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Derives all twelve uts/rest/integration specifications from ably/specification into 84 tests that run against the real Ably sandbox, and builds the two pieces of infrastructure they need: the sandbox app, and the programmable proxy the fault specifications route their traffic through.

This is the first tier here that reaches the network. The unit tiers below it serve every request from a mock; these tests exercise the actual path to the server, which is the point — uts/docs/integration-testing.md asks for integration coverage exactly where correctness depends on client and server agreeing, and a mock cannot answer that question.

What runs

Test IDs 84 of the specifications' 84 — exact set match, no duplicates, one file per specification
pytest cases 122; five specifications carry ## Protocol Variants and run once per protocol
Result 106 passed, 16 skipped
Gated 16 cases / 12 Test IDs, each confirmed to fail under RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 for its own stated reason

Whole suite, after this branch:

uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts -q
1039 passed, 222 skipped

RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts -q
207 failed, 1039 passed, 15 skipped

Nothing under ably/ changes.

The harness

test/uts/helpers/sandbox.py provisions one app per session over plain httpx rather than through AblyRest — provisioning is infrastructure, and a client that cannot form a request should fail a test rather than look like a broken fixture. Teardown is best effort, since a sandbox app expires on its own.

The app setup is the canonical test-resources/test-app-setup.json from ably/ably-common, vendored at test/uts/assets/. This matters more than it looks: the specifications index their keys by position — keys[0] full access, keys[2] per-channel, keys[4] revocable tokens — and this repository's existing test/assets/testAppSpec.json has different capabilities at those indices and puts pushEnabled on a different namespace. Reusing it would have produced tests that pass while asserting the wrong thing.

Alongside it: sandbox_rest_client / sandbox_realtime_client, wall_clock_poll_until (the unit tier's poll_until spins on the event loop, which is right for a mock and wrong against a network), random_id, the cipher the presence fixtures are encrypted with, and HS256 JWT signing. The auth specification asks for a third-party JWT library; pyjwt is not in the lock, and adding it would break the mandatory --frozen.

A use_binary_protocol fixture parametrises only the tests that ask for it, and the 120-second timeout integration-testing.md calls for is scoped to this package alone.

The proxy

rest_fallback.md is about what the SDK does when a request goes wrong — a connection dropped mid-response, a 503 with and without a parseable body, a CloudFront 403, a 4xx that must not be retried, a request held past its timeout, and a publish the server persists while the client is told it failed. The sandbox answers correctly, so uts/docs/proxy.md puts ably/uts-proxy in front of it.

test/uts/helpers/proxy.py supplies it. The pinned v0.3.0 release is downloaded on first use, checked against the sha256 the release publishes, and extracted into ~/.cache/uts-proxy/<version>/ under a lock file, so the seven Python versions CI runs fetch it once between them. The download is anonymous — the repository is public — so CI needs no token and no new secret. UTS_PROXY_LOCAL_PATH substitutes a locally built binary or distributive, and UTS_PROXY_CONTROL_URL a control API already running, which the suite then leaves alone. One control process serves a test run, on a free port rather than a fixed one so two suites on a machine do not collide, and it is reaped at the end of the run and again at interpreter exit.

create_proxy_session and ProxySession are the interface proxy.md specifies, complete rather than narrowed to what rest_fallback.md happens to need: the seven realtime proxy specifications and the Objects one use trigger_action, add_rules(position='prepend') and ws_connect matching, and need nothing added here. Rules and log events stay the plain dictionaries the specifications' JSON describes, so a rule in a test reads as the rule in the specification. The package's proxy_session fixture opens sessions and closes every one of them.

Every client in the package authenticates through a callback. The session speaks plain HTTP, RSC18 refuses basic auth over it, and a token request routed through the session would be counted by the assertions that count requests — so the callback's own client goes straight to the sandbox.

Four SDK defects this found

  1. Rest#request never renews an expired token. It is the only call site passing raise_on_error=False (ably/rest/rest.py:145), so make_request skips raise_for_response and returns the 401 instead of raising, and the reactive branch of reauth_if_expired never runs. The pre-emptive branch is separately inert because token_details_has_expired() returns False with no time offset. The same expired token renews correctly through publish(). Gates RSC10.

  2. enter_client is impossible on an anonymous connection. The server answers basic auth with clientId: "*", and the branch guarding a configured clientId against a server wildcard (ably/rest/auth.py:335-353) fires when original_client_id is None, recording the client id as validated and None. can_assume_client_id then refuses every id, and the is None escape is unreachable. RSA7b4 says it should become '*'. One line from a fix; every test needing presence on an anonymous connection passes client_id='*' around it.

  3. httpRequestTimeout is applied as seconds where the specification counts milliseconds. ably/http/http.py:193 hands (http_open_timeout, http_request_timeout) to httpx, which reads seconds, so the specification's httpRequestTimeout: 3000 is a three-thousand-second deadline. Measured against a proxy session delaying /time by twenty seconds: the request sat out the whole delay and succeeded on the primary host, attempting no fallback, where http_request_timeout=3 timed out at 3.1 seconds and the fallback retry succeeded. The defaults come out right by coincidence — 4 and 10 seconds are TO3l3's and TO3l4's 4000 and 10000 ms — so only a client that configures the option is affected, which is why the file recorded this twice as an internal difference readable off the options object. It is not internal. Distinct from the already-filed #709, which is about the same value bounding one socket read rather than the request. Gates RSC15l2.

  4. Push admin's snake_case filters return everything, not nothing. The server drops an unrecognised query parameter rather than rejecting it, so list(client_id=x) is the whole unfiltered page — measured 2 / 3 / 3 for camelCase, snake_case and unfiltered. A test asserting that the row it just created is present passes with the filter doing nothing, so every filtered list here carries a control proving it narrowed.

Four specification faults, not filed

  • push_channels.md hard-codes "test-device-identity-token", which the sandbox rejects 40005. Its own comment says the token comes from the registration response. This test could never have passed as written, whatever the SDK did.
  • batch_presence.md's restricted-key test ends its setup with AWAIT realtime.close() and then asserts on the presence that close destroys. The file's other two tests get this right and say so.
  • presence.md's RSP4b2 has the same misplaced close, which produces a data-less LEAVE that lands as items[0] and breaks the specification's own == "third".
  • RSL2b3's four assertions all hold with the time range dropped entirely. The derived test keeps them and adds the converse they omit.

Ten more gated tests, on root causes already recorded

Auth#revokeTokens, Rest#batchPresence, the PushChannel surface and the clientId filter on RestPresence#get do not exist in ably-python. The unit tiers already record all four, so these extend those entries rather than opening new ones, and gate on the same spellings so both tiers go green together when an API lands.

The gated halves are not stubs. Their setups run against the sandbox, and where the assertions sit behind a missing API they were checked against the endpoint directly — which moved two of them: a revoked token does not leave the connection DISCONNECTED with 40141 here, because the client the specification builds holds only a TokenDetails and cannot re-authorise, so RSA4a fails it with 40171 instead. Left as written, all four revocation tests would have failed for a second, unrecorded reason on the day the API landed.

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  • New Features
    • Added sandbox-backed integration coverage for REST authentication, publishing, history, pagination, presence, push, mutable messages, token revocation, batch presence, and time and statistics.
    • Added proxy-based integration coverage for REST fallback behavior, including retries, timeouts, connection failures, and HTTP error handling.
    • Added setup and guidance for running offline tests separately from network-dependent integration tests, including JSON and MessagePack coverage.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded test guidance with sandbox setup, proxy configuration, polling, cleanup, timeout guidance, and known differences between the specifications and tested behavior.

owenpearson and others added 7 commits September 24, 2026 15:15
The integration tier talks to the real Ably sandbox, so it needs the app every
specification's BEFORE ALL TESTS block provisions, and the pieces of that
preamble that only mean something against a live server.

helpers/sandbox.py provisions the app from the canonical app setup in
ably-common, vendored under assets/ because the specifications index into its
key ordering by position. Provisioning goes over plain httpx rather than
through AblyRest: a client that cannot form a request should fail a test rather
than look like a broken fixture. Teardown is best effort, since a sandbox app
expires on its own. Alongside it are random_id(), the cipher the presence
fixtures are encrypted with, and HS256 JWT signing, which the auth
specification reaches for a third-party library to do.

sandbox_rest_client and sandbox_realtime_client build clients that carry no
test_options and reach the network, and wall_clock_poll_until waits on real
time, which is what an integration specification's timeouts measure.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ions

publish, history, pagination and time_stats, against the sandbox rather than a
mock: 18 tests, the first two once per protocol.

The specifications' timing assumptions need care against a real server. History
is not consistent immediately after a publish, so every read polls until the page
holds what it expects rather than reading once; a PaginatedResult is always
truthy, so a poll returning the page directly would be satisfied by the first
empty one. The stats specification guards its assertions on there being stats to
read, which a freshly provisioned app has none of, so the tests inject an
interval through the sandbox's own endpoint and assert unconditionally; real
traffic is aggregated on the server's schedule, with no bounded wait after which
it is certainly counted.

RSL2b3 keeps the specification's four assertions and adds the converse they omit,
that each window excludes the other batch. Without it the test passes with the
time range dropped entirely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
presence and batch_presence, 20 tests, both once per protocol.

The presence specifications read the members the app setup pre-populates on
persisted:presence_fixtures, one of which is encrypted; a channel carries the
cipher from construction, so the test that decodes it holds its own client.
Four tests reach for a clientId filter on RestPresence#get that ably-python does
not have. Only the one that is about the filter is gated; the three decoding
tests use it to pick a fixture, so they select in Python and adapt the count
they assert.

batch_presence needs Rest#batchPresence, which does not exist at all, so its
three tests are gated against the spelling the unit tier already uses. Their
setup runs, and the presence members reach the server, so what is gated is the
read rather than the whole test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cifications

auth, revoke_tokens and mutable_messages, 20 tests, the last once per protocol.

The auth specification signs its JWTs with the harness rather than a library.
RSC10 is gated: Rest#request passes raise_on_error=False, so the HTTP layer never
raises on the 401 and the reauthorise-and-retry branch never runs, while the
pre-emptive check is separately inert without a time offset. The same expired
token renews correctly through publish().

revoke_tokens needs Auth#revokeTokens, which does not exist, so all four tests
are gated. Their assertions were checked against the endpoint directly, which
moved two of them: a revoked token does not leave the connection DISCONNECTED
with 40141 here, because the client the specification builds holds only a
TokenDetails and cannot re-authorise, so RSA4a fails the connection with 40171.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
push_admin and push_channels, 18 tests, json only.

A filtered list needs proving. The push admin filter parameters are camelCase on
the wire, and the server drops one it does not recognise rather than rejecting
it, so a snake_case filter returns the whole unfiltered page. A test asserting
that the row it just created is present then passes with the filter doing
nothing. Every filtered list here carries a control — a decoy row, or a count
taken before the call — so that narrowing is what the assertion rests on.
Deletion is asynchronous, so the counts that follow a removal poll.

push_channels needs channel.push, client.device and LocalDevice, none of which
exist, so both tests are gated. The specification's hard-coded device identity
token is also rejected by the server, so the test takes the one the registration
issues.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The skill described a suite where every request came from a mock. It now covers
the sandbox-backed tier too: the harness names, the rule that only a
specification carrying `## Protocol Variants` takes the protocol fixture, and
the traps that came out of deriving the eleven REST integration specifications.

Most of those traps produce a test that passes while proving nothing rather than
one that fails — a filter the server ignores rather than rejects, a paginated
result that is truthy when empty, a guarded assertion that never runs against a
fresh app. Each is recorded with the measurement behind it.

The timers section now distinguishes three regimes rather than one, since the
realtime tier has a clock seam and the integration tier uses real time on
purpose.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…found

The eleven REST integration specifications add eleven gated Test IDs to the
record. Ten of them land on root causes the unit tiers already found — no
Auth#revokeTokens, no Rest#batchPresence, no PushChannel surface, no clientId
filter on RestPresence#get — so those entries grow a tier rather than gaining a
twin. Both halves now gate on the same spelling, and go green together.

Two SDK defects are new. Rest#request never renews an expired token: it is the
only call site passing raise_on_error=False, so the HTTP layer returns the 401
instead of raising and the reauthorise-and-retry branch never runs, while the
pre-emptive check is separately inert without a time offset. And a basic-auth
connection records its clientId as validated and None, so enterClient can never
match; every test that needs presence on an anonymous connection passes '*'
around it.

Four specification faults are recorded and not filed: a device identity token
push_channels.md hard-codes that the server rejects, two tests that close the
realtime connection the following read depends on, and a time-range test whose
assertions hold with the range dropped.

The header now separates Test IDs, derived tests and pytest cases, which the
integration tier is the first to make diverge in both directions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds sandbox-backed REST integration tests to the UTS suite. The changes provide app provisioning, integration clients and polling, coverage for REST endpoints, proxy-based fault tests, and updated test guidance and deviation records.

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Sandbox configuration and lifecycle
test/uts/assets/test-app-setup.json, test/uts/helpers/sandbox.py, test/uts/helpers/client.py, test/uts/rest/integration/conftest.py
Adds sandbox fixtures, app provisioning and teardown, sandbox REST and realtime clients, and wall-clock polling. The REST integration fixture provisions one app for the test session.
REST endpoint coverage
test/uts/rest/integration/auth_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/publish_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/revoke_tokens_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/history_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/pagination_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/mutable_messages_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/presence_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/batch_presence_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/push_admin_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/push_channels_test.py, test/uts/rest/integration/time_stats_test.py
Adds sandbox tests for authentication, publishing, token revocation, history, pagination, mutable messages, annotations, presence, push operations, server time, and stats. Some tests are deviation-gated or adapted to documented API and server behavior.
Proxy lifecycle and fault tests
test/uts/helpers/proxy.py, test/uts/rest/integration/proxy/conftest.py, test/uts/rest/integration/proxy/rest_fallback_test.py
Adds pinned proxy binary provisioning, session management, and fault-injection tests for timeout, connection drop, HTTP errors, fallback, and idempotent publishing.
Integration guidance and records
.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md, test/uts/README.md, test/uts/deviations.md
Updates integration-tier instructions, timeouts, commands, counts, adaptations, and recorded findings. Documents proxy configuration and the measured HTTP request-timeout unit mismatch.

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In `@test/uts/rest/integration/presence_test.py`:
- Around line 200-202: Extend the test around `rest_channel.presence.history` to
verify both timestamp bounds exclude the generated events: querying with only
`end=time_before` and with only `start=time_after + 1` must return no items.
Keep the existing assertion that the in-window query retrieves the events.
- Around line 255-258: Update the presence-history pagination test after
`page1.next()` to assert that event IDs in `page1.items` and `page2.items` are
disjoint, so a repeated page fails the test.

In `@test/uts/rest/integration/publish_test.py`:
- Around line 73-75: Update any_message_in_history and the surrounding
idempotency check to publish a distinct marker after the three attempts, wait
until that marker appears in channel history, and only then count messages with
the fixed ID. Do not use the first-nonempty history page as the completion
condition.

In `@test/uts/rest/integration/push_admin_test.py`:
- Around line 203-205: Update the removal assertion after
registrations.remove(device_id) to use wall_clock_poll_until around
registrations.get(device_id), waiting until it raises AblyException with status
code 404; follow the polling pattern used by the bulk-removal test.

In `@test/uts/rest/integration/push_channels_test.py`:
- Around line 127-129: In both tests following unsubscribe_device() and
unsubscribe_client(), poll the corresponding filtered channel-subscription list
until it is empty instead of asserting immediately, reusing the polling approach
from test_rsh1c4_remove_channel_subscription.

In `@test/uts/rest/integration/time_stats_test.py`:
- Line 107: Update the fixture and assertions around the stats() call so the
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history = await rest_channel.presence.history(start=time_before, end=time_after)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Test that the time bounds exclude events.

Both generated events fall inside time_before and time_after. If history() ignores start or end, the current assertion still passes. Query outside the event window to check each bound. The RSP4b1 requirement is timestamp filtering, not only retrieval. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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     assert len(history.items) >= 2
+    assert not (await rest_channel.presence.history(end=time_before)).items
+    assert not (await rest_channel.presence.history(start=time_after + 1)).items
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history = await rest_channel.presence.history(start=time_before, end=time_after)
assert len(history.items) >= 2
history = await rest_channel.presence.history(start=time_before, end=time_after)
assert len(history.items) >= 2
assert not (await rest_channel.presence.history(end=time_before)).items
assert not (await rest_channel.presence.history(start=time_after + 1)).items
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In `@test/uts/rest/integration/presence_test.py` around lines 200 - 202, Extend
the test around `rest_channel.presence.history` to verify both timestamp bounds
exclude the generated events: querying with only `end=time_before` and with only
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Check that history pagination advances.

If page1.next() returns page one again, page2 is non-null and nonempty, so this test passes. Compare event IDs across the pages to detect a repeated page. The separate full-pagination test exercises presence members, not presence history. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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page2 = await page1.next()
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async def any_message_in_history():
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Wait for all publishes to become observable before checking idempotency.

If history exposes the first publish before the other two, this condition returns a one-item page. The test can then pass even if the duplicate IDs later produce two more messages. Publish a distinct marker after the three attempts, wait until the marker is visible, and then check the history for the fixed ID. The pinned specification uses the same first-nonempty polling condition, so the derived test needs an additional check to make its idempotency assertion reliable. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@test/uts/rest/integration/publish_test.py` around lines 73 - 75, Update
any_message_in_history and the surrounding idempotency check to publish a
distinct marker after the three attempts, wait until that marker appears in
channel history, and only then count messages with the fixed ID. Do not use the
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with pytest.raises(AblyException) as excinfo:
await registrations.get(device_id)
assert excinfo.value.status_code == 404

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Poll until the device is absent.

If the server has not finished processing registrations.remove(device_id), the immediate get(device_id) can succeed and fail this test. Device removal is asynchronous. Use wall_clock_poll_until to wait for the 404, as the bulk-removal test waits for its list to become empty. (ably.com)

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result_after = await client.push.admin.channel_subscriptions.list(
channel=channel_name, deviceId=device_id)
assert len(result_after.items) == 0

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Wait for unsubscribe to become visible in both tests.

When the deviation gate is removed, an immediate list after unsubscribe_device() can still return the subscription. The same issue follows unsubscribe_client() at Lines 160-162. Channel-subscription deletion is asynchronous. Poll each filtered list until it is empty, as test_rsh1c4_remove_channel_subscription does. (ably.com)

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both tests following unsubscribe_device() and unsubscribe_client(), poll the
corresponding filtered channel-subscription list until it is empty instead of
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client = sandbox_rest_client(app_with_stats.key(0).key_str)

# Request stats with specific parameters
result = await client.stats(limit=5, direction='forwards', unit='hour')

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Make the direction and limit checks discriminating.

The fixture injects only one minute of traffic. With one hourly result, this test passes even if stats() drops direction='forwards' or limit=5: the page still has at most five items, and the test never checks order. Inject more than five distinct hourly intervals, then assert both the expected ascending interval IDs and the five-item limit. The specification identifies all three parameters as the behavior under test. (github.com)

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In `@test/uts/rest/integration/time_stats_test.py` at line 107, Update the fixture
and assertions around the stats() call so the test covers more than five
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owenpearson and others added 3 commits September 24, 2026 17:23
uts/docs/proxy.md puts ably/uts-proxy between the client and the sandbox for
the specifications that are about what the SDK does when a request goes wrong.
The sandbox answers correctly, so the fault has to be injected in front of it:
the proxy binds a port per session, takes plain HTTP on it and speaks TLS
onwards, applies the session's rules, and records everything that crosses it.

helpers/proxy.py supplies the proxy. The pinned release is downloaded on first
use, checked against the sha256 the release publishes and extracted into
~/.cache/uts-proxy/<version>/, under a lock file so the several Python versions
CI runs fetch it once between them; UTS_PROXY_LOCAL_PATH substitutes a locally
built binary and UTS_PROXY_CONTROL_URL a control API already running. One
control process serves a test run, on a free port rather than a fixed one so
two suites on a machine do not collide, and it is reaped at the end of the run
and again at interpreter exit. create_proxy_session and ProxySession are the
specifications' own interface, with rules and log events left as the plain
dictionaries their JSON describes.

The package's proxy_session fixture opens sessions and closes every one of
them, which is the specifications' AFTER EACH TEST. Its per-test timeout is 300
seconds, prepended so it is read in place of the tier's 120: a cold cache
downloads the binary before the first test runs, and a specification that
provokes a timeout sits through the delay it asked for.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
rest_fallback.md is the twelfth and last of the REST integration
specifications, and the only one whose faults the sandbox will not produce on
request: a request held past its timeout, a connection dropped mid-response, a
CloudFront 403, a 5xx with and without a parseable body, a 4xx that must not be
retried, and a publish the server persists while the client is told it failed.
Each is a proxy rule firing once, so the retry that follows reaches the sandbox
and the test is about what the SDK did in between.

Every client authenticates through the specification's token_auth_callback: the
session speaks plain HTTP, RSC18 refuses basic auth over it, and a token
request routed through the session would be counted by the assertions that
count requests, so the callback's own client goes straight to the sandbox.

RSC15l2 is gated. The specification's httpRequestTimeout is milliseconds and
ably-python's http_request_timeout is seconds, so its 3000 is three thousand
seconds: against a session delaying /time by twenty, the request sat out the
whole delay and succeeded on the primary host with no fallback attempted.
Passing 3 makes the same test pass in 3.1 seconds, so the fallback path itself
is compliant and the unit is the whole of the defect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The suite's README gains what a reader needs about the proxy package: where
the binary comes from, the two environment variables that change how it is
obtained, and the shape of a client built against a session. The translation
skill gains what a writer needs — the harness table, a worked example and the
traps the derivation hit, among them that a parent package's pytest timeout
marker wins over a subpackage's unless the subpackage prepends its own, and
that pytest-asyncio runs a session-scoped async fixture on a different event
loop from the tests.

deviations.md carries the one gated test and its measurement. The unit
mismatch on http_request_timeout was already recorded twice, as something
readable only off the options object; the proxy measures it reaching the wire,
so both rows are corrected and the defect is counted once, as a root cause,
where the gated test is. Its blast radius is bounded by the defaults coming out
right by coincidence — 4 and 10 seconds being TO3l3's and TO3l4's 4000 and
10000 milliseconds — so only a client that configures the option is affected.
Issue #709 is already filed against the same line for a different defect and
the two are cross-referenced, since both change what one attempt may spend of
the RSC15 retry budget.

The counts are recomputed throughout: 1059 Test IDs, 1068 derived tests, 1139
pytest cases, and 67 gated root causes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Around line 350-359: Update the history check in the retry-deduplication test
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# (server deduplicated the retry based on the library-generated message id)
async def published_message():
page = await channel.history()
matching = [message for message in page.items
if message.name == 'test' and message.data == 'data']
return matching or None

matching = await wall_clock_poll_until(
published_message, description='the published message to reach history')
assert len(matching) == 1

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Observe history after the first match.

wall_clock_poll_until() returns on the first non-empty history page. A duplicate can become visible later and escape the assertion. A marker does not provide a visibility barrier for earlier history entries, so len(page.items) == 2 is not sufficient.

Keep polling for the existing bounded integration timeout after the first match. Fail if any later page contains more than one matching message.

Suggested fix
+import asyncio
 import pytest
 
 from ably import AblyRest
 from ably.util.exceptions import AblyException
-from test.uts.helpers.client import sandbox_rest_client, wall_clock_poll_until
+from test.uts.helpers.client import (
+    POLL_INTERVAL, POLL_TIMEOUT, sandbox_rest_client, wall_clock_poll_until)
@@
     matching = await wall_clock_poll_until(
         published_message, description='the published message to reach history')
+
+    deadline = asyncio.get_running_loop().time() + POLL_TIMEOUT
+    while asyncio.get_running_loop().time() < deadline:
+        page = await channel.history()
+        later_matching = [message for message in page.items
+                          if message.name == 'test' and message.data == 'data']
+        assert len(later_matching) <= 1
+        await asyncio.sleep(POLL_INTERVAL)
+
     assert len(matching) == 1
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In `@test/uts/rest/integration/proxy/rest_fallback_test.py` around lines 350 -
359, Update the history check in the retry-deduplication test to continue
polling for the existing bounded integration timeout after
`wall_clock_poll_until` first finds a match. On each later history page, assert
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