smc: fall back to Unbounded on a failed start instead of also reporting it - #8997
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…ng it A failed Share My Connection start reports itself twice, and only one of the two handlers did the right thing. setPeerProxy returns peer.Client.Start's own error — radiance runs Start synchronously under the settings patch and propagates it out — but _start assumed that Either only carried pre-Start failures (IPC down, missing plugin) and treated it as terminal: mode=off, phase=error, message on the card. Meanwhile the phase=error StatusEvent reached _handlePeerStatus, which did the intended thing and fell back to Unbounded. Both ran. The user got Unbounded quietly working and "Couldn't share: Your router accepted the port mapping but isn't forwarding traffic to this computer." on the card at the same time, with the toggle off. The most common way SmC fails is exactly this: the UPnP probe passes, so the mode is chosen, and then the router accepts the port mapping without honouring it, which only surfaces at verify. So the path that reported a failure was the one that fires most often. Both handlers now fall back, and _fallbackToUnbounded ignores whichever arrives second — previously nothing stopped Unbounded being started twice, with the second call racing the first one's state. It also no longer calls _stopEventSubscription, which was tearing down the very subscription the Unbounded session needs. Two comments asserting the old contract are corrected; one of them sent me looking in the wrong place first. Ships without a Dart test. There are none for this file today, and covering it needs get_it registration, a SharedPreferencesWithCache mock and a widget test just to obtain a WidgetRef — worth building, but not while a nightly is showing users a failure for a session that works.
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In `@lib/features/share_my_connection/share_my_connection.dart`:
- Around line 400-423: Update _handlePeerStatus to return immediately for
peer-status events when state.mode is not ShareMode.smc, before processing SmC
phases or errors. This must ignore late SmC events after _fallbackToUnbounded
changes the mode, preserving Unbounded at SharePhase.idle and preventing stale
SmC error text from being written into its state.
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Pull request overview
This PR fixes an inconsistent UI/behavior state when Share My Connection (SmC) fails during peer.Client.Start: the app could both (a) successfully fall back to Unbounded and (b) also show a terminal failure with the toggle off. The change aligns both error paths to fall back to Unbounded and adds a simple guard to prevent double-starting Unbounded when the same SmC failure is observed via two channels.
Changes:
- Update the SmC
_start()error handling to fall back to Unbounded instead of resetting state tooff + error. - Add a guard in
_fallbackToUnbounded()to ignore duplicate fallback invocations (phase=error event vs returned error). - Correct/clarify documentation in
RadianceSettings.setPeerProxy()to reflect that itsEithercan include Start() failures, not only pre-start failures.
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| File | Description |
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| lib/features/share_my_connection/share_my_connection.dart | Changes SmC start failure handling to fall back to Unbounded and prevents duplicate fallback execution. |
| lib/features/home/provider/radiance_settings_providers.dart | Updates setPeerProxy docstring to reflect actual error semantics (Start failures propagate). |
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Left a hole open: if setPeerProxy's error arrives before the phase=error event, the fold path flips mode to unbounded synchronously, so when that event lands the two SmC branches no longer match and the trailing copyWith writes the SmC error onto the working Unbounded session. Same bug as this PR fixes, reached by the opposite ordering. peer-status describes an SmC session and says nothing about any other mode, so it is dropped unless mode is smc. That also makes the per-branch mode checks redundant.
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418-422: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftBind fallback handling to the active SmC start.
The fallback guard checks only
state.mode. If the user stops sharing whilesetPeerProxy(true)is pending, the oldLeftstill calls_fallbackToUnboundedafter the state changes tooff. This starts Unbounded after an explicit stop. An old error can also affect a later session.Pass a per-start generation through
_startEventSubscription,_handlePeerStatus, and_fallbackToUnbounded. Invalidate the generation in_stop. Check it before changing state, before enabling Unbounded, and after the awaited enable operation.The
setUnboundedEnabledcontract is asynchronous, sostate.modeis not sufficient as the operation identity. Add tests for stop-while-starting and stop-then-restart ordering.Proposed fix shape
+ int _shareSession = 0; Future<void> _start(WidgetRef widgetRef, ShareMode mode) async { + final session = ++_shareSession; ... - _startEventSubscription(widgetRef); + _startEventSubscription(widgetRef, session); ... - unawaited(_fallbackToUnbounded(widgetRef)); + unawaited(_fallbackToUnbounded(widgetRef, session)); - void _handlePeerStatus(String message, WidgetRef widgetRef) { - if (state.mode != ShareMode.smc) return; + void _handlePeerStatus( + String message, + WidgetRef widgetRef, + int session, + ) { + if (session != _shareSession || state.mode != ShareMode.smc) return; ... - unawaited(_fallbackToUnbounded(widgetRef)); + unawaited(_fallbackToUnbounded(widgetRef, session)); Future<void> _stop(WidgetRef widgetRef) async { + ++_shareSession; ... - Future<void> _fallbackToUnbounded(WidgetRef widgetRef) async { - if (state.mode == ShareMode.unbounded) return; + Future<void> _fallbackToUnbounded( + WidgetRef widgetRef, + int session, + ) async { + if (session != _shareSession || state.mode != ShareMode.smc) return; ... final result = await ...setUnboundedEnabled(true); + if (session != _shareSession) return;Also applies to: 703-710, 745-750
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In `@lib/features/share_my_connection/share_my_connection.dart`:
- Around line 418-422: Bind fallback handling to the active sharing-start
generation rather than relying only on state.mode: create and pass a per-start
generation through _startEventSubscription, _handlePeerStatus, and
_fallbackToUnbounded, invalidate it in _stop, and validate it before state
changes, before enabling Unbounded, and after the awaited enable operation. Add
coverage for stopping while startup is pending and stopping then restarting to
ensure stale errors cannot trigger fallback in a later session.
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Reported from a nightly: Unbounded is running ("Waiting for connections…") and the card shows a failure, with the toggle off.
Both things are true at once because a failed SmC start reports itself twice, and only one of the two handlers did the right thing.
The two paths
setPeerProxyreturnspeer.Client.Start's own error — radiance runsStartsynchronously under the settings patch and propagates it out (backend/peer_share.go:95-104). But_startassumed thatEitheronly ever carried pre-Start failures (IPC down, missing plugin), and treated it as terminal. Its own comment said so:That was wrong, so the terminal branch ran for the failure it was never meant to see — while the
phase=errorevent separately did the intended thing and fell back.sequenceDiagram autonumber participant U as user participant T as toggle<br/>share_my_connection.dart participant S as _start<br/>share_my_connection.dart participant H as _handlePeerStatus<br/>share_my_connection.dart participant R as applyPeerShare<br/>backend/peer_share.go participant P as Client.Start<br/>peer/peer.go U->>T: tap share T->>T: share_my_connection.dart:343<br/>probeUPnP() → true ✅ Note over T: share_my_connection.dart:351<br/>UPnP looks usable, so mode = smc ⚠️ T->>S: _start(mode: smc) S->>R: setPeerProxy(true) R->>P: peer_share.go:95<br/>Start(ctx) — synchronous P->>P: peer.go:427<br/>verify → 422, router never forwarded P-->>H: peer.go:351<br/>emitError(port_unreachable) H->>H: :696 phase=error + mode=smc<br/>_fallbackToUnbounded() ✅ Note over H: Unbounded starts —<br/>"Waiting for connections…" P-->>R: error R-->>S: peer_share.go:104<br/>"start peer share: …" rect rgba(255, 200, 200, 0.3) Note over S: :404 fold(err) treats it as a<br/>pre-Start failure → mode=off,<br/>phase=error, message on card 🐛 end S-->>U: a failure, next to a working sessionThe ordering is why both artifacts are visible: the event lands during the
await, so the fallback runs first and the terminal reset overwrites its state afterwards.Why this is the common case, not an edge case
togglepicks the mode fromprobeUPnP(), which only asks whether a usable IGD answers (share_my_connection.dart:343). A router can answer discovery, acceptAddPortMapping, and still not forward — and that is only discoverable at verify, long after the mode was chosen. So the failure that took the terminal path is the single most likely way SmC fails.What changed
fold(err)calls_fallbackToUnboundedinstead of reporting. By the time it returns, radiance has already rolledPeerShareEnabledKeyback, so SmC is definitively not running and falling back is all that is left to do. Genuine pre-Start failures land here too and want the same thing — the user asked to share, and Unbounded is the way that still works. If that fails, the existing nested error path surfaces it._fallbackToUnboundedignores a second arrival. Nothing previously stopped one failure from starting Unbounded twice, with the second call racing the first one's state. A plain field check is enough: both callers run on the main isolate and the mode flip is synchronous._stopEventSubscription()from that branch. It was tearing down the subscription the Unbounded session needs —_fallbackToUnboundeddocuments that it deliberately keeps it.setPeerProxy's docstring, which claimed the same thing and sent me looking in the wrong place first.Found in review: the opposite ordering had the same bug
The first version of this fix only closed one of the two orderings. If
setPeerProxy's error arrives before thephase=errorevent,_fallbackToUnboundedflipsmodetounboundedsynchronously — so when that event lands, both SmC branches fail to match and the trailingcopyWithwrites the SmC error straight onto the working Unbounded session. The card shows the failure again, which is precisely what this PR set out to stop._handlePeerStatusnow drops anypeer-statusevent unlessmode == smc. That event describes an SmC session and has nothing to say about another mode, so this is the shape of the invariant rather than a patch for one ordering — and it makes the per-branch&& state.mode == ShareMode.smcchecks redundant, so the invariant now lives in one place.With both guards, whichever path arrives second is inert: event-first is absorbed by
_fallbackToUnbounded's re-entry check, error-first by this one.Not a radiance regression
Worth stating, since the message in the report is new: the readable text comes from radiance#609, but the double-handling predates it. Before that change the same two paths ran and produced the same inconsistent state — the card just showed a four-deep wrapped error instead of a sentence. #609 made a pre-existing bug legible rather than causing it. The last functional change to this file (#8820) is older than either.
Tests
None, and that is a real gap. There are no tests for this file today, and covering this needs
get_itregistration, aSharedPreferencesWithCachemock, and a widget test purely to obtain aWidgetRef— the notifier's start path is private and reached throughtoggle(BuildContext, WidgetRef). Worth building, but not while a nightly is showing users a failure for a session that works.A test would drive: consent pre-acked,
getPeerManualPort→ non-zero (skips the probe),setPeerProxyEnabled→Left, then asserterrorMessage == null,mode == unbounded, andsetUnboundedEnabledcalled exactly once — that last one being the guard.Verified by
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