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fix: give each retry its own timeout window #621

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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ await ofetch("http://google.com/404", {
});
```

When combined with auto retry, each attempt gets its own fresh `timeout` window.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Hyphenate the compound modifier.

Change auto retry to auto-retry.

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[grammar] ~139-~139: Use a hyphen to join words.
Context: ...seconds }); ``` When combined with auto retry, each attempt gets its own fresh `...

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In `@README.md` at line 139, Update the README sentence to hyphenate “auto retry”
as “auto-retry,” preserving the rest of the wording.

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23 changes: 13 additions & 10 deletions src/fetch.ts
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Expand Up @@ -168,20 +168,23 @@ export function createFetch(globalOptions: CreateFetchOptions = {}): $Fetch {

let abortTimeout: NodeJS.Timeout | undefined;

// Derive a fresh timeout signal for each attempt without persisting it on
// `context.options.signal`. Otherwise a retry triggered by a timeout would
// reuse the already aborted signal and abort immediately instead of getting
// its own timeout window.
let fetchOptions = context.options as RequestInit;
if (context.options.timeout) {
context.options.signal = context.options.signal
? AbortSignal.any([
AbortSignal.timeout(context.options.timeout),
context.options.signal,
])
: AbortSignal.timeout(context.options.timeout);
const timeoutSignal = AbortSignal.timeout(context.options.timeout);
fetchOptions = {
...context.options,
signal: context.options.signal
? AbortSignal.any([timeoutSignal, context.options.signal])
: timeoutSignal,
} as RequestInit;
}

try {
context.response = await fetch(
context.request,
context.options as RequestInit
);
context.response = await fetch(context.request, fetchOptions);
} catch (error) {
context.error = error as Error;
if (context.options.onRequestError) {
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22 changes: 22 additions & 0 deletions test/index.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ describe("ofetch", () => {

const fetch = vi.spyOn(globalThis, "fetch");

let timeoutThenOkCount = 0;

beforeAll(async () => {
const app = new H3({ debug: true })
// .use(async (event) => {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -62,6 +64,14 @@ describe("ofetch", () => {
resolve(new HTTPError({ status: 408 }));
}, 1000 * 5);
});
})
.all("/timeout-then-ok", async () => {
timeoutThenOkCount++;
// Slow enough to trip a short timeout only on the first attempt.
if (timeoutThenOkCount === 1) {
await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000 * 5));
}
return "ok";
});

listener = await serve(app, { port: 0, hostname: "localhost" }).ready();
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -344,6 +354,18 @@ describe("ofetch", () => {
});
});

it("retry after a timeout uses a fresh timeout for each attempt", async () => {
timeoutThenOkCount = 0;
// The first attempt times out; the retry must get its own timeout window
// (not reuse the already aborted signal) so it can succeed.
const result = await $fetch(getURL("timeout-then-ok"), {
timeout: 100,
retry: 2,
});
expect(result).to.equal("ok");
expect(timeoutThenOkCount).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
});

it("deep merges defaultOptions", async () => {
const _customFetch = $fetch.create({
query: {
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