fix(rcli): fail when voice --output cannot be written - #745
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe voice command now reports an error and returns exit code 1 when it cannot write the requested ChangesVoice output errors
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The command can still report success while the requested audio file is incomplete or missing if the final flush or close fails, leaving scripts with an incorrect success status. Merge should wait until the stream is flushed and closed before declaring the output write successful. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@rcli/src/commands/cmd_voice.cpp`:
- Around line 121-127: Guard the result-rendering block after the output write
failure in the voice command so it runs only when exit_code is 0. Preserve the
existing cleanup and return flow, and suppress both JSON success output and text
transcription/response output when writing output fails.
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`rcli voice --output reply.wav` reports success when it cannot write the file:
if (file.good()) {
reply_path = output;
} else {
out::status_line("warning: cannot write " + output);
}
`exit_code` stays 0, so the command exits 0 and the JSON reports
`"reply_audio": ""`, which a consumer cannot tell apart from a turn that
produced no audio. A caller doing
rcli voice --output reply.wav && play reply.wav
proceeds against a file that is not there.
main.cpp documents the contract as "0 success, 1 runtime/SDK error", and the
two sibling commands that write a requested output file already follow it:
cmd_tts.cpp:105 sets exit_code = 1 when wav::write_wav_f32 fails, and
cmd_image.cpp:156 returns false with an error. voice is the only one that
downgrades the same failure to a warning.
Report it through error_line and set exit_code = 1 to match.
Setting exit_code was not enough: the JSON and human result lines were emitted unconditionally afterwards, so a failed write still printed a success-shaped result with an empty reply_audio. cmd_tts.cpp emits its result in the `else if` branch of the same write check, so the failure there produces an error and nothing else. Match it.
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Good catch, and it was right. Setting {"transcription":"...","response":"...","reply_audio":""}on stdout next to exit 1. What settled the shape of the fix is that if (!wav::write_wav_f32(params.output, float_samples, sample_count, result.sample_rate,
&error)) {
out::error_line(error);
exit_code = 1;
} else if (options.json) {so a failed I did consider keeping the transcription and response, since unlike Also rebased onto |
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In `@rcli/src/commands/cmd_voice.cpp`:
- Around line 121-128: Update the output-file handling around the std::ofstream
file stream to flush and close it before evaluating file.good() or assigning
reply_path. Treat any flush or close failure as a write error, preserving the
existing error reporting and exit_code behavior instead of reporting success.
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| // A requested --output that cannot be written is a runtime error, | ||
| // not a warning: `rcli tts --output` already exits 1 for exactly | ||
| // this (cmd_tts.cpp), and a caller doing | ||
| // `rcli voice --output reply.wav && play reply.wav` otherwise | ||
| // proceeds against a file that is not there. | ||
| out::error_line("cannot write " + output); | ||
| exit_code = 1; | ||
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Flush and close the output stream before reporting success.
file.good() is checked before std::ofstream flushes and closes. A buffered write or close failure can leave a partial or missing file while the command reports success. Call file.flush() and file.close() before checking file.good() and assigning reply_path.
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In `@rcli/src/commands/cmd_voice.cpp` around lines 121 - 128, Update the
output-file handling around the std::ofstream file stream to flush and close it
before evaluating file.good() or assigning reply_path. Treat any flush or close
failure as a write error, preserving the existing error reporting and exit_code
behavior instead of reporting success.
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Closing this: it is superseded rather than wrong. #776 retired the in-tree CLI yesterday. option(RAC_BUILD_CLI "Retired: in-tree rcli was moved to RunanywhereAI/RCLI. Leaving ON is a hard error." OFF)So the file this patches, The defect itself is still real, just in the other repo now. For whoever picks it up there: Happy to reopen it against |
What is wrong
rcli voice --output reply.wavexits 0 when it cannot write the file.cmd_voice.cpp:115-121:exit_codeis never touched, so the command returns 0. In--jsonmode the object then reports"reply_audio": "", which a consumer cannot distinguish from a turn that produced no audio at all. A caller doingrcli voice --output reply.wav && play reply.wavproceeds against a file that is not there, with only a line on stderr that a script capturing stdout never sees.
Why this is the outlier and not a policy
main.cppstates the contract in its header comment:Both sibling commands that write a user-requested output file already follow it:
tts(cmd_tts.cpp:105)out::error_line(error)image(cmd_image.cpp:156)"cannot write " + out_pathvoice(cmd_voice.cpp:119)out::status_line("warning: ...")ttsis the closest analogue: synthesis succeeded, only the file write failed, and it still exits 1. There is no comment anywhere justifying the difference, so this reads as an oversight rather than an intentional split.What this does
Reports the failure through
error_lineand setsexit_code = 1, matchingtts. Seven lines, one of them the actual change.The turn's text output is unaffected: transcription and response still print, so a user running interactively loses nothing and a script now learns that the file it asked for does not exist.
If you would rather keep exit 0 because the voice turn itself succeeded, the alternative fix is to leave the code and make the JSON distinguishable instead (a
reply_audio_errorfield). I went with matchingttsbecause the exit-code contract is documented and two of three commands already implement it that way.Verification
Built with the CLI enabled and ran the whole suite:
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RAC_BUILD_CLIdefaults to OFF, so a plaincmake -B build -DRAC_BUILD_TESTS=ONdoes not compile this file at all. I mention it because I initially built without it and had to redo the gate;-DRAC_DESKTOP_ADAPTER=ONis also required or rcli's CMakeLists fails outright.)No test added: exercising this needs a loaded voice-agent model plus an unwritable destination, which the rcli suite does not set up. The change is a one-line contract alignment with
cmd_tts, and the enumeration above is what the claim rests on.Summary by CodeRabbit