rpc: fix subscription corner case and speed up tests (#17874)

Notifier tracks whether subscription are 'active'. A subscription
becomes active when the subscription ID has been sent to the client. If
the client sends notifications in the request handler before the
subscription becomes active they are dropped. The tests tried to work
around this problem by always waiting 5s before sending the first
notification.

Fix it by buffering notifications until the subscription becomes active.
This speeds up all subscription tests.

Also fix TestSubscriptionMultipleNamespaces to wait for three messages
per subscription instead of six. The test now finishes just after all
notifications have been received and doesn't hit the 30s timeout anymore.

rpc/subscription.go

@@ -52,9 +52,10 @@ type notifierKey struct{}
 // Server callbacks use the notifier to send notifications.
 type Notifier struct {
 	codec    ServerCodec
-	subMu    sync.RWMutex // guards active and inactive maps
+	subMu    sync.Mutex
 	active   map[ID]*Subscription
 	inactive map[ID]*Subscription
+	buffer   map[ID][]interface{} // unsent notifications of inactive subscriptions
 }
 
 // newNotifier creates a new notifier that can be used to send subscription
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ func newNotifier(codec ServerCodec) *Notifier {
 		codec:    codec,
 		active:   make(map[ID]*Subscription),
 		inactive: make(map[ID]*Subscription),
+		buffer:   make(map[ID][]interface{}),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -88,20 +90,26 @@ func (n *Notifier) CreateSubscription() *Subscription {
 // Notify sends a notification to the client with the given data as payload.
 // If an error occurs the RPC connection is closed and the error is returned.
 func (n *Notifier) Notify(id ID, data interface{}) error {
-	n.subMu.RLock()
+	n.subMu.Lock()
-	defer n.subMu.RUnlock()
+	defer n.subMu.Unlock()
 
-	sub, active := n.active[id]
+	if sub, active := n.active[id]; active {
-	if active {
+		n.send(sub, data)
-		notification := n.codec.CreateNotification(string(id), sub.namespace, data)
+	} else {
-		if err := n.codec.Write(notification); err != nil {
+		n.buffer[id] = append(n.buffer[id], data)
-			n.codec.Close()
-			return err
-		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (n *Notifier) send(sub *Subscription, data interface{}) error {
+	notification := n.codec.CreateNotification(string(sub.ID), sub.namespace, data)
+	err := n.codec.Write(notification)
+	if err != nil {
+		n.codec.Close()
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
 // Closed returns a channel that is closed when the RPC connection is closed.
 func (n *Notifier) Closed() <-chan interface{} {
 	return n.codec.Closed()
@@ -127,9 +135,15 @@ func (n *Notifier) unsubscribe(id ID) error {
 func (n *Notifier) activate(id ID, namespace string) {
 	n.subMu.Lock()
 	defer n.subMu.Unlock()
+
 	if sub, found := n.inactive[id]; found {
 		sub.namespace = namespace
 		n.active[id] = sub
 		delete(n.inactive, id)
+		// Send buffered notifications.
+		for _, data := range n.buffer[id] {
+			n.send(sub, data)
+		}
+		delete(n.buffer, id)
 	}
 }

rpc/subscription_test.go

@@ -28,8 +28,7 @@ import (
 
 type NotificationTestService struct {
 	mu                      sync.Mutex
-	unsubscribed bool
+	unsubscribed            chan string
-
 	gotHangSubscriptionReq  chan struct{}
 	unblockHangSubscription chan struct{}
 }
@@ -38,16 +37,10 @@ func (s *NotificationTestService) Echo(i int) int {
 	return i
 }
 
-func (s *NotificationTestService) wasUnsubCallbackCalled() bool {
-	s.mu.Lock()
-	defer s.mu.Unlock()
-	return s.unsubscribed
-}
-
 func (s *NotificationTestService) Unsubscribe(subid string) {
-	s.mu.Lock()
+	if s.unsubscribed != nil {
-	s.unsubscribed = true
+		s.unsubscribed <- subid
-	s.mu.Unlock()
+	}
 }
 
 func (s *NotificationTestService) SomeSubscription(ctx context.Context, n, val int) (*Subscription, error) {
@@ -65,7 +58,6 @@ func (s *NotificationTestService) SomeSubscription(ctx context.Context, n, val i
 		// test expects n events, if we begin sending event immediately some events
 		// will probably be dropped since the subscription ID might not be send to
 		// the client.
-		time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
 		for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
 			if err := notifier.Notify(subscription.ID, val+i); err != nil {
 				return
@@ -74,13 +66,10 @@ func (s *NotificationTestService) SomeSubscription(ctx context.Context, n, val i
 
 		select {
 		case <-notifier.Closed():
-			s.mu.Lock()
-			s.unsubscribed = true
-			s.mu.Unlock()
 		case <-subscription.Err():
-			s.mu.Lock()
+		}
-			s.unsubscribed = true
+		if s.unsubscribed != nil {
-			s.mu.Unlock()
+			s.unsubscribed <- string(subscription.ID)
 		}
 	}()
 
@@ -107,7 +96,7 @@ func (s *NotificationTestService) HangSubscription(ctx context.Context, val int)
 
 func TestNotifications(t *testing.T) {
 	server := NewServer()
-	service := &NotificationTestService{}
+	service := &NotificationTestService{unsubscribed: make(chan string)}
 
 	if err := server.RegisterName("eth", service); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("unable to register test service %v", err)
@@ -157,10 +146,10 @@ func TestNotifications(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	clientConn.Close() // causes notification unsubscribe callback to be called
-	time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
+	select {
-
+	case <-service.unsubscribed:
-	if !service.wasUnsubCallbackCalled() {
+	case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):
-		t.Error("unsubscribe callback not called after closing connection")
+		t.Fatal("Unsubscribe not called after one second")
 	}
 }
 
@@ -228,16 +217,17 @@ func waitForMessages(t *testing.T, in *json.Decoder, successes chan<- jsonSucces
 func TestSubscriptionMultipleNamespaces(t *testing.T) {
 	var (
 		namespaces        = []string{"eth", "shh", "bzz"}
-		server                 = NewServer()
 		service           = NotificationTestService{}
-		clientConn, serverConn = net.Pipe()
+		subCount          = len(namespaces) * 2
+		notificationCount = 3
 
+		server                 = NewServer()
+		clientConn, serverConn = net.Pipe()
 		out                    = json.NewEncoder(clientConn)
 		in                     = json.NewDecoder(clientConn)
 		successes              = make(chan jsonSuccessResponse)
 		failures               = make(chan jsonErrResponse)
 		notifications          = make(chan jsonNotification)
-
 		errors                 = make(chan error, 10)
 	)
 
@@ -255,13 +245,12 @@ func TestSubscriptionMultipleNamespaces(t *testing.T) {
 	go waitForMessages(t, in, successes, failures, notifications, errors)
 
 	// create subscriptions one by one
-	n := 3
 	for i, namespace := range namespaces {
 		request := map[string]interface{}{
 			"id":      i,
 			"method":  fmt.Sprintf("%s_subscribe", namespace),
 			"version": "2.0",
-			"params":  []interface{}{"someSubscription", n, i},
+			"params":  []interface{}{"someSubscription", notificationCount, i},
 		}
 
 		if err := out.Encode(&request); err != nil {
@@ -276,7 +265,7 @@ func TestSubscriptionMultipleNamespaces(t *testing.T) {
 			"id":      i,
 			"method":  fmt.Sprintf("%s_subscribe", namespace),
 			"version": "2.0",
-			"params":  []interface{}{"someSubscription", n, i},
+			"params":  []interface{}{"someSubscription", notificationCount, i},
 		})
 	}
 
@@ -285,46 +274,40 @@ func TestSubscriptionMultipleNamespaces(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	timeout := time.After(30 * time.Second)
-	subids := make(map[string]string, 2*len(namespaces))
+	subids := make(map[string]string, subCount)
-	count := make(map[string]int, 2*len(namespaces))
+	count := make(map[string]int, subCount)
-
+	allReceived := func() bool {
-	for {
+		done := len(count) == subCount
-		done := true
+		for _, c := range count {
-		for id := range count {
+			if c < notificationCount {
-			if count, found := count[id]; !found || count < (2*n) {
 				done = false
 			}
 		}
-
+		return done
-		if done && len(count) == len(namespaces) {
-			break
 	}
 
+	for !allReceived() {
 		select {
-		case err := <-errors:
-			t.Fatal(err)
 		case suc := <-successes: // subscription created
 			subids[namespaces[int(suc.Id.(float64))]] = suc.Result.(string)
+		case notification := <-notifications:
+			count[notification.Params.Subscription]++
+		case err := <-errors:
+			t.Fatal(err)
 		case failure := <-failures:
 			t.Errorf("received error: %v", failure.Error)
-		case notification := <-notifications:
-			if cnt, found := count[notification.Params.Subscription]; found {
-				count[notification.Params.Subscription] = cnt + 1
-			} else {
-				count[notification.Params.Subscription] = 1
-			}
 		case <-timeout:
 			for _, namespace := range namespaces {
 				subid, found := subids[namespace]
 				if !found {
-					t.Errorf("Subscription for '%s' not created", namespace)
+					t.Errorf("subscription for %q not created", namespace)
 					continue
 				}
-				if count, found := count[subid]; !found || count < n {
+				if count, found := count[subid]; !found || count < notificationCount {
-					t.Errorf("Didn't receive all notifications (%d<%d) in time for namespace '%s'", count, n, namespace)
+					t.Errorf("didn't receive all notifications (%d<%d) in time for namespace %q", count, notificationCount, namespace)
 				}
 			}
-			return
+			t.Fatal("timed out")
 		}
 	}
 }