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Derives uts/realtime/integration from ably/specification@d9a04ca — the last tier of the
Universal Test Specifications that had no tests here. Twenty specifications, 73 Test IDs,
95 pytest cases. Stacked on #716.

Thirteen of the twenty run straight against the sandbox; the other seven run through
uts-proxy, using the harness #716 added. Five carry a ## Protocol Variants section and
run every test twice, which is where the extra 22 cases come from.

One SDK fix, without which none of the proxy half can run

ably/transport/websockettransport.py built its URL as ws://{host}?{params}, so the
port and tlsPort client options (TO3k4, TO3k5) — which the REST layer interpolates into
every base URL — were dropped on the way to the websocket. Against Ably that goes
unnoticed, since 80 and 443 are the ports the scheme implies. Against a proxy the
connection went to the wrong port and never opened. It now interpolates
Defaults.get_port(self.options). Two lines, and the whole realtime proxy tier depends on
it.

Results

pytest test/uts -q 1124 passed, 232 skipped in 2m55s
RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 pytest test/uts -q 217 failed, 1124 passed, 15 skipped in 5m51s
pytest test/uts/realtime/integration -q 85 passed, 10 skipped in 1m49s
RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 …/realtime/integration -q 10 failed, 85 passed in 3m20s
ruff check ably/ test/ All checks passed!

The ten gated tests fail under the gate for the ten recorded reasons, each one measured.
Test IDs reconcile by set difference against the twenty specifications: 73 in the specs, 73
# UTS: comments, sets equal, no duplicates.

Four SDK root causes

  • A JWT-string token with a matching configured clientId is rejected 40102.
    request_token wraps a callback's JWT as TokenDetails(token=…) without parsing it, so
    token_details.client_id is None and _configure_client_id raises although the JWT's
    own x-ably-clientId claim matches. The connection recovers on the retry, 15 seconds
    later, off the cached token.
  • A vcdiff message with no decoder does not fail the channel. _on_message branches to
    the decode-failure recovery for 40018 only; the 40019 that from_encoded_array raises
    falls to the generic handler, which drops the messages, and the channel stays ATTACHED.
  • RTP17i re-entry never runs on an already-ATTACHED channel. An ATTACHED arriving on an
    attached channel takes the RTL12 branch, which never calls _notify_state, so
    RealtimePresence.on_attached() is unreachable. Invisible to the unit tier, whose RTP17i
    cases all pass through ATTACHING first.
  • errorReason survives a successful reconnect. Already recorded against RTN25, where
    the specification sanctioned either reading; RTN14b does not, so the entry moves from
    Adapted to Failing and the "intentional" verdict goes.

Four root causes the unit tiers already recorded gain their first integration coverage: the
5xx-with-no-fallback-hosts stall, the connection-level ERROR that skips every failure
action, the unused connectionStateTtl, and connection recovery, which is unimplemented
end to end.

Specifications

The four uts/rest/integration faults #716 found are now filed upstream as
ably/specification#547 to #550, and cross-referenced from the entries that found them. One
claim in that record did not reproduce and has been corrected: the close in presence.md's
RSP4b2 does not break its assertion, because the server gives the synthesized LEAVE the
member's last data — measured across four runs — so both presence.md tests now close
where the specification closes.

Deriving the realtime tier turned up eight further specification faults, filed as
ably/specification#551 to #554. None is gated: each is a heading, a fixture, a step or a
log field, so the derived test keeps the corrected fixture and passes. The largest are
proxy/heartbeat.md, which files its Test ID under RTN23a and then sends a close frame
thirteen seconds inside the idle window it claims to measure, and RTN15h1, which asserts
statusCode == 401 where ably-js — the SDK its own note says it follows — throws 403.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added broad realtime integration coverage for authentication, channels, presence, connection lifecycle and recovery, message updates, history, and protocol variants.
    • Added proxy-backed tests for connection and REST failures, reauthentication, heartbeats, and channel behavior.
    • Added a dedicated realtime integration test tier with separate sandbox provisioning and documented run commands.
  • Bug Fixes

    • WebSocket connections now include the configured port in their URL.
    • REST presence-history tests now close realtime clients before checking emitted events.

owenpearson and others added 5 commits September 25, 2026 11:22
The realtime transport built its URL from the scheme and the host alone, so
`port` and `tlsPort` (TO3k4, TO3k5) reached the REST layer, which interpolates
`Defaults.get_port(options)` into every base URL, and were dropped on the way
to the websocket. Against Ably that goes unnoticed, since the defaults 80 and
443 are the ports the scheme implies. Against anything else — a proxy, a local
server — the connection went to the wrong port and never opened, which is what
`uts/realtime/integration/proxy/*` needs and cannot otherwise get.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thirteen specifications under `uts/realtime/integration`, 43 Test IDs, run
against the sandbox with no mock in front of anything. The package provisions
its own app under `realtime_sandbox`, separate from the REST tier's, so a
realtime test entering presence cannot be seen by a REST test reading the same
channel name. Five of the twenty specifications in the tier carry a
`## Protocol Variants` section and run every test twice; three of them are here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Seven specifications, 30 Test IDs, each faulting one frame or one request
between the client and the sandbox and asserting on what the SDK does next.
The session, the rules and the event log come from `test/uts/helpers/proxy.py`,
which the REST proxy package already uses; the package's own fixtures give a
session per test and close it however the test ends.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`presence.md` closes its realtime client between the presence operations and
the REST read in both RSP4 and RSP4b2. The close synthesizes a LEAVE, which
becomes the newest event and so the one a backwards read lands on, and the
server gives that LEAVE the member's last data — so both specifications'
assertions hold with the close where they put it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The four `uts/rest/integration` specification faults are filed as
ably/specification#547 to #550 and the eight `uts/realtime/integration` ones as
#551 to #554, each cross-referenced from the entry that found it. The realtime
integration tier adds four SDK root causes and extends four that the unit tiers
already recorded. None of the eight specification faults is gated: every one is
a heading, a fixture or a label, so the derived test keeps the corrected
fixture and passes.

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

Adds broad realtime integration coverage for authentication, channels, presence, messages, connection lifecycle, and proxy fault scenarios. It adds separate realtime sandbox and proxy fixtures, expands UTS documentation and deviation records, and includes the configured port in WebSocket connection URLs.

Changes

Realtime Integration Coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sandbox and proxy test infrastructure
ably/transport/websockettransport.py, test/uts/realtime/integration/conftest.py, test/uts/realtime/integration/proxy/conftest.py
Realtime integration tests now use a session-scoped sandbox fixture, protocol variants, and package-specific timeouts. Proxy tests use shared session fixtures. WebSocket URLs include the configured port.
Authentication and connection lifecycle
test/uts/realtime/integration/auth*, test/uts/realtime/integration/auth/*, test/uts/realtime/integration/connection/*
Adds tests for token requests and renewal, JWT authentication, connection failures, successful connections, graceful close, and reconnect cycles.
Channel and presence behavior
test/uts/realtime/integration/channel_history_test.py, test/uts/realtime/integration/channels/*, test/uts/realtime/integration/presence*, test/uts/realtime/integration/presence/*
Adds tests for channel attach and detach, publishing and subscription, history, presence synchronization, bulk entry, and enter-update-leave events.
Delta and mutable message behavior
test/uts/realtime/integration/delta_decoding_test.py, test/uts/realtime/integration/mutable_messages_test.py
Adds tests for delta decoding and recovery, mutable message operations, message versions, annotations, and annotation filtering.
Proxy fault scenarios
test/uts/realtime/integration/proxy/*
Adds proxy-backed tests for authentication, connection failures and recovery, channel faults, presence re-entry, REST faults, and Realtime publish/history behavior.
UTS guidance and observed deviations
.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md, test/uts/README.md, test/uts/deviations.md, test/uts/rest/integration/presence_test.py
Documents the realtime integration tiers, fixtures, proxy setup, timeout guidance, and observed SDK deviations. Updates suite totals and closes realtime clients before REST presence-history reads.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 80e0a

The shipped SDK change is a small fix that includes the configured port in WebSocket URLs. The remaining issues are in the new tests. One token-renewal test can pass without confirming that the client reconnected after renewal. Two proxy resume tests can fail intermittently because they start recording state changes too late. Tightening these tests is recommended, but the issues do not affect SDK users.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 80e0a

The configured-port change preserves the existing host and TLS choices. The main security question is limited to test runs: new proxy-backed tests use a full-access sandbox token that could appear in connection logs when INFO logging is enabled.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: New proxy-backed tests can put a full-access sandbox bearer JWT in the existing INFO-level WebSocket URL log. Exposure depends on test log configuration; the effect is bounded to the provisioned sandbox app rather than a production credential.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The newly routed bearer token authorizes the session-owned sandbox app, not a demonstrated production app. Normal teardown limits its lifetime, but deletion failure or interruption can extend exposure until sandbox expiry.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — When INFO logging is enabled, the new JWT-backed test connection can log its bearer token: authentication supplies accessToken, URL construction encodes the parameters, and connect logs the resulting URL. That logging implementation predates the PR; these tests add a caller carrying a full-access sandbox JWT.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The port change retains the existing TLS-based scheme selection and ConnectionManager host selection. The proxy tests deliberately select localhost and disable TLS for their test connection.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Best-effort app and session cleanup contains ordinary test failures, but does not prove credential invalidation after process interruption or an unsuccessful deletion.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Redact credential-bearing WebSocket query parameters before logging connection URLs, and verify proxy event-log redaction for authentication parameters.
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In @.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md:
- Around line 294-295: Update the realtime integration mapping in the
UTS-to-Python guide to preserve the source basename’s existing `_test` suffix
when deriving the Python filename, rather than appending it again. Extend the
nearby fetch commands to include the realtime integration sources needed for
sandbox and proxy tests.

In `@test/uts/realtime/integration/auth/token_renewal_test.py`:
- Line 55: In the token-renewal test, register a connection-state listener
before token expiry and wait for a new CONNECTED transition after the
token-error callback, rather than relying on await_connection_state to accept
the existing state. Preserve the callback-count check while ensuring the
replacement JWT has completed a successful reconnect.

In `@test/uts/realtime/integration/proxy/connection_resume_test.py`:
- Around line 441-452: In test_rtn15h1_token_error_nonrenewable_failed and
test_rtn15h3_non_token_error_reconnects, reuse the recorder created before
client.connect() instead of registering state_changes after CONNECTED, so early
proxy events are captured. In RTN15h1 wait on that recorder for FAILED; in
RTN15h3 use it to wait for DISCONNECTED and then the second CONNECTED state by
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the realtime integration source mapping.

The pinned source is uts/realtime/integration/channels/channel_publish_test.md, and its derived file is channel_publish_test.py. The <name>.md → <name>_test.py rule instead directs a reader to a nonexistent source or a channel_publish_test_test.py target. Document the realtime integration filename convention and add its sandbox and proxy source paths to the fetch commands near Line 13. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In @.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md around lines 294 - 295, Update the
realtime integration mapping in the UTS-to-Python guide to preserve the source
basename’s existing `_test` suffix when deriving the Python filename, rather
than appending it again. Extend the nearby fetch commands to include the
realtime integration sources needed for sandbox and proxy tests.

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lambda: len(callback_count) >= 2, timeout=RENEWAL_TIMEOUT, interval=RENEWAL_INTERVAL,
description='the auth callback to be invoked for a renewed token')

await await_connection_state(client, ConnectionState.CONNECTED, RECONNECT_TIMEOUT)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for a new CONNECTED transition after renewal.

callback_count reaches two before the replacement JWT completes its connection flow. The token-error handler can invoke the callback while the connection still reports the original CONNECTED state. In that case, await_connection_state returns immediately, and this test can pass without a successful reconnect. Register a state listener before expiry and require a subsequent CONNECTED transition after the token error. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@test/uts/realtime/integration/auth/token_renewal_test.py` at line 55, In the
token-renewal test, register a connection-state listener before token expiry and
wait for a new CONNECTED transition after the token-error callback, rather than
relying on await_connection_state to accept the existing state. Preserve the
callback-count check while ensuring the replacement JWT has completed a
successful reconnect.

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Comment on lines +441 to +452
connect_states = record_states(client.connection)

# Connect through proxy -- initial connection succeeds with the real token
client.connect()
await await_recorded_state(connect_states, ConnectionState.CONNECTED, timeout=CONNECT_TIMEOUT)

# Record state changes
state_changes = record_states(client.connection)

# After 1s the proxy injects DISCONNECTED with 40142 and closes the socket.
# The SDK has a non-renewable token, so it cannot renew -> FAILED.
await await_recorded_state(state_changes, ConnectionState.FAILED, timeout=FAILED_TIMEOUT)

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Race: the second recorder can miss the injected fault.

In test_rtn15h1_token_error_nonrenewable_failed and test_rtn15h3_non_token_error_reconnects, the proxy rule fires 1000 ms after ws_connect. It does not fire relative to CONNECTED. The test sees CONNECTED only through a 50 ms poll (STATE_POLL_INTERVAL). After that, the test registers state_changes. If the handshake and the CONNECTED frame use most of that second, the injected DISCONNECTED can arrive before the second recorder exists. In RTN15h1, FAILED is terminal and is never recorded, so the wait times out. In RTN15h3, DISCONNECTED is transient, so the same timeout occurs. Use the single recorder that already exists, and wait by count or by index.

Proposed fix (RTN15h1; apply the same change to RTN15h3)
     connect_states = record_states(client.connection)
 
     client.connect()
     await await_recorded_state(connect_states, ConnectionState.CONNECTED, timeout=CONNECT_TIMEOUT)
 
-    # Record state changes
-    state_changes = record_states(client.connection)
+    # One recorder from before connect(), so a fault that fires early is still recorded
+    state_changes = connect_states
 
     await await_recorded_state(state_changes, ConnectionState.FAILED, timeout=FAILED_TIMEOUT)

For RTN15h3, wait for ConnectionState.CONNECTED with count=2 after the DISCONNECTED wait.

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In `@test/uts/realtime/integration/proxy/connection_resume_test.py` around lines
441 - 452, In test_rtn15h1_token_error_nonrenewable_failed and
test_rtn15h3_non_token_error_reconnects, reuse the recorder created before
client.connect() instead of registering state_changes after CONNECTED, so early
proxy events are captured. In RTN15h1 wait on that recorder for FAILED; in
RTN15h3 use it to wait for DISCONNECTED and then the second CONNECTED state by
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