Run datasette serve startup and uvicorn on a single event loop

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Alex Garcia 2026-07-30 17:25:55 -07:00
commit cd9daa266c
3 changed files with 238 additions and 39 deletions

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@ -663,16 +663,6 @@ def serve(
# Private utility mechanism for writing unit tests
return ds
# Run async soundness checks before startup hooks, since invoke_startup
# now populates internal tables which requires querying each database
run_sync(lambda: check_databases(ds))
# Run the "startup" plugin hooks
try:
run_sync(ds.invoke_startup)
except StartupError as e:
raise click.ClickException(e.args[0])
if headers and not get:
raise click.ClickException("--headers can only be used with --get")
@ -680,6 +670,16 @@ def serve(
raise click.ClickException("--token can only be used with --get")
if get:
# Run async soundness checks before startup hooks, since invoke_startup
# now populates internal tables which requires querying each database
run_sync(lambda: check_databases(ds))
# Run the "startup" plugin hooks
try:
run_sync(ds.invoke_startup)
except StartupError as e:
raise click.ClickException(e.args[0])
client = TestClient(ds)
request_headers = {}
if token:
@ -704,34 +704,52 @@ def serve(
sys.exit(exit_code)
return
# Start the server
url = None
if root:
ds.root_enabled = True
url = "http://{}:{}{}?token={}".format(
host, port, ds.urls.path("-/auth-token"), ds._root_token
)
click.echo(url)
if open_browser:
if url is None:
# Figure out most convenient URL - to table, database or homepage
path = run_sync(lambda: initial_path_for_datasette(ds))
url = f"http://{host}:{port}{path}"
webbrowser.open(url)
uvicorn_kwargs = {
"host": host,
"port": port,
"log_level": "info",
"lifespan": "on",
"workers": 1,
}
if uds:
uvicorn_kwargs["uds"] = uds
if ssl_keyfile:
uvicorn_kwargs["ssl_keyfile"] = ssl_keyfile
if ssl_certfile:
uvicorn_kwargs["ssl_certfile"] = ssl_certfile
uvicorn.run(ds.app(), **uvicorn_kwargs)
# check_databases, invoke_startup() and the uvicorn server all run on a
# single event loop, so that anything a plugin's "startup" hook schedules
# on the loop (asyncio.create_task, Lock/Queue/Event objects, ...) is
# still alive when the server starts handling requests.
async def _serve_async():
# Run async soundness checks before startup hooks, since invoke_startup
# now populates internal tables which requires querying each database
await check_databases(ds)
# Run the "startup" plugin hooks
try:
await ds.invoke_startup()
except StartupError as e:
raise click.ClickException(e.args[0])
# Start the server
url = None
if root:
ds.root_enabled = True
url = "http://{}:{}{}?token={}".format(
host, port, ds.urls.path("-/auth-token"), ds._root_token
)
click.echo(url)
if open_browser:
if url is None:
# Figure out most convenient URL - to table, database or homepage
path = await initial_path_for_datasette(ds)
url = f"http://{host}:{port}{path}"
webbrowser.open(url)
uvicorn_kwargs = {
"host": host,
"port": port,
"log_level": "info",
"lifespan": "on",
"workers": 1,
}
if uds:
uvicorn_kwargs["uds"] = uds
if ssl_keyfile:
uvicorn_kwargs["ssl_keyfile"] = ssl_keyfile
if ssl_certfile:
uvicorn_kwargs["ssl_certfile"] = ssl_certfile
server = uvicorn.Server(uvicorn.Config(ds.app(), **uvicorn_kwargs))
await server.serve()
asyncio.run(_serve_async())
@cli.command()

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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ dependencies = [
"hupper>=1.9",
"httpx>=0.20,<1.0",
"pluggy>=1.0",
"uvicorn>=0.11",
"uvicorn>=0.29",
"aiofiles>=0.4",
"PyYAML>=5.3",
"mergedeep>=1.1.1",

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@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
import socket
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
import time
import httpx
import pytest
@ -28,3 +32,180 @@ def test_serve_unix_domain_socket(ds_unix_domain_socket_server):
"path": "/_memory",
"tables": [],
}.items() <= response.json().items()
def _find_free_port():
with socket.socket() as sock:
sock.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
return sock.getsockname()[1]
# Shaped after datasette-litestream's (sync) startup hook, which schedules a
# background task with asyncio.get_running_loop().create_task(...):
# https://github.com/simonw/datasette-litestream/blob/main/datasette_litestream/__init__.py
# That only has a chance to actually run if invoke_startup() executes on the
# same event loop that goes on to serve requests - if it runs on a throwaway
# loop that gets closed straight after (as on unmodified main), the task is
# scheduled but never gets a turn before the loop is torn down.
MARKER_TASK_PLUGIN = '''
import asyncio
from datasette import hookimpl
from datasette.utils.asgi import Response
@hookimpl
def startup(datasette):
async def _mark():
# The await is essential to the regression: a task with no
# internal await point can complete during the brief window
# between run_until_complete()'s coroutine finishing and the
# temporary loop actually stopping, masking the bug this test
# guards against. Real background tasks (like
# datasette-litestream's credential_refresh_loop) always have an
# internal await, and never get to resume once their throwaway
# loop is closed.
await asyncio.sleep(0.2)
datasette._marker_task_ran = True
asyncio.get_running_loop().create_task(_mark())
@hookimpl
def register_routes():
async def marker_status(datasette):
return Response.json(
{"marker_task_ran": getattr(datasette, "_marker_task_ran", False)}
)
return [(r"^/-/marker-task-ran$", marker_status)]
'''
STARTUP_ERROR_PLUGIN = '''
from datasette import hookimpl
from datasette.utils import StartupError
@hookimpl
def startup(datasette):
raise StartupError("boom from plugin")
'''
@pytest.mark.serial
def test_startup_hook_background_task_runs_on_serving_loop(tmp_path):
"""
Litestream-shaped regression test: a startup hook that does
asyncio.get_running_loop().create_task(...) must have that task
actually execute before/while the server is handling requests. This
only holds if invoke_startup() and uvicorn.Server.serve() share one
event loop. This test fails against unmodified main, where
invoke_startup() runs on a throwaway loop that is closed before
uvicorn opens its own loop to serve.
"""
plugins_dir = tmp_path / "plugins"
plugins_dir.mkdir()
(plugins_dir / "marker_task_plugin.py").write_text(MARKER_TASK_PLUGIN, "utf-8")
port = _find_free_port()
ds_proc = subprocess.Popen(
[
sys.executable,
"-m",
"datasette",
"--memory",
"--plugins-dir",
str(plugins_dir),
"-p",
str(port),
],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
cwd=tempfile.gettempdir(),
)
try:
url = f"http://localhost:{port}/-/marker-task-ran"
deadline = time.time() + 15.0
marker_task_ran = False
while time.time() < deadline:
if ds_proc.poll() is not None:
raise AssertionError(
"datasette serve exited early\n"
+ ds_proc.stdout.read().decode("utf-8")
)
try:
response = httpx.get(url, timeout=1.0)
except httpx.TransportError:
time.sleep(0.1)
continue
if response.status_code == 200 and response.json().get(
"marker_task_ran"
):
marker_task_ran = True
break
time.sleep(0.1)
assert marker_task_ran, (
"The startup hook's asyncio.create_task(...) never ran - "
"invoke_startup() and the server are not sharing an event loop"
)
finally:
ds_proc.terminate()
try:
ds_proc.wait(timeout=5)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
ds_proc.kill()
ds_proc.wait()
@pytest.mark.serial
def test_startup_error_fails_fast_before_port_binds(tmp_path):
"""
A "startup" plugin hook that raises StartupError must fail fast: print
the message, exit non-zero, and never accept a connection on the port -
the failure must happen before uvicorn.Server binds the socket.
"""
plugins_dir = tmp_path / "plugins"
plugins_dir.mkdir()
(plugins_dir / "startup_error_plugin.py").write_text(
STARTUP_ERROR_PLUGIN, "utf-8"
)
port = _find_free_port()
ds_proc = subprocess.Popen(
[
sys.executable,
"-m",
"datasette",
"--memory",
"--plugins-dir",
str(plugins_dir),
"-p",
str(port),
],
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
cwd=tempfile.gettempdir(),
)
try:
deadline = time.time() + 15.0
# While the process is still alive (it should crash almost
# immediately) repeatedly confirm nothing is listening on the port
while ds_proc.poll() is None and time.time() < deadline:
with pytest.raises(OSError):
with socket.create_connection(("127.0.0.1", port), timeout=0.2):
pass
time.sleep(0.05)
stdout, _ = ds_proc.communicate(timeout=5)
output = stdout.decode("utf-8")
assert ds_proc.returncode not in (0, None), output
assert "boom from plugin" in output, output
# And confirm it never accepted a connection even now it has exited
with pytest.raises(OSError):
with socket.create_connection(("127.0.0.1", port), timeout=0.2):
pass
finally:
if ds_proc.poll() is None:
ds_proc.kill()
ds_proc.wait()