See Semver.
- 💔 Non-backwards-compatible API changes
- ✨ Backwards-compatible features
-
🐞 Backwards-compatible bug fixes
-
📦 Minor packaging changes
-
💔 Dropped official support for Node v16, which is EOL.
-
💔 Several methods, including BatchCluster#pids() were changed from async to sync (as they were needlessly async).
-
📦 A number of timeout options can now be validly 0 to disable timeouts:
spawnTimeoutMillis
taskTimeoutMillis
-
📦 Added eslint
@typescript-eslint/await-thenable
rule and delinted. -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
🐞
pidExists
now handlesEPERM
properly (previous implementation would mischaracterize pids as being dead due to insufficient permissions) -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
💔/✨
pidExists
andkillPid
are no longerasync
, as process management is now performed vianode:process.kill()
, instead of forkingps
ortasklist
. -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
- 💔 Drop official support for Node 12: EOL was 2022-04-30
-
🐞 Fix support for zero value of
maxProcAgeMillis
-
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
🐞 Fix
unref
is not a function -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
- 📦 Improved concurrent event
Rate
measurement.
-
✨ If
healthCheckCommand
is set and any task fails, that child process will have a health check run before being put back into rotation. -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
🐞
BatchCluster#maybeSpawnProcs
in prior versions could spawn too many processes, especially if process startup was slow. Heuristics for when to spawn new processes now take into account pending task length and processes busy due to initial setup. -
📦
BatchCluster.vacuumProcs
returns a promise that is only fulfilled after all reaped child processes have completedBatchProcess.#end
. -
📦
BatchProcess.whyNotHealthy
can now returnstartError
. -
📦
childEnd
is now emitted only after the child process exits -
📦
BatchCluster.#onIdle
is debounced during the same event loop -
📦 Added startup and shutdown spec assertions
-
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
📦 Add
Rate.msSinceLastEvent
-
📦 Adjusted
streamFlushMillis
to removeonTaskData
errors in CI.
-
✨ Exported
Rate
. You might like it. -
✨ When child processes emit to
stdout
orstderr
with no current task, prior versions would emit aninternalError
. These are now given their own newnoTaskData
events. Consumers may want to bump upstreamFlushMillis
if they see this in production. -
🐞/📦 Increased defaults for
streamFlushMillis
, added tests to verifynoTaskData
events don't happen in CI. -
📦 Normalized node imports
-
✨/📦 Set
minDelayBetweenSpawnMillis = 0
to fork child processes as soon as they are needed (rather than waiting betweenspawn
calls) -
✨/📦 Set
maxReasonableProcessFailuresPerMinute = 0
to disable process start error rate detection. -
✨/📦 New
fatalError
event emitted whenmaxReasonableProcessFailuresPerMinute
is exceeded and the instance shuts itself down. -
📦 New simpler
Rate
implementation with better time decay handling -
📦 Several jsdoc improvements, including exporting
WhyNotHeathy
andWhyNotReady
-
🐞 Fixed issue #15 by restoring the call to
#onIdleLater
when tasks settle. -
🐞 Fixed issue with
setMaxProcs
which resulted in all idle processes being reaped -
📦 The
idle
event was removed. You weren't using it, though, so I'm not bumping major. -
📦 Process shutdown is handled more gracefully with new
thenOrTimeout
(rather than the priorPromise.race
call which resulted in a dangling timeout) -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
- 📦
.end()
and.closeChildProcesses()
closes all child processes in parallel
- 📦 Export
BatchProcess
interface
-
✨ Process state improvements
-
💔 Renamed event s/childExit/childEnd/
-
💔
childEnd
andchildStart
events receive BatchProcess instances now -
💔 Renamed healthy state s/dead/ended/
-
📦 Made BatchProcess.whyNotHealthy persistent
-
📦 Added several more WhyNotHealthy values
-
📦 Perf: filterInPlace and count use for loops rather than closures
-
📦 Added spec to verify
.end
rejects long-running pending tasks -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuilt docs
-
🐞/📦
BatchProcess
exposes a promise for the completion of the startup task, whichBatchCluster
now uses to immediately run#onIdle
and pop off any pending work. -
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuild docs
- 📦 Don't emit
taskResolved
on startup tasks.
-
💔 The
BatchProcessObserver
signature was deleted, asBatchClusterEmitter
is now typesafe. Consumers should not have used this signature directly, but in case anyone did, I bumped the major version. -
✨ Added
BatchCluster.off
to unregister event listeners provided toBatchCluster.on
. -
📦 Private fields and methods now use the
#
private prefix rather than the TypeScriptprivate
modifier. -
📦 Minor tweaks (fixed several jsdoc errors, simplified some boolean logic, small reduction in promise chains, ...)
-
📦 Updated development dependencies and rebuild docs
-
📦 Added
BatchCluster.procCount
andBatchCluster.setMaxProcs
, and newBatchCluster.ChildEndCountType
which includes a newtooMany
value, which is incremented whensetMaxProcs
is set to a smaller value. -
📦 Updated development dependencies
-
🐞/📦 BatchProcess now end on spurious stderr/stdout, and reject tasks if ending.
-
📦 Relaxed default for
streamFlushMillis
to deflake CI
-
💔/📦 RegExp pass/fail strings are escaped (which could conceivably be a breaking change, hence the major version bump)
-
📦 Refactored stdout/stderr merging code and added more tests
-
📦 Added new "taskResolved" event
-
📦 Rebuild docs
-
📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Relax typing for optional
BatchProcessOptions
fields
- 📦 Upgrade all dev dependencies. Pulling in new TypeScript 4.4 required redoing all node imports.
-
✨ Added
on("healthCheckError", err, proc)
event -
🐞 Fixed process start lag (due to startup tasks not emitting an
.onIdle
) -
🐞 Reworked when health checks were run, and add tests to validate failing health checks recycle children
-
📦 Rebuild docs
-
💔 Several fields were renamed to make things more consistent:
BatchCluster.pendingTasks
was renamed toBatchCluster.pendingTaskCount
.- A new
BatchCluster.pendingTasks
method now matchesBatchCluster.currentTasks
, which both returnTask[]
. BatchCluster.busyProcs
was renamed tobusyProcCount
.BatchCluster.spawnedProcs
was renamed tospawnedProcCount
.
-
✨ Added support for "health checks" that run periodically on child processes. Both
healthCheckCommand
andhealthCheckIntervalMillis
must be set to enable this feature. -
✨ New
pidCheckIntervalMillis
to verify internal child process state is kept in sync with the process table. Defaults to every 2 minutes. Will no-op if idle. -
✨ New
BatchCluster.childEndCounts
to report why child processes were recycled (currently "dead" | "ending" | "closed" | "worn" | "idle" | "broken" | "old" | "timeout" ) -
📦 Cleaned up scheduling: the prior implementation generated a bunch of
Promise
s per idle period, which was rough on the GC. Use ofMutex
is now relegated to tests. -
📦
tsconfig
now emitsES2018
output and doesn't havedownlevelIteration
, which reduces the size of the generated javascript, but requires contemporary versions of Node.js. -
📦
BatchClusterOptions
doesn't mark fields asreadonly
anymore -
📦
Task
has a default type ofany
now.
- 📦 Added
BatchCluster.currentTasks
- 📦 Updated development dependencies, which required handling undefined process ids.
- ✨ Added
BatchCluster.closeChildProcesses()
(ends child processes but doesn't.end()
the BatchCluster instance) - 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Include sourcemaps
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Renamed
main
branch - 📦 Hopefully fixed all typedoc URL changes
No new features in v6: just a breaking change so we can fix an old name collision that caused linting errors.
-
💔 Prior versions name-collided on
Logger
: both as aninterface
and as a pseudonamespace for logger factories. This madeeslint
grumpy, and if anyone actually used this bare-bones logger, it could have caused confusion.Logger
now references only theinterface
.The builder functions are now named
Log
. -
📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Updated development dependencies (primarily TypeScript 4.1)
- 📦
Deferred.resolve
now requires an argument (as per the new Promise spec). As this is just a typing change (andDeferred
is an internal implementation), I'm not bumping the major version.
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Minor delint/prettier reformat
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- ✨
BatchCluster
can now be created with aLogger
thunk. - 📦 De-linted
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Add Node v14 to build matrix
- ✨ New
maxIdleMsPerProcess
option: automatically shut down idle child processes to reduce system resource consumption. Defaults to0
, which disables this feature (and prevents me from having to increment the major version!) - 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Ran prettier (2.0.0 causes many no-op diffs due to changed defaults)
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 🐞
BatchProcess
's streams could cause an infinite loop on.end()
whenstdout
was destroyed. - 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 🐞
BatchProcess.ready
now verifies the child process still exists - 📦 Replace tslint with eslint
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 🐞 Errors after a process has shut down are logged and not propagated
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 🐞 Moved all async throws into observables (to prevent "This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). The promise rejected with the reason...")
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 🐞 Fixed issue where immediately closing a process before a pending task
completed resulted in
Error: onExit(exit) called end()
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦
BatchCluster.end()
should return aDeferred<void>
- 🐞 Fixed issue where
onStartError
andonTaskError
didn't get emitted. - 📦 Updated development dependencies, rebuilt docs.
- 🐞 Deflaked CI tests with longer timeouts and less aggressive
shutdown()
- 📦 Had to delete the macOS Travis tests. Travis has been terribly flaky, with unreproduceable spec failures.
- 📦 Updated development dependencies (new TypeScript)
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 wrapped
stdin.write()
with try/catch that rejects the current task and closes the current process. - 📦 wrapped
stdin.end()
with try/catch (as.writable
isn't reliable)
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Moved to the PhotoStructure org. Updated URLs in docs.
- 📦 Updated development dependencies
- 📦 Removed trace and debug log calls in
BatchProcess
(which incurred GC overhead even when disabled)
- 📦 Expose
BatchCluster.options
. Note that the object is frozen at construction.
- 🐞/✨
BatchProcess.end()
didn't correctly implementgracefully
(which resulted in spuriousend(): called while not idle
errors), and allowed for multiple calls to destroy and disconnect from the child process, which may or may not have been ill-advised.
- ✨ Added
BatchCluster.isIdle
. Updated development dependencies. Deflaked CI by embiggening - ✨ Added
BatchClusterOptions.cleanupChildProcs
, in case you want to handle process cleanup yourself. - 📦 Updated development dependencies. Deflaked CI by embiggening timeouts.
- Happy 🥧 day.
- ✨ "wear-leveling" for processes. Previously, only the first-spawned child process would service most task requests, but that caused issues with (very) long-running tasks where the other child processes would be spooled off ram, and could time out when requested later.
- 🐞
maxProcs
is respected again. In prior builds, if tasks were enqueued all at once, prior dispatch code would only spin 1 concurrent task at a time. - 🐞 Multiple calls to
BatchProcess.end
would result in different promise resolution targets: the second call to.end()
would resolve before the first. This was fixed. - ✨
BatchProcessOptions's
minDelayBetweenSpawnMillis
was added, to help relieve undue system load on startup. It defaults to 1.5 seconds and can be disabled by setting it to 0.
- 📦 Removed
Deferred
's warn log messages.
- 🐞
.pass
and.fail
regex now support multiple line outputs per task.
-
🐞 BatchProcessOptions
.pass
and.fail
had poorly specified and implemented failure semantics. Prior implementations would capture a "failed" string, but not tell the task that the service returned a failure status.Task Parsers already accept stdout and stderr, and are the "final word" in resolving or rejecting Tasks.
v5.2.0
provides a boolean to Parser's callable indicating if the wrapped service returned pass or fail, and the Parser may return a Promise now, as well.There's a new
SimpleParser
implementation you can use that fails ifstderr
is non-blank or a stream matched the.fail
pattern. -
🐞 initial
BatchProcess
validation uses the newSimpleParser
to verify the initialversionCommand
. -
✨ child process pids are delivered to event listeners on spawn and close. See BatchClusterEmitter.
-
🐞 fix "Error: end() called when not idle" by debouncing stdout and stderr readers. Note that this adds latency to every task. See BatchProcessOptions's
streamFlushMillis
option, which defaults to 10 milliseconds. -
🐞 RegExp for pass and fail tokens handle newline edge cases now.
-
📦 re-added tslint and delinted code.
- ✨
ChildProcessFactory
supports thunks that return either aChildProcess
orPromise<ChildProcess>
- 📦 Update deps
- 📦 Update deps
- 📦 re-run prettier
- 💔 The
rejectTaskOnStderr
API, which was added in v4.1.0 and applied to all tasks for a givenBatchCluster
instance, proved to be a poor decision, and has been removed. TheParser
API, which is task-specific, now receives both stdin and stderr streams. Parsers then have the necessary context to decide what to do on a per task or per task-type basis. - 🐞 In previous versions, batch processes were recycled if any task had any type of error. This version allows pids to live even if they emit data to stderr.
- ✨ If your tasks return interim progress and you want to capture that data
as it happens, BatchCluster now emits
taskData
events with the data and the current task (which may be undefined) as soon as the stream data is emitted. - 📦 Pulled in latest dependency versions
- 📦 In the interests of less noise, the default logger is now the
NoLogger
. Consumers may use theConsoleLogger
or anotherLogger
implementation as they see fit.
- ✨ Support for demoting task errors from
stderr
emissions:BatchProcess.rejectTaskOnStderr
is a per-task, per-error predicate which allows for a given error to be handled without always rejecting the task. This can be handy if the script you're wrapping (like ExifTool) writes non-fatal warnings to stderr. - ✨
BatchProcessOptions.pass
andBatchProcessOptions.fail
can be RegExp instances now, if you have more exotic parsing needs.
-
💔 Using Node 8+ to determine if a process is running with
kill(pid, 0)
turns out to be unreliable (as it returns true even after the process exits). I tried to pull in the best-maintained "process-exists" external dependency, but that pulled in 15 more modules (this used to be a zero-deps module), and it was extremely unperformant on Windows.The TL;DR: is that
running(pid)
now returns aPromise<boolean>
, which had far-reaching signature changes to accomodate the new asynchronicity, hence the major version bump. -
💔 In an effort to reduce this library's complexity, I'm removing retry functionality. All parameters associated to retries are now gone.
-
✨ Internal state validation is now exposed by BatchCluster, and is used by tests to ensure no internal errors happen during integration tests. Previously these errors were simply logged.
- 📦 New
Logger
methods,withLevels
,withTimestamps
, andfilterLevels
were shoved into a newLogger
namespace.
- ✨ Added simple timestamp and levels logger prefixer for tests
- 🐞 Errors rethrown via BatchProcess now strip extraneous
Error:
prefixes - 🐞 For a couple internal errors (versionCommend startup errors and internal
state inconsistencies on
onExit
that aren't fatal), we now log.error
rather than throw Error() or ignore.
- ✨/💔
Task
promises are only rejected withError
instances now. Note that also means thatBatchProcessObserver
types are more strict. It could be argued that this isn't an API breaking change as it only makes rejection values more strict, but people may need to change their error handling, so I'm bumping the major version to highlight that. Resolves #3. Thanks for the issue, Nils Knappmeier!
- 🐞 Windows taskkill
/PID
option seemed to work downcased, but the docs say to use uppercase, so I've updated it. - 📦 Upgrade all deps including TypeScript to 2.9
(v2.1.2 is the same contents, but np
had a crashbug during publish)
- 📦 More robust
end
forBatchProcess
, which may prevent very long-lived consumers from sporadically leaking child processes on Mac and linux. - 📦 Added Node 10 to the build matrix.
- 📦 Introduced
Logger.trace
and moved logging related to per-task items down totrace
, as heavy load and large request or response payloads could overwhelm loggers. If you really want to see on-the-wire requests and results, enabletrace
in your debugger implementation. By default, theConsoleLogger
omits log messages with this level.
- 💔 Replaced
BatchClusterObserver
with a simple EventEmitter API onBatchCluster
to be more idiomatic with node's API - 💔 v1.11.0 added "process reuse" after errors, but that turned out to be
problematic in recovery, so that change was reverted (and with it, the
maxTaskErrorsPerProcess
parameter was removed) - ✨
Rate
is simpler and more accurate now.
- ✨ Added new
BatchClusterObserver
for error and lifecycle monitoring - 📦 Added a number of additional logging calls
- 🐞 Explicitly use
timers.setInterval
. May address this issue. Thanks for the PR, Tim Fish!
- 📦 Changed
BatchProcess.end()
to useuntil()
rather thanPromise.race
, and always usekill(pid, forced)
after waiting the shutdown grace period to prevent child process leaks.
- ✨ New
Logger.setLogger()
for debug, info, warning, and errors.debug
andinfo
defaults to Node's debuglog,warn
anderror
default toconsole.warn
andconsole.error
, respectively. - 📦 docs generated by typedoc
- 📦 Upgraded dependencies (including TypeScript 2.7, which has more strict verifications)
- 📦 Removed tslint, as
tsc
provides good lint coverage now - 📦 The code is now prettier
- 🐞
delay
now allows unrefing the timer, which, in certain circumstances, could prevent node processes from exiting gracefully until their timeouts expired
- ✨ onIdle now runs as many tasks as it can, rather than just one. This should provide higher throughput.
- 🐞 Removed stderr emit on race condition between onIdle and execTask. The error condition was already handled appropriately--no need to console.error.
- 📦 Exported
kill()
andrunning()
fromBatchProcess
- 📦 De-flaked some tests on mac, and added Node 8 to the build matrix.
- ✨ Processes are forcefully shut down with
taskkill
on windows andkill -9
on other unix-like platforms if they don't terminate after sending theexitCommand
, closingstdin
, and sending the proc aSIGTERM
. Added a test harness to exercise. - 📦 Upgrade to TypeScript 2.6.1
- 🐞
mocha
tests don't require the--exit
hack anymore 🎉
- ✨
.running()
works correctly for PIDs with different owners now. - 📦
yarn upgrade --latest
- 📦 Ran code through
prettier
and delinted - 📦 Massaged test assertions to pass through slower CI systems
- 📦 Replaced an errant
console.log
with a call tolog
.
- 🐞 Discovered
maxProcs
wasn't always utilized byonIdle
, which meant in certain circumstances, only 1 child process would be servicing pending requests. Added breaking tests and fixed impl.
- 📦 Added tests to verify that the
kill(0)
calls to verify the child processes are still running work across different node version and OSes - 📦 Removed unused methods in
BatchProcess
(whose API should not be accessed directly by consumers, so the major version remains at 1) - 📦 Switched to yarn and upgraded dependencies
- ✨ Added a configurable cleanup signal to ensure child processes shut down on
.end()
- 📦 Moved child process management from
BatchCluster
toBatchProcess
- ✨ More test coverage around batch process concurrency, reuse, flaky task retries, and proper process shutdown
- ✨
BatchCluster
now has a force-shutdownexit
handler to accompany the graceful-shutdownbeforeExit
handler. For reference, from the Node docs:
The 'beforeExit' event is not emitted for conditions causing explicit termination, such as calling process.exit() or uncaught exceptions.
- ✨ Remove
Rate
's time decay in the interests of simplicity
- ✨ Integration tests now throw deterministically random errors to simulate flaky child procs, and ensure retries and disaster recovery work as expected.
- ✨ If the
processFactory
orversionCommand
fails more often than a given rate,BatchCluster
will shut down and raise exceptions to subsequentenqueueTask
callers, rather than try forever to spin up processes that are most likely misconfigured. - ✨ Given the proliferation of construction options, those options are now sanity-checked at construction time, and an error will be raised whose message contains all incorrect option values.
- ✨ Added support and explicit tests for CR LF, CR, and LF encoded streams from spawned processes
- ✨ child processes are ended after
maxProcAgeMillis
, and restarted as needed - 🐞
BatchCluster
now practices good listener hygene forprocess.beforeExit
- ✨ Extracted implementation and tests from exiftool-vendored