Keep what a consumer gives up on until a person delivers it again or drops it

Design 25 promised a dead-letter stream that did not exist: a message a
consumer gave up on stayed only in its source, which drops it after a week,
and its condition cleared when the advisories stopped (hq issue 330, ADR 0264).
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package main
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"strconv"
"strings"
"sync/atomic"
"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/conditions"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
)
// What a consumer gave up on, answered by the serving controller (novox/hq issue 330).
//
// **In this process, on its own connection**: DEAD_LETTERS is read and changed on the bus, and the
// serving controller is already on it. A verb run as a fresh process would open a connection of its own
// for each call (novox/hq issue 327).
// deadLettersOn is the serving controller's bus, set when it starts watching the mesh; nil in a
// process that serves nothing.
var deadLettersOn atomic.Pointer[busHandles]
// busHandles are the serving controller's connection and JetStream handle.
type busHandles struct {
conn *nats.Conn
js nats.JetStreamContext
}
// defaultDeadLetters is how many the list says when not asked for more.
const defaultDeadLetters = 50
// causeDeadLetter is the cause a delivery or drop gives when the caller gives none.
const causeDeadLetter = "dead-letter"
// deadLettersAnswer is what `dead-letters` answers: the list, one whole, or what came of delivering one
// again or dropping it.
func deadLettersAnswer(ctx context.Context, a *verbArguments) (any, error) {
on := deadLettersOn.Load()
if on == nil {
return nil, errors.New("this controller is not serving, so it does not read DEAD_LETTERS: ask again, " +
"and the serving controller answers")
}
// The shape first, and every argument it reads; one given beside it is refused before anything is
// done, as every verb refuses what it would pass over (novox/hq issue 244).
var deliver, drop, why, cause, idText, consumer, limit string
switch {
case a.given["deliver"] != "" || a.given["drop"] != "":
deliver, drop, why, cause = a.str("deliver"), a.str("drop"), a.str("why"), a.str("cause")
case a.given["id"] != "":
idText = a.str("id")
default:
consumer, limit = a.str("consumer"), a.str("limit")
}
if unused := a.unused(); len(unused) > 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("dead-letters did not use %s together with %s, and an argument a verb would pass "+
"over is refused: nothing was done", quoteAll(unused), quoteAll(a.usedGiven()))
}
switch {
case deliver != "" && drop != "":
return nil, errors.New("dead-letters delivers one again or drops one, not both. Nothing was done")
case deliver != "" || drop != "":
act, text := "deliver", deliver
if drop != "" {
act, text = "drop", drop
}
if strings.TrimSpace(why) == "" {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("dead-letters %s is a hand act, and says why: why is required and recorded in "+
"the hand-act log (novox/hq to-be 45 §7). Nothing was done", act)
}
id, err := deadLetterID(text)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return actOnDeadLetter(ctx, on, act, id, why, cause)
case idText != "":
id, err := deadLetterID(idText)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return link.DeadLetterNamed(on.js, id)
}
most := defaultDeadLetters
if limit != "" {
n, err := strconv.Atoi(limit)
if err != nil || n <= 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("limit is a number of dead letters, not %q", limit)
}
most = n
}
held, total, err := link.DeadLetters(on.js, consumer, most)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
answer := map[string]any{"dead_letters": held, "held": total,
"note": "newest first; with id, one whole; deliver or drop one with why"}
if total == 0 {
answer["note"] = "no consumer gave up on a message that is still kept"
}
return answer, nil
}
// deadLetterID is a dead letter's id as a caller wrote it.
func deadLetterID(text string) (uint64, error) {
id, err := strconv.ParseUint(strings.TrimSpace(text), 10, 64)
if err != nil || id == 0 {
return 0, fmt.Errorf("a dead letter's id is its number in %s, as dead-letters lists it, not %q",
broker.DeadLettersStream, text)
}
return id, nil
}
// actOnDeadLetter delivers one again or drops it, recorded in the hand-act log before it is done. A log
// that cannot be written is said, and the act still happens: the log is never the reason a person's act
// is refused (handacts.go).
func actOnDeadLetter(ctx context.Context, on *busHandles, act string, id uint64, why, cause string) (any, error) {
d, err := link.DeadLetterNamed(on.js, id)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if act == "deliver" {
// Refused before it is recorded: an act that cannot be done is not an act.
if _, err := link.AgainTo(d); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
}
if cause == "" {
cause = causeDeadLetter
}
by := link.CallerIn(ctx)
if by == "" {
by = "a seat call whose caller the bus did not name"
}
answer := map[string]any{"dead_letter": d.ID, "consumer": d.Who, "subject": d.Subject}
recorded, logErr := link.RecordHandAct(ctx, on.conn, link.HandAct{Verb: "dead-letters " + act,
Args: []string{strconv.FormatUint(id, 10), d.Stream + "." + d.Consumer}, Why: why, Cause: cause,
Condition: conditions.Key(conditions.ScopeBus, d.Stream+"."+d.Consumer, link.AdvisoryMaxDeliveries),
By: by + ", through the " + catalogue.ControllerSeatName + " seat"})
if logErr != nil {
answer["unrecorded"] = "the hand-act log could not be written, and the act was done all the same: " + logErr.Error()
} else {
answer["recorded"] = recorded.ID
}
switch act {
case "deliver":
_, to, err := link.DeliverAgain(on.js, id)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
answer["delivered_on"] = to
answer["done"] = fmt.Sprintf("dead letter %d was delivered again to %s, and nobody else; it is no longer kept",
id, consumerWho(d.Stream, d.Consumer))
case "drop":
if _, err := link.DropDeadLetter(on.js, id); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
answer["done"] = fmt.Sprintf("dead letter %d, which %s gave up on, was dropped for good", id,
consumerWho(d.Stream, d.Consumer))
}
return answer, nil
}