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fix(realtime): NATS is not a boot dependency of a role that only publishes; a sync node without the bus fails in 15 s, coded; a publish with no live connection is refused, never queued - #755
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…ishes; a sync node without the bus fails in 15 s, coded; a publish with no live connection is refused, never queued
Under realtime.transport 'nats' every role awaited the first dial before it
bound a socket, and openNatsClient set waitOnFirstConnect, under which
nats@2.29.3 retries a failed first dial forever. A web, worker or scheduler
pod that restarted while NATS was down never served a page, for a bus those
roles only send "re-read" events to.
- cli: runtime-bus.ts decides by role. sync and the replicator await the
dial (15 s, retried on backoff, then X_TRANSPORT_UNAVAILABLE naming the
server, the wait and the last attempt); web, worker, scheduler and the
dev MCP host dial in the background and boot. realtime.enabled: false
never waits. The boot line carries bus=nats(up|connecting)|in-process.
- realtime: NatsTransport.connectInBackground() and connect({ withinMs });
the first-dial retry is the transport's own loop, which close() ends. A
publish while the client reconnects is refused instead of buffered
without bound by the library. The presence bucket is asserted at the dial
only for a node that serves presence (presenceBucket: 'first-use').
- core: a readiness check may be degradable ({ onFailure: 'degraded' }):
reported by name, never a 503 on /readyz, a 503 on /readyz?deep=1. The
transport check is degraded on publishing roles, failing on sync.
- serve-graph pins raised 938 → 939 and 1065 → 1066 for runtime-bus.ts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Cache invalidation after a NATS outage can occasionally double-send or, in a narrow race, lose a flush-all message, leaving a replica's cache stale. Replicator shutdown can also be delayed by up to about 1.5 seconds during a publish retry. Both are bounded and unlikely, so the change is mergeable with these fixes planned as follow-ups or done beforehand. Pre-merge checks |
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nats-transport-and-env
PR adds background-mode NATS dial for publish-only roles and drops waitOnFirstConnect. One new test asserts a default fix: the production code never sets; otherwise the changes are consistent.
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Behaviour moved from every-role-await to per-role-dial decision with bounded refusal for hard deps, degraded readiness for publish, and a boot-line bus= field.
No findings from: runtime-bus-and-lifecycle-wiring (nothing to review: Walked runtime-bus.ts (busUseFor, saysConnected, selectBus().start() with override/dial/cleanup paths), runtime-services.ts (the unwind ordering, the new roles arg, transportDetail wiring), lifecycle-readiness.ts (onFailure narrowing, throw-as-onFailure in runReadinessChecks), lifecycle.ts (strict…), docs, concern-security, concern-api-contract (nothing to review: Every contract change is additive (optional new params, widening a string-literal union, new optional RunningServices.busUse), every test path runs the production code it claims, the dial-then-publish-refusal semantics for use: 'publish' are anchored in the connectInBackground +…), concern-style-nits, runtime-bus-and-lifecycle-wiring (handoff).
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packages/cli/src/runtime-bus.ts |
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packages/cli/src/serve.live.test.ts |
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packages/realtime/src/nats-transport-background.test.ts |
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packages/realtime/src/nats-transport.ts |
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| // `connecting`, and this is the other half of it. | ||
| started.push( | ||
| connectable.onReconnect(() => { | ||
| logger.info('ultimate bus', { bus: busLabel(connectable), use }); |
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minor · test selectBus.start() in packages/cli/src/runtime-bus.ts:139 wires connectable.onReconnect(() => logger.info('ultimate bus', { bus: busLabel(connectable), use })), claimed in CHANGELOG and wiki/Realtime.md to log on first connect and after every recovery. Neither runtime-bus.test.ts nor runtime-bus.live.test.ts asserts this.
| expect(started).toContain(`"url":"http://127.0.0.1:${port}"`); | ||
| expect(started).not.toContain('0.0.0.0'); | ||
| // Where the bus is, on the same line: `nats(connecting)` here is a served pod with NATS down. | ||
| expect(started).toContain('"bus":"in-process"'); |
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minor · test packages/cli/src/serve.live.test.ts:190 only asserts '"bus":"in-process"', and runtime-bus.live.test.ts reads busLabel(runtime.transport) rather than the captured log line. A regression in runRole's new bus field (e.g. bus: → transport:) on a real-NATS boot would not be caught — both nats(connecting) and nats(up) strings emitted by serve.ts:206 go unverified.
| expect(codeOf(refused)).toBe('X_TRANSPORT_UNAVAILABLE'); | ||
| expect(causeOf(refused)).toContain('bus.test:4222'); | ||
| expect(causeOf(refused)).toContain('within 40ms'); | ||
| expect(isUltimateError(refused) ? refused.fix : '').toContain('nats-server'); |
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minor · test The new test calls transport.connect({ withinMs: 40 }) then asserts refused.fix contains 'nats-server', but NatsTransport.connect only spreads fix when wait.fix is defined, so refused.fix is undefined and expect(undefined).toContain(...) throws. Drop the fix assertion in nats-transport-background.test.ts:202, or have connect({ withinMs }) supply a default fix (e.g.
| expect(isUltimateError(refused) ? refused.fix : '').toContain('nats-server'); | |
| expect(isUltimateError(refused) ? refused.fix ?? '' : '').toContain('nats-server'); |
| // than once per dial per pod for as long as it lasts. | ||
| if ((attempt & (attempt - 1)) === 0) this.#report(error, this.name); | ||
| await this.#pause(policyDelay(this.#backoff, attempt, this.#rng)); | ||
| } |
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minor · test packages/realtime/src/nats-transport.ts:384 gates background dial error reports behind (attempt & (attempt - 1)) === 0 (claimed in CHANGELOG and docs/ops/01-kubernetes.md as attempts 1, 2, 4, 8, …), but no test asserts it.
… returns, and a replica that was disconnected drops what it held; the replicator rides out a NATS restart; the dial loop survives a lost client and a throwing reporter Review of #755. - cli: the invalidation hop keeps refused wire tags (de-duplicated, at most 1,024; past that one flush-all marker) and publishes them on the transport's reconnect or after the next accepted publish. A process whose connection came back, or whose boot subscribe landed after a refusal, calls flushProcessTiers(). The subscribe retry is woken by the reconnect and warns on attempts 1, 2, 4, 8. - cache: flushProcessTiers() clears in-process tiers (CacheTier.clear, lru), marks every tag-revalidated ISR page stale and fences out fills in flight. - realtime: the replicator retries a publish refused because the bus is away three times over 2 s before ending the run. #redialLoop is cleared in the loop's own finally, so a client lost in the microtask after the loop lands starts a new one. #report is total. Each dial has a 4 s connect timeout; pings are 10 s apart, two unanswered; the client's own protocol flag is read before a publish, so nothing is buffered once its socket has closed. - ServedApp.bus is optional. CHANGELOG states the type changes and the one window in which the client can still buffer. - serve-graph pins raised 939 → 940 and 1066 → 1067 for nats-dial-wait.ts. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review comments at @packages/cli/src/runtime-cache.ts:
- Around line 184-194: Update settle in the runtime cache to serialize
concurrent calls through one in-flight promise, so overlapping settlements
cannot publish the same flush or deferred batch twice. Clear flushOwed before
sending CACHE_FLUSH_ALL and restore it if the publish is refused, preserving any
new flush owed during the await.
Review comments at @packages/realtime/src/replicator.ts:
- Around line 200-216: Update publishThroughBlip to retain each retry timer’s
cancellation handle and make its pending wait reject with fencedOut when
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| const publishThroughBlip = async (run: Run, subject: string, envelope: string): Promise<void> => { | ||
| for (let retry = 0; ; retry += 1) { | ||
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| await options.transport.publish(subject, envelope); | ||
| return; | ||
| } catch (thrown) { | ||
| const delay = PUBLISH_RETRY_DELAYS_MS[retry]; | ||
| if (delay === undefined || !busAway(thrown)) throw thrown; | ||
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| if (current !== run || run.over !== null) { | ||
| throw fencedOut(run.over ?? 'a newer run started'); | ||
| } | ||
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Cancel and settle publish retries during shutdown.
publishThroughBlip discards the cancellation returned by schedule, while stop() cancels only the takeover timer. The repository's feeds wait for in-flight handlers, so a pending retry can delay shutdown by up to 1.5 seconds. Retain a per-retry cancellation that clears the timer and rejects the wait with fencedOut; clearing the timer alone would leave the promise pending.
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…en before its publish; the replicator's stop() ends a publish retry wait at once Review of #755, second round. - cli: settle() ran from every reconnect and after every accepted publish with nothing serializing it, so two that overlapped published the same batch (or the same flush-all) twice. One runs at a time; a call that arrives mid-run asks for one more pass. The batch and the flush-all are taken before the publish and put back if the bus refuses. - realtime: publishThroughBlip kept no cancellation for its timer, so a stop() during a retry held the feed's handler for up to 1.5 s. stop() now clears the timer and settles the wait into the run's fence. - tests for what the changelog claims and nothing asserted: the `ultimate bus` line on first connect and after every recovery (unit and live), the boot line's bus field as nats(connecting) and nats(up) on a booted process against a real server, and dial failures reported on attempts 1, 2, 4, 8. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Under realtime.transport 'nats' every role awaited the first dial before it
bound a socket, and openNatsClient set waitOnFirstConnect, under which
nats@2.29.3 retries a failed first dial forever. A web, worker or scheduler
pod that restarted while NATS was down never served a page, for a bus those
roles only send "re-read" events to.
dial (15 s, retried on backoff, then X_TRANSPORT_UNAVAILABLE naming the
server, the wait and the last attempt); web, worker, scheduler and the
dev MCP host dial in the background and boot. realtime.enabled: false
never waits. The boot line carries bus=nats(up|connecting)|in-process.
the first-dial retry is the transport's own loop, which close() ends. A
publish while the client reconnects is refused instead of buffered
without bound by the library. The presence bucket is asserted at the dial
only for a node that serves presence (presenceBucket: 'first-use').
reported by name, never a 503 on /readyz, a 503 on /readyz?deep=1. The
transport check is degraded on publishing roles, failing on sync.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 noreply@anthropic.com
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