The "HTTP handler for POST /activity glue" bullet (6e) pre-dates the Step 8 dispatch refactor that landed the same
functionality with broader test coverage. `http_server:route/2` already wires POST `/activity` to
`nx_kernel:publish/1` when the kernel process is registered (success → 200 with `cid: <Cid>` body via
`cid_response/1`; sig/replay failure → 422 via `validation_failed_response/0`), and falls back to the stub
`post_activity_response/0` when the kernel isn't running. Per-format response variants (json / sx / cbor /
activity+json) followed in 8d-dispatch-post via `cid_response_for/2` + `post_activity_response_for/1`.
Verified by the standing suites: `next/tests/http_publish.sh` 10/10 and `next/tests/http_post_format.sh` 13/13.
Plan-only commit — no source changes, no test changes. Routes the next iteration past 6e onto the next genuinely
unticked sub-deliverable.
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`next/kernel/log_server.erl` (behaviour gen_server) wraps the pure Step 3c.a `log` substrate behind a per-actor process so
concurrent writers serialise through `gen_server:call` instead of racing on the disk segment writer.
API mirrors the pure log substrate:
start_link(ActorId, BasePath) -> Pid
start_link(ActorId, BasePath, Opts) -> Pid %% Opts forwarded to log:open_disk/3
append(Pid, Activity) -> {ok, Seq}
tip(Pid) -> Seq
entries(Pid) -> [Activity, ...]
replay(Pid, InitAcc, Fun) -> Acc
segments(Pid) -> [SegLen, ...]
stop(Pid) -> ok
Per the port's gen_server convention, `gen_server:start_link/2` returns a raw Pid (not `{ok, Pid}`); the API takes the Pid
directly so multiple per-actor servers coexist without a registered-name collision.
`init/1` dispatches on the Opts arg to call either `log:open_disk/2` (default 1 GiB threshold = effectively no rotation) or
`log:open_disk/3` (opt-in `{segment_size, N}`). `handle_call/3` translates each public op to the corresponding pure log call
and threads the new state through.
New `next/tests/log_server.sh` (15 cases):
- API smoke: start_link returns a Pid, single append+tip+entries round-trip, replay/3 chronological, segments visible
through the wrapper, rotation through wrapper with opt-in `{segment_size, 16}`, stop returns ok.
- Five concurrent-writer tests, each: spawn N=3 writers, each firing M=2 appends of `{I, J}`, parent waits on N `{done,_}`
messages via a Y-combinator-shaped receive loop. Assertions cover (a) tip = N*M, (b) length(entries) = N*M, (c) every
`{I, J}` pair appears exactly once via `lists:all/2` membership (no losses, no dupes), (d) reopening from disk via
`log:open_disk/2` reproduces a byte-equal entries list, (e) every writer's index appears in the entries list
(interleaving witnessed).
Erlang-port gotchas worked around this iteration:
(a) Named recursive fun `fun WaitFn(0) -> ok; WaitFn(K) -> ... end` errors as "fun-ref syntax not yet supported" — rewritten
as `fun (_, 0) -> ok; (Self, K) -> ... Self(Self, K - 1) end` then called as `Wait(Wait, N)`.
(b) `lists:foreach/2` isn't registered (only `lists:map/2`) — use `lists:map/2` and discard the result list when running
side-effecting closures.
(c) gen_server message round-trip in this interpreter is ~2s per call, so concurrent N*M was tuned to 6 (`N=3, M=2`) to
keep the whole 15-test suite under 60s wall clock; the test's correctness assertions don't depend on N*M magnitude.
Erlang conformance **761/761** unchanged (log_server.erl is in next/, not lib/erlang/). Step 3c (both .a and .b) now
fully ticked in plans/fed-sx-milestone-1.md.
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`next/kernel/log.erl` rewritten around a `seg_lens :: [N0, N1, ...]` per-segment entry-count list + a `seg_size` byte threshold. Filename
scheme moved from `<ActorId>.log` to `<ActorId>-NNNNNN.log` (6-digit zero-padded) so `file:list_dir`'s alphabetical sort coincides
with numeric order.
`open_disk/3(ActorId, BasePath, [{segment_size, N}])` opts a caller into a smaller rotation threshold; `open_disk/2` keeps a 1 GiB
default that effectively never rotates (preserves Step 3b acceptance — log_disk.sh unchanged in behaviour).
Rotation rule in `place_append/4`: if the active segment's pre-append encoded size is already >= threshold AND it holds at least one
entry, the new activity opens a fresh segment; otherwise it extends the current active segment. A single huge entry that exceeds
the threshold stays alone — never rotated recursively.
On reopen, `load_all_segments` lists the dir, filters `<ActorId>-NNNNNN.log`, sorts numerically (insertion sort — `lists:sort/1`
isn't registered in this port, only `lists:append/2`/`lists:reverse/1`/`lists:filter/2`/etc.), reads each via `try_read_segment`,
and concatenates the entries to rebuild flat `entries` + `seg_lens`.
Erlang-port gotchas worked around during this iteration:
(a) String literals like `"foo"` in this port are NOT charlists — `[H|T] = "foo"` badmatches and `length("foo")` errors as "not a
proper list". `parse_segment_name` builds prefix/suffix from `atom_to_list/1` + explicit `[$-]` / `[$., $l, $o, $g]` cons.
(b) Cross-arg variable repetition (`strip_prefix([C | Rest], [C | PRest])`) was rewritten to explicit `case C =:= P` for robustness.
(c) `Pattern = Binding` syntax in a case clause (`[_|_] = Lst when length(Lst) > 1 -> ...`) errors as "unsupported pattern type
'match'" — replaced with `Lst when is_list(Lst), length(Lst) > 1`.
Tests:
- new `next/tests/log_rotate.sh` (10 cases): no-opt single-seg-after-3, rotation-fires-on-threshold, rotated-chronological,
reopen-rebuilds-history, reopen-rebuilds-same-seg-shape, huge-single-entry-stays-1-seg, append-after-huge-keeps-order,
tip-monotonic-across-rotations.
- `next/tests/log_disk.sh` updated to the new filename (`corrupted-000000.log`); stays 12/12.
- Erlang conformance 761/761 unchanged (log.erl is in next/, not lib/erlang/).
3c.a ticked in plans/fed-sx-milestone-1.md; 3c.b (gen_server-mediated concurrent appends) is the next iteration.
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