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24 from threading import Thread
25 from ricxappframe.rmr import rmr, helpers
26 from mdclogpy import Logger
27 from a1 import data, messages
28 from a1.exceptions import PolicyTypeNotFound, PolicyInstanceNotFound
30 mdc_logger = Logger(name=__name__)
33 # With Nanomsg and NNG it was possible for a send attempt to have a "soft"
34 # failure which did warrant some retries if the status of the send is RMR_ERR_RETRY.
35 # Because of the way NNG worked, it sometimes required many tens of retries,
36 # and a retry state happened often for even moderately "verbose" applications.
37 # With SI95 there is still a possibility that a retry is necessary, but it is very rare.
38 RETRY_TIMES = int(os.environ.get("A1_RMR_RETRY_TIMES", 4))
39 A1_POLICY_REQUEST = 20010
40 A1_POLICY_RESPONSE = 20011
41 A1_POLICY_QUERY = 20012
44 # Note; yes, globals are bad, but this is a private (to this module) global
45 # No other module can import/access this (well, python doesn't enforce this, but all linters will complain)
51 Class represents an rmr loop that constantly reads from rmr and performs operations
52 based on waiting messages. This launches a thread, it should probably only be called
53 once; the public facing method to access these ensures this.
55 TODO: the xapp frame has a version of this looping structure. See if A1 can switch to that.
58 def __init__(self, init_func_override=None, rcv_func_override=None):
64 init_func_override: function (optional)
65 Function that initializes RMR and answers an RMR context.
66 Supply an empty function to skip initializing RMR.
68 rcv_func_override: function (optional)
69 Function that receives messages from RMR and answers a list.
70 Supply a trivial function to skip reading from RMR.
72 self.keep_going = True
74 self.last_ran = time.time()
76 # see docs/overview#resiliency for a discussion of this
77 self.instance_send_queue = queue.Queue() # thread safe queue https://docs.python.org/3/library/queue.html
79 # intialize rmr context
80 if init_func_override:
81 self.mrc = init_func_override()
83 mdc_logger.debug("Waiting for rmr to initialize..")
84 # rmr.RMRFL_MTCALL puts RMR into a multithreaded mode, where a receiving thread
85 # populates an internal ring of messages, and receive calls read from that.
86 # currently the size is 2048 messages, so this is fine for the foreseeable future
87 self.mrc = rmr.rmr_init(b"4562", rmr.RMR_MAX_RCV_BYTES, rmr.RMRFL_MTCALL)
88 while rmr.rmr_ready(self.mrc) == 0:
91 # set the receive function
95 else lambda: helpers.rmr_rcvall_msgs_raw(self.mrc, [A1_POLICY_RESPONSE, A1_POLICY_QUERY])
99 self.thread = Thread(target=self.loop)
102 def _assert_good_send(self, sbuf, pre_send_summary):
104 Extracts the send result and logs a detailed warning if the send failed.
105 Returns the message state, an integer that indicates the result.
107 post_send_summary = rmr.message_summary(sbuf)
108 if post_send_summary[rmr.RMR_MS_MSG_STATE] != rmr.RMR_OK:
109 mdc_logger.warning("RMR send failed; pre-send summary: {0}, post-send summary: {1}".format(pre_send_summary, post_send_summary))
110 return post_send_summary[rmr.RMR_MS_MSG_STATE]
112 def _send_msg(self, pay, mtype, subid):
114 Creates and sends a message via RMR's send-message feature with the specified payload
115 using the specified message type and subscription ID.
117 sbuf = rmr.rmr_alloc_msg(self.mrc, len(pay), payload=pay, gen_transaction_id=True, mtype=mtype, sub_id=subid)
118 sbuf.contents.sub_id = subid
119 pre_send_summary = rmr.message_summary(sbuf)
120 for _ in range(0, RETRY_TIMES):
121 mdc_logger.debug("_send_msg: sending: {}".format(pre_send_summary))
122 sbuf = rmr.rmr_send_msg(self.mrc, sbuf)
123 msg_state = self._assert_good_send(sbuf, pre_send_summary)
124 if msg_state != rmr.RMR_ERR_RETRY:
127 rmr.rmr_free_msg(sbuf)
128 if msg_state != rmr.RMR_OK:
129 mdc_logger.warning("_send_msg: failed after {} retries".format(RETRY_TIMES))
131 def _rts_msg(self, pay, sbuf_rts, mtype):
133 Sends a message via RMR's return-to-sender feature.
134 This neither allocates nor frees a message buffer because we may rts many times.
135 Returns the message buffer from the RTS function, which may reallocate it.
137 pre_send_summary = rmr.message_summary(sbuf_rts)
138 for _ in range(0, RETRY_TIMES):
139 mdc_logger.debug("_rts_msg: sending: {}".format(pre_send_summary))
140 sbuf_rts = rmr.rmr_rts_msg(self.mrc, sbuf_rts, payload=pay, mtype=mtype)
141 msg_state = self._assert_good_send(sbuf_rts, pre_send_summary)
142 if msg_state != rmr.RMR_ERR_RETRY:
145 if msg_state != rmr.RMR_OK:
146 mdc_logger.warning("_rts_msg: failed after {} retries".format(RETRY_TIMES))
147 return sbuf_rts # in some cases rts may return a new sbuf
149 def _handle_sends(self):
150 # send out all messages waiting for us
151 while not self.instance_send_queue.empty():
152 work_item = self.instance_send_queue.get(block=False, timeout=None)
153 payload = json.dumps(messages.a1_to_handler(*work_item)).encode("utf-8")
154 self._send_msg(payload, A1_POLICY_REQUEST, work_item[1])
158 This loop runs forever, and has 3 jobs:
159 - send out any messages that have to go out (create instance, delete instance)
160 - read a1s mailbox and update the status of all instances based on acks from downstream policy handlers
161 - clean up the database (eg delete the instance) under certain conditions based on those statuses (NOT DONE YET)
164 mdc_logger.debug("Work loop starting")
165 while self.keep_going:
168 # We now handle our sends in a thread (that will just exit when it's done) because there is a difference between how send works in SI95 vs NNG.
169 # Send_msg via NNG formerly never blocked.
170 # However under SI95 this send may block for some arbitrary period of time on the first send to an endpoint for which a connection is not established
171 # If this send takes too long, this loop blocks, and the healthcheck will fail, which will cause A1s healthcheck to fail, which will cause Kubernetes to whack A1 and all kinds of horrible things happen.
172 # Therefore, now under SI95, we thread this.
173 Thread(target=self._handle_sends).start()
176 for (msg, sbuf) in self.rcv_func():
177 # TODO: in the future we may also have to catch SDL errors
179 mtype = msg[rmr.RMR_MS_MSG_TYPE]
180 except (KeyError, TypeError, json.decoder.JSONDecodeError):
181 mdc_logger.warning("Dropping malformed message: {0}".format(msg))
183 if mtype == A1_POLICY_RESPONSE:
185 # got a policy response, update status
186 pay = json.loads(msg[rmr.RMR_MS_PAYLOAD])
187 data.set_policy_instance_status(
188 pay["policy_type_id"], pay["policy_instance_id"], pay["handler_id"], pay["status"]
190 mdc_logger.debug("Successfully received status update: {0}".format(pay))
191 except (PolicyTypeNotFound, PolicyInstanceNotFound):
192 mdc_logger.warning("Received a response for a non-existent type/instance: {0}".format(msg))
193 except (KeyError, TypeError, json.decoder.JSONDecodeError):
194 mdc_logger.warning("Dropping malformed policy response: {0}".format(msg))
196 elif mtype == A1_POLICY_QUERY:
198 # got a query, do a lookup and send out all instances
199 pti = json.loads(msg[rmr.RMR_MS_PAYLOAD])["policy_type_id"]
200 instance_list = data.get_instance_list(pti) # will raise if a bad type
201 mdc_logger.debug("Received a query for a known policy type: {0}".format(msg))
202 for pii in instance_list:
203 instance = data.get_policy_instance(pti, pii)
204 payload = json.dumps(messages.a1_to_handler("CREATE", pti, pii, instance)).encode("utf-8")
205 sbuf = self._rts_msg(payload, sbuf, A1_POLICY_REQUEST)
206 except (PolicyTypeNotFound):
207 mdc_logger.warning("Received a policy query for a non-existent type: {0}".format(msg))
208 except (KeyError, TypeError, json.decoder.JSONDecodeError):
209 mdc_logger.warning("Dropping malformed policy query: {0}".format(msg))
212 mdc_logger.warning("Received message type {0} but A1 does not handle this".format(mtype))
214 # we must free each sbuf
215 rmr.rmr_free_msg(sbuf)
217 self.last_ran = time.time()
220 mdc_logger.debug("RMR Thread Ending!")
226 def start_rmr_thread(init_func_override=None, rcv_func_override=None):
232 init_func_override: function (optional)
233 Function that initializes RMR and answers an RMR context.
234 Supply an empty function to skip initializing RMR.
236 rcv_func_override: function (optional)
237 Function that receives messages from RMR and answers a list.
238 Supply a trivial function to skip reading from RMR.
241 if __RMR_LOOP__ is None:
242 __RMR_LOOP__ = _RmrLoop(init_func_override, rcv_func_override)
245 def stop_rmr_thread():
249 __RMR_LOOP__.keep_going = False
252 def queue_instance_send(item):
254 push an item into the work queue
255 currently the only type of work is to send out messages
257 __RMR_LOOP__.instance_send_queue.put(item)
260 def healthcheck_rmr_thread(seconds=30):
262 returns a boolean representing whether the rmr loop is healthy, by checking two attributes:
264 2. is it stuck in a long (> seconds) loop?
266 return __RMR_LOOP__.thread.is_alive() and ((time.time() - __RMR_LOOP__.last_ran) < seconds)
269 def replace_rcv_func(rcv_func):
270 """purely for the ease of unit testing to test different rcv scenarios"""
271 __RMR_LOOP__.rcv_func = rcv_func