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feat(engine): Never hold the window, and a test that long commands stop when cancelled (#1562) - #1670
Part of #1562 (PR 2 of 3): the rule, and a test that long commands stop when cancelled.
The rule
A new section in AGENTS.md, Never hold the window, as agreed in #1562. On the desktop, a
command whose work grows with its input (features, cells, tiles, files, requests):
runs off the UI thread through an existing background path (gp::tool_start, exports::runs_in_background, workflows::runs_in_background, or the copy in workflows::ahead_on_copy with ON_A_COPY);
looks at Cancel in its long loops and counts its progress. A busy indicator without a count is
fine where progress can't be measured; Cancel is not optional;
A command that must stay on the UI thread says why in its doc comment. CONTRIBUTING.md asks a
feature proposal how such work runs. The browser stays out of scope, as agreed.
The test
Setting Cancel before a run proves nothing: run_under returns "cancelled" before the work
starts, and again after it ends, whether the work looked or not. So the test uses a small hook in analysis::control:
Control::cancelled_once_started(): run_under cancels it just after its own pre-start check,
so only the work's own checks can stop it.
Control::looked(): how often the work consulted the flag (control::cancelled/check/Pace
and the data writers' progress::check). It is counted for such a control only, so ordinary
runs pay nothing.
long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run runs each of these with that control and fails
any run that isn't cancelled or never looked:
all 12 commands that make a raster in the background (workflows::IN_BACKGROUND);
all 4 background exports (exports::IN_BACKGROUND). The test's lists must equal both
registries, so a new background command fails it until it is added;
six long tools run as the Analysis pane runs them: Buffer, Dissolve, Spatial Join, Clip,
Kernel Density and Kriging, each with parameters checked by an ordinary run first.
There is no timing: the control is cancelled before the first item, so a run that looks stops at
once.
What it found
All 16 background commands already stop. Dissolve, Clip and Spatial Join never looked at
Cancel, so a Cancel during them waited for the whole run:
Clip: its masks and its features now check Cancel and count progress, one by one.
Spatial Join: checks and counts per target feature.
Dissolve: checks while it makes its groups, and per group while merging. Merging one group is
a single union that can't be stopped once started; with no field that is the whole layer. The
doc comment says so. Splitting the union would change the output.
Passing the test shows the work looks at Cancel, not that it looks often. AGENTS.md says that a
long step without a check is named in its doc comment.
Also
A data-cube trend starts no more threads than it has parts. This was the last review point on #1662, pushed after it merged (threads = cells.div_ceil(part)).
Locally: fmt, clippy, layers and the wasm build pass. The tests pass except two that fail on main on this machine too (filegdb::…when_gdal_is_installed, source::…damaged_shapefiles…)
and two that are timing-dependent under full load and pass on their own
(permission_policy_real_plugin_approval_and_changed_first_card, tools_join_the_geoprocessing_tools).
Next
PR 3: the two known gaps from #1562, raster.spectral with a zone and GeoLibre steps in models and
scripts.
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New Features
Long-running geoprocessing operations now report progress and respond to cancellation while processing. Individual unions or overlays may not be interruptible once underway.
Documentation
Added guidance on keeping data-intensive desktop work off the UI thread, reporting progress, supporting cancellation, and coordinating parallel work.
Updated the contribution checklist to ask how proposed data-intensive work handles progress and cancellation.
…op when cancelled (opengeos#1562 PR 2)
AGENTS.md gets the rule agreed in opengeos#1562: on the desktop, a command whose work grows with its
input runs off the UI thread through an existing background path, looks at Cancel in its long
loops and counts its progress, splits independent work over the shared thread count where
practical, and a command that must stay on the UI thread says why. CONTRIBUTING.md asks a
proposal how such work runs.
The test cancels each background command as its work starts and fails one that never looks:
- analysis::control: Control::cancelled_once_started (cancelled by run_under past its check
before the work) and Control::looked (the work's own looks, counted for such a control only).
- long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run covers the 12 commands that make a raster in
the background and the 4 background exports (its lists must equal both registries), and six
long tools: Buffer, Dissolve, Spatial Join, Clip, Kernel Density and Kriging.
It found three tools that never looked: Dissolve, Clip and Spatial Join now check Cancel and count
progress feature by feature (Clip's masks too). Dissolve's merge of one group is one union that
can't be stopped once started; its doc comment says so.
Also: a data-cube trend starts no more threads than it has parts (left over from opengeos#1662).
The pull request adds cancellation-check tracking and cancellation and progress checks in analysis tools. It documents background-work expectations, exposes existing background command registries within the engine crate, and adds native cancellation coverage for registered commands and selected tools.
Changes: Cancellation and background work
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Cancellation control and runner crates/analysis/src/control.rs, crates/analysis/src/lib.rs
Control adds a start-cancelled test mode and counts cancellation checks. run_under activates the mode before invoking work, and cancellation probes use the counted check.
Analysis-tool cancellation and progress crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
Clip, Dissolve, and Spatial Join add cancellation checks and progress reporting during processing. The documentation describes which individual unions or overlays cannot be interrupted once started.
Background-command guidance and cancellation coverage AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, crates/engine/src/cmd/{cube,exports,workflows}.rs, crates/engine/src/tests.rs
Guidance describes background execution, progress, and cancellation for input-scaled desktop work. The engine exposes existing command registries within the crate, limits TrendRun desktop workers to available cell parts, and adds native cancellation coverage for background commands and selected tools.
Tracking: analysis tools on several cores #1252: The pull request adds cancellation and progress checks to Clip, Spatial Join, and Dissolve, adjusts TrendRun’s desktop worker count, and documents parallel-work constraints.
Suggested reviewers:giswqs, mavrick-f
Merge Risk: Low · up to 25b96
Cancellation responsiveness improves, but large joins and dissolve groups can still remain busy after Cancel. Mergeable with awareness of these bounded limitations and follow-up work.
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A rabbit checks the progress bar, Then hops where long loops waiting are. “Cancel,” it says, “is close at hand,” While unions run as work is planned. It nibbles notes, then bounds away, With checks between each busy day.
Scope: 9 files, read against the diff, the base-branch AGENTS.md, and the surrounding source. I did not compile or run the tests, so the test-suite claims below rest on reading the code. No prior review threads exist on this PR, so none were left alone. No inline comments were posted because nothing reached the bar of a bug, crash path, silent loss or broken AGENTS.md rule.
Bugs
None found. I checked run_under ordering (begin(0), then cancel_if_started, then the work), the Clip mask and row loops, Dissolve grouping and merge, Spatial Join, the cube threads recount (cells == 0 gives an empty spawn range, and the main thread still runs take()), and the cancel error path through tool_complete. The test's note logic matches what the tool path returns. Confidence: high.
Security
None found. The change adds no input parsing, file access or network use. Confidence: high.
Performance
The new per-item control::check() in Clip, Dissolve and Spatial Join also calls check_still, which runs the request's continuation check (epoch, storage identity and scope checks) on every feature or target. This is likely small next to the geometry work, but I did not measure it. Existing Pace throttling exists for cheap per-item loops. Confidence: low (about 25%).
long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run runs each of the six tools to completion with gp.run before the cancelled run, so the heavy tools do their full work twice in CI. This is a test-time cost, not a product issue. Confidence: medium.
Quality
tests.rs, note: e.contains("cancelled") accepts any error that contains that word, so a stop for another reason would count if looked > 0. Matching "was cancelled" would be tighter, but I have not verified every export and raster error string. Confidence: medium.
tools.rs, dissolve doc: the new "Dissolve: Cancel is looked at…" sentence continues the existing paragraph with no break, so it reads run-on. Nit.
control.rs, looked_at: the name reads like a query but increments a counter. Nit.
control.rs, Control::looked doc: the parenthetical "(not those of whoever runs it, before and after)" is hard to parse. Nit.
These are nits for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
The new "Never hold the window" section names helpers that exist and are reachable: gp::tool_start, exports::runs_in_background, workflows::runs_in_background, workflows::ahead_on_copy, ON_A_COPY, rustgis_data::threads, memory::thread_scratch, progress::check, and the parallel helpers. The CONTRIBUTING anchor #never-hold-the-window matches the heading. No "Never crash" or "Never silent" violations in the changed non-test code. Confidence: high.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 0fd8302 to PR head 315a9b3).
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Around line 1587-1593: Update the `clip` function’s doc comment to state that
mask union via `union_all` is a single uninterruptible step with no cancellation
check, so cancellation may be delayed until it completes. Do not change the
union or cancellation behavior.
- Around line 5727-5728: Add cancellation checks within the per-target
candidate-processing and merging loops, including distance searches and
merge-rule evaluation, rather than only once before each target’s work. Preserve
the existing cancellation propagation so Spatial Join stops promptly when Cancel
is requested.
- Around line 2195-2196: Update the Dissolve group-building flow to count
progress as each selected feature is processed, using the existing progress
mechanism; once grouping is complete, retain the
`crate::control::begin(groups.len())` count for the subsequent group-union
phase.
- Around line 5726-5728: Add cancellation checks and item-progress updates to
both Spatial Join preparation stages: feature conversion and index construction.
Use the existing control progress and cancellation mechanisms, following the
target_rows loop’s begin/check pattern, and ensure each stage reports progress
as items are processed.
- Around line 1607-1608: Add a separate progress count for the selected masks
using the existing control progress mechanism before the mask-union loop, so
mask preparation reports its work independently of the input_rows count.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Line 35326: The current test does not verify Clip’s cancellation behavior; add
a synchronized mid-processing cancellation test that triggers cancellation
during the input-feature loop and confirms Clip stops before processing the
remaining features. Ensure the test distinguishes early termination from work
that completes before `run_under` returns its cancellation error.
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crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/cube.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/exports.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/workflows.rs
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Bugs
No new bugs found. I checked the clip, dissolve and spatial_join loops, the run_under cancel-at-start path, and the cube.rs thread-count change. cells.div_ceil(part) gives 5 for 10 cells on 8 threads, and it gives 0 without a panic when cells is 0. Confidence: high.
Security
None found.
Performance
None significant. The per-item check() and reached() calls are thread-local and cheap next to the geometry work. Confidence: high.
Quality
crates/engine/src/cmd/cube.rs:770: let threads = cells.div_ceil(part); shadows the threads from line 767 and changes its meaning. Renaming it or adding a short note would make the change easier to follow. Nit, confidence: high.
crates/analysis/src/control.rs:90: Control::cancelled_once_started is pub but only tests use it. pub(crate) would keep the public API smaller. Nit, confidence: medium.
crates/engine/src/tests.rs, the note closure: it treats any error containing "cancelled" as stopped. Matching the exact message from run_under would be stricter. Nit, confidence: medium.
AGENTS.md
Erase and the overlay family don't look at Cancel or count progress.erase (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:1674) and overlay (tools.rs:1887, serving Intersect, Union, Identity and Symmetrical Difference) loop over every input feature with cut/outside, and neither calls control::check() or begin/reached. Cancel waits for the whole run, which the new "Never hold the window" rule forbids. The Clip fix in this PR is the pattern to copy. The inline comment on this line could not be posted because the line is not part of the PR diff. Confidence: high that the checks are missing. Medium on whether they belong in this PR, since the code predates it.
The tool list in the new test is hand-picked (crates/engine/src/tests.rs:35434). The raster and export lists are checked against their registries, but the tools list is not, so the overlay family can be missed without a failure. Posted inline. Confidence: medium.
Checks that passed: the IN_BACKGROUND lists match the test lists exactly, the doc references (parallel::for_each_row, try_map, try_map_on, memory::thread_scratch, rustgis_data::threads, workflows::ahead_on_copy, ON_A_COPY) all exist, the anchor AGENTS.md#never-hold-the-window resolves, and no unwrap or panic was added to non-test code.
Prior review threads
I left 6 earlier concerns alone. Five were already addressed in 25b9660 (Clip masks, Dissolve groups, Spatial Join preparation, Clip's doc comment, and the per-target check, which the author declined and the reviewer accepted). The sixth, a Clip mid-loop cancellation test, was answered by the author and deferred to the release quality pass.
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Around line 5692-5693: Add cancellation checks inside Spatial Join candidate
processing and one-to-many output creation, not only at the start of each
target. Ensure cancellation stops scanning matches and emitting rows promptly,
while preserving the existing `crate::control::check()` and
`crate::control::reached(done)` behavior.
- Around line 2175-2176: Make the Dissolve statistics phase cancellation-aware
by checking cancellation during long record scans and any interruptible sorting
or aggregation work, rather than only at the existing `crate::control::check()`
point. Preserve propagation of cancellation through the current error path and
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Part of #1562 (PR 2 of 3): the rule, and a test that long commands stop when cancelled.
The rule
A new section in
AGENTS.md, Never hold the window, as agreed in #1562. On the desktop, acommand whose work grows with its input (features, cells, tiles, files, requests):
gp::tool_start,exports::runs_in_background,workflows::runs_in_background, or the copy inworkflows::ahead_on_copywithON_A_COPY);fine where progress can't be measured; Cancel is not optional;
bit-for-bit the same output, one thread below a threshold and in the browser, the shared
helpers, the thread count from
rustgis_data::threads, scratch withinthread_scratch, andspawn_scopedso a refused thread costs speed, not the run.A command that must stay on the UI thread says why in its doc comment.
CONTRIBUTING.mdasks afeature proposal how such work runs. The browser stays out of scope, as agreed.
The test
Setting Cancel before a run proves nothing:
run_underreturns "cancelled" before the workstarts, and again after it ends, whether the work looked or not. So the test uses a small hook in
analysis::control:Control::cancelled_once_started():run_undercancels it just after its own pre-start check,so only the work's own checks can stop it.
Control::looked(): how often the work consulted the flag (control::cancelled/check/Paceand the data writers'
progress::check). It is counted for such a control only, so ordinaryruns pay nothing.
long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_runruns each of these with that control and failsany run that isn't cancelled or never looked:
workflows::IN_BACKGROUND);exports::IN_BACKGROUND). The test's lists must equal bothregistries, so a new background command fails it until it is added;
Kernel Density and Kriging, each with parameters checked by an ordinary run first.
There is no timing: the control is cancelled before the first item, so a run that looks stops at
once.
What it found
All 16 background commands already stop. Dissolve, Clip and Spatial Join never looked at
Cancel, so a Cancel during them waited for the whole run:
a single union that can't be stopped once started; with no field that is the whole layer. The
doc comment says so. Splitting the union would change the output.
Passing the test shows the work looks at Cancel, not that it looks often.
AGENTS.mdsays that along step without a check is named in its doc comment.
Also
A data-cube trend starts no more threads than it has parts. This was the last review point on
#1662, pushed after it merged (
threads = cells.div_ceil(part)).Tests
analysis:a_control_cancelled_once_started_counts_the_works_looks.engine:long_commands_stop_when_cancelled_while_they_run.mainon this machine too (filegdb::…when_gdal_is_installed,source::…damaged_shapefiles…)and two that are timing-dependent under full load and pass on their own
(
permission_policy_real_plugin_approval_and_changed_first_card,tools_join_the_geoprocessing_tools).Next
PR 3: the two known gaps from #1562,
raster.spectralwith a zone and GeoLibre steps in models andscripts.
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