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pubsub: breaking changes to channels and channel operations - #741
Breaking changes to channels and channel operations for 4.0.0, one commit each, with an UPDATING.md entry for each breaking one. The headline is that setting channel options now replaces them, cipher included: set_options(ChannelOptions(params=...)) on an encrypted channel turns encryption off, so callers must pass the cipher again. That was the maintainer's decision, matching ably-js, java, cocoa, go, dotnet and ruby, with no warning when a cipher is dropped and no dict-style shim on channel.options.
test/uts closes 8 gated Test IDs (2 REST, 6 realtime) and 2 adapted-test deviations, and deviations.md is updated to match. Its header counts were re-measured after every commit.
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pubsub: make channel options a ChannelOptions that set_options replaces (TB2, RTS3, RTL16, RSL7, RTS3c, RSN3c, RTL16a, RTS3c1). This folds in item 2, REST set_options, because it falls out of the same change.
channel.options is the ChannelOptions last set, not a dict. The cipher is derived from it and cached only because CbcChannelCipher carries the CBC chaining state; the cache is rebuilt whenever the options change, so the separate __cipher that drifted is gone.
Before this change the cipher could never be removed: REST channels.get with options that left it out, realtime set_options, and realtime cipher=None all kept encrypting. REST Presence captured the cipher once, when it was built. Every reader, LiveObjects' RTO2b mode check included, now reads the current options.
The REST channel gains set_options, and channels.get(name, ChannelOptions(...)) works on REST, where it raised TypeError. The kwargs and dict forms keep working.
A reattach used to compare the whole options, cipher included. Now only params or modes that differ from the current ones reattach an attaching or attached channel. RTL16a says "provided"; I read that as provided and different, as ably-js does, so repeating the same params on an attached channel (which test_channel_get_channel_with_same_params expects) still doesn't raise.
Migration: read channel.options.params rather than channel.options['params'], and pass the cipher again whenever you set the options of an encrypted channel.
pubsub: stop creating a channel for any unknown attribute of channels. Removes Channels.__getattr__, which the realtime Channels inherited.
Migration:client.channels.my_channel raises AttributeError; use client.channels.get('my_channel').
Four legacy sites in httpauth_test.py are updated.
pubsub: encode a space in a channel name as %20 in HTTP paths (RSL2, RSL8).
Paths use parse.quote instead of quote_plus, with : still literal.
status() now escapes the name.
REST presence and annotations build on the channel's base path, and serials use quote too.
Migration: HTTP data that 3.x stored under a name with a space lives in the + channel. It is still reachable as channels.get('my+channel').
pubsub: raise from attach() when the channel does not attach (RTL4d, RTL3b).
attach() raises unless the channel attaches. It raises the state's reason, or a 90001 when there is none, which also stops a None reason from surfacing as TypeError. _ensure_active now just calls it.
The two fire-and-forget attaches go through a new _attach_implicitly that logs failures instead of leaving task exceptions unretrieved. They are the reattach of a SUSPENDED channel on reconnect, and the RTP8d implicit attach on presence enter or update.
subscribe (RTL7g), presence and annotation subscribes, and LiveObjects all await their attach, so they raise in the same cases.
Migration: expect attach() and subscribe() to raise when the client is closed or the channel detached while an attach is pending.
pubsub: detach at once when the connection is not connected (RTL5a, RTL5b, RTL5j, RTL5l). detach() follows RTL5 in order, and from any connection state but CONNECTED it goes straight to DETACHED without sending a DETACH.
Before, it hung from CONNECTING, DISCONNECTED and the rest, and raised 90001 for a CLOSING connection.
Taking each connection state:
INITIALIZED, CONNECTING, DISCONNECTED, SUSPENDED: an ATTACHING or ATTACHED channel goes straight to DETACHED.
CLOSING, CLOSED: channels are already DETACHED by RTL3b, so detach() is a no-op (RTL5a).
FAILED: channels are already FAILED by RTL3a, so detach() raises (RTL5b).
Not breaking.
pubsub: defer a ping from DISCONNECTED and time it from the heartbeat (RTN13b, RTN13c, RTN13d).
ping() from DISCONNECTED now waits for the connection, as it already did from CONNECTING. The realtime_request_timeout now runs from the HEARTBEAT going out, not from the call.
It still fails at once from INITIALIZED, SUSPENDED, CLOSING, CLOSED and FAILED, and a deferred ping fails when the connection moves to one of those.
Migration: a ping from DISCONNECTED no longer raises 40000 at once. Bound it with asyncio.wait_for if needed.
pubsub: return from set_options once an attached channel reattaches (RTL16a). This is item 8, which turned out to be a two-line fix in the code commit 1 had touched.
The reattach goes through _request_state(ATTACHING), so the answering ATTACHED reaches the internal emitter, and set_options no longer hangs.
Not breaking.
RSL2 evidence
The sandbox. A probe created a throwaway sandbox app the way test/ably/testapp.py does, from ably-common's test-app-setup.json, published to a channel named with spaces through both encodings, read history back, and deleted the app.
POST /channels/rsl2%20probe%20<id>/messages was stored in "rsl2 probe <id>".
POST /channels/rsl2+probe+<id>/messages was stored in "rsl2+probe+<id>".
History via %20 returned only the %20 message. History via + and via %2B both returned only the + message, and status() agreed.
So the service reads + in a path as a literal plus, and 3.x's HTTP calls on such a channel went to a different channel from the one realtime clients attach to.
Other SDKs. ably-js builds the path with encodeURIComponent(channel.name), and ably-java with HttpUtils.encodeURIComponent. Both send %20.
Skipped or scoped down
Item 2 is folded into commit 1, as allowed.
Item 8 is included as its own commit.
RTL16a's "provided" is read as "provided and different", as described above. A literal reading, as ably-java implements it, would make a repeat channels.get(name, same_options) on an attached channel raise, which existing users and a legacy test rely on not happening.
The raise None in detach() is left. attach() and set_options() now fall back to a 90001 when a state change has no reason, but detach() still re-raises whatever the state change carries; deviations.md entry 2.1 records it.
The RTL24 reason plumbing is not done. A server DETACHED's error is still discarded, so test_rtl24_error_reason_attach_failure, test_rtl4c_error_cleared_on_attach and test_rtl13b_attaching_detached_to_suspended stay gated, now failing on error_reason rather than TypeError.
The missing-accessors table in deviations.md: I removed the RTS2, RTS4c… row because it was recorded only for the __getattr__ hazard, and the file records idiomatic spelling nowhere else. In the translation notes, a Channels.__iter__ annotation note replaces the __getattr__ one.
Rebasing onto #740 changed no behaviour, and nothing in this PR uses an API #737, #738, #739 or #740 removes or changes. It touches none of the presence timestamp code. The conflicts were in deviations.md, UPDATING.md and detach():
detach(). The RTL5b raise keeps this PR's order of checks with pubsub: breaking changes to exceptions #737's AblyException(…, 400, 90001). Git had auto-merged the moved line with the old 90001, 400 order, so that line was corrected by hand.
Each commit was re-run through ruff, test/uts both ways and test/unit, and its deviations.md figures were re-measured. At the head, 1303 Test IDs pass (1312 tests, 1437 cases), 142 are gated (144 cases) and 27 are unrunnable. The gated Test IDs split 64 REST and 78 realtime. 131 of them are SDK Test IDs, with 55 root causes (18 REST, 37 realtime) and 56 in all. In every commit the integration tiers fail exactly the tests they fail on #740.
The changes update HTTP and realtime channel options, HTTP URL encoding, realtime attach and detach handling, presence attachment, and disconnected ping timing. The migration guide and tests document or verify these changes.
HTTP channel and serial paths use percent-quoting. Presence paths use the channel base path. Tests and migration notes reflect the URL changes.
Realtime attachment and presence ably/pubsub/realtime/channel.py, ably/pubsub/realtime/presence.py, test/uts/realtime/unit/channels/*, test/uts/realtime/unit/presence/realtime_presence_enter_test.py, UPDATING.md, test/uts/deviations.md
Attach operations raise when the channel does not reach ATTACHED. Detach and implicit presence attachment behavior changed. Related tests and UTS records were updated.
Ping wait and timeout timing ably/pubsub/realtime/connectionmanager.py, test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/connection_ping_test.py, UPDATING.md, test/uts/deviations.md
Disconnected ping calls can wait for a heartbeat. The response timeout starts when the heartbeat is sent.
Reject mixed channel-option arguments before merging: an explicitly supplied cipher can otherwise be ignored and messages published without encryption. Option removal also needs to update active attachments. Deferred-ping cancellation has a smaller cleanup issue.
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channel.options was the dict ChannelOptions.to_dict() produced, and the
cipher a channel encrypted with lived beside it in a separate __cipher
that the REST options setter only ever overwrote when the dict had a
'cipher' key. to_dict() leaves a None cipher out, so the cipher could
never be removed: set_options(ChannelOptions(params=...)) on an encrypted
channel, or a repeat channels.get with options that left the cipher out,
kept encrypting while channel.options showed no cipher. REST Presence
also captured the channel's cipher once, when it was built.
channel.options is now the ChannelOptions last set (TB2, RTS3), and the
cipher is derived from it. Setting options replaces them whole, as ably-js,
java, cocoa, go, dotnet and ruby do, and rebuilds the cached cipher, so
options without a cipher turn encryption off (RTL16, RSL7, RTS3c, RSN3c).
Every reader, REST Presence and the LiveObjects RTO2b mode check
included, now reads the current options.
The REST channel gains set_options (RSL7), and channels.get(name,
ChannelOptions(...)) works on REST, where it raised TypeError. The kwargs
and dict forms channels.get already took keep working.
A reattach compared the whole options, cipher included. Per RTL16a and
RTS3c1 only params or modes that differ from the current ones now make an
attaching or attached channel reattach, so set_options reattaches, and
channels.get raises 40000, only for those. A change of cipher alone no
longer raises, and repeating the same params is still accepted, as
test_channel_get_channel_with_same_params expects. The spec's "provided"
is read as provided and different, as ably-js reads it.
This is a breaking change. Read channel.options.params rather than
channel.options['params'], and pass the cipher again whenever setting the
options of an encrypted channel. The two RSL7 UTS tests are un-gated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Channels.__getattr__ answered every attribute the collection did not
define with self.get(name), and the realtime Channels inherited it. So
hasattr(client.channels, 'x') was always true and created a channel
called x, a typo became a phantom channel rather than an AttributeError,
and client.channels.get_derived(...) failed with "'RealtimeChannel'
object is not callable".
It is removed, so an unknown attribute raises AttributeError on both
clients. This is a breaking change: client.channels.my_channel no longer
returns a channel; use client.channels.get('my_channel'), or
client.channels['my_channel'], instead. The legacy tests that relied on
it, and the deviations.md notes about it, are updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The HTTP channel built its path with parse.quote_plus, which is form
encoding and writes a space as +. In a URL path the Ably service reads +
as a literal plus. Measured against a throwaway sandbox app, a publish to
/channels/rsl2+probe+<id>/messages was stored in a channel named
"rsl2+probe+<id>", which history read back through either + or %2B,
while /channels/rsl2%20probe%20<id>/messages reached "rsl2 probe <id>",
the channel a realtime client attaches to. So every HTTP operation on a
channel whose name has a space went to another channel. ably-js
(encodeURIComponent) and ably-java (HttpUtils.encodeURIComponent) both
send %20. Channel.status interpolated the name with no escaping at all,
so a name with "/", "?" or "#" addressed the wrong resource.
Channel names are now percent-encoded with parse.quote (RSL2), status()
escapes the name the same way (RSL8), REST presence and annotations
build on the channel's own base path rather than encoding the name
again, and message serials use parse.quote too. ":" is still left
literal, as RFC 3986 allows in a path segment.
This is a breaking change for HTTP data stored under a name with a
space: 3.x stored it in the "+" channel, which is still reachable as
channels.get('my+channel'). The two deviations.md rows for RSL2's space
and RSL8's escaping are removed and the RSL2 UTS test asserts %20. REST
presence used to escape ":" as %3A too, so the legacy presence tests now
mock the path with the literal ":" that is sent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
attach() raised only when the attach ended in SUSPENDED or FAILED. When
the connection closed during the attach, RTL3b moved the channel to
DETACHED and attach() returned None, as if it had attached; so did an
attach overtaken by a detach, which returned on the DETACHING state
change. RTL4d fails the attach in every case but ATTACHED. A SUSPENDED
or FAILED change with no reason also made it raise None, which Python
reports as a TypeError.
attach() now raises unless the channel attaches: the reason for the
state it moved to, else an AblyException with code 90001, as
_ensure_active (RTL33b1) already did, which now just calls attach(). The
two attaches nobody awaits, the reattach of a SUSPENDED channel when the
connection reconnects and the implicit attach of a presence enter or
update (RTP8d), go through _attach_implicitly, which logs a failure
rather than leaving an exception unretrieved on the task. subscribe and
the presence and annotation subscribes await their attach, so they raise
in the same cases.
This is a breaking change: code that closes the client, or detaches,
while an attach is pending must expect attach() and subscribe() to
raise. The RTL3b test asserts the failure the specification has, closing
its deviation, and the RTL5i test that overtakes an attach with a detach
now asserts the rejection the specification also allows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
detach() requested DETACHING whatever the connection's state, and
_check_pending_state only sends the DETACH once the connection is
CONNECTED, so from CONNECTING, DISCONNECTED or any other state but
CONNECTED it awaited a state change nothing would produce, and never
returned. It also raised 90001 first whenever the connection was CLOSING
or FAILED, which are the old RTL5g, and from CONNECTING called connect(),
which is the old RTL5h; specification 5.0.0 replaced both with RTL5l.
detach() now follows RTL5 in order: nothing to do from INITIALIZED or
DETACHED (RTL5a), 90001 from FAILED (RTL5b), straight to DETACHED from
SUSPENDED (RTL5j), and, when the connection is in any state but CONNECTED,
straight to DETACHED with no DETACH sent (RTL5l). Only a CONNECTED
connection sends the DETACH and waits for the DETACHED (RTL5d). A
CLOSING or CLOSED connection has already moved its channels to DETACHED
(RTL3b) and a FAILED one to FAILED (RTL3a), so those cases now land on
RTL5a and RTL5b rather than the 90001 RTL5g raised.
This matters more now that release() requires a detached channel. It is
not a breaking change: a call that hung now returns, and one that raised
for a CLOSING connection now returns for its already DETACHED channel.
The two RTL5l UTS tests are un-gated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ConnectionManager.ping admitted only CONNECTED and CONNECTING and raised
40000 at once from DISCONNECTED, where RTN13d defers a ping requested
while CONNECTING or DISCONNECTED until the connection is CONNECTED, and
RTN13b fails it only from INITIALIZED, SUSPENDED, CLOSING, CLOSED or
FAILED. It also entered asyncio.wait_for as soon as ping() was called,
so the whole connecting period was charged to realtimeRequestTimeout and
a deferred ping could time out before its HEARTBEAT went out, where
RTN13c with RTN13d counts the timeout from the HEARTBEAT.
ping() now admits DISCONNECTED too. A deferred ping waits until its
heartbeat is sent, which happens on CONNECTED as before, or until a
state that fails pending pings (SUSPENDED, CLOSING, CLOSED, FAILED)
fails it, and only then starts the realtimeRequestTimeout wait.
This is a behaviour change rather than a new API: a ping from
DISCONNECTED that raised 40000 at once now waits for the connection, up
to the connectionStateTtl after which it suspends and the ping fails.
Wrap the call in asyncio.wait_for to bound it. The three gated RTN13 UTS
tests now pass and are un-gated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
set_options on an ATTACHED channel whose params or modes changed sent
the ATTACH through _attach_impl() and then awaited the internal state
emitter. The channel never left ATTACHED, so the server's ATTACHED took
the RTL12 branch of _on_message, which emits "update" on the public
emitter only, and set_options never returned. It raised the state
change's reason, None included, for SUSPENDED and FAILED, and returned
for any other state.
The reattach now goes through _request_state(ATTACHING), so the channel
passes through ATTACHING and the ATTACHED that answers ends the wait,
which then raises as attach() does unless the channel attached (RTL16a,
RTL4d). On an ATTACHING channel the new ATTACH goes out and the wait
ends with the pending attach. Not a breaking change; a call that hung
now returns. The RTL16a UTS test is un-gated, and the two attach tests
that ran set_options as a task and cancelled it now await it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The RSL8 status test in test/uts/rest/unit/channel/rest_channel_attributes_test.py uses only a space and a colon. Channel.status builds its path with parse.quote(self.name, safe=':') in ably/pubsub/http/channel.py, so /, ?, and # are encoded. No status-path test checks those three characters. A change that restores raw interpolation for them would still pass the test. Raw / or ? or # can address a different resource. Add cases for /, ?, and #. Assert on the encoded str(request.url), because the decoded request.url.path assertion does not distinguish encoded from raw characters.
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Review comment at @ably/pubsub/http/channel.py at line 161:
Extend the RSL8 status encoding test to cover channel names containing `/`, `?`,
and `#`; assert against the encoded `str(request.url)` so raw characters cannot
pass unnoticed. Keep the existing space and colon coverage.
Assert the published wire encoding after set_options replaces the cipher.
is_encrypted reads channel.cipher and encrypts a local Message. It never calls the publish path. The publish paths choose encryption from self.cipher, so a change in publish behavior would not change the helper's result. If publish stopped reading self.cipher, these assertions would still pass.
Add a publish-level test on the same channel:
Create an encrypted channel, then call set_options(ChannelOptions()) to replace the cipher with None.
Publish a message and capture the request body sent to the transport.
Assert that the body's encoding does not contain cipher.
Add a matching positive case that publishes on an encrypted channel and asserts that encoding contains cipher. This shows that the test can tell the two states apart.
For the HTTP path, use the mocked-request pattern in test/uts/rest/unit/channel/update_delete_message_test.py, which asserts body['encoding']. The realtime publish path also reads self.cipher, so it needs its own check if it is to be covered.
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Review comment at @test/unit/channel_options_test.py around lines 15 - 20:
Update the tests around is_encrypted to verify the published wire encoding after
ChannelOptions replaces the cipher with None: publish on the same channel,
capture the transport request body, and assert its encoding omits cipher. Add a
matching encrypted-channel publish assertion that its encoding includes cipher,
using the mocked-request pattern from the existing HTTP tests. Cover realtime
publishing separately if this test suite exercises that path.
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Review comments at @ably/pubsub/http/channel.py:
- Around line 405-409: Update _channel_options, used by Channels.get, to reject
calls that provide both a non-None options argument and keyword arguments by
raising TypeError before returning or converting options; preserve the existing
behavior when either input is provided alone.
Review comments at @ably/pubsub/realtime/channel.py:
- Around line 946-948: Update should_reattach_to_set_options to compare
normalized params and modes on every options replacement, treating omitted
values as empty collections. Return true when either comparison differs, so
removing existing params or modes triggers reattachment while unchanged values
do not.
Review comments at @ably/pubsub/realtime/connectionmanager.py:
- Around line 385-388: Update the finally block in ping() to cancel
pending_ping.future if it has not completed, while preserving the existing
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Review comments at @ably/pubsub/http/channel.py:
- Line 161: Extend the RSL8 status encoding test to cover channel names
containing `/`, `?`, and `#`; assert against the encoded `str(request.url)` so
raw characters cannot pass unnoticed. Keep the existing space and colon
coverage.
Review comments at @test/unit/channel_options_test.py:
- Around line 15-20: Update the tests around is_encrypted to verify the
published wire encoding after ChannelOptions replaces the cipher with None:
publish on the same channel, capture the transport request body, and assert its
encoding omits cipher. Add a matching encrypted-channel publish assertion that
its encoding includes cipher, using the mocked-request pattern from the existing
HTTP tests. Cover realtime publishing separately if this test suite exercises
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Reject mixed options and keyword arguments in Channels.get.
When get receives a ChannelOptions or dict and keyword arguments, _channel_options returns the options and discards the keywords. A call such as get('private', ChannelOptions(params={'rewind': '1'}), cipher=cipher_params) creates a channel with no cipher. Its later publishes send plaintext. Raise an error for this combination instead.
🐛 Suggested fix
--- "a/ably/pubsub/http/channel.py"+++ "b/ably/pubsub/http/channel.py"@@ -402,8 +402,10 @@
def _channel_options(options, kwargs) -> Optional[ChannelOptions]:
"""What `get` was given - a ChannelOptions, a dict of its fields or keyword arguments - as a
ChannelOptions, or None if it was given no options"""
+ if options is not None and kwargs:+ raise TypeError('Pass either options or keyword arguments to get, not both')
if options is None and kwargs:
return ChannelOptions(**kwargs)
if isinstance(options, dict):
return ChannelOptions.from_dict(options)
return options
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ifoptionsisNoneandkwargs:
returnChannelOptions(**kwargs)
ifisinstance(options, dict):
returnChannelOptions.from_dict(options)
returnoptions
ifoptionsisnotNoneandkwargs:
raiseTypeError('Pass either options or keyword arguments to get, not both')
ifoptionsisNoneandkwargs:
returnChannelOptions(**kwargs)
ifisinstance(options, dict):
returnChannelOptions.from_dict(options)
returnoptions
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Review comment at @ably/pubsub/http/channel.py around lines 405 - 409:
Update _channel_options, used by Channels.get, to reject calls that provide both
a non-None options argument and keyword arguments by raising TypeError before
returning or converting options; preserve the existing behavior when either
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Reattach when set_options or Channels.get removes params or modes.
should_reattach_to_set_options ignores omitted params and modes. The options object is then replaced whole, so channel.options.params and channel.options.modes become None while the attached channel keeps its previous attachment until the next ATTACH. The base predicate reattached on any field difference, so this change removes that reattach for omitted fields.
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--- "a/ably/pubsub/realtime/channel.py"+++ "b/ably/pubsub/realtime/channel.py"@@ -943,9 +943,9 @@
# only while attaching or attached; the cipher never reaches the server
if self.state != ChannelState.ATTACHING and self.state != ChannelState.ATTACHED:
return False
- if new_options.params is not None and new_options.params != (self.options.params or {}):- return True- return new_options.modes is not None and set(new_options.modes) != set(self.options.modes or [])+ if (new_options.params or {}) != (self.options.params or {}):+ return True+ return set(new_options.modes or []) != set(self.options.modes or [])
# RTL23
@property
With this fix, a replacement reattaches when it changes or drops params or modes. A cipher-only replacement reattaches only when the channel has params or modes that the replacement does not keep. A cipher-only replacement that keeps the current params and modes does not reattach. Callers that replace an attached channel's options through Channels.get() must pass the current params and modes. Otherwise Channels.get() raises code 40000, as the RTS3c1 contract in the Channels.get docstring requires.
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Cancel the pending ping future in ping()'s finally block when it is still pending.
When ping() is cancelled while it waits in asyncio.wait, the finally block removes the registry entry but leaves pending_ping.future pending. A send task that already holds the ping can then set an exception that nothing retrieves. The event loop logs it as never retrieved.
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Stacked on #740; merge that first.
Summary
Breaking changes to channels and channel operations for 4.0.0, one commit each, with an
UPDATING.mdentry for each breaking one. The headline is that setting channel options now replaces them, cipher included:set_options(ChannelOptions(params=...))on an encrypted channel turns encryption off, so callers must pass the cipher again. That was the maintainer's decision, matching ably-js, java, cocoa, go, dotnet and ruby, with no warning when a cipher is dropped and no dict-style shim onchannel.options.test/utscloses 8 gated Test IDs (2 REST, 6 realtime) and 2 adapted-test deviations, anddeviations.mdis updated to match. Its header counts were re-measured after every commit.Commits
pubsub: make channel options a ChannelOptions that set_options replaces(TB2, RTS3, RTL16, RSL7, RTS3c, RSN3c, RTL16a, RTS3c1). This folds in item 2, RESTset_options, because it falls out of the same change.channel.optionsis theChannelOptionslast set, not a dict. The cipher is derived from it and cached only becauseCbcChannelCiphercarries the CBC chaining state; the cache is rebuilt whenever the options change, so the separate__cipherthat drifted is gone.channels.getwith options that left it out, realtimeset_options, and realtimecipher=Noneall kept encrypting. REST Presence captured the cipher once, when it was built. Every reader, LiveObjects' RTO2b mode check included, now reads the current options.set_options, andchannels.get(name, ChannelOptions(...))works on REST, where it raisedTypeError. The kwargs and dict forms keep working.paramsormodesthat differ from the current ones reattach an attaching or attached channel. RTL16a says "provided"; I read that as provided and different, as ably-js does, so repeating the same params on an attached channel (whichtest_channel_get_channel_with_same_paramsexpects) still doesn't raise.channel.options.paramsrather thanchannel.options['params'], and pass the cipher again whenever you set the options of an encrypted channel.pubsub: stop creating a channel for any unknown attribute of channels. RemovesChannels.__getattr__, which the realtimeChannelsinherited.client.channels.my_channelraisesAttributeError; useclient.channels.get('my_channel').httpauth_test.pyare updated.pubsub: encode a space in a channel name as %20 in HTTP paths(RSL2, RSL8).parse.quoteinstead ofquote_plus, with:still literal.status()now escapes the name.quotetoo.+channel. It is still reachable aschannels.get('my+channel').pubsub: raise from attach() when the channel does not attach(RTL4d, RTL3b).attach()raises unless the channel attaches. It raises the state's reason, or a 90001 when there is none, which also stops aNonereason from surfacing asTypeError._ensure_activenow just calls it._attach_implicitlythat logs failures instead of leaving task exceptions unretrieved. They are the reattach of a SUSPENDED channel on reconnect, and the RTP8d implicit attach on presence enter or update.subscribe(RTL7g), presence and annotation subscribes, and LiveObjects all await their attach, so they raise in the same cases.attach()andsubscribe()to raise when the client is closed or the channel detached while an attach is pending.pubsub: detach at once when the connection is not connected(RTL5a, RTL5b, RTL5j, RTL5l).detach()follows RTL5 in order, and from any connection state but CONNECTED it goes straight to DETACHED without sending a DETACH.detach()is a no-op (RTL5a).detach()raises (RTL5b).pubsub: defer a ping from DISCONNECTED and time it from the heartbeat(RTN13b, RTN13c, RTN13d).ping()from DISCONNECTED now waits for the connection, as it already did from CONNECTING. Therealtime_request_timeoutnow runs from the HEARTBEAT going out, not from the call.asyncio.wait_forif needed.pubsub: return from set_options once an attached channel reattaches(RTL16a). This is item 8, which turned out to be a two-line fix in the code commit 1 had touched._request_state(ATTACHING), so the answering ATTACHED reaches the internal emitter, andset_optionsno longer hangs.RSL2 evidence
test/ably/testapp.pydoes, from ably-common'stest-app-setup.json, published to a channel named with spaces through both encodings, read history back, and deleted the app.POST /channels/rsl2%20probe%20<id>/messageswas stored in"rsl2 probe <id>".POST /channels/rsl2+probe+<id>/messageswas stored in"rsl2+probe+<id>".%20returned only the%20message. History via+and via%2Bboth returned only the+message, andstatus()agreed.+in a path as a literal plus, and 3.x's HTTP calls on such a channel went to a different channel from the one realtime clients attach to.encodeURIComponent(channel.name), and ably-java withHttpUtils.encodeURIComponent. Both send%20.Skipped or scoped down
channels.get(name, same_options)on an attached channel raise, which existing users and a legacy test rely on not happening.raise Noneindetach()is left.attach()andset_options()now fall back to a 90001 when a state change has no reason, butdetach()still re-raises whatever the state change carries;deviations.mdentry 2.1 records it.test_rtl24_error_reason_attach_failure,test_rtl4c_error_cleared_on_attachandtest_rtl13b_attaching_detached_to_suspendedstay gated, now failing onerror_reasonrather thanTypeError.deviations.md: I removed theRTS2, RTS4c…row because it was recorded only for the__getattr__hazard, and the file records idiomatic spelling nowhere else. In the translation notes, aChannels.__iter__annotation note replaces the__getattr__one.Tests
test/uts, before (pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740's head, c381f93): 1577 passed, 179 skipped. WithRUN_DEVIATIONS=1: 152 failed, 1577 passed, 27 skipped.test/uts, after: 1585 passed, 171 skipped. WithRUN_DEVIATIONS=1: 144 failed, 1585 passed, 27 skipped.test/unit: 313 passed after, against 307 before, the difference being 6 new tests intest/unit/channel_options_test.pyfor the replace semantics.test/unitandtest/utson its own.test/ablysuite was not run, because it hits a flaky sandbox. These legacy tests were edited and not run:test/ably/http/httpauth_test.py: fourchannels.<name>sites becomechannels.get(...).test/ably/http/httppresence_test.py: the two mock URLs use the literal:now sent, rather than%3A. respx matches either.Rebasing onto #740
Rebasing onto #740 changed no behaviour, and nothing in this PR uses an API #737, #738, #739 or #740 removes or changes. It touches none of the presence timestamp code. The conflicts were in
deviations.md,UPDATING.mdanddetach():detach(). The RTL5b raise keeps this PR's order of checks with pubsub: breaking changes to exceptions #737'sAblyException(…, 400, 90001). Git had auto-merged the moved line with the old90001, 400order, so that line was corrected by hand.UPDATING.md. Each entry now follows the pubsub: breaking changes to exceptions #737–pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740 entries, before## Version 2.x to 3.0.0.deviations.mdcandidate numbers. pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740 deleted 2.4 without renumbering, so this PR now deletes its candidates the same way and renumbers nothing. 1.3, 1.4, 2.3 and 3.14 are removed. 1.5, 2.5–2.8, 3.15 and 3.16 keep their numbers. The#656row keeps pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740's text.deviations.mdrows. pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740 had already removed theDevicePushDetailsrow from the missing-accessors table, and pubsub: breaking changes to exceptions #737 theRSC1brow from the REST behaviours table. Those rows stay removed beside this PR's own removals.deviations.mdheader. The further-defects sentence keeps pubsub: breaking changes to values and types returned #740's "one further defect (RTP18a)".Each commit was re-run through
ruff,test/utsboth ways andtest/unit, and itsdeviations.mdfigures were re-measured. At the head, 1303 Test IDs pass (1312 tests, 1437 cases), 142 are gated (144 cases) and 27 are unrunnable. The gated Test IDs split 64 REST and 78 realtime. 131 of them are SDK Test IDs, with 55 root causes (18 REST, 37 realtime) and 56 in all. In every commit the integration tiers fail exactly the tests they fail on #740.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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