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Instead of every module having to come up with a set of test methods for the event bus, this handful of test helpers hides a lot of the needed setup for the testing of the event bus. The tests in portmapper is also ported over to the new helpers. Updates #15160 Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
103 lines
4.5 KiB
Go
103 lines
4.5 KiB
Go
// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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// Package eventbus provides an in-process event bus.
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//
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// An event bus connects publishers of typed events with subscribers
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// interested in those events. Typically, there is one global event
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// bus per process.
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//
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// # Usage
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//
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// To send or receive events, first use [Bus.Client] to register with
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// the bus. Clients should register with a human-readable name that
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// identifies the code using the client, to aid in debugging.
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//
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// To publish events, use [Publish] on a Client to get a typed
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// publisher for your event type, then call [Publisher.Publish] as
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// needed. If your event is expensive to construct, you can optionally
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// use [Publisher.ShouldPublish] to skip the work if nobody is
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// listening for the event.
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//
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// To receive events, use [Subscribe] to get a typed subscriber for
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// each event type you're interested in. Receive the events themselves
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// by selecting over all your [Subscriber.Events] channels, as well as
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// [Subscriber.Done] for shutdown notifications.
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//
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// # Concurrency properties
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//
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// The bus serializes all published events across all publishers, and
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// preserves that ordering when delivering to subscribers that are
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// attached to the same Client. In more detail:
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//
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// - An event is published to the bus at some instant between the
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// start and end of the call to [Publisher.Publish].
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// - Two events cannot be published at the same instant, and so are
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// totally ordered by their publication time. Given two events E1
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// and E2, either E1 happens before E2, or E2 happens before E1.
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// - Clients dispatch events to their Subscribers in publication
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// order: if E1 happens before E2, the client always delivers E1
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// before E2.
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// - Clients do not synchronize subscriptions with each other: given
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// clients C1 and C2, both subscribed to events E1 and E2, C1 may
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// deliver both E1 and E2 before C2 delivers E1.
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//
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// Less formally: there is one true timeline of all published events.
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// If you make a Client and subscribe to events, you will receive
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// events one at a time, in the same order as the one true
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// timeline. You will "skip over" events you didn't subscribe to, but
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// your view of the world always moves forward in time, never
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// backwards, and you will observe events in the same order as
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// everyone else.
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//
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// However, you cannot assume that what your client see as "now" is
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// the same as what other clients. They may be further behind you in
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// working through the timeline, or running ahead of you. This means
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// you should be careful about reaching out to another component
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// directly after receiving an event, as its view of the world may not
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// yet (or ever) be exactly consistent with yours.
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//
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// To make your code more testable and understandable, you should try
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// to structure it following the actor model: you have some local
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// state over which you have authority, but your only way to interact
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// with state elsewhere in the program is to receive and process
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// events coming from elsewhere, or to emit events of your own.
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//
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// # Expected subscriber behavior
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//
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// Subscribers are expected to promptly receive their events on
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// [Subscriber.Events]. The bus has a small, fixed amount of internal
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// buffering, meaning that a slow subscriber will eventually cause
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// backpressure and block publication of all further events.
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//
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// In general, you should receive from your subscriber(s) in a loop,
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// and only do fast state updates within that loop. Any heavier work
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// should be offloaded to another goroutine.
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//
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// Causing publishers to block from backpressure is considered a bug
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// in the slow subscriber causing the backpressure, and should be
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// addressed there. Publishers should assume that Publish will not
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// block for extended periods of time, and should not make exceptional
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// effort to behave gracefully if they do get blocked.
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//
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// These blocking semantics are provisional and subject to
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// change. Please speak up if this causes development pain, so that we
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// can adapt the semantics to better suit our needs.
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//
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// # Debugging facilities
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//
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// The [Debugger], obtained through [Bus.Debugger], provides
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// introspection facilities to monitor events flowing through the bus,
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// and inspect publisher and subscriber state.
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//
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// Additionally, a debug command exists for monitoring the eventbus:
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//
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// tailscale debug daemon-bus-events
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//
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// # Testing facilities
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//
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// Helpers for testing code with the eventbus can be found in:
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//
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// eventbus/eventbustest
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package eventbus
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