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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 msg name changes are much better in terms of explicitly representing the internal semantics of the actor runtime machinery subsystems and 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 (implemented currently with a `{'cmd': ... }` dict msg) - `StartAck` to allow the RPC task callee-side to report a `IpcCtxSpec` payload immediately back to the caller (currently done naively via a `{'functype': ... }` initial response msg) - `Started` to deliver the first value from `Context.started()` (instead of existing `{'started': ... }`) - `Yield` to shuttle `MsgStream.send()`-ed values (currently `{'yield': ... }`s) - `Stop` to terminate a `Context.open_stream()` session/block (currently a `{'stop': True }`) - `Return` to deliver the final value from the `Actor.start_remote_task()` remote task (instead of `{'return': ... }`) - `Error` to box `RemoteActorError` exceptions via a `.pld: ErrorData` payload, also planned to replace/extend the current `RemoteActorError.msgdata` mechanism internal to `pack/unpack_error()` The new `tractor.msg.types` includes all these msg defs as well an API for rendering a "payload msg specification" using a `payload_type_spec: Union[Type]` that can be passed to `msgspec.msgpack.Decoder(type=payload_type_spec)`. This ensures that (per msg relevant) `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-msg-set by a 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)! |
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| .. | ||
| conftest.py | ||
| test_2way.py | ||
| test_advanced_faults.py | ||
| test_advanced_streaming.py | ||
| test_cancellation.py | ||
| test_caps_msging.py | ||
| test_child_manages_service_nursery.py | ||
| test_clustering.py | ||
| test_context_stream_semantics.py | ||
| test_debugger.py | ||
| test_discovery.py | ||
| test_docs_examples.py | ||
| test_infected_asyncio.py | ||
| test_inter_peer_cancellation.py | ||
| test_legacy_one_way_streaming.py | ||
| test_local.py | ||
| test_multi_program.py | ||
| test_pubsub.py | ||
| test_resource_cache.py | ||
| test_rpc.py | ||
| test_runtime.py | ||
| test_shm.py | ||
| test_spawning.py | ||
| test_task_broadcasting.py | ||
| test_trioisms.py | ||