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What & why

A cancelled remote request was reported as a failed load. loadRemote() decided whether an error was a cancellation by checking its own AbortController. An AbortError arriving from anywhere else fell through to the failure path — emptied data, rendered the error row, emitted error — even though a cancellation says nothing about the data: the request never happened.

That is reachable from the public API today, which is what makes it a bug rather than a hypothetical: ajax.request is caller-supplied, and one that cancels on its own terms wipes the list the user is looking at. The added test drives exactly that and fails on the previous build with expected "vi.fn()" to not be called at all, but actually been called 1 times.

The same check also covers the case that started this — callers asking for the same page share one in-flight request, which runs on whichever caller's signal created it, so the starter's abort surfaces to everyone sharing it. I did not rework that into per-consumer cancellation: a later caller genuinely cannot cancel a request an earlier one still wants, so the sharing is right and the harm was the misreading. The semantics are now written down at fetchRemoteResult() instead.

What came out of this PR and is no longer in it

The CI job split. Moving the three browser engines and the benchmark into their own job made the SonarCloud gate fail with C Security Rating on New Code — a Major vulnerability in the added lines. I could not read which rule fired: sonarcloud.io is blocked by this environment's egress proxy, Sonar left no inline annotation, and the check run carries only the summary line.

Rather than guess repeatedly, I bisected with CI as the oracle:

Commit Change Gate
59308bb job split as first written C
2a5a8b8 removed the $GITHUB_OUTPUT step, keyed the cache off the lockfile C — so that construct was not it
281b317 ci.yml reverted to main, code changes kept A, 0 new issues

So the finding is in the workflow job, and worth stating precisely: every line of that job already exists in the test job on main. It is not new code there, so the gate never measures it. That points at a latent finding on main which only surfaces when the same lines are added — not something the split introduces. Chasing it needs the rule, file and line from the Sonar dashboard, which someone with access can read in a second and I cannot read at all.

Measured and not done: variable-height virtual scroll

I proposed optimizing this and then measured it, which is the point of measuring first. renderRows() drops the entire offsets array whenever a measured height differs, so the next render rebuilds N+1 offsets and allocates a string key per row — the shape looked bad. It isn't:

  • 10 synchronous re-renders over a 10,000-option list, interleaved A/B, five runs, median: variableItemHeight: true 26.9 ms vs false 25.3 ms. The whole offsets machinery costs ~0.16 ms per render.
  • 40 scroll steps over the same list: 1321.6 ms total against 80 animation frames of unavoidable rAF cadence (~1336 ms). The per-frame work does not rise above it, matching the benchmark's scrollMeanFrameMs of 16.6 — a full 60 fps.

Nothing here is worth bundle bytes or risk. Recorded so the next person does not re-derive the same wrong hypothesis.

Dependabot triage (#27#32), for your call

Checked all six rather than merging blind; two are broken as generated:

PR Bump State
#27 actions group (3) Green, CI from 2026-09-03
#28 dev group, 12 updates Green, CI re-ran today
#29 @eslint/js 9.39.5 → 10.0.1 Green (CI from 2026-09-03)
#30 markdown-it 14.3.0 → 15.0.1 Green (CI from 2026-09-03)
#31 react + @types/react Red. Incomplete group: @types/react goes to ^19.2.18 while @types/react-dom stays at ^18.3.1, which peers on @types/react@^18.0.0ERESOLVE. Needs react-dom and @types/react-dom bumped with it
#32 typescript 5.9.3 → 7.0.2 Red, blocked upstream. typescript-eslint@8.65.0 peers on typescript >=4.8.4 <6.1.0. Not actionable until typescript-eslint supports TS 7

I have not merged or closed any of them — they are not my PRs, and #31 needs a decision (complete the React 19 bump, or wait).

Checklist

  • Updated relevant docs under docs/ (and README.md if the public API changed) — no documented behavior changed; the sharing semantics are documented in the code where the sharing happens
  • Added a CHANGELOG.md entry under [Unreleased]
  • Added/updated tests for the behavior change — one test for the cancellation path, verified to fail on the previous build
  • npm run verify passes locally — 203 tests, 92.35% lines
  • Screenshots/recordings attached for UI changes — no UI change

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Cancellations from any source no longer appear as failed loads.
    • Existing loaded options remain available when a remote request is cancelled.
    • Cancellation no longer clears pagination, displays error UI, or emits an error event.
    • Queries continue to filter already-loaded options after cancellation.
  • Documentation

    • Added an unreleased changelog entry describing the updated cancellation behavior.

…owser job

`loadRemote()` decided whether an error was a cancellation by checking its
own controller. An `AbortError` from anywhere else fell through to the
failure path — it emptied `data`, rendered the error row and emitted
`error` — even though a cancellation says nothing about the data: the
request simply never happened.

That is reachable from the public API today: `ajax.request` is caller-
supplied, and one that cancels on its own terms wipes the list the user is
looking at. The added test drives exactly that and fails on the previous
build with `expected "vi.fn()" to not be called at all, but actually been
called 1 times`.

The same check also covers the shared-request case: callers asking for the
same page share one request, which runs on whichever caller's signal started
it, so the starter's abort surfaces to everyone sharing it. That sharing is
now documented at `fetchRemoteResult()` rather than reworked into
per-consumer cancellation — a later caller genuinely cannot cancel a request
an earlier one still wants, and the harm was the misreading, not the
sharing.

Separately, CI runs the three browser engines and the benchmark in their own
job rather than appending them to the lint/typecheck/coverage job. Both jobs
must pass, so nothing is skipped; the wall clock becomes the longer of the
two instead of their sum, at the cost of one repeated `npm ci` and build,
which is cheap next to installing three browsers.

203 tests. Bundle 14,363 gzipped against the 14,500 budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uwf2dANjPuEZB2RXEjCtFU
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cmm-cmm and others added 2 commits September 5, 2026 09:46
Drops the step that read the installed Playwright version out of
node_modules and wrote it into $GITHUB_OUTPUT. The lockfile pins the
version `npm ci` just installed, so hashing it identifies the browsers as
precisely with one step fewer and nothing computed into a workflow output.

The trade is that any dependency change now misses the browser cache, not
only a Playwright change. That is the same tradeoff the npm cache already
makes, and a miss costs one browser install.

Also the narrowest candidate I can act on for the SonarCloud gate, which
went to a C security rating on this PR's new code. sonarcloud.io is blocked
by this environment's egress proxy, so I cannot read which rule fired; this
removes the one construct in the new job a security scanner is likely to
object to.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SonarCloud gate went to a C security rating on this PR's new code and
stayed there after removing the one construct in the new job I could
plausibly act on blind — so that construct was not it, and I still cannot
read which rule fired: sonarcloud.io is blocked by this environment's egress
proxy, Sonar left no inline annotation, and the check run carries only the
summary line.

Rather than keep guessing at a workflow change against an oracle I can only
poll, this reverts `ci.yml` to what is on main and keeps the part of the PR
that stands on its own: the cancelled-request fix and its test. If the gate
comes back green, that also localizes the finding to the workflow, which is
worth knowing before proposing the split again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Blocker, and what I can and cannot see. The SonarCloud gate fails this PR on C Security Rating on New Code (required ≥ A), i.e. a Major vulnerability in the lines this PR adds. I cannot read which rule fired: sonarcloud.io is blocked by this environment's egress proxy (curl gets a 403 from the proxy, and a fetch returns EGRESS_BLOCKED), Sonar left no inline annotation on the diff, and the check run's output carries only the summary line — no text, no issue list.

So I narrowed it by bisecting with CI as the oracle rather than guessing twice:

  1. 2a5a8b8 removed the one construct in the new browser job a security scanner is most likely to object to — a step reading a value out of node_modules into $GITHUB_OUTPUT — replacing the cache key with hashFiles('package-lock.json'). Gate still C. So that construct is not the finding.
  2. 281b317 reverts ci.yml to main entirely, leaving only src/, tests/ and CHANGELOG.md changed.

If the gate goes green on 2, the finding is somewhere in the workflow job I added — which is worth knowing, because every line of it already exists in the test job on main and is simply not "new code" there. That would make it a latent finding on main that the gate only surfaces when the lines are re-added, not something this PR introduces.

The cancelled-request fix and its regression test stand on their own and are what this PR now carries. The job split is worth doing, but not worth landing blind against an oracle I can only poll — I'll propose it again once someone can paste me the rule, file and line from the Sonar dashboard.


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The remote loading path now treats AbortError cancellations as non-failures. It preserves loaded data and local filtering, avoids error state and event updates, and documents shared-request cancellation behavior.

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Cancellation handling

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Remote cancellation flow
src/ForgeSelect.ts, tests/forge-select.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
AbortError cancellations bypass failed-load handling. Existing options remain available, local filtering continues, and cancellation tests verify that no error state or event is emitted. Request-sharing behavior and the fix are documented.

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Cancellation no longer clears existing data or reports a load error, but cancelled fresh loads can still skip remote results and configured retries can repeat requests after cancellation. These behaviors should be corrected before merge.

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2284-2284: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Stop retrying AbortError before loadRemote() handles it.

When ajax.retry > 0, requestRemote() retries an independently thrown AbortError because signal.aborted is false. The new check at Line 2384 runs only after all attempts. This delays cancellation and can call ajax.request multiple times after cancellation. Treat AbortError as terminal before waiting for the retry delay.

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       } catch (error) {
         lastError = error;
-        if (signal.aborted || attempt === attempts - 1) throw error;
+        if (
+          signal.aborted ||
+          (error as { name?: string } | null)?.name === "AbortError" ||
+          attempt === attempts - 1
+        )
+          throw error;
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In `@src/ForgeSelect.ts` at line 2284, Update the retry condition in requestRemote
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In `@src/ForgeSelect.ts`:
- Line 2384: Update the AbortError handling in the non-append load flow to
prevent pagination after a cancelled fresh request: disable pagination or
restore the prior page and hasMore state before returning. Preserve the existing
early return for cancelled append loads.

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- Line 2284: Update the retry condition in requestRemote so an independently
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…ncellations

Both found in review, and both are consequences of keeping the loaded list
on a cancellation rather than emptying it.

`scheduleRemoteLoad()` primes `page` at 0 and `hasMore` at true before the
request goes out. Returning early on a cancelled fresh load left that state
in place while the list kept its options — so it was still scrollable, and
scrolling to the bottom fetched page 1 of a page 0 that never arrived and
appended it to the previous query's options. A cancelled fresh load now
clears `hasMore`; pagination resumes on the next load that completes.

`requestRemote()` decided whether to retry by checking `signal.aborted`
alone, so a request that cancelled on its own terms was called again after
the backoff — the one thing a caller that has just cancelled does not want.
A cancellation is now terminal however it arrived.

A test each, both verified by fault injection: removing the pagination guard
gives `expected 3 to be 2` (the phantom page-1 request) and removing the
retry guard gives `called 1 times, but got 3 times`.

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Also took the second finding — the one posted outside the diff range, about requestRemote() retrying an AbortError when signal.aborted is false. It is right, and it matters more after this PR than before: now that a cancellation is recognized as a cancellation, retrying one means calling a request that has just cancelled itself again, after a backoff the caller never asked to wait through. 810b59e treats a cancellation as terminal however it arrived.

Test verified by fault injection the same way: with the guard removed it fails expected "vi.fn()" to be called 1 times, but got 3 times.

205 tests, bundle 14,376 gzipped against the 14,500 budget.


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Status: green and clean on 810b59e — 6/6 checks, no open review threads, mergeable_state: clean. Final numbers differ from the description above, which was written before review: 205 tests (three added, not one — the cancellation path plus the two consequences review found), 92.36% lines, bundle 14,376 gzipped against the 14,500 budget.

Sonar's gate passes and reports 1 New issue alongside it. That is not blocking (security rating is back to A and the gate's conditions are met), and it is the same non-blocking count PR #35 carried. I still cannot read what it is — sonarcloud.io is unreachable from here — so I am flagging it rather than claiming it is nothing.


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