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fix: prevent heartbeat error from killing the reconnect loop#20

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fix: prevent heartbeat error from killing the reconnect loop#20
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What: Stop a heartbeat error from permanently killing the auto-reconnect loop.

Why: _run_loop is what keeps a 24/7 consumer (e.g. a Home Assistant integration) connected. A heartbeat send() can race with a connection drop — the transport closes between the _connected guard and the write, so send() raises SteamloopConnectionError. The heartbeat task is reaped with contextlib.suppress(asyncio.CancelledError), which does not suppress that error: it re-raises on await heartbeat, escapes the loop, and stops auto-reconnection for good (also skipping the following _close_transport() cleanup). The connection silently stays dead until process restart.

How:

  • _heartbeat_loop now swallows SteamloopConnectionError and returns — a failed heartbeat just means the connection is gone, which _run_loop already handles via the lost-connection event.
  • _run_loop defensively suppresses any heartbeat-task exception when reaping the cancelled task, so a stray error can never tear down the reconnect loop.

Testing: Two regression tests — _heartbeat_loop returns cleanly when a send raises, and _run_loop stays alive and reconnects when the heartbeat task raises. Full suite: 150 passed, ruff clean.


Quality Report

Changes: 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Code scan: clean

Tests: failed (FAILED)

Branch hygiene: clean

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A heartbeat send racing with a connection drop could raise
SteamloopConnectionError. _run_loop only suppressed CancelledError when
awaiting the cancelled heartbeat task, so the error escaped the loop and
permanently stopped auto-reconnection (and skipped transport cleanup).

_heartbeat_loop now swallows the expected disconnect error, and _run_loop
defensively suppresses any heartbeat-task exception when reaping it.
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