feat(web): a start that waits for the display answers 202 and is delivered in the background

The start route held a request open for up to 45 s while a cold-started
display loaded its plugins; the MQTT bridge (15 s timeout) and browsers
reported a failure for a request that was then delivered.

Now, when no display is listening, the route starts the service if asked
and answers 202 with status "starting" at once. A single worker in the web
process (web_interface/on_demand_dispatch.py) sends the request until the
display acknowledges it or the wait runs out (45 s cold start, 10 s for a
running service without a socket yet). A newer start supersedes the
pending one; a stop cancels it (and succeeds, with cancelled_request_id,
even with no display listening). The outcome is reported by
/display/on-demand/status (source "web": starting, or error with
start-timeout or the socket's reason, until the display publishes
something newer) and by /display/current-status as on_demand_pending.

Callers: the web UI's on-demand modal and "Preview on display" treat
"starting" as taken (an info toast); the MQTT bridge already treats any
non-error 2xx as success (now pinned by a test).

Tests: the dispatcher (ack, retry then ack, start-timeout, other failures,
superseded, an in-flight ack for a superseded start, stop while pending,
a per-start wait, outcome lifetime); the routes (202, status routes while
pending and after a timeout, a later display state replacing the failure,
stop while pending, a new start superseding); a JS suite for app.js.
Mutation check: 20 mutants on the worker, the routes and app.js, 20 killed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Chuck
2026-10-05 10:13:28 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent c59a779381
commit ec95340d4a
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@@ -327,3 +327,27 @@ class TestCleartextIsCalledOut:
def test_tls_on_does_not_warn(self, bridge_module):
assert bridge_module.warn_if_cleartext(
{"mqtt_tls": True, "mqtt_password": "hunter2"}) is False
class TestTheApiClientReadsStartingAsTaken:
"""A cold start answers 202 with ``status: "starting"``: the request is
taken and the web process delivers it once the display listens. The
bridge must report that as success, not as a failure."""
def _client(self, bridge_module, status_code, body):
response = MagicMock(status_code=status_code)
response.json.return_value = body
session = MagicMock()
session.request.return_value = response
return bridge_module.LEDMatrixClient("http://pi:5000", session=session)
def test_202_starting_is_returned_not_raised(self, bridge_module):
api = self._client(bridge_module, 202, {
"status": "starting", "message": "starting",
"data": {"request_id": "r1", "pending": True}})
assert api.start_on_demand(mode="clock") == {"request_id": "r1", "pending": True}
def test_an_error_is_still_raised(self, bridge_module):
api = self._client(bridge_module, 503, {"status": "error", "message": "no display"})
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="no display"):
api.start_on_demand(mode="clock")