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Summary

Cancel an on-demand Electric refresh wait as soon as its collection or requesting demand is aborted. This prevents a subset load from remaining pending until the 250 ms bound and stops it from starting a snapshot after teardown.

Root cause

PR #1575 bounded forceDisconnectAndRefresh() with a timer, but the race did not include either lifecycle signal. Cleanup and demand cancellation were only noticed after the refresh or timer settled, and collection cleanup was not checked before requestSnapshot().

The existing tests covered early refresh success and failure, timeout, late settlement, and timer cleanup. They did not cancel the collection or demand while the pre-snapshot refresh was still pending.

Approach

  • Race the refresh and 250 ms timer against both the collection and request abort signals.
  • Remove abort listeners and clear the timer on every settlement path.
  • Recheck both signals before starting a snapshot.
  • Keep an aborted demand out of dedup coverage so a later demand can retry.

Key invariants

  • A refresh that finishes or times out without cancellation still requests one snapshot.
  • Cleanup and demand cancellation settle the waiting load without requesting a snapshot.
  • Late refresh settlement cannot restart canceled work.
  • An aborted demand remains retryable.

Non-goals and upstream limit

This does not change the 250 ms bound from #1575. It also cannot cancel a snapshot after ShapeStream.requestSnapshot() has started: Electric exposes neither a request signal nor request identity for the rows it publishes. The existing source comment documents that boundary.

Verification

pnpm exec vitest run packages/electric-db-collection/tests/electric.test.ts -t 'refresh wait' --pool-options.threads.maxThreads=2
pnpm --filter @tanstack/electric-db-collection test
pnpm --filter @tanstack/electric-db-collection build
pnpm exec eslint packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts packages/electric-db-collection/tests/electric.test.ts
  • Electric package: 493 tests passed; type checks passed.
  • Focused cancellation/retry cases: 2 passed.
  • Build passed.
  • Lint passed with no errors; 13 pre-existing no-shadow warnings remain in the test file.

Files changed

  • packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts: make the bounded refresh wait cancellation-aware.
  • packages/electric-db-collection/tests/electric.test.ts: cover cleanup, demand abort, timer cleanup, late settlement, and retry.
  • .changeset/cancel-electric-refresh-wait.md: patch release note.

Follow-up to #1575. Part of #1657.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved on-demand refresh cancellation when a request or collection is cleaned up.
    • Prevented unnecessary snapshot requests after cancellation or teardown.
    • Ensured interrupted refreshes can be retried successfully when a new request is made.
    • Improved cleanup of pending refresh operations to avoid lingering waits and unexpected activity after shutdown.
    • Prevented late snapshot data from being applied after cleanup.

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The change makes on-demand Electric refresh waits abortable by both request and collection cleanup. It prevents snapshot requests after teardown, removes abort listeners, adds cancellation and retry tests, and records a patch changeset.

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Electric refresh cancellation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Abort-aware refresh wait
packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts
The refresh wait observes collection-level and request-level abort signals. The refresh race includes abort handling, removes listeners during cleanup, and skips processing after either signal aborts.
Cancellation validation and release metadata
packages/electric-db-collection/tests/electric.test.ts, .changeset/cancel-electric-refresh-wait.md
Tests cover collection cleanup, aborted signals, timer cleanup, skipped snapshots, late refresh completion, and successful retry behavior. The on-demand collection factory uses inferred return typing. A patch changeset documents the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1bfba

A collection that is already aborted may still start a forced refresh before cancellation takes effect, allowing work to continue after teardown and potentially triggering an unnecessary snapshot. This bounded lifecycle correctness risk should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LoadSubset
  participant RefreshWait
  participant SnapshotRequest
  LoadSubset->>RefreshWait: wait for refresh or abort
  RefreshWait->>RefreshWait: observe collection and request signals
  RefreshWait-->>LoadSubset: settle on abort or refresh
  LoadSubset->>SnapshotRequest: request snapshot only when not aborted
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630-664: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Skip refresh when the collection signal is already aborted.

cleanup() aborts the signal passed to createLoadSubsetDedupe, but loadSubset() checks only opts.signal before the stream.isUpToDate branch. Promise.race therefore still invokes stream.forceDisconnectAndRefresh() for an already-aborted collection. Check both signals before constructing the race and add a regression test.

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2662-2674: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add a return type to createOnDemandCollection.

Line 2662 defines a function without an explicit return type. Declare the precise collection type to keep this test helper contract explicit.

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In `@packages/electric-db-collection/src/electric.ts`:
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