feat(moq-mux)!: an export's later requests stay on the broadcast it resolved

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Problem

moq_mux::Source pinned only its own path, and only by epoch. On an epochless route (every default lite-06 session) the pin was None, so a late rendition subscribe or SI repoint re-resolved the path. If a replacement had won the path in the meantime, that request read the replacement and spliced it into the old program, even without --stitch. Sibling references (broadcast: ./source) were never pinned. Most callers also subscribed to the catalog outside Source, so the first lookup through Source could land on a replacement as well. Codex found this on #5147.

Approach

This PR implements the quest quest/m0/broadcast-epoch/source-pin.md, as amended in #5251.

• Construction. Source::new(origin, broadcast) takes the catalog broadcast the caller already resolved. That broadcast is held for the source's own path, and its Info::path is where catalog references resolve from. Because the own path is always held, Source::broadcast() returns it without awaiting.

• Pinning. A source keeps the first broadcast it resolves for each sibling, and every later request for a path is served from the held handle: broadcast, catalog, resolve, bind, subscribe_track, and every exporter's track requests. When two requests race, the first answer wins. A failed lookup holds nothing. Clones share what is held.

• Stitch and same-epoch return. A stitch (Export::follow onto another instance) builds a fresh Source that holds only the broadcast it followed. A same-epoch return replaces the own-path handle and keeps the siblings.

• HLS. HLS export never stitches a sibling. When a bound sibling ends, the rendition logs an error, clears its rows (they can no longer be fetched), and ends its playlist. A broadcast end carries no cause, so a clean end and a replacement are treated the same. A bind that never resolved (a sibling still being announced) is issued again; the source holds every bind that resolved, so this never re-resolves a sibling. The segment cursor and the playlist long-polls register on the sibling's closure, so a recorder waiting at the live edge ends even when nothing else touches the rendition.

• moq-hls Upstream removed. It kept a copy of the catalog broadcast next to the Source; the source now holds that broadcast itself.

• Callers. Every caller in the repo resolves the broadcast first: moq-cli play, subscribe, and tests; moq-ffi; moq-c; moq-hls; moq-rtc WHIP and WHEP; moq-rtmp dial and play; moq-srt; and moq-video tests. In moq-ffi and moq-c, a self-reference now reuses the broadcast already held instead of looking it up again. moq-rtmp play and moq-srt export the exact broadcast they checked.

• Quest. Deletes the quest file and removes its line from the broadcast-epoch README, plus the links from catalog-references.md (Required, so merging unblocks that quest) and retired-requests.md (Related).

HLS failure surface. This matches how a rendition's timeline failure is already reported: a tracing::error!, then the playlist ends (EXT-X-ENDLIST) and its segment cursors end. The rows are also cleared, because an ended broadcast refuses every track lookup and those rows would only answer 404. The export keeps running. A new rendition instance only comes from a new catalog instance.

Tests (mocked time). Each of the following fails on main:

• source::tests::a_source_keeps_the_broadcast_it_was_built_from (the constructor case: built after a replacement won, it still reads what it was given) and a_source_keeps_the_sibling_it_resolved (also covers bind honoring the held sibling).
• ts::export_test::a_late_rendition_never_reads_a_replacement, a_repointed_si_entry_never_reads_a_replacement, and a_switch_reads_the_instance_it_followed.
• moq-hls a_cursor_at_the_edge_ends_when_its_sibling_ends (from the OpenAI review; it timed out before the wake fix).
• moq-hls a_replaced_sibling_ends_the_rendition and a_replaced_sibling_stays_ended_across_an_unroutable_gap, which replace a_replaced_sibling_drops_old_rows_and_rebinds and a_replaced_sibling_recovers_after_an_unroutable_gap. They assert that the playlist ends and the replacement is never requested.

Kept behavior guarded:

• The same-epoch refresh is covered by a_follower_continues_through_a_same_epoch_handoff_after_a_gap, which fails if the refresh is removed.
• The initial-Unroutable path is covered by the new a_sibling_announced_after_export_start_is_bound.
• moq-hls's Upstream self-reference test moved to source::tests::self_references_keep_the_catalog_broadcast_after_replacement.

Decision trail

• Pin by handle, replacing the epoch field ✅ (quest)
• Pin every resolved path, siblings included ✅ (quest)
• A stitch seeds the own-path pin with the followed broadcast ✅ (quest)
• A same-epoch return refreshes the own-path pin ✅ (quest)
• A sibling's guarantee starts at its first resolution ✅ (quest)
• No benchmark: the per-export map doesn't fan out ✅ (declined on quest: plan export source pinning and the stitch catalog bound #5247)
• Own path:
  • lazy first-resolution cache
  • Source built from the resolved catalog broadcast ✅ (quest(m0): build Source from the resolved catalog broadcast #5251, amending the quest)
• moq-hls's catalog hold:
  • keep
  • delete it once Source returns the held handle for every self-reference ✅ (quest(m0): build Source from the resolved catalog broadcast #5251)
• TS export from moq publish:
  • callers resolve first ✅ (simplest; quest(m0): build Source from the resolved catalog broadcast #5251 left the choice open)
  • the export seeds the handle itself
• Source::new shape:
  • (origin, broadcast), with the path taken from Info::path ✅ (this PR: one argument fewer, a path can't disagree with its broadcast, and moq-ffi and moq-c already used info().path)
  • (origin, path, broadcast)
• Clones share one pin map ✅ (maintainer, 2026-10-10)
• Source::bind:
  • exempt from pins
  • honors the pins like every other request ✅ (maintainer, 2026-10-10)
• HLS when a bound sibling ends:
  • rebind onto whatever serves the path
  • the rendition fails loudly, clean end and replacement alike ✅ (maintainer, 2026-10-10)
• HLS initial Unroutable while the announce is in flight: kept, since it never re-resolves after a successful bind ✅ (maintainer, 2026-10-10)
• Upgrade-guide line in doc/setup/upgrade.md, no new doc page ✅ (quest(m0): build Source from the resolved catalog broadcast #5251)

Impact

• moq_mux::Source::new: breaking. It takes (origin, broadcast::Consumer) instead of (origin, path). The upgrade-guide line is added.
• moq_mux::Source::broadcast: breaking. It is now a synchronous fn returning broadcast::Consumer; it used to be async and return Result.
• moq_mux::Source behavior. A request for a path the source already holds returns that handle instead of resolving the current route, and fails with Unroutable once that broadcast ends. This applies to catalog, resolve, bind, subscribe_track, and exporter track requests. Clones share what is held, and a source keeps the broadcasts it holds alive while it lives.
• moq_mux::Source::bind behavior. It no longer always looks the path up: a held path binds to the held broadcast, and the answer of a new lookup is held.
• moq_hls::Broadcaster::new: breaking. It is now a synchronous fn returning Arc<Self>; it no longer awaits or fails.
• moq-hls export behavior. A rendition whose sibling broadcast ends now ends its playlist and lists nothing more. Before, it rebound onto a new publisher at that path.
• moq-cli. Subscribe::new is now async and resolves the broadcast (crate-internal). moq play and moq export behave the same for users.
• moq-ffi and moq-c. No API change. A self-reference now reuses the held broadcast.
• Wire: none.

Alternatives

• Deep-copy pins on Clone. Requests still in flight need a shared map to record their answers, so clones would drift apart. Rejected; the maintainer confirmed sharing.
• Keep bind unpinned so HLS could rebind. Rejected by the maintainer: HLS never stitches a sibling.

Follow-ups

• moq-cli/src/play/media.rs has two pre-existing clippy let_unit_value warnings (sink.write). They don't fail just check.

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Quest outcome: source-pin is implemented in full. Five mocked-time regression tests failed on main and pass with the fix. just fix and just check are clean locally.

One open decision for the maintainer: Source::bind is exempt from pins, as implemented. The alternative is to pin it and have moq-hls build a fresh Source per sibling rebind. I recommend the exemption, because HLS clears its rows before rebinding and never splices.

The PR stays a draft until that is settled.

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Grok review of 9ceb05e (first review)

Pinning by handle is a cleaner single mechanism than the epoch pin, and the race on first resolution is handled right (or_insert in Binding::poll_broadcast, so the first resolver wins and every later one gets the same handle). Tests cover own path, sibling, bind, SI repoint, and stitch. No blocking issues found.

Non-blocking

1. A sibling restart now permanently kills that HLS rendition while the main broadcast keeps running (rs/moq-hls/src/export/rendition.rs, the is_closed() && !handle.ended arm). Before, a restarted ./source (say a transcoder restarting) was rebound. Now the rendition writes EXT-X-ENDLIST and stays ended until a new catalog instance shows up. The HLS server only replaces a cached Broadcaster when it is_closed() (rs/moq-hls/src/server/mod.rs ~L128), and the main broadcast isn't closed, so viewers get a dead rendition for as long as the catalog publisher lives. The PR body calls this intended, but it is a user-visible regression for sibling-only restarts. Worth a CHANGELOG/Source doc note at least, or have the catalog publisher be expected to bump its instance when a sibling restarts.
2. Pins never expire. A pinned handle that has closed stays in pins forever, so every later request for that path on that Source (or any clone) errors instead of resolving. That's the point for exports, but Source is public and long-lived elsewhere: moq-cli subscribe keeps one Source in its struct, and moq-hls Broadcaster keeps one per name. Please put the behavior change on the Source rustdoc itself (the quest asked for this; the diff only reworded request_path/Export::new docs), and consider a Source::fresh()/unpin so callers like moq play don't have to know to rebuild.
3. Export::new now trusts that broadcast is the source's pin. The old pinned(instance) tied them together explicitly. If a caller passes a broadcast it got some other way (not from source.broadcast()), the export reads one instance and later requests resolve and pin a possibly different one. A debug_assert! that the own-path pin is_clone of broadcast, or seeding the pin from broadcast in Export::new, would close it.
4. The rendition's Unroutable re-issue arm still runs after ended. It's harmless today, because a resolved sibling is pinned and won't error Unroutable. But gating it on !handle.ended would make the "never rebinds" guarantee local rather than depend on the pin invariant.
5. CI: only Quest (pending) and Auto-merge (skipping) have reported, and no Rust check/test run shows up for this head yet.

Also: the quest file source-pin.md and its README entry are removed in this PR, which fits since the work is done.

Verdict: MERGE

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Walkthrough

Source now holds resolved broadcasts and pins later path requests to their first resolved instance. Callers resolve broadcasts before creating a Source, and TS export bindings use these pinned results when subscribing to tracks. HLS renditions end when a bound sibling broadcast ends instead of rebinding to a replacement. Playback creates a new Source for each start or restart. Tests and upgrade documentation describe the updated APIs and behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3e763

This change pins each export to the broadcast it first resolved, and HLS renditions now end when their bound sibling broadcast ends. HLS broadcast lookups are now bounded by a timeout, so a stalled lookup no longer hangs an HTTP request. One small public documentation sentence about the new pinning behavior may still be garbled. The change is mergeable once CI passes.

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Automated review at f316ba19

This replaces the epoch-only pin with a per-path map of held broadcasts on Source (own path always held, siblings held on first successful resolve, first racer wins). The core logic in rs/moq-mux/src/source.rs reads correctly. switched() makes a fresh Arc so in-flight bindings from the old instance can't pin into the new map, and pin() only touches the own path, which is never requested through the origin. The new tests cover the own-path, sibling, and self-reference cases.

Non-blocking

1. Source::new trusts broadcast.info().path (source.rs, new). Info::path is empty for a broadcast that wasn't resolved through an origin. If a caller passes a locally created or otherwise standalone consumer, the source silently roots at "". Every .. reference then escapes, and ./x resolves at the origin root, with no error. It would help to add a debug_assert!(!path.is_empty()), return an error, or document it loudly on new, since this is now the only way to set the path.
2. Ended siblings stay held forever. In non-HLS exporters (fmp4, ts, flv, mkv via moq-srt, moq-rtmp, and moq-rtc egress), a sibling that ends and is republished is never picked up again. Only HLS has a defined surface for this (error, clear rows, ENDLIST). Please confirm the other long-running exporters end or report cleanly instead of stalling on a closed track. A test for one non-HLS exporter with a sibling ending would pin that down.
3. Lock on the poll path. Binding::poll_broadcast takes the pins mutex on every ready poll of a Requested binding. That's fine at today's call rates. It's worth caching the result if bindings get polled per-frame.
4. Breaking API. Source::new(origin, broadcast) and the now-sync Source::broadcast() are flagged with ! and in doc/setup/upgrade.md, so that's good. Downstream moq-ffi and moq-c users get the self-reference reuse for free.
5. CI is pending on every job.

Verdict: MERGE (once CI is green)

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Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: f316ba1.

One P2 remains: the HLS idle recording cursor can miss sibling closure (inline). This is the previously reported read-only concern, still open, not a new regression in this update.

Overall direction: holding the resolved catalog handle and sharing sibling pins is sound; removing Upstream simplifies ownership. No additional concrete defect identified in the constructor migrations, binding map, or TS follow changes.

Verification: GitHub-only static review; no tests run. CI was still in progress. Rechecked the open, non-draft state, unchanged head, and existing reviews before posting.

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[P2] Wake recording cursors when the bound sibling ends

Ending the window here requires another caller to enter Media::sync. After a recorder drains its rows, segments::Consumer::poll_next watches only the window (segments.rs:479–491); Media::sync uses Waiter::noop and no task watches the sibling's closure. If the sibling ends while the catalog/timeline stays open but idle, next().await can remain pending indefinitely instead of ending the rendition. The replacement test calls until_empty/snapshot before checking the cursor, supplying the missing sync. Observe sibling closure independently or register it in the cursor's polling path, and test a pending cursor without intervening playlist calls or timeline updates.

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Fixed in 3e76372. Media::poll_sync now registers the waiter on the sibling binding and on the broadcast's closure. The segment cursor (segments::Consumer::poll_next) and the playlist long-polls (poll_playable, poll_advertised) pass their real waiter through it. The new a_cursor_at_the_edge_ends_when_its_sibling_ends drains a cursor to the live edge, then ends only the sibling broadcast; its recorder stays, so the timeline stays quiet. It timed out before this change and passes now.

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Replies to the Grok reviews of 9ceb05e9 and f316ba19, as of 3e763725:

Review of 9ceb05e9

1. Ending a rendition when its sibling restarts is the maintainer's decision (2026-10-10): HLS never stitches a sibling, and a new instance comes only from a new catalog instance. It is now in doc/setup/upgrade.md and the PR's Impact section.
2. The behavior is documented on Source itself. I'm not adding Source::fresh() or unpin. Building a new Source from the newly resolved broadcast is the one way to follow a new instance, and a second way would only blur which instance a source reads.
3. No longer applies. quest(m0): build Source from the resolved catalog broadcast #5251 builds Source from the resolved broadcast, and Export::new reads source.broadcast(), so the export and its source can't disagree.
4. Declined. After ended, the binding has resolved Ok, so the Err arm is unreachable. Gating it would add a condition that can never fail.

Review of f316ba19

1. Documented on Source::new: a standalone broadcast has an empty path, so any .. escapes. I didn't add an assert, because several tests deliberately build a source over a standalone broadcast that has no references.
2. Intended. In the other exporters, a request on a sibling that ended now fails with Unroutable and ends the export loudly, rather than splicing in a republish. The quest's goal is to fail on a replaced instance, and the existing exporter error paths carry it. I don't think a per-exporter test adds much beyond a_source_keeps_the_sibling_it_resolved.
3. Declined for now. Exporters lock once per binding, when it resolves into a subscription. HLS locks once per sync, which happens per request, not per frame.

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Automated follow-up review at 3e763725 (re-review after push; previous review at f316ba19)

The push (3407630e, plus a main merge) makes a segment cursor waiting at the live edge wake and end when its bound sibling broadcast ends, by registering the waiter on the sibling binding and its poll_closed. It also bounds the HLS server's request_broadcast with RESOLVE_TIMEOUT and documents that a standalone broadcast is its own root. The new test a_cursor_at_the_edge_ends_when_its_sibling_ends pins the main fix nicely.

Non-blocking

1. rs/moq-hls/src/server/mod.rs: the timeout branch (.ok()?) returns None with no log, while the error branch warns. A dynamic route that never answers now looks like a silent 404. Suggest a tracing::warn!(%name, "timed out resolving broadcast") on the elapsed case.
2. segments.rs Consumer::poll_next now calls rendition.poll_media on every poll, which takes the media mutex and polls the binding each time. This makes the earlier "mutex on poll path" note hotter: every recorder/cursor wake now contends on it. It's probably fine at current fan-out, but a cheap ended check before locking (or an atomic flag) would keep it off the fast path.
3. rendition.rs poll_sync: after a rebind, next.poll_broadcast(waiter) registers for resolution, but if it's already Ready with a closed broadcast, nothing re-checks until the next wake. Low risk, since the waiter is registered and the next poll handles it, but a loop or recursive check would close the gap.
4. Earlier items: the Source::new empty-path root is now documented (fine as a doc fix, but still silent at runtime). Ended siblings held forever in non-HLS exporters is still open. CI is pending.

Verdict: MERGE

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[kixelated]

Replies to the Grok follow-up review of 3e763725, as of 3ae3f3fd:

1. Fixed: a resolve that times out now logs timed out resolving broadcast.
2. Declined. The cursor takes one uncontended per-rendition mutex per wake, not per frame, and only for a sibling rendition. I'll revisit it if a fan-out benchmark shows contention.
3. Fixed: poll_sync re-polls a reissued bind once in the same call, so a bind that resolves at once to an ended sibling ends the window there and then.
4. As replied above: the empty-path root is documented, and an ended sibling failing loudly in the other exporters is intended.

This merge also brings in main's #5291, which links to this quest. The links in catalog-references.md (Required) and retired-requests.md (Related) are removed along with the quest file, so merging this PR unblocks catalog references.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 3ae3f3f, compared with my previous review at f316ba1.

Fixed: the previous P2 idle-cursor hang. The cursor and playlist waits now register for sibling closure; the quiet-timeline regression covers cursor termination. The latest bounded re-poll also handles a reissued binding that immediately resolves to an ended sibling.

Open/new: no remaining actionable finding identified in the reviewed delta. The resolution timeout and warning are sensible hardening, and the handle-pinning direction remains sound.

Verification: GitHub-only static review; tests not run independently. CI is still running. Main-merge documentation changes were separated from the implementation delta. Rechecked the open, non-draft state, unchanged head, and existing reviews before posting.

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[kixelated]

@codex review

Merged main into this branch (5fdc17c). The non-trivial part is rs/moq-hls/src/export/segments.rs, where #5209 (recorder cursor holds a live feed so a source without FETCH still records) and this PR (an ended sibling ends the cursor's window) both changed Consumer::poll_next. Resolution: Rendition::poll_media now returns the current binding, and poll_feed takes its binding from it, so one poll both registers the waiter for a sibling end and keeps the live subscription. Rendition::binding() is gone. Also moved main's new tests (a_cursor_records_a_publisher_without_fetch, the h264/h265 empty parameter set tests) onto the resolved-Source API, and aligned the broadcast-epoch quests.

Please review the merge resolution in particular.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed commit: 5fdc17c, focusing on the merge resolution since my previous review at 3ae3f3f. Separated incoming main changes from this PR's changes.

The HLS integration is sound on inspection: Consumer::poll_next calls poll_feed, which obtains its binding through Rendition::poll_media(waiter) before inspecting the window. That preserves sibling-closure wakeups while retaining #5209's live feed, without a second binding lookup. The previous idle-cursor P2 remains fixed. The new main tests are adapted to the resolved-Source API.

No new actionable finding in the reviewed merge resolution. Returning the binding from poll_media and removing the redundant accessor is a straightforward integration.

Verification: GitHub-only static review; no tests run independently. Check, Test, and Interop are still running. Rechecked the open, non-draft state, unchanged head, and existing reviews before posting.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Nice work!

Reviewed commit: 5fdc17cdc8

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Merge summary (head 5fdc17cd):

• Merged main. In rs/moq-hls/src/export/segments.rs, fix(hls): a recorder cursor records a publisher without FETCH #5209 added a live feed to the cursor and this PR added the sibling-end wake. Both now happen in one poll: Rendition::poll_media(waiter) returns the current binding, and Consumer::poll_feed subscribes through it. The redundant Rendition::binding() is removed, and a stale "waiting to rebind" comment is fixed.
• Moved main's new tests onto the resolved-Source API: a_cursor_records_a_publisher_without_fetch and the h264/h265 empty parameter set tests.
• Aligned the broadcast-epoch quests. source-pin.md is deleted, its links became PR links, and the JS quests that already merged were dropped.
• Decisions applied as of 2026-10-10: clones share holds, bind honours holds, and HLS ends the rendition loudly when its sibling ends.
• Reviews: Codex and OpenAI both reviewed 5fdc17cd with no findings.
• CI: Check and Test pass. Interop fails only on "control: lagging latecomer" (the known flake, failing on main too; fixed by fix(test): distinguish preroll from live playback #5297), which skips the TS steps. I ran all of those locally on this head and they pass: ts, --bitrate, --hrd, --headroom, --open-gop, ts-eit, ts-tstd. Every other Interop step passed in CI.

Enabling auto-merge.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)