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Summary

This PR collects fixes for flaky integration tests so they can be tracked and reviewed in one place. Each fix is its own commit, test-only and a few lines. No SDK code changes.

#	Flaky test	Cause	Fix	Confidence	Commit
1	TestRealtimeConn_RTN12_Connection_Close/RTN12d	Race in the shared fake clock ablytest.TimeFuncs: a test can be handed an already-cancelled timer	Drop cancelled timers before offering them, and close the timer channel on cancellation as ablyutil.After does (internal/ablytest/ablytest.go; covers all 13 tests that use TimeFuncs)	✅ Proven: reproduced, and fixed under reproduction	8b88838, 2692064
2	TestRealtimePresence_Presence_Enter_Update_Leave	The test doesn't wait for client1's initial presence SYNC; a late SYNC delivers client2 as PRESENT, and the live ENTER/UPDATE is then dropped as a duplicate	Wait for the initial sync with Presence.Get before client2 acts; exact assertions kept (ably/realtime_presence_integration_test.go)	✅ Mechanism confirmed by logging the protocol messages against the sandbox; the CI failure itself was not reproduced	ec5cfe7 → 3671244

Both flakes have been around since before the v2 work. They surfaced on CI for #712 and #719, which is why they were investigated.

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Flake 1: TestRealtimeConn_RTN12_Connection_Close/RTN12d

The failure

Seen on CI (integration-test (1.25, json), #719). It passed on the other three jobs and on re-run.

realtime_conn_spec_integration_test.go:537: timed out waiting for channel receive
--- FAIL: .../RTN12d_:_should_abort_reconnection_timer_while_disconnected_on_closed (30.00s)

Root cause

TimeFuncs' fake after() hands each timer to the test from a goroutine:

select {
case afterCalls <- afterCall: // give the timer to the test (unbuffered channel)
case <-ctx.Done():            // timer already cancelled: drop it
}

Step	What happens
1	The event loop's first Receive registers a 1-minute timer. CONNECTED arrives, Receive returns, and its defer cancel() cancels that timer.
2	The next Receive registers the 6-minute idle timer. This is the one the test means to fire.
3	If the goroutine for the cancelled 1-minute timer runs late, it reaches the select with both cases ready, and Go picks one at random.
4	About half the time the test gets the dead timer. It fires it, nothing listens, no DISCONNECTED arrives, and the test times out after 30 s.

Fix

if ctx.Err() != nil {
	close(ch) // like ablyutil.After, a cancelled timer closes its channel
	return    // already cancelled; don't hand stale timers to the test (select would pick randomly)
}

A cancelled timer can never fire, so no test can usefully receive one, and the existing ctx.Done() branch already intended this.

Channel close, from review (2692064): the production ablyutil.After closes its channel when the context is cancelled, and the SDK depends on that:

• realtime_conn.go waits on that channel alone for the reconnection delay;
• NewTicker and ContextWithTimeout only stop once it closes.

The fake returned without closing on two paths: the new early return, and the existing "cancelled before the test received it" branch. Both now close(ch), so the fake matches ablyutil.After whenever the context is cancelled. A nanosecond-wide window remains if cancellation lands between the check and the select; closing it fully isn't worth it for a race this rare.

Evidence

Experiment	Result
Plain local stress, no fix (1,800+ runs)	0 failures; it doesn't reproduce without help
Without the fix, a few ms of scheduling delay injected into the timer goroutine	8 of 30 failed at line 537; every failure received the cancelled D=1m timer
With the fix, same injection	100 of 100 passed

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Flake 2: TestRealtimePresence_Presence_Enter_Update_Leave

The failures

Run	Branch	Failing step	Expected	Got
39564890840	integration/v2	ENTER (line 175)	2 (ENTER)	1 (PRESENT)
39619921907	this PR	UPDATE (line 186)	4 (UPDATE)	1 (PRESENT)

Root cause

Logging client1's protocol messages against the sandbox (8 runs, all the same shape) shows:

client1  ATTACHED hasPresence=true   ← even on a brand-new, empty channel (RTP1)
client1  SYNC members=[]             ← initial sync arrives ~80 ms later, asynchronously
client2  ATTACHED hasPresence=false
client1  PRESENCE ENTER  client2
client1  PRESENCE UPDATE client2
client1  PRESENCE LEAVE  client2

The test never waited for that initial SYNC. When it's late, as can happen on a slow run, it arrives after client2 has entered or updated:

1. The SYNC is built from the channel's current state, so it carries client2 as PRESENT, and the SDK emits it with the action the server sent (RTP2d1).
2. The live ENTER or UPDATE that follows has the same msgSerial and index, so IsNewerThan (RTP2b2) says it isn't newer and it's dropped (RTP2a).
3. The test reads PRESENT where it expects ENTER (the first failure) or UPDATE (the second).

Fix

err = client1Channel.Attach(context.Background())
assert.NoError(t, err)
// ATTACHED is followed by an initial presence SYNC (RTP1). Wait for it, so
// that a late SYNC can't deliver client2 as PRESENT in place of the live
// ENTER or UPDATE asserted below.
_, err = client1Channel.Presence.Get(context.Background())
assert.NoError(t, err)

• Presence.Get waits for the sync by default and blocks until it completes, so client2 only acts once client1's presence set is in sync.
• The exact ENTER and UPDATE assertions are unchanged from main, so the test still proves live events are delivered.

History: ec5cfe7 first made the test accept PRESENT. Review pointed out that this stopped the test covering live ENTER/UPDATE delivery. 3671244 replaces it with the sync wait and restores the exact assertions, so the net change to this file against main is just the 5 lines above.

Remaining caveat: the server may start another sync mid-test at any time (RTP18). That would need a re-sync during a sub-second test, and none was seen in any run. If it ever happens, the exact assertions will fail visibly instead of hiding it.

Evidence

Check	Result
Client1's ATTACHED has HAS_PRESENCE and an async initial SYNC follows	✅ Seen in all 8 logged sandbox runs (~80 ms gap)
SDK emits the server's action; an equal msgSerial/index is "not newer"	✅ Confirmed in code (realtime_presence.go, IsNewerThan), matching RTP2d1 and RTP2b2
Presence.Get blocks until the sync completes	✅ GetWithOptions → syncWait → <-pres.syncDone, closed when the sync ends
Reproduce the CI failure itself	❌ Not reproduced locally (it needs a slow sync); the mechanism is confirmed, the exact CI timing is not

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Validation (this branch, both fixes together)

Check	Result
go build ./..., go vet with default, unit and integration tags, gofmt -l	✅
go test -tags=unit ./...	✅
Every test in the 4 files that use TimeFuncs (54 tests), ×3	✅ (run with fix 1)
The same 54 tests ×2 with -race, as CI runs them, after the channel-close change	✅ no failures, no data races
RTN12 ×5 and the presence test ×5 against the sandbox (json), after the channel-close change	✅
Presence test with the sync wait: ×10 json, ×10 msgpack, ×5 json with -race, plus the whole presence test file once	✅
Both fixed tests together ×5 against the sandbox (json)	✅

Compatibility with open work

In-memory trial merges; no branches were changed:

Merged into	Result
main	✅ clean
integration/v2 (#712), where the files moved to internal/	✅ clean. Both fixes land in the moved files, and the merged tree vets and passes the fixed tests. Rechecked after 3671244.
#718 and #719 branches	✅ clean

Reviewer notes

• 4 commits, 2 files, test code only:
  • flake 1: the fix, then the channel close from review (8b88838, 2692064);
  • flake 2: the first attempt, then its replacement from review (ec5cfe7, 3671244). The net change to the presence test against main is only the sync wait.
• Adding future flakes here: one commit per flake, plus a row in the summary table and its own section.
• Supersedes ably: accept PRESENT in the presence Enter/Update/Leave test #721, which held fix 2 on its own and is now closed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Tests
  • Improved reliability of time-related test behavior when a context is canceled.
  • Updated presence integration test expectations to accept presence messages delivered through synchronization, while retaining client ID and data checks.

These changes affect test behavior and validation; no end-user-facing product changes are included.

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Walkthrough

TimeFuncs closes the timer channel and returns if its context is already cancelled, before dispatching an AfterCall. The presence integration test accepts PRESENT as an alternative action for ENTER and UPDATE events.

Changes

Timer cancellation guard

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Check cancellation before timer dispatch internal/ablytest/ablytest.go	TimeFuncs closes the timer channel and returns when the context is already cancelled, before dispatching an AfterCall.

Presence integration assertions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Accept PRESENT for presence events ably/realtime_presence_integration_test.go	The ENTER and UPDATE assertions also accept PRESENT. Client ID and data assertions remain unchanged.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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The integration test may miss regressions in live presence event delivery; synchronize first and restore exact action assertions.

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