defmodule SApp.Chat do @moduledoc """ Shard application for a replicated chat room with full history. Chat rooms are globally identified by their channel name. A chat room manifest is of the form: {:chat, channel_name} Future improvements: - message signing - storage of the chatroom messages to disk - use a DHT to find peers that are interested in this channel - epidemic broadcast (carefull not to be too costly, maybe by limiting the number of peers we talk to) - partial synchronization only == data distributed over peers """ use GenServer require Logger alias SData.MerkleSearchTree, as: MST defmodule Manifest do defstruct [:channel] end defimpl Shard.Manifest, for: Manifest do def start(m) do DynamicSupervisor.start_child(Shard.DynamicSupervisor, {SApp.Chat, m.channel}) end end @doc """ Start a process that connects to a given channel """ def start_link(channel) do GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, channel) end @doc """ Initialize channel process. """ def init(channel) do manifest = %Manifest{channel: channel} id = SData.term_hash manifest case Shard.Manager.register(id, manifest, self()) do :ok -> Shard.Manager.dispatch_to(id, nil, self()) {:ok, page_store} = SApp.PageStore.start_link(id, :page_store) root = Shard.Manager.load_state id root = cond do root == nil -> nil GenServer.call(page_store, {:have_rec, root}) -> root true -> Logger.warn "Not all pages for saved root were saved, restarting from an empty state!" nil end mst = %MST{store: %SApp.PageStore{pid: page_store}, cmp: &msg_cmp/2, root: root} GenServer.cast(self(), :init_pull) {:ok, %{channel: channel, id: id, manifest: manifest, page_store: page_store, mst: mst, subs: MapSet.new, } } :redundant -> exit(:redundant) end end def find_proc(chan) do manifest = %Manifest{channel: chan} id = SData.term_hash manifest Shard.Manager.find_proc id end @doc """ Implementation of the :manifest call that returns the chat room's manifest """ def handle_call(:manifest, _from, state) do {:reply, state.manifest, state} end def handle_call({:read_history, top_bound, num}, _from, state) do ret = MST.last(state.mst, top_bound, num) {:reply, ret, state} end @doc """ Implementation of the :init_pull handler, which is called when the process starts. It contacts all currently connected peers and asks them to send data for this channel if they have some. """ def handle_cast(:init_pull, state) do for {_, pid, _} <- Shard.Manager.list_connections do GenServer.cast(pid, {:send_msg, {:interested, [state.id]}}) end {:noreply, state} end @doc """ Implementation of the :chat_send handler. This is the main handler that is used to send a message to the chat room. Puts the message in the store and syncs with all connected peers. """ def handle_cast({:chat_send, pk, msg}, state) do msgbin = SData.term_bin {(System.os_time :seconds), msg} {:ok, sign} = Shard.Keys.sign_detached(pk, msgbin) msgitem = {pk, msgbin, sign} prev_root = state.mst.root mst = MST.insert(state.mst, msgitem) state = %{state | mst: mst} Shard.Manager.save_state(state.id, mst.root) for pid <- state.subs do if Process.alive?(pid) do send(pid, {:chat_send, state.channel, msgitem}) end end notif = {:append, prev_root, msgitem, mst.root} for peer_info <- Shard.Manager.get_shard_peers(state.id) do Shard.Manager.send(peer_info, {state.id, nil, notif}) end {:noreply, state} end @doc """ Implementation of the :interested handler, this is called when a peer we are connected to asks to recieve data for this channel. """ def handle_cast({:interested, conn_pid, _auth}, state) do Shard.Manager.send_pid(conn_pid, {state.id, nil, {:root, state.mst.root}}) {:noreply, state} end def handle_cast({:subscribe, pid}, state) do Process.monitor(pid) new_subs = MapSet.put(state.subs, pid) {:noreply, %{ state | subs: new_subs }} end @doc """ Implementation of the :msg handler, which is the main handler for messages comming from other peers concerning this chat room. Messages are: - `{:get, start}`: get some messages starting at a given Merkle hash - `{:info, start, list, rest}`: put some messages and informs of the Merkle hash of the store of older messages. """ def handle_cast({:msg, conn_pid, _auth, _shard_id, nil, msg}, state) do state = case msg do {:get_manifest} -> Shard.Manager.send_pid(conn_pid, {state.id, nil, {:manifest, state.manifest}}) state {:append, prev_root, msgitem, new_root} -> # Append message: one single mesage has arrived if new_root == state.mst.root do # We already have the message, do nothing state else # Try adding the message {pk, bin, sign} = msgitem if Shard.Keys.verify(pk, bin, sign) == :ok do if prev_root == state.mst.root do # Only one new message, insert it directly mst2 = MST.insert(state.mst, msgitem) if mst2.root == new_root do state = %{state | mst: mst2} GenServer.cast(state.page_store, {:set_roots, [mst2.root]}) Shard.Manager.save_state(state.id, mst2.root) msg_callback(state, msgitem) state else Logger.warn("Invalid new root after inserting same message item!") state end else # Not a simple one-insertion transition, look at the whole tree init_merge(state, new_root, conn_pid) end else Logger.warn("Received message with invalid signature") state end end {:root, new_root} -> if new_root == state.mst.root do # already up to date, ignore state else init_merge(state, new_root, conn_pid) end x -> Logger.info("Unhandled message: #{inspect x}") state end {:noreply, state} end defp init_merge(state, new_root, source_peer_pid) do if new_root == nil do state else # TODO: make the merge asynchronous Logger.info("Starting merge for #{inspect state.manifest}, merging root: #{new_root|>Base.encode16}") prev_last = for {x, true} <- MST.last(state.mst, nil, 100), into: MapSet.new, do: x mgmst = %{state.mst | root: new_root} mgmst = put_in(mgmst.store.prefer_ask, [source_peer_pid]) mst = MST.merge(state.mst, mgmst) new = for {x, true} <- MST.last(mst, nil, 100), not MapSet.member?(prev_last, x) do x end correct = for x <- new do {pk, bin, sign} = x Shard.Keys.verify(pk, bin, sign) end if Enum.all? correct do for x <- new do msg_callback(state, x) end GenServer.cast(state.page_store, {:set_roots, [mst.root]}) Shard.Manager.save_state(state.id, mst.root) %{state | mst: mst} else Logger.warn("Incorrect signatures somewhere while merging, dropping merged data") state end end end def handle_info({:DOWN, _ref, :process, pid, _reason}, state) do new_subs = MapSet.delete(state.subs, pid) {:noreply, %{ state | subs: new_subs }} end defp msg_callback(state, {pk, msgbin, sign}) do for pid <- state.subs do if Process.alive?(pid) do send(pid, {:chat_recv, state.channel, {pk, msgbin, sign}}) end end end defp msg_cmp({pk1, msgbin1, _sign1}, {pk2, msgbin2, _sign2}) do {ts1, msg1} = SData.term_unbin msgbin1 {ts2, msg2} = SData.term_unbin msgbin2 cond do ts1 > ts2 -> :after ts1 < ts2 -> :before pk1 > pk2 -> :after pk1 < pk2 -> :before msg1 > msg2 -> :after msg1 < msg2 -> :before true -> :duplicate end end end