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What is wrong

OffscreenRuntimeBridge.getStreamIterator and streamCallback (ProtoAdapterTypes) both fail like this:

const fail = (err: unknown): void => {
  if (finished) return;
  finished = true;
  while (waiters.length > 0) waiters.shift()!.reject(err);
};

Only the waiters that are parked at that instant learn about the error, and nothing keeps it afterwards. next() drains the queue and then returns { done: true } because finished is set. So a failure that arrives while the consumer is between next() calls is discarded, and the consumer is told the stream ended normally.

Why both windows are ordinary

Worker bridge. The worker posts error whenever it likes, including while the consumer is rendering the token it just received. This is the documented failure here: a WASM OOM in the VLM path kills the worker (see the Web VLM Worker crash-recovery note in AGENTS.md).

streamCallback. start() defers the native call by a microtask, on purpose, so the consumer's first next() parks before native code starts emitting. The first emit wakes it; everything emitted after that is buffered. A call that emits and then throws therefore fails with no waiter left to reject.

The consequence in both cases is the same, and it is the one that costs a user real time: inference dies, and the app renders a truncated answer as a completed one.

What this changes

Each iterator stores the error and raises it from next() on a check placed between the existing queue drain and the finished check. Buffered events still arrive first, and only once they are exhausted does the error surface. Cancellation and normal completion are untouched.

+21 lines of source across the two files.

Verification

Ran in bindings/web/packages/core:

  • vitest run: 57 files, 246 tests, all pass
  • tsc --noEmit: clean
  • eslint on the three changed files with --max-warnings 0: clean

The new test is tests/unit/runtime/StreamFailureNotParked.test.ts. Both cases are deterministic rather than timing-dependent: the fake worker only crashes when the test tells it to, and the fake module emits a second value so the buffered-events window is a fact of the test rather than a race.

I confirmed both are real regression tests by stashing only the two source files and re-running. Both fail on unfixed source with the same symptom:

× is raised by the worker bridge rather than read as end-of-stream
  → promise resolved "{ value: undefined, done: true }" instead of rejecting
× is raised by streamCallback rather than read as end-of-stream
  → promise resolved "{ value: undefined, done: true }" instead of rejecting

The suite and typecheck need the generated proto tree, so I ran idl/codegen/generate_ts.sh, generate_ts_convenience.py, generate_defaults_pool.py and generate_streams.sh first. None of that output is committed; git status shows only the three files.

One note on scope: this is the same failure mode as #721, but a different one of the two races and a disjoint set of files, so I kept them apart rather than growing that diff. #721 loses the error when the consumer is parked; this loses it when the consumer is not. They can land in either order.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Stream errors are now correctly reported when they occur between successive reads.
    • Subsequent stream requests reject with the original failure instead of incorrectly signaling the end of the stream.
    • Cancelling a stream now clears pending errors and completes normally.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for deferred stream failures across worker-based and native streaming scenarios, including cancellation behavior.

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Stream iterators now retain asynchronous failures that occur between next() calls. A later next() rejects with the stored failure. Explicit cancellation clears unread failures. Tests cover the offscreen bridge, native callback, and backend worker host.

Changes

Stream failure retention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retain failures across stream implementations
bindings/web/packages/core/src/Adapters/ProtoAdapterTypes.ts, bindings/web/packages/core/src/runtime/OffscreenRuntimeBridge.ts, bindings/web/packages/core/src/runtime/BackendWorkerHost.ts
The stream implementations store failures, reject active waiters, and reject the next next() call once. Cancellation clears stored failures.
Validate delayed failure delivery
bindings/web/packages/core/tests/unit/runtime/StreamFailureNotParked.test.ts
Tests cover delayed failures from the worker bridge, native streamCallback, and backend worker host. A cancellation test verifies normal completion after cancellation.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d4919

A stream failure whose reason is undefined can still be reported as normal completion, allowing truncated output to appear complete. The change is otherwise localized, but this edge case should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant StreamProducer
  participant StreamIterator
  participant Consumer
  StreamProducer->>StreamIterator: Store failure and finish stream
  Consumer->>StreamIterator: Call next()
  StreamIterator-->>Consumer: Reject with stored failure
  Consumer->>StreamIterator: Call return()
  StreamIterator-->>Consumer: Complete normally and clear failure
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In `@bindings/web/packages/core/src/Adapters/ProtoAdapterTypes.ts`:
- Around line 708-712: Ensure iterator cancellation overrides any retained
failure: update the iterator return() handling in
bindings/web/packages/core/src/Adapters/ProtoAdapterTypes.ts lines 708-712 to
clear failure or record cancellation so later next() returns done: true, and
apply the same rule in
bindings/web/packages/core/src/runtime/OffscreenRuntimeBridge.ts lines 408-412.

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- Around line 57-79: Update the fake worker’s postMessage and crash
implementations to construct protocol messages using the generated
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of handwritten type strings and double assertions. Preserve the existing ready,
callback, error, and cancel behavior while removing the unsafe casts and keeping
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Both review points were fair. Fixed in de80634.

Cancellation vs a retained failure. Correct, and it was a wart my own change introduced. return() routes through finish(), which is a no-op once fail() has set finished, so the stored error survived the cancel and the next next() replayed it. A consumer that walked away should not be handed an error it never asked to read, so return() now clears the retained failure in both iterators.

I added a third test for it. It fails without the new line, replaying worker died after the cancel instead of ending the stream.

Hand-written protocol values in the fake worker. The casts were the real problem and they are gone. The messages were already structurally valid WorkerRequest / WorkerResponse values, so narrowing on the init / cancel discriminators and passing requestId ?? undefined types the fake without any as unknown as. tsc --noEmit is clean, which is the part that keeps the fake honest if the protocol changes.

On the letter of the guideline: these two are hand-written TypeScript discriminated unions in src/runtime/StreamWorker.ts rather than generated proto enums, so there is no generated symbol to import here. The existing fake in tests/unit/runtime/StreamWorker.test.ts builds its messages the same way. If you would rather these discriminators became exported constants, say so and I will do it in a separate PR that converts both fakes together, since it touches that test too.

Gates after the change, in bindings/web/packages/core: vitest run 57 files / 247 tests pass, tsc --noEmit clean, eslint --max-warnings 0 clean on all three files.

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- Around line 76-82: Update the failure tracking used by BackendWorkerHost so
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/**
* Set by whichever path failed the stream. Rejecting the parked waiters is
* not enough on its own: a worker that dies while the consumer is running its
* loop body has no waiter to reject, and `next()` would otherwise read
* `finished` as a clean end of stream.
*/
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a separate retained-failure state.

failure has type unknown, so it can contain undefined. The current !== undefined check then treats that failure as absent and returns a clean end-of-stream result.

Store a separate boolean, or box the failure value, so every rejection reason is delivered once.

Proposed fix
 interface StreamPending {
   kind: 'stream';
   events: unknown[];
   waiters: Array<{
     resolve(value: IteratorResult<unknown>): void;
     reject(reason: unknown): void;
   }>;
   finished: boolean;
-  failure?: unknown;
+  failure: { reason: unknown } | null;
 }

-    const state: StreamPending = { kind: 'stream', events: [], waiters: [], finished: false };
+    const state: StreamPending = {
+      kind: 'stream', events: [], waiters: [], finished: false, failure: null,
+    };

-      state.failure = error;
+      state.failure = { reason: error };

-          if (state.failure !== undefined) {
-            const error = state.failure;
-            state.failure = undefined;
+          if (state.failure !== null) {
+            const { reason: error } = state.failure;
+            state.failure = null;
             return Promise.reject(error);
           }

-          state.failure = undefined;
+          state.failure = null;

Also applies to: 255-259, 399-400

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In `@bindings/web/packages/core/src/runtime/BackendWorkerHost.ts` around lines 76
- 82, Update the failure tracking used by BackendWorkerHost so failure presence
is tracked independently from its unknown value; ensure a rejection reason of
undefined is still recognized and delivered once rather than treated as clean
stream completion. Apply this consistently to the failure assignment, presence
checks, and cleanup paths around the worker stream lifecycle.

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Rebased on main (0.20.24) and added a third site, d491964.

I went back and swept the rest of the hand-rolled iterators instead of stopping at the two I started with, and BackendWorkerHost has the same shape: stream()'s local fail and failRequest() both set finished and reject only the parked waiters, keeping no record, so the following next() returns { done: true }.

That one is the worst of the three. failRequest is what handleCrash calls for every in-flight request, and a llamacpp WebGPU worker Abort() after a successful load is a crash this file already documents and handles. So today a worker death ends every stream whose consumer happens to be mid-body as though generation finished, which is exactly the case the crash handling exists to report.

Retention had to live on the shared StreamPending rather than a closure variable, since failRequest fails the stream from outside stream(). return() clears it, so the cancel rule you asked for holds here too.

Verified the same way: with only the two retention lines commented out, the new test fails with

× is raised by the backend worker host rather than read as end-of-stream
  → promise resolved "{ value: undefined, done: true }" instead of rejecting

Gates on the rebased branch, in bindings/web/packages/core: vitest run 57 files / 248 tests pass, tsc --noEmit clean, eslint --max-warnings 0 clean.

Happy to split the BackendWorkerHost change out if you would rather review it separately, but it is the same defect and the same one-line fix, so I kept the sweep in one place.

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Heads up on the red python-linux (3.9) and (3.12) cells here: they are not from this diff.

Both are red on main too, at b2d2ff6d (run 32011099890), with "The job has exceeded the maximum execution time of 1h30m0s". The job hangs inside auditwheel repair because the prep step's ln -sf libonnxruntime.so lib/libonnxruntime.so.1 overwrites the middle link of the chain the new RunAnywhere desktop prebuilt ships, turning libonnxruntime.so and libonnxruntime.so.1 into a symlink loop.

I opened #736 with the evidence and a one-line guard. Nothing to do on this PR; every other check here is green.

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Rebased onto 0105aed1d, diff unchanged, checks green.

Still reproduces on main. fail() in OffscreenRuntimeBridge.ts:344 only reaches consumers who happen to be parked:

        const fail = (err: unknown): void => {
          if (finished) return;
          finished = true;
          this.pending.delete(requestId);
          while (waiters.length > 0) waiters.shift()!.reject(err);
        };

and next() reports a clean end once finished is set:

            if (finished) {
              return Promise.resolve({ value: undefined as T, done: true });
            }

So a worker that dies while the consumer is inside its loop body has no waiter to reject, finished flips, and the next next() returns { done: true }. The stream looks like it ended normally and the error is gone. That is the case this PR retains the failure for.

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…next()

Both hand-rolled stream iterators reject the waiters that happen to be parked
and keep no record of the error:

    const fail = (err) => {
      if (finished) return;
      finished = true;
      while (waiters.length > 0) waiters.shift().reject(err);
    };

`next()` drains the queue, then returns `{ done: true }` on `finished`. So a
failure that arrives while the consumer is between `next()` calls is dropped,
and the following `next()` reports a clean end of stream.

Both windows are ordinary, not exotic:

- OffscreenRuntimeBridge: the worker posts `error` at any time, including
  while the consumer is rendering the token it just received. A dying worker
  is the documented case here, since a WASM OOM in the VLM path kills it.
- streamCallback: `start()` defers the native call by a microtask so the
  consumer parks first, and the first emit then wakes it. Anything emitted
  after that is buffered, so a call that emits and then throws fails with no
  waiter left to reject.

Each iterator now stores the error and raises it from `next()` on the check
that already sits between the queue drain and the `finished` check, so
buffered events still arrive first and only then does the error surface.
`return()` routes through `finish()`, which is a no-op once `fail()` has set
`finished`, so the stored error outlived a cancel and the next `next()` would
replay it. A consumer that walked away should not be handed an error it never
asked to read. Clear the retained failure in `return()` in both iterators.

Also drop the casts in the fake worker. The messages are structurally valid
`WorkerRequest` / `WorkerResponse` values, so narrowing on the `init` / `cancel`
discriminators and passing `requestId ?? undefined` types them without any
`as unknown as`, which keeps the fake honest if the protocol changes.
Third instance of the same shape, found by sweeping the other hand-rolled
iterators rather than stopping at the two this PR started with.

`BackendWorkerHost.stream()` and `failRequest()` both set `finished` and reject
only the parked waiters, so `next()` reads a clean end of stream afterwards.
This one matters most: `failRequest` is what `handleCrash` calls for every
in-flight request, and a llamacpp WebGPU worker Abort is a documented crash
here, so a worker death currently ends every stream whose consumer is mid-body
as though it completed.

Retention lives on the shared `StreamPending` rather than a closure, because
`failRequest` fails the stream from outside `stream()`. `return()` clears it,
matching the cancel rule in the other two.
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