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Currently, the CLI has a built-in 5s wait after a test marks itself as complete to allow for all of the test log lines to finish flushing to the local output file. This is usually extremely generous.

With this change, we'll instead immediately close the socket as soon as the test reports it is finished, and replace our locally-made log output with a copy from the db, as soon as it's been written to. This saves about 4s/run.

The one caveat is that the db log format is different than the user-configurable CLI format, so we have to re-parse and re-write the log messages to honor the CLI's format.

Additional advantage of doing it this way: the db log file timestamps are identical to the backend timestamps, whereas the CLI's timestamps where whenever the line reached the CLI, in batches, with built-in delays, over the socket. So timestamps should now be more accurate to when events actually occurred.

Currently, the CLI has a built-in 5s wait after a test marks itself as complete to allow for all of the test log lines to finish flushing to the local output file. This is usually extremely generous.

With this change, we'll instead immediately close the socket as soon as the test reports it is finished, and replace our locally-made log output with a copy from the db, as soon as it's been written to. This saves about 4s/run.

The one caveat is that the db log format is different than the user-configurable CLI format, so we have to re-parse and re-write the log messages to honor the CLI's format.

Additional advantage of doing it this way: the db log file timestamps are identical to the backend timestamps, whereas the CLI's timestamps where whenever the line reached the CLI, in batches, with built-in delays, over the socket. So timestamps should now be more accurate to when events actually occurred.
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After each websocket task completes, the run and repeat commands poll the backend for a terminal execution state and download its persisted log. The CLI validates the entries and replaces the local log when valid entries are available. The websocket read loop now exits when the run finishes instead of draining trailing messages for up to five seconds.

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  participant RunCommand
  participant TestRunSocket
  participant sync_log_file_from_backend
  participant AsyncApis
  participant write_log_file_from_entries
  RunCommand->>TestRunSocket: Await websocket task
  TestRunSocket-->>RunCommand: Complete after run finishes
  RunCommand->>sync_log_file_from_backend: Synchronize local log
  sync_log_file_from_backend->>AsyncApis: Poll state and download persisted log
  AsyncApis-->>sync_log_file_from_backend: Return state and log entries
  sync_log_file_from_backend->>write_log_file_from_entries: Write validated entries
  write_log_file_from_entries-->>sync_log_file_from_backend: Replace local log
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Some valid backend logs may fail to replace an incomplete local log, and the timezone tests may affect later tests. These bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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If the backend goes down during the test and the db write doesn't happen, the CLI-generated log file does not get replaced.

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monkeypatch.delenv("TZ")
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore the original process timezone in both tests.

If TZ had a value before this test, deleting it and calling time.tzset() switches the process to the host default. monkeypatch later restores the original environment value without another time.tzset() call. Subsequent tests can use the wrong local timezone. Save and restore the original value before calling time.tzset() here and in the cleanup at Lines 294–295.

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Update both timezone-change and cleanup blocks in the tests around
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replay_logger = logger.bind(**{_REPLAY_EXTRA_KEY: True}).patch(set_entry_time)
for entry in entries:
_ensure_level(entry.level)
current["timestamp"] = float(entry.timestamp)

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Parse ISO-8601 timestamps before replay.

sync_log_file_from_backend validates each JSON line as TestLogRecord, whose timestamp can be a string. The log-download operation has no response schema that limits timestamps to numbers. If a response contains an ISO-8601 timestamp, float(entry.timestamp) raises ValueError, and sync leaves the potentially incomplete websocket log in place. Parse ISO strings to epoch seconds while preserving numeric-string handling.

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-            current["timestamp"] = float(entry.timestamp)
+            timestamp = entry.timestamp
+            if isinstance(timestamp, str):
+                try:
+                    timestamp = float(timestamp)
+                except ValueError:
+                    if timestamp.endswith("Z"):
+                        timestamp = timestamp[:-1] + "+00:00"
+                    timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(timestamp).timestamp()
+            current["timestamp"] = float(timestamp)
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current["timestamp"] = float(entry.timestamp)
timestamp = entry.timestamp
if isinstance(timestamp, str):
try:
timestamp = float(timestamp)
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timestamp = timestamp[:-1] + "+00:00"
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current["timestamp"] = float(timestamp)
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Review with inline comments. Blocking: the log download returns None today (run_log.py:83), so the feature is a silent no-op and every run loses its log tail now that the 5s drain is gone. Please also broaden the exception handling (run_log.py:117) and consider the periodic-flush backend interaction (run_log.py:49). Other inline comments cover error handling, comments and test coverage.


# The generated client is typed as returning None, but returns the body text.
download_log = test_run_executions_api.download_log_api_v1_test_run_executions__id__log_get
log_content: object = await download_log( # type: ignore[func-returns-value]

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Critical: the download returns None, so the log is never replaced (and nothing is reported).

The generated client passes type_=None, and ApiClient.send() does if type_ is None or response.status_code == 204: return None. So log_content is None on every real run, isinstance(log_content, str) is false, entries is [], and line 112 returns False without a warning. I confirmed this by running the real ApiClient against a fake HTTP server returning a valid JSON-lines body: result was None.

Because the 5s drain is removed from websocket.py, the local file is now always the websocket-only log, which misses the trailing batch (including the backend's final "Test Run Completed" line). Every run silently loses its log tail, which is worse than before this PR. The existing __fetch_test_run_execution_log uses the same method and may have the same problem.

The unit tests hide it because they mock download_log... to return a str.

Suggested fix: read the raw body (response.text) via a small helper instead of the typed method, and add a test that goes through a real ApiClient with httpx.MockTransport rather than mocking the API method.

The local file is built from websocket log records, which can miss the
trailing batch the backend flushes around the time the run completes. The
backend commits the run's terminal state and its complete log in a single
DB commit at the end of the run, so once the terminal state is readable via

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Important: "terminal state readable == complete log" is a cross-repo invariant that breaks with periodic flush.

It holds on v2.16-develop (single commit at the end). On fix/1119-periodic-flush-trim-log, TestDBObserver saves every 2s, so a periodic save can commit the terminal state during await log_handler.finish() while the last ~2s of log entries (incl. "Test Run Completed") are still queued. The CLI would then see a terminal state, download an incomplete log, and overwrite the more complete local file with it.

Consider having the backend expose an explicit "log finalized" signal (e.g. set completed_at only in the final save) and polling on that. At minimum, point this docstring at TestDBObserver in the backend so whoever changes the commit behavior knows to update this. Also, "no grace-period guessing needed" reads like a changelog remark; it belongs in the PR description.

# Safety net only, in case the backend dies before committing. The final commit
# normally lands well under a second after the terminal state update, but a run
# with a very large log is written in one commit and can take longer.
PERSIST_TIMEOUT_S = 120.0

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Important: the safety-net timeout turns a ~5s worst case into a 120s hang.

If the backend's final DB save raises, TestRunner.run just logs the error and the run stays executing forever, so the CLI blocks for 2 minutes after a finished run before printing results, with no output while waiting. Consider a progress-based timeout or a much shorter one, plus a single "Waiting for the backend to save the run's log..." line so it doesn't look hung. Also, "normally lands well under a second" is an unmeasured claim that will rot; keep only the durable part.


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execution = await test_run_executions_api.read_test_run_execution_api_v1_test_run_executions__id__get(

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Important: no retry on transient errors and no per-request timeout.

A single 502/503 from the proxy during polling raises ApiException and aborts the whole sync on the first poll. Treat 5xx / connection errors / timeouts as retryable until the deadline. Also, neither the poll nor download_log has a per-request timeout (the deadline is only checked between polls), so a hung connection can block well past PERSIST_TIMEOUT_S. Wrapping each call in asyncio.wait_for with the remaining time would fix that.

id=run_id
)
state = getattr(execution.state, "value", execution.state)
if state not in _NON_TERMINAL_STATE_VALUES:

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Suggestion: unknown/None states are treated as terminal.

The check is a negative (not in {pending, executing}), so a new non-terminal backend state, or an unparsed/None state, would trigger an immediate download of a log that isn't committed yet, and that truncated log then overwrites the local one. Prefer an explicit allowlist of terminal states (or warn on unknown values). websocket.py already has NON_TERMINAL_RUN_STATES; unifying the two would also make the comment on lines 37-39 unnecessary. If kept, name the file (test_engine/models/test_run.py).

# handled. Log records the backend flushes after that are
# not waited for here: the complete log is fetched from
# the backend once it's persisted (see run_log.py).
while not self._run_finished:

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Note: the live log viewer permanently loses the trailing records.

The loop now stops at the terminal update, and replayed lines are filtered out of the stream sink (_is_not_replayed), so the live viewer never receives the final batch. That seems an intentional trade-off, but it's undocumented. It also means sync_log_file_from_backend is now the only safety net for log completeness, which raises the stakes on the issues in run_log.py.

socket.run = new_test_run
await socket_task

# The websocket may have closed before the backend's last log records

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Comment is now misleading: "may have closed before the backend's last log records arrived" is always true now, since the socket is closed deliberately at the terminal state. Suggest: "The socket is closed as soon as the run finishes, so the local log may lack the final records; replace it with the complete persisted log."


# The websocket may have closed before the backend's last log records
# arrived; replace the local log file with the complete persisted log.
await sync_log_file_from_backend(async_apis, new_test_run.id, log_path)

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Important: the sync is skipped when the run is incomplete, and failure is invisible.

  • await socket_task (line 344) raises IncompleteTestRunError on a dropped connection, so this call never runs, which is exactly the case where the persisted log is most valuable. Either do the sync in a finally/error path (with a shorter timeout) or say explicitly that the local log is partial.
  • The return value is ignored, so on failure the only signal is a stderr warning and the exit code is unaffected.
  • No test asserts this call happens (the autouse conftest fixture mocks it and nothing checks the mock), so removing this line wouldn't fail any test.

# The websocket may have closed before the backend's last log records
# arrived; replace the local log file with the complete persisted log.
await sync_log_file_from_backend(async_apis, new_execution.id, log_path)
click.echo(colorize_key_value("Log output in", italic(log_path)))

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Important: the log path is announced as final even if the sync failed.

The return value of sync_log_file_from_backend (line 880) is ignored, so "Log output in ..." always prints. Consider labelling the path as incomplete when the sync returns False.

Related: this function calls configure_logger_for_run itself (line 825), but please verify that no caller of the repeated-execution flow reuses a logger across runs. write_log_file_from_entries detaches the file sink permanently, so a second run on a shared sink would silently stop logging to the file. There's no test covering two consecutive run + sync cycles.

Comment thread tests/conftest.py


@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def mock_sync_log_file_from_backend() -> Generator[AsyncMock, None, None]:

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This autouse fixture hides the call sites completely.

Both commands run with the sync mocked and no test asserts on the mock, so the two new call lines can be deleted without a failing test. Make it opt-out (marker/name) or add tests per command that assert sync_log_file_from_backend is called with (async_apis, run.id, log_path) after await socket_task, and what happens when socket_task raises. Also move the patch import to module level.

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Hi @greens Nice improvement. A possible follow-up, not for this PR: since the CLI has its own endpoint (POST /test_run_executions/cli), the backend could skip broadcasting log records over the websocket for CLI-created runs and only store them in the DB. The CLI would keep the websocket for state updates and fetch the full log at the end.

Does that make sense to you, or am I missing something about how the CLI uses those log records? Happy to hear your view.

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