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Derives the fifteen specifications under uts/objects/unit, 322 tests, and the shared helper uts/objects/helpers/standard_test_pool.md describes: the standard pool, its wire builders, the synced-channel setup and the REST provisioning the integration tier uses. The pure specifications drive the CRDT objects, the pool and the sync state machine directly; the rest run against a mock websocket through channel.object. The public API is reached through the typed views of LODR-061, so a specification's untyped value(), set() or entries() reads as as_live_counter().value(), as_live_map().set() and so on. Where a specification step cannot fail, or reads state before the frame that changes it has been processed, the test carries the corrected step under a UTS SPEC ERROR comment and keeps the specification's own assertions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Derives the three sandbox specifications under uts/objects/integration and the proxy specification under uts/objects/integration/proxy, 17 tests. The sandbox ones run under both protocols, against an app of their own; the proxy ones authenticate with a locally signed JWT, as the realtime proxy tier does, and fault the objects sync through uts-proxy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the ably.pubsub.objects package: the protocol v6 object message wire types, with their JSON and msgpack encodings; the LWW map and counter CRDTs with their tombstones, parent references and garbage collection; the objects pool and the sync sequence that replaces it on attach, buffering operations until the sync completes; object id generation; the evaluation of LiveMap and LiveCounter creation values into create operations; and the public ObjectMessage the subscription events carry. A RealtimeObject can be built with no channel, which is how the pure unit specifications drive the sync state machine. The path-based public API, publishing and the channel integration follow in later commits and are stubs here. Also adds the HAS_OBJECTS flag, the OBJECT_SUBSCRIBE and OBJECT_PUBLISH channel modes, and the siteCode and objectsGCGracePeriod connection details. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routes ATTACHED, OBJECT and OBJECT_SYNC to the channel's RealtimeObject, and every other channel state change to it, so that each attach starts an objects sync and a detached or failed channel clears its objects. The transport now hands OBJECT and OBJECT_SYNC frames to the channel at all. RealtimeObject.get() attaches the channel through the RTL33 ensure-active-channel procedure and waits for the sync; a write publishes an OBJECT message and, once its ACK assigns serials, applies the operations locally rather than waiting for the echo. The internal counter and map gain their increment, decrement, set and remove, and the GC sweep runs on the client's clock while the channel is attached. Connects with protocol version 6, whose wire format the objects messages use, and identifies to REST as version 6 to match. Adds the echo_messages client option, sent as the echo connect parameter, which LiveObjects writes require. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the public API LODR-061 specifies. A PathObject names a location in the channel's object tree and resolves it on every call, so it keeps working as the objects at that path are replaced; an Instance holds one object and follows it wherever it moves. Each has a base class carrying navigation, instance(), compact() and compact_json(), and three views, as_live_map(), as_live_counter() and as_primitive(), that carry the methods specific to a type. The path views are unchecked, because a path's type can change under it: a read through the wrong view answers None and a write raises 92005 or 92007. The instance views check, and raise 92007 at once. Path subscriptions are dispatched from every object update to each path the updated object can be reached by, filtered by depth, with the public ObjectMessage describing the operation. The LiveObjects public names are exported from ably.pubsub.server. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the batch API LODR-061 specifies, from the RTBC section of ably/specification#471: `async with root.batch() as ctx:` resolves the target once, and the writes made through the context inside the block are queued and published as a single OBJECT message when the block exits, so other clients see them as one update. Reads inside the block resolve against the local tree; a block that raises publishes nothing, and a context used after its block has closed raises 40000. batch() is on the map and counter views of both PathObject and Instance, which is what types the context. LiveMap and LiveCounter values are evaluated when the batch is published, since creating them reads the server time. No UTS specification covers the batch API or the typed views of LODR-061 yet, so test/unit/objects tests both against their spec points. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the objects tier to deviations.md: the faults in the uts/objects specifications the derived tests correct or work around, the shape adaptations the Python API forces, the claims investigated and refuted against the sandbox, seven candidate upstream issues, and how the tier is adopted here. The header counts are re-measured with objects as a tier of its own, which also corrects the gated count: the RSC7d spec-error gate was never counted in it. The UTS README and the uts-to-python skill gain the objects layout, its helpers, the typed-view translation and the traps met deriving it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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get() and a write waiting for the objects sync now fail with 92008 when the channel is already detached, failed or released, rather than only when it moves into one of those states while they wait; before, closing the client during get()'s attach, or an ERROR arriving with the ACK, left the wait pending forever. The RTL33 ensure-active-channel step checks the state the implicit attach ended in, and a write is no longer applied locally once the channel's objects have been cleared. An object message that fails to decode, or an operation that raises while being applied, is logged and skipped on its own, so one bad value cannot drop the rest of its OBJECT message, or an OBJECT_SYNC's cursor and so the whole sync. A released channel stops its GC timer, and a sweep that raises is logged and rescheduled. Also shares the MAP_SET, MAP_REMOVE and COUNTER_INC construction between the direct writes and the batch, validates a LiveMap or LiveCounter value before reading the server time, keeps the GC grace period from each CONNECTED, and lets typing.get_type_hints resolve the wire dataclasses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
WalkthroughThis change adds LiveObjects support to the Python realtime client. It introduces object data models, shared maps and counters, path and instance APIs, batching, subscriptions, and channel synchronization. It also updates transport and protocol handling to version 6 and adds unit, integration, proxy, and test-guidance material. ChangesLiveObjects implementation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant RealtimeChannel
participant RealtimeObject
participant SyncObjectsPool
participant ObjectsPool
RealtimeChannel->>RealtimeObject: Forward ATTACHED and OBJECT_SYNC messages
RealtimeObject->>SyncObjectsPool: Accumulate object state during sync
SyncObjectsPool-->>RealtimeObject: Return accumulated object messages
RealtimeObject->>ObjectsPool: Replace synced state and rebuild references
RealtimeChannel->>RealtimeObject: Forward OBJECT messages
RealtimeObject->>ObjectsPool: Apply buffered or live operations
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The LiveObjects feature is broadly in good shape. A malformed numeric field in an object message raises an error during apply instead of being skipped when the message is decoded. One test may be timing-sensitive. Both are bounded follow-ups and do not block merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❓ 1❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
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Review comments at @.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md:
- Line 1001: Update the explanation associated with the integration test command
in the UTS-to-Python skill to say “the three integration tiers,” matching its
REST, realtime, and objects integration paths.
Review comments at @ably/pubsub/objects/objectmessage.py:
- Around line 95-99: Update _decode_number to raise ValueError for present
values that are not numeric, while preserving its existing None handling and
conversion of numeric values to float. Do not expand validation to other fields;
keep the change scoped to this decoder so from_protocol_message can skip
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Review comments at @test/unit/objects/subscription_test.py:
- Around line 46-69: Replace fixed settle() waits after inbound frames in the
subscription test with poll_until checks for the alias seed and dispatch
outcomes, using observable conditions before dependent assertions. Keep settle()
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Update the integration-tier count.
This command runs rest/integration, realtime/integration, and objects/integration. The explanation at Line 1011 still says “the two integration tiers.” Change it to “the three integration tiers” so the guidance matches the command.
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| def _decode_number(value: Any) -> Any: | ||
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Reject non-numeric wire values in _decode_number so a malformed message is skipped at decode time.
_decode_number returns a value that is not a number unchanged. For example, {'counterInc': {'number': '5'}} or {'counter': {'count': 'x'}} decodes without error.
The failure happens later:
InternalLiveCounter.apply_counter_incrunsself.data += number, which raisesTypeError.InternalLiveCounter.replace_datastores the string asdata, anddiffthen runsnew_data - previous_data.- In both cases the error comes from the apply or sync path, not from
ObjectMessage.from_protocol_message.
from_protocol_message only skips messages that fail to decode. The PR states that malformed messages are logged and skipped. Because the decoder accepts a wrong-typed number, that skip never happens.
Raise ValueError in the decoder for a value that is present but not numeric. The existing try/except in from_protocol_message then logs the message and leaves it out. Apply the same type check to the other scalar fields that are later compared or hashed: objectId, serial, siteCode, serialTimestamp, and the siteTimeserials values. For example, an unhashable objectId in a MAP_SET reaches pool.get(...) in InternalLiveMap.apply_map_set and raises TypeError there.
This follows the retrieved learning: "validate the type before type-specific use, raise a domain-specific error for unexpected types".
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--- "a/ably/pubsub/objects/objectmessage.py"
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raise ValueError(f"Unknown wire format {format!r}; expected 'json' or 'msgpack'")
def _decode_number(value: Any) -> Any:
# OD4c3: numbers are float64 on the wire, so a decoded number is always a float
+ if value is None:
+ return None
if isinstance(value, (int, float)) and not isinstance(value, bool):
return float(value)
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| def _decode_number(value: Any) -> Any: | |
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| def _decode_number(value: Any) -> Any: | |
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Update _decode_number to raise ValueError for present values that are not
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Wait on observable conditions for inbound frames instead of a bare settle().
The client applies inbound OBJECT frames on the transport's read task. The other objects tests in this PR wait for that work with poll_until before they assert. This test uses a fixed settle() after each send_to_client. Then it asserts the result at once (Line 49, Line 63, Line 69). The settle helper only yields a fixed number of passes. If the read task needs more passes, the assertions fail, and the test is flaky in CI.
Use poll_until for the seed and for the positive conditions. Keep settle() only before the negative assertion late_calls == []. For that assertion, added being set shows that the dispatch has run.
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+from test.uts.helpers.client import poll_until
from test.uts.helpers.clock import settle
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mock_ws.send_to_client(build_object_message('test', [
build_map_set('root', 'alias', {'objectId': SCORE}, remote_serial(0), 'remote')]))
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+ await poll_until(lambda: 'alias' in root.keys(), description='the alias MAP_SET to be applied')
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mock_ws.send_to_client(build_object_message('test', [
build_counter_inc(SCORE, 1, remote_serial(1), 'remote')]))
- await settle()
- assert added
+ await poll_until(lambda: bool(added), description='the first dispatch')
+ await settle()
assert late_calls == []
mock_ws.send_to_client(build_object_message('test', [
build_counter_inc(SCORE, 1, remote_serial(2), 'remote')]))
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Clarify what the measurements show.
The phrase “which measurement shows never buffer” is unclear and ungrammatical. State that measurements show neither test exercises the buffer.
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Adds LiveObjects to the realtime client, with the path-based public API that LODR-061 specifies for Python:
channel.objectis theRealtimeObject(RTL27). APathObjectnames a location in the channel's object tree and resolves it on every call; anInstanceholds one object and follows it wherever it moves. Each has a base class carrying navigation,instance(),compact(),compact_json()andsubscribe(), and three views (as_live_map(),as_live_counter(),as_primitive()) carrying the methods specific to a type. The path views are unchecked, because a path's type can change under it: a read through the wrong view answersNoneand a write raises 92005 or 92007. The instance views check, and raise 92007 at once. Reads are synchronous, writes are awaited, andbatch()is anasync withblock whose writes go out as one message. The public names are exported fromably.pubsub.server.Commits
Best reviewed one at a time. The tests come first, so only the tip is green.
test: derive the LiveObjects unit specificationsuts/objects/unitspecifications, 322 Test IDs, and the sharedstandard_test_poolhelpertest: derive the LiveObjects integration specificationsobjects: add the LiveObjects data model and objects syncObjectMessageobjects: sync and publish objects over the channelget(), publish and apply-on-ACK, GC, protocol v6,echo_messagesobjects: add the path-based LiveObjects APIPathObject,Instance, path subscriptionsobjects: batch several writes into one messagedocs: record the LiveObjects derivationdeviations.md, the UTS README and the derivation skilldocs: add LiveObjects to the READMEobjects: fail sync waits on an inactive channel and skip bad messagesChanges outside LiveObjects
X-Ably-Versiontoo. feat: add batch publish and batch presence to the HTTP client #727 (batch publish) was written against 5, so it will run at 6 once both are in.echo_messagesclient option, sent as theechoconnect parameter (TO3h, RTN2b). LiveObjects writes require it. This un-gates the RTC1a test.RealtimeChannel._ensure_active(), whichget()uses.Channels.release(). That last change sits inChannels.release(), which pubsub: raise 90011 when releasing a realtime channel that isn't detached #729 also changes.Testing
test/uts/objects/unittest/uts/objects/integrationtest/unit/objectstest/uts, plain andRUN_DEVIATIONS=1integration/v4: the only difference is RTC1a, which now passes. Every gated case still fails when enabledtest/uts/*/unit,test/uts/helpers,test/unit)test/ablyhas not been run locally, so this PR's CI is its first run.Beyond the tests, a probe checked every value type across all four writer/reader protocol pairings against the sandbox, a sync split over 20 OBJECT_SYNC messages, and client-generated object ids, including a tampered
initialValuebeing rejected.For review
ObjectOperationexposes wire payload types (MapSet,CounterIncand the rest) thatably.pubsub.serverdoes not export. Export them, or give the public type its own?RealtimeObject.off(event, callback)follows ably-js. The spec IDL hasoff(callback), and build(deps-dev): bump importlib-metadata from 4.13.0 to 6.6.0 #491 lets an SDK whoseonreturns a subscription dropoff.LiveMap.create(None)cannot be told fromcreate(), so RTLMV4a's null case is adapted. A sentinel default would restore it.id,getandcompactstay on the baseInstance. This follows LODR-061, where RTTS7c/7d would drop them.Specification findings
The derivation found faults in the
uts/objectsspecifications: tests that cannot fail, steps that read state before the frame changing it is processed, fixtures shaped unlike the protocol, and gaps inobjects-features.md. The derived tests correct each one, under a# UTS SPEC ERROR:comment or a named adaptation, and keep the specification's own assertions.test/uts/deviations.mdrecords them as seven candidate issues, O.1 to O.7, none filed yet.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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