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superseded, an in-flight ack for a superseded start, stop while pending,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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"""Deliver an on-demand start to a display that is not listening yet.
``POST /api/v3/display/on-demand/start`` can find no display on the control
socket: the service is stopped (the route starts it) or still loading its
plugins. The socket comes up only when the display's run loop starts, which
can take longer than a client waits -- the MQTT bridge gives up after 15 s.
So the route answers at once (``202``, ``status: "starting"``) and hands
the request to the one :class:`OnDemandDispatcher` of the web process, whose
worker thread sends it again until the display acknowledges it or
:data:`START_WAIT_SECONDS` pass.
* One request at a time: a newer start replaces the pending one, and a
stop cancels it (:meth:`OnDemandDispatcher.cancel`).
* Its outcome is :meth:`OnDemandDispatcher.status`, which
``GET /display/on-demand/status`` and ``/display/current-status`` report:
``starting`` while it waits, ``delivered`` once acknowledged (the
display's own state takes over from there), or ``error`` with
``start-timeout`` or the socket's reason.
Nothing is written to disk: the file mailbox that once carried such a
request is gone (docs/IPC_CONTROL_SOCKET.md, stage 5).
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import threading
import time
from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional
from src.ipc import client as control_client
from src.logging_config import get_logger
logger = get_logger(__name__)
#: How long the worker keeps sending a start before it gives up
#: (``start-timeout``). The socket comes up when the display's run loop
#: starts, after every plugin has loaded.
START_WAIT_SECONDS = 45.0
#: Gap between two sends while nothing is listening.
RETRY_INTERVAL = 0.5
#: How long a finished outcome (delivered, error, cancelled) is still
#: reported, so a client polling every few seconds sees it.
OUTCOME_SECONDS = 120.0
#: ``send(payload)`` hands the request to the display (the route's
#: ``_send_on_demand``) and raises ``ControlError`` when it does not take it.
Sender = Callable[[Dict[str, Any]], Any]
class OnDemandDispatcher:
"""One pending on-demand start, and the worker thread that delivers it."""
def __init__(self, send: Sender, *,
wait_seconds: Optional[float] = None,
retry_interval: Optional[float] = None,
clock: Callable[[], float] = time.monotonic,
wall_clock: Callable[[], float] = time.time):
self._send = send
self.wait_seconds = START_WAIT_SECONDS if wait_seconds is None else wait_seconds
self.retry_interval = RETRY_INTERVAL if retry_interval is None else retry_interval
self._clock = clock
self._wall = wall_clock
self._lock = threading.Lock()
self._wake = threading.Event()
# Bumped by every submit and cancel: a send that started under an
# older generation does not report its result as the current one.
self._generation = 0
self._pending: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
self._deadline = 0.0
self._status: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
self._finished_at: Optional[float] = None
self._thread: Optional[threading.Thread] = None
# -- the routes' side ------------------------------------------------------
def submit(self, payload: Dict[str, Any], wait_seconds: Optional[float] = None) -> None:
"""Deliver ``payload`` (an on-demand start) in the background,
replacing any start still pending."""
with self._lock:
self._generation += 1
superseded = self._pending
self._pending = dict(payload)
self._deadline = self._clock() + (self.wait_seconds if wait_seconds is None
else wait_seconds)
self._status = self._describe('starting', payload)
self._finished_at = None
if self._thread is None or not self._thread.is_alive():
self._thread = threading.Thread(target=self._run, name='on-demand-dispatch',
daemon=True)
self._thread.start()
if superseded is not None:
logger.info("On-demand start %s superseded by %s before the display took it",
superseded.get('request_id'), payload.get('request_id'))
self._wake.set()
def cancel(self, reason: str = 'cancelled') -> Optional[str]:
"""Drop the pending start (a stop arrived). Returns its request id,
or None when nothing was pending."""
with self._lock:
pending = self._pending
if pending is None:
return None
self._generation += 1
self._pending = None
self._finish(self._describe('idle', pending, last_event=reason))
self._wake.set()
logger.info("On-demand start %s cancelled before the display took it (%s)",
pending.get('request_id'), reason)
return pending.get('request_id')
def status(self) -> Optional[Dict[str, Any]]:
"""The pending start's state, or its outcome for OUTCOME_SECONDS
after it finished; None otherwise. In the shape of the display's
on-demand state (``active``, ``status``, ``error``, ...), plus
``source: "web"``."""
with self._lock:
if self._status is None:
return None
if (self._finished_at is not None
and self._clock() - self._finished_at > OUTCOME_SECONDS):
return None
return dict(self._status)
def pending(self) -> bool:
with self._lock:
return self._pending is not None
# -- the worker ------------------------------------------------------------
def _describe(self, status: str, payload: Dict[str, Any], error: Optional[str] = None,
last_event: Optional[str] = None) -> Dict[str, Any]:
return {
'active': False,
'status': status,
'error': error,
'last_event': last_event,
'request_id': payload.get('request_id'),
'plugin_id': payload.get('plugin_id'),
'mode': payload.get('mode'),
'duration': payload.get('duration'),
'pinned': bool(payload.get('pinned', False)),
'last_updated': self._wall(),
'source': 'web',
}
def _finish(self, status: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
"""Record an outcome. Caller holds _lock."""
self._status = status
self._finished_at = self._clock()
def _run(self) -> None:
while True:
with self._lock:
payload, generation = self._pending, self._generation
deadline = self._deadline
if payload is None:
self._thread = None
return
outcome, error = self._attempt(payload)
with self._lock:
if generation != self._generation:
continue # superseded or cancelled meanwhile
if outcome == 'retry' and self._clock() + self.retry_interval > deadline:
outcome, error = 'error', 'start-timeout'
if outcome == 'delivered':
self._pending = None
self._finish(self._describe('delivered', payload,
last_event='delivered'))
elif outcome == 'error':
self._pending = None
self._finish(self._describe('error', payload, error=error))
else:
self._wake.clear()
if outcome == 'delivered':
logger.info("On-demand start %s delivered once the display was listening",
payload.get('request_id'))
elif outcome == 'error':
logger.warning("On-demand start %s not delivered: %s",
payload.get('request_id'), error)
else:
# A submit or cancel wakes the wait at once.
self._wake.wait(self.retry_interval)
def _attempt(self, payload: Dict[str, Any]):
try:
self._send(payload)
except control_client.ControlError as e:
if control_client.display_not_listening(e):
return 'retry', None
return 'error', str(e.reason)
except Exception: # pylint: disable=broad-except
logger.exception("On-demand start %s: the control socket client failed",
payload.get('request_id'))
return 'error', 'internal'
return 'delivered', None
_dispatcher: Optional[OnDemandDispatcher] = None
_dispatcher_lock = threading.Lock()
def get_dispatcher(send: Sender) -> OnDemandDispatcher:
"""The web process's dispatcher, created on first use."""
global _dispatcher
with _dispatcher_lock:
if _dispatcher is None:
_dispatcher = OnDemandDispatcher(send)
return _dispatcher
def current() -> Optional[OnDemandDispatcher]:
"""The dispatcher if one was created, without creating one."""
return _dispatcher
def reset_for_tests() -> None:
global _dispatcher
with _dispatcher_lock:
_dispatcher = None