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Fix recorder preview finalization race - #1136

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Summary

  • wait for an in-flight Recorder preview task to stop before finalizing or starting the final transcription
  • prevent cancelled fallback previews from publishing stale results
  • add regression coverage proving preview and final WhisperKit-style batch calls do not overlap

Issue context

In #1091, the saved meeting recording is complete and transcribes fully through File Transcription with WhisperKit Large V3, while the automatic Recorder transcription can fail or return only a short transcript. The Recorder-specific live-preview fallback could still be using the shared model when final transcription started.

Closes #1091

Test plan

  • xcodebuild test -quiet -project TypeWhisper.xcodeproj -scheme TypeWhisper -destination 'platform=macOS,arch=arm64' -parallel-testing-enabled NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY='-' CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO -only-testing:TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests/testFinishWaitsForInFlightFallbackPreviewBeforeFinalTranscription | xcbeautify
  • xcodebuild test -quiet -project TypeWhisper.xcodeproj -scheme TypeWhisper -destination 'platform=macOS,arch=arm64' -parallel-testing-enabled NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY='-' CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO -only-testing:TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests | xcbeautify
  • xcodebuild test -quiet -project TypeWhisper.xcodeproj -scheme TypeWhisper -destination 'platform=macOS,arch=arm64' -parallel-testing-enabled NO CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY='-' CODE_SIGNING_REQUIRED=NO CODE_SIGNING_ALLOWED=NO -only-testing:TypeWhisperTests/AudioRecorderViewModelTests | xcbeautify
  • scripts/pr-preflight.sh origin/main

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved streaming session shutdown by waiting for in-progress preview transcription to complete before finalizing.
    • Prevented canceled preview operations from applying outdated results or reporting stale errors.
    • Ensured preview transcription requests are handled sequentially to avoid overlapping operations.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for shutdown timing, cancellation handling, and serialized preview transcription behavior.

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Walkthrough

StreamingHandler.finish() now waits for cancelled fallback preview work before final transcription. The fallback loop ignores cancellation results and errors. Tests verify prompt order and serialized plugin calls.

Changes

Streaming finalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Await fallback preview cancellation
TypeWhisper/ViewModels/StreamingHandler.swift
finish() cancels and awaits the fallback preview task before finalizing the live session. The fallback loop stops before applying results or handling errors when cancelled.
Validate serialized transcription calls
TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests.swift
Blocking test doubles record prompts, call counts, and concurrency. An asynchronous test verifies that final transcription waits for the fallback preview to finish.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to ba025

The change coordinates preview completion before final transcription and prevents stale cancelled results from being published. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StreamingHandler
  participant FallbackPreviewTask
  participant TranscriptionPlugin
  StreamingHandler->>FallbackPreviewTask: Cancel and await preview shutdown
  FallbackPreviewTask->>TranscriptionPlugin: Complete or stop preview transcription
  StreamingHandler->>TranscriptionPlugin: Start final transcription
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation addresses issue #1091 by preventing preview and final transcription overlap and waiting for preview completion.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The implementation and regression tests are directly related to the recorder preview race and linked issue #1091.
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)
TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests.swift (1)

1147-1165: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Bound the final wait so a regression fails instead of hanging.

try await finalTask.value has no time bound. If finish stops making progress, this test blocks until the XCTest timeout kills the whole run. A bounded wait reports the specific failure.

Add a defer that stops the handler as well. The success path never calls handler.stop(), and tearDown only clears PluginManager.shared.

♻️ Proposed cleanup and bounded wait
             bufferedDurationProvider: { 1.0 }
         )
+        defer { handler.stop() }
         await plugin.releaseFirstCall()
-        let finalResult = try await finalTask.value
+        let watchdog = Task {
+            try? await Task.sleep(for: .seconds(10))
+            finalTask.cancel()
+        }
+        let finalResult = try await finalTask.value
+        watchdog.cancel()
         let finalSnapshot = await plugin.snapshot()
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In `@TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests.swift` around lines 1147 - 1165,
Update the finalTask wait in the streaming handler test to use a bounded timeout
so stalled finish/transcription progress fails the test directly instead of
hanging. Add deferred cleanup that calls handler.stop(), preserving the existing
releaseFirstCall and successful result assertions.
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Inline comments:
In `@TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests.swift`:
- Around line 144-168: Update the mock’s supportsStreaming property to false,
unless it is intended to test streaming behavior; in that case, implement the
streaming transcription overload explicitly instead of relying on the default
onProgress delegation. Keep the existing batch transcribe implementation
unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@TypeWhisperTests/StreamingHandlerTests.swift`:
- Around line 1147-1165: Update the finalTask wait in the streaming handler test
to use a bounded timeout so stalled finish/transcription progress fails the test
directly instead of hanging. Add deferred cleanup that calls handler.stop(),
preserving the existing releaseFirstCall and successful result assertions.
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SeoFood merged commit 33309af into main Aug 20, 2026
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