Stability Issues Addressed #88
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Hi @pnpebeling I can then review it, and get it merged into the v4 branch? |
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Sure ... What I have is preliminary, I'd like it to run a while longer to be sure of the potential fixes. When I'm a bit more confident, I'll clean it up and do the Pull. -p |
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@pnpebeling, can I ask you what was the exact exception related to the Callbacks dictionary you saw? What was the reason your PR #89 was not merged? |
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That should have been merged, happy to include it. Sorry, I must have not gotten to it, and the branch was deleted after - my bad @pnpebeling can you raise a new PR against main, if you both still have a reference to it? |
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why wont that be needed in v5 ? v5 still has the Callbacks dictionary right ? |
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Sorry I'm referring to the
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Spudwebb,
I believe the ConcurrentDIctionary is a solid fix. As to the
SendInternalSynchronized ... it may or may not be necessary. I added it
when chasing the concurrency issues (probably solved by the
ConcurrentDictionary). There was a comment in the SendInternalSynchronized
api warning about simultaneous calls ... so I added the code just in case.
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That should have been merged, happy to include it.
V5 wont need such fix, but happy to patch the current branch (as it still
represents V4).
Sorry, I must have not gotten to it, and the branch was deleted after - my
bad
@pnpebeling <https://github.com/pnpebeling> can you raise a new PR
against main, if you both still have a reference to it?
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Do you remember by any chance the type of exception you got before the fix? |
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I haven't looked at v5, but I'm assuming it will need it (the
ConcurrentDictionary) as well. The SendInternalSynchronized probably not,
because as I understand it v5 uses a different web interface.
As for creating a new pull request ... I am woefully github ignorant.
Maybe someone else can look at the closed PRs and revive it. It's an
easy fix. ... sorry.
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why wont that be needed in v5 ? v5 still has the Callbacks dictionary
right ?
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I'll look up the code change around the dictionary, and implement it in V5 |
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I had created a custom routine to retrieve node neighbors. As I recall I'd
get "index-not-found" errors around the Callbacks dictionary upon
completion. It smelled like some form of corruption, and when I dug deeper
I came across the Callbacks dictionary. My application puts a lot of
multi-threaded pressure on the ZWave stuff, exposing the issue quite
readily. Your mileage may vary in single threaded or low pressure
implementaitons.
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Do you remember by any chance the type of exception you got before the fix?
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The SendInstant lock code was added simply based on the api comment ...
/// <summary>
/// Send text message to the websocket channel.
/// It doesn't use a sending queue,
/// beware of issue while sending two messages in the exact same time
/// on the full .NET Framework platform
/// </summary>
/// <param name="message">Message to be sent</param>
I was chasing what appeared to be concurrency issues, and this comment made
me suspicious. I did not test this lock independently of the
ConcurrentDictionary code, so it may or may not be necessary.
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Sorry I'm referring to the SendInstant use.
The patch for the dictionary will be added in V5 (still a WIP)
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If you have both received the error - I shall patch the dictionary with the PR rasied originally (still not sure that happened there). |
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Sorry - I have quite the vocabulary 😅 |
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@marcus-j-davies , any progress on this? Do you want me to create a PR ? |
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Sorry @spudwebb - Im lacking progress on this repo
Please do - Target |
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Merged, Im not at my dev machine currently but will publish to NUGET once at the workhorse. (and thank you both ) |
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I'm good, I applied the packages locally.
thanks
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If you have both received the error - I shall patch the dictionary with
the PR rasied originally (still not sure that happened there).
Do you both still have a reference to the main branch?
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That's the error, 99% sure the CD fix will solve it.
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I have not see the error myself, but one user of my app reported an "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error when sending a lot of commands at the same time, and I suspect the Callbacks dictionary to be the cause.
Not sure what you mean by having a reference to the main branch? my fork is in sync with the main branch.
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Hi,
I'm experiencing stability issues which I believe are related to thread safety. During extended run testing I have experienced exceptions related to the (Driver) Callbacks Dictionary and (what I believe are) some web-socket related hangs, though I have no "smoking-gun" to prove this theory. I have addressed these issues as follows:
The Callbacks dictionary is defined as a simple Dictionary Dictionary<Guid, Action> which provides no thread safety. Since this construct is referenced both when callbacks are added and completed, I felt that some form of thread safety was required. I have implemented a replacement class that wraps a CurrentDictionary exposing only the required Dictionary methods.
As to the (presumed) web-socket hangs, I noticed the use of the SendInstant method. The comments warn of issues with simultaneous access. Since my calling framework is multi-threaded, I made a simple change to the WebcocketClient, SendInstant methods to force synchronization around a lock object.
Its fairly early in my testing, but these changes seem to have addressed the stability issues.
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