brainy/src/events/changeFeed.ts
David Snelling fd5edb5a13 feat: brain.onChange — the in-process change feed for every committed mutation
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.
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/**
* @module events/changeFeed
* @description The in-process change feed behind {@link Brainy.onChange} — the
* authoritative "something committed" signal for every canonical mutation,
* regardless of origin (direct API calls, batches, transactions, imports, the
* VFS, or an accelerated native deployment: all of them funnel through the
* same generation-store commit points this feed is emitted from).
*
* Design properties:
* - **Post-commit only.** Events are enqueued after the commit succeeds, so an
* aborted commit (a losing `ifRev` CAS, a failed transaction) never emits.
* - **Commit-ordered.** Events are enqueued in commit order and dispatched
* FIFO, so a subscriber observes mutations in the order they became durable.
* - **Never blocks the write path.** Dispatch happens in a microtask after the
* committing call returns; a slow or throwing listener cannot delay or fail
* a write. Listener errors are isolated per listener and per event.
* - **Zero cost when unused.** Callers consult {@link ChangeFeed.hasListeners}
* before constructing event payloads; with no subscribers the write path
* does no event work at all.
* - **Fire-and-forget.** No acknowledgement, backpressure, or replay. Events
* carry the committed `generation`, so a consumer that needs catch-up
* semantics can pair the live feed with `transactionLog()` / `asOf()`.
*/
/** The post-commit view of an entity carried by entity change events. */
export interface ChangeEventEntity {
/** The entity's canonical UUID. */
id: string
/** The entity's NounType string (e.g. `'person'`, `'document'`). */
type: string
/** The entity's subtype, when set. */
subtype?: string
/** The entity's custom (indexed) metadata fields. */
metadata: Record<string, unknown>
/** The writing service, when set. */
service?: string
}
/** The post-commit view of a relationship carried by relation change events. */
export interface ChangeEventRelation {
/** The relationship's canonical UUID. */
id: string
/** Source entity UUID. */
from: string
/** Target entity UUID. */
to: string
/** The relationship's VerbType string (e.g. `'contains'`). */
type: string
/** The relationship's custom metadata fields, when present. */
metadata?: Record<string, unknown>
}
/**
* One committed mutation, as delivered to {@link Brainy.onChange} listeners.
*
* Exactly one of `entity` / `relation` is populated for `kind: 'entity'` /
* `kind: 'relation'` events. `kind: 'store'` events (`clear` / `restore`)
* carry neither — they mean "the whole store changed; refetch what you care
* about".
*
* For `op: 'remove'` / `op: 'unrelate'` the payload is the record's LAST
* committed state (sourced from the commit's own before-image), so deletes are
* fully described rather than id-only.
*/
export interface BrainyChangeEvent {
/** What changed: one record, one relationship, or the whole store. */
kind: 'entity' | 'relation' | 'store'
/** The mutation, in Brainy's own API vocabulary. */
op:
| 'add'
| 'update'
| 'remove'
| 'relate'
| 'unrelate'
| 'updateRelation'
| 'clear'
| 'restore'
/** The mutated record's id (absent for store-level events). */
id?: string
/** Post-commit entity view (entity events only). */
entity?: ChangeEventEntity
/** Post-commit relation view (relation events only). */
relation?: ChangeEventRelation
/**
* The committed generation this mutation belongs to (Model B: every write
* is a generation; a transaction's items share one). Absent for store-level
* events and init-time bootstrap writes, which are not generation-stamped.
*/
generation?: number
/** Commit timestamp (ms since epoch). */
timestamp: number
}
/** Listener signature for {@link Brainy.onChange}. */
export type ChangeListener = (event: BrainyChangeEvent) => void
/**
* A change event as constructed by a mutation method BEFORE its commit: the
* commit seam stamps `generation`/`timestamp` after the write becomes
* durable. An entity `remove` descriptor may omit `entity` — the seam fills
* it from the commit's own before-image (the record's last committed state).
*/
export type PendingChangeEvent = Omit<BrainyChangeEvent, 'generation' | 'timestamp'>
/**
* @description Listener registry + commit-ordered async dispatcher for
* {@link BrainyChangeEvent}s. One instance per {@link Brainy}.
*/
export class ChangeFeed {
private listeners = new Set<ChangeListener>()
private queue: BrainyChangeEvent[] = []
private draining = false
/** Whether any listener is subscribed — the write path's zero-cost gate. */
get hasListeners(): boolean {
return this.listeners.size > 0
}
/**
* @description Subscribe to committed mutations.
* @param listener - Called once per committed mutation, in commit order.
* @returns An unsubscribe function.
*/
subscribe(listener: ChangeListener): () => void {
this.listeners.add(listener)
return () => {
this.listeners.delete(listener)
}
}
/**
* @description Enqueue committed events and schedule dispatch. Call ONLY
* after the commit has succeeded — this feed must never announce a write
* that did not become durable. Safe to call with an empty array.
* @param events - The committed mutations, in commit order.
*/
emit(events: BrainyChangeEvent[]): void {
if (events.length === 0 || this.listeners.size === 0) return
this.queue.push(...events)
if (!this.draining) {
this.draining = true
queueMicrotask(() => this.drain())
}
}
/** Deliver everything queued, FIFO, isolating listener errors. */
private drain(): void {
try {
while (this.queue.length > 0) {
const event = this.queue.shift()!
for (const listener of this.listeners) {
try {
listener(event)
} catch (err) {
// A subscriber's bug must never affect the write path or its
// sibling subscribers.
console.error('[Brainy] onChange listener threw:', err)
}
}
}
} finally {
this.draining = false
}
}
/** Drop all listeners (brain close/teardown). Queued events are discarded. */
close(): void {
this.listeners.clear()
this.queue.length = 0
}
}