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| author | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-09-20 17:39:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com> | 2026-09-20 17:39:04 +0000 |
| commit | cf8ff865f7764953ded1b93c8ec42d4aff589e81 (patch) | |
| tree | 186ef308bfd2cfa46504052550cb8ace7a44d2ae /app/src/androidTest/java/org | |
| parent | f1d03f7bd675050a088e7baf3de648088e7f7e4b (diff) | |
Fix intermittent extraction failures, and stop them being silent
Bug report: extraction failed on one 1500days.com article while others worked.
It is not that article. Extraction was racing the page load, and the report
could say nothing more because the app discarded the reason.
Two separate defects.
1. The race. onPageFinished fires before the page has finished loading —
observed at progress=25 on this article — and the extraction script was
injected there. Sometimes the DOM is far enough along; sometimes
evaluateJavascript hands back a bare "null" because the document is still
being replaced. Measured against the reported URL: 4 successes in 6
attempts before, 10 in 10 after.
An unusable result is no longer final. A null or empty-content result is
retried (6 attempts, 500ms apart, well inside the existing 25s timeout); a
Readability error still fails immediately, since retrying will not change
what the parser thinks of the markup.
2. The silence. ReaderScreen did `extracted?.content?.let { }`, so every
failure — dead host, HTTP error, timeout, parser throw — arrived as the same
null and was dropped. The reader just kept showing raw feed content. The
only way a failure ever surfaced was the user noticing.
extractResult() now returns a typed ExtractionFailure carrying the reason;
ReaderScreen logs the diagnostic and shows the user a short explanation.
Also replaced a dead error callback. The only override was the four-argument
onReceivedError, which Android stopped calling at API 23; minSdk is 26, so it
never fired on any supported device. A failed load therefore invoked nothing
and hung for the full 25 seconds before surfacing as an indistinguishable null.
Now overrides the request/error and onReceivedHttpError forms Android actually
calls, both filtered to the main frame so a 404'd tracker cannot abort an
article that renders fine.
The instrumented test does NOT reproduce the race and says so in its own
docstring: a MockWebServer page finishes loading before onPageFinished fires,
and slow subresources do not help because WebView waits for them. It is kept as
a reliability guard over repeated back-to-back extractions. The race was
verified by hand against the live URL.
47 unit tests, 1 instrumented test, both green.
Diffstat (limited to 'app/src/androidTest/java/org')
| -rw-r--r-- | app/src/androidTest/java/org/terst/feedreader/readability/ReaderExtractorRetryTest.kt | 127 |
1 files changed, 127 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/app/src/androidTest/java/org/terst/feedreader/readability/ReaderExtractorRetryTest.kt b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/terst/feedreader/readability/ReaderExtractorRetryTest.kt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef2d578 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/src/androidTest/java/org/terst/feedreader/readability/ReaderExtractorRetryTest.kt @@ -0,0 +1,127 @@ +package org.terst.feedreader.readability + +import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4 +import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry +import kotlinx.coroutines.runBlocking +import okhttp3.mockwebserver.Dispatcher +import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockResponse +import okhttp3.mockwebserver.MockWebServer +import okhttp3.mockwebserver.RecordedRequest +import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit +import org.junit.After +import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue +import org.junit.Before +import org.junit.Test +import org.junit.runner.RunWith + +/** + * Extraction used to fail intermittently on perfectly ordinary articles. + * + * onPageFinished fires before the page has finished loading — observed at + * progress=25 — and injecting the extraction script at that point is a race: + * sometimes the DOM is ready enough, and sometimes evaluateJavascript hands + * back a bare "null" because the document is still being replaced. Measured at + * 2 failures in 6 attempts against the same URL, which is what produced a bug + * report reading only "extraction failed" for one article while others worked. + * + * The fix retries an unusable result rather than treating it as final. + * + * HONEST LIMITATION: this test does not reproduce that race. A page served from + * a local MockWebServer finishes loading before onPageFinished fires + * (progress=100 every time), and adding deliberately slow subresources does not + * help — WebView simply waits for them. The race needs a real remote page. + * Verified manually instead: against the reported URL the extractor scored 4/6 + * before the fix and 10/10 after. + * + * What this test IS worth keeping for: it asserts that repeated back-to-back + * extractions in one process all succeed, which guards the WebView + * create/destroy churn the retry loop now leans on, and would catch a + * regression that broke extraction outright. + */ +@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class) +class ReaderExtractorRetryTest { + + private lateinit var server: MockWebServer + + @Before + fun startServer() { + server = MockWebServer() + // A page served instantly from localhost finishes loading before + // onPageFinished fires (observed progress=100), which does NOT + // reproduce the bug. A real article is still pulling subresources at + // that point — the observed failure had progress=25. So the fixture + // references subresources the server deliberately dawdles over, which + // is what puts the document in the half-loaded state the extraction + // script used to be injected into. + server.dispatcher = object : Dispatcher() { + override fun dispatch(request: RecordedRequest): MockResponse { + val path = request.path.orEmpty() + return when { + path.startsWith("/slow") -> + MockResponse() + .setResponseCode(200) + .setHeader("Content-Type", "application/javascript") + .setBody("/* slow */") + .setBodyDelay(3, TimeUnit.SECONDS) + else -> + MockResponse().setResponseCode(200) + .setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html") + .setBody(article) + } + } + } + server.start() + } + + @After + fun stopServer() { + server.shutdown() + } + + // Enough real prose that Readability is in no doubt there is an article + // here; the failures under test are about timing, not content. + private val article = buildString { + append("<html><head><title>A perfectly ordinary article</title>") + // Subresources the server is slow to answer, so the page is still + // loading when onPageFinished fires. + append("<script src=\"/slow-a.js\"></script>") + append("<script src=\"/slow-b.js\"></script>") + append("</head><body><article>") + append("<h1>A perfectly ordinary article</h1>") + repeat(12) { + append( + "<p>This paragraph exists so that Readability has a comfortably large " + + "body of text to score, well above any minimum content threshold, so " + + "that a failure to extract can only be a timing problem rather than a " + + "judgement about whether this page contains an article at all.</p>" + ) + } + append("</article></body></html>") + } + + @Test + fun repeatedExtractionOfTheSamePageAlwaysSucceeds() { + val context = InstrumentationRegistry.getInstrumentation().targetContext + val attempts = 8 + val failures = mutableListOf<String>() + + repeat(attempts) { i -> + val url = server.url("/article-$i").toString() + when (val r = runBlocking { ReaderExtractor.extractResult(context, url) }) { + is ExtractionResult.Success -> + assertTrue( + "attempt ${i + 1} returned empty content", + !r.article.content.isNullOrBlank() + ) + is ExtractionResult.Failure -> + failures += "attempt ${i + 1}: ${r.reason.diagnostic()}" + } + } + + assertTrue( + "extraction is not reliable — ${failures.size}/$attempts failed:\n" + + failures.joinToString("\n"), + failures.isEmpty() + ) + } +} |
