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This is done via a thread-local variable; a <code>logging.Filter</code> is +then used to fish the information back out of the thread-local variable +and add it to each log record.</p> +<p>Logcontexts are also used for CPU and database accounting, so that we +can track which requests were responsible for high CPU use or database +activity.</p> +<p>The <code>synapse.logging.context</code> module provides a facilities for managing +the current log context (as well as providing the <code>LoggingContextFilter</code> +class).</p> +<p>Deferreds make the whole thing complicated, so this document describes +how it all works, and how to write code which follows the rules.</p> +<p>##Logcontexts without Deferreds</p> +<p>In the absence of any Deferred voodoo, things are simple enough. As with +any code of this nature, the rule is that our function should leave +things as it found them:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">from synapse.logging import context # omitted from future snippets + +def handle_request(request_id): + request_context = context.LoggingContext() + + calling_context = context.set_current_context(request_context) + try: + request_context.request = request_id + do_request_handling() + logger.debug("finished") + finally: + context.set_current_context(calling_context) + +def do_request_handling(): + logger.debug("phew") # this will be logged against request_id +</code></pre> +<p>LoggingContext implements the context management methods, so the above +can be written much more succinctly as:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def handle_request(request_id): + with context.LoggingContext() as request_context: + request_context.request = request_id + do_request_handling() + logger.debug("finished") + +def do_request_handling(): + logger.debug("phew") +</code></pre> +<h2 id="using-logcontexts-with-deferreds"><a class="header" href="#using-logcontexts-with-deferreds">Using logcontexts with Deferreds</a></h2> +<p>Deferreds --- and in particular, <code>defer.inlineCallbacks</code> --- break the +linear flow of code so that there is no longer a single entry point +where we should set the logcontext and a single exit point where we +should remove it.</p> +<p>Consider the example above, where <code>do_request_handling</code> needs to do some +blocking operation, and returns a deferred:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def handle_request(request_id): + with context.LoggingContext() as request_context: + request_context.request = request_id + yield do_request_handling() + logger.debug("finished") +</code></pre> +<p>In the above flow:</p> +<ul> +<li>The logcontext is set</li> +<li><code>do_request_handling</code> is called, and returns a deferred</li> +<li><code>handle_request</code> yields the deferred</li> +<li>The <code>inlineCallbacks</code> wrapper of <code>handle_request</code> returns a deferred</li> +</ul> +<p>So we have stopped processing the request (and will probably go on to +start processing the next), without clearing the logcontext.</p> +<p>To circumvent this problem, synapse code assumes that, wherever you have +a deferred, you will want to yield on it. To that end, whereever +functions return a deferred, we adopt the following conventions:</p> +<p><strong>Rules for functions returning deferreds:</strong></p> +<blockquote> +<ul> +<li>If the deferred is already complete, the function returns with the +same logcontext it started with.</li> +<li>If the deferred is incomplete, the function clears the logcontext +before returning; when the deferred completes, it restores the +logcontext before running any callbacks.</li> +</ul> +</blockquote> +<p>That sounds complicated, but actually it means a lot of code (including +the example above) "just works". There are two cases:</p> +<ul> +<li> +<p>If <code>do_request_handling</code> returns a completed deferred, then the +logcontext will still be in place. In this case, execution will +continue immediately after the <code>yield</code>; the "finished" line will +be logged against the right context, and the <code>with</code> block restores +the original context before we return to the caller.</p> +</li> +<li> +<p>If the returned deferred is incomplete, <code>do_request_handling</code> clears +the logcontext before returning. The logcontext is therefore clear +when <code>handle_request</code> yields the deferred. At that point, the +<code>inlineCallbacks</code> wrapper adds a callback to the deferred, and +returns another (incomplete) deferred to the caller, and it is safe +to begin processing the next request.</p> +<p>Once <code>do_request_handling</code>'s deferred completes, it will reinstate +the logcontext, before running the callback added by the +<code>inlineCallbacks</code> wrapper. That callback runs the second half of +<code>handle_request</code>, so again the "finished" line will be logged +against the right context, and the <code>with</code> block restores the +original context.</p> +</li> +</ul> +<p>As an aside, it's worth noting that <code>handle_request</code> follows our rules +-though that only matters if the caller has its own logcontext which it +cares about.</p> +<p>The following sections describe pitfalls and helpful patterns when +implementing these rules.</p> +<h2 id="always-yield-your-deferreds"><a class="header" href="#always-yield-your-deferreds">Always yield your deferreds</a></h2> +<p>Whenever you get a deferred back from a function, you should <code>yield</code> on +it as soon as possible. (Returning it directly to your caller is ok too, +if you're not doing <code>inlineCallbacks</code>.) Do not pass go; do not do any +logging; do not call any other functions.</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def fun(): + logger.debug("starting") + yield do_some_stuff() # just like this + + d = more_stuff() + result = yield d # also fine, of course + + return result + +def nonInlineCallbacksFun(): + logger.debug("just a wrapper really") + return do_some_stuff() # this is ok too - the caller will yield on + # it anyway. +</code></pre> +<p>Provided this pattern is followed all the way back up to the callchain +to where the logcontext was set, this will make things work out ok: +provided <code>do_some_stuff</code> and <code>more_stuff</code> follow the rules above, then +so will <code>fun</code> (as wrapped by <code>inlineCallbacks</code>) and +<code>nonInlineCallbacksFun</code>.</p> +<p>It's all too easy to forget to <code>yield</code>: for instance if we forgot that +<code>do_some_stuff</code> returned a deferred, we might plough on regardless. This +leads to a mess; it will probably work itself out eventually, but not +before a load of stuff has been logged against the wrong context. +(Normally, other things will break, more obviously, if you forget to +<code>yield</code>, so this tends not to be a major problem in practice.)</p> +<p>Of course sometimes you need to do something a bit fancier with your +Deferreds - not all code follows the linear A-then-B-then-C pattern. +Notes on implementing more complex patterns are in later sections.</p> +<h2 id="where-you-create-a-new-deferred-make-it-follow-the-rules"><a class="header" href="#where-you-create-a-new-deferred-make-it-follow-the-rules">Where you create a new Deferred, make it follow the rules</a></h2> +<p>Most of the time, a Deferred comes from another synapse function. +Sometimes, though, we need to make up a new Deferred, or we get a +Deferred back from external code. We need to make it follow our rules.</p> +<p>The easy way to do it is with a combination of <code>defer.inlineCallbacks</code>, +and <code>context.PreserveLoggingContext</code>. Suppose we want to implement +<code>sleep</code>, which returns a deferred which will run its callbacks after a +given number of seconds. That might look like:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python"># not a logcontext-rules-compliant function +def get_sleep_deferred(seconds): + d = defer.Deferred() + reactor.callLater(seconds, d.callback, None) + return d +</code></pre> +<p>That doesn't follow the rules, but we can fix it by wrapping it with +<code>PreserveLoggingContext</code> and <code>yield</code> ing on it:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def sleep(seconds): + with PreserveLoggingContext(): + yield get_sleep_deferred(seconds) +</code></pre> +<p>This technique works equally for external functions which return +deferreds, or deferreds we have made ourselves.</p> +<p>You can also use <code>context.make_deferred_yieldable</code>, which just does the +boilerplate for you, so the above could be written:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def sleep(seconds): + return context.make_deferred_yieldable(get_sleep_deferred(seconds)) +</code></pre> +<h2 id="fire-and-forget"><a class="header" href="#fire-and-forget">Fire-and-forget</a></h2> +<p>Sometimes you want to fire off a chain of execution, but not wait for +its result. That might look a bit like this:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def do_request_handling(): + yield foreground_operation() + + # *don't* do this + background_operation() + + logger.debug("Request handling complete") + +@defer.inlineCallbacks +def background_operation(): + yield first_background_step() + logger.debug("Completed first step") + yield second_background_step() + logger.debug("Completed second step") +</code></pre> +<p>The above code does a couple of steps in the background after +<code>do_request_handling</code> has finished. The log lines are still logged +against the <code>request_context</code> logcontext, which may or may not be +desirable. There are two big problems with the above, however. The first +problem is that, if <code>background_operation</code> returns an incomplete +Deferred, it will expect its caller to <code>yield</code> immediately, so will have +cleared the logcontext. In this example, that means that 'Request +handling complete' will be logged without any context.</p> +<p>The second problem, which is potentially even worse, is that when the +Deferred returned by <code>background_operation</code> completes, it will restore +the original logcontext. There is nothing waiting on that Deferred, so +the logcontext will leak into the reactor and possibly get attached to +some arbitrary future operation.</p> +<p>There are two potential solutions to this.</p> +<p>One option is to surround the call to <code>background_operation</code> with a +<code>PreserveLoggingContext</code> call. That will reset the logcontext before +starting <code>background_operation</code> (so the context restored when the +deferred completes will be the empty logcontext), and will restore the +current logcontext before continuing the foreground process:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def do_request_handling(): + yield foreground_operation() + + # start background_operation off in the empty logcontext, to + # avoid leaking the current context into the reactor. + with PreserveLoggingContext(): + background_operation() + + # this will now be logged against the request context + logger.debug("Request handling complete") +</code></pre> +<p>Obviously that option means that the operations done in +<code>background_operation</code> would be not be logged against a logcontext +(though that might be fixed by setting a different logcontext via a +<code>with LoggingContext(...)</code> in <code>background_operation</code>).</p> +<p>The second option is to use <code>context.run_in_background</code>, which wraps a +function so that it doesn't reset the logcontext even when it returns +an incomplete deferred, and adds a callback to the returned deferred to +reset the logcontext. In other words, it turns a function that follows +the Synapse rules about logcontexts and Deferreds into one which behaves +more like an external function --- the opposite operation to that +described in the previous section. It can be used like this:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def do_request_handling(): + yield foreground_operation() + + context.run_in_background(background_operation) + + # this will now be logged against the request context + logger.debug("Request handling complete") +</code></pre> +<h2 id="passing-synapse-deferreds-into-third-party-functions"><a class="header" href="#passing-synapse-deferreds-into-third-party-functions">Passing synapse deferreds into third-party functions</a></h2> +<p>A typical example of this is where we want to collect together two or +more deferred via <code>defer.gatherResults</code>:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">d1 = operation1() +d2 = operation2() +d3 = defer.gatherResults([d1, d2]) +</code></pre> +<p>This is really a variation of the fire-and-forget problem above, in that +we are firing off <code>d1</code> and <code>d2</code> without yielding on them. The difference +is that we now have third-party code attached to their callbacks. Anyway +either technique given in the <a href="#fire-and-forget">Fire-and-forget</a> +section will work.</p> +<p>Of course, the new Deferred returned by <code>gatherResults</code> needs to be +wrapped in order to make it follow the logcontext rules before we can +yield it, as described in <a href="#where-you-create-a-new-deferred-make-it-follow-the-rules">Where you create a new Deferred, make it +follow the +rules</a>.</p> +<p>So, option one: reset the logcontext before starting the operations to +be gathered:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def do_request_handling(): + with PreserveLoggingContext(): + d1 = operation1() + d2 = operation2() + result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2]) +</code></pre> +<p>In this case particularly, though, option two, of using +<code>context.preserve_fn</code> almost certainly makes more sense, so that +<code>operation1</code> and <code>operation2</code> are both logged against the original +logcontext. This looks like:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def do_request_handling(): + d1 = context.preserve_fn(operation1)() + d2 = context.preserve_fn(operation2)() + + with PreserveLoggingContext(): + result = yield defer.gatherResults([d1, d2]) +</code></pre> +<h2 id="was-all-this-really-necessary"><a class="header" href="#was-all-this-really-necessary">Was all this really necessary?</a></h2> +<p>The conventions used work fine for a linear flow where everything +happens in series via <code>defer.inlineCallbacks</code> and <code>yield</code>, but are +certainly tricky to follow for any more exotic flows. It's hard not to +wonder if we could have done something else.</p> +<p>We're not going to rewrite Synapse now, so the following is entirely of +academic interest, but I'd like to record some thoughts on an +alternative approach.</p> +<p>I briefly prototyped some code following an alternative set of rules. I +think it would work, but I certainly didn't get as far as thinking how +it would interact with concepts as complicated as the cache descriptors.</p> +<p>My alternative rules were:</p> +<ul> +<li>functions always preserve the logcontext of their caller, whether or +not they are returning a Deferred.</li> +<li>Deferreds returned by synapse functions run their callbacks in the +same context as the function was orignally called in.</li> +</ul> +<p>The main point of this scheme is that everywhere that sets the +logcontext is responsible for clearing it before returning control to +the reactor.</p> +<p>So, for example, if you were the function which started a +<code>with LoggingContext</code> block, you wouldn't <code>yield</code> within it --- instead +you'd start off the background process, and then leave the <code>with</code> block +to wait for it:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def handle_request(request_id): + with context.LoggingContext() as request_context: + request_context.request = request_id + d = do_request_handling() + + def cb(r): + logger.debug("finished") + + d.addCallback(cb) + return d +</code></pre> +<p>(in general, mixing <code>with LoggingContext</code> blocks and +<code>defer.inlineCallbacks</code> in the same function leads to slighly +counter-intuitive code, under this scheme).</p> +<p>Because we leave the original <code>with</code> block as soon as the Deferred is +returned (as opposed to waiting for it to be resolved, as we do today), +the logcontext is cleared before control passes back to the reactor; so +if there is some code within <code>do_request_handling</code> which needs to wait +for a Deferred to complete, there is no need for it to worry about +clearing the logcontext before doing so:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def handle_request(): + r = do_some_stuff() + r.addCallback(do_some_more_stuff) + return r +</code></pre> +<p>--- and provided <code>do_some_stuff</code> follows the rules of returning a +Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original logcontext, all is +happy.</p> +<p>The business of a Deferred which runs its callbacks in the original +logcontext isn't hard to achieve --- we have it today, in the shape of +<code>context._PreservingContextDeferred</code>:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def do_some_stuff(): + deferred = do_some_io() + pcd = _PreservingContextDeferred(LoggingContext.current_context()) + deferred.chainDeferred(pcd) + return pcd +</code></pre> +<p>It turns out that, thanks to the way that Deferreds chain together, we +automatically get the property of a context-preserving deferred with +<code>defer.inlineCallbacks</code>, provided the final Defered the function +<code>yields</code> on has that property. So we can just write:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">@defer.inlineCallbacks +def handle_request(): + yield do_some_stuff() + yield do_some_more_stuff() +</code></pre> +<p>To conclude: I think this scheme would have worked equally well, with +less danger of messing it up, and probably made some more esoteric code +easier to write. But again --- changing the conventions of the entire +Synapse codebase is not a sensible option for the marginal improvement +offered.</p> +<h2 id="a-note-on-garbage-collection-of-deferred-chains"><a class="header" href="#a-note-on-garbage-collection-of-deferred-chains">A note on garbage-collection of Deferred chains</a></h2> +<p>It turns out that our logcontext rules do not play nicely with Deferred +chains which get orphaned and garbage-collected.</p> +<p>Imagine we have some code that looks like this:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">listener_queue = [] + +def on_something_interesting(): + for d in listener_queue: + d.callback("foo") + +@defer.inlineCallbacks +def await_something_interesting(): + new_deferred = defer.Deferred() + listener_queue.append(new_deferred) + + with PreserveLoggingContext(): + yield new_deferred +</code></pre> +<p>Obviously, the idea here is that we have a bunch of things which are +waiting for an event. (It's just an example of the problem here, but a +relatively common one.)</p> +<p>Now let's imagine two further things happen. First of all, whatever was +waiting for the interesting thing goes away. (Perhaps the request times +out, or something <em>even more</em> interesting happens.)</p> +<p>Secondly, let's suppose that we decide that the interesting thing is +never going to happen, and we reset the listener queue:</p> +<pre><code class="language-python">def reset_listener_queue(): + listener_queue.clear() +</code></pre> +<p>So, both ends of the deferred chain have now dropped their references, +and the deferred chain is now orphaned, and will be garbage-collected at +some point. Note that <code>await_something_interesting</code> is a generator +function, and when Python garbage-collects generator functions, it gives +them a chance to clean up by making the <code>yield</code> raise a <code>GeneratorExit</code> +exception. In our case, that means that the <code>__exit__</code> handler of +<code>PreserveLoggingContext</code> will carefully restore the request context, but +there is now nothing waiting for its return, so the request context is +never cleared.</p> +<p>To reiterate, this problem only arises when <em>both</em> ends of a deferred +chain are dropped. Dropping the the reference to a deferred you're +supposed to be calling is probably bad practice, so this doesn't +actually happen too much. 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