""" Browsing is never subject to a transfer slot — and is not unbounded either. **Operator decision, 2026-09-08:** a member must be able to browse a group that is at capacity exactly as they browse an idle one. Not the poster grid, not the covers, not opening a photo or a PDF to look at it. §3.4 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md satisfies that structurally: a transfer is what the transfers widget shows, and nothing else takes a slot. But "not leased" cannot mean "unbounded". With MNP 3.0 making leases compulsory, a client that simply omits `tr` would otherwise transfer outside every cap, and the caps would be decoration — the leaseless branch left reachable is finding C6's lesson (a transport that accepted a bare token) one feature later. So a leaseless read is bounded by a small count of *files in flight*, not by bytes: a RAW photo out of a camera is 60–80 MB and is browsing, a 40 MB archive is a download, and no size threshold separates them. What separates them is which function asked. """ import re from pathlib import Path import pytest from meshbay_node.transfers import ( LEASELESS_IDLE_SECS, MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT, LeaselessReads, ) SPA = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "meshbay-hub" / "src" / "meshbay_hub" / "static") def test_a_viewer_looking_at_one_file_is_never_refused(): reads = LeaselessReads() for chunk in range(20): assert reads.admit("photo-1", now=float(chunk)) is True def test_a_second_file_is_allowed_so_prefetching_stays_possible(): """One is what a viewer needs; two is so the photo viewer can fetch the next one while showing this one.""" reads = LeaselessReads(limit=2) assert reads.admit("photo-1", now=0.0) is True assert reads.admit("photo-2", now=0.0) is True def test_a_file_past_the_limit_is_refused(): """The mechanism, at a limit this test sets itself: the shipped number is derived from the client and moves, and a test that hard-codes it is a test that breaks every time the client legitimately reads further ahead.""" reads = LeaselessReads(limit=2) reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is False def test_a_file_already_being_read_is_never_cut_off(): """Even once the limit is reached. Refusing a chunk halfway through a photo because the count moved would be worse than never having admitted it — the viewer would show half an image and no error anyone can act on.""" reads = LeaselessReads(limit=2) reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is False assert reads.admit("a", now=1.0) is True def test_finishing_one_frees_it_at_once(): """The last chunk is the only "close" a leaseless read has. Waiting for the idle timeout instead would mean somebody who looked at two photos cannot look at a third for a minute.""" reads = LeaselessReads(limit=2) reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) reads.finish("a") assert reads.admit("c", now=0.0) is True def test_a_viewer_closed_mid_file_does_not_hold_its_place_for_ever(): """It stops asking and says nothing — there is no message for "I closed the tab". Without the idle expiry the session would carry two dead entries and refuse every later preview, which is the bound turning into a bug.""" reads = LeaselessReads(limit=2) reads.admit("a", now=0.0) reads.admit("b", now=0.0) assert reads.admit("c", now=1.0) is False assert reads.admit("c", now=LEASELESS_IDLE_SECS + 2) is True def test_the_bound_covers_what_the_music_player_actually_reads_ahead(): """The number is derived, not chosen — and choosing it is how it went wrong. §3.4.1 argued for two by reasoning about viewers: one photo, one document, plus one for prefetching the next. It forgot the music player, which warms a read-ahead window; playing an album on Wi-Fi therefore has six files in flight and the fourth was refused with `transfer_required`. Reported the day MNP 3.0 shipped as "I try to play a track and it tells me to download it instead" — a stated requirement (browsing is never subject to a slot) broken by a constant nobody had checked against the client. So this reads `prefetchDepth()` out of the shipped player and fails if the node's bound no longer covers it. Raising the client's read-ahead without raising the node's bound now breaks the build instead of reaching a person. """ player = SPA / "music-player.js" if not player.exists(): pytest.skip("the SPA sources are not present next to the node package") body = player.read_text() fn = body[body.index("function prefetchDepth()"):] fn = fn[:fn.index("\n}\n")] depths = [int(n) for n in re.findall(r"return (\d+);", fn)] assert depths, "prefetchDepth() no longer returns a number this can read" # The track playing, plus the widest read-ahead it will warm. music = max(depths) + 1 # And a photo viewer with its own prefetch, in the same session: somebody # can look at photos while an album plays. viewer = 2 assert MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT >= music + viewer, ( f"the music player reads {music} files ahead and the node admits only " f"{MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT} leaseless — playing an album would be " "refused") def test_the_bound_is_still_a_bound(): """Generosity is cheap and refusal is not, but "unbounded" is the thing this exists to prevent: a client that omits `tr` must not have a download channel with no ceiling at all.""" assert MAX_LEASELESS_IN_FLIGHT < 64