fix(server): suppress redundant keybindings change emission on unchanged revalidation#23775
Problem
Fixes #23734
On Windows with NTFS, reading keybindings.json (such as by Defender, backup agents, or search indexing) updates the file's last-access timestamp (atime). This fires an fs.watch change event. Previously, revalidateAndEmit invalidated the cache and published to changesPubSub unconditionally, causing the client to receive keybindingsUpdated events and display spurious 'Keybindings updated' toasts even though the file content was completely unchanged.
Change
In apps/server/src/keybindings.ts:
- Added structural state comparison helpers (
isSameKeybindingsConfigState,isSameResolvedRule,isSameResolvedShortcut,isSameWhenAst,isSameConfigIssue) to compare twoKeybindingsConfigStatevalues without unnecessary serialization. - Retained
lastEmittedStateRefin the service instance, initialized during startup and kept synchronized on each change emission. - In
revalidateAndEmit, checked whether the reloaded state equalslastEmittedStateRef. Ifkeybindingsandissuesare structurally identical, change emission tochangesPubSubis suppressed. - Added
revalidateto theKeybindingsservice interface for deterministic revalidation testing.
Scope and approval
Fixes bug #23734. The change is strictly scoped to the server keybindings watcher and cache revalidation logic in apps/server/src/keybindings.ts.
Verification
- Added an automated regression test in
apps/server/src/keybindings.test.tsverifying that revalidating an unchanged config produces 0 change events, while modifying the file content correctly emits the updated keybindings. - Ran the test suite via
vp test run src/keybindings.test.ts(19 of 19 tests passed in ~1s). - Ran
vp lintandvp fmtwith 0 errors and 0 warnings. - Ran TypeScript compilation with zero type errors.
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Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#23734
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- fix(server): suppress redundant keybindings change emission on unchanged revalidation97ed582
Approvability
Verdict: Approved at 97ed582
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable β This is a narrowly scoped server bug fix that suppresses redundant keybindings update notifications while preserving emissions for real configuration changes. A focused regression test covers both unchanged revalidation and changed configuration behavior.
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Walkthrough
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Keybindings revalidation now compares loaded configuration with the last emitted state. It skips change events when that state is unchanged. The service exposes
revalidate, and a test covers unchanged and changed configurations.Changes: Keybindings revalidation
Layer / File(s) Summary Track and compare keybindings state
apps/server/src/keybindings.tsConfiguration states are compared using resolved rules and configuration issues. The service records the initial state and each emitted state. Revalidation skips emission when the loaded state matches. Expose and test revalidation
apps/server/src/keybindings.ts,apps/server/src/keybindings.test.tsThe Keybindingsservice exposesrevalidate. The test checks that unchanged configuration emits no event and that changed configuration emits an event containingthreadPanel.toggle.Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes
Change: Bug fix Β· Severity of issue fixed: Low
Possibly related PRs
- pingdotgg/t3code#24494 β It updates keybindings state and issue indexes that this change compares during revalidation.
- pingdotgg/t3code#25461 β It consumes keybinding configuration events, which this change suppresses when revalidation finds unchanged state.
- pingdotgg/t3code#21972 β Its watcher recovery flow invokes revalidation, which this change updates.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: suppressing redundant keybindings change emissions during unchanged revalidation. Linked Issues check Passed Directly linked issue #23734requires that the keybindings update push and toast occur only when the keybindings configuration changes. The whole-PR diff (merge base d01b92c to head 89d5531) meets thiβ¦Out of Scope Changes check Passed The whole-PR diff changes only apps/server/src/keybindings.ts and apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts. Every hunk maps to #23734. The comparison helpers, lastEmittedStateRef, emitChange ref update, reβ¦Description check Passed The description covers the problem, the change, scope, and verification. It links the related issue and reports focused test and tooling results. It does not include an explicit maintainer approval coβ¦ Full details: Linked Issues check
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Directly linked issue
#23734requires that the keybindings update push and toast occur only when the keybindings configuration changes. The whole-PR diff (merge base d01b92c to head 89d5531) meets this requirement in apps/server/src/keybindings.ts. (1) Ref lastEmittedStateRef is added. Startup sets it to the initial loaded state. emitChange sets it before publishing. (2) revalidateAndEmit, under upsertSemaphore, reads the previous state, reloads the config after cache invalidation, and calls emitChange only when previousState is absent or isSameKeybindingsConfigState reports a difference. (3) isSameKeybindingsConfigState compares length and each resolved rule (command, shortcut key and modifier fields, encoded when AST) and each issue (kind, message, invalid-entry index). Changed content still reaches emitChange. (4) The regression test in apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts revalidates unchanged content, writes a new mod+k threadPanel.toggle rule, revalidates, and awaits the first buffered event through Stream.runHead. It checks that the event contains the new rule. The PR reports that the test fails when suppression is removed. The client-side toast change suggested in the issue is an alternative, not a stated requirement. The issue has no non-coding requirements. The incremental diffs from previous reviewed heads were not used. The whole-PR diff reflects the current head.
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The whole-PR diff changes only apps/server/src/keybindings.ts and apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts. Every hunk maps to
#23734. The comparison helpers, lastEmittedStateRef, emitChange ref update, reloadConfigState extraction, and suppression check in revalidateAndEmit implement the requested behavior. The revalidate member added to the Keybindings service exposes revalidateAndEmit for the deterministic regression test. The test changes add Option and Stream imports and one test case. reloadAndEmit still emits unconditionally, and the diff does not change the watcher or client code. The diff shows no client, contract, or configuration changes. encodeWhenAst is called in isSameWhenAst but is not added in this diff. No removal of it appears in the diff, so it is treated as existing code. The PR reports a clean typecheck. This was not separately verified in the repository.
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| β¦ | β¦ | @@ -513,4 +514,41 @@ it.layer(NodeServices.layer)("keybindings", (it) => { | |
| 547 | + | yield* keybindings.revalidate; | |
| 548 | + | assert.equal(emitted.length, 1); | |
| 549 | + | assert.isTrue( | |
| 550 | + | emitted[0]?.keybindings.some((rule) => rule.command === "threadPanel.toggle"), | |
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Wait for the change event before asserting its contents.
keybindings.revalidate can finish before the forked stream consumer updates emitted. The changed-config assertion can therefore fail after a valid publication. The unchanged-config assertion can also pass before a wrongly published event reaches the array. Consume the subscribed event with an awaited effect, and check the no-event case with a synchronized observation. A scoped fork does not wait for its child to finish. (effect.website)
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β Addressed in commit 9383494
Addressed the review note on the regression test in 93834949.
The test no longer consumes the subscription in a scoped fork and asserts on an array right after revalidate returns. It now reads the subscription with an awaited Stream.runHead. Because revalidate publishes before it returns, an event wrongly emitted for the unchanged config would be buffered ahead of the real change; the test asserts that the first buffered event carries the new mod+k rule, which covers both the no-event and the changed-config case without a timing window. No wall-clock timeout is used, since it would not fire under the test clock.
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vp test run apps/server/src/keybindings.test.ts: 19 passed.- Same test with the suppression check in
revalidateAndEmittemporarily removed: fails withexpected false to be true, then restored. vp lint apps/server/src/keybindings.test.tsandvp fmt --check: clean.vp run --filter t3 typecheck: no errors.