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Claude 8f0da2a806 feat(pubsub,channels)!: handles are addresses — bus, hub and session registries are supervised children
smarm 0.7 (415effb, "lifetime is the actor's — refs are addresses") removed the
rule these three actors were built on: a GenServerRef no longer owns the server,
the loop holds its own inbox sender, and the inbox never closes when the last ref
drops. urus's pubsub table, channel hub bus and session registries were still
governed by that deleted rule — PubSub::new() spawned the table and the handle
owned its life — so nothing commanded them to stop. What still terminated a run
was the root-exit sweep, racing the drain: shutdown_with_open_chat_terminates and
channels_wire::shutdown_with_open_channel_terminates failed 4 times in 25
--all-features runs with "serve did not return: ... outlived the drain: Timeout".
Zero in 10 full-suite runs after this change.

The fix is not a supervisor wrapped around the old shape. Every gotcha in this
area descended from constructors that spawn: PubSub::new(), ChannelHub::new() and
PrefixRouter::channel_session() all started actors, which forced in-runtime-only
construction, which forced the Arc<OnceLock<..>> lazy-init from the first handler,
which forced the "cell must not be static" and "a relay must never hold a PubSub
clone" rules. Five documented rules propping up one inverted dependency. So:
description is separated from instantiation.

- PubSub<M> is a name, not a GenServerRef: const-constructible, Copy, spawns
  nothing, valid outside the runtime and in a static. Operations resolve through
  the registry per call, so a table restarted by its supervisor is reached
  transparently (one lookup per broadcast — bench before caching a ref, which
  would go stale across exactly the restart the supervisor exists to perform).
  PubSub::new() is gone; PubSub::new(name) + PubSub::child() replace it.
- ChannelHub::new(bus, router) returns (hub, Vec<ChildSpec>) — the bus table plus
  one registry per session route. Returning both is the point: a hub whose
  children were never started compiles and fails on the first join, so the vec is
  not left behind a method you can forget to call. #[must_use].
- channel_session gains a registry name; each session registry is separately
  named and separately supervised.
- serve_with/serve_with_shutdown take a Vec<ChildSpec> of app children and build
  the root as RestForOne[..app children, endpoint]. They start before the
  endpoint and, shutdown being ordered in reverse, stop after it has drained, so
  a request still in flight can reach the bus. RestForOne because a bus crash
  leaves live sockets addressing a table that no longer knows them.
- Deleted: the Arc<OnceLock> idiom from both examples and both test pipelines,
  and the module rules that existed only to hand-manage a refcount.

Known cost, not fixed here: channel_session("session:*", "chat-sessions", f) puts
two unrelated string literals side by side and nothing catches a transposition —
a RegistryName newtype is the obvious follow-up.

Tests: 111 lib + 50 integration + 2 doc green, clippy clean, 10/10 full-suite
runs. Unit tests poll for name binding before use — smarm's start-order-is-not-
start-readiness gap; real apps don't hit it, since a handler only runs once a
connection has been accepted.
2026-08-20 14:49:23 +00:00
Claude 0de2baa72d feat(channels): opt-in session persistence — v0.6 chunk 3
ChannelSession<P> (src/channels/session.rs): a channel actor that
outlives its transport, buffering outbound broadcasts as the same
Arc<Broadcast<P>>s the relay path carries (zero re-allocation) until
rejoin, buffer cap, or TTL. Registered per pattern via
PrefixRouter::channel_session::<S>(pattern, factory) /
channel_session_default::<C>(pattern); one registry gen_server per
registration, monomorphic over S::Key (no type erasure).

Machinery: deploy() computes the key on the conn actor and casts the
join handshake to the registry; the registry maps key -> (pid, control
sender), forwards reattaches, spawns-and-monitors fresh actors, and
prunes on Down (pid-guarded against replaced entries). The session
actor selects [inbound, bus, ctl] attached and select_timeout([ctl,
bus], ttl-remaining) detached; detach triggers are the closed inbound
arm and ws send failure (the failed broadcast is the buffer's first
entry — nothing lost). Drain re-encodes under the new join generation.

As-landed decisions (each in module docs):
- ChannelFactory gained a #[doc(hidden)] deploy() seam (default =
  ephemeral linked actor, the chunk-1 behavior verbatim); JoinHandshake
  and ChannelInbox are opaque pub structs. Channel construction moved
  from run_channel into deploy — same linked blast radius.
- Every attach calls ch.join() again (rejoin acks need a payload and
  channels get to re-auth); session channels must treat join as
  re-entrant.
- A rejected rejoin ENDS the session (no zombie sessions held open for
  unauthorized clients); next join is a cold start.
- A second transport EVICTS the first (best-effort phx_close); a
  session is single-transport.
- Explicit leave ends the session, not just the attachment.
- TTL per detach episode; subscribe once, on first successful join;
  cap.max(1) semantics (cap 0 = first buffered message tears down,
  but an empty buffer still waits out the TTL).
- Key: Clone beyond the ratified Eq+Hash+Send — the registry keeps a
  pid -> key reverse index for Down pruning.
- The registry spawns eagerly at registration (channel_session is
  in-runtime-only, same law as ChannelHub::new): a lazy OnceLock would
  block std-sync under green threads on first-join races.
- Shutdown composes WITHOUT links: conns die -> router Arcs drop ->
  registry inbox closes -> registry exits -> ctl senders drop ->
  detached sessions wake on the closed ctl arm, terminate, exit.
  shutdown_with_detached_session_terminates is the proof (ttl 30s vs
  5s budget — only the chain can reap it).

Tests: 6 session unit tests (buffer-and-drain ordering across
reconnect, TTL expiry, cap teardown, leave, eviction incl. stale
conn-entry self-prune, rejected rejoin) + the shutdown integration
test. Shared toy codec + conn harness extracted to
channels/testkit.rs (mod.rs tests now import it; no behavior change).

Hammer: 35x lifecycle subset (+channels +session) + 3x full (phoenix)
+ 1x full (phoenix+smarm-trace) + featureless + channels-only, all
green; dbg-grep clean. Suite: 90 unit + 46 integration + 2 doc under
--features phoenix.
2026-06-12 15:22:54 +00:00