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What

When HaBleakClientWrapper.connect() exhausts all candidate scanners, the
BleakError now describes why no scanner could connect.

Why

Issue #340 (stuck proxy slots) surfaces in user logs as the opaque message:

BleakError: No backend with an available connection slot that can reach
address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX was found

Two operationally distinct failure modes collapse into the same string:

  • The device isn't being heard anymore (range, antenna, device-side issue)
  • Scanners are hearing it but all have zero free slots (stuck proxies)

The first needs device/range troubleshooting; the second needs a proxy
reboot. Users have no way to tell which from the error alone — they have to
turn on debug logging and find the prior INFO log to see scanner state.

This PR puts the diagnostic in the error itself so production logs are
actionable on the first failure.

How

Added _describe_unavailable_scanners() to wrappers.py. It branches on
whether any scanner heard the address:

  • None heard: "No connectable scanner has detected this address recently (N connectable scanner(s) registered)."
  • Some heard, none usable: "Tried N scanner(s) that heard this address, none had a free connection slot: name (slots=0/3 free, in_progress=0); ..."

The leading prefix ("No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address … was found.") is preserved so existing tests / log greps
keep working — the diagnostic is appended.

Testing

  • Existing wrappers tests still pass (regex-prefix match on the old string).
  • Added test_no_backend_error_includes_scanner_slot_diagnostics: one
    scanner heard the device, FakeScanner has no connector → loop exhausts
    → asserts the new "Tried 1 scanner(s)" detail with scanner name + slot
    state appears.
  • Added test_no_backend_error_when_no_scanner_heard_address: scanner
    registered but never injects → asserts the "No connectable scanner has
    detected this address recently" branch.
  • Full suite: 243 passed, 1 skipped.

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Quality Report

Changes: 2 files changed, 128 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

Code scan: clean

Tests: failed (FAILED)

Branch hygiene: clean

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Merging this PR will not alter performance

✅ 11 untouched benchmarks
🆕 1 new benchmark

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Benchmark BASE HEAD Efficiency
🆕 test_describe_unavailable_scanners_with_20_scanners N/A 192 µs N/A

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We should include benchmarks. This may fire over and over

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PR Review — feat: include scanner slot diagnostics in no-backend BleakError

The diagnostic split ("heard but not usable" vs "never heard") is a real user-experience improvement for the stuck-proxy case in issue #340, and the test additions cover both branches. Two blocking-ish items before merge: (1) the reason = "unknown" branch is unreachable and dragging patch coverage to 90% — @bdraco has explicitly flagged this; either add # pragma: no cover with a justification or remove it. (2) The rejection-reason logic now lives in two places — _async_get_backend_for_ble_device and _describe_unavailable_scanners — which is the source of both the unreachable branch and a race window where the diagnostic can disagree with the manager. The Option B refactor under discussion in [id=4469217156] (return (backend, reason) | None from the selector) resolves both at once. Smaller items: "local slot unavailable" is a misleading label for a local-adapter device, scanner._connections_in_progress() reaches into a private API, and the slot-diagnostics test name doesn't match the branch it exercises. The CI status in the quality report says tests failed — worth confirming locally that this isn't related to the new tests before merging.


🟡 Important

1. Duplicates rejection logic in `_async_get_backend_for_ble_device` — leads to unreachable `"unknown"` branch (`src/habluetooth/wrappers.py`, L698-705)

This block re-derives the rejection reason that _async_get_backend_for_ble_device (and the manager's selection loop) already evaluated. Three concrete problems result:

  1. Coverage gap on reason = "unknown" — flagged by @bdraco in [id=4469146453]. With the current control flow, every scanner in sorted_devices that came back without a usable backend must have failed one of the three preceding predicates, so the else is unreachable. The codecov report confirms 90% patch coverage with this line as the miss. Either add # pragma: no cover with a comment explaining why it's defensive-only, or delete the branch.
  2. Drift risk — if anyone touches the rejection predicates in _async_get_backend_for_ble_device, the diagnostic message silently goes out of sync. There is no test that ties the two together.
  3. Race window — between the manager rejecting a scanner and _describe_unavailable_scanners re-evaluating, slot state can change. A scanner can appear as slots=3/3 free, in_progress=0 in the diagnostic while being the same scanner the manager just declined. The Option B refactor mentioned in [id=4469217156] (return (backend, reason) | None from the lookup so the caller carries the reason) addresses 2 and 3 simultaneously and removes the need for the defensive fallback in 1.
if not device_source(ble_device):
    reason = "local slot unavailable"
elif not scanner.connector:
    reason = "no connector"
elif not scanner.connector.can_connect():
    reason = "connector cannot connect"
else:
    reason = "unknown"

🟢 Suggestions

1. `"local slot unavailable"` is a misleading label (`src/habluetooth/wrappers.py`, L700)

device_source(ble_device) returning falsy means the BLE device came from a local adapter (no source in details), not that a slot was unavailable. A local scanner has no connector and no allocation bookkeeping at all, so the rejection reason there is more like "local scanner" or "local adapter (no proxy connector)". The current label tells the user a slot was the problem, which is exactly the confusion this PR is trying to remove from the original error message.

if not device_source(ble_device):
    reason = "local slot unavailable"
2. Calling a private method on `BaseHaScanner` from `wrappers.py` (`src/habluetooth/wrappers.py`, L697)

scanner._connections_in_progress() is a leading-underscore method on a cdef class declared elsewhere. Reaching into another class's private API from the public wrapper makes the Cython coupling implicit and any future rename will silently break the diagnostic (mypy won't catch it because the attribute is dynamic via Cython). If this value is worth surfacing in an error message, consider promoting it to a documented method on BaseHaScanner (e.g. connections_in_progress) and call that.

f"in_progress={scanner._connections_in_progress()})"
3. Test name implies slot-exhaustion coverage, but exercises the connector-rejection branch (`tests/test_wrappers.py`, L1446-1481)

The test is named test_no_backend_error_includes_scanner_slot_diagnostics and asserts on "slots=0/3 free", but the rejection that drives the error is can_connect=lambda: False — so the actual reason printed is "connector cannot connect". The slots=0/3 free text comes from the patched get_allocations, not from any code that consulted the slot count to reject the connect. As-is, no test exercises a path where the slot bookkeeping itself is what made the scanner unusable, and the genuinely slot-driven case (per-source score collapse documented in CLAUDE.md "Allocations are unverified") is not covered. Either rename to ..._includes_scanner_diagnostics to match what the test actually validates, or add a second case where can_connect=lambda: True and a real slot-counting path declines the scanner.

connector = HaBluetoothConnector(FakeBleakClient, "proxy_a", lambda: False)
4. Docstring is longer than the function and restates the PR description (`src/habluetooth/wrappers.py`, L658-672)

Per the repo's CLAUDE.md (Default to writing no comments. Only add one when the WHY is non-obvious), this 11-line docstring is heavier than the function body. A one-liner like """Return a human description of why no scanner could reach the address.""" plus the PR/commit message carrying the rationale would match the rest of the file. The "why" you want to preserve in-tree is the duplicate-logic / drift risk — and that belongs as a # TODO on the rejection block, not as docstring narrative.

5. Benchmark doesn't include the `sorted_devices` lookup it depends on (`tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py`, L1061-1086)

async_scanner_devices_by_address runs once outside the @benchmark block, so the benchmark only measures the string-formatting cost — not the cost of building the input. Since the production code path computes sorted_devices inside the same hot failure handler, including it gives a closer-to-reality number. If you want to isolate just the formatter, that's defensible — but call that out in the docstring so the next person knows which half is being measured.

sorted_devices = manager.async_scanner_devices_by_address(address, True)

wrapper = HaBleakClientWrapper(address)

@benchmark
def run():
    wrapper._describe_unavailable_scanners(manager, sorted_devices)
6. PR description and code disagree on the trailing message (`src/habluetooth/wrappers.py`, L649-651)

The PR body advertises the new message as "...none had a free connection slot: ..." but the code (and tests) ship "...none were usable: ...". The wording in the code is correct (it's what addresses Copilot's concern about falsely asserting slot exhaustion) — update the PR description before merge so the changelog / commit body matches the actual user-facing string.

"No backend with an available connection slot that can reach address"
f" {address} was found. {detail}"

Checklist

  • No hardcoded secrets or unsafe deserialization
  • No bare except / silent error swallowing
  • Resource cleanup in tests (scanner cancel)
  • No N+1 / unbounded loops in hot path
  • 100% patch coverage on new branches — warning #1
  • Avoid duplication of selector logic — warning #1
  • Diagnostic labels match the actual rejection cause — suggestion #2
  • No reach-into-private-API calls across modules — suggestion #3
  • Test names accurately describe scenario under test — suggestion #4
  • PR description matches shipped strings — suggestion #7

Summary

The diagnostic split ("heard but not usable" vs "never heard") is a real user-experience improvement for the stuck-proxy case in issue #340, and the test additions cover both branches. Two blocking-ish items before merge: (1) the reason = "unknown" branch is unreachable and dragging patch coverage to 90% — @bdraco has explicitly flagged this; either add # pragma: no cover with a justification or remove it. (2) The rejection-reason logic now lives in two places — _async_get_backend_for_ble_device and _describe_unavailable_scanners — which is the source of both the unreachable branch and a race window where the diagnostic can disagree with the manager. The Option B refactor under discussion in [id=4469217156] (return (backend, reason) | None from the selector) resolves both at once. Smaller items: "local slot unavailable" is a misleading label for a local-adapter device, scanner._connections_in_progress() reaches into a private API, and the slot-diagnostics test name doesn't match the branch it exercises. The CI status in the quality report says tests failed — worth confirming locally that this isn't related to the new tests before merging.


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@bdraco: We should include benchmarks. This may fire over and over

Agree, and I think this should block merge. The diagnostic only fires on the terminal raise path in _async_get_best_available_backend_and_device, but the failure mode it is designed to diagnose — issue #340 stuck proxy slots — is exactly the case where the error fires over and over: every BLE integration's reconnect attempt produces one. Concrete plan:

  1. Move connectable_count into the not sorted_devices branch. Right now it walks every registered scanner via manager.async_current_scanners() unconditionally, but is only used in the empty-sorted_devices branch. In the common stuck-proxy case (scanners heard the device, no free slots) that's a wasted O(N) iteration on every error.

  2. Add a codspeed benchmark in tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py (or a new test_benchmark_wrappers.py) that builds, say, 20 fake scanners with allocations populated and measures _describe_unavailable_scanners directly. That covers both the construction cost and any regressions if someone adds a richer field to allocations later.

  3. Worth spot-checking that _connections_in_progress() and get_allocations() stay cheap — _connections_in_progress() already does a Python-level dict-values sum (base_scanner.py:232-237), which is fine at N≈few, but a benchmark would catch any future regression there too.

If you want I can fold those into this PR.

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  • Changes done. Summary:
  • Changes

  • src/habluetooth/wrappers.py — moved the connectable_count = sum(...) computation inside the if not sorted_devices: branch so the common stuck-proxy path no longer pays for an O(N) walk over every registered scanner on each failing connect attempt. Addresses bluetoothbot review suggestion fix: reserve name #1.
  • tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py — added test_describe_unavailable_scanners_with_20_scanners, a codspeed benchmark that builds 20 BaseHaRemoteScanners all reporting the target address, patches each get_allocations() to return zero-free slots, and measures _describe_unavailable_scanners directly. Addresses @bdraco's request and bluetoothbot warning fix: reserve name #1 for benchmark coverage of the no-backend error path that fires repeatedly in issue Bluetooth proxy connection slots can become permanently stuck, blocking all BLE connections until proxy reboot #340.
  • Skipped the optional RSSI-in-detail suggestion (bluetoothbot suggestion feat: port base scanner from ha #2) — flagged as non-blocking.

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Pull request overview

This PR improves the actionable diagnostics when HaBleakClientWrapper.connect() exhausts all candidate scanners and raises the “No backend with an available connection slot…” BleakError, by appending scanner-specific context (e.g., which scanners heard the device and their slot/in-progress state).

Changes:

  • Append a new detail string to the existing “No backend with an available connection slot…” BleakError to help distinguish “not heard recently” vs “heard but not usable”.
  • Add wrapper tests covering both the “heard” and “not heard” diagnostic branches.
  • Add a benchmark measuring the cost of generating the diagnostic string with many scanners.

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src/habluetooth/wrappers.py Adds _describe_unavailable_scanners() and appends its output to the no-backend BleakError.
tests/test_wrappers.py Adds unit tests asserting the new diagnostic text is included in the error message.
tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py Adds a benchmark for generating the diagnostic string with 20 scanners.

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Comment on lines +677 to 693
details: list[str] = []
for device in sorted_devices:
scanner = device.scanner
allocations = scanner.get_allocations()
slot_info = (
f"slots={allocations.free}/{allocations.slots} free"
if allocations is not None
else "no slot info"
)
details.append(
f"{scanner.name} ({slot_info}, "
f"in_progress={scanner._connections_in_progress()})"
)
return (
f"Tried {len(sorted_devices)} scanner(s) that heard this address, "
f"none had a free connection slot: {'; '.join(details)}"
)
Comment thread tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py Outdated
Comment on lines +1056 to +1063
scanners: list[BaseHaRemoteScanner] = []
cancels: list[Callable[[], None]] = []
unsetups: list[Callable[[], None]] = []
for i in range(20):
source = f"proxy_{i:02d}"
scanner = StuckProxyScanner(source, source, connector, True)
unsetups.append(scanner.async_setup())
cancels.append(manager.async_register_scanner(scanner))
Comment thread tests/test_wrappers.py Outdated
Comment on lines +1449 to +1463
"""Error message should describe which scanners were tried and their slot state."""
manager = _get_manager()
scanner = FakeScanner("proxy_a", "proxy_a_name", None, True)
cancel = manager.async_register_scanner(scanner)

address = "00:00:00:00:00:42"
device = generate_ble_device(address, "Test Device", {"source": "proxy_a"})
adv_data = generate_advertisement_data(
local_name="Test Device", service_uuids=[], rssi=-50
)
scanner.inject_advertisement(device, adv_data)
await asyncio.sleep(0)

# FakeScanner has no connector → can_connect() path returns no backend,
# so the loop exhausts and the diagnostic branch fires.
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@bdraco: We should include benchmarks. This may fire over and over

This is addressed in the current diff: tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py adds test_describe_unavailable_scanners_with_20_scanners, which simulates 20 stuck-proxy scanners (all heard the address, all free=0) — the worst case for the new branch. The codspeed report on the PR confirms no regression and registers the new benchmark.

One nit worth flagging while we're tuning this path: since the message fires every failed connect for affected devices, the per-iteration cost will be dominated by len(sorted_devices) get_allocations() calls plus the f-string assembly. For local adapters HaScanner.get_allocations() hits BleakSlotManager, so if we ever see this hot on real deployments we could memoize the snapshot per error or pre-compute once outside the diagnostic path. The 20-proxy benchmark should make any future regression on this loop visible.

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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error was rebased onto main and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • w computed (local slot unavailable / no connector / connector cannot connect / unknown) and included alongside slot info. Wording changed from "none had a free connection slot" to "none were usable" so the message no longer falsely asserts slot exhaustion when the real cause was a missing or busy connector.
  • tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py — Removed unused scanners: list[BaseHaRemoteScanner] list and its .append(scanner) call. The benchmark uses sorted_devices via the registered scanners; the list was dead code.
  • tests/test_wrappers.py — Rewrote test_no_backend_error_includes_scanner_slot_diagnostics to actually simulate the stuck-proxy / slots=0 path the feature targets. The scanner now has a HaBluetoothConnector with can_connect=lambda: False and get_allocations is patched to return Allocations(slots=3, free=0). Assertions now check the new "none were usable" wording, the "connector cannot connect" reason, and the slots=0/3 free slot info.

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  •             reason = "unknown"
    

This line is uncovered. The PR cannot be merged without 100% cover

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@bdraco: + reason = "unknown"

Two ways to close this:

Option A (quickest, one test): Add a test for the local-scanner path. A BLEDevice whose details dict lacks "source", with the scanner's get_allocations() returning None and manager.async_allocate_connection_slot patched to return False, would hit both untested lines at once: the "local slot unavailable" reason and the else: "no slot info" branch on the allocations check. That gets codecov to 100% on the new lines except reason = "unknown", which is defensive against a race between the two can_connect() calls (the manager loop and _describe_unavailable_scanners) and not deterministically reachable in a test. Mark it # pragma: no cover with a one-line comment explaining the race.

Option B (better long-term): Refactor _async_get_backend_for_ble_device to return (backend, reason) | None and accumulate the rejection reasons from the manager's own loop. That eliminates the duplicate classification, removes the race window that makes "unknown" reachable in the first place, and means no # pragma: no cover needed. More churn, but it also addresses a separate concern raised in the review: the current code re-derives the rejection reason and can disagree with the manager's actual cause if state changes between calls.

If the goal is to ship this PR fast, Option A is the path. If we expect to add more reason strings (e.g., when _connect_in_progress becomes its own diagnostic dimension), Option B is the better foundation.

Kōan and others added 7 commits May 17, 2026 03:46
When connect() exhausts all candidate scanners, the BleakError now
explains why instead of just saying "no backend was found". The two
operationally distinct failure modes — no scanner heard the device vs.
all scanners are out of slots — produce different messages, so users
hitting issue #340-style stuck proxies see the slot state in the error
itself without having to enable debug logging.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Option B (better long-term): Refactor _async_get_backend_for_ble_device to return (backend, reason) | None and accumulate the rejection reasons from the manager's own loop. That eliminates the duplicate classification, removes the race window that makes "unknown" reachable in the first place, and means no # pragma: no cover needed. More churn, but it also addresses a separate concern raised in the review: the current code re-derives the rejection reason and can disagree with the manager's actual cause if state changes between calls.

Option B it is

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@bdraco: + reason = "unknown"

Agreed this needs to be resolved before merge. Two options, in order of preference:

  1. Drop the else branch entirely — given the three preceding predicates exhaustively mirror the conditions under which _async_get_backend_for_ble_device returns None for an otherwise-eligible scanner, the fallback is dead code. Replace with # pragma: no cover and a one-line comment explaining it's defensive against future changes to the selector, OR just remove it and let an unexpected state surface as a KeyError/UnboundLocalError in tests rather than as a silent "unknown" in production logs.
  2. Refactor per Option B in [id=4469217156] — have _async_get_backend_for_ble_device return (backend, reason) | None (or accumulate rejection reasons on the manager loop) so the diagnostic carries the reason the selector actually computed. That eliminates the unreachable branch and the drift risk and the race window where the diagnostic re-evaluates state and disagrees with what the selector saw. More churn, but it's the structural fix.

If you take (1) for this PR to land the user-facing improvement quickly, please open a follow-up issue for (2) so the duplicate classification doesn't outlive the urgency of #340.

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@bdraco: > Option B (better long-term): Refactor _async_get_backend_for_ble_device to return `(backend,...

+1 on Option B as the structural answer. Worth noting the third benefit beyond the two you listed: it lets the manager loop accumulate one rejection reason per scanner at the moment of rejection, which closes the race window where _describe_unavailable_scanners re-evaluates get_allocations() / can_connect() and can report state that's already changed by the time the error is raised. That race is currently observable (and confusing) when a connect attempt finishes between the selector's pass and the diagnostic's pass — slot counts can have moved.

If this PR ships Option A (with a # pragma: no cover on the "unknown" line), filing the Option B refactor as a follow-up issue against #340 would let it land without blocking the user-facing log improvement here.

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@bdraco: We should include benchmarks. This may fire over and over

Benchmark is included in this PR — test_describe_unavailable_scanners_with_20_scanners in tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py covers the stuck-proxy fan-out path. One refinement worth considering: the benchmark calls async_scanner_devices_by_address outside the @benchmark block, so it's measuring only the formatter, not the full failure-path cost. If the concern is that the diagnostic fires repeatedly under a stuck-proxy storm, including the lookup in the timed region would give a more realistic number — or split into two benchmarks if you want both signals.

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coverage is missing .. needs 100%

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bdraco commented May 19, 2026

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@bluetoothbot rr

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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error was rebased onto main and review feedback was applied.

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3 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Actions performed
  • Already-solved check: negative (confidence=high, reasoning=No commit on main modifies the BleakError message in wrappers.py to include scanner slot diagnostics)
  • Rebased koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error onto upstream/main
  • Pre-push CI check: previous run passed
  • Force-pushed koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error to origin
  • CI check enqueued in ## CI (async)

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bdraco commented May 27, 2026

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@bluetoothbot recreate

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Recreated: feat: include scanner slot diagnostics in no-backend BleakError

Branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error diverged too far from main for a clean rebase — reimplemented from scratch.

Branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error force-pushed with the recreation.

Diff: 3 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

Tests: FAILED (non-blocking)

Actions

  • Created fresh branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error from upstream/main
  • Reimplemented feature from scratch
  • Force-pushed koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error (recreated from scratch)

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Rebase with requested adjustments

Branch koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error was rebased onto main and review feedback was applied.

Changes applied

  • Implements @bdraco's "Option B": classification happens once, in the selection loop itself.
  • Caller loop accumulates (device, reason) rejections (wrappers.py:640-647) and passes them to _describe_unavailable_scanners.
  • _describe_unavailable_scanners no longer re-derives rejection reasons (wrappers.py:671-712); it consumes the reason produced by the selection loop. Removes the previously unreachable reason = "unknown" branch flagged by @bdraco as uncovered, restoring 100 % branch coverage without # pragma: no cover. Also eliminates the race-window between classification and re-classification.
  • Updated benchmark (tests/test_benchmark_base_scanner.py:1184-1190) to build rejections and pass them through the new signature.
  • Other Copilot review points were already addressed by the prior commit on the branch (wording "none were usable", stuck-proxy test using Allocations(free=0) + can_connect=False, no dead scanners list in benchmark) and stay applied.

Stats

3 files changed, 219 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
Actions performed
  • Already-solved check: negative (confidence=high, reasoning=No recent commit on main modifies the BleakError message in wrappers.py to include scanner slot diag)
  • Resolved merge conflicts (3 round(s))
  • Rebased koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error onto upstream/main
  • Applied review feedback
  • Pre-push CI check: previous run passed
  • Force-pushed koan/diagnostic-no-backend-error to origin
  • CI check enqueued in ## CI (async)

CI status

CI will be checked asynchronously.


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