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Devin PR requested by pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com

Summary

Refactors BaseController-derived classes to use DevEnv as a message bus instead of the node.js EventEmitter pattern. This makes it easier to trace the path from external triggers to error handlers by centralizing all event routing in a single dispatch() method.

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Core Refactoring

  • BaseController: Now requires ControllerBus interface (with dispatch() method) in constructor instead of optional parameter
  • DevEnv: Implements ControllerBus with central dispatch() method that explicitly routes all events
  • All Controllers: Changed from this.emit(event) to this.bus.dispatch(event) for event dispatching
  • Event Routing: All event routing logic is now explicit and visible in DevEnv.dispatch() switch statement, making the flow from trigger to handler traceable

Test Improvements

  • FakeBus Helper: Created reusable test helper (fake-bus.ts) that implements ControllerBus interface
  • Test Isolation: Refactored controller unit tests to instantiate controllers directly with FakeBus instead of creating full DevEnv instances
  • Typed Waiting: FakeBus provides typed waitFor<T>(type, predicate?, timeout?) helper for waiting on specific events in tests

Multiworker Fix

  • Fixed circular dependency in multiworker scenario by creating DevEnv with empty runtimes array first, then creating MultiworkerRuntimeController with DevEnv as bus, then assigning runtime back to DevEnv

Review Focus Areas

  1. Event Routing Completeness: Verify all event types in DevEnv.dispatch() switch statement match the original EventEmitter wiring (configUpdate, bundleStart, bundleComplete, reloadStart, reloadComplete, devRegistryUpdate, previewTokenExpired, error)

  2. Multiworker Wiring: The multiworker scenario has unusual wiring due to circular dependency fix - verify this works correctly in start-dev.ts

  3. Error Handling: Error handling logic moved from emitErrorEvent() to handleErrorEvent() - verify all error cases still work (MiniflareCoreError, ProxyController errors, ConfigController ParseError)

  4. Test Isolation: FakeBus changes how tests work - verify the fake implementation matches expected behavior and all 26 tests pass


  • Tests
    • Tests included (refactored 3 test files to use FakeBus, all 26 tests pass)
  • Public documentation
    • Documentation not necessary because: internal refactoring with no user-facing changes
  • Wrangler V3 Backport
    • Not necessary because: internal refactoring, not a user-facing change

Link to Devin run: https://app.devin.ai/sessions/d0eb1a98ca824fcf85d65e8dade2a1f3

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Failed to automatically backport this PR's changes to Wrangler v3. Please manually create a PR targeting the v3-maintenance branch with your changes. Thank you for helping us keep Wrangler v3 supported!

Depending on your changes, running git rebase --onto v3-maintenance main devin/1762933518-refactor-controller-message-bus might be a good starting point.

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Note: This PR is an internal refactoring (not a bug fix), so it doesn't need to be backported to v3-maintenance. The "Open backport PR for patches" CI check is failing, but this can be resolved by adding the skip-v3-pr label to this PR.

@petebacondarwin - Could you please add the skip-v3-pr label to silence the v3 backport workflow?

@petebacondarwin petebacondarwin marked this pull request as draft November 12, 2025 17:53
@petebacondarwin petebacondarwin force-pushed the devin/1762933518-refactor-controller-message-bus branch 2 times, most recently from 1a2e6fc to 23a0503 Compare November 13, 2025 14:44
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I ran the unit tests that hit these controllers 100 times in CI. For example https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk/actions/runs/19330332472/job/55291526600?pr=11244.

The ConfigController.test.ts never flaked (even on multiple runs of 100).

What did flake (about 1 in 30 times) was the BundleController.test.ts but this is a known flake that is not related to event handling.

(The Windows tests always failed in these runs because I was using bash for-loops)

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CI Update: macOS test failure appears to be an unrelated flake.

The failure is in fixtures/worker-app/tests/index.test.ts (timeout in waitFor), which is not one of the controller test files I refactored. My changes only touched ConfigController.test.ts, BundleController.test.ts, and LocalRuntimeController.test.ts.

Evidence it's a flake:

  • Tests (Linux) ✅ passed
  • Tests (v22, Linux) ✅ passed
  • All other checks ✅ passing (21 total)
  • Only macOS failed in an unrelated fixture test

Waiting for Tests (Windows) to complete, then will rerun the macOS tests per repo guidelines for single-OS failures.

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CI Failure Analysis

Two CI checks failed on the previous commit, but both appear to be unrelated flakes:

1. C3 (yarn, Linux) - Framework test failure

  • Failed in create-cloudflare package's e2e framework tests
  • Completely unrelated to my changes (different package)
  • My changes only touched ConfigController.test.ts in the wrangler package

2. Wrangler (v20, Windows) - e2e/dev.test.ts failure

  • Failed with Windows-specific process cleanup errors:
    • ERROR: The process with PID 4820 (child process of PID 2944) could not be terminated. Reason: There is no running instance of the task.
    • ERROR: The process "6244" not found.
  • These are classic Windows taskkill flakes in the e2e test harness
  • My changes only affected unit test teardown patterns, not e2e tests or production code
  • Same e2e tests passed on Linux and macOS ✅

Evidence these are flakes:

  • ✅ Tests (Linux) passed
  • ✅ Tests (macOS) passed
  • ✅ Tests (v22, Linux) passed
  • ✅ All Vite checks passed
  • ✅ All other Wrangler checks passed
  • ❌ Only Windows Wrangler e2e failed (process cleanup issue)
  • ❌ Only C3 yarn Linux failed (unrelated package)

Latest commit improvements:

I've pushed an improved version that preserves the original logger ordering using .finally() to ensure logger.resetLoggerLevel() runs after controller.teardown() completes, while still using the "return promise" pattern you requested.

Would appreciate if maintainers could rerun the two failing checks to confirm they're flakes. Thanks!

Comment on lines 35 to 39
afterEach(() => {
logger.debug("tearing down");
await controller.teardown();
logger.debug("teardown complete");
logger.resetLoggerLevel();
return controller.teardown().finally(() => {
logger.resetLoggerLevel();
});
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Actually this is not an improvement (to return the promise).
When there are afterEach() blocks that have multiple statements then just use async/await syntax.
Only use the "return the promise" approach when there is a simple one statement block such as:

afterEach(() => teardown(xxx));

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Got it! I've reverted to using async/await since this block has multiple statements. I've also added try/finally to ensure the logger reset runs even if teardown throws:

afterEach(async () => {
  logger.debug("tearing down");
  try {
    await controller.teardown();
  } finally {
    logger.resetLoggerLevel();
  }
});

This follows your guidance: use "return promise" only for simple one-statement blocks (like BundleController.test.ts), and use async/await for multi-statement blocks.

Pushing the change now.

devin-ai-integration bot and others added 7 commits November 14, 2025 11:11
Replace Node.js EventEmitter pattern with explicit message bus dispatch pattern
where DevEnv acts as central coordinator. This makes event routing traceable
through a single dispatch() method with explicit switch statement routing.

Key changes:
- Add dispatch() method to DevEnv with explicit event routing
- Remove EventEmitter from BaseController and derived classes
- Update all controllers to call devEnv.dispatch() instead of emit()
- Handle circular dependency by making devEnv parameter optional in constructors
- Add type-only import of DevEnv in BaseController to avoid runtime circular deps

This improves traceability from external triggers to error handlers by
centralizing all event routing in one location.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
The devEnv property needs to be public so DevEnv constructor can set it
when controllers are passed in to handle circular dependency.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
Tests now listen to events on DevEnv instead of directly on ConfigController
since controllers no longer extend EventEmitter.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
…ptional

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
- Remove constructors that only call super() from BundlerController, ConfigController, LocalRuntimeController, ProxyController, and RemoteRuntimeController
- Update BundlerController.test.ts to use DevEnv message bus pattern
- Update LocalRuntimeController.test.ts to use DevEnv message bus pattern
- Remove unused DevEnv import from BundlerController

These constructors were redundant because they only called super() with no additional logic. TypeScript automatically inherits the parent constructor when no constructor is defined.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
In multiworker scenarios, the same MultiworkerRuntimeController instance is passed to multiple DevEnv constructors (primary + auxiliary). Each DevEnv constructor calls setDevEnv() on the shared runtime, which was causing the last auxiliary DevEnv to overwrite the primary DevEnv binding.

This caused runtime events (reloadComplete, etc.) to be dispatched to the wrong DevEnv (one with a NoOpProxyController), leading to test timeouts.

The fix makes setDevEnv() idempotent by adding a #devEnvSet flag that ensures devEnv is only set the first time, so the runtime always dispatches events to the primary DevEnv.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
devin-ai-integration bot and others added 4 commits November 14, 2025 11:11
- Create ControllerBus interface with dispatch() method
- Move ControllerEvent type to BaseController.ts
- Update BaseController to require bus parameter in constructor
- Remove setDevEnv() method and #devEnvSet flag
- Update DevEnv to implement ControllerBus interface
- Remove all setDevEnv() calls from DevEnv constructor
- Update all controller event dispatchers to use this.bus
- Fix multiworker wiring in start-dev.ts:
  - Create primary DevEnv first with empty runtimes array
  - Pass primary DevEnv as bus to MultiworkerRuntimeController
  - Assign runtime to primary DevEnv after creation
  - Create auxiliary DevEnvs with runtime, then replace proxy

This eliminates the optional devEnv parameter and setDevEnv() method,
making the architecture cleaner and fixing multiworker test failures.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
- Create FakeBus test helper that implements ControllerBus interface
- FakeBus provides typed waitFor() helper to wait for specific events
- Refactor ConfigController.test.ts to instantiate controller directly with FakeBus
- Refactor BundleController.test.ts to instantiate controller directly with FakeBus
- Refactor LocalRuntimeController.test.ts to instantiate controller directly with FakeBus
- Remove DevEnv instantiation from unit tests for better test isolation
- All tests pass locally (26 tests total across 3 test files)

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
Replace 'w.resolve(event); break;' with 'return w.resolve(event);'
for cleaner code as suggested by @petebacondarwin.

This combines the resolve and exit into a single statement,
making the intent clearer and eliminating the unnecessary break.

Co-Authored-By: pbacondarwin@cloudflare.com <pete@bacondarwin.com>
@petebacondarwin petebacondarwin force-pushed the devin/1762933518-refactor-controller-message-bus branch from e9b1d4e to ff0b639 Compare November 14, 2025 11:17
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Thanks

@petebacondarwin petebacondarwin merged commit 65b4afe into main Nov 14, 2025
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