rpc/comms: use ConnState to track HTTP connections

The JSON-RPC server wraps TCP connections in order to be able to shut
down them down when RPC is stopped. This is rather scary code. Go 1.3
introduced the http.Server.ConnState hook for such purposes. We can use
this facility now that we depend on Go 1.4.

There are multiple reasons for the switch apart from making the code
less scary:

* the TCP listener no longer ticks every second to check a channel
* pending requests are allowed to finish after stopping the server
* we can time out idle keep-alive connections

rpc/comms/http.go

@@ -17,11 +17,16 @@
 package comms
 
 import (
+	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
+	"net"
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
 
 	"bytes"
+	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 
 	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger"
@@ -31,10 +36,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/rs/cors"
 )
 
+const (
+	serverIdleTimeout  = 10 * time.Second // idle keep-alive connections
+	serverReadTimeout  = 15 * time.Second // per-request read timeout
+	serverWriteTimeout = 15 * time.Second // per-request read timeout
+)
+
 var (
-	// main HTTP rpc listener
+	httpServerMu sync.Mutex
-	httpListener         *stoppableTCPListener
+	httpServer   *stopServer
-	listenerStoppedError = fmt.Errorf("Listener has stopped")
 )
 
 type HttpConfig struct {
@@ -43,42 +53,171 @@ type HttpConfig struct {
 	CorsDomain    string
 }
 
+// stopServer augments http.Server with idle connection tracking.
+// Idle keep-alive connections are shut down when Close is called.
+type stopServer struct {
+	*http.Server
+	l net.Listener
+	// connection tracking state
+	mu       sync.Mutex
+	shutdown bool // true when Stop has returned
+	idle     map[net.Conn]struct{}
+}
+
+type handler struct {
+	codec codec.Codec
+	api   shared.EthereumApi
+}
+
+// StartHTTP starts listening for RPC requests sent via HTTP.
 func StartHttp(cfg HttpConfig, codec codec.Codec, api shared.EthereumApi) error {
-	if httpListener != nil {
+	httpServerMu.Lock()
-		if fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", cfg.ListenAddress, cfg.ListenPort) != httpListener.Addr().String() {
+	defer httpServerMu.Unlock()
-			return fmt.Errorf("RPC service already running on %s ", httpListener.Addr().String())
+
+	addr := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", cfg.ListenAddress, cfg.ListenPort)
+	if httpServer != nil {
+		if addr != httpServer.Addr {
+			return fmt.Errorf("RPC service already running on %s ", httpServer.Addr)
 		}
 		return nil // RPC service already running on given host/port
 	}
-
+	// Set up the request handler, wrapping it with CORS headers if configured.
-	l, err := newStoppableTCPListener(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%d", cfg.ListenAddress, cfg.ListenPort))
+	handler := http.Handler(&handler{codec, api})
+	if len(cfg.CorsDomain) > 0 {
+		opts := cors.Options{
+			AllowedMethods: []string{"POST"},
+			AllowedOrigins: strings.Split(cfg.CorsDomain, " "),
+		}
+		handler = cors.New(opts).Handler(handler)
+	}
+	// Start the server.
+	s, err := listenHTTP(addr, handler)
 	if err != nil {
 		glog.V(logger.Error).Infof("Can't listen on %s:%d: %v", cfg.ListenAddress, cfg.ListenPort, err)
 		return err
 	}
-	httpListener = l
+	httpServer = s
+	return nil
+}
 
-	var handler http.Handler
+func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
-	if len(cfg.CorsDomain) > 0 {
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-		var opts cors.Options
-		opts.AllowedMethods = []string{"POST"}
-		opts.AllowedOrigins = strings.Split(cfg.CorsDomain, " ")
 
-		c := cors.New(opts)
+	// Limit request size to resist DoS
-		handler = newStoppableHandler(c.Handler(gethHttpHandler(codec, api)), l.stop)
+	if req.ContentLength > maxHttpSizeReqLength {
-	} else {
+		err := fmt.Errorf("Request too large")
-		handler = newStoppableHandler(gethHttpHandler(codec, api), l.stop)
+		response := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32700, err)
+		sendJSON(w, &response)
+		return
 	}
 
-	go http.Serve(l, handler)
+	defer req.Body.Close()
+	payload, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		err := fmt.Errorf("Could not read request body")
+		response := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32700, err)
+		sendJSON(w, &response)
+		return
+	}
 
-	return nil
+	c := h.codec.New(nil)
+	var rpcReq shared.Request
+	if err = c.Decode(payload, &rpcReq); err == nil {
+		reply, err := h.api.Execute(&rpcReq)
+		res := shared.NewRpcResponse(rpcReq.Id, rpcReq.Jsonrpc, reply, err)
+		sendJSON(w, &res)
+		return
+	}
+
+	var reqBatch []shared.Request
+	if err = c.Decode(payload, &reqBatch); err == nil {
+		resBatch := make([]*interface{}, len(reqBatch))
+		resCount := 0
+		for i, rpcReq := range reqBatch {
+			reply, err := h.api.Execute(&rpcReq)
+			if rpcReq.Id != nil { // this leaves nil entries in the response batch for later removal
+				resBatch[i] = shared.NewRpcResponse(rpcReq.Id, rpcReq.Jsonrpc, reply, err)
+				resCount += 1
+			}
+		}
+		// make response omitting nil entries
+		sendJSON(w, resBatch[:resCount])
+		return
+	}
+
+	// invalid request
+	err = fmt.Errorf("Could not decode request")
+	res := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32600, err)
+	sendJSON(w, res)
 }
 
+func sendJSON(w io.Writer, v interface{}) {
+	if glog.V(logger.Detail) {
+		if payload, err := json.MarshalIndent(v, "", "\t"); err == nil {
+			glog.Infof("Sending payload: %s", payload)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(v); err != nil {
+		glog.V(logger.Error).Infoln("Error sending JSON:", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// Stop closes all active HTTP connections and shuts down the server.
 func StopHttp() {
-	if httpListener != nil {
+	httpServerMu.Lock()
-		httpListener.Stop()
+	defer httpServerMu.Unlock()
-		httpListener = nil
+	if httpServer != nil {
+		httpServer.Close()
+		httpServer = nil
+	}
+}
+
+func listenHTTP(addr string, h http.Handler) (*stopServer, error) {
+	l, err := net.Listen("tcp", addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	s := &stopServer{l: l, idle: make(map[net.Conn]struct{})}
+	s.Server = &http.Server{
+		Addr:         addr,
+		Handler:      h,
+		ReadTimeout:  serverReadTimeout,
+		WriteTimeout: serverWriteTimeout,
+		ConnState:    s.connState,
+	}
+	go s.Serve(l)
+	return s, nil
+}
+
+func (s *stopServer) connState(c net.Conn, state http.ConnState) {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	// Close c immediately if we're past shutdown.
+	if s.shutdown {
+		if state != http.StateClosed {
+			c.Close()
+		}
+		return
+	}
+	if state == http.StateIdle {
+		s.idle[c] = struct{}{}
+	} else {
+		delete(s.idle, c)
+	}
+}
+
+func (s *stopServer) Close() {
+	s.mu.Lock()
+	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	// Shut down the acceptor. No new connections can be created.
+	s.l.Close()
+	// Drop all idle connections. Non-idle connections will be
+	// closed by connState as soon as they become idle.
+	s.shutdown = true
+	for c := range s.idle {
+		glog.V(logger.Detail).Infof("closing idle connection %v", c.RemoteAddr())
+		c.Close()
+		delete(s.idle, c)
 	}
 }
 

rpc/comms/http_net.go

@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2015 The go-ethereum Authors
-// This file is part of the go-ethereum library.
-//
-// The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-// it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
-// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-// (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-// GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-// along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-package comms
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"io/ioutil"
-	"net"
-	"net/http"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/logger/glog"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/codec"
-	"github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/rpc/shared"
-)
-
-// When https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4674 is implemented this could be replaced
-type stoppableTCPListener struct {
-	*net.TCPListener
-	stop chan struct{} // closed when the listener must stop
-}
-
-func newStoppableTCPListener(addr string) (*stoppableTCPListener, error) {
-	wl, err := net.Listen("tcp", addr)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-
-	if tcpl, ok := wl.(*net.TCPListener); ok {
-		stop := make(chan struct{})
-		return &stoppableTCPListener{tcpl, stop}, nil
-	}
-
-	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unable to create TCP listener for RPC service")
-}
-
-// Stop the listener and all accepted and still active connections.
-func (self *stoppableTCPListener) Stop() {
-	close(self.stop)
-}
-
-func (self *stoppableTCPListener) Accept() (net.Conn, error) {
-	for {
-		self.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(time.Duration(1 * time.Second)))
-		c, err := self.TCPListener.AcceptTCP()
-
-		select {
-		case <-self.stop:
-			if c != nil { // accept timeout
-				c.Close()
-			}
-			self.TCPListener.Close()
-			return nil, listenerStoppedError
-		default:
-		}
-
-		if err != nil {
-			if netErr, ok := err.(net.Error); ok && netErr.Timeout() && netErr.Temporary() {
-				continue // regular timeout
-			}
-		}
-
-		return &closableConnection{c, self.stop}, err
-	}
-}
-
-type closableConnection struct {
-	*net.TCPConn
-	closed chan struct{}
-}
-
-func (self *closableConnection) Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
-	select {
-	case <-self.closed:
-		self.TCPConn.Close()
-		return 0, io.EOF
-	default:
-		return self.TCPConn.Read(b)
-	}
-}
-
-// Wraps the default handler and checks if the RPC service was stopped. In that case it returns an
-// error indicating that the service was stopped. This will only happen for connections which are
-// kept open (HTTP keep-alive) when the RPC service was shutdown.
-func newStoppableHandler(h http.Handler, stop chan struct{}) http.Handler {
-	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		select {
-		case <-stop:
-			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-			err := fmt.Errorf("RPC service stopped")
-			response := shared.NewRpcResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, nil, err)
-			httpSend(w, response)
-		default:
-			h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
-		}
-	})
-}
-
-func httpSend(writer io.Writer, v interface{}) (n int, err error) {
-	var payload []byte
-	payload, err = json.MarshalIndent(v, "", "\t")
-	if err != nil {
-		glog.V(logger.Error).Infoln("Error marshalling JSON", err)
-		return 0, err
-	}
-	glog.V(logger.Detail).Infof("Sending payload: %s", payload)
-
-	return writer.Write(payload)
-}
-
-func gethHttpHandler(codec codec.Codec, a shared.EthereumApi) http.Handler {
-	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
-		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
-
-		// Limit request size to resist DoS
-		if req.ContentLength > maxHttpSizeReqLength {
-			err := fmt.Errorf("Request too large")
-			response := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32700, err)
-			httpSend(w, &response)
-			return
-		}
-
-		defer req.Body.Close()
-		payload, err := ioutil.ReadAll(req.Body)
-		if err != nil {
-			err := fmt.Errorf("Could not read request body")
-			response := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32700, err)
-			httpSend(w, &response)
-			return
-		}
-
-		c := codec.New(nil)
-		var rpcReq shared.Request
-		if err = c.Decode(payload, &rpcReq); err == nil {
-			reply, err := a.Execute(&rpcReq)
-			res := shared.NewRpcResponse(rpcReq.Id, rpcReq.Jsonrpc, reply, err)
-			httpSend(w, &res)
-			return
-		}
-
-		var reqBatch []shared.Request
-		if err = c.Decode(payload, &reqBatch); err == nil {
-			resBatch := make([]*interface{}, len(reqBatch))
-			resCount := 0
-
-			for i, rpcReq := range reqBatch {
-				reply, err := a.Execute(&rpcReq)
-				if rpcReq.Id != nil { // this leaves nil entries in the response batch for later removal
-					resBatch[i] = shared.NewRpcResponse(rpcReq.Id, rpcReq.Jsonrpc, reply, err)
-					resCount += 1
-				}
-			}
-
-			// make response omitting nil entries
-			resBatch = resBatch[:resCount]
-			httpSend(w, resBatch)
-			return
-		}
-
-		// invalid request
-		err = fmt.Errorf("Could not decode request")
-		res := shared.NewRpcErrorResponse(-1, shared.JsonRpcVersion, -32600, err)
-		httpSend(w, res)
-	})
-}