Draft a (pretty)`Struct.fields_diff()`

For comparing a `msgspec.Struct` against an input `dict` presumably to
be used as input for struct instantiation. The main diff with
`.__sub__()` is that non-existing fields on either are reported
(loudly).

notes_to_self/howtorelease.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+First generate a built disti:
+
+```
+python -m pip install --upgrade build 
+python -m build --sdist --outdir dist/alpha5/
+```
+
+Then try a test ``pypi`` upload:
+
+```
+python -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/alpha5/*
+```
+
+The push to `pypi` for realz.
+
+```
+python -m twine upload --repository testpypi dist/alpha5/*
+```

tractor/_context.py

@@ -1703,15 +1703,28 @@ class Context:
         # TODO: expose as mod func instead!
         structfmt = pretty_struct.Struct.pformat
         if self._in_overrun:
-            log.warning(
+            report: str = (
-                f'Queueing OVERRUN msg on caller task:\n\n'
-
                 f'{flow_body}'
-
                 f'{structfmt(msg)}\n'
             )
+            over_q: deque = self._overflow_q
             self._overflow_q.append(msg)
 
+            if len(over_q) == over_q.maxlen:
+                report = (
+                    'FAILED to queue OVERRUN msg, OVERAN the OVERRUN QUEUE !!\n\n'
+                    + report
+                )
+                # log.error(report)
+                log.debug(report)
+
+            else:
+                report = (
+                    'Queueing OVERRUN msg on caller task:\n\n'
+                    + report
+                )
+                log.debug(report)
+
             # XXX NOTE XXX
             # overrun is the ONLY case where returning early is fine!
             return False

tractor/_exceptions.py

@@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ class RemoteActorError(Exception):
                 # just after <Type(
                 #             |___ ..
                 tb_body_indent=1,
+                boxer_header=self.relay_uid,
             )
 
         tail = ''

tractor/_root.py

@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ async def open_root_actor(
 
     hide_tb: bool = True,
 
+    # TODO, a way for actors to augment passing derived
+    # read-only state to sublayers?
+    # extra_rt_vars: dict|None = None,
+
 ) -> Actor:
     '''
     Runtime init entry point for ``tractor``.

tractor/_runtime.py

@@ -456,10 +456,13 @@ class Actor:
         )
 
         if _pre_chan:
-            log.warning(
             # con_status += (
             # ^TODO^ swap once we minimize conn duplication
-                f' -> Wait, we already have IPC with `{uid_short}`??\n'
+            # -[ ] last thing might be reg/unreg runtime reqs?
+            # log.warning(
+            log.debug(
+                f'?Wait?\n'
+                f'We already have IPC with peer {uid_short!r}\n'
                 f'|_{_pre_chan}\n'
             )
 

tractor/devx/_debug.py

@@ -1420,6 +1420,10 @@ def any_connected_locker_child() -> bool:
     return False
 
 
+_ctlc_ignore_header: str = (
+    'Ignoring SIGINT while debug REPL in use'
+)
+
 def sigint_shield(
     signum: int,
     frame: 'frame',  # type: ignore # noqa
@@ -1501,7 +1505,9 @@ def sigint_shield(
                 # NOTE: don't emit this with `.pdb()` level in
                 # root without a higher level.
                 log.runtime(
-                    f'Ignoring SIGINT while debug REPL in use by child '
+                    _ctlc_ignore_header
+                    +
+                    f' by child '
                     f'{uid_in_debug}\n'
                 )
                 problem = None
@@ -1535,7 +1541,9 @@ def sigint_shield(
                 # NOTE: since we emit this msg on ctl-c, we should
                 # also always re-print the prompt the tail block!
                 log.pdb(
-                    'Ignoring SIGINT while pdb REPL in use by root actor..\n'
+                    _ctlc_ignore_header
+                    +
+                    f' by root actor..\n'
                     f'{DebugStatus.repl_task}\n'
                     f' |_{repl}\n'
                 )
@@ -1596,16 +1604,20 @@ def sigint_shield(
             repl
         ):
             log.pdb(
-                f'Ignoring SIGINT while local task using debug REPL\n'
+                _ctlc_ignore_header
-                f'|_{repl_task}\n'
+                +
+                f' by local task\n\n'
+                f'{repl_task}\n'
                 f' |_{repl}\n'
             )
         elif req_task:
             log.debug(
-                'Ignoring SIGINT while debug request task is open but either,\n'
+                _ctlc_ignore_header
-                '- someone else is already REPL-in and has the `Lock`, or\n'
+                +
-                '- some other local task already is replin?\n'
+                f' by local request-task and either,\n'
-                f'|_{req_task}\n'
+                f'- someone else is already REPL-in and has the `Lock`, or\n'
+                f'- some other local task already is replin?\n\n'
+                f'{req_task}\n'
             )
 
         # TODO can we remove this now?

tractor/devx/_frame_stack.py

@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ def find_caller_info(
 _frame2callerinfo_cache: dict[FrameType, CallerInfo] = {}
 
 
-# TODO: -[x] move all this into new `.devx._code`!
+# TODO: -[x] move all this into new `.devx._frame_stack`!
 # -[ ] consider rename to _callstack?
 # -[ ] prolly create a `@runtime_api` dec?
 #   |_ @api_frame seems better?
@@ -286,3 +286,18 @@ def api_frame(
     wrapped._call_infos: dict[FrameType, CallerInfo] = _frame2callerinfo_cache
     wrapped.__api_func__: bool = True
     return wrapper(wrapped)
+
+
+# TODO: something like this instead of the adhoc frame-unhiding
+# blocks all over the runtime!! XD
+# -[ ] ideally we can expect a certain error (set) and if something
+#     else is raised then all frames below the wrapped one will be
+#     un-hidden via `__tracebackhide__: bool = False`.
+# |_ might need to dynamically mutate the code objs like
+#    `pdbp.hideframe()` does?
+# -[ ] use this as a `@acm` decorator as introed in 3.10?
+# @acm
+# async def unhide_frame_when_not(
+#     error_set: set[BaseException],
+# ) -> TracebackType:
+#     ...

tractor/devx/pformat.py

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ def pformat_boxed_tb(
 
     tb_box_indent: int|None = None,
     tb_body_indent: int = 1,
+    boxer_header: str = '-'
 
 ) -> str:
     '''
@@ -88,9 +89,9 @@ def pformat_boxed_tb(
 
     tb_box: str = (
         f'|\n'
-        f' ------ - ------\n'
+        f' ------ {boxer_header} ------\n'
         f'{tb_body}'
-        f' ------ - ------\n'
+        f' ------ {boxer_header}- ------\n'
         f'_|\n'
     )
     tb_box_indent: str = (

tractor/msg/_codec.py

@@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ import textwrap
 from typing import (
     Any,
     Callable,
+    Protocol,
     Type,
     TYPE_CHECKING,
+    TypeVar,
     Union,
 )
 from types import ModuleType
@@ -181,7 +183,11 @@ def mk_dec(
     dec_hook: Callable|None = None,
 
 ) -> MsgDec:
+    '''
+    Create an IPC msg decoder, normally used as the
+    `PayloadMsg.pld: PayloadT` field decoder inside a `PldRx`.
 
+    '''
     return MsgDec(
         _dec=msgpack.Decoder(
             type=spec,  # like `MsgType[Any]`
@@ -227,6 +233,13 @@ def pformat_msgspec(
     join_char: str = '\n',
 
 ) -> str:
+    '''
+    Pretty `str` format the `msgspec.msgpack.Decoder.type` attribute
+    for display in (console) log messages as a nice (maybe multiline)
+    presentation of all supported `Struct`s (subtypes) available for
+    typed decoding.
+
+    '''
     dec: msgpack.Decoder = getattr(codec, 'dec', codec)
     return join_char.join(
         mk_msgspec_table(
@@ -630,31 +643,57 @@ def limit_msg_spec(
 #         # import pdbp; pdbp.set_trace()
 #         assert ext_codec.pld_spec == extended_spec
 #         yield ext_codec
+#
+# ^-TODO-^ is it impossible to make something like this orr!?
+
+# TODO: make an auto-custom hook generator from a set of input custom
+# types?
+# -[ ] below is a proto design using a `TypeCodec` idea?
+#
+# type var for the expected interchange-lib's
+# IPC-transport type when not available as a built-in
+# serialization output.
+WireT = TypeVar('WireT')
 
 
-# TODO: make something similar to this inside `._codec` such that
+# TODO: some kinda (decorator) API for built-in subtypes
-# user can just pass a type table of some sort?
+# that builds this implicitly by inspecting the `mro()`?
-# -[ ] we would need to decode all msgs to `pretty_struct.Struct`
+class TypeCodec(Protocol):
-#     and then call `.to_dict()` on them?
+    '''
-# -[x] we're going to need to re-impl all the stuff changed in the
+    A per-custom-type wire-transport serialization translator
-#    runtime port such that it can handle dicts or `Msg`s?
+    description type.
-#
+
-# def mk_dict_msg_codec_hooks() -> tuple[Callable, Callable]:
+    '''
-#     '''
+    src_type: Type
-#     Deliver a `enc_hook()`/`dec_hook()` pair which does
+    wire_type: WireT
-#     manual convertion from our above native `Msg` set
+
-#     to `dict` equivalent (wire msgs) in order to keep legacy compat
+    def encode(obj: Type) -> WireT:
-#     with the original runtime implementation.
+        ...
-#
+
-#     Note: this is is/was primarly used while moving the core
+    def decode(
-#     runtime over to using native `Msg`-struct types wherein we
+        obj_type: Type[WireT],
-#     start with the send side emitting without loading
+        obj: WireT,
-#     a typed-decoder and then later flipping the switch over to
+    ) -> Type:
-#     load to the native struct types once all runtime usage has
+        ...
-#     been adjusted appropriately.
+
-#
+
-#     '''
+class MsgpackTypeCodec(TypeCodec):
-#     return (
+    ...
-#         # enc_to_dict,
+
-#         dec_from_dict,
+
-#     )
+def mk_codec_hooks(
+    type_codecs: list[TypeCodec],
+
+) -> tuple[Callable, Callable]:
+    '''
+    Deliver a `enc_hook()`/`dec_hook()` pair which handle
+    manual convertion from an input `Type` set such that whenever
+    the `TypeCodec.filter()` predicate matches the
+    `TypeCodec.decode()` is called on the input native object by
+    the `dec_hook()` and whenever the
+    `isiinstance(obj, TypeCodec.type)` matches against an
+    `enc_hook(obj=obj)` the return value is taken from a
+    `TypeCodec.encode(obj)` callback.
+
+    '''
+    ...

tractor/msg/pretty_struct.py

@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ from msgspec import (
     Struct as _Struct,
     structs,
 )
-from pprint import (
+# from pprint import (
-    saferepr,
+#     saferepr,
-)
+# )
 
 from tractor.log import get_logger
 
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ class DiffDump(UserList):
         for k, left, right in self:
             repstr += (
                 f'({k},\n'
-                f'\t{repr(left)},\n'
+                f' |_{repr(left)},\n'
-                f'\t{repr(right)},\n'
+                f' |_{repr(right)},\n'
                 ')\n'
             )
         repstr += ']\n'
@@ -144,15 +144,22 @@ def pformat(
                 field_indent=indent + field_indent,
             )
 
-        else:  # the `pprint` recursion-safe format:
+        else:
+            val_str: str = repr(v)
+
+            # XXX LOL, below just seems to be f#$%in causing
+            # recursion errs..
+            #
+            # the `pprint` recursion-safe format:
             # https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/pprint.html#pprint.saferepr
-            try:
+            # try:
-                val_str: str = saferepr(v)
+            #     val_str: str = saferepr(v)
-            except Exception:
+            # except Exception:
-                log.exception(
+            #     log.exception(
-                    'Failed to `saferepr({type(struct)})` !?\n'
+            #         'Failed to `saferepr({type(struct)})` !?\n'
-                )
+            #     )
-            return _Struct.__repr__(struct)
+                # raise
+                # return _Struct.__repr__(struct)
 
         # TODO: LOLOL use `textwrap.indent()` instead dawwwwwg!
         obj_str += (field_ws + f'{k}: {typ_name} = {val_str},\n')
@@ -203,12 +210,7 @@ class Struct(
         return sin_props
 
     pformat = pformat
-    # __repr__ = pformat
+
-    # __str__ = __repr__ = pformat
-    # TODO: use a pprint.PrettyPrinter instance around ONLY rendering
-    # inside a known tty?
-    # def __repr__(self) -> str:
-    #     ...
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         try:
             return pformat(self)
@@ -218,6 +220,13 @@ class Struct(
             )
             return _Struct.__repr__(self)
 
+    # __repr__ = pformat
+    # __str__ = __repr__ = pformat
+    # TODO: use a pprint.PrettyPrinter instance around ONLY rendering
+    # inside a known tty?
+    # def __repr__(self) -> str:
+    #     ...
+
     def copy(
         self,
         update: dict | None = None,
@@ -267,13 +276,15 @@ class Struct(
                 fi.type(getattr(self, fi.name)),
             )
 
+    # TODO: make a mod func instead and just point to it here for
+    # method impl?
     def __sub__(
         self,
         other: Struct,
 
     ) -> DiffDump[tuple[str, Any, Any]]:
         '''
-        Compare fields/items key-wise and return a ``DiffDump``
+        Compare fields/items key-wise and return a `DiffDump`
         for easy visual REPL comparison B)
 
         '''
@@ -290,3 +301,42 @@ class Struct(
                 ))
 
         return diffs
+
+    @classmethod
+    def fields_diff(
+        cls,
+        other: dict|Struct,
+
+    ) -> DiffDump[tuple[str, Any, Any]]:
+        '''
+        Very similar to `PrettyStruct.__sub__()` except accepts an
+        input `other: dict` (presumably that would normally be called
+        like `Struct(**other)`) which returns a `DiffDump` of the
+        fields of the struct and the `dict`'s fields.
+
+        '''
+        nullish = object()
+        consumed: dict = other.copy()
+        diffs: DiffDump[tuple[str, Any, Any]] = DiffDump()
+        for fi in structs.fields(cls):
+            field_name: str = fi.name
+            # ours: Any = getattr(self, field_name)
+            theirs: Any = consumed.pop(field_name, nullish)
+            if theirs is nullish:
+                diffs.append((
+                    field_name,
+                    f'{fi.type!r}',
+                    'NOT-DEFINED in `other: dict`',
+                ))
+
+        # when there are lingering fields in `other` that this struct
+        # DOES NOT define we also append those.
+        if consumed:
+            for k, v in consumed.items():
+                diffs.append((
+                    k,
+                    f'NOT-DEFINED for `{cls.__name__}`',
+                    f'`other: dict` has value = {v!r}',
+                ))
+
+        return diffs

tractor/to_asyncio.py

@@ -245,14 +245,14 @@ def _run_asyncio_task(
                 result != orig and
                 aio_err is None and
 
-                # in the ``open_channel_from()`` case we don't
+                # in the `open_channel_from()` case we don't
                 # relay through the "return value".
                 not provide_channels
             ):
                 to_trio.send_nowait(result)
 
         finally:
-            # if the task was spawned using ``open_channel_from()``
+            # if the task was spawned using `open_channel_from()`
             # then we close the channels on exit.
             if provide_channels:
                 # only close the sender side which will relay
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ async def run_task(
 
     '''
     # simple async func
-    chan = _run_asyncio_task(
+    chan: LinkedTaskChannel = _run_asyncio_task(
         func,
         qsize=1,
         **kwargs,
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ async def open_channel_from(
     spawned ``asyncio`` task and ``trio``.
 
     '''
-    chan = _run_asyncio_task(
+    chan: LinkedTaskChannel = _run_asyncio_task(
         target,
         qsize=2**8,
         provide_channels=True,

tractor/trionics/_broadcast.py

@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ class BroadcastReceiver(ReceiveChannel):
                         # likely it makes sense to unwind back to the
                         # underlying?
                         # import tractor
-                        # await tractor.breakpoint()
+                        # await tractor.pause()
                         log.warning(
                             f'Only one sub left for {self}?\n'
                             'We can probably unwind from breceiver?'