fix: reset the pending ping after a timeout so later ping() calls succeed - #687
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ChangesRealtime ping coordination
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Pings interrupted by a recoverable fallback-host reconnection can still time out even after the connection is restored. The fallback reconnection path should resend pending heartbeats and be covered by a regression test before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PingCaller
participant ConnectionManager
participant RealtimeTransport
PingCaller->>ConnectionManager: Start ping
ConnectionManager->>ConnectionManager: Register PendingPing
ConnectionManager->>RealtimeTransport: Send heartbeat when connected
ConnectionManager->>ConnectionManager: Resend heartbeat after reconnection
RealtimeTransport->>ConnectionManager: Return heartbeat echo
ConnectionManager-->>PingCaller: Return round-trip time
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In `@ably/realtime/connectionmanager.py`:
- Line 355: Update the heartbeat timing in the connection manager to store
time.monotonic() instead of datetime.now().timestamp() at __ping_start_time, and
calculate the round-trip delta from the same monotonic clock in on_heartbeat().
- Line 366: Update the ping request flow around send_protocol_message and the
shared in_flight future so send failures complete the shared future with the
actual exception before cleanup, rather than cancelling it and producing a false
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preserving existing timeout behavior, and add a regression test covering
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…ceed Once a ping timed out, ConnectionManager.ping() left the cancelled future in place, so every subsequent call awaited it and failed immediately with "Ping request cancelled due to request timeout" for the life of the client, even though the connection was healthy. A ping rejected for being in an invalid state left an unresolved future behind in the same way, making the next ping hang. Track each ping's pending heartbeat by its own id (RTN13e) and remove it in a finally block, so success, timeout, send failure and cancellation all clean up and concurrent pings are independent. Measure the round trip with a monotonic clock and fix the swapped code/status on the invalid-state error.
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238-241: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert heartbeat sharing, not only result types.
The current assertions pass when
ping()sends three independent heartbeats. Instrumentsend_protocol_messageand assert that concurrent calls send oneHEARTBEAT. Also cancel one waiter to verify that cancellation does not cancel the shared operation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@ably/realtime/connectionmanager.py`:
- Line 340: Update the heartbeat flow around __pending_pings so concurrent
callers share one in-flight future instead of creating a future per ping_id, and
await it through asyncio.shield while preserving completion and cleanup
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In `@test/ably/realtime/realtimeconnection_test.py`:
- Around line 238-241: Strengthen the concurrent ping test around
connection.ping() to instrument send_protocol_message and assert that three
concurrent calls emit only one HEARTBEAT message. Cancel one waiter before
completion, then await the remaining callers and verify the shared heartbeat
still completes; retain the response-type assertions.
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This is good but it looks like a dropped connection doesn't fail the ping immediately, instead it will fail after the realtime_request_timeout, probably worth fixing that now
A heartbeat echo cannot arrive once the connection has left the connected state, so a ping whose heartbeat was lost to a dropped connection used to sit there until realtime_request_timeout expired. Fail pending pings as soon as the state changes to DISCONNECTED, SUSPENDED, CLOSING, CLOSED or FAILED, with the state change reason or the matching ConnectionErrors entry.
Failing pending pings on DISCONNECTED made a recoverable blip a user-visible error: DISCONNECTED is absent from RTN13b's list, and RTN13d puts it alongside CONNECTING as a state where the ping should be done once the connection is CONNECTED. The common drop sets retry_immediately (RTN15a) and reconnects well inside realtimeRequestTimeout, so those pings can still succeed. Track each pending ping's start time alongside its future and send its heartbeat on the transition to CONNECTED, covering both a ping registered while connecting and one whose heartbeat was lost with a dropped transport. The round trip is measured from that send, and the single realtime_request_timeout still bounds the total wait. Pings are still failed on transition to SUSPENDED, CLOSING, CLOSED or FAILED per RTN13b.
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In `@ably/realtime/connectionmanager.py`:
- Line 680: Update the on_connected() state-update path so pending pings are
resent when fallback reconnection succeeds while the state remains CONNECTED;
centralize __send_pending_pings() if appropriate so both normal and fallback
connection paths invoke it, and add a regression test covering a pending ping
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Problem
ping()timed out,ConnectionManager.ping()left the cancelled future in place. Every laterping()awaited it and failed instantly withPing request cancelled due to request timeout(504/50003) for the life of the client, even though the connection was healthy and messages were flowing.ping()rejected for being in an invalid state also left an unresolved future behind, so the nextping()after connecting hung forever.realtime_request_timeoutexpired.Fix
ping()tracks its own pending heartbeat by id (RTN13e) in__pending_pingsand removes it in afinally, so success, timeout, send failure and caller cancellation all clean up and concurrent pings are independent.ConnectionErrorsentry (e.g. 80003), instead of waiting for the request timeout.400/40000); nowcode=40000,status_code=400. Existing tests updated accordingly.Tests
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