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Part of #1291 step 3 (tracked in #1252): the Zarr "follow time slider" layers leave the UI thread.

What changes

In the desktop app, moving the time slider no longer waits for a Zarr step that hasn't been read yet.

Off the frame

  • With Session::zarr_off_frame on (the UI sets it in RustGisApp::new on desktop), cmd::zarr::follow_time reads a step that isn't in the slice cache on a thread of its own (read_off_frame).
  • At most two such reads run at once. They share the reading_ahead set with read-ahead, so a step is never read twice.
  • The layer keeps showing the step before until the new one lands.
  • When a read lands, the app is woken (rustgis_map::source::wake). The frame loop calls Session::follow_time_landed, which costs one atomic load when nothing landed, and the layer shows the step.
  • A web store's next two steps are still read ahead.

Playing waits for each step to be read before it steps again (Session::zarr_waiting), so every step shows, as before, while the window stays responsive.

Failures

  • A step that can't be read empties the layer and says why once it lands, once for all the layers on that step.
  • The last 16 failures are kept, and a later successful read clears its entry.
  • Read-ahead now also wakes the app when it ends early or panics, so a step it gave back unread is read off the frame.

Unchanged:

  • Scripts and the command line still wait for each step (the flag is off).
  • An animation's frames (time.export) read each step before they draw (follow_time_now).

Tests

a_zarr_step_is_read_off_the_frame_in_the_app covers:

  • the move returns at once and the step lands later;
  • a step read before shows at once;
  • a failing step says its error once;
  • time.export still draws its frame's step.

The existing a_zarr_variable_follows_the_time_slider covers the blocking path, unchanged.

Not covered

No Cancel or progress row: each read is one slice, bounded by the store's chunks, and the slider stays usable meanwhile.

ci_fast passed: fmt, clippy, the tests (apart from failures that also fail on main on that machine), the layers check and the wasm32 build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • On desktop, time-following Zarr layers load slices in the background, keeping the previous slice visible until the new one is ready.
    • Playback waits for each slice to load before advancing. Scripts, models, notebooks, command-line operations, and exports wait for requested slices.
    • The map refreshes when a background-loaded slice becomes available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Failed slice reads now clear the affected layer and explain the error. Related errors are grouped into a single notification.
    • Animation exports now display the correct time-following Zarr slice for each frame.

…he frame (opengeos#1291 step 3)

In the desktop app, moving the time slider no longer waits for a Zarr step that hasn't been
read: the step is read on a thread of its own (at most two at once), the layer showing the step
before until it lands, and the app then draws it (`Session::follow_time_landed`, asked each
frame). Playing waits for each step to be read before it moves on, so every step shows, as when
the read waits. A step that can't be read empties the layer and says why once it lands; a step
read before (the last eight, and a web store's two read ahead) shows at once.

Scripts and the command line still wait for each step (`Session::zarr_off_frame` is off), and
an animation's frames (`time.export`) read each step before they draw.
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Walkthrough

Zarr time-following reads can run in background threads on desktop. The app tracks pending and completed reads, pauses playback while a step is pending, and follows landed steps. Animation export, scripts, and plugin-invoked commands use synchronous step handling.

Changes: Zarr Time Following

Layer / File(s) Summary
Zarr read and follow behavior
crates/engine/src/lib.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs, crates/map/src/source.rs
Session state tracks off-frame reading and landed steps. Zarr follow logic limits background reads to two workers, keeps the displayed slice while a read is pending, and reports stored read failures. Completed reads wake the map source.
Desktop playback integration
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/timebar.rs
The app enables off-frame reads on non-WASM targets and checks for landed steps. Playback resets its timer and schedules a repaint while a Zarr read is pending.
Synchronous workflows and validation
crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/time.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs, docs/user-guide/data.md
Animation frames call follow_time_now. Script and plugin command execution uses step tracking. Tests cover background reads, failures, cache locking, and frame loading. The guide describes desktop loading and synchronous behavior in scripts, command-line use, and Export.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RustGisApp
  participant Session
  participant ZarrWorker
  participant MapSource
  RustGisApp->>Session: follow_time for requested step
  Session->>ZarrWorker: start off-frame read
  ZarrWorker->>MapSource: wake after read completes
  RustGisApp->>Session: check follow_time_landed
  Session-->>RustGisApp: update following layers when a step has landed
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Possibly related issues

Suggested reviewers: elpidioassinaturas, giswqs

Merge Risk: Low · up to aab6a

Background reads can exceed the intended limit, and a failed read may be reported twice. The remaining test gaps leave pending reads and exported frame contents unverified; these are bounded merge risks.

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A rabbit watched the time slices glide,
While quiet workers read beside.
The slider waits; the frames align,
A landed step redraws the line.
The hare thumps once: “The maps look fine!”

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Scope: the 8 files in the PR, the diff, the surrounding Zarr follow/read-ahead code, timebar.rs playback, the source.rs waker, and the wasm cfg gates. prior-reviews.json has no threads, so nothing was left out as already raised.

Bugs

  • Abandoned step failures are reported late and not retried. A failed off-frame read is only said when a layer currently wants that step. If the slider has moved on, the entry stays and is reported on the next visit without a re-read. The comment at zarr.rs:613 claims a re-read that only happens after cap eviction. Confidence: medium. (Inline comment posted.)
  • Playback can hold on a read that never returns. zarr_waiting keeps playback paused until the step lands, and the PR has no cancel. I could not confirm a request timeout for web stores from the Zarr module. Confidence: low.

Security

  • None found in the changed lines.

Performance

  • slice_key is computed twice per layer per follow (zarr.rs:668-669), each with filesystem stat calls for folder stores. Only a nit. Confidence: high.

Quality

  • source.rs:1141 adds pub fn wake(), whose body duplicates the existing pub(crate) fn landed() at source.rs:529. Make landed public and reuse it. Confidence: high.
  • The playback hold is untested. a_zarr_step_is_read_off_the_frame_in_the_app only asserts !zarr_waiting() after the step lands (tests.rs:16975). Also not covered: the thread-cap path, the spawn-failure fallback, and two layers on one step. Confidence: high.
  • reading_ahead lock poisoning makes read_off_frame return Ok silently, which would leave playback held forever. Very unlikely in practice. Confidence: low.

AGENTS.md

  • One error notice per layer, not one per kind with a count (zarr.rs:726). The blocking path has the same shape. The PR text says "once for all the layers on that step", which the code does not do. Confidence: high. (Inline comment posted.)
  • Wasm: the new cfg gates look correct. frames has a wasm stub, landed_since returns false on wasm, and the source.rs addition is wasm-safe. I did not build for wasm.

Inline comments are on crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs lines 613 and 726. The quality items above are grouped here rather than posted inline, per the nit guidance.

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Total size change +12.9 KB
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crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs 52.6 KB 60.4 KB +7.8 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs 1.62 MB 1.63 MB +2.6 KB
crates/engine/src/lib.rs 94.5 KB 95.6 KB +1.1 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/timebar.rs 19.9 KB 20.2 KB +375 B
docs/user-guide/data.md 88.7 KB 89.0 KB +330 B
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs 290.1 KB 290.4 KB +329 B
crates/map/src/source.rs 53.3 KB 53.6 KB +295 B
crates/engine/src/cmd/time.rs 15.5 KB 15.6 KB +56 B

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Actionable comments posted: 7

Nitpick comments: 2

crates/engine/src/tests.rs: 2

16973-16975: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Add deterministic pending-state coverage as a follow-up refactor.

The test does not observe the state between time.goTo and the step landing. It therefore does not detect a blocking move or a missing pending state. The current fixture uses ordinary local files, and the read path has no test-controlled delay, so this requires a read-control seam before adding the assertion. Once that seam exists, hold step 2 pending and assert that the previous value remains visible and s.zarr_waiting() is true before releasing the read.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs around lines 16973 - 16975:
The time-navigation test only checks state after step 2 lands, so it misses
blocking moves and absent pending state. Add a test-controlled read delay for
the fixture, then update the test around `time.goTo` and `landed` to hold step 2
pending and assert the previous value remains visible and `s.zarr_waiting()` is
true before releasing the read.

16988-16992: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Exercise an uncached frame and verify its rendered content.

The export assertion checks only the frame count. Step 2 was loaded earlier and can remain in the slice cache, so this test does not protect the blocking export path. A wrong step can also pass because the frame count remains one.

Add a valid fixture step that the test does not visit before export. Export that step, decode the generated PNG from the ZIP, and assert pixels that identify its data. Run the focused engine test to validate the regression check.

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs around lines 16988 - 16992:
Update the off-frame export test around `time.export` to include a valid fixture
step that has not been visited before export, so it exercises the uncached
blocking path. Read the generated PNG from the ZIP and assert pixels that
distinguish the expected step’s data; keep the existing frame-count assertion
and validate the focused engine test.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/time.rs:
- Around line 319-321: In the time.export restoration path, replace the
asynchronous follow_time call with follow_time_now so the saved slider step’s
raster is loaded before export continues. Update follow_time_now in zarr as
needed so it is available on the targets that compile time.export; preserve the
existing frame-loop behavior.

Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs:
- Around line 682-686: Update read_ahead so failed off-frame web steps are
recorded or skipped on subsequent follows, preventing repeated read attempts;
use the failure result from read_off_frame to distinguish failed steps from
steps still loading.
- Around line 668-669: Update the kept-slice handling around is_kept and
read_waiting to look up the slice once and reuse the resulting cached Arc,
avoiding a second lookup that could change between checks. When that lookup
misses, use read_off_frame rather than performing a synchronous read on the UI
thread.

Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 16976-16978: Serialize the Zarr tests that read steps from the
process-wide slices() cache: use one shared test lock across those tests,
including the test that calls layer.addZarr and time.goTo, or isolate this
test’s cache state. Preserve the existing assertion that step 0 is displayed
without waiting.

Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 1133-1134: Update the app-session handling of zarr_off_frame so
script-driven time.goTo waits for an uncached Zarr step to load before
share.exportRaster reads rl.data. Preserve the nonblocking behavior for
time-slider moves; do not solve this by making all Zarr step reads block.
- Around line 4383-4384: Update the `follow_time_landed()` branch to call
`self.layout.redraw()` alongside `self.map.invalidate()` when a step lands, so
the layout refreshes for time-following Zarr maps.

Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/timebar.rs:
- Around line 130-133: Update the playback logic in advance so a Zarr step that
has just finished loading is rendered once before time.step can advance to a
cached next step. Use a visible-step guard, not a full speed_ms delay, and
preserve the existing waiting behavior while the current step is loading.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 16973-16975: The time-navigation test only checks state after step
2 lands, so it misses blocking moves and absent pending state. Add a
test-controlled read delay for the fixture, then update the test around
`time.goTo` and `landed` to hold step 2 pending and assert the previous value
remains visible and `s.zarr_waiting()` is true before releasing the read.
- Around line 16988-16992: Update the off-frame export test around `time.export`
to include a valid fixture step that has not been visited before export, so it
exercises the uncached blocking path. Read the generated PNG from the ZIP and
assert pixels that distinguish the expected step’s data; keep the existing
frame-count assertion and validate the focused engine test.

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…res said once per cause

- Agents, models' and tasks' steps, notebooks and nested commands wait for the step, as their
  next command may read the layer; `time.export` restores the slider's step the same way.
- A kept step is looked up once; a miss goes off the frame, never read on the UI thread.
- A failure kept for a step no layer waits for any more is dropped, so coming back reads it
  again; a read-ahead that failed isn't read ahead again until the step is read.
- Layers emptied by one cause are said in one notice with a count.
- A landed step redraws the layout page too, and shows for a whole step while playing.
- The Zarr tests that read steps take one lock on the shared slice cache.
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Bugs

  • Script pane scripts don't wait for uncached Zarr steps (confidence: high). script.run runs each line's command function directly, so depth stays at 1 and the new wait gate reads false. A time.goTo followed by an export then reads the stale raster. This is the open thread on crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs:1134, re-raised because the wait condition in follow_time changed and the problem remains. Inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs:658, with a suggested fix (a script_running flag, as notebooks use) and the missing test.
  • Failed reads of abandoned steps are dropped unsaid (confidence: medium). Left alone: the earlier thread on this is resolved, and the design is that the failure is said when the slider returns to the step.

Security

  • None found in the changed lines.

Performance

  • follow now runs on every background landing, and slice_key does up to three metadata calls per folder-store layer on the UI thread (confidence: low). Bounded in practice, so I'm not raising it inline.

Quality

  • The notice reads "and 1 more layers" for a single extra layer (confidence: high). Pluralisation nit, left for the release quality pass.

AGENTS.md

  • No violations found. There are no new unwrap, expect or unsafe calls in non-test code, the wasm branches are gated, and engine notices are English because the engine doesn't use tl!.
  • The docs (docs/user-guide/data.md) say scripts wait for each step. That is inaccurate for the Script pane until the bug above is fixed.

Already raised (left alone, 9 threads): the layout redraw, the playback advance, the read-ahead failure loop, the shared-cache lock, the kept-step lookup, the notice grouping, the export restore, the failed-read retention, and the mutex/poison points. The fixes in 2e2f9c7 address them.

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Total size change +16.9 KB
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crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs 52.6 KB 62.8 KB +10.2 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs 1.62 MB 1.63 MB +3.9 KB
crates/engine/src/lib.rs 94.5 KB 95.6 KB +1.1 KB
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs 290.1 KB 290.5 KB +428 B
crates/ui-egui/src/timebar.rs 19.9 KB 20.3 KB +384 B
docs/user-guide/data.md 88.7 KB 89.1 KB +360 B
crates/map/src/source.rs 53.3 KB 53.6 KB +295 B
crates/engine/src/cmd/time.rs 15.5 KB 15.7 KB +149 B

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Minor · Use one shared limit for background Zarr reads. · zarr.rs:606

crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs:606
Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Use one shared limit for background Zarr reads.

A native non-waiting follow can start two read_off_frame workers and then start two read_ahead workers. The separate counters allow four Zarr reads to overlap, despite the stated two-read limit. Share one counter and one maximum between both paths.

Suggested fix

-/// The most threads reading ahead at once.
+/// The most background Zarr reads at once.
 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-const MAX_READ_AHEAD: usize = 2;
+const MAX_BACKGROUND_THREADS: usize = 2;

 #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-static READ_AHEAD_THREADS: std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize = std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize::new(0);
+static BACKGROUND_THREADS: std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize = std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize::new(0);

-/// on at most [`MAX_READ_AHEAD`] threads: a thread more is skipped (the next step starts one).
+/// on at most [`MAX_BACKGROUND_THREADS`] threads: a thread more is skipped (the next step starts one).
...
-    if READ_AHEAD_THREADS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) >= MAX_READ_AHEAD {
-        READ_AHEAD_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+    if BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) >= MAX_BACKGROUND_THREADS {
+        BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
...
-            READ_AHEAD_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+            BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
...
-/// The most threads reading steps off the frame at once: a step past them is started by the
-/// next follow, which a read landing wakes.
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-const MAX_OFF_FRAME: usize = 2;
-
-#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
-static OFF_FRAME_THREADS: std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize = std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize::new(0);
-
...
-/// already (ahead, or for another layer) or [`MAX_OFF_FRAME`] are under way: when one lands,
+/// already (ahead, or for another layer) or [`MAX_BACKGROUND_THREADS`] are under way: when one lands,
...
-    if OFF_FRAME_THREADS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) >= MAX_OFF_FRAME {
-        OFF_FRAME_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+    if BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst) >= MAX_BACKGROUND_THREADS {
+        BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
...
-        OFF_FRAME_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+        BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
...
-            OFF_FRAME_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+            BACKGROUND_THREADS.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs at line 606:
Unify concurrency accounting for read_off_frame and read_ahead so both paths
share one counter and a maximum of two in-flight background Zarr reads. Replace
the separate OFF_FRAME_THREADS/MAX_OFF_FRAME and read-ahead limit usage,
ensuring each path releases its shared count on every exit and completion path.

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- Line 606: Unify concurrency accounting for read_off_frame and read_ahead so
both paths share one counter and a maximum of two in-flight background Zarr
reads. Replace the separate OFF_FRAME_THREADS/MAX_OFF_FRAME and read-ahead limit
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`script.run` and a plugin's host calls run their commands directly, at the depth of the command
running them, so a Script pane line moving the slider read its Zarr step off the frame and the
next line read the step before. `Session::steps_running` counts commands run as another's steps
(set by `workflows::steps_of`, on every path), and `follow_time` waits under it. The grouped
failure notice says "1 more layer".
Comment thread crates/engine/src/lib.rs
if !cmd::zarr::landed_since(&mut self.zarr_seen) {
return false;
}
cmd::zarr::follow_time(self);

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Performance (low, ~70% confidence): every background landing invalidates the map and the layout page, even when no shown step changed.

follow_time_landed returns true whenever landed_since sees any landing. Read-ahead calls landed() for every step it reads, including steps no layer is showing. The app then calls self.map.invalidate() and self.layout.redraw() (ui-egui lib.rs), so a web store playing forward forces roughly three full map redraws per step.

Suggested direction: have follow report whether it changed any layer's shown or data, and return that from follow_time_landed. The UI then redraws only when a step it draws has arrived. This is not a one-line change, so I have not written a suggestion block.

/// once it lands. An animation's frames still read each step before they draw.
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
#[test]
fn a_zarr_step_is_read_off_the_frame_in_the_app() {

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Test coverage (medium, ~60% confidence): the test does not prove the move returns before the read finishes.

The comment says "the move returns at once", but the only assertions are after landed(...), which loops until the step arrives. A blocking implementation would also pass: the time.goTo would read synchronously, and landed would return on its first check. The "a step read before shows at once" case is the same.

A deterministic check needs a read that can be held open, for example a store whose chunk read waits on a gate the test releases. Without that, asserting the old value right after the move would race the thread on a local store. The time.export block also asserts only frames == 1, not that the frame drew step 2.

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I found no crash, safety, or silent-data-loss bugs in the changed code. Two inline comments are posted, one on performance and one on test coverage. The rest are low-confidence notes.

Bugs

  • Low, ~35%: a raster export the user runs while the slider's step is still being read writes the step on screen, the previous one, with no notice. Scripts and agents wait for the step, but a top-level share.exportRaster does not. Decide whether this should wait or say so.

Security

  • None found. The change adds no new input parsing or commands.

Performance

  • Low, ~70% (inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/lib.rs:1152): every background landing invalidates the map and layout page, even when no shown step changed. Read-ahead landings cause this too.

Quality

  • Nits, left for the release quality pass: the off-frame branch in follow repeats the error handling of the blocking branch. Two failure caches (failed_reads, failed_ahead) are similar.
  • Low, ~30%: if a background thread cannot be spawned, read_off_frame reads synchronously on the UI thread. That is rare, but it is the stall this PR is meant to remove.

Test coverage

  • Medium, ~60% (inline comment posted at crates/engine/src/tests.rs:16973): a_zarr_step_is_read_off_the_frame_in_the_app does not check that the move returns before the read finishes. A blocking implementation would pass. The time.export block asserts only the frame count.

AGENTS.md

  • Checked: no unwrap/expect/panic in non-test code, no unsafe, wasm gating looks consistent, and zarr_cache_lock is used. I could not compile or run anything in this environment.

Prior reviews

  • I left 11 earlier threads alone. The fixes in aab6a2e and 2e2f9c7 are confirmed in the code.
  • One concern stays open in substance: a failed read for a step the slider has already left is dropped without a notice. The author's reply covers the retry, not the silence. The PR text still says the step "says why once it lands". I did not repost it.

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Files changed 10 (0 added, 10 modified, 0 removed, 0 renamed)
Size before 2.31 MB
Size after 2.33 MB
Total size change +18.1 KB
Path Before After Change
crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs 52.6 KB 62.9 KB +10.3 KB
crates/engine/src/tests.rs 1.62 MB 1.63 MB +4.6 KB
crates/engine/src/lib.rs 94.5 KB 95.9 KB +1.5 KB
crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs 56.9 KB 57.4 KB +471 B
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs 290.1 KB 290.5 KB +428 B
crates/ui-egui/src/timebar.rs 19.9 KB 20.3 KB +384 B
docs/user-guide/data.md 88.7 KB 89.0 KB +360 B
crates/map/src/source.rs 53.3 KB 53.6 KB +295 B
crates/engine/src/cmd/time.rs 15.5 KB 15.7 KB +149 B
crates/engine/src/cmd/plugins.rs 34.5 KB 34.5 KB +35 B

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Minor · Keep failures until every waiting layer processes them. · zarr.rs:762

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Keep failures until every waiting layer processes them.

If a worker fails between two layers in the same follow pass, the first layer remains waiting and the second records the failure. This cleanup removes the failure because it was reported for the second layer. The first layer then retries and produces another notice. The grouped-error assertion can also fail intermittently. Process a consistent failure snapshot for all layers before removing it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/zarr.rs at line 762:
Update the failure cleanup in the `follow` pass so every layer processes the
same failure snapshot before any failures are removed. Defer `f.retain` cleanup
until all layers have been checked, then remove failures only after they have
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`f.retain` cleanup until all layers have been checked, then remove failures only
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