Implement backoff on connection errors for the eventbus client

This uses a fibonacci backoff (yay I pass the coding interview) for attempting
to reconnect the connection if something cannot work properly

auctioneer/src/main.rs

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ use actix_web::{App, HttpResponse, HttpServer};
 use log::debug;
 
 use otto_eventbus::client::*;
+use otto_eventbus::*;
 
 /**
  * The index handler for the root of the Auctioneer web interface
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ async fn route_index() -> HttpResponse {
 async fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
     pretty_env_logger::init();
 
-    let client = connect("http://127.0.0.1:8000/ws/").await;
+    let client = connect("http://127.0.0.1:8000/ws/", "auctioneer").await;
     debug!("Client created: {:?}", client);
 
     HttpServer::new(move || {

eventbus/src/client.rs

@@ -45,41 +45,49 @@ impl std::fmt::Debug for EventBusClient {
     }
 }
 
+pub trait EventDispatch<T> {
+    fn dispatch(&self, payload: T);
+}
+
 /**
  * connect will create begin the connection process and start the EventBusClient
  * actor.
  *
  * The caller will need to await in order to get the EventBusClient
  */
-pub async fn connect(ws: &str) -> Addr<EventBusClient> {
+pub async fn connect(ws: &'static str, id: &'static str) -> Addr<EventBusClient> {
-    /*
+    let mut backoff = 1;
-     * Creating a awc::Client to handle the first part of our WebSocket client bootstrap
-     */
-    let (response, framed) = Client::new()
-        .ws(ws)
-        .connect()
-        .await
-        .map_err(|e| {
-            error!("Error: {}", e);
-        })
-        .unwrap();
 
-    info!("{:?}", response);
+    loop {
-    let (sink, stream) = framed.split();
+        let r = Client::new().ws(ws).connect().await;
 
-    EventBusClient::create(|ctx| {
+        match r {
-        EventBusClient::add_stream(stream, ctx);
+            Ok((response, framed)) => {
-        EventBusClient {
+                let (sink, stream) = framed.split();
-            sink: SinkWrite::new(sink, ctx),
+
-            id: "auctioneer",
+                return EventBusClient::create(|ctx| {
+                    EventBusClient::add_stream(stream, ctx);
+                    EventBusClient {
+                        sink: SinkWrite::new(sink, ctx),
+                        id: id,
+                    }
+                });
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                error!("Failed establish WebSocket: {}", e);
+                backoff = backoff + backoff;
+                std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(backoff));
+            }
         }
-    })
+    }
 }
 
 impl EventBusClient {
     fn hb(&self, ctx: &mut Context<Self>) {
         ctx.run_later(Duration::new(1, 0), |act, ctx| {
-            act.sink.write(Message::Ping(Bytes::from_static(b""))).unwrap();
+            act.sink
+                .write(Message::Ping(Bytes::from_static(b"")))
+                .unwrap();
             act.hb(ctx);
 
             // client should also check for a timeout here, similar to the
@@ -88,6 +96,7 @@ impl EventBusClient {
     }
 }
 
+//impl Actor<dyn EventDispatch> for EventBusClient {
 impl Actor for EventBusClient {
     type Context = Context<Self>;
 
@@ -157,5 +166,4 @@ impl StreamHandler<Result<Frame, WsProtocolError>> for EventBusClient {
 impl actix::io::WriteHandler<WsProtocolError> for EventBusClient {}
 
 #[cfg(test)]
-mod test {
+mod test {}
-}

eventbus/src/lib.rs

@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ pub struct Meta {
 #[rtype(result = "()")]
 pub enum Output {
     Heartbeat,
-    Message { payload: Value },
+    Message {
+        #[serde(default)]
+        payload: Value,
+    },
 }
 
 /**