fix(engineio/socket): Send bufferred adjacent packets

Author: Totodore

engineioxide/Cargo.toml

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ hyper-util = { workspace = true, features = ["tokio"] }
 base64 = "0.22.0"
 bytes = "1.4.0"
 rand = "0.8.5"
+smallvec = { version = "1.13.1", features = ["union"] }
 
 # Tracing
 tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }

engineioxide/src/socket.rs

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use http::request::Parts;
+use smallvec::{smallvec, SmallVec};
 use tokio::{
     sync::{
         mpsc::{self},
@@ -118,25 +119,37 @@ impl From<&Error> for Option<DisconnectReason> {
 /// A permit to emit a message to the client.
 /// A permit holds a place in the internal channel to send one packet to the client.
 pub struct Permit<'a> {
-    inner: mpsc::Permit<'a, Packet>,
+    inner: mpsc::Permit<'a, PacketBuf>,
 }
 impl Permit<'_> {
     /// Consume the permit and emit a message to the client.
     #[inline]
     pub fn emit(self, msg: String) {
-        self.inner.send(Packet::Message(msg));
+        self.inner.send(smallvec![Packet::Message(msg)]);
     }
     /// Consume the permit and emit a binary message to the client.
     #[inline]
     pub fn emit_binary(self, data: Vec<u8>) {
-        self.inner.send(Packet::Binary(data));
+        self.inner.send(smallvec![Packet::Binary(data)]);
+    }
+
+    /// Consume the permit and emit a message with multiple binary data to the client.
+    ///
+    /// It can be used to ensure atomicity when sending a string packet with adjacent binary packets.
+    pub fn emit_many(self, msg: String, data: Vec<Vec<u8>>) {
+        let mut packets = SmallVec::with_capacity(data.len() + 1);
+        packets.push(Packet::Message(msg));
+        for d in data {
+            packets.push(Packet::Binary(d));
+        }
+        self.inner.send(packets);
     }
 }
 
 /// An [`Iterator`] over the permits returned by the [`reserve`](Socket::reserve) function
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct PermitIterator<'a> {
-    inner: mpsc::PermitIterator<'a, Packet>,
+    inner: mpsc::PermitIterator<'a, PacketBuf>,
 }
 
 impl<'a> Iterator for PermitIterator<'a> {
@@ -156,6 +169,8 @@ impl ExactSizeIterator for PermitIterator<'_> {
 }
 impl std::iter::FusedIterator for PermitIterator<'_> {}
 
+/// Buffered packets to send to the client
+pub(crate) type PacketBuf = SmallVec<[Packet; 10]>;
 /// A [`Socket`] represents a client connection to the server.
 /// It is agnostic to the [`TransportType`].
 ///
@@ -179,7 +194,7 @@ where
     /// without any mutex
     transport: AtomicU8,
 
-    /// Channel to receive [`Packet`] from the connection
+    /// Channel to send [`PacketBuf`] to the connection
     ///
     /// It is used and managed by the [`EngineIo`](crate::engine) struct depending on the transport type
     ///
@@ -192,10 +207,12 @@ where
     /// * From the fn [`on_ws_req_init`](crate::engine::EngineIo) if the transport is websocket
     /// * Automatically via the [`close_session fn`](crate::engine::EngineIo::close_session) as a fallback.
     /// Because with polling transport, if the client is not currently polling then the encoder will never be able to close the channel
-    pub(crate) internal_rx: Mutex<PeekableReceiver<Packet>>,
+    ///
+    /// The channel is made of a [`SmallVec`] of [`Packet`]s so that adjacent packets can be sent atomically.
+    pub(crate) internal_rx: Mutex<PeekableReceiver<PacketBuf>>,
 
-    /// Channel to send [Packet] to the internal connection
-    internal_tx: mpsc::Sender<Packet>,
+    /// Channel to send [PacketBuf] to the internal connection
+    internal_tx: mpsc::Sender<PacketBuf>,
 
     /// Internal channel to receive Pong [`Packets`](Packet) (v4 protocol) or Ping (v3 protocol) in the heartbeat job
     /// which is running in a separate task
@@ -266,7 +283,12 @@ where
     pub(crate) fn send(&self, packet: Packet) -> Result<(), TrySendError<Packet>> {
         #[cfg(feature = "tracing")]
         tracing::debug!("[sid={}] sending packet: {:?}", self.id, packet);
-        self.internal_tx.try_send(packet)?;
+        self.internal_tx
+            .try_send(smallvec![packet])
+            .map_err(|p| match p {
+                TrySendError::Full(mut p) => TrySendError::Full(p.pop().unwrap()),
+                TrySendError::Closed(mut p) => TrySendError::Closed(p.pop().unwrap()),
+            })?;
         Ok(())
     }
 
@@ -334,7 +356,7 @@ where
             heartbeat_rx.try_recv().ok();
 
             self.internal_tx
-                .try_send(Packet::Ping)
+                .try_send(smallvec![Packet::Ping])
                 .map_err(|_| Error::HeartbeatTimeout)?;
             tokio::time::timeout(timeout, heartbeat_rx.recv())
                 .await
@@ -363,7 +385,7 @@ where
             #[cfg(feature = "tracing")]
             tracing::debug!("[sid={}] ping received, sending pong", self.id);
             self.internal_tx
-                .try_send(Packet::Pong)
+                .try_send(smallvec![Packet::Pong])
                 .map_err(|_| Error::HeartbeatTimeout)?;
         }
     }