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fix: report a poll still in flight at the deadline as a timeout - #869
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The rebase and wait_for_* pollers give each status request an AbortSignal.timeout for the time left before the deadline. When that request is still running at the deadline (a slow GitLab, or a poll that starts a few milliseconds before it), the abort surfaced as "The operation was aborted due to timeout" instead of the poller's own "Timed out waiting for terminal status". This also made the rebase_merge_request timeout test flaky in CI. Both pollers now share one helper that maps an abort by the deadline signal to the timeout error.
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- Around line 9281-9282: Update the rejection handling around `fetchStatus` so
an aborted `signal` only converts the rejection to a timeout when the deadline
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An aborted signal only says the deadline passed, not why the status request failed. Map a rejection to the timeout error only when it is the signal's own reason, which is what fetch rejects with on abort, and let any other error through. Move the helper to utils/poll-deadline.ts so it has unit tests, including an unrelated error that lands after the deadline.
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- Line 21: Update the abort handling in the `signal.aborted` branch to recognize
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When the deadline fires after the headers arrive but before the body is read, undici throws a new AbortError rather than signal.reason. Map that to the timeout error too, still only when the deadline signal has fired. A test reads the body of a real fetch after the abort.
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Assert the AbortError cause, which only the body-read path leaves; an abort of the request itself would leave the TimeoutError reason. Give the headers a full second to arrive on a loaded machine.
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🔵 Trivial · Add in-flight timeout tests for wait_for_pipeline and… · test-rebase-merge-request.ts:365-404
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd in-flight timeout tests for
wait_for_pipelineandwait_for_job.No existing test invokes either wait tool with a response that remains in flight past the deadline. The helper tests call
fetchStatusBeforeDeadlinedirectly, and the delayed-request test covers onlyrebase_merge_request.If a future change bypasses
fetchStatusBeforeDeadlineinwaitForStatus, a delayedgetPipelineorgetPipelineJobcall can keep the operation running beyondtimeout_secondsbefore the loop checks the deadline. Add caller-level tests for both tools.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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wait_for_job that use delayed getPipeline and getPipelineJob responses extending
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Verdict: APPROVE
No P0/P1. fetchStatusBeforeDeadline turns a rejection into Timed out waiting for terminal status only when the deadline signal has aborted and the rejection is signal.reason (in-flight fetch/body, TimeoutError) or an AbortError (body read that starts after the abort). Any other error is rethrown, including one that arrives after the deadline.
That matches undici 6.28: abortFetch rejects with signal.reason, and throwIfAborted throws a new AbortError. A Node 22 fetch probe of both paths agrees. CI test is green on f6905f2.
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Summary
The rebase and
wait_for_*pollers give each status request anAbortSignal.timeoutfor the time left before the deadline:If that request is still running at the deadline, the abort reaches the client as
The operation was aborted due to timeoutinstead ofTimed out waiting for terminal status. This happens with a slow GitLab, or when the poll afterdelay(remaining)starts a millisecond or two before the deadline.The second case made
rebase_merge_request reports a timeout while the rebase still runsflaky in CI. On #856 (run 39144195997) it failed twice. The mock server saw the post-rebase poll at 17:03:28.740 and the next one at 17:03:29.738, about 1000 ms later, right at the 1 s deadline. That request aborted, and the test got the abort message.waitForMergeRequestRebaseandwaitForStatus(wait_for_pipeline,wait_for_job,play_pipeline_jobs) now sharefetchStatusBeforeDeadlineinutils/poll-deadline.ts. It keeps the old early check. After the deadline signal fires, a rejection becomes the timeout error when it is the signal's ownreason(what fetch rejects with on abort) or anAbortError(what undici throws for a body read that starts after the abort). The abort stays oncause. Any other error passes through unchanged, even one that lands after the deadline.Related issue
None. Fixes the flaky test that blocks CI on #856, #857 and #858.
Tests
New test,
rebase_merge_request reports a timeout when a poll is still in flight at the deadline: the poll answers after 1.5 s withtimeout_seconds: 1. It fails on main withThe operation was aborted due to timeoutand passes here.test/utils/poll-deadline.test.ts: value before the deadline, no fetch after it, deadline abort becomes the timeout (abort oncause), a body read of a real fetch that starts after the abort, and an unrelated error before or after the deadline stays as it is. The body-read case fails if onlysignal.reasonis matched, and the unrelated-error case fails if the check is onlysignal.aborted.test/test-rebase-merge-request.ts: 15/15 pass.test/utils/stdio-import-boundary.test.ts: pass.npm run build,npx tsc --noEmit,prettier --check,npm run check:runtime-deps: pass.eslint: 0 errors.I ran the checks that cover this change.
Docs
README.md,README.ko.md,README.zh-CN.md, andREADME.pt-BR.mdmatch when user-facing behavior, env vars, flags, or examples changed. (No README change needed.)docs/matches the same behavior. (No docs change needed.)Breaking change
No. Only the error text of a timed-out wait changes, to the message these tools already use for a timeout.