Beast Socket from Boost Python Package Kills Kernel

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, jupyter-notebook
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start with the SocketExample and ExampleModule code shown in the issue, then reproduce the failure by importing ExampleModule in the Jupyter example and calling constructSocket. Compare that behavior with the same SocketExample call from main.cpp; done means the Jupyter kernel remains running and the socket construction completes without terminating it.

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Description

For some reason when exposing the below to python using Boost Python, the unique pointer constructor (the obj constructor) fails. This used to work for me before, not sure why it stopped.

#pragma once
#include <memory>
#include <boost/asio/ssl.hpp>
#include <boost/asio/ip/tcp.hpp>
#include <boost/beast.hpp>

//Socket
class Contextable
{
public:
	Contextable() : m_ssl(boost::asio::ssl::context::sslv23_client) {}

protected:
	boost::asio::io_context    m_ctx;
	boost::asio::ssl::context  m_ssl;
};

class SocketExample : protected Contextable
{
	using SocketImp = boost::beast::websocket::stream<boost::asio::ssl::stream<boost::asio::ip::tcp::socket>>;
public:
	SocketExample()
	{
	}

	void constructSocket()
	{
		m_ws = std::make_unique<SocketImp>(m_ctx, m_ssl); //kills jupyter kernel
		std::cout << "DONE. OPEN FLAG: " << m_ws->is_open() << std::endl;
	}

private:
	std::unique_ptr<SocketImp> m_ws;
};

//ExampleModule
#include <boost/python.hpp>

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(ExampleModule)
{
    boost::python::class_<SocketExample, std::shared_ptr<SocketExample>, boost::noncopyable>("SocketExample")
        .def(boost::python::init<>())
        .def("constructSocket", &SocketExample::constructSocket)
        ;
}
##Jupyter Notebook
import ExampleModule as m
socket = m.SocketExample()
socket.constructSocket() ##kills kernel

Any idea what I am doing wrong? When running this using c++ as follows does not fail.

SocketExample sk;
sk.constructSocket(); //works fine when run inside main.cpp
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