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[lambda_runtime] early client closure of a streaming response panics when using cargo lambda watch #1051

@robherley

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@robherley

When running cargo lambda watch with a streaming response like:

use lambda_runtime::{
    service_fn,
    streaming::{channel, Body, Response},
    tracing, Error, LambdaEvent,
};
use serde_json::Value;

async fn stream(_event: LambdaEvent<Value>) -> Result<Response<Body>, Error> {
    let (mut tx, rx) = channel();

    tokio::spawn(async move {
        for i in 0..10 {
            if let Err(err) = tx.send_data(format!("{}\n", i).into()).await {
                tracing::error!("failed to send data: {}", err);
                break;
            }
            tokio::time::sleep(tokio::time::Duration::from_secs(1)).await
        }
    });

    Ok(rx.into())
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
    tracing::init_default_subscriber();
    lambda_runtime::run(service_fn(stream)).await?;
    Ok(())
}

If the client the making the request terminates it prematurely:

$ curl -N localhost:9000
0
1
2
3
^C

The thread accepting the request panics:

thread 'tokio-runtime-worker' panicked at /Users/robherley/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/lambda_runtime-0.14.4/src/requests.rs:120:51:
called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: Error { inner: ChannelClosed }

This is due to the unwrapping of send_data:

tx.send_data(chunk).await.unwrap();

Which can raise the ChannelClosed:

pub async fn send_data(&mut self, chunk: Bytes) -> Result<(), Error> {
self.ready().await?;
self.data_tx
.try_send(Ok(chunk))
.map_err(|_| Error::new(SenderError::ChannelClosed))
}

I'm not quite sure what the desired behavior is, but it should be more graceful than crashing all the tasks in that shared thread.

After some quick testing I believe this only happens locally. When deployed (using a function URL) it doesn't appear to panic and continues to finish the task, which might be due to how "real" client connections are abstracted.

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