SDK: route server-side reads through the vapi RPC cache, with fallback - #1614
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Every server render fetched the same accounts, profiles, communities, per-tag feeds and posts straight from public nodes, from every renderer process, with nothing shared and each call at full upstream latency and with hedging on. callRPC gains an optional server-side read-through proxy: when configured under Node and the method is on its allowlist, one POST goes to the proxy first; any miss (non-200, timeout, transport error, a body that is not JSON, or a result the caller's validator rejects) falls straight through to the existing node loop, so the worst case is a failed proxy call on top of today's path and the response shape is identical. A caller's abort still propagates. Counters (served, fallback by reason) are exported for the host's diagnostics. Off by default; setServerRpcProxy / ConfigManager .setServerRpcProxy switch it on, null switches it off; no effect outside Node, so self-hosted and mobile are untouched. The web app enables it at process start when SSR_RPC_PROXY=1 and both INTERNAL_API_HOST and SSR_INTERNAL_SECRET are present. The stack files hand the secret to vapi and to web; alpha carries the switch on, production leaves it to the deploy. The deploy jobs forward the secret. The origin config answers 404 for the proxy path from outside. The committed SDK dist is rebuilt so the web app's typecheck sees the new setter.
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This repository does not receive automatic reviews because it has fewer than 10 stars. ⚙️ Run configurationConfiguration used: Organization UI Review profile: CHILL Plan: Pro Plus Run ID: 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SDK adds an optional server-side RPC proxy with allowlisting, validation, fallback, statistics, and cooldown handling. Web initialization and deployment pass the shared secret and feature flag. Regional nginx configurations reject external access to the internal proxy path. ChangesSSR RPC proxy
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new server-side proxy path can fail reads instead of using the existing node fallback if configuration changes during an in-flight request, and repeated proxy errors may retain connections and degrade availability; staging can also appear enabled while silently bypassing the proxy when its secret is missing. These bounded issues should be addressed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SSR as SSR process
participant SDK as callRPC
participant Vapi as Vapi SSR RPC cache
participant Hive as Hive node
SSR->>SDK: Call allowlisted RPC method
SDK->>Vapi: POST RPC request with internal header
alt Proxy response is valid
Vapi-->>SDK: JSON RPC response
SDK-->>SSR: Return response
else Proxy fails or response is invalid
SDK->>Hive: Use existing node routing
Hive-->>SDK: Node response
SDK-->>SSR: Return response
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When the proxy is slow or unavailable, its wait consumes the node pool's precomputed deadline, so the fallback is not actually the unchanged node loop described here. For example, with a 300 ms caller timeout and a 2 s proxy timeout, the proxy can exhaust the entire failover budget before the first node is contacted; attempt zero still runs, but the deadline check prevents trying a second healthy node if the first fails. Start the node deadline after the proxy miss, or otherwise exclude/clamp the proxy wait so enabling this optimization does not reduce direct-node failover.
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Fixed in d88c0ca: the node loop's deadline is taken after the proxy attempt, so the proxy costs its own timeout and nothing of the failover budget the nodes get today. Spec: proxy driven into a 250ms timeout with a 100ms caller timeout, first node 503, second node still tried and its result returned.
Greptile SummaryThe PR adds a server-only read-through RPC proxy for allowlisted Hive reads, falling back to the existing public-node loop on proxy misses.
Confidence Score: 5/5The PR appears safe to merge. No blocking failure remains.
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| packages/sdk/src/hive-tx/helpers/call.ts | Adds the proxy-first read path while preserving caller cancellation and a fresh node failover budget after fallback. |
| packages/sdk/src/hive-tx/config.ts | Defines validated proxy configuration, the default method allowlist, timeout settings, and breaker defaults. |
| apps/web/src/core/sdk-init.ts | Enables the proxy only for server processes with the deployment flag, internal host, and shared secret present. |
| apps/web/docker-compose.yml | Enables the proxy for staging and requires the shared secret for both web and vapi. |
| apps/web/docker-compose.production.yml | Wires the shared secret while keeping the production proxy explicitly disabled pending deployment approval. |
| infra/origin/eu.ecency.com.conf | Rejects public requests to the internal SSR API namespace before the generic private-API proxy. |
| infra/origin/us.ecency.com.conf | Rejects public requests to the internal SSR API namespace before the generic private-API proxy. |
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participant SSR as Web SSR
participant SDK as SDK callRPC
participant VAPI as vapi RPC cache
participant Hive as Hive node pool
SSR->>SDK: Allowlisted read + abort signal
SDK->>VAPI: POST api, method, params
alt Proxy serves valid result
VAPI-->>SDK: Raw upstream result
SDK-->>SSR: Result
else Proxy miss, timeout, or invalid result
SDK->>Hive: Existing failover loop
Hive-->>SDK: Valid result
SDK-->>SSR: Result
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…s aborts The proxy call now runs before the node loop's wall-clock deadline is taken, so a slow or unavailable proxy costs its own timeout and nothing of the failover budget the nodes get today; a spec drives the proxy into its timeout with a short caller timeout and still sees the second node tried after the first fails. An abort while the proxy body is being read propagates as the caller's abort, and a timeout there counts as a timeout rather than a parse miss. Dist rebuilt.
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After failureThreshold consecutive misses (default 3) the proxy is skipped for cooldownMs (default 10s), so a proxy that is down costs one failed call per window rather than one per read; a served call resets the count. Counted as skipped in rpcProxyStats. The production stack carries SSR_RPC_PROXY=0 as an explicit value instead of a bare passthrough that no deploy job exported; flipping it is a reviewed change to that line. The proxy code and its specs use no any; a method without an api prefix is a miss rather than a malformed call. Dist rebuilt.
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182-185: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider fake timers for the cooldown wait.
Line 183 sleeps 350ms on real timers to pass the 300ms cooldown. The assertion at line 185 then depends on wall-clock time. On a loaded CI runner the margin is 50ms, so this test can flake, and it adds real time to the suite.
vi.useFakeTimers()withvi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(350)makes the cooldown boundary deterministic. The test also drivesfetchpromises, so the rewrite needsadvanceTimersByTimeAsyncrather than the synchronous variant.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@apps/web/docker-compose.yml`:
- Around line 95-96: Make SSR_INTERNAL_SECRET a required environment variable in
the docker-compose configuration whenever SSR_RPC_PROXY=1 is enabled, so
docker-compose config fails if the secret is absent. Update the SSR proxy wiring
coverage in ssr-proxy-wiring.spec.ts to assert this required-variable contract.
In `@packages/sdk/src/hive-tx/helpers/call.ts`:
- Around line 1442-1462: Capture serverRpcProxy in a local snapshot before the
await in the proxy call path, and use that snapshot for the attempt’s
configuration and failure handling. Update proxyRpcCall to accept and use the
snapshot instead of rereading the mutable module binding, keeping
failureThreshold and cooldownMs consistent and allowing fallback if the global
configuration changes during the request.
- Around line 120-122: Before throwing ProxyMiss in the non-200 response branch,
cancel or drain res.body so the connection can be promptly reused; preserve the
existing status-based error and successful-response behavior.
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In `@packages/sdk/src/hive-tx/helpers/server-rpc-proxy.spec.ts`:
- Around line 182-185: Update the cooldown test around callRPC to use Vitest
fake timers, replacing the real 350ms sleep with advanceTimersByTimeAsync(350)
so fetch promises are processed and the retry assertion remains deterministic;
restore real timers after the test.
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…apshot the config The proxy attempt never waits longer than the caller's own per-node timeout, so a short caller timeout is honoured end to end. A non-200 proxy body is cancelled so the pooled socket is released. The proxy configuration is captured before the await, so a host switching the proxy off mid-call still falls back to the nodes instead of throwing. Alpha's stack requires the secret while its switch is on, so a deploy without it fails at config time instead of silently running without the proxy. Specs for each, dist rebuilt.
1.6s, just above vapi's 1.5s: a proxy that cannot answer in time is its own 504, the SDK's per-node timeout bounds the wait further, and the prefetch's abort signal bounds the whole call, so the proxy cannot extend a render past the SSR cap.
Alpha web service carries both the admission knobs from develop and the proxy switch from this branch.
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Closes #1610
Consumer side of ecency/vision-api#73.
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packages/sdk/src/hive-tx:setServerRpcProxy({ url, headers, timeoutMs, methods? })(validated,nullswitches it off;DEFAULT_SERVER_RPC_PROXY_METHODSis the allowlist). IncallRPC, when configured under Node and the method is allowlisted, one POST{api, method, params}goes to the proxy first. Any miss falls straight through to the existing node loop: non-200, timeout, transport error, non-JSON body, or a result the caller'svalidaterejects. The caller's abort still propagates.rpcProxyStats(served, fallback by reason) is exported. Response shape is the raw upstreamresult, identical to a direct call.ConfigManager.setServerRpcProxywraps it. No effect outside Node; self-hosted and mobile untouched.apps/web/src/core/sdk-init.ts: enabled at process start whenSSR_RPC_PROXY=1and bothINTERNAL_API_HOSTandSSR_INTERNAL_SECRETare set (headerX-Ecency-Internal, 2s timeout).SSR_INTERNAL_SECRETto vapi and to web in both stacks; alpha setsSSR_RPC_PROXY=1, production passesSSR_RPC_PROXYthrough (unset = off) so the switch is a deploy decision.master.yml(both regions) andstaging.ymlforwardSSR_INTERNAL_SECRET.infra/origin/*.conf:location ~ ^/private-api/ssr/ { return 404; }ahead of the generic private-api location.Tests
server-rpc-proxy.spec.ts(11): proxy answers an allowlisted read and no node is touched; condenser params stay the array the caller passed; non-allowlisted method goes straight to nodes; fallback on non-200, transport error, non-JSON, timeout, validator rejection, each with the node's result returned and the reason counted; caller abort propagates; inert when off; configuration validation.sdk-init-proxy.spec.ts(4): enabled with the overlay URL and the header when all three inputs are present; stays off when any is missing.deploy/ssr-proxy-wiring.spec.ts(7): both services in both stack files, alpha on / production passthrough, both workflows end to end, both origin configs with the 404 ahead of the generic location.Before switching on
SSR_INTERNAL_SECRETrepository secret (one value; vapi reads it from the same stack env).locationblock to the hand-managed host configs as well.GET /private-api/ssr/statson alpha (with the header) for hit, miss, coalesced and fallback counts before production.Summary by CodeRabbit