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7ecc11610a docs(arch): ADR-049 — streaming handler for subscription operations
The call protocol spec describes streaming (call.responded*N +
call.completed, PendingRequestMap::Subscribe, CallConnection::subscribe),
but the server-side Handler type returned a single ResponseEnvelope —
a Subscription op had no way to produce a stream. The TS predecessor
(@alkdev/operations) had separate OperationHandler / SubscriptionHandler
types; the Rust port collapsed them, losing the streaming path. This
restores it end-to-end: StreamingHandler type, HandlerKind on
HandlerRegistration validated against op_type, invoke_streaming() on
OperationRegistry, server-side dispatch branches on op_type, new
INVALID_OPERATION_TYPE protocol code for wrong-dispatch-path misuse,
GatewayDispatch::invoke_streaming() for /subscribe SSE, from_call stream
forwarding via CallConnection::subscribe(), from_openapi SSE forwarding.
OperationEnv::invoke() stays request/response-only (stream composition is
handler-level, not protocol-level). Amends ADR-023's protocol-code list
(five → six). Tracks the stream-operators library as OQ-41 (feature
extension, not an unmade decision).
2026-07-02 07:43:01 +00:00
e0c6f61e6a docs(http): pre-decomposition sanity check fixes — /subscribe POST, direct-call cleanup, from_mcp output handling
Three issues found in the http crate spec sanity check that would have
caused problems during task decomposition, now fixed:

C1 — /subscribe GET→POST: the gateway's /subscribe is an invoke endpoint
carrying { operation, input } in the body, but was listed as GET (which
has no body). Flipped to POST with Accept: text/event-stream negotiating
the SSE response, consistent with /call's flat-JSON-body invariant.
Browsers using EventSource can't POST but use WebSocket for the
bidirectional path; the HTTP gateway's /subscribe is for non-browser
HTTP clients (fetch + ReadableStream). Touches ADR-042, ADR-047,
ADR-048, http-adapters.md, http-server.md.

C2 — stale direct-call references: three spots contradicted ADR-047
(which removed the POST /{service}/{op} direct-call surface) and
ADR-046 §3 (which states /{service}/{op} is no longer reserved).
Cleaned up in http-server.md (custom-routes intro + collision list) and
ADR-046 §6 (default-surface list).

W2 — from_mcp output handling: the spec's fallback for tools without
outputSchema was Type.Unknown(), but the correct fallback is the MCP
ContentBlock union (text|image|audio|resource|resource_link) — a
well-defined MCP type, not Unknown. Fixed http-mcp.md with the full
structuredContent-preferred-over-content-blocks logic (matching the TS
adapter and rmcp SDK), enriched references with specific rmcp source
files. Also added shared-dispatch-spine notes to http-mcp.md and
http-adapters.md cross-referencing the new research findings.

Research (docs/research/alknet-http-gateway-factoring/findings.md):
to_mcp and to_openapi share a dispatch spine (resolve → invoke → map).
Recommendation: extract a thin shared struct now, not a GatewayDispatch
trait — the server-integration layers (axum routes vs rmcp
StreamableHttpService) and wire-framing stay per-gateway. A third
gateway is not on the horizon; if one appears its server-integration
needs its own shape anyway.

Minor: WS route precedence note (websocket.md), OpenAPISpec
shared-type-not-shape clarification (http-adapters.md), date bumps.
2026-07-01 05:41:07 +00:00
2a6e4c371a docs(http): resolve OQ-39; add ADRs 045-047; record pubsub prior art for WS path
OQ-39 (to_openapi published-spec versioning) resolved by ADR-045:
info.version semver tracks the gateway endpoint contract, not the
operation set — per-caller operations discovered via /search do not
bump the version. The gateway pattern (ADR-042) dissolved most of the
original churn concern.

ADR-046: assembly-layer custom HTTP routes on HttpAdapter. The HTTP
router had no documented extension point for deployment-specific
endpoints (e.g., an OAI-compatible proxy at /v1/chat/completions). Adds
extra_routes: Option<Router> at construction; raw HTTP, not operations;
default surface takes precedence on collision. The mechanism is the
one-way door; specific routes are two-way.

ADR-047: remove the direct-call POST /{service}/{op} HTTP surface. The
gateway /call is the sole invoke path — the simplified contract is a
few fixed endpoints, not a per-operation REST tree. The direct-call
surface re-introduced the 'dump the full API regardless of privs'
failure mode at the HTTP level that the gateway /search was built to
escape. ADR-036's routing decision is superseded; its non-routing
clauses (SSE, Bearer auth, /healthz, stealth, error mapping) survive.
A deployment wanting a REST-like per-operation surface builds it as a
custom route projection (ADR-046).

ADR-044 updated with the tradeoff framing (WSS is the right tool for
the call-protocol-from-browser case; WebTransport is the right tool for
the generalized ALPN-stream-proxy case we don't have yet — coexist, not
migrate) and the @alkdev/pubsub concrete prior art (the EventEnvelope
{type,id,payload} the call protocol was derived from already has a
working WebSocket client/server; the sync is a small adjustment, not a
from-scratch build).

call-protocol.md references the pubsub lineage for the
transport-agnosticism claim.
2026-06-30 09:49:25 +00:00
3327d585da docs(http): resolve OQ-40 reqwest client config — ClientWithMiddleware + retry/retry-after middleware stack
OQ-40 resolved: alknet-http owns a shared reqwest_middleware::ClientWithMiddleware
(not a bare reqwest::Client) with a two-layer middleware stack —
RetryTransientMiddleware (reqwest-retry, exponential backoff on transient
failures) + inlined RetryAfterMiddleware (from melotic/reqwest-retry-after, MIT,
~50 lines, inlined to bound the upstream's unbounded HashMap storage). The two
are complementary: reqwest-retry's default strategy does not honor Retry-After.

Hot-reload is rebuild-and-swap via ArcSwap (same pattern as
ConfigIdentityProvider, ADR-035); a rebuild drops the connection pool, which
is acceptable since a config change wanting a fresh pool is the trigger. The
three one-way constraints stand unchanged: alknet-http owns its client (no
env-var config, no shared global), credentials inject per-request from
OperationContext.capabilities, outbound TLS uses the system trust store.

Records the downstream layering boundary: the agent crate's provider SSE
normalization (the solid part of aisdk's pattern — Vercel-UI-message
normalization) sits on top of this client, consuming the reqwest::Response
stream; it does not replace the client. The aisdk core/client.rs reference for
client construction is dropped (env-var config + hand-rolled retry are the
anti-patterns discarded); the from_openapi.ts SSE normalization reference in
the forwarding-handler section is kept (separate, solid pattern).

No ADR — the decision is internal to alknet-http: the client type does not
cross crate boundaries (alknet-call never sees reqwest), the library choice is
reversible, and it does not touch the system's structure, constraints, or
cross-crate API surface.

Updates: http-adapters.md (HTTP client section rewritten, references updated,
constraints/OQ bullets updated), http-mcp.md (OQ-40 status flip), open-
questions.md (OQ-40 resolved with full config-shape table), README.md (OQ-40
folded into the existing two-way-doors bucket), and three secondary docs
(crates/http/README.md, overview.md, http-server.md) that carried stale 'open'
OQ-40 references.
2026-06-30 08:02:30 +00:00
0a78306686 docs(http): add ADR-043 WebTransport bidirectional ALPN substrate; fix spec drift from mid-spec pivot
A consistency review of the alknet-http specs found two classes of
issues: internal contradictions from the mid-spec pivot (the to_openapi
gateway pattern landed in prose but not in cross-references), and a
systematic client→server assumption that only holds for the OpenAPI/MCP
case leaking into the WebTransport architecture.

Class 1 (internal contradictions):
- C1: to_openapi was half-refactored — body described the ADR-042
  gateway pattern but the decisions table and ADR-036 still said
  'paths mirror /{service}/{op}'. ADR-036's to_openapi clause is now
  amended as superseded by ADR-042; the stale decisions row and README
  Principle 2 are fixed.
- C2: the axum Router route list didn't include the 5 gateway endpoints
  (/search, /schema, /call, /batch, /subscribe). Added them; clarified
  /openapi.json as the gateway description doc; added gateway paths to
  the decoy exclusion list.
- C3: ADR-034 §5 still talked about the 'h3/WebTransport deferral
  bucket' that ADR-038 eliminated. Amended §5/Consequences/References
  to drop the deferral framing (the auth-model decision stands; only
  the 'when' wording was stale).

Class 2 (one-way direction assumption):
- C4/C5/C6: the WebTransport specs framed the session as browser→hub
  one-way, when the call protocol is bidirectional and WebTransport is
  a general ALPN transport substrate. New ADR-043 reframes WebTransport
  as a bidirectional ALPN transport substrate (call protocol is the
  first/canonical target; needs no WASM parser), names the call
  protocol's bidirectionality over WebTransport sessions, and states
  the inbound no-PeerId connection-local overlay as the mirror of
  ADR-034 §2. webtransport.md is updated to reflect this framing;
  ADR-040 is repositioned (not superseded) as the substrate's non-call-
  ALPN mechanism.
- C7: the HTTP/1.1+HTTP/2 surface's one-directionality is now named as
  a lossy consequence of HTTP request/response; WebTransport is named
  as the surface that restores the bidirectional call model.
- C8: overview.md acknowledges the from/to direction model is
  OpenAPI/MCP-specific, not a call-protocol property.

A review subagent pass on ADR-043 + webtransport.md found no critical
issues; warnings W1-W3 (residual browser-as-subject framing, ADR-009
rationale in spec, opening abstract tone) and suggestions S2/S4/S5
were addressed.
2026-06-29 10:43:18 +00:00
69ebe58bab docs(http): add ADR-042 OpenAPI gateway pattern for to_openapi
The to_openapi spec was describing one OpenAPI path per alknet operation
— the inverse of from_openapi. That inverse is genuinely messy: the call
protocol's input is a flat JSON object, and generating a traditional
OpenAPI path entry (POST /fs/{path} with path param, body, query params)
requires reverse-engineering which fields are path/query/body — metadata
the call protocol doesn't carry. The three options (leaky HTTP metadata
on OperationSpec, fragile heuristics, manual annotation) are all messy.

ADR-042 replaces this with the gateway pattern (same as ADR-041 for
to_mcp): to_openapi generates 5 fixed endpoints (search, schema, call,
batch, subscribe) that gate access to the full operation registry. The
input is always a flat JSON body — no path/query/body split to
reverse-engineer. JSON Schema is already in the OperationSpec.

The per-caller API surface is the key advantage: /search is
AccessControl-filtered, so the client sees only what it can call. The
Gitea failure mode (dumping admin ops to every caller in a static
OpenAPI doc) is structurally impossible — the per-caller surface is the
default, not an afterthought. OpenAPI has no per-caller filtering
concept; the gateway pattern provides it through /search.

Gateway endpoint set:
- /search -> services/list (AccessControl-filtered, names + descriptions)
- /schema -> services/schema (full OperationSpec)
- /call -> call.requested (Query/Mutation, flat JSON body)
- /batch -> multiple call.requested (correlated IDs)
- /subscribe -> call.requested (Subscription, SSE) — the one endpoint
  the MCP gateway excludes (MCP is request/response; OpenAPI/SSE
  supports streaming)

A traditional per-operation-paths projection is additive (a deployment
that wants the nice Swagger UI builds it with HTTP-specific metadata),
not a replacement. The gateway is the default.

http-adapters.md to_openapi section rewritten: the gateway endpoint
set, per-caller filtering, error fidelity on the /call endpoint, and
the additive traditional projection. The 'Why' section adds the
flat->structured and per-caller-surface rationale.

README/overview ADR tables and the top-level README current-state note
updated for ADR-042.
2026-06-29 09:33:39 +00:00
ab47dac4ad docs(http): draft alknet-http architecture specs and ADRs 036-039
First speccing pass for alknet-http (HTTP interface crate: h2/http1.1/h3
server + from_openapi/to_openapi/from_mcp/to_mcp adapters).

Specs (crates/http/):
- README.md, overview.md — crate index, two-roles-in-one-crate framing,
  adapter location map, feature gates (h3, mcp), no-env-vars invariant
- http-server.md — HttpAdapter for h2/http1.1, axum over QUIC stream,
  Bearer auth, SSE projection for subscriptions, /healthz, stealth decoy
- http-adapters.md — from_openapi (reqwest) and to_openapi (projection),
  error fidelity (HTTP_<status> per ADR-023), type definitions
- http-mcp.md — from_mcp/to_mcp (feature-gated), streamable-HTTP-only
- webtransport.md — h3/WebTransport handler, browser streaming path,
  HTTP/3 request vs WebTransport session distinguished at framing layer

ADRs:
- ADR-036 HTTP-to-Call Operation Mapping (Proposed) — direct path
  mapping; to_openapi is projection, not router (the load-bearing one-way
  door from Phase 0 DH-3)
- ADR-037 MCP Stdio Transport Exclusion (Proposed) — streamable HTTP
  only; stdio is not built (RCE-vector security position)
- ADR-038 HTTP/3 and WebTransport as First-Class HTTP Transports
  (Proposed) — corrects the Phase 0 DH-2 deferral framing; h3 is in
  scope, not deferred, per ADR-009 §'What this framework is NOT'
- ADR-039 HTTP Server and Client Host Colocated in alknet-http
  (Proposed) — one crate for server + client host (shared HTTP deps,
  shared operation-spec->HTTP mapping)
- ADR-003 Amendment 1 — clarifies alknet-call is a protocol-foundation
  crate (the alknet-http -> alknet-call dependency edge)

Open questions (OQ-38, OQ-39, OQ-40 added under 'Theme: alknet-http'):
- OQ-38 WebTransport relay-as-proxy scope (genuine scope question, not
  a deferral — the decision is made when the use case becomes concrete)
- OQ-39 to_openapi published-spec versioning (one-way after first
  publication)
- OQ-40 reqwest client config and connection pooling (two-way-door)

Architecture README and overview updated with doc table, ADR table
(036-039), current-state note, and crate graph (alknet-http ->
alknet-call edge).

Reviewed by architecture-reviewer subagent: 3 critical, 4 warning, 5
suggestion issues found and fixed (missing ADR-039, WebTransport stream
routing conflation, undefined types, stale OQ-37 deferral language,
README OQ table completeness, Bearer-only attribution, cross-references,
ADR-038 ALPN quote, feature-gate placeholder, MCP temporal language).
2026-06-29 05:53:38 +00:00