@torrent-tv/proxy 2.87.8 → 2.87.10

package/test/viewing-generations.test.js

@@ -1,390 +1,390 @@
-/**
- * @file A viewer's own viewings, and what each request made in one of them
- * holds — roadmap item 97, step 9.
- *
- * The property under all of it: a seek of ONE viewer decides nothing about
- * another viewer's requests, a request made for a viewing its viewer has left
- * is refused before it can cause anything, and an output is not taken away
- * while a response is still being sent from it or a request made against it
- * may still be repeated.
- *
- * Nothing here starts a torrent, a worker or ffmpeg: the routes, the viewer
- * registry and the lifecycle are driven with plain values.
- */
-
-import test from "node:test";
-import assert from "node:assert/strict";
-import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
-import { handleTranscodeVariantFileGet } from "../routes/transcode/variant-file/get.js";
-import { handleTranscodeAudioFileGet } from "../routes/transcode/audio-file/get.js";
-import { serveSessionFile, statedGenerationOf } from "../routes/transcode/session-file/get.js";
-import { Viewers } from "../services/viewer/Viewers.js";
-import { ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS } from "../services/viewer/Viewer.js";
-import {
-  acceptsGeneration,
-  chooseOutput,
-  generationOfRequest,
-  givenOutputOf,
-  holdForResponse,
-  noteGivenOutput
-} from "../services/viewer/choices.js";
-import { ViewerRequests } from "../services/server/ViewerRequests.js";
-import { OutputLifecycle } from "../services/server/OutputLifecycle.js";
-import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
-
-const OUTPUT_ID = "1111111122223333";
-const OTHER_ID = "4444444455556666";
-
-/**
- * A reply that records what the route answered, with a response underneath
- * that can say it finished, closed or failed.
- *
- * @returns {{ reply: object, sent: { code: number, headers: Record<string, string>, body: unknown } }}
- */
-function recordingReply() {
-  const sent = { code: 200, headers: {}, body: undefined };
-  const raw = Object.assign(new EventEmitter(), { destroyed: false, writableEnded: false });
-  const reply = {
-    raw,
-    code(value) {
-      sent.code = value;
-      return reply;
-    },
-    header(name, value) {
-      sent.headers[name.toLowerCase()] = String(value);
-      return reply;
-    },
-    send(body) {
-      sent.body = body;
-      return reply;
-    }
-  };
-  return { reply, sent };
-}
-
-/**
- * @param {Record<string, string>} params
- * @param {Record<string, string>} query
- * @returns {object}
- */
-function requestOf(params, query) {
-  return { params, query, headers: {}, raw: { on() {}, off() {} } };
-}
-
-test("a request for a viewing that was left is refused before the step is resolved", async () => {
-  const resolved = [];
-  const renditions = {
-    resolveVariantFile: async (...args) => {
-      resolved.push(args);
-      return { sessionId: null };
-    }
-  };
-  const viewerRequests = { acceptsRequest: (_consumerId, generation) => generation !== 3 };
-
-  const stale = recordingReply();
-  await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
-    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "3" }),
-    stale.reply,
-    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
-  );
-  assert.equal(resolved.length, 0, "resolving could make a step and register the viewer on it");
-  assert.equal(stale.sent.code, 503);
-  assert.equal(stale.sent.headers["retry-after"], "0");
-
-  const current = recordingReply();
-  await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
-    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "4" }),
-    current.reply,
-    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
-  );
-  assert.equal(resolved.length, 1, "a request of the current viewing is resolved");
-  assert.equal(resolved[0][4], 4, "and it is handed the generation it carried");
-});
-
-test("a request for a soundtrack of a viewing that was left is refused before it is resolved", async () => {
-  const resolved = [];
-  const renditions = {
-    resolveAudioRenditionFile: async (...args) => {
-      resolved.push(args);
-      return { sessionId: null };
-    }
-  };
-  const viewerRequests = { acceptsRequest: () => false };
-  const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
-
-  await handleTranscodeAudioFileGet(
-    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, trackIndex: "1", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "0" }),
-    reply,
-    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
-  );
-
-  assert.equal(resolved.length, 0);
-  assert.equal(sent.code, 503);
-});
-
-test("only a stated non-negative integer is a generation", () => {
-  assert.equal(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "7" } }), 7);
-  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: {} })), "nothing stated");
-  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "-1" } })));
-  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "2.5" } })));
-  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "abc" } })));
-});
-
-test("one viewer's seek does not touch another viewer's assignments on a shared output", () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const shared = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-shared" };
-  viewers.of(shared, "viewer-a");
-  viewers.of(shared, "viewer-b");
-  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 720, 5, "key-shared");
-  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5, "key-shared");
-  const seekedAt = Date.now();
-
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1, seekedAt);
-
-  const longAfter = seekedAt + ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS + 1;
-  assert.equal(acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, longAfter), true, "the other viewer did not seek");
-  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5), "key-shared");
-
-  assert.equal(
-    acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, seekedAt + 1_000),
-    true,
-    "a request of the viewing just left, arriving late, is still taken within the window"
-  );
-  assert.equal(
-    givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 720, 5),
-    "key-shared",
-    "and is answered by what answered it, not decided anew"
-  );
-  assert.equal(
-    acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, longAfter),
-    false,
-    "past the window, a request of the viewing left is refused"
-  );
-});
-
-test("a request that states no generation belongs to the viewer's current one", () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  viewers.of({ id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key" }, "viewer-a");
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(3);
-
-  assert.equal(generationOfRequest(viewers, "viewer-a", Number.NaN), 3);
-  assert.equal(generationOfRequest(viewers, "viewer-a", 1), 1, "a stated one is kept as stated");
-  assert.equal(acceptsGeneration(viewers, "nobody", 0), true, "a viewer not known yet takes everything");
-});
-
-test("a response already begun holds its output across a change of viewing, and its release is safe to repeat", async () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-sent" };
-  viewers.of({ id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-other" }, "viewer-a");
-  const serving = {
-    seekEpoch: () => 0,
-    getFileStream: async () => ({ kind: "file", contentType: "video/mp4", stream: "bytes", isPlaylist: false })
-  };
-  const viewerRequests = {
-    holdResponse: (_sessionId, consumerId) => holdForResponse(viewers, consumerId, output.outputKey)
-  };
-  const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
-
-  await serveSessionFile(
-    requestOf({}, { consumer: "viewer-a" }),
-    reply,
-    { serving, viewerRequests, sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }
-  );
-  assert.equal(sent.body, "bytes", "the fixture must reach sending");
-
-  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(9, Date.now() - 10 * ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS);
-  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), true, "the response is still going out");
-
-  reply.raw.emit("finish");
-  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "finished, it holds nothing");
-  reply.raw.emit("close");
-  reply.raw.emit("error", new Error("after the end"));
-  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "and the events after it change nothing");
-});
-
-test("a response over before it began is released at once", async () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-sent" };
-  viewers.of({ id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-other" }, "viewer-a");
-  const serving = {
-    seekEpoch: () => 0,
-    getFileStream: async () => ({ kind: "file", contentType: "video/mp4", stream: "bytes", isPlaylist: false })
-  };
-  const viewerRequests = {
-    holdResponse: (_sessionId, consumerId) => holdForResponse(viewers, consumerId, output.outputKey)
-  };
-  const { reply } = recordingReply();
-  reply.raw.destroyed = true;
-
-  await serveSessionFile(
-    requestOf({}, { consumer: "viewer-a" }),
-    reply,
-    { serving, viewerRequests, sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }
-  );
-
-  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "no event of it will fire again to release it");
-});
-
-test("the picture's own route records its answer under the height it is named after", () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const picture = {
-    id: OUTPUT_ID,
-    outputKey: "key-picture",
-    spec: { video: {} },
-    segmentFormat: fmp4Format
-  };
-  const soundtrack = {
-    id: OTHER_ID,
-    outputKey: "key-sound",
-    spec: { video: null },
-    segmentFormat: fmp4Format
-  };
-  viewers.of(picture, "viewer-a");
-  const byId = new Map([[picture.id, picture], [soundtrack.id, soundtrack]]);
-  const requests = new ViewerRequests({
-    outputs: { get: (id) => byId.get(id) ?? null, variantHeightOf: () => 1080 },
-    generationOfRequest: (consumerId, stated) => generationOfRequest(viewers, consumerId, stated),
-    noteGivenOutput: (...args) => noteGivenOutput(viewers, ...args)
-  });
-
-  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "segment-00012.mp4");
-  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "init.mp4");
-  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "index.m3u8");
-  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OTHER_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "segment-00012.mp4");
-
-  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 1080, 12), "key-picture");
-  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 1080, -1), "key-picture", "the init is segment -1");
-  const held = viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.heldKeys();
-  assert.equal(held.has("key-sound"), false, "a soundtrack is not a height and records nothing");
-  assert.deepEqual([...held], ["key-picture"], "and a playlist records nothing either");
-});
-
-/**
- * An output lifecycle whose disposals are recorded instead of carried out:
- * what is checked is WHETHER it disposes, not how.
- *
- * @param {{ viewers: Viewers, outputs: object[] }} setup
- */
-function lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs }) {
-  const byId = new Map(outputs.map((output) => [output.id, output]));
-  const lifecycle = new OutputLifecycle({
-    viewers,
-    sessionTtlMs: 0,
-    outputs: {
-      get: (id) => byId.get(id) ?? null,
-      has: (id) => byId.has(id),
-      touch() {},
-      familyOf: (output) => [output],
-      expiredBefore: () => [...byId.keys()],
-      values: () => byId.values()
-    },
-    timelines: { forgetUnused() {} },
-    sourceFiles: { forgetUnused() {}, get() {} },
-    keyframeTables: { forgetUnused() {} },
-    machineBudget: { revise: async () => {}, segmentBytes: () => 0 },
-    returns: { describe: () => null },
-    segmentStore: { enforce() {} },
-    viewerSegmentsOn: () => []
-  });
-  const disposed = [];
-  lifecycle.disposeSession = async (id) => {
-    disposed.push(id);
-    byId.delete(id);
-  };
-  return { lifecycle, disposed };
-}
-
-test("an output an assignment holds is kept when its last viewer leaves, and by the idle expiry until it lapses", async () => {
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-held" };
-  const elsewhere = { id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-elsewhere" };
-  viewers.of(output, "viewer-a");
-  // Viewer B moved to another output a moment ago; a request of theirs made
-  // against this one may still be repeated.
-  viewers.of(elsewhere, "viewer-b");
-  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5, output.outputKey);
-  const { lifecycle, disposed } = lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs: [output] });
-
-  await lifecycle.releaseSessionConsumer(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", "test");
-  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "nobody watches it, but an assignment still holds it");
-
-  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
-  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "the idle expiry asks the same assignments");
-
-  viewers.get("viewer-b").assignments.statedGeneration(1, Date.now() - ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS - 1);
-  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
-  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [OUTPUT_ID], "once the window of that viewing has passed, it goes");
-});
-
-test("the idle expiry does not ask whether anybody is registered — only the assignments", async () => {
-  // A paused viewer stays registered on what they were watching. Whether that
-  // should hold an output past the idle period is roadmap item 75's question;
-  // step 9 must not answer it by accident.
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-paused" };
-  viewers.of(output, "viewer-paused");
-  const { lifecycle, disposed } = lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs: [output] });
-
-  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
-
-  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [OUTPUT_ID]);
-});
-
-test("a response already begun holds its output across a change of choice and the viewer leaving that output", () => {
-  // Roadmap item 97, step 11: the viewer was given 720p at 2800 and is being
-  // moved to 1400. The piece of 2800 already going out must finish, and its
-  // output must not be taken away under it — even once the viewer has left it.
-  const viewers = new Viewers();
-  const at2800 = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-720-2800" };
-  const at1400 = { id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-720-1400" };
-  viewers.of(at2800, "viewer-a");
-  viewers.of(at1400, "viewer-a");
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 720, at2800.outputKey);
-  const release = holdForResponse(viewers, "viewer-a", at2800.outputKey);
-
-  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 720, at1400.outputKey);
-  viewers.leaves(at2800, "viewer-a");
-
-  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(at2800).size, 0, "nobody is watching it any more");
-  assert.equal(viewers.stillNeeded(at2800), true, "but the response being sent from it holds it");
-  release();
-  assert.equal(viewers.stillNeeded(at2800), false, "and once it is finished, nothing does");
-});
-
-test("the step route answers what the rule decided: unavailable, lost, or the stored piece", async () => {
-  const viewerRequests = {
-    acceptsRequest: () => true,
-    holdResponseForKey: () => () => {}
-  };
-  const route = async (resolved, serving = {}) => {
-    const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
-    await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
-      requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "0" }),
-      reply,
-      { renditions: { resolveVariantFile: async () => resolved }, serving, viewerRequests }
-    );
-    return sent;
-  };
-
-  const unavailable = await route({ sessionId: null, unavailable: { reason: "no limit fits", figures: { verdict: "does not fit" } } });
-  assert.equal(unavailable.code, 409);
-  assert.equal(unavailable.body.outcome, "output-unavailable");
-  assert.equal(unavailable.body.figures.verdict, "does not fit", "the figures travel to the page");
-
-  const lost = await route({ sessionId: null, lost: { reason: "the output that answered it has gone" } });
-  assert.equal(lost.code, 409);
-  assert.equal(lost.body.outcome, "assignment-lost", "not a retry: the same request would be answered the same way");
-
-  const stored = await route(
-    { sessionId: null, recover: { key: "gone-key", likeId: OUTPUT_ID } },
-    { storedPieceOf: async () => ({ kind: "file", stream: "stored-bytes", contentType: "video/mp4", isPlaylist: false }) }
-  );
-  assert.equal(stored.body, "stored-bytes", "the very piece that was given");
-  assert.equal(stored.headers["content-type"], "video/mp4");
-
-  const vanished = await route(
-    { sessionId: null, recover: { key: "gone-key", likeId: OUTPUT_ID } },
-    { storedPieceOf: async () => null }
-  );
-  assert.equal(vanished.body.outcome, "assignment-lost", "a stored piece that went meanwhile is a lost address");
-});
+/**
+ * @file A viewer's own viewings, and what each request made in one of them
+ * holds — roadmap item 97, step 9.
+ *
+ * The property under all of it: a seek of ONE viewer decides nothing about
+ * another viewer's requests, a request made for a viewing its viewer has left
+ * is refused before it can cause anything, and an output is not taken away
+ * while a response is still being sent from it or a request made against it
+ * may still be repeated.
+ *
+ * Nothing here starts a torrent, a worker or ffmpeg: the routes, the viewer
+ * registry and the lifecycle are driven with plain values.
+ */
+
+import test from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { EventEmitter } from "node:events";
+import { handleTranscodeVariantFileGet } from "../routes/transcode/variant-file/get.js";
+import { handleTranscodeAudioFileGet } from "../routes/transcode/audio-file/get.js";
+import { serveSessionFile, statedGenerationOf } from "../routes/transcode/session-file/get.js";
+import { Viewers } from "../services/viewer/Viewers.js";
+import { ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS } from "../services/viewer/Viewer.js";
+import {
+  acceptsGeneration,
+  chooseOutput,
+  generationOfRequest,
+  givenOutputOf,
+  holdForResponse,
+  noteGivenOutput
+} from "../services/viewer/choices.js";
+import { ViewerRequests } from "../services/server/ViewerRequests.js";
+import { OutputLifecycle } from "../services/server/OutputLifecycle.js";
+import { fmp4Format } from "../services/encode/segment-formats/fmp4.js";
+
+const OUTPUT_ID = "1111111122223333";
+const OTHER_ID = "4444444455556666";
+
+/**
+ * A reply that records what the route answered, with a response underneath
+ * that can say it finished, closed or failed.
+ *
+ * @returns {{ reply: object, sent: { code: number, headers: Record<string, string>, body: unknown } }}
+ */
+function recordingReply() {
+  const sent = { code: 200, headers: {}, body: undefined };
+  const raw = Object.assign(new EventEmitter(), { destroyed: false, writableEnded: false });
+  const reply = {
+    raw,
+    code(value) {
+      sent.code = value;
+      return reply;
+    },
+    header(name, value) {
+      sent.headers[name.toLowerCase()] = String(value);
+      return reply;
+    },
+    send(body) {
+      sent.body = body;
+      return reply;
+    }
+  };
+  return { reply, sent };
+}
+
+/**
+ * @param {Record<string, string>} params
+ * @param {Record<string, string>} query
+ * @returns {object}
+ */
+function requestOf(params, query) {
+  return { params, query, headers: {}, raw: { on() {}, off() {} } };
+}
+
+test("a request for a viewing that was left is refused before the step is resolved", async () => {
+  const resolved = [];
+  const renditions = {
+    resolveVariantFile: async (...args) => {
+      resolved.push(args);
+      return { sessionId: null };
+    }
+  };
+  const viewerRequests = { acceptsRequest: (_consumerId, generation) => generation !== 3 };
+
+  const stale = recordingReply();
+  await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
+    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "3" }),
+    stale.reply,
+    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
+  );
+  assert.equal(resolved.length, 0, "resolving could make a step and register the viewer on it");
+  assert.equal(stale.sent.code, 503);
+  assert.equal(stale.sent.headers["retry-after"], "0");
+
+  const current = recordingReply();
+  await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
+    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "4" }),
+    current.reply,
+    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
+  );
+  assert.equal(resolved.length, 1, "a request of the current viewing is resolved");
+  assert.equal(resolved[0][4], 4, "and it is handed the generation it carried");
+});
+
+test("a request for a soundtrack of a viewing that was left is refused before it is resolved", async () => {
+  const resolved = [];
+  const renditions = {
+    resolveAudioRenditionFile: async (...args) => {
+      resolved.push(args);
+      return { sessionId: null };
+    }
+  };
+  const viewerRequests = { acceptsRequest: () => false };
+  const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
+
+  await handleTranscodeAudioFileGet(
+    requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, trackIndex: "1", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "0" }),
+    reply,
+    { renditions, serving: {}, viewerRequests }
+  );
+
+  assert.equal(resolved.length, 0);
+  assert.equal(sent.code, 503);
+});
+
+test("only a stated non-negative integer is a generation", () => {
+  assert.equal(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "7" } }), 7);
+  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: {} })), "nothing stated");
+  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "-1" } })));
+  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "2.5" } })));
+  assert.ok(Number.isNaN(statedGenerationOf({ query: { generation: "abc" } })));
+});
+
+test("one viewer's seek does not touch another viewer's assignments on a shared output", () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const shared = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-shared" };
+  viewers.of(shared, "viewer-a");
+  viewers.of(shared, "viewer-b");
+  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 720, 5, "key-shared");
+  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5, "key-shared");
+  const seekedAt = Date.now();
+
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(1, seekedAt);
+
+  const longAfter = seekedAt + ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS + 1;
+  assert.equal(acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, longAfter), true, "the other viewer did not seek");
+  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5), "key-shared");
+
+  assert.equal(
+    acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, seekedAt + 1_000),
+    true,
+    "a request of the viewing just left, arriving late, is still taken within the window"
+  );
+  assert.equal(
+    givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 720, 5),
+    "key-shared",
+    "and is answered by what answered it, not decided anew"
+  );
+  assert.equal(
+    acceptsGeneration(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, longAfter),
+    false,
+    "past the window, a request of the viewing left is refused"
+  );
+});
+
+test("a request that states no generation belongs to the viewer's current one", () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  viewers.of({ id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key" }, "viewer-a");
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(3);
+
+  assert.equal(generationOfRequest(viewers, "viewer-a", Number.NaN), 3);
+  assert.equal(generationOfRequest(viewers, "viewer-a", 1), 1, "a stated one is kept as stated");
+  assert.equal(acceptsGeneration(viewers, "nobody", 0), true, "a viewer not known yet takes everything");
+});
+
+test("a response already begun holds its output across a change of viewing, and its release is safe to repeat", async () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-sent" };
+  viewers.of({ id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-other" }, "viewer-a");
+  const serving = {
+    seekEpoch: () => 0,
+    getFileStream: async () => ({ kind: "file", contentType: "video/mp4", stream: "bytes", isPlaylist: false })
+  };
+  const viewerRequests = {
+    holdResponse: (_sessionId, consumerId) => holdForResponse(viewers, consumerId, output.outputKey)
+  };
+  const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
+
+  await serveSessionFile(
+    requestOf({}, { consumer: "viewer-a" }),
+    reply,
+    { serving, viewerRequests, sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }
+  );
+  assert.equal(sent.body, "bytes", "the fixture must reach sending");
+
+  viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.statedGeneration(9, Date.now() - 10 * ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS);
+  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), true, "the response is still going out");
+
+  reply.raw.emit("finish");
+  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "finished, it holds nothing");
+  reply.raw.emit("close");
+  reply.raw.emit("error", new Error("after the end"));
+  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "and the events after it change nothing");
+});
+
+test("a response over before it began is released at once", async () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-sent" };
+  viewers.of({ id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-other" }, "viewer-a");
+  const serving = {
+    seekEpoch: () => 0,
+    getFileStream: async () => ({ kind: "file", contentType: "video/mp4", stream: "bytes", isPlaylist: false })
+  };
+  const viewerRequests = {
+    holdResponse: (_sessionId, consumerId) => holdForResponse(viewers, consumerId, output.outputKey)
+  };
+  const { reply } = recordingReply();
+  reply.raw.destroyed = true;
+
+  await serveSessionFile(
+    requestOf({}, { consumer: "viewer-a" }),
+    reply,
+    { serving, viewerRequests, sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }
+  );
+
+  assert.equal(viewers.assignmentsHold(output), false, "no event of it will fire again to release it");
+});
+
+test("the picture's own route records its answer under the height it is named after", () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const picture = {
+    id: OUTPUT_ID,
+    outputKey: "key-picture",
+    spec: { video: {} },
+    segmentFormat: fmp4Format
+  };
+  const soundtrack = {
+    id: OTHER_ID,
+    outputKey: "key-sound",
+    spec: { video: null },
+    segmentFormat: fmp4Format
+  };
+  viewers.of(picture, "viewer-a");
+  const byId = new Map([[picture.id, picture], [soundtrack.id, soundtrack]]);
+  const requests = new ViewerRequests({
+    outputs: { get: (id) => byId.get(id) ?? null, variantHeightOf: () => 1080 },
+    generationOfRequest: (consumerId, stated) => generationOfRequest(viewers, consumerId, stated),
+    noteGivenOutput: (...args) => noteGivenOutput(viewers, ...args)
+  });
+
+  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "segment-00012.mp4");
+  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "init.mp4");
+  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "index.m3u8");
+  requests.noteAnsweredDirectly(OTHER_ID, "viewer-a", 0, "segment-00012.mp4");
+
+  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 1080, 12), "key-picture");
+  assert.equal(givenOutputOf(viewers, "viewer-a", 0, 1080, -1), "key-picture", "the init is segment -1");
+  const held = viewers.get("viewer-a").assignments.heldKeys();
+  assert.equal(held.has("key-sound"), false, "a soundtrack is not a height and records nothing");
+  assert.deepEqual([...held], ["key-picture"], "and a playlist records nothing either");
+});
+
+/**
+ * An output lifecycle whose disposals are recorded instead of carried out:
+ * what is checked is WHETHER it disposes, not how.
+ *
+ * @param {{ viewers: Viewers, outputs: object[] }} setup
+ */
+function lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs }) {
+  const byId = new Map(outputs.map((output) => [output.id, output]));
+  const lifecycle = new OutputLifecycle({
+    viewers,
+    sessionTtlMs: 0,
+    outputs: {
+      get: (id) => byId.get(id) ?? null,
+      has: (id) => byId.has(id),
+      touch() {},
+      familyOf: (output) => [output],
+      expiredBefore: () => [...byId.keys()],
+      values: () => byId.values()
+    },
+    timelines: { forgetUnused() {} },
+    sourceFiles: { forgetUnused() {}, get() {} },
+    keyframeTables: { forgetUnused() {} },
+    machineBudget: { revise: async () => {}, segmentBytes: () => 0 },
+    returns: { describe: () => null },
+    segmentStore: { enforce() {} },
+    viewerSegmentsOn: () => []
+  });
+  const disposed = [];
+  lifecycle.disposeSession = async (id) => {
+    disposed.push(id);
+    byId.delete(id);
+  };
+  return { lifecycle, disposed };
+}
+
+test("an output an assignment holds is kept when its last viewer leaves, and by the idle expiry until it lapses", async () => {
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-held" };
+  const elsewhere = { id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-elsewhere" };
+  viewers.of(output, "viewer-a");
+  // Viewer B moved to another output a moment ago; a request of theirs made
+  // against this one may still be repeated.
+  viewers.of(elsewhere, "viewer-b");
+  noteGivenOutput(viewers, "viewer-b", 0, 720, 5, output.outputKey);
+  const { lifecycle, disposed } = lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs: [output] });
+
+  await lifecycle.releaseSessionConsumer(OUTPUT_ID, "viewer-a", "test");
+  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "nobody watches it, but an assignment still holds it");
+
+  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
+  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [], "the idle expiry asks the same assignments");
+
+  viewers.get("viewer-b").assignments.statedGeneration(1, Date.now() - ACCEPT_WINDOW_MS - 1);
+  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
+  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [OUTPUT_ID], "once the window of that viewing has passed, it goes");
+});
+
+test("the idle expiry does not ask whether anybody is registered — only the assignments", async () => {
+  // A paused viewer stays registered on what they were watching. Whether that
+  // should hold an output past the idle period is roadmap item 75's question;
+  // step 9 must not answer it by accident.
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const output = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-paused" };
+  viewers.of(output, "viewer-paused");
+  const { lifecycle, disposed } = lifecycleOver({ viewers, outputs: [output] });
+
+  await lifecycle.cleanupExpired();
+
+  assert.deepEqual(disposed, [OUTPUT_ID]);
+});
+
+test("a response already begun holds its output across a change of choice and the viewer leaving that output", () => {
+  // Roadmap item 97, step 11: the viewer was given 720p at 2800 and is being
+  // moved to 1400. The piece of 2800 already going out must finish, and its
+  // output must not be taken away under it — even once the viewer has left it.
+  const viewers = new Viewers();
+  const at2800 = { id: OUTPUT_ID, outputKey: "key-720-2800" };
+  const at1400 = { id: OTHER_ID, outputKey: "key-720-1400" };
+  viewers.of(at2800, "viewer-a");
+  viewers.of(at1400, "viewer-a");
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 720, at2800.outputKey);
+  const release = holdForResponse(viewers, "viewer-a", at2800.outputKey);
+
+  chooseOutput(viewers, "viewer-a", 720, at1400.outputKey);
+  viewers.leaves(at2800, "viewer-a");
+
+  assert.equal(viewers.forOutput(at2800).size, 0, "nobody is watching it any more");
+  assert.equal(viewers.stillNeeded(at2800), true, "but the response being sent from it holds it");
+  release();
+  assert.equal(viewers.stillNeeded(at2800), false, "and once it is finished, nothing does");
+});
+
+test("the step route answers what the rule decided: unavailable, lost, or the stored piece", async () => {
+  const viewerRequests = {
+    acceptsRequest: () => true,
+    holdResponseForKey: () => () => {}
+  };
+  const route = async (resolved, serving = {}) => {
+    const { reply, sent } = recordingReply();
+    await handleTranscodeVariantFileGet(
+      requestOf({ sessionId: OUTPUT_ID, height: "720", fileName: "segment-00005.mp4" }, { consumer: "viewer-a", generation: "0" }),
+      reply,
+      { renditions: { resolveVariantFile: async () => resolved }, serving, viewerRequests }
+    );
+    return sent;
+  };
+
+  const unavailable = await route({ sessionId: null, unavailable: { reason: "no limit fits", figures: { verdict: "does not fit" } } });
+  assert.equal(unavailable.code, 409);
+  assert.equal(unavailable.body.outcome, "output-unavailable");
+  assert.equal(unavailable.body.figures.verdict, "does not fit", "the figures travel to the page");
+
+  const lost = await route({ sessionId: null, lost: { reason: "the output that answered it has gone" } });
+  assert.equal(lost.code, 409);
+  assert.equal(lost.body.outcome, "assignment-lost", "not a retry: the same request would be answered the same way");
+
+  const stored = await route(
+    { sessionId: null, recover: { key: "gone-key", likeId: OUTPUT_ID } },
+    { storedPieceOf: async () => ({ kind: "file", stream: "stored-bytes", contentType: "video/mp4", isPlaylist: false }) }
+  );
+  assert.equal(stored.body, "stored-bytes", "the very piece that was given");
+  assert.equal(stored.headers["content-type"], "video/mp4");
+
+  const vanished = await route(
+    { sessionId: null, recover: { key: "gone-key", likeId: OUTPUT_ID } },
+    { storedPieceOf: async () => null }
+  );
+  assert.equal(vanished.body.outcome, "assignment-lost", "a stored piece that went meanwhile is a lost address");
+});