Auto-restart Yivi session on timeout

[rubenhensen]

Problem

When the Yivi QR popup times out (user doesn't scan within 2 minutes), the popup shows an error and the user has to close it and retry the entire operation (send or decrypt). This is a poor experience, especially if the user was simply distracted.

Expected Behavior

When a Yivi session times out or is cancelled, the popup should automatically start a new session and show a fresh QR code — no need to close and re-trigger the flow.

Note

This may be resolved automatically by #36 (switch to Yivi frontend packages). The @privacybydesign/yivi-core package handles session lifecycle including automatic restart on timeout. If #36 is implemented first, verify whether this is still needed.

Related

• Update Yivi QR codes to modern format #36 — Update Yivi QR codes to modern format (may solve this)

[dobby-coder]

/dobby fix — auto-restart the Yivi session when the QR popup times out, instead of leaving the user on a dead error screen.

I checked the premise in the issue ("#36 may resolve this"): it does not. package.json dependencies are @e4a/pg-js and libphonenumber-js only — no @privacybydesign/yivi-core — and src/pages/yivi-popup/init-flow.ts has no timeout or restart path. So this is still open.

Scope it to src/pages/yivi-popup/ (init-flow.ts, encrypt-popup.ts, decrypt-popup.ts, yivi-popup.ts). On session timeout or cancellation, start a new session and render a fresh QR rather than surfacing a terminal error. init-flow.ts already takes injectable deps including a scheduler, so the restart is testable without a real session — extend tests/crypto-popup.test.ts.

Do not touch src/background/encryption-flow.ts or src/pages/policy-editor/ — a sibling worker is on #51 in those files. Run npm test before opening the PR.

[dobby-coder]

Thanks for digging into this and confirming #36 doesn't actually cover it — I'm on it now. I'll scope the fix to src/pages/yivi-popup/ so that a timed-out or cancelled Yivi session auto-restarts with a fresh QR instead of dead-ending on an error screen, extend tests/crypto-popup.test.ts to cover it using the injectable scheduler in init-flow.ts, and leave src/background/encryption-flow.ts and src/pages/policy-editor/ untouched.

[dobby-coder]

Parked: this is dobby-initiated work coupled to @rubenhensen, who already has 4 dobby PRs waiting for review (budget: 3). I'm not opening another one until some of those merge or close — comment here to re-trigger dobby once there's room.