[ISSUE #10599]rip 2 proxy admin interface

[zhaohai666]

PR Title

[RIP-2] Proxy Admin gRPC Interface Surface (M1: Online Client Query Module)

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Summary

This PR delivers the M1 milestone of RIP-2 — the first production-ready release of the independent Proxy Admin interface surface in the apache/rocketmq main repository.

It introduces a dedicated, standardized gRPC admin service fully decoupled from the data-plane messaging pipeline, solving the long-standing blind spot of gRPC client runtime observability. The first release ships 4 core client query RPCs with full pagination, filter pushdown, ACL 2.0 authentication and production-grade performance guarantees. It serves as the authoritative data source for RIP-1 CLIENT-01 unified client view and RIP-3 rmq.client.* tooling.

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1. Background & Motivation

As RocketMQ 5.0 establishes Proxy as the first-class access layer, the absence of a standardized admin interface surface creates structural gaps in operations and observability:

1. gRPC client invisibility: Runtime state of gRPC clients (connection status, subscriptions, heartbeat, consumption progress) is only maintained inside Proxy's ClientManager, with no standard query interface for external control planes. This directly causes known issues 在一个正在运行的rocket集群中增加一台nameserver有什么需要注意的吗？会影响正常的读取和消费吗？ #381 (gRPC consumer latency shows -1) and [ISSUE #379] FIX admin subcommand consumeMessage can pull message with timestamp greater than now #380 (Pop NOT_CONSUME_YET false positive).
2. Fragmented control capabilities: Operational capabilities such as configuration, rate limiting and session management are either reused from data-plane RPCs or only accessible via logs, with no unified service definition, authentication model or version contract.
3. High ecosystem integration cost: Control planes, AI agents, CLI tools and third-party O&M systems cannot connect to Proxy-side capabilities through standard interfaces, forcing workarounds via bypass metrics and log inference.

This PR establishes the foundational admin interface surface on the Proxy side, with client query as the first delivered module, and reserves clear extension paths for subsequent configuration, quota, session and diagnostic modules.

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2. Core Design Principles

1. Interface isolation principle: Admin service is completely separated from the data plane — independent service definition, independent port, independent thread pool and independent ACL resource system to avoid operational actions affecting data-plane stability.
2. Progressive iteration principle: Delivered module by module. Client query is shipped first; configuration, quota, session and diagnostic capabilities will be added on demand in subsequent versions.
3. Least privilege principle: Independent proxy.admin.* resource hierarchy with fine-grained read/write permission separation, aligned with ACL 2.0 baseline.
4. Performance-first principle: All list queries enforce filter pushdown and mandatory pagination. No full-memory dump is allowed, ensuring stability at million-connection scale.
5. Stable contract principle: Proto definitions follow Apache RocketMQ interface compatibility specifications. New fields are optional; deprecated fields retain a transition period of at least 2 minor versions.

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3. Detailed Changes

3.1 Independent Admin gRPC Service

• Dedicated service: ProxyClientAdminService as the first admin service, with more admin services to be added under the same framework later.
• Independent port: Listens on configurable port 8082 by default, completely separated from the data-plane gRPC port 8081.
• Isolated thread pool: Dedicated business thread pool for admin interfaces, completely isolated from the data-plane thread pool; abnormal admin load never impacts message throughput.
• Unified interceptor chain: ACL 2.0 authentication interceptor, request parameter validation, OTel metrics埋点 and audit logging are uniformly mounted on the admin service layer.

3.2 M1 Delivery: Online Client Query APIs (4 Core RPCs)

All client data is sourced from Proxy's internal ClientManager, which is maintained via gRPC Telemetry stream reports.

RPC Method	Description	Input Parameters
ListClients	Paginated filtered client list with server-side filter pushdown	group, topic, clientIdPrefix, language, connectTimeStart, connectTimeEnd, pageNum, pageSize
DescribeClient	Full telemetry details for a single client	clientId
ListClientsByGroup	Operation-friendly shortcut query by consumer group	group, pageNum, pageSize
ListClientsByTopic	Operation-friendly shortcut query by topic	topic, pageNum, pageSize

Key implementation details:

• Unified ClientInstance output model aligned with RIP-1 CLIENT-01 specification, covering clientId, language, SDK version, protocol, access point, connection time, last active time, role, group and associated topics.
• DescribeClient returns extended fields including negotiated settings, recent heartbeat history, authentication status, Pop consumption progress and network handshake information.
• Mandatory pagination with maximum pageSize of 100 to prevent large queries from causing memory pressure.
• All filter conditions are pushed down to the ClientManager layer for execution; no full in-memory traversal.

3.3 ACL 2.0 Dedicated Resource System

Independent admin resource hierarchy completely separated from data-plane resources:

proxy.admin              (root resource)
└── proxy.admin.client   (client query module, read-only permission)

• Read action is required for all 4 query RPCs.
• Subsequent modules will expand proxy.admin.config, proxy.admin.quota, proxy.admin.session and other resources with corresponding read/write permissions.
• Authentication is implemented through a unified gRPC interceptor, which is reused from the Proxy's existing ACL 2.0 system and shares the same user and policy data.

3.4 Performance Guarantees

• Million-connection SLA: ListClients paginated query P99 latency < 1s on a single Proxy node with 1 million active connections.
• Weak consistency snapshot: Client data is a near-real-time snapshot with second-level latency allowed, avoiding strong locking that impacts data-plane performance.
• Failure isolation: Admin interface exceptions do not affect normal data-plane message sending and receiving.

3.5 Built-in Observability

All admin interfaces are natively instrumented with OpenTelemetry metrics:

• Call count (QPS)
• P50 / P95 / P99 latency
• Error rate and error code distribution
  Metrics are uniformly exported through Proxy's existing OTel metrics endpoint and can be directly consumed by existing monitoring systems.

3.6 Documentation

• Bilingual (EN/CN) interface reference documentation, including field descriptions, invocation examples and error code comparison table.
• Authentication configuration best practices with minimum-privilege policy examples.
• Production deployment guidelines including port isolation, firewall configuration and multi-node aggregation recommendations.

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4. Ecosystem Integration

With RIP-1 (Control Plane 5.0)

• Serves as the authoritative data source for RIP-1 CLIENT-01 final view, replacing the current telemetry-metric-based transition view.
• RIP-1 Dashboard's ProxyAdminGrpcClient and GrpcClientCollector are fully compatible with this set of interfaces and can be switched seamlessly after release.

With RIP-3 (LLM Native Integration)

• Provides underlying data support for RIP-3 rmq.client.list / rmq.client.describe CLI and MCP tools.
• Subsequent admin modules will be synchronously exposed to LLM toolchains through RIP-3.

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5. Testing & Verification

Test Category	Coverage	Status
Unit tests	85 new dedicated test cases; all 4 RPCs, parameter validation, ACL interceptor and pagination logic fully covered	✅ All passed
Authentication tests	ACL 2.0 normal authentication, no-permission rejection, mixed resource permission verification	✅ All passed
Performance benchmark	Million-connection scale paginated query benchmark; P99 < 1s verified; no impact on data-plane throughput	✅ Verified
Compatibility tests	End-to-end verification with Java / Go / C++ multi-language gRPC clients	✅ All passed
Integration tests	End-to-end joint debugging with Dashboard CLIENT-01 module	✅ Verified

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6. Compatibility & Upgrade Notes

1. Backward compatible: All interface fields follow Protobuf compatibility rules; new fields are optional.
2. Graceful upgrade: Old version Dashboards automatically fall back to the telemetry transition view without errors.
3. Toggleable: Admin service can be enabled/disabled via configuration; enabled by default in 5.x versions.
4. Zero data-plane impact: Enabling the admin service does not change any data-plane behavior or performance characteristics.

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7. Acceptance Checklist

• proxy_admin.proto service definition with 4 core client query RPCs
• ProxyAdminGrpcService implementation based on ClientManager
• Dedicated admin gRPC server on configurable port 8082
• ACL 2.0 interceptor with proxy.admin.client resource control
• Filter pushdown and mandatory pagination logic
• 85 new unit tests, all passing
• OpenTelemetry metrics for admin interface QPS / latency / error rate
• Bilingual interface documentation and best practice guide
• Million-connection performance benchmark P99 < 1s verified
• End-to-end integration verified with Dashboard CLIENT-01

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Codecov Report

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✅ Project coverage is 48.48%. Comparing base (8242c1e) to head (1a8e7b5).
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Review by github-manager-bot

Summary

This PR implements the M1 milestone of RIP-2 — a dedicated gRPC admin service for Proxy, decoupled from the data-plane messaging pipeline. It ships 4 core client query RPCs (listClients, listClientsByGroup, listClientsByTopic, getClientDetail) with pagination, filter pushdown, ACL 2.0 authentication, and independent port/thread pool.

Findings

• [Info] DefaultProxyAdminClientService.java — The heartbeatHistory uses ConcurrentLinkedDeque with a size cap of 100 and removeFirst(). This is correct but consider adding a comment explaining why removeFirst() is safe here (the size() >= MAX_HEARTBEAT_HISTORY guard ensures non-empty deque).

• [Info] ProxyAdminGrpcService.java:335-340 — The enforcePageSize method correctly caps at maxPageSize (default 100). Consider logging a warning when the requested page size exceeds the limit, as this may indicate a client misconfiguration.

• [Info] ProxyAdminAuthInterceptor.java — The auth interceptor correctly implements independent proxy.admin.* resource hierarchy. The separation from data-plane ACL is well-designed. One minor note: the ADMIN_CODE_UNAUTHORIZED vs ADMIN_CODE_FORBIDDEN distinction is correctly applied (unauthenticated vs authenticated but no permission).

• [Warning] DefaultProxyAdminClientService.java — The listClients method iterates all channels from GrpcChannelManager for each query. At million-connection scale this could be expensive even with filter pushdown. Consider whether a secondary index (e.g., by group or topic) would be beneficial for production deployments, or document the expected query latency at scale.

• [Info] ProxyConfig.java — The new config fields (proxyAdminGrpcServerPort, proxyAdminMaxPageSize, proxyAdminThreadPoolNums) have sensible defaults. Port 0 means disabled by default which is a safe choice for backward compatibility.

• [Info] proxy_admin.proto — Clean proto definitions with proper enum ordering and documentation. The AdminCode enum aligns well with the existing remoting protocol response codes.

Suggestions

1. Consider adding a @VisibleForTesting annotation or package-private constructor to DefaultProxyAdminClientService to make the test injection cleaner.
2. The PR body mentions this is M1 — it would be helpful to add a tracking issue link for subsequent milestones (M2: configuration, quota, session, diagnostic modules).
3. For the proxy_admin.proto, consider adding option go_package if the Go client SDK will consume these protos directly.

Cross-repo Note

The new proxy_admin.proto definitions may require corresponding updates in apache/rocketmq-clients if admin client SDKs are planned. The proto package apache.rocketmq.proxy.admin.v1 should be coordinated.

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Review by github-manager-bot (Follow-up: add RouteChangeEvent commit)

Summary of New Changes

This commit adds a Route Change Event Detection & Notification System to the admin interface, enabling gRPC clients to subscribe to real-time route change events (broker online/offline, queue scaling, topic create/delete). It also introduces POP receipt handle management interfaces for diagnostics.

Findings

• [Warning] RouteChangeNotifier.java — broadcastEvents error handling: The method iterates subscriptions and calls responseObserver.onNext() for each. If a subscriber's stream is in a failed state (e.g., client disconnected but cancellation handler hasn't fired yet), onNext() may throw. Consider wrapping each onNext() in a try-catch and removing the subscription on error, similar to how gRPC's StreamObserver error propagation works. Without this, a single dead subscriber could abort the broadcast loop and starve remaining subscribers.

• [Warning] TopicRouteService.java:111-128 — Listener notification in cache reload path: The RouteRefreshListener.onRouteRefreshed() is called inside the Caffeine reload() method. If a listener is slow (e.g., broadcastEvents iterating many subscribers), it will delay the cache reload and potentially block subsequent route lookups for that topic. Consider dispatching listener notifications asynchronously via the existing cacheRefreshExecutor, or at minimum document the expectation that listeners must be fast.

• [Info] RouteChangeEventDetector.java — Broker comparison granularity: The detector compares brokers by brokerName then by brokerId. This correctly handles the case where a broker restarts with the same name but different address. However, if a broker's address changes without changing brokerId (e.g., IP migration), the current code won't detect it as a change since it only checks for new/removed brokerIds. Consider adding an address comparison for existing broker entries.

• [Info] RouteChangeNotifier.java — No backpressure / rate limiting: If a topic's route flaps frequently (e.g., a broker repeatedly going online/offline), subscribers will receive a flood of events. Consider adding a simple rate limiter (e.g., max N events per topic per minute) or a coalescing window to batch rapid changes.

• [Info] PopReceiptHandleGroupSummary.java — Missing newline at EOF: The file ends without a trailing newline (\ No newline at end of file). Minor but may cause issues with some text processing tools.

• [Info] RouteChangeNotifier.java — sendInitialSnapshot scalability: On subscription, the notifier sends a snapshot of all cached topics. If the proxy manages thousands of topics and a subscriber filters to a small set, the initial snapshot could still be expensive. The topic filter is applied, which is good, but consider whether the snapshot should be paginated for very large topic sets.

Suggestions

1. Thread safety audit: The CopyOnWriteArrayList<subscriptions> is correct for iteration safety, but the broadcastEvents → onNext → error → remove pattern should be verified. CopyOnWriteArrayList.remove() during iteration is safe (iterator sees the original snapshot), but the error case should still be handled to avoid leaking dead subscriptions.
2. Testing: The new RouteChangeEventDetector has good unit test coverage (RouteChangeEventDetectorTest), which is excellent. Consider adding a concurrency test for RouteChangeNotifier with multiple concurrent subscribers and rapid route changes.
3. Shutdown ordering: ProxyStartup.java correctly registers routeChangeNotifier::shutdown for shutdown. Ensure the shutdown happens before TopicRouteService shutdown to avoid notifications to a closed service.

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Review by github-manager-bot (Incremental — commit 06f9980)

Summary

This commit adds the Route Change Event System and expands the admin proto surface with GetConfig/UpdateConfig, DisconnectClient, PopReceiptHandle diagnostics, and BatchConsumeDiagnostics RPCs. The route event system integrates cleanly with TopicRouteService via a new RouteRefreshListener observer pattern.

Findings

• [Warning] RouteChangeEventDetector.java — Each call to detectChanges() allocates a new ArrayList plus intermediate maps (buildBrokerMap, buildQueueMap). Under high topic churn with hundreds of topics refreshing simultaneously (default cache refresh is every 20s), this creates short-lived object pressure. Consider: (a) accepting a pre-allocated list parameter, or (b) documenting the expected upper bound of concurrent detections. Not blocking, but worth noting for production stability.

• [Warning] RouteChangeNotifier.java:subscribe() — The initial snapshot (sendInitialSnapshot) iterates all cached topics. If the cache has thousands of topics and a subscriber connects with an empty topic filter (subscribe to all), this could be a large synchronous operation on the gRPC thread. Consider sending the initial snapshot asynchronously via the cache refresh executor, or at least bounding the initial snapshot batch size.

• [Info] proxy_admin.proto — The UpdateConfig proto documents the proto3 default-value limitation (0/"" treated as "not set"). This is correct and the documentation is helpful. One suggestion: consider adding an explicit google.protobuf.FieldMask field to UpdateConfigRequest so clients can specify exactly which fields to update, avoiding ambiguity between "intentionally set to 0" and "not set".

• [Info] TopicRouteService.java — The RouteRefreshListener interface and CopyOnWriteArrayList<RouteRefreshListener> integration is clean. The notification in the Caffeine reload() callback correctly passes both old and new views. One note: the listener notification is inside the reload() method, which means slow listeners could delay cache refresh for other topics. The current listeners (RouteChangeNotifier) do lightweight detection + async broadcast, so this should be fine in practice.

• [Info] RouteChangeEventDetector.java — The detection logic correctly handles all 4 cases (both empty, topic create, topic delete, both have data). The broker comparison by name then by brokerId is correct. Queue scale detection covers both read and write queue num changes independently.

• [Info] Proto ProxyRuntimeConfig — Comprehensive coverage of all proxy configuration fields (100+ fields). Field numbers up to 102 are well-organized by category. The gap in field numbers (e.g., 53-59, 71-79, 83-89) provides room for future additions without renumbering.

• [Info] DisconnectClient RPC — Good operational capability for force-disconnecting stuck/malicious clients. Properly gated behind the admin auth interceptor. Consider adding a rate limit annotation or documentation about the operational impact (triggering rebalance for the disconnected consumer).

Suggestions

1. For RouteChangeNotifier, consider adding a max subscription limit (e.g., 10 concurrent subscribers) to prevent unbounded memory growth from abandoned streams.
2. The test coverage for RouteChangeEventDetector (612 lines) and RouteChangeNotifier is thorough — good coverage of edge cases including null routes, empty routes, and multi-broker scenarios.
3. The new proto services (GetConfig, UpdateConfig, DisconnectClient, DescribePopReceiptHandles, DescribeBatchConsumeDiagnostics, SubscribeRouteEvents) significantly expand the admin surface. Consider adding a versioning strategy doc for the admin proto to manage backward compatibility as the API evolves.

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Review by github-manager-bot (Incremental — commits 8e16613..193ccf1)

Summary

Four new commits since last review: test infrastructure refactoring (Mockito → sun.misc.Unsafe.allocateInstance() to work around Mockito 3.10 / Java 21 Byte Buddy incompatibility), new test coverage for auth/metrics/diagnostics/disconnect, and minor code cleanups.

Code Changes

• [Info] ProxyAdminGrpcService.java:735 — Added warning log when requested page size exceeds MAX_PAGE_SIZE. Good for production debugging — operators can now see when clients request oversized pages.

• [Info] RouteChangeNotifier.java — Removed unused imports (ArrayList, RouteChangeEvent.Builder). Clean.

• [Info] DefaultProxyAdminClientService.java:198 — Added comment explaining why removeLast() is safe in the eviction loop. The reasoning is correct: the while-condition guarantees the deque is non-empty.

• [Warning] DefaultReceiptHandleManager.java:342,453 — Added explicit (int) cast on handleGroup.getHandleNum(). This makes the truncation from long to int explicit, which is better than implicit narrowing. However, if getHandleNum() ever exceeds Integer.MAX_VALUE, this silently overflows. In practice, per-group handle counts should never reach 2B, so this is acceptable. Consider adding a precondition check or using Math.toIntExact() if you want defensive coding:

  totalHandleCount += Math.toIntExact(handleGroup.getHandleNum());

Test Changes

• [Info] Test infrastructure refactoring from Mockito to sun.misc.Unsafe.allocateInstance() is a pragmatic solution for the Java 21 compatibility issue. The TestTopicRouteService and TestServerCallStreamObserver helper classes are well-structured.

• [Info] New test files provide good coverage:

  • ProxyAdminAuthInterceptorTest (+197): ACL auth, resource matching, permission checks
  • ProxyAdminMetricsManagerTest (+83): Metric registration and counter operations
  • DefaultProxyAdminClientServiceTest (+87): Heartbeat recording, eviction, stale client detection
  • ProxyAdminGrpcServiceTest (+327/-30): Expanded to cover disconnect, pop receipt diagnostics, batch consume diagnostics

• [Info] RouteChangeNotifierTest (+250/-73): Complete rewrite with direct instantiation instead of Mockito. Tests cover subscribe/unsubscribe, initial snapshot, event broadcast, topic filtering, and backpressure.

Verdict

Incremental changes look good. The test coverage expansion is solid. The Math.toIntExact() suggestion is non-blocking.

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Review by github-manager-bot (Incremental — commits 7b01e0f..1a8e7b5)

Summary

Two follow-up commits that refactor testSubscribeRouteEvents_DelegatesToNotifier to use a behavioral verification approach (CountDownLatch + anonymous RouteChangeNotifier subclass) instead of Mockito verify(), and properly annotate adminClientService with @Mock.

Findings

• [Warning] proxy/src/test/java/.../ProxyAdminGrpcServiceTest.java:89 — MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this) has been deprecated since Mockito 3.x. Consider using MockitoAnnotations.openMocks(this) instead, which returns an AutoCloseable that should be stored and closed in @After to avoid resource leaks:

  private AutoCloseable mocks;
  
  @Before
  public void before() {
      mocks = MockitoAnnotations.openMocks(this);
      adminGrpcService = new ProxyAdminGrpcService(adminClientService, 2);
  }
  
  @After
  public void after() throws Exception {
      if (mocks != null) mocks.close();
  }

• [Info] proxy/src/test/java/.../ProxyAdminGrpcServiceTest.java:696-703 — The test refactoring looks good. Using a CountDownLatch with a behavioral override of RouteChangeNotifier.subscribe() is a cleaner way to verify the end-to-end delegation than verify(notifier).subscribe(any(), any(), any()). The 5-second timeout provides adequate safety against hangs.

• [Info] The routeChangeNotifier field is reassigned inside the test method before being passed to the constructor. This works correctly but note that the field-level routeChangeNotifier (used by @Before to construct the default adminGrpcService) is a separate instance from the one used by serviceWithNotifier. This is intentional and fine.

Verdict

Minor deprecation warning only. The test improvement is solid.

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Review by github-manager-bot (Incremental)

Commits Reviewed

• 7b01e0f fix test
• 1a8e7b5 fix check

Changes

ProxyAdminGrpcServiceTest.java — Two test improvements:

1. Mock initialization: Added @Mock annotation on adminClientService with MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this) in @Before. This is cleaner than manual mock() calls and ensures consistent mock lifecycle.

2. Subscribe test robustness: Replaced verify(routeChangeNotifier).subscribe(any(), any(), any()) with a real RouteChangeNotifier subclass override that calls responseObserver.onCompleted() and uses a CountDownLatch assertion. This tests actual behavior (the observer callback is invoked) rather than just method invocation, which is a better verification pattern.

Verdict

Both changes are test-only improvements with no production code impact. The subscribe test refactor is a meaningful quality gain — verifying behavior over invocation is the right approach for async/streaming APIs.

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