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fix(auth): survive a startup 429 on /me and bind the OAuth listener before the browser opens - #506

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Two startup/login fixes.

  • Fixes Hard crash on startup: 429 on GET /v1/me/ not covered by existing rate-limit retry handling #504. With a cached login, startup verified the token with spotify.me() straight through rspotify: no pacing, no Retry-After retry, and every error that was not a 401 ended the process with Error: http error: status code 429 Too Many Requests before the UI existed. Relaunching only added more unpaced hits on a rate limit shared by everyone on the same client ID. The check now goes through the shared paced request path (spotify_get_typed_before_app: four attempts honoring Retry-After, the usual 401 forced-refresh recovery). If it still fails with anything other than a rejected token, boot logs a warning and keeps the cached token instead of quitting; the native-streaming account probe already re-asks /me with its own retries when the profile is missing.
  • Both Spotify login flows opened the browser before binding the OAuth callback listener on 127.0.0.1:8989, and open::that waits for the launcher to exit. On Hyprland (and any session xdg-open does not recognise) xdg-open runs the browser in the foreground, so with Firefox not already running the call did not return until the browser was closed: the listener never existed and the redirect got "Unable to connect". In the TUI the pump was stuck for the same time. The listener is now bound before the browser opens, and every browser launch (Spotify login, Qobuz login, the recap page) uses open::that_detached.

tools/gates.count: test_attribute_total 1800 -> 1802 for the two new classifier tests.

Testing

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check
  • cargo test --no-default-features --features telemetry,tui: 937 passed, 0 failed
  • cargo clippy -- -D warnings on the slim, headless (telemetry), headless-streaming (telemetry,streaming), and default feature sets, plus the all-sources set with audio-viz-cpal in place of audio-viz (PipeWire does not build on this machine)
  • tools/check_gates_ratchet.sh origin/main: ok
  • Live, Hard crash on startup: 429 on GET /v1/me/ not covered by existing rate-limit retry handling #504: the built binary hit the same rate limit on my machine and survived it:
    [19:14:46] Spotify API GET /v1/me -> 429 Too Many Requests (attempt 1/4, token age 1584s)
    [19:15:09] Spotify API GET /v1/me -> 429 Too Many Requests (attempt 2/4, token age 1607s)
    [19:15:11] running in cli mode with command: list      exit 0
    
  • Live, login: with Firefox closed, the in-app Spotify login now completes; before the change the redirect was refused.

Additional notes

  • Not verified here: open::that_detached on macOS and Windows. It runs the same launcher commands as open::that, spawned instead of waited on.
  • Left alone on purpose: in ensure_auth_token a refresh failure of any kind still deletes the token cache, so a 429 on the token endpoint would force a fresh login. Follow-up candidate.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Spotify startup now remains available during rate limits, outages, or network issues while retaining cached credentials when appropriate.
    • Temporary Spotify API errors no longer incorrectly invalidate valid cached tokens.
    • Spotify login no longer fails when the browser was not already running.
    • Spotify login callbacks are handled more reliably.
    • Browser launches for Spotify, Qobuz, and listening recaps no longer block the application.

…efore the browser opens

The boot-time /me check now runs through the paced, retrying request
path and a non-auth failure keeps the cached token instead of ending the
process. Both Spotify login flows bind the callback listener before the
browser opens, and every browser launch is detached so a launcher that
waits for the browser (xdg-open on Hyprland) cannot stall the login.

Fixes #504
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Startup Spotify token validation now uses the shared retry-aware request path. Token rejection remains distinct from temporary failures. Spotify OAuth binds its callback listener before opening a detached browser. Qobuz login and recap launches also use detached browser processes.

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Spotify authentication and browser launch flow

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Retry-aware startup token validation
src/infra/network/requests.rs, src/core/auth.rs, tools/gates.count, CHANGELOG.md
Startup /me validation now uses retry-aware requests. Only token-rejection errors clear the cache. Tests cover rate limits, network errors, 401 responses, invalid_grant, and 400 responses.
Pre-bound Spotify OAuth callback
src/infra/redirect_uri.rs, src/core/auth.rs, src/infra/network/mod.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Spotify login binds the callback listener before opening the detached browser, then serves the callback through the bound listener.
Detached Qobuz and recap launches
src/core/first_run.rs, src/infra/qobuz/dispatch.rs, src/infra/network/mod.rs, src/tui/handlers/recap_prompt.rs
Qobuz login and recap browser launches now use detached processes. Existing status and error handling remains unchanged.

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The change makes startup tolerant of Spotify rate limits and ensures OAuth callbacks are listening before detached browser launches; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant spotatui
  participant bind_callback_listener
  participant Browser
  participant serve_spotify_callback
  spotatui->>bind_callback_listener: Bind callback port
  bind_callback_listener-->>spotatui: Return listener
  spotatui->>Browser: Open Spotify authorize URL detached
  Browser->>serve_spotify_callback: Send OAuth redirect
  serve_spotify_callback-->>spotatui: Return callback code
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The PR satisfies issue #504. Cached-token /me verification now uses the retry-aware Spotify request path with Retry-After handling, and persistent non-authentication failures no longer terminate startup.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/core/auth.rs`:
- Line 407: Handle the result from bind_callback_listener immediately in the
authorization flow, routing bind failures to the manual-authentication path
before any call to open::that_detached; preserve the existing browser-launch
behavior for successful binds and add a regression test covering the failed-bind
path.

Apply the same fix in `@src/core/first_run.rs` at line 219: Covers both recap
launch key paths and failure-status behavior.

In `@src/infra/network/requests.rs`:
- Line 602: Replace the process-wide shared_forced_refresh_gate() in the request
retry flow with a gate scoped to the current client or token-cache path,
ensuring separate fallback candidates can independently force-refresh after
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initially receive a 401 and can refresh independently.

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…y browser launch

Review follow-up: the paced helper returns a typed SpotifyApiError so the
boot check decides on the HTTP status instead of scanning the body text,
the boot request uses its own forced-refresh gate so a fallback candidate
never inherits the previous one's cooldown, and the pre-TUI login only
opens the browser once the callback listener is bound.
The pre-TUI login falls back to manual authentication on that signal.
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