A heartbeat that neither blocks the async consumer nor holds a pool thread (#284) - #301
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…pool thread (#284) #284's table names `ISendHeartBeat.Send` as the last synchronous call on the async receive path. Reading the code, it is two problems and the send is the smaller one. The send runs on the heartbeat scheduler's own job queue, not on the consumer's continuation - so converting it alone would not have unblocked anything. What blocks the consumer is the *wait* for it: `SendHeartBeatInternal` held `_runningLocker` across the transport call, `Stop()` and `Dispose()` take the same lock, and `ProcessMessageAsync` calls `Stop()` on both failure paths and disposes the worker through `using` on every message. `IHeartBeatWorker` even made that contractual - "Stop blocks and does not return if the heartbeat is in the middle of updating". So both: - The lock becomes a `SemaphoreSlim`, and `IHeartBeatWorker` gains `StopAsync` and `IAsyncDisposable`. The guarantee is unchanged - neither returns while a beat is updating - but the wait is awaited. `ProcessMessageAsync` now uses `await using` and `await StopAsync()`. - `ISendHeartBeat` gains `SendAsync`, implemented on every transport, so a beat no longer holds a pool thread for its round trip. The scheduler's job body is an `Expression<Action<...>>` and cannot hold an `await`, so the job starts the beat and hands its thread straight back; the semaphore is what bounds the beat's lifetime, and it is what StopAsync waits on. `ConsumerAsyncHeartbeatTest` covers it on all five transports that have a heartbeat. The message handler blocks past two beat intervals and then reads the status a beat wrote, so a pass means a beat completed mid-message. It earned its place immediately: SQL Server declares `@date` inside its heartbeat statement where the relational transport passes it as a parameter, and SQL Server registered only the *synchronous* handler explicitly - so the relational open-generic won the asynchronous registration and every beat failed with "the variable name '@Date' has already been declared", cancelling the worker's token. The existing synchronous heartbeat test asserts queue counts rather than beats, so it would not have caught it. Registering SQL Server's own handler for the asynchronous interface fixes it. With this, every row of #284 is done. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AsyncConsumer
participant HeartBeatWorker
participant HeartbeatDecorator
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AsyncConsumer->>HeartBeatWorker: Process message with heartbeat
HeartBeatWorker->>HeartbeatDecorator: SendAsync(context)
HeartbeatDecorator->>Transport: asynchronous heartbeat update
Transport-->>HeartbeatDecorator: heartbeat status
HeartbeatDecorator-->>HeartBeatWorker: IHeartBeatStatus
AsyncConsumer->>HeartBeatWorker: StopAsync()
HeartBeatWorker-->>AsyncConsumer: completed after active beat
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PR Summary by QodoMake heartbeat updates and consumer shutdown waits asynchronous
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- Line 1: Add the repository’s standard LGPL-2.1 license header at the beginning
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In `@Source/DotNetWorkQueue.Tests/Queue/HeartBeatWorkerTests.cs`:
- Around line 157-163: The sendHeartBeat setup in HeartBeatWorkerTests must
return an incomplete task immediately rather than blocking inside the Returns
callback. Use a TaskCompletionSource<IHeartBeatStatus>, signal beatStarted,
return its task, and complete it only after asserting StopAsync remains pending;
preserve the existing beatFinished synchronization.
In `@Source/DotNetWorkQueue/Trace/Decorator/SendHeartBeatDecorator.cs`:
- Line 77: Update SendHeartBeatDecorator.Tag to handle a null status returned by
RedisQueueSendHeartBeat.SendAsync before accessing status.LastHeartBeatTime,
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… a toothless test Both reviewers landed on the same real defect, and it is one this branch's subject makes worse rather than one it introduced: - The trace decorator dereferenced the status the transport returned. `RedisQueueSendHeartBeat` returns null for a context with no message id, and the synchronous member had the same dereference before this branch shared it - so tracing turned a no-op into an exception, which `HeartBeatWorker` logs as a heartbeat failure and answers by cancelling the message's token. Guarded in the one helper, which fixes both members. - `SendHeartBeatInternal` discarded the beat's task. `SendHeartBeatAsync` handles a failing beat, but its own failure handling can throw - a cancellation callback raising from `SetCancel`, say - and that fault had nobody watching. It is now logged. A heartbeat that quietly stops beating is exactly what lets the monitor reset a message that is still being processed. - `StopAsync_Waits_For_An_InFlight_Beat` did not test what it claimed. NSubstitute runs a `Returns` callback inside the call, so blocking there only proved the worker calls `SendAsync`, not that it awaits the result. It now returns an incomplete `TaskCompletionSource` task. Verified by removing the await: the test fails with "StopAsync returned while a heartbeat was still updating", which it did not do before. Sonar: every `_beatLock` wait now passes `CancellationToken.None` explicitly. The only token in scope is `_cancel`, and waiting on it would cancel the wait at precisely the moment a beat is in trouble - `Stop` would return while one was still updating, which is the guarantee the interface makes. The waits are deliberately not cancellable, exactly as the lock they replaced was not. The licence-header comment on the new integration test is declined: test projects are exempt per CLAUDE.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sonar — seven Declined — the licence header on the new integration test. Test projects are exempt per One thing I checked that nobody asked about. Validated: 2,477 unit tests, the Release build, and the heartbeat tests on Redis and SQL Server (the two transports the null-status and registration fixes touch). |
…their job Patch coverage was short, and the gaps were all on paths this branch added or that nothing ever reached. - `SendHeartBeatDecorator` (tracing) had no tests at all. The new ones include a regression test for the null status both reviewers found: removing the guard fails `Send_WithNoStatus_DoesNotThrow` *and* its asynchronous twin, which is the evidence that the defect was on the synchronous member before this branch shared the helper. - `SendHeartBeatPolicyDecorator` had none either - all four combinations of member and registered pipeline now. - The memory transport's `SendAsync` throws, like its `Send`, and now says so. Two existing tests were not testing anything: - `Test_Send_Exception` set up a throwing beat, slept seven seconds and asserted nothing. The scheduler is a substitute, so no beat ever ran - the failure path it was named for was never entered. It now runs the job the worker scheduled and asserts the error reaches user code through `SetError`, which is how a worker learns its message is no longer protected. Also seven seconds faster. - `StopAsync_Waits_For_An_InFlight_Beat` was fixed in the previous commit for the same reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ISendHeartBeat.Sendas the remaining synchronous call; reading the code, it is two problems and the send is the smaller one.The send runs on the heartbeat scheduler's own job queue, not on the consumer's continuation — converting it alone would not have unblocked anything. What blocks the consumer is the wait for it:
SendHeartBeatInternalheld_runningLockeracross the transport call,Stop()andDispose()take that same lock, andProcessMessageAsynccallsStop()on both failure paths and disposes the worker throughusingon every message.IHeartBeatWorkermade it contractual — "Stop blocks and does not return if the heartbeat is in the middle of updating."What changed
The wait.
_runningLockerbecomes aSemaphoreSlim;IHeartBeatWorkergainsStopAsyncandIAsyncDisposable. The guarantee is unchanged — neither returns while a beat is updating — but the wait is awaited rather than blocked on.ProcessMessageAsyncusesawait usingandawait StopAsync().The beat.
ISendHeartBeatgainsSendAsync, implemented on every transport plus the metrics, policy and trace decorators, so a beat no longer occupies a pool thread for its round trip. The scheduler's job body is anExpression<Action<…>>and cannot hold anawait, so the job starts the beat and hands its thread straight back — the semaphore bounds the beat's lifetime, and it is whatStopAsyncwaits on.What to look at
HeartBeatWorkeris the shutdown-sensitive part and deserves the closest read. The semaphore is deliberately not disposed: nothing touchesAvailableWaitHandle, and disposing it would race a beat still on its way out.The SQL Server registration. SQL Server's heartbeat statement declares
@dateitself where the relational one passes it as a parameter, and SQL Server registered only the synchronous handler explicitly — so the relational open-generic won the asynchronous registration and every beat failed withthe variable name '@date' has already been declared, cancelling the worker's cancellation token. Registering SQL Server's own handler for the asynchronous interface fixes it. Same shape as the missing async retry decorator in #297: an async twin has to inherit the registrations, not just the code.Tests
ConsumerAsyncHeartbeatTeston all five transports that have a heartbeat. The handler blocks past two beat intervals and then reads the status a beat wrote, so a pass means a beat completed while the message was still being processed. This is what found the SQL Server defect — the existing synchronous heartbeat test asserts queue counts rather than beats, so it would have shipped silently.StopAsync_Waits_For_An_InFlight_Beatholds a beat open and assertsStopAsynchas not completed, then releases it and asserts the beat finished first — the guaranteeStopmade, now without blocking.Validated locally: 2,477 unit tests, the Release build with
-p:CI=true, the new heartbeat test on SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, LiteDB and Redis, the existing synchronous heartbeat tests, and the SQLite and Memory async consumer suites.A correction to an earlier claim on this branch
While building this I hit
ConsumerHeartbeatfailing on SQL Server with 7 messages sent and 8 then 9 processed, and attributed it to #294 as a known flake. That was wrong, and it was this branch's own bug: the missing asynchronous registration described above killed every beat on the synchronous consumer too, sinceHeartBeatWorkeris shared by both. A dead heartbeat means the monitor resets messages that are still being processed, and the queue hands them to a second worker. The test passes consistently now that the registration is fixed.That failure signature is not a flake in any case. If the bad consumer had completed a message early the count would come out low; only a live message being reset makes it come out high. #294 has been corrected accordingly — its original SQLite sightings still need their own root cause, and the assertion there is right as written.
One thing to watch on CI: a single run of the core suite reported 12 failures that I could not reproduce in five subsequent runs, including the identical sequence. Named tests were not captured. Worth a second look if Jenkins shows anything similar.
With this merged, every row of #284 is done.
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