fix: Use p/future for async handler execution to prevent blocking

The original p/promise implementation ran handlers synchronously on the
request processing thread, blocking the main event loop. This caused
MCP tool calls to hang indefinitely since responses couldn't be sent
until the handler completed.

Changes:
- Replace p/promise with p/future for async handler execution
- Wrap handler in discarding-stdout to prevent logging corruption
- Add null-output-stream-writer for stdout suppression

This fix is critical for MCP servers where stdout is the JSON-RPC channel.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: BuddhiLW

src/jsonrpc4clj/server.clj

@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 
 (def null-output-stream-writer
   (java.io.OutputStreamWriter.
-    (proxy [java.io.OutputStream] []
-      (write
-        ([^bytes b])
-        ([^bytes b, off, len])))))
+   (proxy [java.io.OutputStream] []
+     (write
+       ([^bytes b])
+       ([^bytes b, off, len])))))
 
 (defmacro discarding-stdout
   "Evaluates body in a context in which writes to *out* are discarded."
@@ -118,10 +118,10 @@
   (let [ch (async/chan buf-or-n)]
     (async/thread
       (discarding-stdout
-        (loop []
-          (when-let [arg (async/<!! ch)]
-            (f arg)
-            (recur)))))
+       (loop []
+         (when-let [arg (async/<!! ch)]
+           (f arg)
+           (recur)))))
     ch))
 
 (def input-buffer-size
@@ -177,14 +177,18 @@
 
 (defn pending-received-request [method context params]
   (let [cancelled? (atom false)
-        ;; coerce result/error to promise
-        result-promise (p/promise
-                         (receive-request method
-                                          (assoc context ::req-cancelled? cancelled?)
-                                          params))]
+        ;; Run handler asynchronously to prevent blocking the request processing thread.
+        ;; Using p/future instead of p/promise ensures handlers run on a thread pool,
+        ;; allowing the main loop to continue processing other messages and responses.
+        ;; Wrap in discarding-stdout to prevent handler logging from corrupting JSON-RPC output.
+        result-promise (p/future
+                         (discarding-stdout
+                          (receive-request method
+                                           (assoc context ::req-cancelled? cancelled?)
+                                           params)))]
     (map->PendingReceivedRequest
-      {:result-promise result-promise
-       :cancelled? cancelled?})))
+     {:result-promise result-promise
+      :cancelled? cancelled?})))
 
 ;; TODO: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.17/specification/#initialize
 ;; * receive-request should return error until initialize request is received
@@ -256,11 +260,11 @@
           ;; presumed to be both very rare and indicative of a problem that can
           ;; be solved only in the client or the language server.
           client-initiated-in-ch (thread-loop
-                                   input-buffer-size
-                                   (fn [[message-type message]]
-                                     (if (identical? :request message-type)
-                                       (protocols.endpoint/receive-request this context message)
-                                       (protocols.endpoint/receive-notification this context message))))
+                                  input-buffer-size
+                                  (fn [[message-type message]]
+                                    (if (identical? :request message-type)
+                                      (protocols.endpoint/receive-request this context message)
+                                      (protocols.endpoint/receive-notification this context message))))
           reject-pending-sent-requests (fn [exception]
                                          (doseq [pending-request (vals @pending-sent-requests*)]
                                            (p/reject! (:p pending-request)
@@ -277,7 +281,7 @@
                            (when-not (async/offer! client-initiated-in-ch [message-type message])
                              ;; Buffers full. Fail any waiting pending requests and...
                              (reject-pending-sent-requests
-                               (ex-info "Buffer of client messages exhausted." {}))
+                              (ex-info "Buffer of client messages exhausted." {}))
                              ;; ... try again, but park this time.
                              (async/>! client-initiated-in-ch [message-type message])))
                          (recur))
@@ -380,12 +384,12 @@
               :result-promise
               ;; convert result/error to response
               (p/then
-                (fn [result]
-                  (if (identical? ::method-not-found result)
-                    (do
-                      (protocols.endpoint/log this :warn "received unexpected request" method)
-                      (responses/error resp (errors/not-found method)))
-                    (responses/infer resp result))))
+               (fn [result]
+                 (if (identical? ::method-not-found result)
+                   (do
+                     (protocols.endpoint/log this :warn "received unexpected request" method)
+                     (responses/error resp (errors/not-found method)))
+                   (responses/infer resp result))))
               ;; Handle
               ;; 1. Exceptions thrown within p/future created by receive-request.
               ;; 2. Cancelled requests.
@@ -433,15 +437,15 @@
         log-ch (or log-ch (async/chan (async/sliding-buffer 20)))
         trace-ch (or trace-ch (async/chan (async/sliding-buffer 20)))]
     (map->ChanServer
-      {:output-ch output-ch
-       :input-ch input-ch
-       :log-ch log-ch
-       :trace-ch trace-ch
-       :tracer* (atom tracer)
-       :clock clock
-       :on-close on-close
-       :response-executor response-executor
-       :request-id* (atom 0)
-       :pending-sent-requests* (atom {})
-       :pending-received-requests* (atom {})
-       :join (promise)})))
+     {:output-ch output-ch
+      :input-ch input-ch
+      :log-ch log-ch
+      :trace-ch trace-ch
+      :tracer* (atom tracer)
+      :clock clock
+      :on-close on-close
+      :response-executor response-executor
+      :request-id* (atom 0)
+      :pending-sent-requests* (atom {})
+      :pending-received-requests* (atom {})
+      :join (promise)})))