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Adds status and track-error, two read-only GObject properties on the moqsink request pad, so an application can tell why a pad stopped publishing without parsing bus messages. Four commits: the properties, then three fixes those properties made visible.

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Deferred connection. Session::start no longer wakes its reconnect task. It returns a registration the caller marks once the parent state transition succeeds. A terminal error raised before that point reached the session gate, found no live session, and was discarded: the bus never learned the connection had been rejected. A rolled-back transition drops the registration unmarked, so the task never wakes at all.

Transition ordering. READY -> PAUSED now rolls back a failed chain-up. Without it the element sits in READY with the session still publishing and the broadcast still announced, and nothing releases it later: there is no READY -> NULL path that stops a session. Going down, the parent goes first, because it is what deactivates the pads and waits for the streaming functions to return; tearing the producers down before that let a chain function write into a finalized producer. The cleanup runs whatever the parent answers.

Completion. eos_posted answered four questions at once: whether the publication was finalized, whether it still admitted pads and caps, whether the EOS message had been posted, and whether a pad could reset its flow state. FlushStop consulted it for the last one, so a flush after the end reset nothing. It is replaced by a Completion shared between a session and its pads: one Arc per session, cloned into every pad, replaced when a session starts. A task that outlives its session keeps only its own handle, so a late error cannot reach a newer session's pads, without comparing identifiers. Only Open -> Eos and Open -> Failed are allowed and the first writer wins, taken with a compare-exchange.

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post_current discards a message whose session was already replaced, checked under the control lock. The lock is released before post_message, which leaves a minimal window: a session replaced inside it still gets its message posted. Holding the lock across the post is not an option, because a synchronous bus handler can call back into the element and read a property that takes the same lock.

An EOS claimed in PLAYING is posted even when a synchronous notify handler has already taken the element to PAUSED in the meantime. The claim is the instant that counts, not the state at the moment of posting. The alternative is holding a claimed message until the next entry to PLAYING, which for a consumed publication never comes.

API

No Rust API changes; adds two GObject sink-pad properties.

Rebase

Rebased onto main. TrackReservation is gone: PadLifecycle is the same mutex expressed as its contents rather than as a guard, extended with the pad's producer, its ended flag and its status. The container coverage from #2983 and #2997 is preserved, re-expressed through lifecycle() and reset().

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The GStreamer sink now supports named opaque application/octet-stream tracks with raw buffer publication and typed CAPS and push outcomes. Pad state uses unified lifecycle tracking with read-only status and track-error properties. Element control now manages pad admission, release, EOS aggregation, finalization, and deferred notifications independently. Sessions carry identity tokens and completion state to suppress stale asynchronous messages. Documentation and hermetic tests cover opaque publishing, lifecycle transitions, races, errors, and session replacement.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing the moqsink sink-pad publication lifecycle.
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rs/moq-gst/src/sink/pad.rs (1)

333-379: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The drop reason logged for an opaque buffer without a PTS is inaccurate.

At Line 351, Producer::Opaque maps ts to None when the timestamp is absent. The None arm at Lines 361-364 then logs "timestamp out of range". For a buffer with no PTS, or a PTS that maps outside the representable range, the message is the same. This makes the two causes indistinguishable in the logs.

The behavior is correct. Only the log text is imprecise.

♻️ Proposed log clarification
 					None => {
-						gst::warning!(CAT, "dropping frame: timestamp out of range");
+						gst::warning!(CAT, "dropping frame: no usable timestamp for a raw frame");
 						PushOutcome::Dropped
 					}
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In `@rs/moq-gst/src/sink/pad.rs` around lines 333 - 379, Clarify the drop warning
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PTS from a timestamp outside the representable range; preserve the existing drop
behavior and keep the media-producer path unchanged.
rs/moq-gst/tests/element.rs (1)

513-519: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Avoid duplicating MAX_GROUP_CACHE in the integration test. The constant is private, so this test hard-codes its current 32 MiB value and can become stale if the limit changes. Use a supported public limit or test configuration. The exact "frame too large" assertion is valid.

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In `@rs/moq-gst/tests/element.rs` around lines 513 - 519, Update the
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one byte. Preserve the one-byte-over-limit behavior, successful pad.chain
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In `@rs/moq-gst/src/sink/pad.rs`:
- Around line 333-379: Clarify the drop warning in push_buffer so the None
result from Producer::Opaque distinguishes a missing PTS from a timestamp
outside the representable range; preserve the existing drop behavior and keep
the media-producer path unchanged.

In `@rs/moq-gst/tests/element.rs`:
- Around line 513-519: Update the oversized-buffer test around MAX_GROUP_CACHE
to derive the buffer size from a supported public limit or test configuration
instead of hard-coding 32 MiB plus one byte. Preserve the one-byte-over-limit
behavior, successful pad.chain result, and exact "frame too large" assertion.

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.as_ref()
.is_some_and(|state| state.session.id().matches(&session));

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P2 Badge Make session validation atomic with message dispatch

When an EOS or error is posted from a streaming/background thread, another thread can transition the element through PAUSED -> READY -> PAUSED after this identity check releases control but before post_message executes. The message from the stopped session is then delivered to the replacement session, defeating the session scoping this code introduces and potentially terminating the new run. The validation and dispatch need coordination that preserves reentrant bus handlers without leaving this check-to-post race.

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rs/moq-gst/src/sink/pad.rs (1)

336-341: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider an options struct for the buffer inputs.

push_buffer now takes two adjacent Option<gst::ClockTime> parameters. The compiler cannot catch a swap of pts and current_running_time. A small options struct removes that risk and absorbs the next timing knob without a signature change.

As per coding guidelines: "Take an options struct/object, not positional parameters, whenever a function or constructor could plausibly gain more knobs later."

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+/// The timing context for one buffer: its PTS, plus the element's current running time used when
+/// unstamped opaque data arrives on an active timeline.
+pub struct BufferTiming {
+	pub pts: Option<gst::ClockTime>,
+	pub current_running_time: Option<gst::ClockTime>,
+}
+
 	pub fn push_buffer(
 		&mut self,
 		data: Bytes,
-		pts: Option<gst::ClockTime>,
-		current_running_time: Option<gst::ClockTime>,
+		timing: BufferTiming,
 	) -> std::result::Result<PushOutcome, &'static str> {
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Comment on lines +173 to +179
let join = RUNTIME.spawn(forward(
reconnect,
origin,
status.clone(),
errored.clone(),
id.clone(),
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P2 Badge Register the session before spawning its forwarding task

When a relay returns a terminal result very quickly, such as a local authentication rejection, the reconnect and forwarding tasks can finish before MoqSink::start_session assigns the returned session to control.live. In that window, post_session_error sees no matching live session and discards the only bus error; the preceding notification also runs while property getters still expose the default disconnected state, so observers may never learn that the connection permanently failed. Install the session before starting forward, or gate the task until installation completes. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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let changes = {
let _rt = RUNTIME.enter();
let mut lifecycle = sink_pad.lifecycle();
lifecycle.media.invalidate();
lifecycle.fail(format!("unsupported caps: {caps}"))

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P2 Badge Ignore unsupported CAPS after session finalization

After aggregate EOS, a source can send STREAM_START and then another CAPS event while the element remains paused. Supported CAPS correctly reaches the later eos_posted guard and leaves an ended pad unchanged, but this earlier branch unconditionally invalidates the pad, changing its finalized ended status to error even though no producer or catalog remains to reject the format. Apply the same live-session, EOS, and release checks before mutating the lifecycle. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Expose `status` and `track-error` on each request pad so applications can
observe pending, active, ended and failed tracks without parsing logs. Declare
the pad GType in the template so gst-inspect and GstChildProxy expose those
properties together with the existing explicit track name.

A request pad was represented in three independent places: the GstPad object,
a name-keyed entry in the element state, and a separate ended set. Keeping them
aligned across CAPS, EOS, release, session replacement and reentrant GObject
callbacks required generations and several delayed-result paths. A missed
update could lose a producer, let a released pad delay element EOS, or apply an
old result to a replacement pad.

Move the complete per-pad publication lifecycle into MoqSinkPad, protected by
one mutex. It now owns the producer, timeline state, requested and effective
track names, status, error, EOS state, release state and current session-error
link. GStreamer's sink pad list remains the authority for membership; the
element no longer maintains a parallel pad map or indexes lifecycle state by
name.

Keep the element Control limited to state shared by one publishing run:
session, broadcast, catalog, EOS publication and admissions in progress. The
lock order is now explicit and uniform:

    GStreamer stream lock
    element Control
    pad lifecycle
    GObject object lock

No path acquires Control while holding a pad lifecycle lock. Property
notifications and bus messages are emitted only after releasing lifecycle
locks, since both can synchronously call application code.

Admission is explicit because add_pad emits pad-added synchronously. Element
EOS remains deferred while an admission is open, so callbacks can negotiate,
push and finish the new pad before request_new_pad returns. Once the pad is a
member, confirmation binds it to the currently live session rather than
retaining a snapshot taken before add_pad. CAPS and SEGMENT refresh the same
binding during pad-added callbacks. This also clears a stale session link when
a run ended during admission.

Release follows the GStreamer request-pad contract: deactivate the pad first
to stop and flush streaming work, finalize its producer, reset its lifecycle,
remove it from the element and notify the resulting property changes.
Releasing an already detached pad is idempotent and does not ask GStreamer to
remove it twice.

Element EOS now derives membership from sink_pads() and finalizes each pad
under that pad's lifecycle lock. Finalization results are collected while the
state is protected, then status notifications and the final bus message are
published after all locks are released. A clean producer becomes ended, a
failed finalization becomes error, and one pad's failure does not hide the
outcome of the others.

Make pad failure terminal for the current run. Unsupported CAPS now invalidate
and finalize an existing producer instead of changing only the public status
while stale media continued to publish. A later CAPS event cannot reactivate
the failed pad; release or a new run performs the reset.

Set the fatal session flag before notifying status observers, closing the
window where the element reported Failed while streaming threads could still
feed the dead session.

Cover the lifecycle boundaries with tests for synchronous pad-added activity,
admission versus aggregate EOS, repeated release, partial finalization,
STREAM_START recovery, run replacement, stale session-link replacement and
clearing, and terminal unsupported CAPS.

The buffer path still copies GstBuffer contents before moq-net can reject an
oversized frame. Avoiding that allocation requires a reliable media-aware size
heuristic, so this commit documents the boundary without introducing an
arbitrary limit.

Attaching deferred EOS/error bus messages to a publishing-run generation
remains a separate change. This commit confines itself to per-pad ownership,
membership, admission and teardown.
Finalization releases its locks before notifying pads and posting to the bus:
post_message runs the bus sync handlers on the calling thread, and a handler
reading `status` or `track-error` would take a pad settings lock the EOS path
still holds. Separating the post from the finalize pass closes that deadlock,
but it opens a window: the same application code can move the element to READY
and start another session before the deferred message is posted, so a stopped
run reported EOS or an error into its replacement.

Give each publishing session an opaque identity and carry it with every
deferred message. EOS, a finalize failure, and a terminal reconnect error are
posted only while the session that produced them is still current. The
reconnect task routes its error through the same gate instead of posting
directly.

Pad registration generation does not cover this: session identity and pad
membership have different owners and failure modes.
READY -> PAUSED created the session and chained up without a rollback. A parent
transition that fails then leaves the element in READY with the session still
publishing, the broadcast still announced and the reconnect task still running.
Nothing releases it later: the element has no READY -> NULL path that stops a
session, so the only way out was destroying the element.

PAUSED -> READY tore the session down before chaining up, so the producers a
streaming thread writes into could be finalized while its chain function was
still running. The parent is what deactivates the pads and waits for those
functions to return, so it has to go first, and the cleanup has to run whatever
the parent answers.

The reconnect task also started before the element installed its session. A
terminal error inside that window reached the session gate, found no live
session, and was discarded: the bus never learned the connection had been
rejected. `Session::start` now hands back a registration the caller marks once
the parent transition succeeds, so the task stays parked until its errors have
somewhere to land, and a rolled-back transition drops that registration unmarked
and never wakes the task at all.
`eos_posted` answered four different questions: whether the publication was
finalized, whether it still admitted pads and caps, whether the EOS message had
already been posted, and whether a pad could reset its flow state. `FlushStop`
and `StreamStart` consulted it for the last one, so a flush after the end reset
nothing while a finished publication still looked resettable.

Replace it with a `Completion` shared by the session and its pads, generalizing
the mechanism `session_error` already used: one `Arc` per session, cloned into
every `PadLifecycle`, replaced when a session starts and dropped on reset. A
task that outlives its session keeps only its own handle, so a late terminal
error cannot reach the state a newer session's pads read, without comparing
identifiers. Only `Open -> Eos` and `Open -> Failed` are allowed and the first
one wins, taken with a compare-exchange: a store would let a late session error
rewrite an EOS the element had already earned cleanly.

A finished publication is now terminal to everything that observes it. Buffers
report `Eos` or `Error` instead of being dropped with `Ok` against a producer
that no longer exists, and a late SEGMENT keeps the pad's link so that answer
survives a flush. Unsupported caps still fail the pad when there is no session
or an open one, but never rewrite a settled terminal state. No new pad is
admitted. Recovery is a cycle through READY, which builds another session,
broadcast and catalog.

EOS delivery is a separate domain, with its own gate and a single claim per
publication. A sink posts EOS only in PLAYING, so an EOS reached in PAUSED
finalizes the producers and waits for the transition to claim it. The gate is
the element's own rather than GStreamer's current state, which is not committed
until `change_state` returns: a message earned inside that window would read
PAUSED and wait for a release that never comes. Unlike `GstBaseSink` this does
not re-post on every entry to PLAYING. That exists for a player paused at the
end of a file and resumed without seeking; here the publication is already
consumed and cannot resume.

Confirming an admission returns whether it accepted the pad instead of leaving
the caller to infer it from `owns_pad`, which stays true between marking a pad
for release and removing it from the element.
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