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-rw-r--r--src/server/session/agents/applied_session_agent.ts55
-rw-r--r--src/server/session/agents/monitor.ts377
-rw-r--r--src/server/session/agents/server_worker.ts161
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diff --git a/src/server/session/agents/applied_session_agent.ts b/src/server/session/agents/applied_session_agent.ts
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+++ b/src/server/session/agents/applied_session_agent.ts
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+import { isMaster } from "cluster";
+import { Monitor } from "./monitor";
+import { ServerWorker } from "./server_worker";
+
+export type ExitHandler = (reason: Error | boolean) => void | Promise<void>;
+
+export abstract class AppliedSessionAgent {
+
+ // the following two methods allow the developer to create a custom
+ // session and use the built in customization options for each thread
+ protected abstract async launchMonitor(): Promise<Monitor>;
+ protected abstract async launchServerWorker(): Promise<ServerWorker>;
+
+ private launched = false;
+
+ public killSession = (reason: string, graceful = true, errorCode = 0) => {
+ const target = isMaster ? this.sessionMonitor : this.serverWorker;
+ target.killSession(reason, graceful, errorCode);
+ }
+
+ private sessionMonitorRef: Monitor | undefined;
+ public get sessionMonitor(): Monitor {
+ if (!isMaster) {
+ this.serverWorker.sendMonitorAction("kill", {
+ graceful: false,
+ reason: "Cannot access the session monitor directly from the server worker thread.",
+ errorCode: 1
+ });
+ throw new Error();
+ }
+ return this.sessionMonitorRef!;
+ }
+
+ private serverWorkerRef: ServerWorker | undefined;
+ public get serverWorker(): ServerWorker {
+ if (isMaster) {
+ throw new Error("Cannot access the server worker directly from the session monitor thread");
+ }
+ return this.serverWorkerRef!;
+ }
+
+ public async launch(): Promise<void> {
+ if (!this.launched) {
+ this.launched = true;
+ if (isMaster) {
+ this.sessionMonitorRef = await this.launchMonitor();
+ } else {
+ this.serverWorkerRef = await this.launchServerWorker();
+ }
+ } else {
+ throw new Error("Cannot launch a session thread more than once per process.");
+ }
+ }
+
+} \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/server/session/agents/monitor.ts b/src/server/session/agents/monitor.ts
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+import { ExitHandler } from "./applied_session_agent";
+import { Configuration, configurationSchema, defaultConfig, Identifiers, colorMapping } from "../utilities/session_config";
+import Repl, { ReplAction } from "../../repl";
+import { isWorker, setupMaster, on, Worker, fork } from "cluster";
+import { IPC } from "../utilities/ipc";
+import { red, cyan, white, yellow, blue, green } from "colors";
+import { exec, ExecOptions } from "child_process";
+import { Utils } from "../../../Utils";
+import { validate, ValidationError } from "jsonschema";
+import { Utilities } from "../utilities/utilities";
+import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+
+export namespace Monitor {
+
+ export interface NotifierHooks {
+ key?: (key: string) => (boolean | Promise<boolean>);
+ crash?: (error: Error) => (boolean | Promise<boolean>);
+ }
+
+ export interface Action {
+ message: string;
+ args: any;
+ }
+
+ export type ServerMessageHandler = (action: Action) => void | Promise<void>;
+
+}
+
+/**
+ * Validates and reads the configuration file, accordingly builds a child process factory
+ * and spawns off an initial process that will respawn as predecessors die.
+ */
+export class Monitor {
+
+ private static count = 0;
+ private exitHandlers: ExitHandler[] = [];
+ private readonly notifiers: Monitor.NotifierHooks | undefined;
+ private readonly config: Configuration;
+ private onMessage: { [message: string]: Monitor.ServerMessageHandler[] | undefined } = {};
+ private activeWorker: Worker | undefined;
+ private key: string | undefined;
+ private repl: Repl;
+
+ public static Create(notifiers?: Monitor.NotifierHooks) {
+ if (isWorker) {
+ IPC.dispatchMessage(process, {
+ action: {
+ message: "kill",
+ args: {
+ reason: "cannot create a monitor on the worker process.",
+ graceful: false,
+ errorCode: 1
+ }
+ }
+ });
+ process.exit(1);
+ } else if (++Monitor.count > 1) {
+ console.error(red("cannot create more than one monitor."));
+ process.exit(1);
+ } else {
+ return new Monitor(notifiers);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Kill this session and its active child
+ * server process, either gracefully (may wait
+ * indefinitely, but at least allows active networking
+ * requests to complete) or immediately.
+ */
+ public killSession = async (reason: string, graceful = true, errorCode = 0) => {
+ this.mainLog(cyan(`exiting session ${graceful ? "clean" : "immediate"}ly`));
+ this.mainLog(`session exit reason: ${(red(reason))}`);
+ await this.executeExitHandlers(true);
+ this.killActiveWorker(graceful, true);
+ process.exit(errorCode);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Execute the list of functions registered to be called
+ * whenever the process exits.
+ */
+ public addExitHandler = (handler: ExitHandler) => this.exitHandlers.push(handler);
+
+ /**
+ * Extend the default repl by adding in custom commands
+ * that can invoke application logic external to this module
+ */
+ public addReplCommand = (basename: string, argPatterns: (RegExp | string)[], action: ReplAction) => {
+ this.repl.registerCommand(basename, argPatterns, action);
+ }
+
+ public exec = (command: string, options?: ExecOptions) => {
+ return new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+ exec(command, { ...options, encoding: "utf8" }, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+ if (error) {
+ this.execLog(red(`unable to execute ${white(command)}`));
+ error.message.split("\n").forEach(line => line.length && this.execLog(red(`(error) ${line}`)));
+ } else {
+ let outLines: string[], errorLines: string[];
+ if ((outLines = stdout.split("\n").filter(line => line.length)).length) {
+ outLines.forEach(line => line.length && this.execLog(cyan(`(stdout) ${line}`)));
+ }
+ if ((errorLines = stderr.split("\n").filter(line => line.length)).length) {
+ errorLines.forEach(line => line.length && this.execLog(yellow(`(stderr) ${line}`)));
+ }
+ }
+ resolve();
+ });
+ });
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Add a listener at this message. When the monitor process
+ * receives a message, it will invoke all registered functions.
+ */
+ public addServerMessageListener = (message: string, handler: Monitor.ServerMessageHandler) => {
+ const handlers = this.onMessage[message];
+ if (handlers) {
+ handlers.push(handler);
+ } else {
+ this.onMessage[message] = [handler];
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Unregister a given listener at this message.
+ */
+ public removeServerMessageListener = (message: string, handler: Monitor.ServerMessageHandler) => {
+ const handlers = this.onMessage[message];
+ if (handlers) {
+ const index = handlers.indexOf(handler);
+ if (index > -1) {
+ handlers.splice(index, 1);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Unregister all listeners at this message.
+ */
+ public clearServerMessageListeners = (message: string) => this.onMessage[message] = undefined;
+
+ private constructor(notifiers?: Monitor.NotifierHooks) {
+ this.notifiers = notifiers;
+
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), cyan("initializing session..."));
+
+ this.config = this.loadAndValidateConfiguration();
+
+ this.initializeSessionKey();
+ // determines whether or not we see the compilation / initialization / runtime output of each child server process
+ const output = this.config.showServerOutput ? "inherit" : "ignore";
+ setupMaster({ stdio: ["ignore", output, output, "ipc"] });
+
+ // handle exceptions in the master thread - there shouldn't be many of these
+ // the IPC (inter process communication) channel closed exception can't seem
+ // to be caught in a try catch, and is inconsequential, so it is ignored
+ process.on("uncaughtException", ({ message, stack }): void => {
+ if (message !== "Channel closed") {
+ this.mainLog(red(message));
+ if (stack) {
+ this.mainLog(`uncaught exception\n${red(stack)}`);
+ }
+ }
+ });
+
+ // a helpful cluster event called on the master thread each time a child process exits
+ on("exit", ({ process: { pid } }, code, signal) => {
+ const prompt = `server worker with process id ${pid} has exited with code ${code}${signal === null ? "" : `, having encountered signal ${signal}`}.`;
+ this.mainLog(cyan(prompt));
+ // to make this a robust, continuous session, every time a child process dies, we immediately spawn a new one
+ this.spawn();
+ });
+
+ this.repl = this.initializeRepl();
+ this.spawn();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Generates a blue UTC string associated with the time
+ * of invocation.
+ */
+ private timestamp = () => blue(`[${new Date().toUTCString()}]`);
+
+ /**
+ * A formatted, identified and timestamped log in color
+ */
+ public mainLog = (...optionalParams: any[]) => {
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), this.config.identifiers.master.text, ...optionalParams);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * A formatted, identified and timestamped log in color for non-
+ */
+ private execLog = (...optionalParams: any[]) => {
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), this.config.identifiers.exec.text, ...optionalParams);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * If the caller has indicated an interest
+ * in being notified of this feature, creates
+ * a GUID for this session that can, for example,
+ * be used as authentication for killing the server
+ * (checked externally).
+ */
+ private initializeSessionKey = async (): Promise<void> => {
+ if (this.notifiers?.key) {
+ this.key = Utils.GenerateGuid();
+ const success = await this.notifiers.key(this.key);
+ const statement = success ? green("distributed session key to recipients") : red("distribution of session key failed");
+ this.mainLog(statement);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Reads in configuration .json file only once, in the master thread
+ * and pass down any variables the pertinent to the child processes as environment variables.
+ */
+ private loadAndValidateConfiguration = (): Configuration => {
+ let config: Configuration;
+ try {
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), cyan("validating configuration..."));
+ config = JSON.parse(readFileSync('./session.config.json', 'utf8'));
+ const options = {
+ throwError: true,
+ allowUnknownAttributes: false
+ };
+ // ensure all necessary and no excess information is specified by the configuration file
+ validate(config, configurationSchema, options);
+ config = Utilities.preciseAssign({}, defaultConfig, config);
+ } catch (error) {
+ if (error instanceof ValidationError) {
+ console.log(red("\nSession configuration failed."));
+ console.log("The given session.config.json configuration file is invalid.");
+ console.log(`${error.instance}: ${error.stack}`);
+ process.exit(0);
+ } else if (error.code === "ENOENT" && error.path === "./session.config.json") {
+ console.log(cyan("Loading default session parameters..."));
+ console.log("Consider including a session.config.json configuration file in your project root for customization.");
+ config = Utilities.preciseAssign({}, defaultConfig);
+ } else {
+ console.log(red("\nSession configuration failed."));
+ console.log("The following unknown error occurred during configuration.");
+ console.log(error.stack);
+ process.exit(0);
+ }
+ } finally {
+ const { identifiers } = config!;
+ Object.keys(identifiers).forEach(key => {
+ const resolved = key as keyof Identifiers;
+ const { text, color } = identifiers[resolved];
+ identifiers[resolved].text = (colorMapping.get(color) || white)(`${text}:`);
+ });
+ return config!;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Builds the repl that allows the following commands to be typed into stdin of the master thread.
+ */
+ private initializeRepl = (): Repl => {
+ const repl = new Repl({ identifier: () => `${this.timestamp()} ${this.config.identifiers.master.text}` });
+ const boolean = /true|false/;
+ const number = /\d+/;
+ const letters = /[a-zA-Z]+/;
+ repl.registerCommand("exit", [/clean|force/], args => this.killSession("manual exit requested by repl", args[0] === "clean", 0));
+ repl.registerCommand("restart", [/clean|force/], args => this.killActiveWorker(args[0] === "clean"));
+ repl.registerCommand("set", [letters, "port", number, boolean], args => this.setPort(args[0], Number(args[2]), args[3] === "true"));
+ repl.registerCommand("set", [/polling/, number, boolean], async args => {
+ const newPollingIntervalSeconds = Math.floor(Number(args[1]));
+ if (newPollingIntervalSeconds < 0) {
+ this.mainLog(red("the polling interval must be a non-negative integer"));
+ } else {
+ if (newPollingIntervalSeconds !== this.config.polling.intervalSeconds) {
+ this.config.polling.intervalSeconds = newPollingIntervalSeconds;
+ if (args[2] === "true") {
+ return IPC.dispatchMessage(this.activeWorker!, { newPollingIntervalSeconds }, true);
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ });
+ return repl;
+ }
+
+ private executeExitHandlers = async (reason: Error | boolean) => Promise.all(this.exitHandlers.map(handler => handler(reason)));
+
+ /**
+ * Attempts to kill the active worker gracefully, unless otherwise specified.
+ */
+ private killActiveWorker = (graceful = true, isSessionEnd = false): void => {
+ if (this.activeWorker && !this.activeWorker.isDead()) {
+ if (graceful) {
+ IPC.dispatchMessage(this.activeWorker, { manualExit: { isSessionEnd } });
+ } else {
+ this.activeWorker.process.kill();
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Allows the caller to set the port at which the target (be it the server,
+ * the websocket, some other custom port) is listening. If an immediate restart
+ * is specified, this monitor will kill the active child and re-launch the server
+ * at the port. Otherwise, the updated port won't be used until / unless the child
+ * dies on its own and triggers a restart.
+ */
+ private setPort = (port: "server" | "socket" | string, value: number, immediateRestart: boolean): void => {
+ if (value > 1023 && value < 65536) {
+ this.config.ports[port] = value;
+ if (immediateRestart) {
+ this.killActiveWorker();
+ }
+ } else {
+ this.mainLog(red(`${port} is an invalid port number`));
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Kills the current active worker and proceeds to spawn a new worker,
+ * feeding in configuration information as environment variables.
+ */
+ private spawn = (): void => {
+ const {
+ polling: {
+ route,
+ failureTolerance,
+ intervalSeconds
+ },
+ ports
+ } = this.config;
+ this.killActiveWorker();
+ this.activeWorker = fork({
+ pollingRoute: route,
+ pollingFailureTolerance: failureTolerance,
+ serverPort: ports.server,
+ socketPort: ports.socket,
+ pollingIntervalSeconds: intervalSeconds,
+ session_key: this.key,
+ ipc_suffix: IPC.suffix
+ });
+ this.mainLog(cyan(`spawned new server worker with process id ${this.activeWorker?.process.pid}`));
+ // an IPC message handler that executes actions on the master thread when prompted by the active worker
+ IPC.addMessagesHandler(this.activeWorker!, async ({ lifecycle, action }) => {
+ if (action) {
+ const { message, args } = action as Monitor.Action;
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), `${this.config.identifiers.worker.text} action requested (${cyan(message)})`);
+ switch (message) {
+ case "kill":
+ const { reason, graceful, errorCode } = args;
+ this.killSession(reason, graceful, errorCode);
+ break;
+ case "notify_crash":
+ if (this.notifiers?.crash) {
+ const { error } = args;
+ const success = await this.notifiers.crash(error);
+ const statement = success ? green("distributed crash notification to recipients") : red("distribution of crash notification failed");
+ this.mainLog(statement);
+ }
+ break;
+ case "set_port":
+ const { port, value, immediateRestart } = args;
+ this.setPort(port, value, immediateRestart);
+ break;
+ }
+ const handlers = this.onMessage[message];
+ if (handlers) {
+ handlers.forEach(handler => handler({ message, args }));
+ }
+ }
+ if (lifecycle) {
+ console.log(this.timestamp(), `${this.config.identifiers.worker.text} lifecycle phase (${lifecycle})`);
+ }
+ });
+ }
+
+} \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/server/session/agents/server_worker.ts b/src/server/session/agents/server_worker.ts
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+import { ExitHandler } from "./applied_session_agent";
+import { isMaster } from "cluster";
+import { IPC } from "../utilities/ipc";
+import { red, green, white, yellow } from "colors";
+import { get } from "request-promise";
+
+/**
+ * Effectively, each worker repairs the connection to the server by reintroducing a consistent state
+ * if its predecessor has died. It itself also polls the server heartbeat, and exits with a notification
+ * email if the server encounters an uncaught exception or if the server cannot be reached.
+ */
+export class ServerWorker {
+
+ private static count = 0;
+ private shouldServerBeResponsive = false;
+ private exitHandlers: ExitHandler[] = [];
+ private pollingFailureCount = 0;
+ private pollingIntervalSeconds: number;
+ private pollingFailureTolerance: number;
+ private pollTarget: string;
+ private serverPort: number;
+
+ public static Create(work: Function) {
+ if (isMaster) {
+ console.error(red("cannot create a worker on the monitor process."));
+ process.exit(1);
+ } else if (++ServerWorker.count > 1) {
+ IPC.dispatchMessage(process, {
+ action: {
+ message: "kill", args: {
+ reason: "cannot create more than one worker on a given worker process.",
+ graceful: false,
+ errorCode: 1
+ }
+ }
+ });
+ process.exit(1);
+ } else {
+ return new ServerWorker(work);
+ }
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Allows developers to invoke application specific logic
+ * by hooking into the exiting of the server process.
+ */
+ public addExitHandler = (handler: ExitHandler) => this.exitHandlers.push(handler);
+
+ /**
+ * Kill the session monitor (parent process) from this
+ * server worker (child process). This will also kill
+ * this process (child process).
+ */
+ public killSession = (reason: string, graceful = true, errorCode = 0) => this.sendMonitorAction("kill", { reason, graceful, errorCode });
+
+ /**
+ * A convenience wrapper to tell the session monitor (parent process)
+ * to carry out the action with the specified message and arguments.
+ */
+ public sendMonitorAction = (message: string, args?: any, expectResponse = false) => IPC.dispatchMessage(process, { action: { message, args } }, expectResponse);
+
+ private constructor(work: Function) {
+ this.lifecycleNotification(green(`initializing process... ${white(`[${process.execPath} ${process.execArgv.join(" ")}]`)}`));
+
+ const { pollingRoute, serverPort, pollingIntervalSeconds, pollingFailureTolerance } = process.env;
+ this.serverPort = Number(serverPort);
+ this.pollingIntervalSeconds = Number(pollingIntervalSeconds);
+ this.pollingFailureTolerance = Number(pollingFailureTolerance);
+ this.pollTarget = `http://localhost:${serverPort}${pollingRoute}`;
+
+ this.configureProcess();
+ work();
+ this.pollServer();
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Set up message and uncaught exception handlers for this
+ * server process.
+ */
+ private configureProcess = () => {
+ // updates the local values of variables to the those sent from master
+ IPC.addMessagesHandler(process, async ({ newPollingIntervalSeconds, manualExit }) => {
+ if (newPollingIntervalSeconds !== undefined) {
+ this.pollingIntervalSeconds = newPollingIntervalSeconds;
+ }
+ if (manualExit !== undefined) {
+ const { isSessionEnd } = manualExit;
+ await this.executeExitHandlers(isSessionEnd);
+ process.exit(0);
+ }
+ });
+
+ // one reason to exit, as the process might be in an inconsistent state after such an exception
+ process.on('uncaughtException', this.proactiveUnplannedExit);
+ process.on('unhandledRejection', reason => {
+ const appropriateError = reason instanceof Error ? reason : new Error(`unhandled rejection: ${reason}`);
+ this.proactiveUnplannedExit(appropriateError);
+ });
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Execute the list of functions registered to be called
+ * whenever the process exits.
+ */
+ private executeExitHandlers = async (reason: Error | boolean) => Promise.all(this.exitHandlers.map(handler => handler(reason)));
+
+ /**
+ * Notify master thread (which will log update in the console) of initialization via IPC.
+ */
+ public lifecycleNotification = (event: string) => IPC.dispatchMessage(process, { lifecycle: event });
+
+ /**
+ * Called whenever the process has a reason to terminate, either through an uncaught exception
+ * in the process (potentially inconsistent state) or the server cannot be reached.
+ */
+ private proactiveUnplannedExit = async (error: Error): Promise<void> => {
+ this.shouldServerBeResponsive = false;
+ // communicates via IPC to the master thread that it should dispatch a crash notification email
+ this.sendMonitorAction("notify_crash", { error });
+ await this.executeExitHandlers(error);
+ // notify master thread (which will log update in the console) of crash event via IPC
+ this.lifecycleNotification(red(`crash event detected @ ${new Date().toUTCString()}`));
+ this.lifecycleNotification(red(error.message));
+ process.exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * This monitors the health of the server by submitting a get request to whatever port / route specified
+ * by the configuration every n seconds, where n is also given by the configuration.
+ */
+ private pollServer = async (): Promise<void> => {
+ await new Promise<void>(resolve => {
+ setTimeout(async () => {
+ try {
+ await get(this.pollTarget);
+ if (!this.shouldServerBeResponsive) {
+ // notify monitor thread that the server is up and running
+ this.lifecycleNotification(green(`listening on ${this.serverPort}...`));
+ }
+ this.shouldServerBeResponsive = true;
+ } catch (error) {
+ // if we expect the server to be unavailable, i.e. during compilation,
+ // the listening variable is false, activeExit will return early and the child
+ // process will continue
+ if (this.shouldServerBeResponsive) {
+ if (++this.pollingFailureCount > this.pollingFailureTolerance) {
+ this.proactiveUnplannedExit(error);
+ } else {
+ this.lifecycleNotification(yellow(`the server has encountered ${this.pollingFailureCount} of ${this.pollingFailureTolerance} tolerable failures`));
+ }
+ }
+ } finally {
+ resolve();
+ }
+ }, 1000 * this.pollingIntervalSeconds);
+ });
+ // controlled, asynchronous infinite recursion achieves a persistent poll that does not submit a new request until the previous has completed
+ this.pollServer();
+ }
+
+} \ No newline at end of file