feat(server): session-sync relay WebSocket /ws/sync/{session_id} (#1030) (#1032)
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* feat(server): add session-sync relay WebSocket /ws/sync/{session_id}

Cross-device followers (splitscreen's upcoming LAN pop-out mode,
feedBack-plugin-splitscreen#21) need a machine-crossing replacement for
BroadcastChannel — the one link in the follower architecture that cannot
leave the host browser. Chart data already streams per-client over
/ws/highway, so all that's missing is a dumb live-state channel.

Add a fan-out room endpoint: a JSON text frame from one client is relayed
verbatim to every other client on the same session id. No schema, no
history, no persistence — rooms are created on first join and GC'd when
the last socket leaves. The statelessness is deliberate: an idle room is
indistinguishable from a nonexistent one, and a host that crashes and
rejoins the same id resumes publishing to reconnecting subscribers with
no server-side coordination.

Caps for a LAN-exposable port: 16 KB frames (1009), 16 sockets/room and
32 rooms (1013), 120 msg/s sustained / 240 burst per socket (1008),
text-only (1003), session id validated against [A-Za-z0-9_-]{4,64}. An
over-limit socket is closed individually; a peer that dies mid-fan-out
is dropped without wedging delivery to the rest.

Closes #1030

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kris Anderson <topkoa@gmail.com>

* fix(ws_sync): bound stalled peer sends; cap ws frames at the transport

Review feedback (CodeRabbit on #1032):

- A peer that stops draining its socket left send_text() pending forever;
  since publishers await the fan-out gather, one stalled peer stalled
  every publisher's receive loop behind it. Fan-out sends are now bounded
  by SEND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS (5 s) so a stall becomes an eviction through
  the existing failed-send drop path.

- uvicorn buffers inbound WS frames up to its 16 MB default before the
  handler's 16 KB check ever runs, so the DoS bound wasn't enforced at
  the transport. main.py now passes ws_max_size=64 KB (no client sends
  large frames: the highway WS receives only small control messages, and
  the relay keeps its tighter application cap as the primary limit).

Regression tests for both; the desktop's own uvicorn spawn gets the
matching --ws-max-size flag with the feedBack-desktop follow-up work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Kris Anderson <topkoa@gmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: Kris Anderson <topkoa@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""Session-sync relay WebSocket — /ws/sync/{session_id} (feedBack#1030).
A deliberately dumb fan-out room: a JSON text frame received from one client
is forwarded verbatim to every OTHER client connected to the same session id.
The server interprets nothing beyond the limits below — message schemas are
owned entirely by consumers. First consumer: splitscreen's LAN follower mode
(feedBack-plugin-splitscreen#21), which relays playhead/playstate/song-change
frames from a host window to view-only followers on other LAN devices.
Design points (full spec in the issue):
- Rooms are created on first join and garbage-collected when the last socket
leaves. No history, no replay, no persistence — a late joiner simply waits
for the next frame. Consumers that need state on join re-send it themselves
(splitscreen answers every follower ``hello`` with a fresh ``config``).
- That statelessness is what makes consumer crash-recovery work: a host that
relaunches and rejoins the same session id resumes publishing to its
reconnecting subscribers with no server-side coordination, and an idle room
is indistinguishable from a nonexistent one.
- ``session_id`` is client-generated and opaque (``[A-Za-z0-9_-]{4,64}``);
consumers pick their own id policy (splitscreen uses a short typeable,
persistent room key).
- DoS hygiene for a port that may be LAN-exposed: frame-size cap, per-room and
total-room caps, and a per-socket inbound token-bucket rate cap. Over-limit
sockets are closed with a policy code; the room carries on. A peer that dies
mid-fan-out is dropped without wedging delivery to the rest.
"""
import asyncio
import logging
import re
import time
from fastapi import APIRouter, WebSocket
log = logging.getLogger("feedBack.server")
router = APIRouter()
_SESSION_ID_RE = re.compile(r"^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{4,64}$")
# Limits. Sized generously above the first consumer's needs (splitscreen
# publishes time frames at ~15-20 Hz to a handful of viewers) while bounding
# what an open LAN port can be made to do. All module-level so tests (and a
# desperate operator) can override them.
MAX_FRAME_BYTES = 16 * 1024
MAX_CLIENTS_PER_ROOM = 16
MAX_ROOMS = 32
RATE_MSGS_PER_SEC = 120.0 # sustained inbound frames per socket
RATE_BURST = 240.0 # token-bucket burst headroom
# A peer that stops draining its socket would leave send_text() pending
# forever — and since publishers await the fan-out gather, one stalled peer
# would stall every publisher's receive loop behind it. Bounding the send
# turns the stall into an eviction through the normal failed-send drop path.
SEND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 5.0
# RFC 6455 close codes.
_WS_UNSUPPORTED_DATA = 1003 # binary frame on a text-only relay
_WS_POLICY_VIOLATION = 1008 # invalid session id / rate cap exceeded
_WS_MSG_TOO_BIG = 1009
_WS_TRY_AGAIN_LATER = 1013 # room or server at capacity
# session_id → {socket: per-socket send lock}. The lock serializes concurrent
# fan-out sends to the same peer (two publishers relaying at once must not
# interleave writes on a third socket's transport).
_rooms: dict[str, dict[WebSocket, asyncio.Lock]] = {}
async def _send_locked(peer: WebSocket, lock: asyncio.Lock, text: str) -> None:
async with lock:
await asyncio.wait_for(peer.send_text(text), timeout=SEND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)
@router.websocket("/ws/sync/{session_id}")
async def sync_ws(websocket: WebSocket, session_id: str):
"""Join the fan-out room *session_id*; relay every inbound text frame."""
await websocket.accept()
if not _SESSION_ID_RE.fullmatch(session_id):
await websocket.close(code=_WS_POLICY_VIOLATION, reason="invalid session id")
return
# Capacity checks and insertion run with no await between them, so
# concurrent joiners on the event loop can't race past the caps.
room = _rooms.get(session_id)
if room is None:
if len(_rooms) >= MAX_ROOMS:
await websocket.close(code=_WS_TRY_AGAIN_LATER, reason="too many active sessions")
return
room = _rooms[session_id] = {}
log.debug("ws_sync: room %s created", session_id)
elif len(room) >= MAX_CLIENTS_PER_ROOM:
await websocket.close(code=_WS_TRY_AGAIN_LATER, reason="session full")
return
room[websocket] = asyncio.Lock()
tokens = RATE_BURST
last_refill = time.monotonic()
try:
while True:
message = await websocket.receive()
if message["type"] == "websocket.disconnect":
break
text = message.get("text")
if text is None:
await websocket.close(code=_WS_UNSUPPORTED_DATA, reason="text frames only")
break
if len(text.encode("utf-8", errors="ignore")) > MAX_FRAME_BYTES:
await websocket.close(code=_WS_MSG_TOO_BIG, reason="frame too large")
break
now = time.monotonic()
tokens = min(RATE_BURST, tokens + (now - last_refill) * RATE_MSGS_PER_SEC)
last_refill = now
tokens -= 1.0
if tokens < 0:
await websocket.close(code=_WS_POLICY_VIOLATION, reason="rate cap exceeded")
break
peers = [(ws, lock) for ws, lock in room.items() if ws is not websocket]
if not peers:
continue
results = await asyncio.gather(
*(_send_locked(ws, lock, text) for ws, lock in peers),
return_exceptions=True,
)
# A peer that failed mid-send is dropped from the room here; its
# own handler finishes cleanup (the finally below) when its
# receive loop observes the disconnect.
for (peer, _lock), result in zip(peers, results):
if isinstance(result, Exception):
room.pop(peer, None)
finally:
room.pop(websocket, None)
# Guard against deleting a NEW room another joiner created after this
# one emptied (only possible for a dict that is no longer ours).
if not room and _rooms.get(session_id) is room:
del _rooms[session_id]
log.debug("ws_sync: room %s closed", session_id)