fix(web): ask for the restart that makes an update take effect

The update button pulls new code and restarts nothing. There is no systemctl,
restart, reload or reboot anywhere in the 172-line git_pull handler -- it
stashes, pulls, installs changed requirements, re-removes plugins the user had
uninstalled, and returns "Code updated successfully."

Meanwhile both services go on running the code they loaded at boot. So the
display keeps rendering the old build, the web interface keeps serving the old
build, and the user is told the update worked. Nothing on screen suggests
otherwise, and the next reboot is what actually applies it -- whenever that is.

The affordance for this already exists: the restart-pending banner, raised
after main-config saves, with a Restart Now button wired to the display
service. A code update is a stronger reason to show it than a config save is.

The response now reports restart_required, and applyUpdate raises the banner
with wording for a code update rather than a config save. The banner's message
became a parameter and is persisted next to the flag, since it outlives the
page that raised it.

restart_required is only true when the pull actually moved HEAD. "Already up
to date" is a success too, and prompting after a no-op would train users to
dismiss the prompt unread.

This covers the display service, which is what the Restart Now button drives
and what users notice. The web interface still picks up its own new code on
its next restart; restarting it from inside a request it is serving is a
larger change than this one.

Reverting the flag fails the test that a pull which moved HEAD asks for a
restart. 290 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW
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"""A pull that changed nothing on the running system is not an applied update.
git_pull replaces files on disk and restarts nothing -- there is no systemctl
call anywhere in the handler. The display and web services keep running the
code they loaded at boot, so the user is told "Code updated successfully" and
sees no change until they happen to reboot. The response now says whether a
restart is owed, and the UI raises the existing restart-pending banner.
"""
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from unittest.mock import patch
import pytest
from flask import Flask
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
from web_interface.blueprints import api_v3 as mod # noqa: E402
from web_interface.blueprints.api_v3 import api_v3 # noqa: E402
@pytest.fixture
def client():
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['TESTING'] = True
app.register_blueprint(api_v3, url_prefix='/api/v3')
# The handler consults these after a successful pull; None is the
# "not wired up" case it already guards for.
api_v3.plugin_store_manager = None
api_v3.config_manager = None
return app.test_client()
def _git(heads, pull_rc=0, pull_out='Updating a1b2c3..d4e5f6\n'):
"""Fake git. `heads` are the successive answers to rev-parse HEAD."""
seq = list(heads)
def run(args, **kwargs):
def ok(stdout='', rc=0, b=False):
return subprocess.CompletedProcess(
args, rc, stdout=(stdout.encode() if b else stdout),
stderr=(b'' if b else ''))
if args[:2] == ['git', 'rev-parse'] and args[-1] == 'HEAD':
return ok(seq.pop(0) + '\n' if seq else 'deadbeef\n')
if 'symbolic-full-name' in args or '@{u}' in args:
return ok('origin/main\n')
if args[:2] == ['git', 'status']:
return ok('')
if args[:2] == ['git', 'diff']:
return ok('')
if args[:2] == ['git', 'pull']:
return ok(pull_out, pull_rc)
return ok('')
return run
def _pull(client):
return client.post('/api/v3/system/action',
json={'action': 'git_pull'}).get_json()
class TestRestartIsRequestedWhenCodeChanged:
def test_a_pull_that_moved_head_asks_for_a_restart(self, client):
with patch.object(mod.subprocess, 'run', _git(['aaa111', 'bbb222'])):
data = _pull(client)
assert data['status'] == 'success'
assert data['restart_required'] is True, (
"new code on disk, services still running the old code, and "
"nothing told the user to restart")
def test_already_up_to_date_does_not(self, client):
with patch.object(mod.subprocess, 'run',
_git(['aaa111', 'aaa111'], pull_out='Already up to date.\n')):
data = _pull(client)
assert data['status'] == 'success'
assert data['restart_required'] is False, (
"prompting after a no-op update trains users to ignore the prompt")
def test_a_failed_pull_does_not(self, client):
with patch.object(mod.subprocess, 'run', _git(['aaa111'], pull_rc=1)):
data = _pull(client)
assert data['status'] == 'error'
assert data['restart_required'] is False