Problem

A race condition existed between workflow-acrobat's page config initialization and Adobe Launch (_satellite) not being ready at page load. When the unity block initialized, ensurePageConfig was fired fire-and-forget, which fetched page config and immediately called window._satellite.track(...) to retrieve Target experiment data. Since _satellite loads asynchronously, this call would throw a TypeError if Launch hadn't initialized yet. The error was caught and swallowed, leaving experimentData permanently null for that session because pageConfigFetched = true was already set, preventing any retry when the user actually uploaded a file.

Changes

unitylibs/utils/experiment-provider.js

• Added waitForSatellite() polls window._satellite every 100ms (up to 5 seconds) before invoking _satellite.track(...)
• Resolves immediately if _satellite is already present, rejects with a clear error on timeout
• Handles the common case where Launch initializes within a few seconds of page load

unitylibs/core/workflow/workflow-acrobat/action-binder.js

• Refactored ensurePageConfig to handle the edge case where _satellite takes longer than 5 seconds or fails for other reasons
• Used !pageConfig in the catch block to distinguish between fetchPageConfig failure vs getExperimentData failure:
  • fetchPageConfig fails → dispatch error to Splunk, return early, keep pageConfigFetched = true (not a transient failure, no retry)
  • getExperimentData fails → reset pageConfigFetched = false and pageConfigPromise = null so the existing || this.ensurePageConfig() in handleFileUpload naturally triggers a fresh attempt when the user uploads
• Added const isRetry = !!this.pageConfigLocation to detect first attempt vs user-triggered retry error is only dispatched to Splunk on retry, suppressing noise from the recoverable first-attempt failure

test/utils/experiment-provider.test.js / test/core/workflow/workflow-acrobat/action-binder.test.js

• Added 9 unit tests covering waitForSatellite polling and timeout, ensurePageConfig guard, flag reset without Splunk dispatch on first failure, flag reset with Splunk dispatch on retry, and success paths via both pageConfig.config.target and targetCfg.experimentationOn

Behavior After Fix

Test plan

• Verify experiment data is correctly fetched on pages where _satellite loads before user interaction (happy path)
• Verify no visible error toast appears to users when experiment data fetch fails at page load
• Verify file upload works correctly when _satellite is delayed past the 5s timeout
• Verify warn_fetch_experiment Splunk entry is logged only on retry failure, not on initial page load failure

Resolves: MWPW-199606

Test URLs:

• Before: https://main--da-dc--adobecom.aem.live/acrobat/online/split-pdf?unitylibs=stage
• After: https://main--da-dc--adobecom.aem.live/acrobat/online/split-pdf?unitylibs=page-config