PASS Documentation

Business Logic

Deposit Services system processes messages concurrently from both deposit and submission queues, utilizing dedicated listeners for each queue. This section outlines the workflow, detailing how messages are handled, processed, and how the corresponding resources are managed and updated throughout the deposit lifecycle.

Message flow and Business Services

Each message listener, one each for the deposit and submission queues, can process messages concurrently.

The submission queue is processed by the SubmissionListener, which resolves the Submission resource represented in the message, and hands off processing to the SubmissionProcessor. The SubmissionProcessor builds a DepositSubmission, which is the Deposit Services' analog of a Submission containing all the metadata and custodial content associated with a Submission. After building the DepositSubmission, the processor calls the DepositTaskHelper to perform the actual deposit. The DepositTaskHelper delegates the deposit steps to an instance of a DepositTask. Importantly, the SubmissionProcessor updates the Submission resource in the repository as being in progress.

The DepositTask class contains the primary logic for packaging, streaming, and verifying the transfer of content from the PASS repository to downstream repositories. The DepositTask will determine if the transfer of custodial content has succeeded, failed, or is indeterminable (i.e. an asynchronous deposit process that has not yet concluded). The status of the Deposit resource associated with the Submission will be updated accordingly.

Failure Handling

A failed Deposit or Submission is marked with Deposit.DepositStatus = FAILED or Submission.AggregateDepositStatus = FAILED. When a resource has been marked FAILED, Deposit Services will ignore any messages relating to the resource. Failed Deposit resources will be retried as part of the DepositStatusUpdaterJob job. Once all Deposit resource are successful, the failed Submission.AggregateDepositStatus will be updated.

A resource will be considered as failed when errors occur during the processing of Submission and Deposit resources. Some errors may be caused by transient network issues, or a server being rebooted. In the case of such failures, Deposit Services will retry for n number of days after the Submission is created. The number of days is set in an application property named pass.status.update.window.days.

Submission resources are failed when:

  1. Failure to build the Deposit Services model for a Submission.

  2. There are no files attached to the Submission.

  3. Any file attached to the Submission is missing a location URI (the URI used to retrieve the bytes of the file).

  4. An error occurs saving the state of the Submission in the repository (arguably a transient error).

For more details, refer to the SubmissionProcessor. Right now, when a Submission is failed, manual intervention may be required. Deposit Services does retry the failed Deposit resources of the Submission. However, some of the failure scenarios above must be resolved by the user. It is possible the end-user will need to re-create the submission in the user interface, and resubmit it.

Deposit resources are failed when:

  1. An error occurs building a package.

  2. An error occurs streaming a package to a Repository (potentially transient).

  3. An error occurs polling (potentially transient) or parsing the status of a Deposit.

  4. An error occurs saving the state of a Deposit in the repository (again, potentially transient).

See DepositTask for details. Deposits fail for transient reasons; a server being down, an interruption in network communication, or invalid credentials for the downstream repository are just a few examples. As stated, DS will retry failed Deposit resources for n number of days after the creation of the associated Submission. The number of days is set in an application property named pass.status.update.window.days.

Spring Error Handler

Certain Spring sub-systems like Spring MVC, or Spring Messaging, support the notion of a "global" ErrorHandler. Deposit Services provides an implementation DepositServicesErrorHandler, and it is used to catch exceptions thrown by the DepositListener, SubmissionListener, and is adapted as a Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler and as a RejectedExecutionHandler.

Deposit Services provides a DepositServicesRuntimeException (DSRE), which has a field PassEntity resource. If the DepositServicesErrorHandler catches a DSRE with a non-null resource, the error handler will test the type of the resource, mark it as failed, and save it in the repository.

In essence: Deposit and Submission resources will be marked as failed if a DepositServicesRuntimeException is thrown from one of the JMS processors, or from the DepositTask. As a developer, if an exceptional condition does not warrant a failure, then do not throw DepositServicesRuntimeException. Instead, consider logging a warning or throwing a DSRE with a null resource. Likewise, to fail a resource, all you need to do is throw a DSRE with a non-null resource. The DepositServicesErrorHandler will do the rest.

Since the state of a resource can be modified at any time by any actor in the PASS infrastructure, the DepositServicesErrorHandler encapsulates the act of saving the failed state of a resource within a CRI. The pre-condition for updating the resource is that it must not be in a terminal state. For example, if the error handler is updating the state from SUBMITTED to FAILED, but another actor has modified the state of the resource to REJECTED in the interim, the pre-condition will fail. Modifying the state of a resource after it reaches its terminal state is not logical. In conclusion, the DepositServicesErrorHandler will not mark a resource as failed if it is in a terminal state.

Spring Boot Context

Deposit Services is implemented using Spring Boot, which heavily relies on Spring-based annotations and conventions to create and populate a Spring ApplicationContext, arguably the most important object managed by the Spring runtime. If you are unfamiliar with said annotations and conventions, the following resources would be beneficial to learning more about them:

The entrypoint into the Deposit Services is the DepositApp class. Spring beans are created entirely in Java code by the DepositConfig and JmsConfig classes.

Build and Deployment

Deposit Services' primary artifact is a single self-executing jar. In the PASS infrastructure, the Deposit Services self-executing jar is deployed inside a simple Docker container.

Deposit Services can be built by running the following command:

PreviousStatusesNextAssemblers

Last updated