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Fix WebSocket recovery, message handling, and shutdown behavior that could cause unnecessary reconnects or misleading cleanup results.

  • Reset reconnect backoff only after a successful WebSocket handshake, and stop reconnecting after server rejection code 4003.
  • Accept valid synchronization responses with no effective changes. Ignore pong and other unknown message types without disconnecting. Log malformed JSON, missing/invalid message types, and rejected synchronization envelopes while preserving existing data and status.
  • Keep client shutdown one-shot and best effort: stop accepting new events, attempt a final flush, and wait within bounded limits for connection work and callbacks to finish. close returns whether cleanup completed; repeated calls return the recorded result and do not retry failed cleanup. Concurrent or reentrant calls can return false while the first call is still running.
  • Treat close-frame transport errors as non-fatal when the underlying socket and reader are successfully cleaned up. Actual resource-cleanup failures still report failure.

Organize WebSocket synchronization code under data_sync, add regression coverage, and remove detailed shutdown guidance from the README.

RetriggerConfidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge, with no outstanding correctness or repository-rule violations.

Summary

  • Resets reconnect backoff only after a successful handshake and stops retrying after server rejection code 4003.
  • Preserves synchronization state when malformed or unknown messages arrive.
  • Coordinates connector, socket, worker, and callback cleanup through a dedicated lifecycle.
  • Adds regression coverage for connection failures, shutdown races, callback draining, and close-result handling.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Start synchronizer] --> B[Create connection attempt]
    B --> C[Configure callbacks and connect]
    C --> D{Handshake result}
    D -->|Opened| E[Send synchronization request]
    E --> F[Monitor messages and pings]
    F --> G{Socket outcome}
    G -->|Code 4003| H[Mark failed and stop reconnecting]
    G -->|Other close or error| I[Clean up attempt]
    D -->|Failure or timeout| I
    I --> J{Lifecycle stopped?}
    J -->|No| K[Apply reconnect backoff]
    K --> B
    J -->|Yes| L[Drain callbacks and report cleanup result]
    H --> L
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The change introduces lifecycle-aware WebSocket connection management, structured synchronization results, server rejection handling, bounded cleanup, and expanded shutdown and message-processing tests.

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WebSocket lifecycle and shutdown

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transport primitives and connection attempts
lib/featbit/data_sync/synchronization_result.rb, lib/featbit/data_sync/closable_web_socket_client.rb, lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_close_policy.rb, lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_connection_attempt.rb
Adds structured results, timed socket cleanup, server rejection detection, asynchronous connection attempts, handshake timeouts, and socket monitoring.
Lifecycle-aware synchronization
lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_lifecycle.rb, lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_data_synchronizer.rb, lib/featbit.rb, spec/data_sync/web_socket_connection_spec.rb
Moves connection, reconnect, callback, message, status, and cleanup control into lifecycle-aware components.
Synchronization validation
spec/data_sync/web_socket_data_synchronizer_spec.rb
Covers structured results, invalid-message handling, patch ordering, stale data, unchanged data, and continued processing after invalid input.
Shutdown and client-close verification
lib/featbit/client.rb, README.md, spec/client_spec.rb, spec/data_sync/web_socket_shutdown_spec.rb
Updates client close behavior and documentation. Adds coverage for callback draining, stale events, connector cancellation, transport cleanup, and reentrant close results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a583

WebSocket shutdown now reports incomplete cleanup, but a failed client shutdown cannot be retried because later close calls return the cached failure. This can leave connection or event cleanup unfinished; the new shutdown contract also needs documentation before release.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WebSocketDataSynchronizer
  participant WebSocketLifecycle
  participant WebSocketConnectionAttempt
  participant ClosableWebSocketClient
  WebSocketDataSynchronizer->>WebSocketLifecycle: start
  WebSocketLifecycle->>WebSocketConnectionAttempt: connect
  WebSocketConnectionAttempt->>ClosableWebSocketClient: create and monitor socket
  ClosableWebSocketClient->>WebSocketDataSynchronizer: open/message/close events
  WebSocketDataSynchronizer->>WebSocketLifecycle: dispatch callback
  WebSocketDataSynchronizer->>WebSocketLifecycle: close
  WebSocketLifecycle->>ClosableWebSocketClient: close(drain: true)
  WebSocketLifecycle->>WebSocketDataSynchronizer: return shutdown result
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136-136: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve undelivered events when shutdown delivery fails.

When the STOP batch fails, EventProcessor#close stops the worker, clears the batch, and caches false. A later Client#close call returns that cached result without retrying delivery. Preserve or reschedule the undelivered events before marking closure incomplete. Caching only successful closure does not restore events that the failed batch already discarded.

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In `@lib/featbit/client.rb` at line 136, Update EventProcessor#close and the
STOP-batch failure path so undelivered events are preserved or rescheduled
before closure is marked incomplete. Ensure Client#close does not permanently
cache a failed result that prevents retrying delivery, while retaining
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Inline comments:
In `@lib/featbit/data_sync/closable_web_socket_client.rb`:
- Around line 20-22: Update the close method around super() so transport errors
raised while writing the close frame are rescued and handled as close failures
rather than escaping close(drain: true). Preserve the existing ensure cleanup
that closes the socket and stops the reader, and ensure safe_close_socket can
return its normal failure result.

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In `@lib/featbit/client.rb`:
- Line 136: Update EventProcessor#close and the STOP-batch failure path so
undelivered events are preserved or rescheduled before closure is marked
incomplete. Ensure Client#close does not permanently cache a failed result that
prevents retrying delivery, while retaining successful closure caching.

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  • lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_close_policy.rb
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226-226: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the new close contract.

This PR changes the shutdown contract: close now reports completion only after connection work and callbacks finish, and it returns false when cleanup is incomplete. The section rename removed all shutdown documentation, so the README no longer explains the return value or the closed status transition. Line 67 still instructs users to call client.close, and line 123 still lists closed as a status.

Add a short "Shutdown" section that states the close return value, the bounded wait, and what a false result means.

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In `@README.md` at line 226, Add a concise Shutdown section to README.md
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🔵 Needs a closer look

A status update in the new WebSocket attempt loop can overwrite more informative error status messages with a generic “WebSocket closed” message, which can mislead diagnostics.

Pull request overview

This PR refactors the WebSocket data synchronization runtime into a more explicit lifecycle/attempt model to improve reconnect behavior, message handling resilience, and shutdown reliability, while adding regression specs around these scenarios.

Changes:

  • Introduces WebSocketLifecycle, WebSocketConnectionAttempt, and WebSocketClosePolicy to coordinate handshake timeouts, reconnect backoff, rejection handling (4003), and bounded shutdown.
  • Makes message processing more tolerant (ignore unknown types / invalid envelopes without disconnecting) and reports “changed vs unchanged” via SynchronizationResult.
  • Adds extensive RSpec coverage for shutdown/reentrancy and WebSocket sync/reconnect edge cases; trims README shutdown guarantees accordingly.
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File Description
spec/data_sync/web_socket_shutdown_spec.rb New regression coverage for bounded shutdown, connector cancellation, and callback draining behavior.
spec/data_sync/web_socket_data_synchronizer_spec.rb New unit coverage for tolerant message handling and “unchanged but valid” sync outcomes.
spec/data_sync/web_socket_connection_spec.rb Updates/expands connection loop tests for handshake timeout, backoff reset, and 4003 rejection handling.
spec/client_spec.rb Adjusts client close spec to assert reentrant close returns incomplete rather than deadlocking.
README.md Removes detailed shutdown guarantee from the thread-safety section.
lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_lifecycle.rb New lifecycle coordinator for start/close semantics and draining callbacks safely.
lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_data_synchronizer.rb Refactors synchronizer to use lifecycle/attempt policy, new message semantics, and close handling.
lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_connection_attempt.rb New attempt wrapper to bound connector/handshake work and provide cancellation/cleanup.
lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_close_policy.rb New policy for detecting/recording server rejection via close code 4003.
lib/featbit/data_sync/synchronization_result.rb New value object representing valid/changed outcomes from message processing.
lib/featbit/data_sync/closable_web_socket_client.rb New wrapper to ensure transport/reader cleanup even when close frame sending fails or stalls.
lib/featbit/client.rb Adjusts Client#close idempotency to return “complete?” status when already closed/in-progress.
lib/featbit.rb Updates require path for the moved WebSocket synchronizer implementation.
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lib/featbit/data_sync/web_socket_data_synchronizer.rb:104

  • In run_attempt, the unconditional handle_socket_close(nil) after attempt.monitor can overwrite a more informative status message that was just set by handle_socket_error/fail_status (e.g., an I/O error message gets replaced with "WebSocket closed"). This makes the final status message misleading and harder to diagnose.

Consider only applying the generic "WebSocket closed" status when no message has already been set (and still not stopped/rejected).

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@deleteLater deleteLater changed the title Fix WebSocket synchronization and shutdown reliability Fix WebSocket synchronization and reliability Sep 10, 2026
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