fix: handle SSE lines larger than the transfer buffer

[koko1123]

Closes #79.

The bug

MevShareClient.on and sse_transport.subscribe each read the event stream with takeDelimiterInclusive('\n') over a fixed 8192-byte transfer buffer. A MEV-Share mainnet hint with large logs or calldata arrays does not fit in one buffer, so peekDelimiterInclusive returns error.StreamTooLong and the stream dies -- exactly as reported while building the backrunner example (#38): small events parse, then the first oversized hint kills it.

The fix

sse_transport.LineReader -- takeDelimiterInclusive stays the fast path (no allocation; the returned slice points into the reader's own buffer). peekDelimiterInclusive leaves the stream state untouched on StreamTooLong, so an oversized line falls through to streamDelimiterLimit accumulating into a heap buffer. That is bounded by max_line_size (default 1 MiB), so a server streaming an unbounded line gets error.LineTooLong instead of unbounded growth.

One shared read loop -- pumpEvents now backs both subscribe and MevShareClient.on. The two hand-copied loops were already drifting; this removes the second copy.

Bigger, configurable buffers -- the default transfer buffer goes 8 KiB -> 64 KiB (heap-allocated rather than a stack array, since 64 KiB on a subscriber thread's stack is not free), tunable via StreamOpts. MevShareClient.stream_opts is a struct field, so on()'s signature is unchanged and example 08 plus the docs snippets still compile as written.

The second half of the same bug -- SseParser.data_buf is a fixed 64 KiB and silently truncated past it, so even with the read fixed, a very large event reached parseEventData as a prefix and was dropped by catch continue as if the server had sent malformed JSON. SseEvent.truncated now reports it and on() skips such events explicitly. Raising the parser out of fixed buffers entirely is a larger change and is not attempted here.

CI guard -- sse_transport now has the refAllDecls test the other modules carry. subscribe/subscribeWithReconnect have no unit tests because they need a network, and that is precisely how the 0.16 trimRight/trimEnd breakage in this file went unnoticed until someone ran the example.

Testing

Built test-first; the first implementation was the fast path alone and failed with error.StreamTooLong in peekDelimiterInclusive before the overflow path went in. The max_line_size bound was verified load-bearing the same way -- swapping .limited(max) for .unlimited makes that test fail.

New tests in src/sse_transport.zig, driven by a test-only std.Io.Reader over a slice with a deliberately small transfer buffer:

• a 20,000-byte line read through a 512-byte buffer, with the lines either side of it intact
• a full event whose data: line exceeds the transfer buffer, dispatched with its payload complete
• three consecutive oversized lines (overflow buffer reuse)
• error.LineTooLong past max_line_size
• SseEvent.truncated set for data beyond the parser buffer, clear for data that fits

make ci green locally on Zig 0.16.0: zig build, zig fmt --check src/ tests/, zig build test (all suites), zig build vector-test.

Breaking change

sse_transport.subscribe takes a StreamOpts parameter before the callback. subscribeWithReconnect is source-compatible (sizing lives on ReconnectOpts.stream), and MevShareClient.on is unchanged.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added configurable SSE stream buffering and maximum line-size settings.
  • Large events can now use temporary storage up to the configured limit.
  • Oversized or truncated events are identified and skipped safely.
  • Reconnectable subscriptions preserve configured stream settings.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance on handling large SSE events, buffering, truncation, and size limits.

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SSE stream handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configurable SSE line parsing src/sse_transport.zig	Adds StreamOpts, LineReader, and pumpEvents. Oversized lines accumulate up to max_line_size. Parser truncation is reported through SseEvent.truncated.
Consumer stream configuration src/mev_share.zig, src/sse_transport.zig, docs/content/docs/mev-share.mdx	MevShareClient.on, subscriptions, and reconnects use configurable stream options. Truncated or invalid payloads are skipped. Documentation describes the settings and behavior.

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Large SSE events may still lose a required data-line separator without being marked truncated, which can cause payloads to be parsed incorrectly or dropped; owner follow-up is needed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SSEStream
  participant LineReader
  participant pumpEvents
  participant MevShareClient
  SSEStream->>LineReader: Read SSE lines
  LineReader->>pumpEvents: Return buffered or accumulated line
  pumpEvents->>MevShareClient: Dispatch parsed event
  MevShareClient->>MevShareClient: Skip truncated or invalid payloads

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147-153: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Mark a dropped data: separator as truncated.

If one data: value exactly fills data_buf, then a following empty data: line cannot append its required newline. Line 153 leaves data_truncated false because the empty value has length zero. Consumers can then treat incomplete event data as complete.

Proposed fix

-            if (self.has_data and self.data_len < self.data_buf.len) {
-                self.data_buf[self.data_len] = '\n';
-                self.data_len += 1;
+            if (self.has_data) {
+                if (self.data_len < self.data_buf.len) {
+                    self.data_buf[self.data_len] = '\n';
+                    self.data_len += 1;
+                } else {
+                    self.data_truncated = true;
+                }
             }

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In `@src/sse_transport.zig` around lines 147 - 153, Update the data-line handling
around has_data and data_truncated so failing to append the required newline
separator marks the event as truncated, including when the next data value is
empty and data_len already equals data_buf.len. Preserve the existing truncation
check for values exceeding remaining capacity.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/sse_transport.zig`:
- Around line 248-249: Update the fast-path handling around
reader.takeDelimiterInclusive in the SSE transport to enforce max_line_size
before returning the line. Return error.LineTooLong when the delimiter-inclusive
line exceeds the configured limit, while preserving normal trimming and return
behavior for valid lines and the existing overflow-path handling.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/sse_transport.zig`:
- Around line 147-153: Update the data-line handling around has_data and
data_truncated so failing to append the required newline separator marks the
event as truncated, including when the next data value is empty and data_len
already equals data_buf.len. Preserve the existing truncation check for values
exceeding remaining capacity.

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[koko1123]

Addressed both review findings; verified each against the code first rather than applying blind.

max_line_size on the fast path -- valid. The bound is documented as a maximum line length but only the overflow path enforced it, so a config with max_line_size below transfer_buffer_size silently did not hold. Enforced on both paths now, and the doc comment says the bound applies whether or not the line fit the buffer.

Dropped data: separator -- valid, and worth fixing precisely because SseEvent.truncated is new in this PR. When data_buf is exactly full and the next data: line has an empty value, the separator newline is dropped while value.len > remaining (0 > 0) misses it, so a consumer would see truncated == false on data that is incomplete. Failing to write the separator now marks the event truncated regardless of the value length.

Both have failing-first tests: LineReader enforces max_line_size on a line that fits the transfer buffer (5 KiB line, 8 KiB transfer buffer, 4 KiB bound) and SseParser flags a dropped data separator as truncated (fills data_buf exactly, then a bare data:). 26/26 module tests, and make ci green on Zig 0.16.0.