Attach remote internal errors to channels

This ensures that internal errors received from a remote actor are
indeed raised even in the `MainProcess` **before** comms tasks are
cancelled. Internal error in this case means any error packet received
on a channel that doesn't have a `cid` header. RPC errors (which **do**
have a `cid` header) are still forwarded to the consuming caller as usual.

tractor/_actor.py

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class Actor:
         for path in self.rpc_module_paths:
             self._mods[path] = importlib.import_module(path)
 
-            # XXX: triggers an internal error which causes a hanging
+            # XXX: triggers an internal error which can cause a hanging
             # problem (without the recently added .throw()) on teardown
             # (root nursery tears down thus killing all channels before
             # sending cancels to subactors during actor nursery teardown
@@ -302,19 +302,22 @@ class Actor:
                 log.debug(f"Received msg {msg} from {chan.uid}")
                 cid = msg.get('cid')
                 if cid:
-                    if cid == 'internal':  # internal actor error
-                        raise InternalActorError(
-                            f"{chan.uid}\n" + msg['error'])
-
                     # deliver response to local caller/waiter
                     await self._push_result(chan.uid, cid, msg)
-
                     log.debug(
                         f"Waiting on next msg for {chan} from {chan.uid}")
                     continue
 
                 # process command request
+                try:
                     ns, funcname, kwargs, actorid, cid = msg['cmd']
+                except KeyError:
+                    # push any non-rpc-response error to all local consumers
+                    # and mark the channel as errored
+                    chan._exc = err = msg['error']
+                    for cid in self._actors2calls[chan.uid]:
+                        await self._push_result(chan.uid, cid, msg)
+                    raise InternalActorError(f"{chan.uid}\n" + err)
 
                 log.debug(
                     f"Processing request from {actorid}\n"
@@ -355,23 +358,16 @@ class Actor:
             else:  # channel disconnect
                 log.debug(f"{chan} from {chan.uid} disconnected")
 
-        except InternalActorError as err:
-            # ship internal errors upwards
-            log.exception("Received internal error:")
-            if self._parent_chan:
-                await self._parent_chan.send(
-                    {'error': traceback.format_exc(), 'cid': 'internal'})
-                raise
-            else:
-                assert self._main_coro
-                self._main_coro.throw(err)
         except trio.ClosedResourceError:
             log.error(f"{chan} form {chan.uid} broke")
         except Exception:
-            # ship exception (from above code) to peer as an internal error
-            await chan.send(
-                {'error': traceback.format_exc(), 'cid': 'internal'})
+            # ship exception (from above code) to parent
+            log.exception("Actor errored:")
+            if self._parent_chan:
+                await self._parent_chan.send({'error': traceback.format_exc()})
                 raise
+            # if this is the `MainProcess` we expect the error broadcasting
+            # above to trigger an error at consuming portal "checkpoints"
         finally:
             log.debug(f"Exiting msg loop for {chan} from {chan.uid}")
 
@@ -471,7 +467,8 @@ class Actor:
             if self._parent_chan:
                 try:
                     await self._parent_chan.send(
-                        {'error': traceback.format_exc(), 'cid': 'internal'})
+                        # {'error': traceback.format_exc(), 'cid': 'internal'})
+                        {'error': traceback.format_exc()})
                 except trio.ClosedResourceError:
                     log.error(
                         f"Failed to ship error to parent "
@@ -480,7 +477,8 @@ class Actor:
 
             if not registered_with_arbiter:
                 log.exception(
-                    f"Failed to register with arbiter @ {arbiter_addr}")
+                    f"Actor errored and failed to register with arbiter "
+                    f"@ {arbiter_addr}")
             else:
                 raise
         finally:

tractor/_portal.py

@@ -149,9 +149,16 @@ class Portal:
         """Return the result(s) from the remote actor's "main" task.
         """
         if self._expect_result is None:
+            # (remote) errors are slapped on the channel
+            # teardown can reraise them
+            exc = self.channel._exc
+            if exc:
+                raise RemoteActorError(f"{self.channel.uid}\n" + exc)
+            else:
                 raise RuntimeError(
                     f"Portal for {self.channel.uid} is not expecting a final"
                     "result?")
+
         elif self._result is None:
             self._result = await self._return_from_resptype(
                 *self._expect_result
@@ -184,6 +191,7 @@ class Portal:
             log.warn(f"May have failed to cancel {self.channel.uid}")
             return False
 
+
 class LocalPortal:
     """A 'portal' to a local ``Actor``.