feat(testing): InMemoryAmqpBroker — run a contract without Docker - #677
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Testing a contract and its handlers meant a container, and a container is a 30-second tax on a question the broker was never going to answer differently. What runs for real here is everything above the wire: routing, both validation passes, middleware and interceptors, RPC correlation over direct reply-to, retry routing, TTL dead-lettering. The seam is `AmqpTransport` in core — the eight members the two facades actually use, with a compile-time assertion that `AmqpClient` still satisfies it. Both `create()`s take `transport?` beside `urls`, and exactly one is required: preferring one silently would let a test that passes a transport AND inherits a `urls` default reach a real broker while believing it had not. The fake is deliberately not kinder than a broker — an unroutable publish is dropped and confirmed, an unbound DLX loses the message. Topology refusals, reconnection and flow control are not modelled and stay the integration suite's job. `packages/core` stops declaring `@amqp-contract/testing`: that package now depends on core, so the edge back would be a cycle turbo refuses. Its specs reach the fixtures through a tsconfig path, a vitest alias, an explicit globalSetup path, a turbo edge and a knip ignore — five places, each commented, and the whole integration suite still passes. Closes #541. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds ChangesIn-memory AMQP testing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Broker-less tests can observe incorrect retry metadata or routing behavior, so the in-memory broker should be corrected before merge. The published usage example also needs its missing imports. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant TypedAmqpClient
participant InMemoryTransport
participant InMemoryAmqpBroker
participant TypedAmqpWorker
TypedAmqpClient->>InMemoryTransport: publish serialized message
InMemoryTransport->>InMemoryAmqpBroker: route message
InMemoryAmqpBroker->>TypedAmqpWorker: deliver matching queue message
TypedAmqpWorker->>InMemoryTransport: ack or nack message
InMemoryTransport->>InMemoryAmqpBroker: settle delivery
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The in-memory transport’s nack default handling and close() behavior currently diverge from real AMQP semantics in ways that can silently change test outcomes.
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Pull request overview
Introduces an AmqpTransport seam in @amqp-contract/core so the typed client/worker facades can run either on a real AmqpClient (via urls) or on a supplied transport, enabling broker-less contract/handler testing via a new in-memory broker implementation in @amqp-contract/testing.
Changes:
- Add
AmqpTransport+resolveTransportand updateTypedAmqpClient.create()/TypedAmqpWorker.create()to accept exactly one ofurlsortransport. - Add
InMemoryAmqpBrokerin@amqp-contract/testingplus a new unit test suite proving pub/sub, DLQ routing, direct-reply-to RPC, and typed RPC errors without Docker. - Break the
core ↔ testingdevDependency cycle for integration tests via tsconfig/vitest aliasing, Turbo task edges, and Knip config; document the new workflow in docs and changeset.
File summaries
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| vitest.shared.ts | Adds shared config support for module aliasing and configurable globalSetup path. |
| turbo.json | Ensures @amqp-contract/core typecheck/integration tests depend on @amqp-contract/testing#build. |
| tests/src/in-memory.spec.ts | Adds unit tests covering in-memory pub/sub, DLQ behavior, and RPC (including typed errors). |
| pnpm-lock.yaml | Updates workspace dependency graph to reflect the new testing → core dependency and removed core → testing devDep. |
| packages/worker/src/worker.ts | Switches worker internals to AmqpTransport and resolves transport via resolveTransport. |
| packages/worker/src/retry.ts | Retypes retry context to use AmqpTransport and updates docs accordingly. |
| packages/testing/src/index.ts | Exposes InMemoryAmqpBroker from the testing package root export. |
| packages/testing/src/in-memory.ts | Implements the in-memory broker + transport (routing, TTL DLX, direct reply-to, settlement). |
| packages/testing/package.json | Adds ./in-memory export and includes in-memory.ts in the build entrypoints and deps. |
| packages/core/vitest.config.ts | Adds vitest aliasing/globalSetup override to consume testing fixtures without a declared devDependency. |
| packages/core/tsconfig.json | Adds TS paths so core integration specs can typecheck against testing’s built d.ts without a devDep. |
| packages/core/src/transport.ts | Introduces AmqpTransport, compile-time assertion, and resolveTransport. |
| packages/core/src/index.ts | Exports the new transport seam APIs from @amqp-contract/core. |
| packages/core/package.json | Removes @amqp-contract/testing devDependency to eliminate the workspace cycle. |
| packages/client/src/client.ts | Switches client internals to AmqpTransport and resolves transport via resolveTransport. |
| knip.json | Ignores @amqp-contract/testing for core dependency analysis due to the alias-based test setup. |
| docs/how-to/test-without-a-broker.md | Documents in-memory broker usage and clearly scopes what is/isn’t modeled. |
| docs/how-to/test-with-rabbitmq.md | Links to the new broker-less testing guide for contract/handler-focused tests. |
| docs/.vitepress/config.ts | Adds the new “Test without a broker” page to the docs sidebar. |
| .changeset/in-memory-broker.md | Adds a changeset describing the new transport seam and in-memory broker capability. |
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| new URL(`../testing/src/${entry}.ts`, import.meta.url).pathname; |
| settle(queue: Queue, delivery: Delivery, requeue: boolean | undefined): void { | ||
| if (requeue !== true) { | ||
| this.deadLetter(queue, delivery); | ||
| return; | ||
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| close(): AsyncResult<void, never> { | ||
| this.closed = true; | ||
| this.replyConsumer = undefined; | ||
| return OkAsync(); | ||
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- Line 11: Update the example imports to include the TypedAmqpWorker and
TypedAmqpClient facade classes used by the snippet, alongside
InMemoryAmqpBroker, so both instantiations resolve correctly.
In `@packages/testing/src/in-memory.ts`:
- Around line 244-251: Clone properties, including the nested headers object,
separately for each delivery enqueued by publish fan-out so settle mutations
cannot affect other queues; apply the same deep-enough clone in deadLetter when
forwarding to DLX targets. Update the enqueue calls in the publish path and
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Import the facade classes used by the example.
The snippet instantiates TypedAmqpWorker and TypedAmqpClient on Lines 14 and 19, but imports neither. Copying it fails before the transport example runs.
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+import { TypedAmqpClient } from "`@amqp-contract/client`";
import { InMemoryAmqpBroker } from "`@amqp-contract/testing`";
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| import { InMemoryAmqpBroker } from "@amqp-contract/testing"; | |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Include arguments in the binding dedupe key.
The dedupe compares only queue and routingKey. Headers-exchange bindings usually share an empty routing key and differ only in arguments. Two headers bindings from one queue to one exchange therefore collapse into the first, and a message that matches only the second matcher is not routed.
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const already = exchange.bindings.some(
- (b) => b.queue === binding.queue.name && b.routingKey === routingKey,
+ (b) =>
+ b.queue === binding.queue.name &&
+ b.routingKey === routingKey &&
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| const already = exchange.bindings.some( | |
| (b) => b.queue === binding.queue.name && b.routingKey === routingKey, | |
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| this.enqueue(queue, { | ||
| content, | ||
| properties, | ||
| routingKey, | ||
| exchange, | ||
| redelivered: false, | ||
| deliveryCount: 0, | ||
| }); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Clone properties per queue.
Every queue matched by one publish receives the same properties object reference. settle then mutates delivery.properties.headers to write x-delivery-count (lines 369-372). If a publish fans out to two queues, a requeue on the first queue changes the headers that the second queue's consumer reads, so that consumer sees a delivery count it never produced. deadLetter has the same aliasing, because { ...delivery } at line 355 is a shallow copy and keeps the shared properties reference for every DLX target.
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for (const queue of this.match(exchange, routingKey, properties, content)) {
this.enqueue(queue, {
content,
- properties,
+ properties: { ...properties, headers: { ...properties.headers } },
routingKey,
exchange,
redelivered: false,
deliveryCount: 0,
});
}Apply the same clone in deadLetter (line 355):
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In `@packages/testing/src/in-memory.ts` around lines 244 - 251, Clone properties,
including the nested headers object, separately for each delivery enqueued by
publish fan-out so settle mutations cannot affect other queues; apply the same
deep-enough clone in deadLetter when forwarding to DLX targets. Update the
enqueue calls in the publish path and deadLetter while preserving all existing
delivery fields and behavior.
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Closes #541.
Testing a contract and its handlers meant a container, and a container is a 30-second tax on a question the broker was never going to answer differently. What runs for real here is everything above the wire: routing, both validation passes, middleware and interceptors, RPC correlation over direct reply-to, retry routing, TTL dead-lettering.
The seam
AmqpTransport, new in@amqp-contract/core: the eight members the two facades actually use out ofAmqpClient's surface —waitForConnect,publish,consume,cancel,ack,nack,close,currentChannelEpoch.sendToQueue,addSetup,onandgetConnectionare absent because nothing calls them, and a future facade that reaches for one has to widen the type first.A compile-time assertion keeps it honest —
AmqpClientmust satisfy it, so a signature change there is a type error rather than a substitute that silently stops matching.Both
create()s taketransport?besideurls, and exactly one is required. Passing both is refused rather than silently preferring one: a test that supplies a transport and inherits aurlsdefault would otherwise reach a real broker while believing it had not — the failure this option exists to prevent, arriving in disguise.urlsbecomes optional on both option types; existing code is unaffected.The fake is not kinder than the broker
An unroutable publish is dropped and confirmed, as AMQP does without a mandatory flag, and a DLX with nothing bound loses the message — the two hazards
unroutable-publishanddlx-routabilityexist to prove. A fake that quietly delivered them would make those specs pass for the wrong reason.Modelled: topic (
*/#), direct, fanout and headers (x-match) routing, the default exchange, direct reply-to rewritten per transport,nackrequeue withredeliveredand an incrementedx-delivery-count, per-messageexpirationand queuex-message-ttl(whichever is shorter) dead-lettering, byte-for-byte Buffer passthrough so the compression path runs, and asynchronous delivery.Not modelled, and written down in the new how-to page: topology refusals (
406), reconnection (currentChannelEpochis always0, so the stale-delivery guard never fires — a reconnect is exactly what this does not have), flow control, prefetch limits, persistence, exchange-to-exchange traffic.The package cycle, and the five places it cost
@amqp-contract/testingnow depends on@amqp-contract/corefor the transport type.packages/core's integration specs depend on@amqp-contract/testing'sitextension. Declared both ways, that is a cycle turbo refuses outright.So core stops declaring it, and its specs reach the fixtures through: a
tsconfig.jsonpathsentry, avitest.config.tsalias, an explicitglobalSetuppath (resolve.aliasdoes not reach it — vitest resolves that one separately, which cost me a failing run to discover), aturbo.jsonedge fromcore#typecheck/core#test:integrationtotesting#build, and aknip.jsonignore. Each is commented with why.vitest.shared.tsgrew the two options that make it expressible.Worth flagging as the largest non-obvious cost in this PR — the alternative was putting a test double in the production package.
Verification
tests/src/in-memory.spec.ts— pub/sub round trip, dead-lettering a handler failure through the DLX, an RPC reply through direct reply-to, and a declared RPC error arriving typed. All in the unit project, wherevitest.shared.tssays "No broker: nothing here may need one."AmqpTransportrather than onAmqpClientdirectly.https://claude.ai/code/session_01GGixjxi5AQ2cNK62bBymfF
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