quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out

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Problem

@moq/net starts a request's 10 s setup deadline before its stream open, and opens with waitUntilAvailable: true. A request waiting for the peer to free a stream slot therefore fails as ControlTimeout, and its create stays queued: neither WebTransport nor @moq/qmux can cancel one. #4999 makes @moq/watch re-subscribe on ControlTimeout, so on Firefox and the WebSocket fallback each retry would add another waiting create (raised in review on #4999).

Approach

Adds quest/m1/js-stream-slot-wait.md [M], ranked after JS GOAWAY requests and JS abandonment, which touch the same setup code. A request waits for a slot with no deadline (the per-request opens drop OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS too), warns once it has waited past about 10 s, gives up only when its demand leaves or the session closes, and starts an existing response deadline once the stream is open, as Rust already does. No path gains a new answer deadline. On lite-05+ a subscribe's answer is its TRACK_INFO, which stays under the deadline once the TRACK stream opens; only standalone track info and fetch have none. ControlTimeout then means "the peer never answered". The quest records engine behaviour found while scoping: Firefox and @moq/qmux queue over-limit creates without a cancel, and Chrome rejects them at once with a NetworkError (crbug.com/487117768).

Decisions, proposed for the maintainer's review:

Goal: a request waiting for a stream slot never counts as a ControlTimeout and never leaves more than one waiting open per live request.

• ✅ Yes, as stated
• Broader: also bound publisher group streams session-wide
• Not worth a quest (the relay grants 10k streams)

How a request waits for a slot

• ✅ Wait with no deadline, cancelled by demand or close; the response deadline starts after the open
• Keep an open deadline with a distinct "no stream slot" error
• A per-session opener with caps, late-stream handover and priority [L]

Scope

• ✅ Every per-request setup: subscribe, track info, fetch, announce interest
• Subscribe only

Chrome's immediate rejection

• ✅ Record it and fix the stale "Chrome silently blocks" comments, no behaviour change
• Also treat it as a wait (needs the session opener)
• Leave it entirely

Milestone

• ✅ m1, next to JS abandonment and JS GOAWAY requests
• m2

What a user sees when a peer never grants stream credit (raised in review)

• ✅ Log a warning once a request has waited past about 10 s, and keep waiting
• A long cap with a distinct error that @moq/watch doesn't retry
• A silent stall, only documented

Ordering with JS abandonment (#4963/#4992) and JS GOAWAY requests (#4985)

• ✅ Related, land after their PRs
• Required

A cancel in @moq/qmux

• ✅ Leave it
• Add an AbortSignal to createBidirectionalStream

Documentation

• ✅ Inline only; the lite draft's 0x31 text already matches
• A separate doc quest

Impact

• None (quest only).

Alternatives

• Listed under each decision above.

Follow-ups

• None.

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Adds the “JS stream slot wait” quest to the required list and adds a planning document. The document describes proposed waiting behavior, engine-specific behavior, implementation considerations, and test scenarios. It does not implement the proposed behavior or change the public API or wire format.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @quest/m1/js-stream-slot-wait.md:
- Around line 69-71: Update the demand-churn bound in the plan: abandoned opens
can accumulate across repeated requests from one viewer, so the count is not
bounded by current viewers. Revisit the no-per-open-cancel and no-session-cap
decisions, and add a test-plan case for repeated leave/rejoin cycles while
stream slots remain held, checking how many abandoned creates stay queued for
both lite and IETF draft 17.

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- Line 133: Move the “JS stream slot wait” entry in the README Required list
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Automated review: quest for JS requests waiting on a stream slot

This PR is only a quest. It plans moving @moq/net's 10 s setup deadline so that it covers just the peer's answer, and having a request wait for a stream slot until its demand leaves or the session closes. The diagnosis is right, the placement in quest/m1/README.md (after JS GOAWAY requests and JS abandonment) is right, and the claims I checked against the code hold: the lite subscriber has no abandonment watch, Writer.tryOpen already takes a cancel, and the IETF announce advertisement opens before its ADVERTISE_TIMEOUT_MS. There are a few gaps that would let an implementation follow the plan and still miss the goal.

Findings (most severe first)

1. The plan doesn't name the open's own deadline, and today's error mapping would still turn it into ControlTimeout. Every Stream.open and Writer.open passes through openWithin with OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000 (js/net/src/stream.ts:56-73, :227-236), and that rejects with a plain TimeoutError. Both subscribers map any TimeoutError to controlTimeout (js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:557, the matching catch after js/net/src/ietf/subscriber.ts:578, and js/net/src/ietf/request_stream.ts:558). Suppose an implementer only moves withTimeout so it starts after #openSubscribe's open. The inner open deadline then fires at 10 s, lands in the same catch, and @moq/watch still sees ControlTimeout, so the fix(watch): re-subscribe a track after a setup timeout or an upstream reset #4999 retry pile-up survives. Line 63 ("Stream.open needs a mode that waits until cancelled") points the right way. Please name OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS/openWithin, say the per-request opens drop it while probe and publisher group streams keep it, and add a test where the open waits past 10 s without the response deadline involved.

2. A peer that never grants credit now means an indefinite silent stall, and the decisions don't weigh that. The open deadline exists for exactly this case: "a peer can advertise a stream limit of zero and never raise it" (stream.ts:57-58). With no deadline, a subscribe against such a peer, or against a relay whose slots stay held, stays pending until demand leaves. @moq/watch would show no error and no retry. That may be the right trade, but the quest should say so and decide what the user sees. One option is a console.warn or a non-terminal status after N seconds of waiting. Another is a long cap with a distinct error that watch doesn't retry on, which also avoids the one-create-per-attempt problem behind the rejected "distinct error" option. Add that case to the test list (line 75 onward).

3. "Every per-request setup" means different changes per path, and the quest doesn't spell them out. Only subscribe has a response deadline today. Lite track info and fetch go through #exchange (lite/subscriber.ts:711-720), which is bounded only by Subscriber.close(). Lite announce interest (lite/subscriber.ts:224-230) and IETF SubscribeNamespace (ietf/subscriber.ts:343-346) have no answer deadline at all. Read literally, line 37 ("the response deadline starts once the stream is open") adds deadlines to those paths, which is a behaviour change. A long-lived announce interest in particular must not get one. Also, "gives up when its demand leaves" has no obvious meaning for fetchGroup or a track-info lookup. Please list each path with what it gains (open-wait cancel only, or a new answer deadline), and name what cancels the wait for fetch and track info. The "Public API: none" line (line 85) should follow from that.

4. More stale text belongs in the cleanup list. Lines 50-52 cover only the subscriber comments. These are stale too:

   • stream.ts:48-50: says a non-waiting open rejects with QuotaExceededError, but the quest records a Chrome NetworkError.
   • stream.ts:59: "Matches the subscribe budget".
   • The timeout messages at lite/subscriber.ts:552 and ietf/subscriber.ts:574: "(browser stream limit reached?)" stops being a plausible cause once ControlTimeout means "opened, unanswered".

Verdict

ITERATE (small, doc-only edits). Finding 1 is the one that matters most, because without it the implementation can follow the plan and still fail the goal. Reviewed head b9015e0d, CI green.

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[Dryvnt]

Addressed the automated review in 2d8b619 (reflowed in 3eba014):

1. Named the open's own deadline: the per-request opens drop OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS (openWithin), since moving only the setup deadline would still map the open's TimeoutError to ControlTimeout. Probe, SETUP and publisher group streams keep it. Added a test for an open waiting past OPEN_TIMEOUT_MS with no response deadline involved.
2. Decided with OneTooMany: a request that has waited for a slot past about 10 s logs one console.warn and keeps waiting, so a peer that never grants credit is visible rather than a silent stall. The long-cap-with-distinct-error and documented-silent-stall options are recorded as rejected, and the PR description lists the decision.
3. Listed each path: subscribe keeps its existing answer deadline, started after the open; track info and fetch gain only a cancellable wait (ended by the fetched group or the subscriber closing); announce interest and SubscribeNamespace never get an answer deadline. No path gains a new one.
4. Added the stale stream.ts text (QuotaExceededError, "matches the subscribe budget") and the "(browser stream limit reached?)" hint in both timeout messages to the cleanup list.

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Reviewed commit: 3eba014

Direction: separating stream-credit waiting from response timeouts is sound, and this revision explicitly addresses the earlier openWithin deadline, warning and demand-churn concerns.

P2 — preserve the existing TRACK_INFO response timeout when it is part of subscribe setup (quest/m1/js-stream-slot-wait.md:62-67, :89-90). The statement that track info has “no answer deadline today” is true for a standalone lookup, but not for the lite-05+ subscribe path: #openSubscribe awaits #trackInfo at js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:652-655, inside the outer withTimeout at :545-553. If the implementation follows the unqualified no-deadline rule for #exchange and starts subscribe's timer only after the later SUBSCRIBE open, a peer that grants the TRACK slot but never sends TRACK_INFO will now hang forever instead of returning ControlTimeout. Specify that standalone track-info/fetch retain their existing semantics, while TRACK_INFO inside subscribe remains response-bounded, excluding each stream-slot wait. Add a mocked-time case where TRACK opens successfully but TRACK_INFO is withheld, alongside a case where only its stream credit is withheld.

Verification: complete quest diff/discussion and the current Stream.open/openWithin, Writer.tryOpen, lite exchange/subscribe/fetch and IETF subscribe setup paths inspected through GitHub. No implementation changed and no tests or real-browser engine checks run; the status endpoint returned no commit statuses.

[Dryvnt]

Addressed the automated review in 7ac094c: the quest now says that on lite-05+ a subscribe's answer is the TRACK_INFO it reads through #trackInfo (SUBSCRIBE gets no response), so it stays under the setup deadline, started once the TRACK stream opens. The no-deadline rule is limited to standalone track info and fetch. It also asks the implementation to keep #5002's reset of the TRACK stream and of a late SUBSCRIBE stream at the deadline. Tests now cover a TRACK stream that opens without TRACK_INFO (ControlTimeout) next to a TRACK open waiting for credit (no timeout).

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[kixelated]

Thanks for digging into this. The maintainer re-ran the decisions in #5013, which replaces this quest: requests fail fast without stream credit (JS and Rust), JS keeps one fatal 10 s timer from create to answer, and nothing retries. The engine notes from this PR (Firefox and qmux queueing, Chrome's immediate rejection) carried over.

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