@loopback/context/src/context-subscription.ts

Facilities to manage artifacts and their dependencies in your Node.js applications. The module exposes TypeScript/JavaScript APIs and decorators to register artifacts, declare dependencies, and resolve artifacts by keys. It also serves as an IoC container

// Copyright IBM Corp. and LoopBack contributors 2019,2020. All Rights Reserved.
// Node module: @loopback/context
// This file is licensed under the MIT License.
// License text available at https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

import debugFactory from 'debug';
import {EventEmitter} from 'events';
import {iterator, multiple} from 'p-event';
import {Context} from './context';
import {ContextEvent, ContextEventListener} from './context-event';
import {
  ContextEventObserver,
  ContextEventType,
  ContextObserver,
} from './context-observer';

const debug = debugFactory('loopback:context:subscription');

/**
 * Subscription of context events. It's modeled after
 * https://github.com/tc39/proposal-observable.
 */
export interface Subscription {
  /**
   * unsubscribe
   */
  unsubscribe(): void;
  /**
   * Is the subscription closed?
   */
  closed: boolean;
}

/**
 * Event data for observer notifications
 */
export interface Notification extends ContextEvent {
  /**
   * A snapshot of observers when the original event is emitted
   */
  observers: Set<ContextEventObserver>;
}

/**
 * An implementation of `Subscription` interface for context events
 */
class ContextSubscription implements Subscription {
  constructor(
    protected context: Context,
    protected observer: ContextEventObserver,
  ) {}

  private _closed = false;

  unsubscribe() {
    this.context.unsubscribe(this.observer);
    this._closed = true;
  }

  get closed() {
    return this._closed;
  }
}

/**
 * Manager for context observer subscriptions
 */
export class ContextSubscriptionManager extends EventEmitter {
  /**
   * A listener to watch parent context events
   */
  protected _parentContextEventListener?: ContextEventListener;

  /**
   * A list of registered context observers. The Set will be created when the
   * first observer is added.
   */
  protected _observers: Set<ContextEventObserver> | undefined;

  /**
   * Internal counter for pending notification events which are yet to be
   * processed by observers.
   */
  private pendingNotifications = 0;

  /**
   * Queue for background notifications for observers
   */
  private notificationQueue: AsyncIterableIterator<Notification> | undefined;

  constructor(protected readonly context: Context) {
    super();
    this.setMaxListeners(Infinity);
  }

  /**
   * @internal
   */
  get parentContextEventListener() {
    return this._parentContextEventListener;
  }

  /**
   * @internal
   */
  get observers() {
    return this._observers;
  }

  /**
   * Wrap the debug statement so that it always print out the context name
   * as the prefix
   * @param args - Arguments for the debug
   */
  private _debug(...args: unknown[]) {
    /* istanbul ignore if */
    if (!debug.enabled) return;
    const formatter = args.shift();
    if (typeof formatter === 'string') {
      debug(`[%s] ${formatter}`, this.context.name, ...args);
    } else {
      debug('[%s] ', this.context.name, formatter, ...args);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Set up an internal listener to notify registered observers asynchronously
   * upon `bind` and `unbind` events. This method will be called lazily when
   * the first observer is added.
   */
  private setupEventHandlersIfNeeded() {
    if (this.notificationQueue != null) return;

    if (this.context.parent != null) {
      /**
       * Add an event listener to its parent context so that this context will
       * be notified of parent events, such as `bind` or `unbind`.
       */
      this._parentContextEventListener = event => {
        this.handleParentEvent(event);
      };

      // Listen on the parent context events
      this.context.parent.on('bind', this._parentContextEventListener!);
      this.context.parent.on('unbind', this._parentContextEventListener!);
    }

    // The following are two async functions. Returned promises are ignored as
    // they are long-running background tasks.
    this.startNotificationTask().catch(err => {
      this.handleNotificationError(err);
    });

    let ctx = this.context.parent;
    while (ctx) {
      ctx.subscriptionManager.setupEventHandlersIfNeeded();
      ctx = ctx.parent;
    }
  }

  private handleParentEvent(event: ContextEvent) {
    const {binding, context, type} = event;
    // Propagate the event to this context only if the binding key does not
    // exist in this context. The parent binding is shadowed if there is a
    // binding with the same key in this one.
    if (this.context.contains(binding.key)) {
      this._debug(
        'Event %s %s is not re-emitted from %s to %s',
        type,
        binding.key,
        context.name,
        this.context.name,
      );
      return;
    }
    this._debug(
      'Re-emitting %s %s from %s to %s',
      type,
      binding.key,
      context.name,
      this.context.name,
    );
    this.context.emitEvent(type, event);
  }

  /**
   * A strongly-typed method to emit context events
   * @param type Event type
   * @param event Context event
   */
  private emitEvent<T extends ContextEvent>(type: string, event: T) {
    this.emit(type, event);
  }

  /**
   * Emit an `error` event
   * @param err Error
   */
  private emitError(err: unknown) {
    this.emit('error', err);
  }

  /**
   * Start a background task to listen on context events and notify observers
   */
  private startNotificationTask() {
    // Set up listeners on `bind` and `unbind` for notifications
    this.setupNotification('bind', 'unbind');

    // Create an async iterator for the `notification` event as a queue
    this.notificationQueue = iterator(this, 'notification', {
      // Do not end the iterator if an error event is emitted on the
      // subscription manager
      rejectionEvents: [],
    });

    return this.processNotifications();
  }

  /**
   * Publish an event to the registered observers. Please note the
   * notification is queued and performed asynchronously so that we allow fluent
   * APIs such as `ctx.bind('key').to(...).tag(...);` and give observers the
   * fully populated binding.
   *
   * @param event - Context event
   * @param observers - Current set of context observers
   */
  protected async notifyObservers(
    event: ContextEvent,
    observers = this._observers,
  ) {
    if (!observers || observers.size === 0) return;

    const {type, binding, context} = event;
    for (const observer of observers) {
      if (typeof observer === 'function') {
        await observer(type, binding, context);
      } else if (!observer.filter || observer.filter(binding)) {
        await observer.observe(type, binding, context);
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Process notification events as they arrive on the queue
   */
  private async processNotifications() {
    const events = this.notificationQueue;
    if (events == null) return;
    for await (const {type, binding, context, observers} of events) {
      // The loop will happen asynchronously upon events
      try {
        // The execution of observers happen in the Promise micro-task queue
        await this.notifyObservers({type, binding, context}, observers);
        this.pendingNotifications--;
        this._debug(
          'Observers notified for %s of binding %s',
          type,
          binding.key,
        );
        this.emitEvent('observersNotified', {type, binding, context});
      } catch (err) {
        // Do not reduce the pending notification count so that errors
        // can be captured by waitUntilPendingNotificationsDone
        this._debug('Error caught from observers', err);
        // Errors caught from observers.
        if (this.listenerCount('error') > 0) {
          // waitUntilPendingNotificationsDone may be called
          this.emitError(err);
        } else {
          // Emit it to the current context. If no error listeners are
          // registered, crash the process.
          this.handleNotificationError(err);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /**
   * Listen on given event types and emit `notification` event. This method
   * merge multiple event types into one for notification.
   * @param eventTypes - Context event types
   */
  private setupNotification(...eventTypes: ContextEventType[]) {
    for (const type of eventTypes) {
      this.context.on(type, ({binding, context}) => {
        // No need to schedule notifications if no observers are present
        if (!this._observers || this._observers.size === 0) return;
        // Track pending events
        this.pendingNotifications++;
        // Take a snapshot of current observers to ensure notifications of this
        // event will only be sent to current ones. Emit a new event to notify
        // current context observers.
        this.emitEvent('notification', {
          type,
          binding,
          context,
          observers: new Set(this._observers),
        });
      });
    }
  }

  /**
   * Wait until observers are notified for all of currently pending notification
   * events.
   *
   * This method is for test only to perform assertions after observers are
   * notified for relevant events.
   */
  async waitUntilPendingNotificationsDone(timeout?: number) {
    const count = this.pendingNotifications;
    debug('Number of pending notifications: %d', count);
    if (count === 0) return;
    await multiple(this, 'observersNotified', {count, timeout});
  }

  /**
   * Add a context event observer to the context
   * @param observer - Context observer instance or function
   */
  subscribe(observer: ContextEventObserver): Subscription {
    this._observers = this._observers ?? new Set();
    this.setupEventHandlersIfNeeded();
    this._observers.add(observer);
    return new ContextSubscription(this.context, observer);
  }

  /**
   * Remove the context event observer from the context
   * @param observer - Context event observer
   */
  unsubscribe(observer: ContextEventObserver): boolean {
    if (!this._observers) return false;
    return this._observers.delete(observer);
  }

  /**
   * Check if an observer is subscribed to this context
   * @param observer - Context observer
   */
  isSubscribed(observer: ContextObserver) {
    if (!this._observers) return false;
    return this._observers.has(observer);
  }

  /**
   * Handle errors caught during the notification of observers
   * @param err - Error
   */
  private handleNotificationError(err: unknown) {
    // Bubbling up the error event over the context chain
    // until we find an error listener
    let ctx: Context | undefined = this.context;
    while (ctx) {
      if (ctx.listenerCount('error') === 0) {
        // No error listener found, try its parent
        ctx = ctx.parent;
        continue;
      }
      this._debug('Emitting error to context %s', ctx.name, err);
      ctx.emitError(err);
      return;
    }
    // No context with error listeners found
    this._debug('No error handler is configured for the context chain', err);
    // Let it crash now by emitting an error event
    this.context.emitError(err);
  }

  /**
   * Close the context: clear observers, stop notifications, and remove event
   * listeners from its parent context.
   *
   * @remarks
   * This method MUST be called to avoid memory leaks once a context object is
   * no longer needed and should be recycled. An example is the `RequestContext`,
   * which is created per request.
   */
  close() {
    this._observers = undefined;
    if (this.notificationQueue != null) {
      // Cancel the notification iterator
      this.notificationQueue.return!(undefined).catch(err => {
        this.handleNotificationError(err);
      });
      this.notificationQueue = undefined;
    }
    if (this.context.parent && this._parentContextEventListener) {
      this.context.parent.removeListener(
        'bind',
        this._parentContextEventListener,
      );
      this.context.parent.removeListener(
        'unbind',
        this._parentContextEventListener,
      );
      this._parentContextEventListener = undefined;
    }
  }
}