Add JSON-RPC methods to connect, disconnect and query connection state - #3806
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Rebased this branch onto #3815 and added an optional When The stack is now #3805 → #3815 ( Relates to jamulussoftware/jamuluswebsite#1122. |
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Please rebase. |
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Also, I think the directory option should be part of a new PR, not this one. |
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🤖 AI: The directory option is out of this PR — Taking those commits out was treated as cleanup of this PR rather than as opening a new one, so nothing new was opened while the moratorium runs. If it belongs in its own PR now instead, that can be done. |
| /// @param {string} params.address - Socket address of the server (host:port). | ||
| /// @param {string} params.serverName - Optional human readable server name used for display purposes. Defaults to the address. | ||
| /// @result {string} result - "ok" once the connection attempt has been initiated. | ||
| pRpcServer->HandleMethod ( "jamulusclient/connect", [=] ( const QJsonObject& params, QJsonObject& response ) { |
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maybe requestConnection would be better - as this usually returns ok.
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🤖 AI: Agreed — requestConnection fits what it does. connect returns "ok" the moment the attempt is initiated, not when it succeeds: a well-formed address pointing at a server that never answers returns "ok", emits one connectionStateChanged with state connecting, and then stays there with no failure or timeout (measured on a --nogui client against a dead 127.0.0.1:29999, watched 12 s). The name says that plainly. requestConnection also reads symmetrically with getConnectionState and leaves room for a future call that blocks until connected.
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🤖 AI finding: I've been stress-testing the client RPC methods. Reliable crash, verified on this branch (ASan build, dummy JACK). Repro Run a client with JSON-RPC enabled, keep a server reachable at the address below, then run this (Python 3, no deps): import socket, json, time
HOST, PORT, SECRET = "127.0.0.1", 22134, "supersecret1234567890"
ADDRESS = "localhost:22124"
def fire(method, params):
s = socket.create_connection((HOST, PORT), timeout=5)
s.sendall((json.dumps({"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"jamulus/apiAuth",
"params":{"secret":SECRET}})+"\n").encode())
s.sendall((json.dumps({"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":method,
"params":params})+"\n").encode())
s.close() # fire-and-forget: close without reading the response
# Crash 1: two overlapping connects
fire("jamulusclient/connect", {"address": ADDRESS})
time.sleep(0.003)
fire("jamulusclient/connect", {"address": ADDRESS})
# Crash 2 (same bug): disconnect while the connect is still in flight
# fire("jamulusclient/connect", {"address": ADDRESS})
# time.sleep(0.003)
# fire("jamulusclient/disconnect", {})
# time.sleep(0.003)
# fire("jamulusclient/disconnect", {})The overlap is the point: each request connects, sends Why
Server-side RPC is unaffected (its handlers never call Smaller things I noticed while reviewing
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Fix idea Root cause:
The wait in QTime DieTime = QTime::currentTime().addMSecs ( 100 );
while ( QTime::currentTime() < DieTime )
{
QCoreApplication::processEvents ( QEventLoop::ExcludeUserInputEvents, 100 );
}For that it only needs to wait — it doesn't need to process events. // wait for approx. 100 ms so no audio packet is still in the network queue
QThread::msleep ( 100 );Nothing is lost: the disconnect message is only created after the wait (client.cpp:1130), queued events run once
So — to be clear — the fix itself is small: 3 lines, one function ( @ann0see probably prefers this — root cause, not a new error code.
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For option 3 as "fix" - not sure. We'll probably need to iterate over those proposals... Especially
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A sleep still feels like a workaround. I haven't looked at the code yet, but I'd investigate a possible lock mechanism in case colliding request arrive. |
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Yes. Had the same idea but the agent claimed that it's the wrong way to fix it (since it happens in the same thread) - to me this doesn't make too much sense - but it's very likely that I don't fully understand the codebase well enough. |
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Is this going to progress for 4.0.0? |
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@pljones : I've been incommunicado (mental break, sometimes referred to as vacation). But I'm back. The intention is to go through this and figure out what still needs attention (I see some work that apparently has been done) - so obtaining context. The plan is to get to this this evening my time (LA-ish time, as I'm in the Seattle area) and make whatever progress is still needed. |
…leet.json tidy CLAUDE.md: smoke-test kill discipline for local test binaries, upstream-PR style rules (jamulussoftware/jamulus clang-format-14 + jamuluswebsite tone guide), note that deploy.sh now self-verifies, dormant-monitor must be stopped for the duration of a fleet-wide deploy (a woken dormant otherwise re-sleeps before its turn), and Taiwan/Thailand instance renames. TODO.md: log in-flight upstream PRs (jamulussoftware#3739, jamulussoftware#3805/jamulussoftware#3806, jamulussoftware#3807), style-guide sweep findings, and onramp/click-to-join product notes. fleet.json: reorder Piper Club entry, no field changes. dormant-instances.json: remove stale local copy; authoritative copy lives on jamulus.live per CLAUDE.md dormant-instance conventions.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe client RPC interface adds asynchronous connection requests, disconnection, connection-state queries, and state-change notifications. Client shutdown now waits without re-entering the Qt event loop. Address resolution and connection behavior preserve existing connections when input is invalid. ChangesConnection control
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new connection-control RPC API supports connection requests, cancellation, state queries, and lifecycle notifications. Its remaining risk is limited to minor documentation wording consistency and does not affect runtime behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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RPCClient->>ClientRPC: requestConnection
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134-134: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument cancellation of a connecting attempt.
CClient::Disconnect()callsStop()for every state exceptCS_DISCONNECTED. Therefore, this RPC method cancels an in-progress connection attempt. The current text says it does nothing when the client is not connected.State that it does nothing only when the state is
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In `@src/clientrpc.cpp`:
- Around line 264-277: Validate the address in the RPC handler using the same
validation as CClient::SetServerAddr() before calling CClient::Connect(),
returning CRpcServer::iErrInvalidParams for invalid addresses. Also reject a
supplied serverName when jsonServerName is not a string instead of defaulting to
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In `@docs/JSON-RPC.md`:
- Line 134: Update the CClient::Disconnect() documentation to state that it does
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- Around line 190-192: Update the ConnectingFailed handling in CClient::Connect
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273-273: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject invalid parameters before the connection lifecycle.
An explicit
"serverName": nullbypasses Line 273 and silently defaults to the address. The method contract requires a suppliedserverNameto be a string.The handler also forwards an invalid address to
CClient::Connect().CClient::Connect()disconnects the current server before its address validation fails. The RPC call then returns"ok"despite terminating the valid connection and emitting a failure notification.Reject every present non-string
serverName. Validate the address before callingCClient::Connect(), or move the validation beforeDisconnect()insideCClient::Connect().Also applies to: 279-279
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- Line 273: Update the serverName validation in the RPC handler to reject every
supplied non-string value, including null, while preserving the default only
when the parameter is absent. Ensure the address is validated before
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297-300: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDocument cancellation of an in-progress connection.
CClient::Disconnect()callsStop()whenever the state is notCS_DISCONNECTED. It therefore cancelsCS_CONNECTINGas well as an established connection. The current wording can cause automation to leave a pending connection attempt running.
src/clientrpc.cpp#L297-L300: state that the method cancels a pending connection and does nothing only when the state isdisconnected.docs/JSON-RPC.md#L132-L146: regenerate the documentation after the RPC source text is corrected.As per coding guidelines, changing RPC methods requires regenerating
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In `@src/clientrpc.cpp`:
- Line 191: Update the failed-request notification in CClient::Connect(QString,
QString) to report the actual GetConnectionState() rather than always
serializing CS_DISCONNECTED. Preserve existing active states such as
CS_CONNECTING or CS_CONNECTED, and emit the disconnect notification only when
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In `@src/clientrpc.cpp`:
- Around line 297-300: Update the disconnect RPC documentation near
CClient::Disconnect() to state that it cancels pending connection attempts and
does nothing only when the client is disconnected; then regenerate
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New methods: jamulusclient/requestConnection, jamulusclient/disconnect and jamulusclient/getConnectionState. New notification: jamulusclient/connectionStateChanged, carrying state and serverName and, on a failed attempt, error. Together with the existing connected/disconnected notifications this gives JSON-RPC full parity with the UI for joining and leaving servers (jamulussoftware#3801) and makes a --nogui client fully scriptable. requestConnection returns "ok" as soon as the attempt is initiated, not when it succeeds, so the name reflects a request; it reads symmetrically with getConnectionState. An address that cannot be resolved is answered with an invalid-params error and leaves the current connection untouched: the address is resolved before CClient::Connect() disconnects, and the resolved CHostAddress is handed to a new Connect() overload that runs the lifecycle. The GUI and the startup path go through the string overload and get the same protection. NetworkUtil::ParseNetworkAddress reports an SRV record whose target is "." as invalid instead of handing back a null address. SetServerAddr() had no caller left and is removed. The failure notification reports the state and server name the client is actually in, not a fixed "disconnected": a resolve failure from the GUI while connected leaves the connection in place, and subscribers must not be told otherwise. jamulusclient/disconnect also cancels a pending attempt; its documentation says so. Crash fix: CClient::Stop() ran the event loop (QCoreApplication::processEvents) for its 100 ms settle. Called from the connect/disconnect handlers, that re-entered the JSON-RPC readyRead handler while it was still on the stack and freed a socket that was then written to: a use-after-free (stack overflow under overlapping requests). The settle is kept but done with QThread::msleep, so no events are pumped and no re-entrancy is possible. Verified with AddressSanitizer on Linux and macOS: overlapping connect/disconnect plus 8-thread churn crash before this change and are clean after; a plain deferral and a re-entrancy guard were each insufficient. Measured over JSON-RPC on the headless client: a bad address while connected returns -32602 and the session stays up; a bad address while disconnected emits no notification. docs/JSON-RPC.md regenerated. CHANGELOG: fix a client crash when connect/disconnect are driven over JSON-RPC Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PEyPQdxy6h7vQtUDCh2KY2
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223-223: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse
human-readablein the new API descriptions.Replace
human readablewithhuman-readableat all three changed locations.Also applies to: 303-303, 721-721
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Short description of changes
Adds JSON-RPC control over the client's connection, as a symmetric consumer of the
CClientconnection state machine introduced in #3805. This closes the largest UI/RPC parity gap named in #3801 (join/leave) and makes a--noguiclient fully scriptable — e.g. a local web frontend where clicking a server joins it.New methods:
jamulusclient/connect{"address": "host:port", "serverName": "optional display name"}— terminates any current connection first, then connects (asynchronously; progress arrives via notifications).jamulusclient/disconnect— idempotent.jamulusclient/getConnectionState— returns{state: disconnected|connecting|connected, serverName}.New notifications:
jamulusclient/connecting,jamulusclient/connectingFailed,jamulusclient/connectionStateChanged. Together with the existingconnected/disconnectednotifications, an RPC consumer can follow the full lifecycle.Context: Fixes an issue?
Toward #3801 (full UI/RPC parity). Complementary to #3660 (directory getters).
Does this change need documentation? What needs to be documented and how?
docs/JSON-RPC.mdregenerated viatools/generate_json_rpc_docs.py(included).Status of this Pull Request
Rebased onto current
mainnow that #3805 has merged. Changes requested: the re-entrancy crash reported on 2026-08-16 (Connect()/Disconnect()run inside the RPC handler whileStop()runs the event loop) and the collapse ofconnecting/connectingFailedintoconnectionStateChangedare pending in the next revision.What is missing until this pull request can be merged?
The next revision (crash fix plus the single-notification change), then review.
Tested end-to-end:
--noguiclient + local server on Linux/Qt 5.15, driven entirely over JSON-RPC. Scripted checks (16/16 pass): initial statedisconnected;connect→connectingnotification →connectionStateChanged: connecting→connected(channel ID) →connectionStateChanged: connected→getConnectionStatereturns server name; connect-while-connected performs a clean reconnect (disconnected→connecting→connected);disconnect→disconnected+connectionStateChanged: disconnected,serverNamecleared; double disconnect is a no-op.Checklist
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