds on the `msgspec`
integration which helped shed light on the core issues here B)
Add a `tractor._ipc.MsgspecStream` type which can be swapped in for
`msgspec` serialization transparently. A small msg-length-prefix framing
is implemented as part of the type and we use
`tricycle.BufferedReceieveStream` to handle buffering logic for the
underlying transport.
Notes:
- had to force cast a few more list -> tuple spots due to no native
`tuple`decode-by-default in `msgspec`: https://github.com/jcrist/msgspec/issues/30
- the framing can be understood by this protobuf walkthrough:
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/08/02/length-prefix-framing-for-protocol-buffers
- `tricycle` becomes a new dependency
Can only really use an encoder currently since there is no streaming api
in `msgspec` as of currently. See jcrist/msgspec#27.
Not sure if any encoding speedups are currently noticeable especially
without any validation going on yet XD.
First experiments toward #196
Tyler Goodlet
goodboy