Little refractoring of requests scheduler module

server/initializers/constants.js

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ const PODS_SCORE = {
 // Number of retries we make for the make retry requests (to friends...)
 let REQUEST_RETRIES = 10
 
+// Different types or requests for the request scheduler module
+const REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE = [ 'add', 'remove' ]
+
 // Sortable columns per schema
 const SEARCHABLE_COLUMNS = {
   VIDEOS: [ 'name', 'magnetUri', 'podUrl', 'author', 'tags' ]
@@ -65,6 +68,7 @@ module.exports = {
   PAGINATION_COUNT_DEFAULT: PAGINATION_COUNT_DEFAULT,
   PODS_SCORE: PODS_SCORE,
   REQUEST_RETRIES: REQUEST_RETRIES,
+  REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE: REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE,
   SEARCHABLE_COLUMNS: SEARCHABLE_COLUMNS,
   SORTABLE_COLUMNS: SORTABLE_COLUMNS,
   THUMBNAILS_SIZE: THUMBNAILS_SIZE,

server/lib/requestsScheduler.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ const requests = require('../helpers/requests')
 const videos = require('../lib/videos')
 const Videos = require('../models/videos')
 
+const REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE = constants.REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE
 let timer = null
 
 const requestsScheduler = {
@@ -25,15 +26,17 @@ function activate () {
   timer = setInterval(makeRequests, constants.INTERVAL)
 }
 
+// Add request to the scheduler
 function addRequest (id, type, request) {
   logger.debug('Add request to the requests scheduler.', { id: id, type: type, request: request })
 
   Requests.findById(id, function (err, entity) {
     if (err) {
-      logger.error('Cannot find one request.', { error: err })
+      logger.error('Error when trying to find a request.', { error: err })
       return // Abort
     }
 
+    // If there were already a request with this id in the scheduler...
     if (entity) {
       if (entity.type === type) {
         logger.error('Cannot insert two same requests.')
@@ -72,6 +75,7 @@ module.exports = requestsScheduler
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+// Make a requests to friends of a certain type
 function makeRequest (type, requestsToMake, callback) {
   if (!callback) callback = function () {}
 
@@ -79,17 +83,16 @@ function makeRequest (type, requestsToMake, callback) {
     if (err) return callback(err)
 
     const params = {
-      encrypt: true,
+      encrypt: true, // Security
-      sign: true,
+      sign: true, // To prove our identity
       method: 'POST',
-      path: null,
+      path: null, // We build the path later
-      data: requestsToMake
+      data: requestsToMake // Requests we need to make
     }
 
-    if (type === 'add') {
+    // If this is a valid type, we build the path
-      params.path = '/api/' + constants.API_VERSION + '/remotevideos/add'
+    if (REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE.indexOf(type) > -1) {
-    } else if (type === 'remove') {
+      params.path = '/api/' + constants.API_VERSION + '/remotevideos/' + type
-      params.path = '/api/' + constants.API_VERSION + '/remotevideos/remove'
     } else {
       return callback(new Error('Unkown pool request type.'))
     }
@@ -97,13 +100,17 @@ function makeRequest (type, requestsToMake, callback) {
     const badPods = []
     const goodPods = []
 
+    // Make multiple retry requests to all of pods
+    // The function fire some useful callbacks
     requests.makeMultipleRetryRequest(params, pods, callbackEachPodFinished, callbackAllPodsFinished)
 
     function callbackEachPodFinished (err, response, body, url, pod, callbackEachPodFinished) {
+      // We failed the request, add the pod unreachable to the bad pods list
       if (err || (response.statusCode !== 200 && response.statusCode !== 201 && response.statusCode !== 204)) {
         badPods.push(pod._id)
         logger.error('Error sending secure request to %s pod.', url, { error: err || new Error('Status code not 20x') })
       } else {
+        // Request success
         goodPods.push(pod._id)
       }
 
@@ -113,41 +120,43 @@ function makeRequest (type, requestsToMake, callback) {
     function callbackAllPodsFinished (err) {
       if (err) return callback(err)
 
+      // All the requests were made, we update the pods score
       updatePodsScore(goodPods, badPods)
       callback(null)
     }
   })
 }
 
+// Make all the requests of the scheduler
 function makeRequests () {
-  logger.info('Making requests to friends.')
-
   Requests.list(function (err, requests) {
     if (err) {
       logger.error('Cannot get the list of requests.', { err: err })
       return // Abort
     }
 
-    if (requests.length === 0) return
+    // If there are no requests, abort
+    if (requests.length === 0) {
+      logger.info('No requests to make.')
+      return
+    }
 
-    const requestsToMake = {
+    logger.info('Making requests to friends.')
-      add: {
+
-        ids: [],
+    const requestsToMake = {}
-        requests: []
+    for (const type of REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE) {
-      },
+      requestsToMake[type] = {
-      remove: {
         ids: [],
         requests: []
       }
     }
 
+    // For each requests to make, we add it to the correct request type
     async.each(requests, function (poolRequest, callbackEach) {
-      if (poolRequest.type === 'add') {
+      if (REQUEST_SCHEDULER_TYPE.indexOf(poolRequest.type) > -1) {
-        requestsToMake.add.requests.push(poolRequest.request)
+        const requestTypeToMake = requestsToMake[poolRequest.type]
-        requestsToMake.add.ids.push(poolRequest._id)
+        requestTypeToMake.requests.push(poolRequest.request)
-      } else if (poolRequest.type === 'remove') {
+        requestTypeToMake.ids.push(poolRequest._id)
-        requestsToMake.remove.requests.push(poolRequest.request)
-        requestsToMake.remove.ids.push(poolRequest._id)
       } else {
         logger.error('Unkown request type.', { request_type: poolRequest.type })
         return // abort
@@ -155,27 +164,23 @@ function makeRequests () {
 
       callbackEach()
     }, function () {
-      // Send the add requests
+      for (let type of Object.keys(requestsToMake)) {
-      if (requestsToMake.add.requests.length !== 0) {
+        const requestTypeToMake = requestsToMake[type]
-        makeRequest('add', requestsToMake.add.requests, function (err) {
+        // If there are requests for this type
-          if (err) logger.error('Errors when sent add requests.', { error: err })
+        if (requestTypeToMake.requests.length !== 0) {
+          makeRequest(type, requestTypeToMake.requests, function (err) {
+            if (err) logger.error('Errors when sent ' + type + ' requests.', { error: err })
 
-          Requests.removeRequests(requestsToMake.add.ids)
+            // We made the requests, so we can remove them from the scheduler
-        })
+            Requests.removeRequests(requestTypeToMake.ids)
-      }
+          })
-
+        }
-      // Send the remove requests
-      if (requestsToMake.remove.requests.length !== 0) {
-        makeRequest('remove', requestsToMake.remove.requests, function (err) {
-          if (err) logger.error('Errors when sent remove pool requests.', { error: err })
-
-          Requests.removeRequests(requestsToMake.remove.ids)
-        })
       }
     })
   })
 }
 
+// Remove pods with a score of 0 (too many requests where they were unreachable)
 function removeBadPods () {
   async.waterfall([
     function findBadPods (callback) {
@@ -243,7 +248,7 @@ function updatePodsScore (goodPods, badPods) {
   })
 
   Pods.incrementScores(badPods, constants.PODS_SCORE.MALUS, function (err) {
-    if (err) logger.error('Cannot increment scores of bad pods.')
+    if (err) logger.error('Cannot decrement scores of bad pods.')
     removeBadPods()
   })
 }