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starfish-outbox

A durable, per-identity offline write-queue — the client-side complement to the server-side queuing extension.

Generic over the queued item: you own what an item is, supply its dedup id, and a send that performs the real write. The queue handles persistence (write-through to a LocalCache), dedup-by-id, single-shot claim (no double-send), attempt counting with auto-retry-then-fail, crash-safe recovery of stuck sending entries, and subscriptions. drain_outbox is connectivity-agnostic — you trigger it on whatever reconnect signal you have.

Install

pip install starfish-outbox

Usage

from starfish_outbox import OutboxQueue, drain_outbox

queue: OutboxQueue = OutboxQueue(local_cache)  # local_cache: async get_item / set_item / remove_item
await queue.hydrate(f"outbox.{user_id}")

# Enqueue a write while offline (the id is yours to thread into the eventual write):
await queue.enqueue(write_id, {"path": path, "body": body})

# Drain on reconnect:
async def send(entry):
    await client.push(entry.item["path"], entry.item["body"], base_hash_for(entry.item["path"]))

await drain_outbox(queue, send, max_attempts=5)

Mutating methods (enqueue / claim / remove / retry / …) are async because each writes through to the cache; get / pending / subscribe are synchronous. JSON-compatible on disk with the TypeScript @drakkar.software/starfish-outbox.

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