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Single-user cloud sessions only persisted the Yjs document on a manual Save, and the beforeunload sendBeacon fallback silently fails above 64 KiB, so edits made without saving were lost once the next fresh tab wiped the local IndexedDB copy. Exports were built from the browser document, so a published package could be newer than the server snapshot. - CollaborativeAutosaveManager no longer requires another collaborator to have been present; it runs in every online session with remote storage and a live connection, and re-arms when the connection syncs so a dirty state restored after a reload is persisted too. - YjsProjectBridge.flushPendingSave() saves silently before building an ELPX; NavbarFile.exportViaYjs() does the same for every client export. - Save-status wording no longer talks about "collaborative" changes. - The manual Save button is kept on purpose until autosave has proven itself in production. - New Playwright spec covers persistence across the IndexedDB wipe, the pending/clean states, blank projects, debounce, reload, export and failure recovery; dirty-state specs pin a long idle so they stay deterministic. Closes #2615
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The manual Save button stays; what changes is that an autosave in flight can no longer be lost: - CollaborativeAutosaveManager retries forever while the document is dirty: exponential backoff for the first `maxRetries` attempts, then a capped steady interval. A reconnection (`sync`/`connectionChange`) drops the backoff and retries at once. The 'failed' notice stays until a save actually succeeds. - YjsDocumentManager no longer wipes IndexedDB and the dirty flag on the next fresh tab when the last tab closed with unsaved work. The local copy is kept, the server snapshot is merged on top (Yjs merges are idempotent, so saves made elsewhere are not overwritten) and the restored dirty state is autosaved once the connection is live. Clean sessions are wiped exactly as before. - `window.__EXE_COLLAB_AUTOSAVE_RETRY_MS__` mirrors the idle override so tests can shorten the backoff. Tests: manager retry/recovery suites; document-manager deferred-cleanup suite (keep/wipe/offline/same-tab); E2E "unsaved edits survive closing the last tab" and "recovers by itself once the endpoint is back"; the tab-close cleanup spec now covers both the keep and the wipe paths. Refs #2615
With autosave on in every online session and a retry queue that never gives up, the manual Save button is redundant in cloud mode. The toolbar control now carries `cloud-autosave` (server-rendered only when the installation is not offline; the static build strips the block and Electron never gets it) and CollaborativeSaveStatusView renders it as a Google-Docs-style status chip: cloud_done "Saved", cloud_upload "Unsaved changes", cloud_sync "Saving...", cloud_off "Not saved", with the full sentence as tooltip and the live region unchanged. A click still saves immediately, which doubles as the manual retry. The leave warning no longer tells users to click Save. Tests: chip rendering suite for the view; Playwright asserts the Save label/icon are hidden and the chip states in the single-user and collaborative specs; existing class-based save-detection specs unchanged. Refs #2615
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Records the decision to autosave every online session with an unbounded retry queue, keep unsaved local work across the last-tab cleanup, save before exporting and replace the Save button with a status chip in cloud mode, with the sendBeacon 64 KiB measurements as evidence. Refs #2615
The WebSocket layer is a relay with no document state, and the stored snapshot was read only when IndexedDB was empty. A tab that was offline while other users saved (laptop asleep, restored tab) therefore kept its old copy on reconnection and its next save replaced the server snapshot with it. This is the mechanism behind the field report in #2615: the publisher saw the edits on the 15th, so the server had them, and a later stale save erased them. YjsDocumentManager now merges the server snapshot on every online open, whether or not a local copy exists, and again after a WebSocket drop before re-announcing the connection (so the autosave re-arm sees the merged document). The merge uses the 'initial' origin so it never marks the document dirty or enters the undo stack, and concurrent merges share one request. Tests: document-manager suite for merge on open, offline, origin, reconnect ordering, failure and dedupe; Playwright cloud-autosave-stale-client.spec reproduces both the offline-tab and stale-copy scenarios (red without this change, green with it). Refs #2615
loadFromServer() swallows its own errors, but the reconnect hook chained .finally() which re-threw a mocked rejection as an unhandled error and failed the Vitest run. Announce the connection on both branches instead. Refs #2615
Firefox's offline emulation does not close an already-open WebSocket, so the scenario timed out in CI. Disconnecting and reconnecting the y-websocket provider exercises the same status handler deterministically in every browser. Refs #2615
stale-client-save.spec.ts (#2618) already covers the open-time merge of a stale local copy. Keep only the reconnection scenario here, which checks that the autosave, not an explicit Save, carries the collaborator's edits.
- A save only marks the document clean when nothing changed after its snapshot was encoded (YjsDocumentManager.getChangeSeq). Edits made while an autosave uploads stay dirty and are saved next. The uploaded-asset flag uses its own origin and the post-save thumbnail only re-cleans an already clean document, so neither hides a real edit. - A failed manual or pre-export save re-arms the autosave retry queue it had cancelled. - Eligibility relies on the provider's live flags only; the document manager's synced flag is never reset after a disconnect. - The pre-export flush waits for an in-flight save and runs after the version and screenshot metadata writes; an unchanged version is not rewritten, so an export no longer leaves the document dirty. - The chip only replaces the Save button once a phase was announced, and the legacy red dot no longer overlaps the chip icon. - Drop the unused _recoverUnsavedLocalCopy flag and merge isEligible().
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Closes #2615
Builds on #2618 (merged): convergence with the stored snapshot on open/reconnection and server-side save validation are owned by ADR-2615-01. This PR adds automatic saving for every online session, the retry queue, keeping unsaved local work, save-before-export and the status chip. Its record is ADR-2615-02 (
Proposed).Problem
Reported from the Extremadura cloud (
v4.0.5): a REA edited on 13–14 October, exported and published on the 15th, reopened on the 22nd without those edits. Besides the stale-client overwrite fixed in #2618, the persistence model itself let edits go missing:beforeunloadsafety net sends the fullencodeStateAsUpdate()withnavigator.sendBeacon, which Chromium rejects above 64 KiB. Every real project is above that (fixtures: 73 KiB, 880 KiB, 1.76 MiB), so it silently does nothing.SaveManager.save()encodes the snapshot early and callsmarkClean()at the end: an edit made while the upload runs was marked as saved without ever being sent. With autosave this window happens on every idle save, so it is fixed here too.Solution
Cloud mode now persists like Google Docs: edits are saved automatically after the idle period, and nothing is exported that the server has not received.
CollaborativeAutosaveManagerno longer requires a collaborator. Eligibility is remote storage + collaboration enabled + a live WebSocket, so static, offline and Electron are untouched. It also listens tosync/connectionChange, so a dirty state restored after a reload is autosaved once connected, and it announces the current phase before any edit.notifyExternalSaveFailed().YjsDocumentManager.getChangeSeq()counts tracked edits;SaveManagerreads it before encoding and passes it tomarkClean(), which keeps the document dirty (and re-emitsdirty) if anything changed meanwhile. The save's own bookkeeping does not count: the uploaded-asset flag is written with anasset-uploadorigin, and the post-save thumbnail only re-cleans an already clean document.YjsProjectBridge.flushPendingSave(reason)is called fromexportToElpx()(after the version and screenshot metadata writes, so they are saved with the export) and fromNavbarFile.exportViaYjs()(every client-side format). It waits for a save already in flight, never throws and never overlaps._updateVersionMetadata()no longer rewrites an unchanged version, so exporting does not leave the document dirty.#head-top-save-buttonkeeps its id andsaved/unsaved/savingclasses; withcloud-autosave(emitted only when the installation is not offline) and once a phase has been announced, it renders as a chip. A session that never becomes eligible (collaboration disabled, WebSocket blocked) keeps a working Save button.cloud_doneSavedcloud_uploadUnsaved changescloud_sync(pulsing) Saving...cloud_offNot saved (red)A click on the chip still saves immediately (manual retry);
Ctrl+Sand the File menu are unchanged. Narrow screens show the icon only,prefers-reduced-motiondisables the pulse, and each phase has a distinct icon, not only a colour. Wording no longer says "collaborative" (new English source strings, no catalog edits).doc/development/real-time.mdcorrects the "explicit saves only" claim and documents the beacon limitation.What a browser cannot guarantee: a tab killed by the OS or a crashed browser in the seconds between an edit and the idle autosave. Even then the edit is in IndexedDB for the next open.
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sendBeaconfallback is left as is (harmless for small documents; autosave, the retry queue and the kept local copy make it moot).SaveManager.save()(pending assets included): that is what keeps the server and the exported package in step.Tests
Unit (Vitest):
CollaborativeAutosaveManager.test.js: single-user eligibility, no autosave once the socket closed (stalesyncedflag), connection-aware start, unbounded retry and reconnection recovery, re-arming after a failed external save (including an autosave deferred behind it).SaveManager.test.js: change counter read before encoding and passed tomarkClean; a failed manual save notifies the autosave manager, its own failures do not.YjsDocumentManager.test.js:markClean(seq)keeps a document changed after the snapshot dirty;asset-uploadand suppressed updates are not counted; unchanged version not rewritten; deferred cleanup keeps unsaved work / wipes clean sessions / offline unchanged.YjsProjectBridge.test.js:flushPendingSave(waits for an in-flight save, gives up without overlapping, clean doc, no remote storage, failures); export order version → screenshot → flush → export; thumbnail does not re-clean a dirty document.AssetManager.test.js: uploaded flag written with theasset-uploadorigin.navbarFile.test.js,CollaborativeSaveStatusView.test.js,unsavedChangesHelper.test.js: export flush, chip rendering, wording.E2E (Playwright),
cloud-autosave.spec.ts: single-user edits reach the server (verified after a real IndexedDB wipe); pending → clean chip and live region, no legacy red dot over the chip; clicking the chip cancels the queued autosave; an untouched blank project never saves; an edit made while an autosave uploads is saved by the next one; a burst of edits reaches the server with its last value; the Save button is the fallback when no phase was announced; reload with a pending edit; ELPX export saves first and ends clean; unsaved edits survive closing the last tab; a 503 yieldsfailedand the queue recovers by itself.cloud-autosave-stale-client.spec.ts: a tab offline while a collaborator saved converges on reconnection and its autosave keeps the collaborator's node.indexeddb-tab-close-cleanup.spec.tscovers the keep and wipe paths. The manual-flow specs (save-detection*,open-project-clean-state,indexeddb-tab-close-cleanup) pin a long idle.Red → green for the review fixes: the concurrent-edit, Save-fallback and red-dot E2E tests failed on the previous build and pass now; the new unit tests cover methods and guards that did not exist.
Results (local, after the review fixes):
make fixclean ·make test-frontend18447 pass (316 files) ·make test-unit10981 pass / 0 fail (the per-file 90 % threshold reports 14src/files this PR does not touch) ·make architecture-checkOK · E2E Chromium 36/36 for the autosave, stale-client, collaborative-autosave, tab-close cleanup, clean-state and save-detection specs · E2E Firefox 26/26 for cloud-autosave, stale-client, collaborative-autosave, tab-close cleanup and save-detection.