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Summary

Every HTTP module request carried a flat 5-second NSURLRequest timeout. Dev servers transform cold modules on demand, and real toolchain responses have been measured at 5–9s — so valid fetches expired mid-transform. A timed-out dependency fetch left the module unregistered, its subtree stayed undiscovered by the graph walk, and instantiation fell back to the blocking synchronous loader (the module graph walk missed warnings), in the worst cases stalling the JS thread for minutes.

  • One timeout policy, one place. ModuleFetchTimeoutInterval() reads RuntimeConfig.IsDebug: 30s in debug runtimes, the original 5s in release. It now backs the synchronous NSURLConnection fetch, every async NSURLSession request, and the async session's own default — whose stale 10s never actually applied, since each request overrode it to 5s.
  • Retries bounded by the graph budget. Two 30s attempts plus the retry delay can outlast the 60s pumped graph wait, so the enclosing load's deadline (AsyncGraphLoad.fetchDeadline) is plumbed into each async attempt: requests clamp timeoutInterval to the time remaining, the 120ms transport retry fires only while budget is left, and no request is issued that could only complete past the deadline. The sync-fallback path — the post-deadline recovery mechanism — keeps its existing single retry.
  • Unpumped loads (dynamic import() of an HTTP root) pass a zero deadline and keep unbounded fetches; nothing there waits on the 60s budget.

Diagnostics are unchanged: the graph-miss warning still fires, and 404 / MIME / syntax / transport failures keep their existing messages.

Test plan

  • New ModuleTestServer routes: delayed /esm/slow/* transform routes and a /esm/request-stats.json introspection route so specs can prove a module was fetched exactly once (no retry, no sync-fallback round trip).
  • New specs in HttpEsmLoaderTests (build-aware via the debug-only canonicalizeHttpUrlKey export):
    • a 7s-delayed module resolves inside the debug budget on its first request (rejects in release);
    • a slow HTTP parent re-exporting a child resolves with one request per module;
    • a pumped require() through a local→HTTP re-export boundary waits for a 7s leaf.
  • Existing network timeouts spec updated to wait out the debug budget (delayMs 32000 vs the former 12000).
  • Full TestRunner suite on CI.

Local validation status: both modified translation units pass clang -fsyntax-only; build-for-testing of the TestRunner scheme succeeds. A local on-device run could not validate further in this environment: the local Xcode is newer than CI's pinned toolchain, so the app needed local-only build overrides, and the resulting TestRunner app crashes at startup identically on pristine main (uncaught exception in RunMainScript) — a host-environment issue that predates this change. The timeout policy itself was additionally verified earlier against the published runtime via an effective-request-override experiment on a real dev session (delayed 5–9s responses stopped timing out; graph misses disappeared).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • HTTP module graph loads now share a time budget, preventing individual requests from exceeding the remaining time and skipping transport retries when there isn’t enough time left.
    • Request timeouts are 5 seconds in release builds and 30 seconds in debug builds, with the same timeout policy applied to synchronous and asynchronous requests.
    • Pumped require() calls use the same time budget for waiting, fetching modules, and retries.

Every module request carried a flat 5s timeout. Dev servers transform
cold modules on demand and real responses have been measured at 5-9s, so
valid fetches expired mid-transform: the async walk left the dependency
unregistered, its subtree stayed undiscovered, and instantiation fell
back to the blocking synchronous loader ("module graph walk missed").

The timeout is now selected once, from RuntimeConfig.IsDebug, and shared
by the synchronous fetch, each async attempt, and the async session
default (whose stale 10s never applied to requests anyway): 30s in debug
runtimes, the original 5s in release.

To keep fetch behavior coherent with the pumped wait, the enclosing
graph load's deadline now bounds each async attempt — request timeouts
clamp to the time remaining and the transport-error retry fires only
while budget is left, so a fetch can never outlive the 60s wait pumping
for it. Unpumped (dynamic-import) loads keep unbounded fetches.

Regression coverage: new ModuleTestServer slow-transform routes plus a
request-count introspection route let specs prove a delayed module
resolves on a single request — a direct import(), an HTTP re-export
chain, and a pumped require() through a local->HTTP boundary. The
network-timeout spec now waits out the debug budget.
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Module graph loads pass an optional absolute fetch deadline to HTTP module requests. Attempts use build-dependent request timeouts, clamp them to the remaining budget, and limit transport retries. Tests cover delayed responses, re-export chains, pumped require() calls, and request counts.

Changes: Module fetch budget

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graph deadline propagation
NativeScript/runtime/HttpLoader.h, NativeScript/runtime/ModuleInternalCallbacks.*
StartModuleGraphLoad and FetchModuleBodyAsync accept a fetch deadline. Pumped graph loads pass their wait deadline; dynamic HTTP imports pass 0, which means unbounded.
HTTP attempt budgeting
NativeScript/runtime/HttpLoader.mm
Module requests use a 30-second timeout in debug runtimes and a 5-second timeout otherwise. Async attempts cap request timeouts to the remaining budget and skip transport retries when the retry delay does not fit.
Delayed-response coverage
TestRunner/app/tests/HttpEsmLoaderTests.js, TestRunner/app/tests/esm/mixed/*, TestRunnerTests/TestRunnerTests.swift
Tests cover delayed direct imports, re-export chains, and pumped require() calls. The test server serves delayed module responses and reports request counts.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PumpedRequire as Pumped require()
  participant GraphLoader as Module graph loader
  participant HttpLoader as HTTP module loader
  participant TestServer as Module test server
  PumpedRequire->>GraphLoader: Start graph load with wait deadline
  GraphLoader->>HttpLoader: Fetch module with graph deadline
  HttpLoader->>TestServer: Send request with remaining-time timeout
  TestServer-->>HttpLoader: Return module response
  HttpLoader-->>GraphLoader: Complete module fetch
  GraphLoader-->>PumpedRequire: Complete graph load
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 0266a

Debug HTTP module fetches get a 30-second budget, and pumped graph loads clamp request timeouts to the remaining wait time. A very slow trickling response can still outlive the wait and cause a duplicate fallback request. This behavior predates the change, so no merge-blocking risk remains.

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The title names the main change: debug HTTP module fetches get a 30-second request budget. The changeset sets module fetch timeouts to 30 seconds in debug and 5 seconds in release, and it also adds deadline-based clamping for pumped graph loads. The title covers the primary timeout change but not the deadline plumbing, which is expected for a short title. The title follows the conventional commit style and is specific.

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- Around line 85-86: Add the `/esm/slow/req-leaf.mjs` path to the slow-transform
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@aleclarson please address the code rabbit comment and this should be good to go

The pumped require() spec imports /esm/slow/req-leaf.mjs, which the
route condition missed and answered 404 text/plain. Prefix-match the
slow routes so every /esm/slow/* path gets the delayed module body.

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