Andrey Antukh d57cdb4588 ⏪ Backport persistence related fixes from staging (#12306)
* ✨ Add async test helpers and the with-mocks* macro

Backport of the test scaffolding that the persistence retry work needs,
taken from staging. Purely additive: no existing helper changes behavior,
so the suite result is unchanged (740 tests, 0 failures).

- frontend-tests.helpers.async: ->promise, await-response, settle,
  observe and wait-for. wait-for checks immediately and then polls one
  macrotask at a time, bounded, so it fails instead of hanging.
- mock/with-mocks*: installs mocks with set! and evaluates its body in a
  generated ^:async fn, so the test reads sequentially and there is no
  done to thread. Evaluates to a promise.
- mock/asap and mock/run-mocked: run-mocked awaits the body and restores
  the originals always, in that order, reporting a rejection or a
  non-promise return as an :error.

The matching change that made with-mocks defer its body via asap is NOT
backported: it would force all 58 existing uses across 14 files into
done-chained contexts, which is a separate refactor.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* ✨ Add an error report governor with compact payloads

One browser session could emit an unbounded number of identical error
reports, and a dropped connection was reported as an application defect
with the full payload. Both are fixed here, in one place, because the
persistence retry work that follows depends on the new submit-report
contract.

- A report governor in app.main.errors. Each report carries a
  fingerprint (report-name|type|code|hint|first stack frame); the first
  occurrence is always emitted, repeats inside a 2 minute window are
  counted, and the next emitted report carries them as :occurrences. The
  cache is bounded by evicting the oldest entry, so memory stays fixed.
- flash reserves the report before generating it, so a suppressed
  occurrence never pays the report-building cost. Its whole body now
  runs inside one ts/schedule callback, a reporting or notification
  failure is logged instead of propagating, and it returns a total
  promise so tests can await it.
- generate-report accepts :format :compact|:full. The compact payload
  keeps the context header plus type, code and uri, and skips the
  stack, the ex-data dump (it can carry request headers) and the
  last-events list.
- environment-error-types is derived from rp/retryable-types, so the
  transport classification has a single source of truth. Environment
  failures are audit-only handled-exceptions and never reach the
  exception page or the alerts. :offline gets its own handler instead
  of falling through to :default.

:occurrences travels inside the audit event :props, which the backend
schema accepts as a free-form map, so no backend change is needed.

The dedup governor test file is new: 7 tests over the fingerprint, the
pure reservation decision, and the flash pipeline.

Relates to #11726, #11743

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* ♻️ Answer commit refusals with an empty stream

commit-changes used to return nil when it refused to build a commit,
which forced every caller that wanted to observe the outcome to
special-case nil. It now returns an empty stream, so a refusal and an
empty result look the same and callers can subscribe uniformly.

Only the refusal branch changes: the accepted branch already answered
with (rx/of commit). Potok treats a nil watch result as "nothing", so
both spellings were already correct at the store level.

The 57 call sites that wrap this event in rx/of are unaffected. They
hold the ::commit-changes event itself, not the value its watch
returns, so they keep processing exactly as before.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* ✨ Retry transient saves with backoff and a reconnect notice

Any failed update-file landed on the same path: the queue halted in
:error, the retained changes were flushed away, and the user was told
to reload. A dropped connection and a revoked permission are not the
same thing, so they now take different paths.

transient-error? splits them, checking :type and :cause-type because
persistence-failed wraps the original cause. Transient failures enter
a :retrying episode: the head commit stays queued and resends with
backoff at 2s, 8s and 20s, then falls through to today's terminal path.
Everything else is terminal and keeps the exact :error path.

- Resends rotate the ::request-id stamp only once the old request has
  left active-requests, carry the same :commit-id, and never double
  send while one request is in flight.
- Retry timers carry an episode token; a timer whose episode was
  superseded stays silent instead of sending or failing.
- One tagged reconnect notice per episode, hidden by tag on save and on
  terminal failure. Recovery is silent.
- The browser online event re-enters the runner, but only for a live
  :retrying episode, guarded by exists? js/window.
- wait-persisted-or-error waits through :retrying instead of cutting the
  wait short.

The episode keeps its :run-id, so a new local edit only joins the queue.
Re-entering the runner on every edit would bypass the backoff and spend
one attempt per batched commit.

The retry test namespace is new: 13 tests over the classification, the
backoff schedule, stamp rotation, stale tokens and the notice lifecycle.

Relates to #11724

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🐛 Fix stalled saves that never answer and edits lost on leave

Two holes the retry work did not close.

An update-file request that never gets an answer kept its attempt
stamp forever, so the queue could not move and the user saw a saving
state that never resolved. The request now has a 7 minute timeout that
fails it as a transient network error, which hands it to the retry path
instead of blocking. The timeout is longer than the 5 minute stall
threshold on purpose: the stalled report must fire before the retry,
not instead of it.

The leave-page warning also had gaps. It now tracks unsaved edits
directly, through sync-unload-guard, which holds :persistence in
st/ongoing-tasks while edits sit in the buffer or the queue. Edits kept
in the queue after a failed save keep the guard on too, so closing the
tab warns instead of dropping them.

store.cljs guards its ongoing-tasks watcher with exists? js/window,
because the new tests exercise it without a window.

Four new tests: three for the guard across buffering, an in-flight save
and a retained edit, and one for a hung request that must resend and
save.

Closes #12223

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🐛 Skip the save when a missing font cannot be remapped

fix-deleted-fonts emitted text and typography changes even when no
replacement font existed, so opening a page that uses a deleted custom
font rewrote identical content and cleared position-data on every
visit. Every visit became a save with nothing to save.

Both loops now compare the remapped value with the original and emit
nothing when they match. The remapped path is unchanged.

Two new tests cover the no-replacement case and the remapped case.

Closes #12151

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* ✨ Add a debug helper that simulates an intermediary response

A save that never reaches the backend is hard to reproduce: you need a
proxy, a captive portal or a CDN in the way. This wraps fetch and
answers the named API method with a status and a body that carries no
Penpot error code, leaving every other request alone.

Without a duration the simulation is spent after answering one call.
With one it answers every matching call for that long, which is how to
watch the save retry, warn, keep retrying and finally recover.

  debug.simulateHttpError('update-file')
  debug.simulateHttpError('get-comment-threads', 403)
  debug.simulateHttpError('update-file', 524, 120)
  debug.clearHttpErrorSimulation()

Dev-only and self-contained: no production path reads it.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🌐 Add the save retry and connection error strings

Three strings the new persistence and error paths need:

- errors.save-retrying, shown once per retry episode while the queue
  resends a queued save after a connection loss.
- workspace.header.retrying, the save indicator state for an episode
  in progress.
- errors.connection-error, shown by the network and offline handlers,
  which no longer fall through to the generic message.

Added to en.po only. The translations script also normalizes every
other locale and drops 439 strings that were already stale before this
work; that belongs in its own maintenance pass, not in a backport.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🐛 Report save failures as unhandled when they are our defect

flash-persistence reported every failure it did not delegate as
handled-exception, including the ones that are plainly our fault. A
validation failure means the client sent something the server refused,
yet it landed in the audit log with a name that skips the internal
reports and the alerts. Nobody was paged.

The report type now follows the cause. :validation, :server-error and
:internal report as unhandled-exception, so they alert. The rest are
unchanged.

Two exclusions are deliberate:

- Environment failures stay handled. They reach this point after the
  retry budget is spent, and the user's connection is not our bug.
- :assertion stays handled, because its own handler already reports it
  that way and the two paths should not disagree.

The cause type is read from :cause-type first, since persistence-failed
wraps the original under :type :persistence. Reading :type alone would
match the wrapper every time and change nothing.

The user still gets the same sticky toast and report link; only the
audit event name moves.

The test that asserted a validation failure is "still notified" now
asserts which event name it gets, across the bare and wrapped shapes,
the environment types that must stay handled, and an unclassified one.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🐛 Unblock persistence when opening a file after a terminal failure

A terminal save failure set the state to :error and left the queue
alone. recover-persistence only resumed for :save-permission-denied, so
for every other terminal code both of its branches were false and it
emitted nothing. Leaving and reopening the same file therefore changed
nothing: the editor stayed halted until a reload, which rebuilds the
whole store and loses the queue anyway.

The path had two jobs under one name. initialize-persistence fires when
the workspace view mounts and tears down the previous subscription;
recover-persistence fires when a file is opened or the role changes.
They are now separate: initialization picks up a queue left behind by a
previous session, and deliberately does not lift a halt, so undeliverable
edits are released when the user acts rather than when the view mounts.

Recovery lifts the halt by releasing what can never be saved.
release-failed-file drops every queued commit of the file that failed,
then resume-persistence clears the error and settles an empty queue to
:saved. Retaining them until that point is deliberate: it is what keeps
wait-persisted-or-error rejecting, which is what stops
workspace/versions.cljs from building a snapshot out of unsaved edits.
Releasing at failure time would make waiters resolve instead.

Permission loss is treated as permanent too, which the previous
exception got wrong. The backend raises :not-found for a missing edit
permission, so a resend does not succeed — it routes the user to the
exception page. The old branch made that reachable: it resumed the save
whenever the cached can-edit flag said yes, and the server disagreed.
The only case where the flag can return to true is a team switch, where
the queue is gone anyway, so nothing real is lost by releasing.

Because the queue is shared, dropping the failed file is also what lets
the other files' pending edits drain. One file that cannot be saved no
longer blocks everything else.

Tests: the failure retains the queue and notifies once, recovery
releases it without replaying, a failed file does not block a second
one, permission loss is released rather than resumed, and initialization
leaves a halt alone.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* ✨ Offer a reload on the save failure toast

A terminal save failure stops autosave for the whole session, but the
toast asked the user to reload without offering the reload. It listed
five implied actions, none of them reachable from the banner, and it
never said that the changes could not be saved.

flash now takes a :links vector of actions, appended after the download
link that :report-link? produces, so a caller can add recovery actions
without reaching into the report handling. flash-persistence passes a
reload built from labels.reload-page and location.reload, the pattern
already used elsewhere in the app for a full restart.

The message now says what happened, what is lost, and what to do about
it: autosave has stopped for this session, the changes since the last
successful save cannot be saved, and either reloading or leaving the
file and opening it again restarts it. Naming both matters, because the
toast links are easy to miss.

Saying the edits are lost is not optional: recovery releases them, so
without it the user finds out when they come back to the file.

Translated in en.po and es.po only. The translations script would also
normalize all 40 locales and drop entries that were already stale, which
is a maintenance pass of its own.

The reload callback cannot be invoked under the test runner, since
js/location does not exist there, so it is covered by its label and by
being callable. Whether the reload works is a manual check.

AI-assisted-by: space-bunny-free

* 🐛 Classify the responses the backend never wrote

A reply written by a proxy instead of the backend carries no Penpot
error code, so handle-response raised it as :internal. A 504 on a save
skipped the retry cycle and stopped autosave at once, and because
:internal reports as unhandled, it raised an alert. In a standard
deployment this is how a slow save ends: nginx answers 504 after 300s,
before the client's 7 minute timeout fires.

The status now decides the type:

- 504 and the Cloudflare 520-524 family raise :gateway-error, which
  joins retryable-types. Saves retry with backoff like 502 and 503,
  GETs retry, and a save that spends its retries reports as handled,
  because the report rules derive from the same set.
- 429 raises :rate-limit, and any other error status
  :unexpected-response. Neither retries; both show a toast instead of
  the error page.
- :internal is kept for a response below 400 that does not decode.

Bodies we cannot read are cut to 500 characters, since proxy error
pages run to tens of kilobytes.

Tests: classification and retries per status, the transport handlers
keep the page, a 504 and a 524 built by the real handle-response go
through the save path and land on a retry, and the new types stay
handled once the retries are spent.

AI-assisted-by: claude-opus-5-5

* ✨ Keep retrying failed saves on a slow cycle

Once the three backoff retries were spent, a save that failed on the
connection stopped autosave like any terminal failure, and opening a
file again dropped its edits. A connection that comes back after a
minute lost the work all the same.

A transport failure that outlasts the backoff now arms a slow cycle:
one silent resend every 30s, until a save lands or 24h have passed
since the failure started. The cycle stops when persistence restarts,
the queue resumes another way, or the workspace closes.

A save that keeps failing slowly is not resent for a day. A gateway
that answers 504 after its own timeout may leave the backend applying
the save, so each resend can cost the whole save again, and the failing
file holds back every other file's queued edits. An attempt that fails
after 90s or more counts as a slow failure; at three, the slow cycle
stops sending the commit and the save fails as before. Fast failures,
such as being offline, never count.

- The first failure shows a toast that says the changes are kept and
  keep being sent, with no reload link, since a reload loses them. A
  save that lands hides it.
- Opening a file sends a queue still inside its retry window once
  more instead of releasing it. Failures outside the window, and every
  non-transport failure, are still released.
- A freshly loaded file gets back the queued edits of its version, so
  reopening it shows the changes that are still waiting to be saved. An
  edit that no longer applies to the loaded data leaves the file as the
  server sent it, so the file still opens; the edits stay queued.
- A commit whose earlier request is no longer in flight is simply sent
  again under the same commit id: changes are idempotent, so there is
  no unknown-outcome guard any more. A request still in flight still
  blocks a parallel send.

flash takes a :tag so the save failure toast can be hidden by tag.

Tests: the spent backoff arms the slow cycle, a 504 arms it, a terminal
failure does not, the cycle stops when the window closes or at the slow
failure limit, recovery resends instead of releasing, reopening restores
only the loaded file's edits and survives one that no longer applies,
and the retrying toast offers no reload.

* 🐛 Turn off the leave-page warning when failed edits are released

The leave-page warning only followed the queue on appends and discards.
Opening a file again releases the edits of a file that failed for good,
but that release changed the queue without either event, so the warning
stayed on with nothing left to save. Leaving the page asked about
unsaved changes until the next save went through.

The warning now also follows the release.

Tests: releasing the last failed edit turns the warning off.

* 🐛 Stop retrying failed saves outside the workspace

Leaving the workspace was meant to stop the slow retry cycle, but only
a cycle already armed stopped. A backoff timer kept firing after the
user left, and a backoff spent outside the workspace armed a slow cycle
that kept sending for up to a day from the dashboard. Those sends check
the edit permission of whatever team is open, so a switch to a team
where the user only views failed the queued edits for good, and the
next file they opened dropped them.

Leaving the workspace now suspends retries. A pending backoff timer
goes stale, and while suspended a transport failure schedules no
backoff, a spent backoff arms no slow cycle and the online event sends
nothing. The edits stay queued and a request in flight still lands.
Opening a file lifts the suspension and resends a retrying save whose
backoff was cut short; a role change does not lift it.

Tests: leaving stops a pending backoff, a failure after leaving
schedules no retry and ignores the online event, a backoff spent
outside the workspace arms no slow cycle, and opening a file saves the
held edit in each case.

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