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shelfmark/tests
splitsec2 88f73e3bc3 fix(download): do not cancel a queued torrent as stalled (#1420)
qBittorrent only runs a few downloads at once (`max_active_downloads`
defaults to 3) and holds the rest as `queuedDL`. Shelfmark's stall timer
cancels a download after five minutes without a changed status or
progress. A queued torrent reports "Queued" on every poll, so it looks
idle, and Shelfmark cancels a download that was only waiting for a slot.

I run Shelfmark against the same qBittorrent that Sonarr, Radarr and
Lidarr use, which I assume is a common setup. Their torrents and
Shelfmark's share one limit, so anything that fills the slots makes
Shelfmark's torrent wait. In my case three torrents that never fetched
metadata held every slot. I'd expect a busy Sonarr queue to hold them
the same way, but I haven't reproduced that. Once the stall timer had
cancelled the waiting downloads they stayed in the client, still queued
behind the same blockers. On my instance 10 AudioBookBay downloads were
cancelled while qBittorrent still had them queued.

This changes the torrent poll loop. When the client reports a queued
torrent, it asks for an activity grace (the mechanism `html_get_page`
already uses for protection bypasses) and releases it as soon as the
torrent leaves the queue. The grace is renewed every ten minutes and
stops at two hours, so a queue that never moves still ends. A torrent
that is downloading and moving is timed as before until the new window
below applies.

The second commit sets the stall message before the cancel runs. The
terminal hook copies the message into the history row, and it was set
afterwards, so a download the timer ended was recorded with the last
poll's "Queued". That left no way to tell it apart from a person
cancelling.

The last two commits are about slow torrents. The timer only counts a
change in progress, so a torrent that needs more than five minutes to
fetch metadata or find its first peer is cancelled before it has any
progress to count, and one that moves a few megabytes at a time can be
cancelled between bursts. I hit this with a torrent that had a single
peer. A torrent now gets one 15 minute window the first time it is seen
outside the queue, and each step forward in progress renews it. One that
makes no progress for 15 minutes is still cancelled, so a dead torrent
now takes about 15 minutes to end instead of five. That trade is the
part I'm least sure about, so the number is easy to change.

Tests cover the grace being requested once, released when the torrent
starts, renewed, and capped, the order of the message and the cancel,
and the start and movement windows. The full suite passes, and I broke
each rule on purpose to check a test catches it.

The two hour ceiling is a guess. If you'd rather have a setting for it,
or a different number, I'm happy to change it.
2026-10-02 22:12:25 -04:00
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Test Suite

This directory contains the test suite for Shelfmark. Tests are organized by scope and component.

Quick Start

# Sync the local Python environment once
make install-python-dev

# Run all unit tests locally (fast, no external dependencies)
uv run pytest tests/ -v -m "not integration and not e2e"

# Run all Python static analysis (lint, format, typecheck, dead code)
make python-checks

# Run E2E API tests against a running app stack
uv run pytest tests/e2e/ -v -m e2e

# Run everything except integration tests locally
uv run pytest tests/ -v -m "not integration"

Test Structure

tests/
├── config/                 # Settings & configuration tests
│   ├── test_docker_volumes.py          # Docker volume mapping
│   ├── test_environment.py             # Environment variable handling
│   ├── test_mirror_settings_live_apply.py  # Mirror settings live reload
│   ├── test_mirror_settings_options.py # Mirror settings options
│   ├── test_security.py               # Security settings
│   └── test_oidc_settings.py          # OIDC settings fields & show_when conditions
│
├── core/                   # Core application logic tests
│   ├── test_admin_users_api.py         # Admin user CRUD API endpoints
│   ├── test_booklore_multiuser.py      # BookLore per-user override merging
│   ├── test_builtin_multiuser.py       # Builtin auth multi-user migration
│   ├── test_download_processing.py     # Download file processing
│   ├── test_hardlink.py               # Hardlink/copy operations
│   ├── test_library_processing.py      # Library file processing
│   ├── test_manual_query.py           # Manual search query handling
│   ├── test_mirrors_config.py         # Mirror configuration
│   ├── test_naming.py                 # File naming templates
│   ├── test_oidc_auth.py             # OIDC auth helpers (group claims, user provisioning)
│   ├── test_oidc_integration.py       # OIDC integration into auth system (logic mirror)
│   ├── test_oidc_routes.py           # OIDC Flask route handlers
│   ├── test_part_number_extraction.py  # Part number extraction
│   ├── test_per_user_downloads.py     # Per-user download queue filtering
│   ├── test_permission_handling.py    # File permission handling
│   ├── test_processing_integration.py  # Processing integration
│   ├── test_search_plan.py           # Search plan logic
│   ├── test_user_db.py               # UserDB CRUD operations
│   └── test_user_template_variable.py  # {User} template variable in naming
│
├── e2e/                    # End-to-end API tests
│   ├── conftest.py         # Fixtures (APIClient, DownloadTracker)
│   ├── test_api.py         # Core API endpoint tests
│   ├── test_download_flow.py   # Full download journey tests
│   └── test_prowlarr_flow.py   # Prowlarr-specific tests
│
├── prowlarr/               # Prowlarr plugin tests
│   ├── conftest.py         # Shared fixtures
│   ├── test_clients.py     # DownloadClient base, registry, DownloadStatus
│   ├── test_qbittorrent_client.py  # qBittorrent client unit tests
│   ├── test_transmission_client.py # Transmission client unit tests
│   ├── test_nzbget_client.py       # NZBGet client unit tests
│   ├── test_sabnzbd_client.py      # SABnzbd client unit tests
│   ├── test_handler.py     # ProwlarrHandler unit tests
│   ├── test_torrent_utils.py   # Bencode, hash extraction, URL parsing
│   ├── test_bencode.py     # Bencode encoding/decoding
│   ├── test_source.py      # Release source (size parsing, format detection)
│   ├── test_cache.py       # Release cache
│   ├── test_integration_clients.py  # Integration tests (require Docker stack)
│   └── test_integration_handler.py  # Handler integration tests
│
└── README.md               # This file

Test Types

Unit Tests

Fast tests that mock external dependencies. Run these frequently during development.

uv run pytest tests/prowlarr/ -v -m "not integration"

What they test:

  • Download client logic (status mapping, URL handling, error cases)
  • Bencode encoding/decoding for torrent files
  • Hash extraction from magnet links and .torrent files
  • Protocol detection (torrent vs usenet)
  • Release cache operations
  • Handler download flow logic
  • User database (CRUD, settings, OIDC subject linking)
  • OIDC authentication (group claims, user provisioning, route handlers)
  • Admin user management API (create, update, delete, password, per-user settings)
  • Multi-user download queue filtering and per-user overrides
  • Settings configuration (OIDC fields, show_when conditions)

E2E Tests

Test the full application through its HTTP API. Require the app to be running.

uv run pytest tests/e2e/ -v -m e2e

What they test:

  • Health check endpoint
  • Configuration endpoint
  • Metadata provider search (Hardcover, etc.)
  • Release source listing
  • Download queue operations (add, cancel, reorder, clear)
  • Settings API
  • Prowlarr integration

Integration Tests

Test against real services (qBittorrent, Transmission, etc.). Require the full Docker test stack.

# Start the test stack first
docker compose -f docker-compose.test-clients.yml up -d

# Run integration tests
docker compose -f docker-compose.test-clients.yml exec shelfmark uv run pytest tests/prowlarr/ -v -m integration

What they test:

  • Real connections to download clients
  • Adding/removing actual torrents
  • Status polling from real clients

Test Markers

Marker Description When to Skip
integration Requires running services (qBittorrent, etc.) Default skip with -m "not integration"
e2e End-to-end API tests When app isn't running
slow Tests that take longer (network calls, polling) Quick feedback with -m "not slow"

Common Commands

# Run specific test file
uv run pytest tests/prowlarr/test_clients.py -v

# Run specific test class
uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_api.py::TestHealthEndpoint -v

# Run specific test
uv run pytest tests/e2e/test_api.py::TestHealthEndpoint::test_health_returns_ok -v

# Run with short traceback (cleaner output)
uv run pytest tests/ -v --tb=short -m "not integration"

# Run and stop on first failure
uv run pytest tests/ -v -x -m "not integration"

# Run with coverage (if pytest-cov installed)
uv run pytest tests/ --cov=shelfmark -m "not integration"

Writing New Tests

Unit Test Example

from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch


class TestMyFeature:
    def test_something(self, monkeypatch):
        # Mock config values
        monkeypatch.setattr(
            "shelfmark.module.config.get",
            lambda key, default="": {"KEY": "value"}.get(key, default),
        )

        # Test your code
        result = my_function()
        assert result == expected

E2E Test Example

import pytest
from .conftest import APIClient, DownloadTracker


@pytest.mark.e2e
class TestMyEndpoint:
    def test_endpoint_works(self, protected_api_client: APIClient):
        resp = protected_api_client.get("/api/my-endpoint")
        assert resp.status_code == 200

    def test_with_cleanup(
        self,
        protected_api_client: APIClient,
        download_tracker: DownloadTracker,
    ):
        # Track IDs for automatic cleanup after test
        download_tracker.track("some-id")
        # ... test code ...

Test Fixtures

E2E Fixtures (tests/e2e/conftest.py)

Fixture Scope Description
api_client function Fresh HTTP client for general E2E calls
protected_api_client function Authenticated client for protected-route E2Es
download_tracker function Tracks downloads for cleanup
server_config session Cached server configuration

Prowlarr Fixtures (tests/prowlarr/conftest.py)

Fixture Scope Description
transmission_client module Real Transmission client (integration)
qbittorrent_client module Real qBittorrent client (integration)
deluge_client module Real Deluge client (integration)
nzbget_client module Real NZBGet client (integration)
sabnzbd_client module Real SABnzbd client (integration)

Expected Skips

Some tests skip when external services aren't available. This is normal:

  • "No metadata providers available" - Metadata provider not responding
  • "Prowlarr not configured" - Prowlarr settings not set up
  • "No releases found" - No indexers configured in Prowlarr
  • "Legacy search source unavailable" - Direct download source offline
  • "Transmission/qBittorrent not available" - Docker test stack not running

Troubleshooting

Tests can't connect to app

# Check the app/container is running
docker ps

# Check app logs
docker logs <your-shelfmark-container>

Import errors

# Sync the local Python environment first
uv sync --locked --extra browser

# Then run tests from the repo root
uv run pytest ...

Integration tests failing

# Make sure test stack is running
docker compose -f docker-compose.test-clients.yml up -d

# Check client containers
docker ps | grep -E "qbittorrent|transmission|deluge|nzbget|sabnzbd"

Stale test data

Restart the container to reset the in-memory queue between test runs:

docker restart <your-shelfmark-container>