fix(ai-client): surface persistence:true mount hydration failures - #1354
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A failed server-driven thread load (connection.hydrate) was swallowed by a
bare `catch { return }` in `hydrateFromServer`: onError never fired, error
stayed undefined, and status stayed 'ready' with zero messages, so an app
could not tell a broken load from an empty thread. Add a `failHydration`
path mirroring GenerationClient (status 'error' + error + onError), and
route ByokMissingError / locked ByokBlockedError to the key-request flow
like the send path does. Genuine misses and post-detach failures stay silent.
Fixes TanStack#1331
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ChangesChat hydration failure handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change surfaces hydration failures as intended, but detach/reattach races can apply stale results, and a successful retry can leave the chat reporting an old error. These behaviors should be corrected before release. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts`:
- Line 1101: Update the hydration request flow around the tailing guard to
capture a generation or attachment token when each request starts, then require
the token to still match before applying either success messages or failure
state. Ensure older request A cannot affect the reattached view or newer request
B, and add a regression test covering A settling after B.
- Around line 1112-1113: Update the successful hydration path in the chat client
to clear the stored hydration error and restore the normal non-error status
before changing any active-run state. Preserve the existing failure handling in
setStatus and setError, and add a test covering a failed hydration followed by a
successful detach/attach retry.
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| * wins over a stale mount-time failure — same guard as the success path above. | ||
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| private failHydration(cause: unknown): void { | ||
| if (this.disposed || !this.tailing) return |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Bind the failure to its hydration attempt.
Line 1101 checks only the current tailing state. Request A can start, the view can detach and reattach, and request B can start. If request A rejects after the reattach, this guard passes and changes the error state for the new view. The same sequence can also let an older successful request apply stale messages.
Capture a hydration generation or attachment token when each request starts. Require that token in both the success and failure paths. Add a regression test where request A settles after request B.
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In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts` at line 1101, Update the hydration
request flow around the tailing guard to capture a generation or attachment
token when each request starts, then require the token to still match before
applying either success messages or failure state. Ensure older request A cannot
affect the reattached view or newer request B, and add a regression test
covering A settling after B.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Clear hydration error state after a successful retry.
A transient hydrate failure sets status to 'error' and stores error. A later successful hydration does not clear either field. After a detach/attach retry, the thread can load successfully while the client still reports the prior failure.
Clear the hydration error and restore the non-error status when the current hydration succeeds, before any active-run state changes. Add a failure-then-success retry test.
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In `@packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts` around lines 1112 - 1113, Update the
successful hydration path in the chat client to clear the stored hydration error
and restore the normal non-error status before changing any active-run state.
Preserve the existing failure handling in setStatus and setError, and add a test
covering a failed hydration followed by a successful detach/attach retry.
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persistence: true,ChatClientloads the thread from the server on mount viaconnection.hydrate. When that request threw — a 500, a dropped connection, an authorize-gate rejection —hydrateFromServerswallowed it in a barecatch { return }:onErrornever fired,errorstayedundefined, andstatusstayedreadywith zero messages, which is exactly what a genuinely empty thread reports. An app couldn't tell "this thread failed to load" from "this thread has no messages," and there's no retry.This ports the
failHydrationpattern already used byGenerationClient/VideoGenerationClient: on a thrown hydrate, setstatus: 'error', seterror, and callonError. AByokMissingError(or lockedByokBlockedError) raised during hydrate also triggers the key-request flow, matching the send path — the issue notes the hydrate path currently eats it.Genuine misses stay silent (a fresh thread with no server record resolves normally and never reaches
failHydration), and a failure that lands after the view detached or after asendMessagetook ownership is ignored, using the same guard as the existing success path.Fixes #1331
Changes
packages/ai-client/src/chat-client.ts:hydrateFromServer'scatchnow calls a new privatefailHydration(cause)instead of silently returning;failHydrationmirrorsGenerationClient.failHydration(guarded status/error/onError) and routes missing/locked BYOK errors tothis.byok?.request(...).packages/ai-client/tests/chat-hydration-error.test.ts: new regression tests — a thrown hydrate surfaces viaonError/getError()/getStatus(); a post-detach()rejection stays silent;ByokMissingErrorsets themissingkey prompt; a successful hydrate surfaces nothing..changeset/chat-hydration-failure-surfaced.md: patch changeset for@tanstack/ai-client.Testing
vitest runinpackages/ai-client— new file 4/4, anddispose-tail-leak,chat-client-resume,resume-snapshot,byok-chat-client,chat-clientall still green (185 passed). The two error-surfacing tests fail onmain(onErrorcalled 0 times) and pass with the fix.Notes
The issue asks whether the maintainers prefer the minimal shape (
onErroronly) or the fuller one (portfailHydrationsostatus/errorreflect it too). This PR takes the fuller shape because it keepsChatClientconsistent with the two sibling clients that already havefailHydration. Happy to trim it toonError-only if you'd rather. This is orthogonal to #1120 (general hydration state) — it only routes the failure through the existing error channel.Summary by CodeRabbit