fix(json): refuse a stream record past the group budget without ending the log

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Problem

An oversized JSON stream append aborted its single group and track, ending the log for every reader. JS subscriptions to missing local tracks could also wait forever, while cleanly finished inserted tracks lost their cache.

Approach

Preflight committed frame and payload budgets before encoding, including worst-case DEFLATE overhead. Refuse with GroupTooLarge without changing the compression window, group, track, or moq-mux catalog entry. Keep finished JS tracks cacheable, return NotFound for missing tracks without an on-demand handler, and separate upstream request deduplication from inserted tracks. Update the matching docs.

Impact

• Wire encodings are unchanged.
• Rust and JS JSON stream encoders/producers refuse records that might exceed the group budget with GroupTooLarge, preserving the log. Compressed records are charged raw size plus worst-case overhead, so highly compressible large records can be refused earlier.
• moq-mux retains its catalog entry after that refusal.
• JS finished inserted tracks serve their cache until removal or broadcast close. Missing or aborted tracks without a handler reject with NotFound instead of hanging.

Alternatives

Checking after compression would advance the shared window before refusing. Budget accounting stays private in each JSON package. The existing first requested() pull registers on-demand handling; an exported handler API is outside this change.

Validation

Integrated current main through 7b8d83060, preserving contributor commits and the maxDelay rename. Resolved documentation conflicts by retaining finished-cache removal and immediate demand cleanup. Updated the new cache regression to maxDelay and started the on-demand handler before main's TRACK_INFO demand regression, matching the documented handler contract.

At final head 98608f132fb9db8450cf072831616d02361e213e, Nix just check passes: 3,095 primary Rust tests plus 423, 157, 90, and 10 feature tests, all affected JS checks/builds/tests, and scoped repository checks. The focused JSON codec/stream and broadcast regressions pass 58/58. Earlier implementation validation passed just test interop --all with all 32 cross-language pairs and browser close-code validation; integration changes no wire encoding.

Regression tests cover both compression modes, refusal followed by a readable append, spent budgets, DEFLATE bounds, retained mux catalogs, cached finished tracks, and missing tracks. Required hosted CI remains the merge gate.

Follow-ups

Existing quests cover flate stream budget accounting and fulfilling JS requests queued before track insertion. Their scope is unchanged.

Closes #4771

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Walkthrough

JavaScript and Rust JSON stream encoders now enforce group limits of 32 MiB and 8192 records, using DEFLATE worst-case size bounds for compressed records. An over-budget append returns GroupTooLarge without ending the stream. JavaScript broadcast lookup now retains normally finished tracks and returns NotFound for absent tracks when request serving has not started. Tests and documentation cover the updated behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9e39f

The JS stream and broadcast changes are mostly sound. One documentation claim about NotFound is overbroad, and the JS encoder's budget check has a narrow window that the producer does not currently reach. Both are minor, so merging is low risk.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 78.26% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 11 files. (1 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For [#4771], the Rust and JS stream encoders preflight frame and payload limits before encoding. They include DEFLATE worst-case overhead and return GroupTooLarge without advancing the encoder or ab…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The Rust, JS, and moq-mux changes, tests, and documentation support [#4771]'s budget-refusal and reader behavior requirements. The quest cleanup removes the completed JSON stream budget quest and its …
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: refusing over-budget JSON stream records without ending the log.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset and explains the budget handling, track behavior, cache behavior, tests, and documentation updates.

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Automated review of a0ca767c (full review; no earlier Grok review on this PR)

The fix works: the budget is checked before the DEFLATE window moves, the budget is only charged once a write lands, reset() swaps the budget so a late JS commit charges the old group, and both producers rethrow the refusal without aborting. The encoder's limits match moq-net's on both sides (frames >= 8192 and bytes + n > 32 MiB, counting payload bytes only). The JS served latch is safe for today's callers, because no production JS code pulls requested() on a Broadcast.Producer (only tests do), and wire-layer consumers set it in the constructor. I found nothing blocking.

Non-blocking

1. A real overflow at write time looks the same as the safe refusal. If the pre-check passes but write_frame/writeFrame still hits the group cap, the producer aborts the track and returns the same GroupTooLarge (rs/moq-json/src/stream/producer.rs:149-152, js/json/src/stream/producer.ts:70-76). The caller then reads it as "refused, log intact" when the log has actually ended. rs/moq-mux/src/json.rs:322 matches on the error alone, so in that case it keeps advertising a catalog entry for an aborted track. Today this only happens if deflateBound underestimates, or if the json budget and the group's accounting ever drift apart. Suggested fix: keep GroupTooLarge for the pre-check refusal only and wrap a write-path failure in something else, or give the refusal its own variant so callers can match it exactly.
2. The JS bound is never tested against pako. The Rust test (deflate_bound_covers_incompressible_frames) checks the formula against zlib-rs. The PR body says pako stays at least 7 bytes under it, but nothing in the diff checks that, and pako is a separate implementation. A JS twin of the Rust test (incompressible input at 16 KiB boundaries, on a primed window) would cover the path that feeds finding 1. Also, a spent budget refuses every append in stream.test.ts only runs with compression: "deflate", while the Rust version runs both modes.
3. Some compressed records that used to work are now refused, and the Impact section doesn't say so. Before, a compressed record was only capped by the 64 MiB decoder limit, so a 40 MiB record of repetitive JSON that compresses to about 1 MiB was accepted and readable. Now encoder.rs:149 / encoder.ts:127 charge the raw size plus overhead, so anything over about 32 MiB raw is refused. Near the end of the budget, a compressed log also refuses records by raw size even when they would compress to almost nothing. This follows from the design, but it is an API narrowing worth listing under Impact next to the 64 MiB note.
4. The JS served flag never turns off, and it depends on call order (js/net/src/broadcast.ts:92, :157, :190). It is set by the first requested() call and never cleared. So once a pull loop exits (or a caller pulls once, like integration.test.ts:1605), later subscribes go back to queueing a request nobody answers, which is the hang this PR fixes. In Rust, dropping the Dynamic restores NotFound. It also means a subscribe that arrives before the first pull gets a permanent NotFound, which is why the tests had to be reordered. This is low risk while the only producer-side pullers are tests, but it's worth a comment at requested() so a future on-demand JS publisher starts pulling before it publishes. It's also another reason for the Dynamic-style handle listed under Alternatives.

Cross-PR

• feat(net)!: carry untimed tracks faithfully #4822 (feat(net)!: carry untimed frames faithfully) also edits rs/moq-json/src/stream/mod.rs and rs/moq-mux/src/json.rs, so expect a conflict for whichever merges second. feat!: name subscriber staleness max_delay; publisher retention keeps max_age #4917 touches js/json/src/stream/stream.test.ts.
• CI is still queued on this head (Check, Test, Windows, macOS, Android, Replay).

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green. Findings 1 and 2 are cheap follow-ups that would make the "log intact" guarantee hold up.

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Thanks. Addressed in c9ad1f1, except finding 1:

1. Declined. A write-path GroupTooLarge cannot happen while the pre-check holds: it mirrors moq-net's accounting exactly (payload bytes and frame count, same comparisons), and the payload is bounded by deflateBound, which is now tested against both zlib-rs and pako. Giving the refusal its own variant would add public API in both languages to tell apart a state that is unreachable. If the bound were ever wrong, the fix belongs in the bound, and the tests below would catch it first.
2. Fixed. Added a pako twin of the Rust bound test in js/json/src/stream/codec.test.ts (incompressible input straddling 16 KiB, primed window; pako stays 7 to 11 bytes under). a spent budget refuses every append now runs in both modes.
3. Fixed. The Impact section now says a compressed record is charged by raw size, so one over about 32 MiB raw is refused even if it compresses small.
4. Documented. The latch is the settled decision (no new public API), so I added a comment at requested() that it latches for the broadcast's lifetime and an on-demand publisher must start pulling before it publishes. The Dynamic-style handle stays listed under Alternatives.

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Automated follow-up review of c9ad1f1c (re-review after a push; last Grok review was on a0ca767c)

This push (c9ad1f1c) only adds tests and a comment. The production logic hasn't changed.

Earlier findings

• 2 (JS bound untested against pako): fixed. codec.test.ts now checks deflateBound against @moq/flate's Encoder.frame on xorshift noise at sizes around the 16 KiB block boundary, up to 3 MiB, on one reused (primed) encoder. frame() already strips the 4-byte sync marker, so the test measures exactly what encoder.ts:132 charges. deflateBound is now exported from encoder.ts, but stream/index.ts doesn't re-export it, so it stays out of the public @moq/json API. The spent-budget test in stream.test.ts now runs in both compression modes, and drain decodes with the matching mode.
• 3 (raw-size charging narrows compressed records): fixed. The PR body's Impact section now says that compressed records over about 32 MiB raw, and late records near the end of the budget, are refused by raw size.
• 4 (one-way served latch): addressed with docs. The comment at js/net/src/broadcast.ts:91 now states the lifetime latch and tells on-demand publishers to start pulling before they publish. That's reasonable given the decision against a Dynamic-style handle.
• 1 (write-path GroupTooLarge looks like the safe refusal): still open. rs/moq-json/src/stream/producer.rs:149-152 and js/json/src/stream/producer.ts:70-76 still abort and return the same error, so rs/moq-mux/src/json.rs:322 would keep the catalog entry for an aborted track. The new pako test makes the trigger (an underestimated bound) less likely, but callers still can't tell the two cases apart. This is non-blocking, and a follow-up is fine.

Blocking for merge (not code)

• The PR is CONFLICTING with main (11 commits behind). The overlapping files are doc/lib/js/net.md and quest/m1/README.md, so the rebase should be doc-only. Because of the conflict, none of the real CI jobs have run on this head (only Auto-merge, which was skipped).

Verdict: MERGE after a rebase, once CI is green.

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Reviewed commit: ffa6425

No new actionable correctness or security findings. The budget gate precedes compression (rs/moq-json/src/stream/encoder.rs:140-152, js/json/src/stream/encoder.ts:125-130), and successful commits charge actual payload bytes once. This matches the net group's payload/frame limits and preserves the window after a refused append. Separating inserted tracks from upstream deduplication (js/net/src/broadcast.ts:122-136) correctly keeps cleanly finished local tracks replayable without keeping closed network subscriptions cached.

Direction: the preflight refusal is sound; the conservative compressed-record size restriction is now explicit. The existing discussion already covers the latched requested() lifetime and write-path error ambiguity. I found no additional reachable overflow in the owned producer's normal write path to justify repeating that finding. The latch is a documented lifecycle tradeoff, not equivalent to a droppable Rust handler.

Verification limits: reviewed all 16 changed files, group/codec/producer context, tests and discussion through GitHub; did not execute tests or prove the compression bound for every input. Current head is unchanged, open and non-draft; GitHub reports mergeable: false. The status endpoint returned no statuses, so CI success is unverified.

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Independent final-head integration review of a06e2ce against previously reviewed ffa6425.

The reviewed contributor changes are preserved as an ancestor. The Rust/JS stream preflight budget gates still precede compression and charge committed payload bytes once; the local finished-track cache and network upstream cache retain their distinct lifetimes, and the documented requested() latch remains intact. The stream/flate implementation has no further delta from the reviewed head. Main's route metadata additions coexist with that lifecycle code. Actual conflict resolution retains media-time retention documentation and the existing follow-ups; completion cleanup only removes the finished prerequisite. No actionable integration issue found.

Static review only. The worker reports scoped Rust/media checks plus compile/JS checks passing. Final interop passed 31 pairs, then the remaining Python-to-browser audio pair and close-code check passed in a focused rerun; the known base audio timing limitation remains explicit. Required final-head hosted CI remains the merge gate. No wire-format change; the documented oversize refusal and finished-local-track replay behavior remain unchanged by integration.

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Review comments at @doc/lib/js/net.md:
- Line 57: Update the track-subscription documentation in “Track ends” to limit
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Clarify that broadcasts with a pulling handler create an on-demand request for
an absent track; leave the other track lifecycle and reader behavior unchanged.

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- Around line 126-128: Update the encoder’s preflight budget check to include
bytes and frames reserved by earlier uncommitted records, so successive
uncompressed `encode` calls cannot collectively exceed
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Account for pending uncompressed records in the budget.

If a caller encodes two uncompressed records before committing either one, both checks use the same committed budget. For example, two 20 MiB records can pass preflight, but writing the second exceeds the 32 MiB group limit and aborts the log. Reserve budget for pending records, or require each pending record to settle before the next encode.

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Update the encoder’s preflight budget check to include bytes and frames reserved
by earlier uncommitted records, so successive uncompressed `encode` calls cannot
collectively exceed `Group.MAX_GROUP_CACHE_BYTES` or `Group.MAX_GROUP_FRAMES`.
Alternatively, prevent another encode until the previous pending record settles;
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Independent final-head integration review of b0a55b829b82529e6d91f6e822a2b13cf87dca4f: no actionable source findings in the selected preflight-and-preserve-log scope.

Checked Rust/JS budget checks before compression, actual committed-byte/frame charging, reset isolation, non-budget failure aborts, moq-mux catalog retention, and the JS split between inserted finished tracks and upstream deduplication. The Live integration preserves this implementation; the last commit accurately qualifies missing-track refusal by whether an on-demand handler is pulling requests. The focused JSON codec/stream and broadcast regressions pass independently: 55 tests, zero failures.

The uncompressed pending-reservation concern is a real limit of the documented low-level API, rather than a failure of the owned Producer append path: Encoder checks records already committed, and permits an uncommitted plaintext record to be abandoned. Producer writes and commits synchronously, so its preflight sees every prior append. Reserving or forbidding outstanding plaintext Pending records would require deciding a separate lifecycle contract; I would not add that API or policy during this merge. This review does not claim atomic capacity reservation for batches staged through the low-level Encoder.

Wire encoding remains unchanged. The changed refusal and retained-cache behavior is documented. Hosted exact-head required checks remain the merge gate; this review does not bypass them.

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The Track ends documentation now qualifies NotFound by the absence of a pulling on-demand handler at b0a55b829b82529e6d91f6e822a2b13cf87dca4f; a pulling handler queues the missing-track request.

The staged-plaintext reservation suggestion is deferred. The low-level Encoder documents its budget as records committed since reset, and existing plaintext-drop/stale-commit tests allow encoding another uncompressed record before acknowledging the earlier one. The owned Producer writes and commits synchronously, so the selected budget refusal protects its shared log without an outstanding-record gap. Reserving abandoned plaintext records would need a release/cancellation policy, while forbidding a second pending record would change the supported lifecycle. That consequential API policy needs separate scope rather than an implicit change in this merge. The low-level limitation remains explicit in the existing committed-only contract; it is not claimed as a bound over staged records.

Independent exact-head review and 55 focused JSON/broadcast tests found no additional issue within the selected scope. Required hosted CI remains the merge gate.

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Independent integration review of final head 98608f1, following reviewed b0a55b8.

No actionable findings in the main integration or regression synchronization. The removeTrack conflict resolution retains both removal of finished cached tracks and immediate demand cleanup. The Track ends documentation preserves the missing-track/on-demand-handler qualification while adopting landed subscriber maxDelay naming. The new finished-cache regression uses maxDelay; the incoming pending-track-info demand regression starts an on-demand handler before querying, matching this PR's existing served contract. JSON Encoder/Producer budget behavior is unchanged by these integration fixes.

The already documented low-level Encoder pending-record reservation limitation remains outside the selected owned Producer append scope; this integration does not claim atomic reservation for staged batches. No new public API or wire impact from these integration fixes, and no retry or timeout-policy changes.

Verification: independently inspected the pinned integration delta, conflict resolutions and test changes; no independent runtime tests. The implementing agent reports Nix just check exit 0, all affected JS checks/tests, 3,095 primary Rust tests plus 423/157/90/10 feature tests, and 58 focused JSON/broadcast regressions passing. Required hosted checks remain the merge gate.

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