io.grpc has fewer dependencies than io.grpc.internal. Moving it to a
separate artifact lets users use the API without bringing in the deps.
If the library has an optional dependency on grpc, that can be quite
convenient.
We now version-pin both grpc-api and grpc-core, since both contain
internal APIs.
I had to change a few tests in grpc-api to avoid FakeClock. Moving
FakeClock to grpc-api was difficult because it uses
io.grpc.internal.TimeProvider, which can't be moved since it is a
production class. Having grpc-api's tests depend on grpc-core's test
classes would be weird and cause a circular dependincy. Having
grpc-api's tests depend on grpc-core is likely possible, but weird and
fairly unnecessary at this point. So instead I rewrote the tests to
avoid FakeClock.
Fixes#1447
Resolves#5497
## Motivation
In hierarchical `LoadBalancer`s (e.g., `XdsLoadBalancer`) or wrapped `LoadBalancer`s (e.g., `HealthCheckingLoadBalancerFactory`, the top-level `LoadBalancer` receives `Subchannel` state updates from the Channel impl, and they almost always pass it down to its children `LoadBalancer`s.
Sometimes the children `LoadBalancer`s are not directly created by the parent, thus requires whatever API in the middle to also pass Subchannel state updates, complicating that API. For example, the proposed [`RequestDirector`](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/issues/5496#issuecomment-476008051) includes `handleSubchannelState()` solely to plumb state updates to where they are used. We also see this pattern in `HealthCheckingLoadBalancerFactory`, `GrpclbState` and `SubchannelPool`.
Another minor issue is, the parent `LoadBalancer` would need to intercept the `Helper` passed to its children to map Subchannels to the children `LoadBalancer`s, so that it pass updates about relevant Subchannels to the children. Otherwise, a child `LoadBalancer` may be surprised by seeing Subchannel not created by it, and it's not efficient to broadcast Subchannel updates to all children.
## API Proposal
We will pass a `SubchannelStateListener` when creating a `Subchannel` to accept state updates, those updates could be directly passed to where the `Subchannel` is created, skipping the explicit chaining in the middle.
Also define a first-class object `CreateSubchannelArgs` to pass arguments for the reasons below:
1. It may avoid breakages when we add new arguments to `createSubchannel()`. For example, a `LoadBalancer` may wrap `Helper` and intercept `createSubchannel()` in a hierarchical case. It may not be interested in all arguments. Passing a single `CreateSubchannelArgs` will not break the parent `LoadBalancer` if we add new fields later.
2. This also reduces the eventual size of Helper interface, as the convenience `createSubchannel()` that accepts one EAG instead of a List is no longer necessary, since that convenience is moved into `CreateSubchannelArgs`.
```java
interface SubchannelStateListener {
void onSubchannelState(Subchannel subchannel, ConnectivityStateInfo newState);
}
abstract class LoadBalancer.Helper {
abstract Subchannel createSubchannel(CreateSubchannelArgs args);
}
final class CreateSubchannelArgs {
final List<EquivalentAddressGroup> getAddresses();
final Attributes getAttributes();
final SubchannelStateListener getStateListener();
final class Builder () {
...
}
}
```
The new `createSubchannel()` must be called from synchronization context, as a step towards #5015.
## How the new API helps
Most hierarchical `LoadBalancer`s would just let the listener from the child `LoadBalancer`s directly pass through to gRPC core, which is less boilerplate than before.
Without any effort by the parent, each child will only see updates for the Subchannels it has created, which is clearer and more efficient.
If a parent `LoadBalancer` does want to look at or alter the Subchannel state updates for its delegate (like in `HealthCheckingLoadBalancerFactory`), it can still do so in the wrapping `LoadBalancer.Helper` passed to the delegate by intercepting the `SubchannelStateListener`.
## Migration implications
Existing `LoadBalancer` implementations will continue to work, while they will see deprecation warnings when compiled:
- The old `LoadBalancer.Helper#createSubchannel` variants are now deprecated, but will work until they are deleted. They create a `SubchannelStateListener` that delegates to `LoadBalancer#handleSubchannelState`.
- `LoadBalancer#handleSubchannelState` is now deprecated, and will throw if called and the implementation doesn't override it. It will be deleted in a future release.
The migration for most `LoadBalancer` implementation would be moving the logic from `LoadBalancer#handleSubchannelState` into a `SubchannelStateListener`.
This class is used in other places than just NameResolver.Helper. It
should not be an inner class of Helper.
Strictly speaking this is an API-breaking change. However, this is
part of the service config error handling API that hasn't been done
yet. Nobody has a legitimate reason to use it.
We assumed that we were the only caller. Turns out there are
forwarding NameResolver too. Implementing the old override will give
them time to migrate to the new API.
Resolves#5556
Both the config and the error need to be passed to the managed channel so it can decide to keep or reject the config. Passing only the parsed object means the managed channel cannot implement the error handling gRFC.
This code is highly experimental, so we can change it at will later. This PR is to go ahead and try it out.
Perfmark task calls are added to the client and server calls public APIs, recording when the calls begin and end. They use separate scope IDs (roughly these are Thread IDs) for the listener and the call due to no synchronization between them. However, they both use the same PerfTags, which allows them to be associated.
In the future, we can plumb the tag down into the stream to include deeper information about whats going on in a call.
Make the "logged" method be consistent, and refer to the public logging class name and method. This makes the log statements return the same class name used to set the log level.
Before:
```
190306 13:29:39.290:D 1 [io.grpc.internal.ChannelTracer.logOnly] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Channel for 'localhost:10000' created
190306 13:29:39.414:D 1 [io.grpc.internal.ChannelTracer.logOnly] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Exiting idle mode
190306 13:29:39.622:D 17 [io.grpc.internal.ChannelTracer.logOnly] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Resolved address: [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]], config={}
190306 13:29:39.623:D 17 [io.grpc.internal.ChannelTracer.logOnly] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Address resolved: [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]]
190306 13:29:39.624:D 17 [io.grpc.internal.ChannelTracer.logOnly] [Subchannel<3>] Subchannel for [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]] created
```
After:
```
190306 13:49:15.654:D 1 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Channel for 'localhost:10000' created
190306 13:49:15.772:D 1 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Exiting idle mode
190306 13:49:15.995:D 18 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Resolved address: [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]], config={}
190306 13:49:15.995:D 18 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Address resolved: [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]]
190306 13:49:15.997:D 18 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Subchannel<3>] Subchannel for [[[/127.0.0.1:10000]/{}]] created
190306 13:49:15.999:D 18 [io.grpc.ChannelLogger.log] [Channel<1>: (localhost:10000)] Child Subchannel created
```
Make sure the config for grpclb is passed to the GrpclbLoadBalancer, which will support two child policies -- "round_robin" (default) and "pick_first".
Previously the presence of balancer addresses would dictate "grpclb" policy, despite of the service config. Service config will now take precedence instead.
Implement config parsing logic in GrpclbLoadBalancer. Per offline discussions with @markdroth and @ejona86, we will ignore configuration errors for now. The more appropriate config error handling is upcoming.
This was added for the potential use case of needing to resolve target
names (of the same scheme as the top-level channel's target's) in the
LoadBalancer. Now actual use cases come up in xDS that we need to
resolve fully-qualified target strings with arbitrary schemes. This
method has never been used and won't fit future uses because it's too
restrictive.
This is needed for GRPCLB pick_first support, which needs to attach
tokens to headers, and the tokens are per server. In pick_first, all
addresses are in a single Subchannel, thus the LoadBalancer needs to
know which backend is used for a new stream.
This can be used by xds LoadBalancer to create a channel to the XDS
traffic director, as the service config will only specify the target
name of the balancer.
This PR only adds the interface to unblock the xds work.
Implementation would take some time thus will come later.
The LoadBalancingConfig message, which looks like
```json
{
"policy_name" : {
"config_key1" : "config_value1",
"config_key2" : "config_value2"
}
}
```
appears multiple times. It gets super tedious and confusing to handle, because both the whole config and the value (in the above example is `{ "config_key1" : "config_value1" }`) are just `Map<String, Object>`, and each user needs to do the following validation:
1. The whole config must have exactly one key
2. The value must be a map
Here I define `LbConfig` that holds the policy name and the config value, and a method in `ServiceConfigUtil` that converts the parsed JSON format into `LbConfig`.
There is also multiple cases where you need to handle a list of configs (top-level balancing policy, child and fallback policies in xds, grpclb child policies). I also made another helper method in `ServiceConfigUtil` to convert them into `List<LbConfig>`.
Found and fixed a bug in the xds code, where the top-level balancer should pass the config value (excluding the policy name), not the whole config to the child balancers. Search for "supported_1_option" in the diff to see it in the tests.
Carl Mastrangelo
Eric Anderson
Jihun Cho
Chengyuan Zhang
Kun Zhang
ZHANG Dapeng
Nick Hill
Tim van der Lippe