""" Sending a chat message must come back. The node answers a chat message with a bare `{"type": "ack"}` — no request id, no type of its own — so `_dispatch` had nothing to match it on and left it to the arrival-order guess at the end of the function. That guess is wrong as soon as anything else this browser asked for is still waiting: the ack was handed to *that* request, and the send waited out `_sendAndWait`'s 30s timeout. Since the composer is disabled while a send is in flight, the Chat tab stopped taking clicks and keys, the message never appeared — and it was there on the next visit, because the node had stored it and answered. An outstanding request is the ordinary case, not a rare one: the node refuses an unknown file_id with a bare `error`, which names no request either, so a Videos tab that asked about a file the index no longer has leaves a `media_meta_req` in `_pending` for a full 30s. None of that is visible in `chat-app.js`, where every line is correct, so this drives the real panel over the real transport in a browser rather than reading either source. """ import json import shutil import subprocess from pathlib import Path import pytest HARNESS = Path(__file__).parent / "harness" / "chat_send_probe.py" STATIC = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src" / "meshbay_hub" / "static" pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif( shutil.which("google-chrome") is None or not (STATIC / "chat-app.js").exists(), reason="Chrome or the SPA sources are not available") @pytest.fixture(scope="module") def probe(): run = subprocess.run(["python3", str(HARNESS)], capture_output=True, timeout=180) assert run.returncode == 0, run.stderr.decode()[-2000:] data = json.loads(run.stdout.decode()) return data, {s["label"]: s for s in data["steps"]} def test_the_composer_comes_back(probe): """The one thing a person sees: the tab is usable again.""" _, steps = probe assert steps["stale request pending"]["composerDisabled"] is False, ( "the composer was already unusable before the send") assert steps["after send"]["composerDisabled"] is False, ( "the composer is still disabled well inside the 30s request timeout -- " "the send never came back, which is what reads as a frozen Chat tab") def test_the_message_is_displayed(probe): """A sent message appears at once, not on the next visit to the tab.""" _, steps = probe before = steps["stale request pending"]["bubbles"] assert steps["after send"]["bubbles"] == before + 1, ( "the message was not added to the conversation") assert steps["after send"]["lastText"] == "hello" assert steps["after send"]["composerValue"] == "", ( "the text came back into the composer, so the send was treated as failed") def test_the_ack_is_not_handed_to_another_request(probe): """The other half of the same defect: whatever was waiting got the ack and carried on with a reply to a question it never asked.""" data, _ = probe assert "media_meta resolved with ack" not in data["log"], ( "the chat ack was routed to the pending media_meta_req -- that request " "now believes it has an answer, and the chat send is waiting for a " "reply that already arrived")