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Expand Up @@ -32,12 +32,15 @@ and `uts/rest/integration/history.md` becomes `test/uts/rest/integration/history
Every directory needs an `__init__.py`, as `test` is a package.

There are two kinds of tier. `rest/unit` and `realtime/unit` serve every request from a
mock and reach no network; `rest/integration` runs against the real Ably sandbox and has
no mock at all. See **The integration tier** below.
mock and reach no network; `rest/integration` and `realtime/integration` run against the
real Ably sandbox and have no mock at all. See **The integration tier** below.

`test/uts/rest/unit/time_test.py` is the reference example for REST unit,
`test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/auto_connect_test.py` for realtime, and
`test/uts/rest/integration/history_test.py` for integration. Follow their shape.
`test/uts/realtime/unit/connection/auto_connect_test.py` for realtime unit,
`test/uts/rest/integration/history_test.py` for REST integration and
`test/uts/realtime/integration/channels/channel_publish_test.py` for realtime
integration — two clients, protocol variants, a state wait and a `connection_id` reader,
which is most of what a realtime integration module needs. Follow their shape.

## Anatomy of a derived test

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## The integration tier

`uts/rest/integration/<name>.md` becomes `test/uts/rest/integration/<name>_test.py` and
runs against the real Ably sandbox — twelve specifications, 84 tests, one of them the
`uts/rest/integration/<name>.md` becomes `test/uts/rest/integration/<name>_test.py`, and
`uts/realtime/integration/<name>.md` becomes
`test/uts/realtime/integration/<name>_test.py`. Both run against the real Ably sandbox —
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the realtime integration source mapping.

The pinned source is uts/realtime/integration/channels/channel_publish_test.md, and its derived file is channel_publish_test.py. The <name>.md → <name>_test.py rule instead directs a reader to a nonexistent source or a channel_publish_test_test.py target. Document the realtime integration filename convention and add its sandbox and proxy source paths to the fetch commands near Line 13. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In @.claude/skills/uts-to-python/SKILL.md around lines 294 - 295, Update the
realtime integration mapping in the UTS-to-Python guide to preserve the source
basename’s existing `_test` suffix when deriving the Python filename, rather
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twelve REST specifications, 84 tests, and twenty realtime ones, 73 tests, each tier with a
proxy package the section below covers. There is no mock and no `test_options`: the
client reaches the network. `test/uts/README.md` covers the same ground for someone
reading the suite; this is what someone writing a test needs.
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- **Nothing sits in front of the client.** No `install_mock`, no captured request to
assert on, no way to make the server answer a chosen way. A spec point that can only
be shown through a stubbed response belongs in the unit tier.
- **One sandbox app serves the whole session**, standing in for `BEFORE ALL TESTS`.
So every channel name, client id and device id takes a `random_id()` suffix, and
anything a test registers it removes in a `finally`.
- **One sandbox app serves each tier**, standing in for `BEFORE ALL TESTS` — `sandbox`
for REST, `realtime_sandbox` for realtime, provisioned separately so that neither
tier's channels, presence members or devices are visible to the other. Within a tier
the app is shared, so every channel name, client id and device id takes a
`random_id()` suffix, and anything a test registers it removes in a `finally`.
- **Waits are wall-clock**, the inverse of the unit tier's rule. See Timers below.
- **The per-test timeout is 120 seconds**, set by the package's own `conftest.py`, not
the 30 `pyproject.toml` gives the rest of the suite.

| Name | Is |
|---|---|
| `sandbox` fixture, in `rest/integration/conftest.py` | a specification's `app_config`. Session-scoped: provisioned once from the vendored `assets/test-app-setup.json` and deleted afterwards |
| `realtime_sandbox` fixture, in `realtime/integration/conftest.py` | the same for the realtime tier, and a separate app. Same `key(i)`, `key_str` and `app_id` |
| `sandbox.key(i)` | `app_config.keys[i]`, carrying `key_str`, `key_name`, `key_secret` and `capability`. The index means what it means in a spec — 0 full access, 1 push admin, 2 per-channel capabilities, 3 subscribe-only, 4 revocable tokens. `sandbox.key_str` (the full-access key) and `sandbox.app_id` are shorthands |
| `use_binary_protocol` fixture | runs the test once per protocol. **Only a spec carrying a `## Protocol Variants` section takes it** — `publish`, `history`, `presence`, `batch_presence`, `mutable_messages`. A test that does not take it runs json only, which is the clients' default here |
| `use_binary_protocol` fixture | runs the test once per protocol; each tier's `conftest.py` defines its own. **Only a spec carrying a `## Protocol Variants` section takes it** — in REST `publish`, `history`, `presence`, `batch_presence`, `mutable_messages`; in realtime `channel_history`, `channels/channel_publish`, `delta_decoding`, `mutable_messages`, `presence_lifecycle`. A test that does not take it runs json only, which is the clients' default here |
| `await_connection_state(client, state, timeout=5)`, `await_channel_state(channel, state, timeout=5)` | the specifications' `AWAIT_STATE`. Pass `timeout=10` in this tier: five is the budget a mock-backed test needs, and `channel_history_test.md` spells out ten for a connect that opens a real socket |
| `sandbox_rest_client(key=None, **kwargs)` | `Rest(ClientOptions(key: api_key, endpoint: "nonprod:sandbox"))`. Registered for the same teardown as `rest_client`. Leave `key` out and pass `token=`, `auth_callback=` or `auth_url=` where the spec authenticates some other way |
| `sandbox_realtime_client(key=None, **kwargs)` | the same for realtime, for the REST specs that need presence members or presence history a connection has to produce. Unlike `realtime_client` it keeps `auto_connect` and the fallback hosts at the **library** defaults |
| `wall_clock_poll_until(condition, timeout=10.0, description='condition', interval=0.5)` | this tier's `poll_until`. Sleeps `interval` between attempts, takes a sync or async condition, and **returns whatever the condition answered with**, so a condition that fetches a page saves fetching it again |
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## The proxy tier

`uts/rest/integration/proxy/<name>.md` becomes
`test/uts/rest/integration/proxy/<name>_test.py`, and routes its traffic through
`test/uts/rest/integration/proxy/<name>_test.py` and `uts/realtime/integration/proxy/<name>.md`
becomes `test/uts/realtime/integration/proxy/<name>_test.py`, and each routes its traffic through
[ably/uts-proxy](https://github.com/ably/uts-proxy) on the way to the sandbox. The
proxy binds a port per session, takes plain HTTP on it, speaks TLS onwards, applies the
session's rules and records what crosses it. `uts/docs/proxy.md` governs the tier and
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`port=session.proxy_port`, `tls=False`, `use_binary_protocol=False`. `endpoint` and
`port` set the primary host, and `fallback_hosts=['localhost']` sets the fallback to
the same session, so both attempts land in one event log. Leave `fallback_hosts` out
where the spec does: `endpoint='localhost'` disables fallbacks by itself (REC2c2).
where the spec does: `endpoint='localhost'` disables fallbacks by itself (REC2c2). A
realtime client takes the same four and adds `auto_connect=False`, so that a state
recorder can be registered before the connection opens.
- **The event log's field names are the proxy's, not the specification's.** `ws_connect`
carries `queryParams`. `ws_frame` carries `direction` — `server_to_client` or
`client_to_server` — a `message` whose `action` is an **integer**, and `ruleMatched`
holding the rule's `comment` string verbatim. `ws_disconnect` carries `initiator`. A
`replace`d frame is logged as the frame the server sent, not as the replacement, and a
`suppress`ed frame is logged too, so both are still countable. An imperative
`trigger_action` appears as an `action` event followed by the `ws_frame` it produced.
A specification writing `e.type == "ws_frame_to_server"` or `action == "MESSAGE"` is
reading fields that do not exist: derive against the real names, through a filter
defined once at the top of the file, and record the drift in `deviations.md`.
- **Authentication is a callback.** A plain connection cannot carry basic auth, so
every client takes `auth_callback=`; see the traps below.
- **A fault is a rule, and everything else passes through.** `times: 1` faults the
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unit is wrong. The test is written as the specification has it and gated with
`@deviation`; `test/uts/deviations.md` carries the entry.

## Traps found while deriving the realtime integration tier

Each was established against the sandbox, or against the sandbox behind `uts-proxy`.

- **`RealtimeChannel.publish()` takes name and data positionally only.**
`publish(name='x', data='y')` raises `ValueError: publish() expects either (name, data)
or a message object or array of messages` before anything reaches the server
(`ably/realtime/channel.py:394`), where `RestChannel.publish()` accepts the keyword
form. The specifications write the keyword form throughout, so every realtime publish
is translated positionally.
- **A binary payload comes back as `bytearray`, not `bytes`**, under both protocols. It
compares equal to the `bytes` that was published, so only the type assertion is
affected: `ASSERT data IS Binary` has to read `isinstance(data, (bytes, bytearray))`.
- **DISCONNECTED is transient after a drop from CONNECTED.** The retry is a
`loop.call_soon`, not a timer, so DISCONNECTED and CONNECTING land in the same
millisecond and `await_connection_state(client, DISCONNECTED)` is a coin toss. Register
a `connection.on(...)` recorder before connecting and wait on the recorded list, which
is also what a specification reading `state_changes` wants.
- **An `AWAIT_STATE` for a state the channel already holds asserts nothing** — it returns
at once. `channel_faults.md`'s RTL13a and RTL3d both re-attach an already-attached
channel, so both are taken on the recorded sequence instead: ATTACHING followed by
ATTACHED, which is what their `CONTAINS_IN_ORDER` assertion checks anyway.
- **`refuse_connection` through the proxy is a caught failure**, unlike the mock tier's
`respond_with_refused`. The proxy answers the upgrade with HTTP 502, `websockets`
raises, and the SDK reports `40000/400 'Error opening websocket connection: server
rejected WebSocket connection: HTTP 502'` at once. No timeout shortening is needed.
- **`realtime_request_timeout` is milliseconds at the client option**, and `Timer`
divides by 1000, so a specification's `realtimeRequestTimeout: 3000` maps straight
across. That is the opposite of `http_request_timeout`, which the REST proxy tier found
is applied as seconds; the defect does not generalise, so do not carry it over.
- **The proxy's event timestamps are RFC 3339 with a variable number of fractional
digits.** Comparing them as strings is wrong, and `datetime.fromisoformat` will not
take the trailing `Z` on Python 3.9. Order the log by position rather than by timestamp
wherever that will do.
- **A locally signed Ably JWT is the cheapest credential for a proxy test.** It costs no
round trip, so nothing extra lands in the event log beside the frames a test counts.
`test/uts/helpers/sandbox.py`'s `generate_jwt` signs one, and each proxy module wraps it
in a small `jwt_auth_callback` of its own.
- **`wall_clock_poll_until`'s `description` is evaluated eagerly**, so it cannot report
state a test accumulated while waiting. `connection_resume_test.py` wraps it to re-raise
with the recorded states appended, which is what makes its timeouts self-explanatory;
copy that wherever the wait is on a state machine.
- **Server-initiated reauth is fully implemented.** Injecting `{'action': 17}` on a live
connection re-invokes the authCallback, leaves the state CONNECTED and the connectionId
unchanged, and the sandbox answers with a second CONNECTED — frame actions `[4, 17, 4]`.
A test written expecting a disturbance will not find one.
- **`close` and `disconnect` are indistinguishable to the client.** Both give
CONNECTING → CONNECTED → DISCONNECTED → CONNECTING → CONNECTED in about 1.2 s.
`disconnect` leaves `error_reason` set to "no close frame received or sent" and `close`
leaves it `None`, which is the only way to tell them apart from inside the SDK.

## Timers

Three regimes; pick by tier.
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for `FakeClock` only for `connection_state_ttl`, which no option sets and whose default
costs 120 real seconds. See the fake-time section of `test/uts/deviations.md`.

**REST integration.** Real time, deliberately. There is no seam to install in front of
a server the tests exist to talk to, and shortening a timeout would only make the tier
flaky. Poll with `wall_clock_poll_until` rather than sleeping a guess.
**Integration, REST and realtime.** Real time, deliberately. There is no seam to install
in front of a server the tests exist to talk to, and shortening a timeout would only make
the tier flaky. Poll with `wall_clock_poll_until` rather than sleeping a guess, and wait on
states with `await_connection_state` / `await_channel_state`. Where a specification sets
`realtimeRequestTimeout`, `disconnectedRetryTimeout` or `suspendedRetryTimeout`, pass it
through as the client option of the same name: those drive real timers against a real
server, and they are milliseconds on both sides.

The pytest timeout is 30 seconds for the suite, 120 for `rest/integration` and 300 for
`rest/integration/proxy`, so keep waits well under whichever applies.
The pytest timeout is 30 seconds for the suite, 120 for each integration tier and 300 for
the `proxy` package inside each, so keep waits well under whichever applies.

## Deviations

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```bash
uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev ruff check ably/ test/
uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts/rest/unit test/uts/realtime/unit test/uts/helpers -q
uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts/rest/integration -q
uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts/rest/integration test/uts/realtime/integration -q
RUN_DEVIATIONS=1 uv run --frozen --extra crypto --extra dev pytest test/uts -q
```

`--frozen` is required — without it dependency resolution reaches past the
environment's cutoff — and `--extra dev` carries pytest. Line length is 115. If
`uv.lock` changes, `git checkout -- uv.lock`.

The second command is the offline tiers, which need no network. The third provisions a
sandbox app and does; `pytest test/uts -q` runs both together, so run the tiers
separately when only one is in question. All three must pass.
The second command is the offline tiers, which need no network. The third is the two
integration tiers, each of which provisions a sandbox app of its own and does need the
network; `pytest test/uts -q` runs everything together, so run the tiers separately when
only one is in question. All three must pass.

The fourth is the check that the deviations record is still true, across both tiers:
**every gated test must fail when enabled**, so gated + unimplementable under it must
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import msgpack

from ably.http.httputils import HttpUtils
from ably.transport.defaults import Defaults
from ably.types.connectiondetails import ConnectionDetails
from ably.types.operations import PublishResult
from ably.util.eventemitter import EventEmitter
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headers = HttpUtils.default_headers()
query_params = urllib.parse.urlencode(self.params)
scheme = 'wss' if self.options.tls else 'ws'
ws_url = f'{scheme}://{self.host}?{query_params}'
port = Defaults.get_port(self.options)
ws_url = f'{scheme}://{self.host}:{port}?{query_params}'
log.info(f'connect(): attempting to connect to {ws_url}')
self.ws_connect_task = asyncio.create_task(self.ws_connect(ws_url, headers))
self.ws_connect_task.add_done_callback(self.on_ws_connect_done)
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