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fix(tests): deliver http.request to the hand-driven SSE GET (#860) - #867
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CI has been unable to verify a merge since 04:32 on 2026-08-25. Four runs hung with no output and were killed at the six-hour ceiling. The cause is not a race. tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py drives the authenticated SSE GET by hand through the TestClient portal, and its receive() never delivered the initial http.request message. ASGI requires the server to send it before the app may respond, even for a bodyless GET. mcp 2.0.0 answered without waiting, so the omission was invisible. mcp 2.1.0 reads the request body to enforce max_request_body_size (SDK #3336), so the handler now blocks before http.response.start. The 10 second wait fails, the assertion raises, and TestClient.__exit__ then blocks forever draining a task group that still holds the wedged ASGI task. mcp is declared >=2.0.0 with no upper bound, so every run resolves the newest release at install time. 2.1.0 was published 2026-08-24 19:04 UTC. Every green run predates it; every hung run follows it. 0 hangs in 22 consecutive runs on 2.0.0, 4 hangs in 4 runs on 2.1.x. The boundary reproduces locally on the unmodified test: 2.0.0 passes in 1.06s, 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 hang. The server is not affected. Driven over a real socket rather than through a hand-written scope, 2.0.0 and 2.1.1 both answer the session GET with 200 and text/event-stream in under 10ms. No released version of Mnemosyne is affected, so the requirement stays unbounded: pinning would have hidden that the contract violation was ours. Three changes, one root cause and two guards: receive() delivers http.request once, then blocks. This is the fix. The ASGI call runs as a portal task whose future is cancelled in a finally block. Cancelling is a no-op once the task has finished, so the happy path is unchanged, but a stuck stream or any failing assertion in that block now reports instead of wedging teardown. The old code could only hang. pytest-timeout caps any single test at 300 seconds. The slowest test in the suite is 3.04s, so the cap has about a hundred times the headroom it needs, and the next surprise of this shape costs five minutes and names itself rather than six silent hours. Verified: tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py, 54 passed under both mcp 2.0.0 and mcp 2.1.1. Full tests/ run: 3351 passed, 36 skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe authenticated MCP SSE integration test now uses a portal-managed ASGI task, sends the initial ChangesMCP stream test reliability
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR restores reliable SSE test execution and prevents teardown hangs. It is mergeable with owner awareness that some task failures may still be reported indirectly and the test may not support non-asyncio backends without a small follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Test as Streamable HTTP test
participant Portal as AnyIO portal
participant ASGI as ASGI application
participant Session as MCP session
Test->>Portal: start authenticated GET task
Portal->>ASGI: send initial http.request
ASGI->>Session: establish SSE session
Test->>ASGI: send DELETE
ASGI->>Session: terminate session
ASGI-->>Test: return 404 for stale session
Test->>Portal: cancel task during cleanup
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In `@tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py`:
- Around line 588-608: Update the GET-stream assertions around get_started and
get_future so both failure paths call get_future.result() before reading
get_result or accepting completion; this must re-raise the underlying ASGI task
exception instead of causing a KeyError or treating an exceptional future as
successful. Preserve the existing successful status, content-type, DELETE, and
stream-closure assertions.
- Around line 559-570: Update the receive function’s long-lived wait after
delivering the request to use anyio.sleep_forever() instead of the asyncio.sleep
loop, and add the anyio import so the test remains backend-independent when
TestClient uses a non-asyncio backend.
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| async def receive(): | ||
| if not request_delivered.is_set(): | ||
| request_delivered.set() | ||
| return { | ||
| "type": "http.request", | ||
| "body": b"", | ||
| "more_body": False, | ||
| } | ||
| # The stream is long-lived: after the request is delivered | ||
| # there is nothing more to feed it, so block until cancelled. | ||
| while True: | ||
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In AnyIO, anyio.sleep_forever() is a convenience function defined as await anyio.sleep(math.inf) [1][2]. It pauses the execution of the current task indefinitely, making it an effective way to wait until the task is cancelled by a cancellation scope or task group [2][3]. When running on the asyncio backend, sleep_forever() behaves consistently with AnyIO's cancellation model: 1. Cancellation Mechanism: AnyIO provides "level" cancellation [4]. When a task is waiting on sleep_forever() and its containing cancel scope is cancelled, the task is interrupted immediately by the injection of a cancellation exception [4]. 2. Backend Integration: On the asyncio backend, AnyIO ensures that cancel scopes are properly enforced [5]. When a cancel scope is cancelled, the asyncio loop delivers the cancellation exception to tasks suspended within that scope [6]. Because sleep_forever() relies on the underlying asyncio.sleep() (or an equivalent waiting mechanism provided by the AnyIO backend), it acts as a yield point where the task is eligible to receive and process the cancellation exception [4]. 3. Exception Handling: When cancelled, the task will raise the cancellation exception (typically asyncio.CancelledError on the asyncio backend, which AnyIO maps to its standard cancellation exception) [7][5]. You can catch this exception if you need to perform cleanup, but it is standard practice to let it propagate so that the task group can finalize the cancellation [7]. In summary, sleep_forever() is fully compatible with AnyIO's cancellation semantics across backends, including asyncio. It does not "stall" the application; rather, it allows the task to remain suspended while remaining fully responsive to cancellation requests [2].
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- 1: https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/blob/master/src/anyio/_core/_eventloop.py
- 2: https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?featured_on=pythonbytes
- 3: https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html
- 4: https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/cancellation.html?highlight=shield
- 5: https://anyio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/versionhistory.html
- 6: https://github.com/agronholm/anyio/blob/5ba0d705/src/anyio/_backends/_asyncio.py
- 7: Re-raising a CancelledError after catching it in an ExceptionGroup confuses asyncio backend agronholm/anyio#634
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Use anyio.sleep_forever() in the portal task.
Add import anyio, then replace the asyncio.sleep loop. If TestClient selects a non-asyncio backend, asyncio.sleep can fail because no asyncio event loop is available.
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In `@tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py` around lines 559 - 570, Update the receive
function’s long-lived wait after delivering the request to use
anyio.sleep_forever() instead of the asyncio.sleep loop, and add the anyio
import so the test remains backend-independent when TestClient uses a
non-asyncio backend.
| try: | ||
| assert get_started.wait(10), ( | ||
| "authenticated GET stream never started" | ||
| ) | ||
| assert get_result["status"] == 200 | ||
| assert (get_result.get("content_type") or "").startswith( | ||
| "text/event-stream" | ||
| ) | ||
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| # DELETE terminates the session (SDK 2.0.0 answers 200 with a | ||
| # JSON body)... | ||
| deleted = client.delete( | ||
| "/mcp", headers={**headers, "Mcp-Session-Id": session_id} | ||
| ) | ||
| assert deleted.status_code == 200 | ||
| assert deleted.headers["content-type"].startswith( | ||
| "application/json" | ||
| ) | ||
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| concurrent.futures.wait([get_future], timeout=10) | ||
| assert get_future.done(), "GET stream did not close after DELETE" |
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Surface the ASGI task exception instead of a KeyError.
Two failure paths hide the real cause:
- Line 586 sets
get_startedwhen the task finishes withouthttp.response.start. Line 592 then raisesKeyError: 'status', not the ASGI exception. - Line 608 asserts only
get_future.done(). A task that ended with an exception satisfiesdone(), so the test continues and reports a later, unrelated failure.
Call get_future.result() on both paths. The portal future re-raises the ASGI exception, which is the diagnostic this PR exists to provide.
🔍 Proposed fix to report the underlying ASGI failure
try:
assert get_started.wait(10), (
"authenticated GET stream never started"
)
+ if get_future.done():
+ # Re-raises the ASGI exception, if any, instead of
+ # failing later with KeyError('status').
+ get_future.result()
assert get_result["status"] == 200
assert (get_result.get("content_type") or "").startswith(
"text/event-stream"
)
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concurrent.futures.wait([get_future], timeout=10)
assert get_future.done(), "GET stream did not close after DELETE"
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| try: | |
| assert get_started.wait(10), ( | |
| "authenticated GET stream never started" | |
| ) | |
| assert get_result["status"] == 200 | |
| assert (get_result.get("content_type") or "").startswith( | |
| "text/event-stream" | |
| ) | |
| # DELETE terminates the session (SDK 2.0.0 answers 200 with a | |
| # JSON body)... | |
| deleted = client.delete( | |
| "/mcp", headers={**headers, "Mcp-Session-Id": session_id} | |
| ) | |
| assert deleted.status_code == 200 | |
| assert deleted.headers["content-type"].startswith( | |
| "application/json" | |
| ) | |
| concurrent.futures.wait([get_future], timeout=10) | |
| assert get_future.done(), "GET stream did not close after DELETE" | |
| try: | |
| assert get_started.wait(10), ( | |
| "authenticated GET stream never started" | |
| ) | |
| if get_future.done(): | |
| # Re-raises the ASGI exception, if any, instead of | |
| # failing later with KeyError('status'). | |
| get_future.result() | |
| assert get_result["status"] == 200 | |
| assert (get_result.get("content_type") or "").startswith( | |
| "text/event-stream" | |
| ) | |
| # DELETE terminates the session (SDK 2.0.0 answers 200 with a | |
| # JSON body)... | |
| deleted = client.delete( | |
| "/mcp", headers={**headers, "Mcp-Session-Id": session_id} | |
| ) | |
| assert deleted.status_code == 200 | |
| assert deleted.headers["content-type"].startswith( | |
| "application/json" | |
| ) | |
| concurrent.futures.wait([get_future], timeout=10) | |
| assert get_future.done(), "GET stream did not close after DELETE" | |
| get_future.result() |
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In `@tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py` around lines 588 - 608, Update the
GET-stream assertions around get_started and get_future so both failure paths
call get_future.result() before reading get_result or accepting completion; this
must re-raise the underlying ASGI task exception instead of causing a KeyError
or treating an exceptional future as successful. Preserve the existing
successful status, content-type, DELETE, and stream-closure assertions.
…l-teardown fix(tests): deliver http.request to the hand-driven SSE GET (mnemosyne-oss#860)
Closes #860.
What happened
CI has been unable to verify a merge since 04:32 on 2026-08-25. Four runs hung with no output and were killed at the six-hour ceiling, taking #793, #858, #864 and a contributor's PR with them.
I called this an invisible race on #860. That was wrong, and I want to correct it plainly. It is deterministic, and the boundary is a dependency release.
The boundary
mcpis declared>=2.0.0with no upper bound, so every run resolves the newest release at install time.Every green run predates 2.1.0. Every hung run follows it. That is 0 hangs in 22 consecutive runs on 2.0.0, then 4 hangs in 4 runs on 2.1.x.
It reproduces locally on the unmodified test from
main:The mechanism
tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.pydrives the authenticated SSE GET by hand through the TestClient portal. Itsreceive()never delivered the initialhttp.requestmessage:ASGI requires the server to deliver
http.requestbefore the app may respond, even for a bodyless GET. mcp 2.0.0 answered without waiting for it, so the omission was invisible. mcp 2.1.0 reads the request body to enforcemax_request_body_size(SDK #3336), so the handler now blocks beforehttp.response.start. The 10 second wait fails, the assertion raises, andTestClient.__exit__then blocks forever draining a task group that still holds the wedged ASGI task. Six hours, no output.Instrumented under 2.1.1: task entered, zero
send()calls, released only by an explicit cancel. Withhttp.requestdelivered:http.response.start200text/event-stream, clean return, 1.00s.The server is not affected
This matters more than the CI story, because 4.0.0b1 ships
mcp>=2.0.0unbounded and anyone installing since yesterday evening gets 2.1.x. Driven over a real socket with uvicorn and httpx rather than through a hand-written scope:Identical. A real server always sends
http.request; only a hand-written scope can omit it. No released version of Mnemosyne is affected and no beta user needs to do anything.For the same reason the requirement stays unbounded. Pinning
mcp<2.1would have made CI green while leaving a genuine ASGI contract violation in our test, and would have hidden that the defect was ours.The changes
receive()delivershttp.requestonce, then blocks. This is the fix.The ASGI call runs as a portal task whose future is cancelled in a
finally.portal.callin a daemon thread could only ever hang, becauseTestClient.__exit__waits for the portal task group to drain and the daemon flag does not help a blocked main thread.start_task_soonreturns a future whose cancellation cancels the task's scope, verified directly: teardown returns in 0.24s. Cancelling is a no-op once the task has finished, so the happy path is unchanged, but a stuck stream or any failing assertion in that block now reports instead of wedging teardown. That second case was live on every mcp version and is the reason this guard is worth keeping.pytest-timeoutcaps any single test at 300 seconds. The slowest test in the suite is 3.04s, so the cap has roughly a hundred times the headroom it needs. The next surprise of this shape costs five minutes and names itself rather than six silent hours. Added to thetestanddevextras; CI already installs[...,test].Verification
tests/test_mcp_streamable_http.py: 54 passed under mcp 2.0.0 and under mcp 2.1.1tests/: 3351 passed, 36 skipped, slowest test 3.04sruff --select E9,F63,F7,F82tree-wide and--select F,RUF022on the changed file: cleanpyproject.tomledit does not disturb the buildTwo things this turned up, filed separately
__init__.py(thehermes plugins installentry point) gets imported as themnemosynepackage under pytest, shadowing the real one. Its own docstring names this hazard..githooks/pre-commitblocks any commit touchingpyproject.toml, because it greps staged files for the maintainer noreply address thatpyproject.tomllegitimately carries as authorship metadata onmain. This commit needed--no-verifyfor a diff that does not touch that line.On #749
Denis, this vindicates you further than the run history already did. Your test was green against every version of mcp that existed when you wrote it, and stayed green for eleven more runs. There was no teardown review that would have caught a dependency published four weeks later. The
receive()contract gap was latent from day one, and it was latent because the SDK let it be. Both of those are true and neither is a review miss.Summary
http.requestASGI message.pytest-timeout.mcp>=2.0.0unbounded. Server behavior remains unchanged.Mnemosyne impact