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Preview blocks now poll the displayed file's modtime every 2s (skipped while the window is hidden, and for directories) and reload when it changes. Unsaved edits are never overwritten, and a block's own save does not trigger a reload. Also fixes two cases where refresh showed stale content: - a block that had saved the file kept returning its cached saved content instead of the file on disk - PDF/image previews reused the same stream URL, so the browser kept serving the cached file (wavetermdev#1686) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughPreviewModel tracks the displayed file path and modification time. It reloads content after detecting an external change when there are no unsaved edits. PreviewView checks eligible previews every two seconds. Edit, markdown, and streaming preview refresh callbacks call the model’s reload method. StreamingPreview includes the refresh version in its stream URL when the version is greater than zero. Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A failed preview refresh can stop retrying while the displayed file remains stale. Correct both retry paths before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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- Around line 734-735: Update the reload flow in the code that sets
fileContentSaved and refreshVersion to also invalidate statFile, ensuring
specializedView and the file-size check use current metadata after a
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- Around line 728-729: Update the `watchedModTime` and `reloadFileContent` flow
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Addresses review feedback: - Only record the new modtime after the reload succeeds, so a failed read (e.g. file mid-write) is retried on the next poll, up to 3 times. - Re-run FileInfoCommand on reload (new fileInfoVersion atom), so a changed mimetype or size is picked up: the view switches type and the 10MB limit is applied to the current size. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Minor · Reset the retry count for each modification time. · preview-model.tsx:715-742
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReset the retry count for each modification time.
A failed reload keeps the old
watchedModTime. If the file changes again before three attempts complete, the new modification reuses the oldreloadFailuresvalue. A transient failure on that new modification can consume the remaining attempt and mark the modification as handled even though the reload failed.Suggested fix
// failed auto-reloads of the current modtime; retried on the next poll up to MaxAutoReloadRetries reloadFailures = 0; + reloadFailureModTime: number = null; ... this.watchedFilePath = fileInfo.path; this.reloadFailures = 0; + this.reloadFailureModTime = null; this.watchedModTime = loadedInfo?.path === fileInfo.path ? loadedInfo.modtime : fileInfo.modtime; ... if (globalStore.get(this.newFileContent) != null) { return; } + if (this.reloadFailureModTime !== fileInfo.modtime) { + this.reloadFailures = 0; + this.reloadFailureModTime = fileInfo.modtime; + } this.reloadFileContent(); ... } this.reloadFailures = 0; + this.reloadFailureModTime = null; this.watchedModTime = fileInfo.modtime;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Do not mark a streaming reload successful before the stream loads.
If the browser stream request fails, didReloadSucceed() still returns true for "streaming". checkForExternalChange() then records the new modification time, and later polls stop issuing new stream URLs. Keep the modification time eligible for retry until the streaming element reports a successful load.
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Review comment at @frontend/app/view/preview/preview-model.tsx around lines 753
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Update didReloadSucceed for the "streaming" specialized view so it reports
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I'd rather keep this as is. For streamed previews the retry wouldn't help much: for local files a failed load almost always means the file itself is invalid (retrying shows the same broken image again), and for PDFs the <iframe> fires load even on an HTTP error, so failure can't be detected reliably anyway. Wiring load/error events from the img/video/iframe elements back into the model would add complexity across several files for this edge case. The manual refresh button still works as a fallback. Happy to revisit if the maintainers prefer.
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@NGdev2, thanks for the guidance. An <iframe> load event does not reliably confirm a successful PDF load, so the proposed event wiring would not cover all streamed previews.
Keeping automatic streaming refresh best-effort, with manual refresh as a fallback, is a reasonable trade-off. Transient load failures remain a limitation, but I won't press for this change in this PR.
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Learning: In wavetermdev/waveterm, streamed previews in frontend/app/view/preview/preview-model.tsx and frontend/app/view/preview/preview-streaming.tsx intentionally use best-effort automatic refresh with manual refresh as a fallback. The author prefers not to add img/video/iframe load-result tracking across components solely for automatic retries. In particular, an iframe load event does not reliably confirm that a PDF HTTP request succeeded.
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Summary
File previews don't update when the file changes on disk. For example, with a file open in edit mode in one block and in view mode in another, saving in the editor doesn't update the view until you click the refresh button. The same happens for changes from external tools (git, builds, other editors). PDF/image previews stay cached even after a manual refresh.
This PR makes preview blocks refresh automatically when the displayed file changes. Fixes #1686.
(Discussed in #ideas on Discord before opening.)
Changes
All frontend-only, in
frontend/app/view/preview/:preview.tsx,preview-model.tsx): while a file is displayed, the preview polls its modtime via the existingFileInfoCommandevery 2s and reloads when it changes.newFileContentis left alone).preview-model.tsx): a block that had saved the file kept returning its cachedfileContentSavedinstead of the re-read file. The refresh button and auto-refresh now go through a sharedreloadFileContent()that clears it first.preview-streaming.tsx): the stream URL never changed, so the browser served the cached file. Arefreshquery param (ignored by the backend) is added after a refresh.Test plan
echo test >> README.md): both blocks updateprettier --checkpasses;tscreports no new errors🤖 Generated with Claude Code