fix: Cancel the requests still running when the shutdown grace ends

[SirLouen]

Closes #24

What

When a program stops, Serve now cancels the requests still running once the shutdown grace ends. It gives them a short cancel grace to end, then closes their connections, and returns ErrStillServing if any request was still running. Each cancelled request can still send its own response first.

stop now runs with a stop grace of its own, never with what the shutdown grace left. Two new settings hold the new graces, SHUTDOWN_CANCEL_GRACE and SHUTDOWN_STOP_GRACE. Serve refuses a grace that is not above zero.

To cancel and count requests, Serve now wraps Handler and BaseContext on the server it runs. A base context the server already has keeps its values, but Serve owns its cancellation. When the cancel grace ends with connections still open, Serve logs a warning and closes them. A hijacked connection that ignores the cancel stays open, since Close never ends it.

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Why

A request still running when the grace ended kept going while stop ran, and stop often got a context that had already expired.

Testing Instructions

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added separate grace periods for allowing active requests to finish, cancelling remaining requests, and running shutdown callbacks.
  • Added errors to report when requests remain active after the cancellation grace period.
  • Added environment settings for configuring the cancellation and stop grace periods.
• Bug Fixes
  • Shutdown now waits for active requests before cancelling them and running the stop callback.
  • Invalid or nonpositive shutdown grace settings are rejected before the server starts.
  • Shutdown callbacks also run when serving ends because of a listener failure.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Serve now uses separate grace periods to let requests finish, cancel requests that remain active, and run the stop callback. It tracks active requests during shutdown and reports when requests remain after the cancellation grace.

Changes

Serve shutdown flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timeout contract and startup validation gonsole/serve.go, gonsole/serve_test.go, gonsole/internal/exampleapp/program.go, gonsole/CHANGELOG.md	Timeouts adds CancelGrace and StopGrace, with environment parsing and positive-value validation. The example sets both values to five seconds. The changelog documents the settings and shutdown errors. Tests cover parsing and invalid settings.
Tracked requests and staged shutdown gonsole/serve.go, gonsole/serve_internal_test.go	Serve tracks active requests, waits through Grace, cancels remaining requests with ErrGraceRanOut, then waits through CancelGrace. The stop callback runs under its own StopGrace. Tests cover request tracking, cancellation, listener failure, and cancellation responses.
Shutdown integration and boundary tests gonsole/serve_test.go	Tests cover shutdown timing, stop deadlines, request and connection behavior during shutdown, default-mux handling, and bounded completion.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Serve
  participant HTTPServer
  participant inflight
  participant StopCallback
  Serve->>HTTPServer: Begin shutdown with Grace
  HTTPServer->>inflight: Track active requests
  Serve->>inflight: Cancel remaining requests with ErrGraceRanOut
  Serve->>HTTPServer: Close after CancelGrace
  Serve->>StopCallback: Invoke under StopGrace

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7ba2f

The shutdown test can hang rather than fail promptly when shutdown stalls. Bounding that wait is worthwhile, but this does not establish a production shutdown failure.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ba2f

Shutdown is more bounded, but the new request-context handling can ignore cancellation supplied by the server owner. Existing timeout configurations may also need updating before a server can start. No authorization bypass is established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Serve preserves caller BaseContext values but detaches its cancellation and deadline from request contexts. A caller that uses those signals to end authorized work may no longer stop that work when its own context ends.
• Low · reliability · inferred: Existing callers that set Grace but leave the two new timeout fields at zero cannot start Serve; validation returns before the listener or stop callback runs. This is a rollout and failure-containment risk for callers not updated with the new settings.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The context change can affect requests handled by any caller-supplied handler on a server passed to Serve; no tenant-specific or cross-service exposure was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If a server owner uses BaseContext cancellation to revoke work, an HTTP client with an active request could continue that work after the owner cancels its context. The available evidence does not establish such a caller or a verified exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The tracking wrapper retains the existing handler as its downstream target; the change does not itself add a route or replace the handler's authorization decisions.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Staged cancellation and server connection closure bound ordinary shutdown work, but stop can run after ErrStillServing while a handler has not ended; the stop callback must not assume all request work has completed.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define whether a caller's BaseContext cancellation must remain effective independently of shutdown grace, and document the required timeout values and stop callback's remaining-request semantics.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 38.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 50 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #24 requires cancellation of requests after Grace, a bounded CancelGrace, closure of remaining requests or connections, a separate StopGrace, environment configuration, and logging of canc…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within Issue #24. gonsole/serve_test.go and gonsole/serve_internal_test.go verify the shutdown behavior. The example configuration and changelog document the new settings. No un…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: cancelling requests that remain after the shutdown grace ends.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 38.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 50 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Confidence Score: 5/5

[High risk] Changes server shutdown and request cancellation behavior.

No outstanding findings block merging.

Summary

The PR adds shutdown grace handling and tests. The latest change bounds waits in the internal shutdown tests. No new issues were identified.

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In `@gonsole/serve_test.go`:
- Line 599: Bound the completion wait for serveOn in the test by selecting
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