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Applications need durable records of outgoing ActivityPub work independently of OpenTelemetry sampling. This change adds setOutboundObservers() for broadcast preparation, destination planning and handoffs, send attempts, HTTP exchanges, and queue-worker results across ordinary sends, forwarding, portable delivery, and retries.
The API preserves explicit broadcast/delivery/attempt identities and optional application dispatch and originating-inbox correlation through queue continuations. Observer failures are isolated from delivery behavior. Applications own persistence and aggregate state; enqueue acceptance and remote HTTP success do not establish remote application effects. Optional evidence capture provides redacted headers, bounded streaming response bodies, and privacy-filtered sender payloads.
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Added grouped optional outbound observers on federation builders and instances.
Reported preparation, destination handoffs, send attempts, HTTP exchanges, and worker results across sends, forwarding, portable delivery, and queued retries.
Preserved explicit execution identities, application dispatch IDs, and originating inbox context through queue continuations, independently of tracing.
The following work remains unimplemented and is excluded from this PR's scope. It is tracked under #1311 and its observer integration follow-up:
Supply and propagate a signal for each queue execution through contexts, loaders, and outbound transport, independently of queue intake shutdown and the original HTTP request.
Bind outgoing requests, redirects, gateway attempts, and response-body capture to that execution signal.
Report established execution cancellation and its exact reason separately from transport failures and observer failures, preserving confirmed HTTP responses and completed effects.
Verify cancellation across retries and backend deadlines: signals must not be serialized or inherited by later executions, and backend abandonment must not fabricate worker termination. Add the corresponding observer tests and documentation when this integration is implemented.
This PR includes inbox reports' original local context and request-cancellation snapshots. Those snapshots report the incoming request's signal state/reason without automatically stopping processing or accepted queue work, and remain unchanged after report construction.
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Fedify 2.5.0 adds outbound observers for broadcasts, deliveries, send attempts, HTTP exchanges, and workers. It adds provenance and inbox cancellation reporting, optional header and response-body capture, sender-payload privacy projections, and a one-second deadline for error-response diagnostics.
Adds public report types and setOutboundObservers() registration. Adds dispatchId to send options and recorded mock sends. Mock federations accept observer registration but do not invoke observer callbacks.
Adds provenance snapshots and propagation through contexts and queued work. Inbox reports include request identifiers, local URL facts, and a cancellation snapshot. Tests cover cancellation during processing, accepted queue work, and provenance across retries.
Adds broadcast preparation, delivery handoff, enqueue, and worker reports. Portable-inbox forwarding records preparation and delivery events and stores provenance and delivery metadata in queued messages. Tests cover retries, replication, and handoffs.
Adds per-attempt and per-exchange reports around send and signed HTTP operations. Reports capture response disposition and failure details. Error-response diagnostics use a one-second read budget.
Adds opt-in allowlisted and redacted header snapshots, bounded response-body capture, and sender-payload privacy projections. Capture enforces byte and time limits. Sender-payload projection returns an unavailable result for unsupported input.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant Federation
participant OutboundObservation
participant Queue
participant OutboundWorker
Caller->>Federation: invoke send or forwarding
Federation->>OutboundObservation: report preparation and planned deliveries
OutboundObservation->>Queue: enqueue delivery metadata
Queue->>OutboundWorker: process queued task
OutboundWorker->>OutboundObservation: report attempts and worker result
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Possibly related issues
Issue 1316: Adds observers for broadcasts, deliveries, send attempts, HTTP exchanges, and queue-worker results, with identity propagation and observer failure isolation.
Issue 1317: Adds public observer tag values in kebab-case, including preparation-finished and enqueue-failed.
Issue 1311: Adds inbox cancellation snapshots and worker reports, but does not implement queue-execution cancellation.
Issue 1333: Defines broadcast and delivery identities across queued continuations. Durable cancellation remains unimplemented.
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 9de83
Mock tests can pass with invalid dispatch IDs, and body-capture documentation may mislead readers. Both issues are bounded and suitable for follow-up.
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Report readiness, skips, and failures with one broadcast identity.
Retain the prepared result after send or enqueue failure.
Documentation and changelog updates are deferred until section B closes.
fedify-dev#1316
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Report broadcast preparation for sends from outbox contexts while
preserving delivery state and existing send behavior.
fedify-dev#1316
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Report outbound delivery handoffs and their outcomes to observers,
including portable inbox and forwarding paths.
fedify-dev#1316
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Describe broadcast and delivery observations, their producer scope,
and the distinction between handoff and remote delivery.
fedify-dev#1316
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Record independent inbox request identities and immutable source facts
through immediate contexts and outgoing observations. Keep historical
source labels separate from current request labels.
fedify-dev#1316
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Preserve explicit source snapshots through inbox and outgoing queues,
worker reconstruction, and retries. Keep historical source labels
separate from current request labels and leave legacy sources unknown.
fedify-dev#1316
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Accept bounded application dispatch IDs on send and forward options.
Preserve exact values through observations and queue continuations
without deduplicating sends or changing broadcast identities.
fedify-dev#1316
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Record when each observation occurs so its time remains distinct from
the queue identity shared across delivery attempts.
fedify-dev#1316
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Include an operation's own span IDs when available so observers can
correlate events with traces. Omit inherited IDs from no-op spans.
fedify-dev#1316
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Report terminal results for concrete send attempts so observers can
distinguish delivery outcomes from producer readiness.
fedify-dev#1316
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Report concrete forwarding and gateway attempts separately to preserve
delivery grouping and capture late replication completion.
fedify-dev#1316
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Preserve delivery grouping while recording fresh attempts for retries
and omit unknown destinations from legacy queued messages.
fedify-dev#1316
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Report actual signed requests and responses across challenges,
fallbacks, and redirects while preserving original failure evidence.
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Minor · Record redirect-limit failures as undetermined, not intermediate-only. · send.ts:828-832
packages/fedify/src/federation/send.ts:828-832 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Record redirect-limit failures as undetermined, not intermediate-only.
When redirects >= 20, the loop throws TypeError("Too many redirects"). The flow stops, but the "intermediate" notification still runs first. Observers then see intermediate-only, which the documentation defines as "The flow chose to continue." Send the intermediate notification only for hops that continue. The attempt then keeps the undetermined state and the terminal redirect in lastObserved. Keep the call before cleanup so that continuing redirects behave as before.
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- attempt?.response(response, "intermediate");+ if (redirects < 20) attempt?.response(response, "intermediate");
cancelResponseBody(response, request.url);
await session.close();
if (redirects >= 20) throw new TypeError("Too many redirects");
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Review comment at @packages/fedify/src/federation/send.ts around lines 828 -
832:
In the redirect handling flow, update the intermediate response notification so
the hop at the 20-redirect limit is not marked as continuing; only notify for
redirects that will continue. Preserve the notification’s position before
response cleanup for continuing hops, and leave the terminal failure
undetermined with its response as lastObserved.
Minor · Do not mark a redirect-limit response as intermediate. · http.ts:2592-2601
packages/fedify/src/sig/http.ts:2592-2601 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Do not mark a redirect-limit response as intermediate.
When redirected >= maximumRedirection, the signed loop records the response as "intermediate" before throwing FetchError. The failed attempt therefore reports intermediate-only, although the flow stopped. Skip that notification on the limit branch. Keep it for redirects that continue.
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- observation?.response(response, "intermediate");+ if (redirected < maximumRedirection) {+ observation?.response(response, "intermediate");+ }
cancelResponseBody(response, request.url);
await session.close();
if (redirected >= maximumRedirection) {
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Review comment at @packages/fedify/src/sig/http.ts around lines 2592 - 2601:
Update the redirect handling around observation.response and maximumRedirection
so responses at the redirect limit are not recorded as intermediate; continue
recording responses as intermediate when the redirect proceeds. Preserve the
existing response-body cancellation and session-close behavior.
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Review comments at @packages/fedify/src/federation/send.ts:
- Around line 828-832: In the redirect handling flow, update the intermediate
response notification so the hop at the 20-redirect limit is not marked as
continuing; only notify for redirects that will continue. Preserve the
notification’s position before response cleanup for continuing hops, and leave
the terminal failure undetermined with its response as lastObserved.
Review comments at @packages/fedify/src/sig/http.ts:
- Around line 2592-2601: Update the redirect handling around
observation.response and maximumRedirection so responses at the redirect limit
are not recorded as intermediate; continue recording responses as intermediate
when the redirect proceeds. Preserve the existing response-body cancellation and
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Place the guide after queueing and group report concepts by usage while
preserving all TypeScript examples.
fedify-dev#1359
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Review notes for the outbound observer changes. The line comments cover the worker-report gaps, malformed optional metadata, the testing changelog, public type exports, documentation gaps, and smaller API and robustness points.
Preserve the operation phase and original error when shared fanout
preparation or pre-send URL and trace setup fails. This reports the
failure without changing retries or inventing delivery attempts.
fedify-dev#1359
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Expose the report's component types so consumers can use named imports
when typing observer report values.
fedify-dev#1359
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Explain how forwarding preserves the received payload and carries
correlation IDs, and document the member required of custom
Federation implementations.
fedify-dev#1359
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Invalid optional consumer identities now warn and fall back to legacy
grouping without blocking delivery. Producer validation remains strict,
and successful reports require an observed final response.
fedify-dev#1359
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Capture immutable activity ID and type snapshots using existing producer
reads, and drop stale transformer facts without changing queue schemas.
Remove the unused source wrapper while preserving dispatch behavior.
fedify-dev#1316
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Previously, ordinary outbox retries without a queue were abandoned without
reporting their worker action. Report the unavailable queue while preserving
the preparation failures and existing retry behavior.
fedify-dev#1316
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Condense outbound observer guidance into a callback summary and direct
readers to the sending manual for report variants and capture limits.
Tighten wording across the related Claude plugin skills.
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Follow-up notes on the update. The line comments cover the remaining provenance validation policy, the transformed-activity type omission, and one skill-documentation wording issue.
Queued provenance is observation metadata. Warn and fall back to empty
source facts when a consumer reads an invalid value, so delivery and
retries continue. Keep producer validation strict.
Update the sending manual and unreleased notes.
fedify-dev#1359 (comment)
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Record both available object ID and type when validating transformed
activities, including skipped reports and accessor failures. Preserve the
original ID accessor error and remove the obsolete ID-only setter.
fedify-dev#1316
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Applications need durable records of outgoing ActivityPub work independently of OpenTelemetry sampling. This change adds
setOutboundObservers()for broadcast preparation, destination planning and handoffs, send attempts, HTTP exchanges, and queue-worker results across ordinary sends, forwarding, portable delivery, and retries.Related to #1316.
The API preserves explicit broadcast/delivery/attempt identities and optional application dispatch and originating-inbox correlation through queue continuations. Observer failures are isolated from delivery behavior. Applications own persistence and aggregate state; enqueue acceptance and remote HTTP success do not establish remote application effects. Optional evidence capture provides redacted headers, bounded streaming response bodies, and privacy-filtered sender payloads.
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Out of scope: execution cancellation (#1311)
The following work remains unimplemented and is excluded from this PR's scope. It is tracked under #1311 and its observer integration follow-up:
This PR includes inbox reports' original local context and request-cancellation snapshots. Those snapshots report the incoming request's signal state/reason without automatically stopping processing or accepted queue work, and remain unchanged after report construction.
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