NetsBlox / NetsBlox/services

Race condition in IoTScape timeout retries

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Description

#190 prevents this from causing a bigger issue (at the cost of some usability due to not returning an actual Error), but it seems sometimes the error from retried IoTScape messages was not being forwarded to the client in some cases.

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Research direction

Start by reading issue #190 and tracing the IoTScape timeout-retry handling described here. Reproduce the cases where a retried message's error is not forwarded to the client, then verify that the client receives the expected error without regressing the behavior addressed by #190.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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