fix(github-prs): keep the pane readable when GitHub search is slow - #157
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GitHub's search backend goes through slow spells and sheds the heaviest requests first, which makes this widget the first of the three to suffer. It reported that in two ways that were both wrong. The banner drew a raw HTML document. `graphql` only shortened GraphQL errors; a non-2xx never reached that branch, so the gateway's page went through whole and wrapped across four rows of the pane saying nothing a reader could act on. `refused` keeps the status and drops the document. A failure on page one was fatal while a failure on any later page was not - `order` is empty on the first round, so the pass returned Err instead of keeping what it had, and a widget with no earlier pass behind it drew "0 of 0 open". A refused round now asks again at half the page size, down to a floor of ten, and only for the errors a smaller page can change: a gateway giving up or a timeout, never bad credentials. Measured against the live API during a slow spell: every size from 25 up returned 502 at about 10.7s while 20 and below answered in three. An hour later, nothing changed at this end, 50 answered in five. The page size is not what decides it - search was slow across the board and the larger pages were simply first over whatever budget it was enforcing - so the default drops to 25 rather than to the floor, and the backoff carries the bad minutes. `limit` was also documented as "maximum pull requests retained", which it has never been: paging runs until every source is exhausted regardless. It is the page size, and it now says so. Closes OPS-84 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RfDBpF4cTt2CeoTLxkKewS
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WalkthroughThe GitHub PR widget now requests 25 results per search page, continues pagination until searches are exhausted, retries eligible failures with smaller pages, sanitises refusal messages, and reports fallback page sizes. ChangesGitHub PR search resilience
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GithubPrWidget->>fetch_round: request page with configured size
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fetch_round->>GithubAPI: retry with smaller page size
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The README gives two conflicting descriptions of this behaviour. It first states that the page size is 50, but the default is now 25. It also describes only a refused response, but the implementation retries timeout failures and gateway responses.
widgets/src/widgets/github-prs/README.md#L136-L136: change the stated default page size from 50 to 25.widgets/src/widgets/github-prs/README.md#L325-L332: document retryable gateway responses and timeout failures, with halving to the page-size floor.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@widgets/src/widgets/github-prs/main.rs`:
- Line 668: Update worth_retrying to retry only normalized responses for HTTP
502, 503, or 504, while preserving retries for the existing timeout message;
stop matching the broad “GitHub returned 5” prefix. Add negative tests
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- Line 136: Update widgets/src/widgets/github-prs/README.md:136 to state that
the default page size is 25 instead of 50, and update
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worth_retrying matched every 5xx and looked for run_full's "did not answer in" sentence, which post_json never produces. A timeout is curl exit 28; a 500 is not a slow search. Keep a 401/403/429 body's message so the pane still says why the token was refused, and align the README with the 25 default. Co-authored-by: wiiiimm <email@wiiiimm.codes>
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Closes OPS-84.
github-prsin a pane showed this, with a complete and correct list of 675 PRs underneath it:Earlier in the same session, before any pass had succeeded, the same widget drew
0 of 0 openwith the same banner and no rows.Why
GitHub's search backend goes through slow spells.
@mineis one search across ten owners with ~675 matching open PRs, which makes it the heaviest query of the three GitHub widgets and the first to be shed. The token was never involved —viewerandrateLimitanswered 200 throughout.Measured during the spell, page-one query reproduced exactly as
list_querybuilds it:An hour later, three runs each, nothing changed at this end:
first=50— refused every time an hour before — answers in five seconds. The page size is not the cause. Search was slow across the board and the larger pages were simply first over whatever budget it was enforcing. The 9.3s and 9.5s outliers in the healthy run show the margin is thin and not monotonic, which is why it looks size-dependent while it lasts.What changed
The banner no longer draws markup.
graphqlonly shortened GraphQL errors —data["errors"][0]["message"]. A non-2xx never reached that branch, sotc::post_json'sHTTP 502: <body>went through whole.plain_refusalkeeps the status and drops the document.A page-one failure is no longer fatal. A later page kept everything pooled; page one has nothing in
order, so the pass returnedErrand the board went blank. A refused round now asks again at half the page size, down to a floor of ten — and only for errors a smaller page can change (a gateway giving up, or curl outliving its deadline), never bad credentials. The size that worked feeds into the following rounds, so one bad minute costs two extra requests per pass rather than two per round.limitdefaults to 25, and is documented as what it is. It was described as "maximum pull requests retained after searches are combined", which it has never been — paging runs until every source is exhausted regardless. It is the page size.When a round did back off, the pane says so:
GitHub refused 25 per page; served 12.Testing
cargo testgreen from the root. The three new tests were each confirmed to fail against a deliberately broken guard —plain_refusalreturning its input,worth_retryingreturningtrue, andsmallerstepping by 5 instead of halving.One thing this does not cover: GitHub sometimes surfaces the same slow-search failure as a 200 carrying a GraphQL
errors[]message rather than a 502. That lands onworth_retrying→ false and draws the message unchanged, which is honest but not retried. Not seen in these measurements.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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