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fix(serial): cleanly close serial port on disconnect when stream is locked (fixes #1437) - #1480
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The title clearly describes the primary change: cleanly closing a serial port when its stream is locked during disconnect. It also references the related issue. |
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Issue #1437 requires that Disconnect closes the underlying serial connection so the port is free. It reports that fromDevice.cancel() fails on a locked stream and that the port stays open. At the revi… |
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All source changes in packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.ts relate to the disconnect and close path for issue #1437. The changes are: storing the reader and read-loop promise; restructuring t… |
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#1437requires that Disconnect closes the underlying serial connection so the port is free. It reports that fromDevice.cancel() fails on a locked stream and that the port stays open. At the reviewed head, transport.ts changes disconnect() as follows. It stores the reader (this.reader) and the read-loop promise (this.readLoopPromise). It calls this.reader.cancel() and awaits the read loop. The read loop releases the reader lock in finally. It calls _fromDevice.cancel() only when the stream is unlocked. It then calls this.connection.close(). The reader is obtained from transformed, which is portReadable.pipeThrough(fromDeviceStream()). Cancelling that reader propagates to portReadable, which frees the port's readable for close(). This code path addresses the reported failure. The PR test diff could not be read in this review, so the added regression test was not verified. The issue does not require a test. Runtime behavior in Chrome was not verified; the shutdown of the internal pipe is asynchronous and its timing relative to close() is not confirmed by the evidence available here.
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#1437. The changes are: storing the reader and read-loop promise; restructuring the read loop into a stored promise with releaseLock and listener cleanup in finally; guarding emitStatus enqueue with try/catch for a closed controller; emitting the user disconnect status before stream shutdown; and guarding fromDevice.cancel() with a locked check. No unrelated feature or API change appears in the reviewed diff. The public declarations are unchanged. The test file diff could not be read, so its scope is not verified. Its described content (FakeSerialPort close lock behavior and a disconnect regression test) relates to the same issue.
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Review comments at @packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.ts:
- Around line 412-417: In disconnect, awaiting readLoopPromise does not ensure
the pipe from portReadable has released the raw stream; store that inbound
pipe’s completion promise and await it before connection.close(). Extend the
regression test to cover incoming data during disconnect.
- Around line 338-339: Update the read-error handling path around
`transformed.cancel()` to cancel through `reader` instead, ensuring the active
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Cancel the reader on the read-error path.
When ctrl.enqueue(value) throws, reader still locks transformed, so transformed.cancel() rejects with TypeError. The empty catch suppresses that error. The finally block then releases the lock and clears this.reader without cancelling transformed.
disconnect() has no later path that cancels transformed: it can cancel this.reader only while it exists, and _fromDevice.cancel() does not cancel the locked pipe. The pipe can therefore keep portReadable locked, causing connection.close() to fail.
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--- "a/packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.ts" +++ "b/packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.ts" @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ ); } catch {} try { - await transformed.cancel(); + await reader.cancel(); } catch {} } finally { try {
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Await the inbound pipe before closing the serial port.
reader.cancel() and readLoopPromise only cover the transformed reader. The pipeThrough() operation can still hold portReadable when disconnect() calls connection.close(). Web Serial can reject that close while the raw stream is locked, leaving the port open.
Store the inbound pipe promise and await it after readLoopPromise and before connection.close(). Extend the regression test to cover incoming data during disconnect.
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+ private fromDevicePipePromise?: Promise<void>; private pipePromise: Promise<void> | null = null; @@ - const transformed = this.portReadable.pipeThrough(fromDeviceStream()); + const fromDeviceTransform = fromDeviceStream(); + const transformed = fromDeviceTransform.readable; + this.fromDevicePipePromise = this.portReadable + .pipeTo(fromDeviceTransform.writable) + .catch(() => {}); @@ if (this.readLoopPromise) { try { await this.readLoopPromise; log.debug("disconnect: readLoopPromise settled"); } catch {} } + if (this.fromDevicePipePromise) { + await this.fromDevicePipePromise; + log.debug("disconnect: inbound pipe settled"); + } // Cancel any remaining streams only if NOT locked (spec throws TypeError if cancelled while locked)
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PR: fix(serial): cleanly close serial port on disconnect when stream is locked (fixes #1437)
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ayushdwivedi-stack:fix/issue-1437-serial-disconnect-locked-streamIssue: Fixes #1437 ("[Bug]: Serial connection not closed when disconnecting in the Web Client")
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7572d7fc87a13a51ddf71e96248fe94ec3a6ab85Overview
When disconnecting from a serial device, the Web Client previously failed to release the underlying serial port. Two related issues caused the failure:
disconnect()calledthis._fromDevice?.cancel()whilethis._fromDevice.locked === true(due to downstream pipes likefromDevice.pipeTo(...)inMeshClient). According to the W3C Web Streams specification, invokingcancel()on a lockedReadableStreamimmediately throws aTypeError: Cannot cancel a locked stream.await reader.read(). Because the reader was never cancelled during disconnect, the read loop remained blocked and never released its lock (reader.releaseLock()) onthis.portReadable(connection.readable). Whenthis.connection.close()was subsequently invoked on theSerialPort, Chrome rejected it withTypeError: Failed to execute 'close' on 'SerialPort': Cannot cancel a locked stream. The serial port remained open in the browser until the entire tab was reloaded.Changes
packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.ts:readerandreadLoopPromiseon the transport instance.disconnect(), emittedDeviceDisconnected("user")first so subscribers receive the disconnect status before controller close.this.readerdirectly (await this.reader.cancel()) and awaitedthis.readLoopPromiseto ensure the read loop completes and executesreader.releaseLock().this._fromDevice.cancel()withif (this._fromDevice && !this._fromDevice.locked)to strictly comply with the Web Streams specification.emitStatus()controller enqueue calls intry/catchto cleanly handle cases where the controller is already closed.packages/transport-web-serial/src/transport.test.ts:FakeSerialPort.close()to enforce the Web Serial specification rule that closing a port with a locked readable stream throws aTypeError."disconnects cleanly without throwing when fromDevice stream is locked (fixes #1437)", verifying that callingdisconnect()whilefromDeviceis actively locked to a reader cleanly releases the port streams without errors.Verification
pnpm test packages/transport-web-serial:oxlint,oxfmt) ran and passed cleanly with 0 errors.Checklist
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