Subscribe once and receive one post-commit event per affected record for
EVERY canonical write, regardless of origin: direct calls, batch methods,
transact(), imports, and Virtual Filesystem writes all funnel through the
same commit points the feed is emitted from. This is the authoritative
in-process signal for live UIs, cache invalidation, and realtime sync layers
that forward it over their own transports.
Architecture — the post-commit dual of the ifRev precommit hook: mutation
methods hand lightweight event descriptors to the commit seam
(persistSingleOp / transact's plan), which stamps the committed
{generation, timestamp}, enriches entity deletes with the record's LAST
committed state from the commit's own before-images (free — Model B reads
them anyway; removeMany's id-only deletes gain full payloads this way), and
emits only after the commit succeeds — a losing CAS or rejected batch never
announces anything. Dispatch is a microtask FIFO after the mutex releases:
commit-ordered, a slow listener never delays a write, a throwing listener is
logged and isolated, and with no subscribers the write path constructs no
events at all. Single-point emission was chosen over per-method hooks
because the aggregation-hook pattern demonstrably drifted (relation ops and
removeMany were silently missing from it).
Coverage: add/update/remove (+ cascade unrelate per deleted relationship),
relate (both edges when bidirectional)/unrelate/updateRelation, per-item
events for addMany/updateMany/relateMany/removeMany, per-item events sharing
one generation for transact(), and transitively imports + VFS. clear() and
restore() — wholesale raw-state operations outside the per-record commit
path — emit a single store-level event meaning "refetch everything".
brain.close() drops all listeners.
New module src/events/changeFeed.ts (BrainyChangeEvent + ChangeFeed,
exported from the package root); guide docs/guides/reacting-to-changes.md.
Integration suite pins the contract: per-op payload fidelity, delete
last-state payloads, batch per-item emission, one-generation transact
batches, VFS-origin events, CAS-loser silence, ordering, listener isolation,
unsubscribe, and store-level events.
171 lines
6.2 KiB
TypeScript
171 lines
6.2 KiB
TypeScript
/**
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* @module events/changeFeed
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* @description The in-process change feed behind {@link Brainy.onChange} — the
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* authoritative "something committed" signal for every canonical mutation,
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* regardless of origin (direct API calls, batches, transactions, imports, the
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* VFS, or an accelerated native deployment: all of them funnel through the
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* same generation-store commit points this feed is emitted from).
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*
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* Design properties:
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* - **Post-commit only.** Events are enqueued after the commit succeeds, so an
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* aborted commit (a losing `ifRev` CAS, a failed transaction) never emits.
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* - **Commit-ordered.** Events are enqueued in commit order and dispatched
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* FIFO, so a subscriber observes mutations in the order they became durable.
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* - **Never blocks the write path.** Dispatch happens in a microtask after the
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* committing call returns; a slow or throwing listener cannot delay or fail
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* a write. Listener errors are isolated per listener and per event.
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* - **Zero cost when unused.** Callers consult {@link ChangeFeed.hasListeners}
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* before constructing event payloads; with no subscribers the write path
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* does no event work at all.
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* - **Fire-and-forget.** No acknowledgement, backpressure, or replay. Events
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* carry the committed `generation`, so a consumer that needs catch-up
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* semantics can pair the live feed with `transactionLog()` / `asOf()`.
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*/
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/** The post-commit view of an entity carried by entity change events. */
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export interface ChangeEventEntity {
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/** The entity's canonical UUID. */
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id: string
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/** The entity's NounType string (e.g. `'person'`, `'document'`). */
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type: string
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/** The entity's subtype, when set. */
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subtype?: string
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/** The entity's custom (indexed) metadata fields. */
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metadata: Record<string, unknown>
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/** The writing service, when set. */
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service?: string
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}
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/** The post-commit view of a relationship carried by relation change events. */
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export interface ChangeEventRelation {
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/** The relationship's canonical UUID. */
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id: string
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/** Source entity UUID. */
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from: string
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/** Target entity UUID. */
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to: string
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/** The relationship's VerbType string (e.g. `'contains'`). */
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type: string
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/** The relationship's custom metadata fields, when present. */
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metadata?: Record<string, unknown>
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}
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/**
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* One committed mutation, as delivered to {@link Brainy.onChange} listeners.
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*
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* Exactly one of `entity` / `relation` is populated for `kind: 'entity'` /
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* `kind: 'relation'` events. `kind: 'store'` events (`clear` / `restore`)
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* carry neither — they mean "the whole store changed; refetch what you care
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* about".
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*
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* For `op: 'remove'` / `op: 'unrelate'` the payload is the record's LAST
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* committed state (sourced from the commit's own before-image), so deletes are
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* fully described rather than id-only.
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*/
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export interface BrainyChangeEvent {
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/** What changed: one record, one relationship, or the whole store. */
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kind: 'entity' | 'relation' | 'store'
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/** The mutation, in Brainy's own API vocabulary. */
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op:
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| 'add'
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| 'update'
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| 'remove'
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| 'relate'
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| 'unrelate'
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| 'updateRelation'
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| 'clear'
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| 'restore'
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/** The mutated record's id (absent for store-level events). */
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id?: string
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/** Post-commit entity view (entity events only). */
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entity?: ChangeEventEntity
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/** Post-commit relation view (relation events only). */
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relation?: ChangeEventRelation
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/**
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* The committed generation this mutation belongs to (Model B: every write
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* is a generation; a transaction's items share one). Absent for store-level
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* events and init-time bootstrap writes, which are not generation-stamped.
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*/
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generation?: number
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/** Commit timestamp (ms since epoch). */
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timestamp: number
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}
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/** Listener signature for {@link Brainy.onChange}. */
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export type ChangeListener = (event: BrainyChangeEvent) => void
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/**
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* A change event as constructed by a mutation method BEFORE its commit: the
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* commit seam stamps `generation`/`timestamp` after the write becomes
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* durable. An entity `remove` descriptor may omit `entity` — the seam fills
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* it from the commit's own before-image (the record's last committed state).
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*/
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export type PendingChangeEvent = Omit<BrainyChangeEvent, 'generation' | 'timestamp'>
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/**
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* @description Listener registry + commit-ordered async dispatcher for
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* {@link BrainyChangeEvent}s. One instance per {@link Brainy}.
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*/
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export class ChangeFeed {
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private listeners = new Set<ChangeListener>()
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private queue: BrainyChangeEvent[] = []
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private draining = false
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/** Whether any listener is subscribed — the write path's zero-cost gate. */
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get hasListeners(): boolean {
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return this.listeners.size > 0
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}
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/**
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* @description Subscribe to committed mutations.
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* @param listener - Called once per committed mutation, in commit order.
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* @returns An unsubscribe function.
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*/
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subscribe(listener: ChangeListener): () => void {
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this.listeners.add(listener)
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return () => {
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this.listeners.delete(listener)
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}
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}
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/**
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* @description Enqueue committed events and schedule dispatch. Call ONLY
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* after the commit has succeeded — this feed must never announce a write
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* that did not become durable. Safe to call with an empty array.
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* @param events - The committed mutations, in commit order.
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*/
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emit(events: BrainyChangeEvent[]): void {
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if (events.length === 0 || this.listeners.size === 0) return
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this.queue.push(...events)
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if (!this.draining) {
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this.draining = true
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queueMicrotask(() => this.drain())
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}
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}
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/** Deliver everything queued, FIFO, isolating listener errors. */
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private drain(): void {
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try {
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while (this.queue.length > 0) {
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const event = this.queue.shift()!
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for (const listener of this.listeners) {
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try {
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listener(event)
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} catch (err) {
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// A subscriber's bug must never affect the write path or its
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// sibling subscribers.
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console.error('[Brainy] onChange listener threw:', err)
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}
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}
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}
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} finally {
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this.draining = false
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}
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}
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/** Drop all listeners (brain close/teardown). Queued events are discarded. */
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close(): void {
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this.listeners.clear()
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this.queue.length = 0
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}
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}
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