SendAsync was using InvokeCoreAsync code to send messages. In case of exception InvokeCoreAsync is blocking and returns a task to the user so they can await for the remote call to complete. Any exception thrown is caught and used to fail the task returned to the user. SendAsync does not return a special task to the user so re-using InvokeCore resulted in swallowing exceptions. While SendAsync is fire and forget it actually should throw if the message could not be send and it was not happening.
While adding tests it turned out we did not test cases where Invoke/SendAsync/StreamAsync were invoked before starting the connection and this resulted in a NullReferenceException. I also fixed that.
When the client cancels a streaming method the server would send an error completion. This was not correct because cancellation is not an error. We did not see this because our client ignores any messages for a given streaming invocation after sending a CancelInvokationMessage but other clients may want to drain messages before considering a streaming method canceled.
Late parameter binding
Storing exception thrown during parameter binding and rethrowing when the method is about to throw. This allows completing invocations with a HubException and keeping the connection open.
We will also no longer close the connection if parameters for client side methods cannot be bound. We will log and continue.
Fixes: #818
(Also fixing #1005 because I was just touching this line)
* fix issue with incorrect user detection when Invoking for User
* fix failed testcases
* use proper extension method to avoid potential null reference exception
* fix for channel name in redis version + follow SignalR team recommendations
* remove unncessary freespace
* remove whitespaces
* introduce IUserIdProvider to resolve user id
* Move IUserIdProvider from HubLifetimeManager to HubConnectionContext
* setting user id to connection context in hubendpoint
Pawel Kadluczka
Mikael Mengistu
Pawel Kadluczka
BrennanConroy
Nate McMaster
moozzyk
Nate McMaster
Gurgen Hakobyan
Ryan Brandenburg
RoBackman
ivankarpey
Kai Ruhnau