fix(relay): forward ephemeral events to live subscribers (NIP-01)

LiveEventStore.query had a race window between emitting EOSE and
registering as a SharedFlow collector — any event emitted in that
window was lost because newEventStream has replay=0. The race was
usually masked by SQLite write latency for persisted kinds, but it
fired reliably for ephemeral kinds (20000-29999) where store.insert
is a no-op.

Per NIP-01 ephemeral events are not persisted but MUST still reach
matching active subscriptions. Fixed by registering the live
collector before signalling EOSE via Flow.onSubscription.

Adds two tests: one proves an ephemeral event reaches an active
subscriber, the other proves it isn't persisted (a follow-up REQ
returns zero events).
This commit is contained in:
Claude
2026-05-07 01:03:06 +00:00
parent eb80dbcd15
commit 58f6a0af6b
2 changed files with 75 additions and 11 deletions
@@ -311,6 +311,64 @@ class Nip01ComplianceTest {
client.unsubscribe("live-2")
}
// -- Ephemeral events (NIP-01: kinds 20000-29999) ----------------------
/**
* Ephemeral events MUST be forwarded to active subscriptions whose
* filters match, even though the relay does not persist them.
*/
@Test
fun ephemeralEventForwardedToActiveSubscription() =
runBlocking {
val ch = Channel<Event>(UNLIMITED)
val gotEose = Channel<Unit>(UNLIMITED)
client.subscribe(
"eph-1",
mapOf(relayUrl to listOf(Filter(kinds = listOf(20_001)))),
object : SubscriptionListener {
override fun onEvent(
event: Event,
isLive: Boolean,
relay: NormalizedRelayUrl,
forFilters: List<Filter>?,
) {
ch.trySend(event)
}
override fun onEose(
relay: NormalizedRelayUrl,
forFilters: List<Filter>?,
) {
gotEose.trySend(Unit)
}
},
)
withTimeout(5000) { gotEose.receive() }
hub.getOrCreate(relayUrl).publish(fakeEvent(70, kind = 20_001, content = "ephemeral-payload"))
val received = withTimeout(5000) { ch.receive() }
assertEquals("ephemeral-payload", received.content)
assertEquals(20_001, received.kind)
client.unsubscribe("eph-1")
}
/**
* Ephemeral events MUST NOT be persisted. A REQ issued after the
* event was published returns nothing.
*/
@Test
fun ephemeralEventIsNotStoredAndDoesNotShowOnFollowupReq() =
runBlocking {
// Publish ephemeral first — no live subscriber listening.
hub.getOrCreate(relayUrl).publish(fakeEvent(71, kind = 20_002, content = "vanish"))
// Late subscriber: should see EOSE with no events.
val (events, eose) = collectUntilEose(Filter(kinds = listOf(20_002)))
assertTrue(eose, "EOSE must fire for an ephemeral kind even if zero events match")
assertEquals(0, events.size, "Ephemeral events must not be persisted")
}
// -- Multi-relay --------------------------------------------------------
/** A single client can hold subscriptions against multiple relays simultaneously. */