test(webview): pin viewStates pruning edge cases and dispose retention by easonLiangWorldedtech · Pull Request #1554 · Zoo-Code-Org/Zoo-Code

easonLiangWorldedtech · 2026-09-06T21:31:23Z

Part of the vps2 durable per-view state series — tracked in easonLiangWorldedtech#41 (cross-repo: standalone a+d measured against the stack base; the displayed vs-main diff includes F1a #1546 until it merges).

Issue (created at PR-open time): #1553

What

Fix unit F2 (test-only). At the stack base (F1a head 0a8ffc9e1), the durable viewStates pipeline's boundary behavior is pinned by a single well-formed-entries prune baseline (ClineProvider.spec.ts:1210). This PR lands the gap-review ledger's A1 additions plus the #1065 50-entry-cap regression:

Prune: entries without updatedAt (pre-field writes) rank last via updatedAt ?? 0 (ClineProvider.ts:634) and are the first to fall off the 50-entry cap.
Prune: ties on updatedAt preserve insertion order (stable sort) — the first 50 registered views survive, the last 5 are dropped.
Preserve durable editor view state across provider disposal #1065 regression: a durable viewStates entry must survive dispose() (retention-only teardown) so an editor tab reopens with its saved selections.

All three are written into the existing ClineProvider.spec.ts fixture per the F1a convention — no mock-preamble duplication, no CS MockContextProxy (the real ContextProxy and real dispose() are what the passing tests exercise).

Design decisions

Test-only: no provider / types / webview changes. The semantics pinned are F1a's: descending updatedAt ?? 0 sort, insertion-order tie-break, retention-only dispose().
Placement: the two prune edge tests extend the existing persisted view state pruning describe; the dispose-retention test joins view state persistence edge cases (the container owning the real-dispose() lifecycle tests).

Measurements

a+d vs stack base (F1a head 0a8ffc9e1): 56 (56+/0−) — well under the 400 soft budget.
Displayed vs-main diff: 1055 a+d including F1a feat(provider): persist per-view view-state identity and durable viewStates #1546's 999 until it merges (no-wait policy; rebase after lower PRs merge = maintenance).
Mutation preflight: zero new executable src lines (test file; excluded from the stryker-diff manifest).

Gates

eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 (spec): pass — suppression counts unchanged; the --prune-suppressions rewrite was line-endings-only and reverted before commit.
check-types: pass (11 packages, pre-push hook).
vitest: ClineProvider.spec.ts 188 pass (185 before this unit + 3 new).
stryker-diff: n/a (test-only commit; no changed executable lines).
e2e / i18n / visual: n/a (zero new i18n strings; no webview-ui changes).

Interaction flag (post-merge maintenance)

The #1065 dispose-retention test verifies the current retention-only dispose(). Upstream main has since advanced (v3.82.0 8d296deef) with a rewritten dispose() that evicts and disposes every registry task — after this unit rebases onto main, the test must be re-verified against the new teardown path (re-verification = maintenance, not a blocker; the pinned semantics — the entry survives teardown — are unchanged).

Porting notes

Content source: CS e9a44b2fa (#977 head, worktree pr977-base), ported hunk-by-hunk from ClineProvider.parallelMode.spec.ts: the prune baseline (L1001–1020) already landed in F1a; this unit adds the two A1 ledger edge tests (missing updatedAt, ties) and the #1065 dispose-retention test (L1232–1242, semantics: editor provider → setViewStateId("tab-to-preserve") → saveViewState("mode", "architect") → dispose() → entry still present). The CS MockContextProxy state-cache double is deliberately NOT ported (F1a convention). No changesets, no changelog.

…States Each ClineProvider instance now owns a unique viewId (renderContext plus a monotonic counter) and registers a stable viewStateId for durable persistence. - Per-view state buffer (viewLocalState) holds mode / currentApiConfigName / apiConfiguration overrides in memory; saveViewState persists the non-secret subset durably under the active view id, rekeyed to the stable id on registration. - viewStates is stored as a map pruned to the newest 50 entries; writes go through a serialized queue so concurrent provider instances merge without lost updates. - setViewStateId sanitizes ids and rejects "__proto__" so a per-view entry can never be keyed through the Object.prototype setter. - postMessageToWebview no longer awaits the webview ack: a remounted or disposed page never acknowledges, and awaiting would wedge task-critical callers. - History restore falls back to the default mode view-locally instead of writing the shared global mode. - GlobalState gains the "viewStates" key and GLOBAL_STATE_KEYS tracks it. Adds F1a coverage in ClineProvider.spec.ts (viewId uniqueness, saveViewState persistence semantics, loadViewState fallback and failure, pruning, the __proto__ guard) and adapts the two history-restore tests in ClineProvider.sticky-mode.spec.ts to the view-local restore. getState() merging of hydrated per-view values and the remaining view-state suites land in the follow-up (F1b).

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New Features
- Added independent state persistence for each webview, including mode and API profile selections.
- Restored view-specific settings when reopening or switching between views.
- Added safeguards to limit stored view states and prevent stale updates.
- Reset actions now clear both local and persisted view settings.
Bug Fixes
- Prevented webview message handling from being blocked by renderer acknowledgements.
- Improved restoration of task-history modes on a per-view basis.

Walkthrough

The change adds durable per-view webview state for modes and API profiles. ClineProvider assigns view identities, buffers local values, serializes persistence, prunes stored entries, restores task history per view, and sends webview messages without waiting for acknowledgements.

Changes

Per-view webview state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
State contracts and keys `packages/types/src/global-settings.ts`, `packages/types/src/vscode-extension-host.ts`, `packages/types/src/__tests__/index.test.ts`	Defines `viewStateSchema`, adds `viewStates` to global settings, registers the state key, and adds `viewStateId` to `WebviewMessage`.
View identity and persistence `src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts`, `src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts`	Adds unique view IDs, local state buffering, serialized persistence, identifier validation, stale-load handling, pruning, re-keying, and persistence tests.
View-local settings and restoration `src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts`, `src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts`, `src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.sticky-mode.spec.ts`	Routes mode and API profile changes through view-local state. History restoration and reset operations update or clear the current view state.
Message delivery and validation `src/core/webview/ClineProvider.ts`, `src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts`, `src/eslint-suppressions.json`	Uses fire-and-forget webview message dispatch and validates that renderer acknowledgements do not block callers. Supporting tests and lint suppression counts are updated.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e6afc

Reopening a task can show stale mode state in the webview, though the task itself runs in the restored mode. This is a bounded issue with a localized fix.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Webview
  participant ClineProvider
  participant ContextProxy
  participant GlobalSettings
  Webview->>ClineProvider: Send view-local setting
  ClineProvider->>ClineProvider: Update viewLocalState
  ClineProvider->>ContextProxy: Persist view state
  ContextProxy->>GlobalSettings: Update viewStates
  GlobalSettings-->>ClineProvider: Persisted state
  ClineProvider-->>Webview: Dispatch message without awaiting acknowledgement

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Trust And Persistence Invariants	❌ Error	The cumulative pull-request changes introduce a concrete persisted-state loss path. `ClineProvider.loadViewState()` loads a durable mode and profile into `viewLocalState`, and `getValues()` merges tha…	Propagate and await the stable view ID during webview launch, and call `setViewStateId` before the first state snapshot. Route mode and profile mutations through the serialized per-view persistence methods. Make `getState` and provider-sett…
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The description states that this is a test-only change, but the changeset also modifies production code and exported schemas in ClineProvider.ts, global-settings.ts, vscode-extension-host.ts, and rela…	Remove the production and type changes if this pull request must remain test-only, or update the pull request scope, objectives, title, and description to document and justify the implementation changes.

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 6…
Regression Evidence	✅ Passed	The exact PR commit changes only `src/core/webview/__tests__/ClineProvider.spec.ts` (+56 lines); its parent `0a8ffc9e1` contains the provider implementation changes. The new tests give focused unit co…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the added webview tests for view-state pruning and dispose retention.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description provides issue references, implementation details, test coverage, validation results, and reviewer notes. It does not reproduce the template headings or checklist, but it is substantia…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The description links GitHub issues `#41` and `#1553`, including a specific issue for this pull request.

Full details: Trust And Persistence Invariants

Explanation

The cumulative pull-request changes introduce a concrete persisted-state loss path. ClineProvider.loadViewState() loads a durable mode and profile into viewLocalState, and getValues() merges that buffer, but getState() still reads this.contextProxy.getValues() and this.contextProxy.getProviderSettings(). State posted on launch and state used for tasks therefore ignore the loaded per-view values and fall back to shared values or defaults. The runtime identity path is also incomplete: webview-ui sends only { type: "webviewDidLaunch" }, webviewMessageHandler does not consume message.viewStateId, and no production call invokes setViewStateId. A saved entry is therefore keyed by a temporary ID such as editor-0; after disposal and reopen, the new provider uses editor-1 and cannot load the entry. In addition, the normal mode message reaches handleModeSwitchUnlocked, which still calls updateGlobalState("mode", newMode) instead of the new per-view persistence API. These are changed per-view-state paths that can discard or ignore durable selections.

Resolution

Propagate and await the stable view ID during webview launch, and call setViewStateId before the first state snapshot. Route mode and profile mutations through the serialized per-view persistence methods. Make getState and provider-setting assembly consume the merged viewLocalState, with a readiness barrier so initial state is not read before loadViewState completes. Add an integration test that saves a stable view entry, creates a fresh provider, launches it, and verifies that getState returns the persisted mode and profile.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The description states that this is a test-only change, but the changeset also modifies production code and exported schemas in ClineProvider.ts, global-settings.ts, vscode-extension-host.ts, and related tests.

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