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ChuckandClaude Opus 5.5 cdaeb3855d fix(web): a refused on-demand start leaves no request in the mailbox
POST /api/v3/display/on-demand/start delivered the request (control
socket, else the file mailbox) before it checked the display service.
With the service stopped the socket is absent, so the request went to the
mailbox; the route then answered 400 "Display service is not running"
when start_service was off, or 500 "Failed to start display service" when
the start failed. The display reads that mailbox with max_age=3600 and
never checks a request's timestamp, so the next time it was started it
ran the refused request, pinned if asked.

The service is now checked before anything is delivered, and nothing is
posted when start_service is off and the service is down. When the start
itself fails, the request is withdrawn from the mailbox, but only while
the mailbox still holds this request_id (the compare-before-delete the
display's _consume_on_demand_request uses), so a newer request posted in
the meantime is left for the display.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 20:52:39 -04:00

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"""POST /display/on-demand/start and /stop must not restart a running display.
The start route used to treat ``start_service`` (default True, and what both
the web UI and the MQTT bridge send) as "restart": with the service running it
ran ``systemctl stop``, slept 1.5s and started it again. Every on-demand or
"Preview on display" click therefore cold-restarted the display process --
every plugin reloaded, the panel blank for seconds -- to deliver a request the
running process polls for every ON_DEMAND_POLL_INTERVAL anyway (see
test_on_demand_mailbox.py and test_display_pending_changes.py for the display
side: the mailbox is read mid-dwell, mid-screen and mid-Vegas-iteration).
The restart did not buy anything either: a freshly started display restores
only the on-demand session it saved itself (``display_on_demand_config``), so
the new request reached it through the same mailbox, one cold start later.
This file previously pinned that restart path (it guarded a broken
``import _pkg.time`` inside it). The path is gone; these tests pin its
replacement: a running service is left alone, a stopped one is started (only
when start_service is set), and the request lands in the mailbox either way.
The service helpers are patched where they run. display.py binds
_get_display_service_status by value, while _ensure_display_service_running
(in the package __init__) looks it up in its own module, so both are patched;
_run_systemctl_command is the one place a systemctl command is issued.
"""
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from unittest.mock import patch
import pytest
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
from test._api_v3_test_helpers import api_v3_client, api_v3_module # noqa: F401,E402
START_URL = "/api/v3/display/on-demand/start"
STOP_URL = "/api/v3/display/on-demand/stop"
MAILBOX = "display_on_demand_request"
@pytest.fixture
def service(api_v3_module):
"""A display service whose state the test sets; records systemctl calls.
plugin_manager and config_manager are None so the route skips plugin
resolution (not what is under test here). The cache is the blueprint's
MagicMock cache_manager, so mailbox writes are visible as set() calls.
"""
api_v3_module.api_v3.plugin_catalog = None
api_v3_module.api_v3.config_manager = None
state = {"active": True}
def status():
return {"active": state["active"]}
def systemctl(args):
if args[-2:] == ["start", "ledmatrix.service"]:
state["active"] = True
elif args[-2:] == ["stop", "ledmatrix.service"]:
state["active"] = False
return {"returncode": 0, "stdout": "", "stderr": ""}
with patch("web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._get_display_service_status",
side_effect=status), \
patch("web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.display._get_display_service_status",
side_effect=status), \
patch("web_interface.blueprints.api_v3._run_systemctl_command",
side_effect=systemctl) as run_systemctl, \
patch("web_interface.blueprints.api_v3.display._stop_display_service") as stop_service:
yield {
"state": state,
"systemctl": run_systemctl,
"stop_service": stop_service,
"cache": api_v3_module.api_v3.cache_manager,
}
def _mailbox_writes(cache):
return [c.args[1] for c in cache.set.call_args_list if c.args and c.args[0] == MAILBOX]
def _systemctl_verbs(run_systemctl):
return [c.args[0][-2] for c in run_systemctl.call_args_list]
class TestStartWhileTheServiceIsRunning:
@pytest.mark.parametrize("body", [
{"plugin_id": "weather"}, # "Preview on display", MQTT
{"plugin_id": "weather", "start_service": True}, # on-demand modal, box ticked
{"plugin_id": "weather", "start_service": "true"},
])
def test_the_service_is_not_stopped_or_restarted(self, api_v3_client, service, body):
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json=body)
assert response.status_code == 200, response.get_json()
assert response.get_json()["status"] == "success"
service["stop_service"].assert_not_called()
assert _systemctl_verbs(service["systemctl"]) == [], (
"a running display service was sent a systemctl command")
def test_the_request_is_posted_for_the_running_display(self, api_v3_client, service):
response = api_v3_client.post(
START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather", "mode": "weather_current",
"duration": 60, "pinned": True})
data = response.get_json()["data"]
writes = _mailbox_writes(service["cache"])
assert len(writes) == 1
assert writes[0]["action"] == "start"
assert writes[0]["request_id"] == data["request_id"]
assert writes[0]["plugin_id"] == "weather"
assert writes[0]["mode"] == "weather_current"
assert writes[0]["duration"] == 60
assert writes[0]["pinned"] is True
def test_the_response_reports_the_service_was_not_started(self, api_v3_client, service):
data = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"}).get_json()["data"]
assert data["service"]["active"] is True
assert data["service"]["started"] is False
def test_it_answers_without_the_old_restart_pause(self, api_v3_client, service):
# The restart slept 1.5s; nothing here should sleep at all.
with patch("time.sleep") as sleep:
api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
sleep.assert_not_called()
class TestStartWhileTheServiceIsStopped:
def test_start_service_starts_it_once_and_never_stops_it(self, api_v3_client, service):
service["state"]["active"] = False
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
assert response.status_code == 200, response.get_json()
assert _systemctl_verbs(service["systemctl"]) == ["start"]
service["stop_service"].assert_not_called()
# Written before the start, so the new process finds it on its first poll.
assert len(_mailbox_writes(service["cache"])) == 1
def test_without_start_service_it_is_left_stopped(self, api_v3_client, service):
service["state"]["active"] = False
response = api_v3_client.post(
START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather", "start_service": "false"})
assert response.status_code == 400
assert _systemctl_verbs(service["systemctl"]) == []
def test_a_start_that_fails_is_reported(self, api_v3_client, service):
service["state"]["active"] = False
service["systemctl"].side_effect = lambda args: {
"returncode": 1, "stdout": "", "stderr": "denied"}
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
assert response.status_code == 500
assert response.get_json()["status"] == "error"
class _Mailbox:
"""The CacheManager calls the routes make, over a dict."""
def __init__(self):
self.entries = {}
def set(self, key, value, ttl=None):
self.entries[key] = value
def get(self, key, max_age=300, memory_ttl=None):
return self.entries.get(key)
def delete(self, key):
self.entries.pop(key, None)
class TestARefusedStartLeavesNoRequestBehind:
"""A start the route answers with an error must not run later.
The request used to be posted before the service was checked, and the
display reads the mailbox for an hour without looking at a request's
age. So "Display service is not running" (start_service off) or "Failed
to start display service" left the request waiting, and the next time
the display started -- minutes later, by hand -- it ran that plugin,
pinned if the request said so.
"""
@pytest.fixture
def mailbox(self, api_v3_module, service):
box = _Mailbox()
api_v3_module.api_v3.cache_manager = box
service["state"]["active"] = False
return box
def test_without_start_service_nothing_is_posted(self, api_v3_client, service, mailbox):
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={
"plugin_id": "weather", "pinned": True, "start_service": False})
assert response.status_code == 400
assert MAILBOX not in mailbox.entries
def test_a_start_that_fails_takes_its_request_back(self, api_v3_client, service, mailbox):
service["systemctl"].side_effect = lambda args: {
"returncode": 1, "stdout": "", "stderr": "denied"}
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
assert response.status_code == 500
assert MAILBOX not in mailbox.entries
def test_a_newer_request_in_the_mailbox_is_left_alone(self, api_v3_client, service, mailbox):
newer = {"request_id": "someone-else", "action": "start", "plugin_id": "clock"}
def start_fails_after_another_post(args):
mailbox.entries[MAILBOX] = newer
return {"returncode": 1, "stdout": "", "stderr": "denied"}
service["systemctl"].side_effect = start_fails_after_another_post
response = api_v3_client.post(START_URL, json={"plugin_id": "weather"})
assert response.status_code == 500
assert mailbox.entries[MAILBOX] is newer
class TestStop:
def test_stop_posts_a_stop_request_and_leaves_the_service_running(
self, api_v3_client, service):
response = api_v3_client.post(STOP_URL, json={})
assert response.status_code == 200, response.get_json()
writes = _mailbox_writes(service["cache"])
assert [w["action"] for w in writes] == ["stop"]
service["stop_service"].assert_not_called()
assert _systemctl_verbs(service["systemctl"]) == []
def test_a_string_false_stop_service_does_not_stop_it(self, api_v3_client, service):
# bool("false") is True: the flag was read raw and stopped the service.
api_v3_client.post(STOP_URL, json={"stop_service": "false"})
service["stop_service"].assert_not_called()
def test_stop_service_true_still_stops_it(self, api_v3_client, service):
api_v3_client.post(STOP_URL, json={"stop_service": True})
service["stop_service"].assert_called_once()