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Fail the test instead of crashing when a wait times out - #2286

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Seventeen tests in Test/AblyTests declared an implicitly unwrapped optional, assigned it only inside a waitUntil closure, and read it afterwards. When the wait times out the value is still nil, and reading it raises a fatal error — which kills the whole test process, not one test.

Why that costs more than one failure

xcodebuild relaunches the runner after a crash and resumes from the next test. The crashed test is never re-run, so -retry-tests-on-failure cannot absorb it, and whatever else was in flight gets reported as failed too.

A run on #2285 shows it exactly. At 22:24:34, RealtimeClientConnectionTests.test__085 hit Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while implicitly unwrapping an Optional value at line 3547. The runner came back at 22:24:59 and carried on from test__086. test__085 appears nowhere else in the log — no ✔, no retry. Three unrelated tests in RealtimeAnnotationsTests and RealtimeClientPresenceTests were also listed as failures; all three were retried and passed. One timeout, one red lane.

The change

Each site captures into a plain optional and rebinds the original name with XCTUnwrap after the wait, so every line below is untouched:

var capturedRecoveryKey: ARTConnectionRecoveryKey?

waitUntil(timeout: testTimeout) { done in
    …
    capturedRecoveryKey = try? ARTConnectionRecoveryKey.fromJsonString(recoveryKeyString)
    …
}
let recoveryKey = try XCTUnwrap(capturedRecoveryKey, "waitUntil timed out before recoveryKey was set")

A timeout now fails that one test, and a failure is something the retries can absorb.

Two force unwraps inside the same recovery test go with them — client.connection.createRecoveryKey()! becomes a guard that fails and calls done(), and a try! becomes try?. Both would crash the process in the same way.

Touched: AuthTests, MessageUpdatesDeletesTests, PluginAPITests, PushTests, RealtimeAnnotationsTests, RealtimeClientConnectionTests, RestAnnotationsTests, RestClientTests.

What is deliberately not here

Only sites where the variable is dereferenced after the waitUntil block are changed — that is the shape that crashes. Implicitly unwrapped optionals read only inside the closure that sets them are left alone.

Verification

swift build --build-tests clean. RealtimeClientConnectionTests/test__085 passes, as do RestAnnotationsTests (4), MessageUpdatesDeletesTests (9) and RealtimeAnnotationsTests (8). One test in that last suite failed on a first run with Error 80017 - connection broken before receiving publishing acknowledgment at line 430 — outside the range this PR touches, and it passes on re-run. It is the same test that flaked in the #2285 run above.

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  • Tests
    • Improved asynchronous test reliability by replacing force-unwrapped values with explicit optional unwrapping.
    • Added clearer failure messages when asynchronous operations time out or expected values are unavailable.
    • Preserved existing test coverage and behavior for authentication, messaging, annotations, push activation, client connections, and REST operations.
    • Reduced the risk of crashes during asynchronous test execution while maintaining the existing assertions and workflows.

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Changes

The tests now store asynchronous callback results in plain optionals. They call XCTUnwrap after waitUntil and report descriptive timeout failures instead of relying on implicitly unwrapped optionals.

Asynchronous test capture safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request and message captures
Test/AblyTests/Tests/AuthTests.swift, Test/AblyTests/Tests/MessageUpdatesDeletesTests.swift, Test/AblyTests/Tests/RestClientTests.swift
Token requests, messages, and HTTP responses use optional callback captures and post-wait XCTUnwrap calls.
Annotation callback captures
Test/AblyTests/Tests/RealtimeAnnotationsTests.swift, Test/AblyTests/Tests/RestAnnotationsTests.swift
Annotation tests capture messages and annotations as optionals, validate optional serials during callbacks, and unwrap results after waiting.
Connection and push captures
Test/AblyTests/Tests/PluginAPITests.swift, Test/AblyTests/Tests/PushTests.swift, Test/AblyTests/Tests/RealtimeClientConnectionTests.swift
Connection transports, push state machines, and recovery keys use explicit optional captures and timeout failures.

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A nil token request could still terminate the test process instead of failing only the affected test, so the callback should be confirmed safe before merging.

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In `@Test/AblyTests/Tests/AuthTests.swift`:
- Line 4473: In the asynchronous callback, update the assignment to
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Comment thread Test/AblyTests/Tests/AuthTests.swift Outdated
Seventeen tests declared an implicitly unwrapped optional, assigned it only
inside a waitUntil closure, and read it after. When the wait times out the
value is still nil, and reading it raises a fatal error that kills the whole
test process rather than failing one test.

That is worse than it sounds. xcodebuild relaunches the runner and resumes
from the *next* test, so the crashed test is never retried — a failure that
-retry-tests-on-failure would otherwise absorb becomes a red lane, and the
tests that happened to be in flight are reported as failures too. A run on
#2285 lost RealtimeClientConnectionTests.test__085 and three unrelated tests
to a single timeout this way.

Each site now captures into a plain optional and binds the original name
with XCTUnwrap after the wait, so the code below is unchanged. A timeout
becomes an ordinary, retryable failure.

Three force unwraps inside the callbacks go with them, since each could kill
the process the same way: an implicitly unwrapped createRecoveryKey() result
and a try! in the recovery test, and a try! XCTUnwrap on the token request in
AuthTests. The callbacks now assign whatever they were given and let the
XCTUnwrap after the wait report a nil.

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LGTM

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maratal merged commit 23d52fa into main Sep 18, 2026
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