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What does this PR do?

Fixes the dry-run banner ordering reported in #360: when a command failed local validation under --dry-run, the CLI printed [dry-run] sample response — not from the server to stderr before the validation error — the two messages contradict each other.

Root cause: the banner was emitted during API client construction (resolveHttpClientOptions in src/lib/client-factory.ts), while commands like test list only validate --project after the client is built.

Fix: createDryRunFetch now accepts an optional onFirstRequest callback, and the client factory wires emitDryRunBanner to it — the banner prints lazily on the first actual dry-run response instead of at construction time. The banner stays idempotent per process, and endpoint-URL validation still runs at construction, so a bad --endpoint-url under --dry-run still fails fast with no banner. Four dry-run branches that print canned responses without any fetch (test run, test rerun, test plan generate, test plan accept) now emit the banner explicitly, placed after each branch's own input validation.

Verified end-to-end (built from source):

  • test list --dry-run (no --project) → only the VALIDATION_ERROR (exit 5), no banner.
  • test list --dry-run --project <id> → banner prints once, then the canned sample.
  • test plan accept --dry-run --project <id> --only no_such_id → validation error (exit 5), no banner.

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Closes #360

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  • PR targets the main branch.
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  • npm test passes and coverage stays at or above the 80% gate.
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Notes for reviewers

The only user-visible behavior change: under --dry-run, the banner now appears when the first canned response is produced rather than when the client is constructed. For commands that validate after client construction, a validation failure no longer prints a misleading banner first. Successful dry-run output ordering is unchanged (banner still precedes the sample).

New tests:

  • src/commands/test.test.ts: test list --dry-run without --project rejects VALIDATION_ERROR/exit 5 with no banner (the exact [Hackathon] fix(cli): don't print the dry-run banner before local validation fails #360 repro); with --project the banner prints exactly once before the sample.
  • src/lib/client-factory.test.ts: constructing a dry-run client is silent; the banner appears after the first fetch.
  • src/lib/dry-run/fetch.test.ts: onFirstRequest fires exactly once, on the first request.

Note on npm test: 6 failures, all pre-existing "permission denied" environment artifacts (the suite runs as root here, where chmod is a no-op — same 6 documented on the unmodified repo). The touched areas pass fully.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Dry-run banners now appear only when a dry-run request is first processed, rather than when the client is initialized.
    • Successful dry-run commands display the banner exactly once, including run, batch-run, rerun, plan generation, and plan acceptance workflows.
    • Validation failures and commands that exit before making a request no longer display an unnecessary dry-run banner.

The dry-run banner fired during API client construction, so a command
that failed local validation afterwards (e.g. `test list --dry-run`
without --project) announced a 'sample response' before the error.

createDryRunFetch now accepts an optional onFirstRequest callback and the
client factory wires the banner to it, so the banner prints only when a
canned dry-run response is actually produced. Commands with their own
dry-run branches keep their direct emitDryRunBanner calls (idempotent
per process). Regression tests cover the issue repro and the happy path.
The dry-run banner fired during API client construction, so a command
that failed local validation afterwards (e.g. `test list --dry-run`
without --project) announced a 'sample response' before the error.

createDryRunFetch now accepts an optional onFirstRequest callback and the
client factory wires the banner to it, so the banner prints only when a
canned dry-run response is actually produced. Four dry-run branches that
print canned responses without any fetch (test run, test rerun, test plan
generate, test plan accept) now emit the banner explicitly, placed after
each branch's own input validation. Commands with their own dry-run
branches keep their direct emitDryRunBanner calls (idempotent per
process). Regression tests cover the issue repro and the happy path.
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Dry-run clients no longer emit the banner during construction. The banner emits after the first successful dry-run response or after validation in command branches that return canned output. Tests cover both paths.

Changes

Dry-run banner timing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lazy banner emission
src/lib/dry-run/fetch.ts, src/lib/client-factory.ts, src/lib/dry-run/fetch.test.ts, src/lib/client-factory.test.ts
withDryRunBannerOnce emits the banner once after the first successful response. The client factory applies it to default and injected fetch implementations. Tests verify construction silence, one-time emission, and rejection behavior.
Validated command output
src/commands/test.ts, src/commands/test.test.ts, src/commands/project.ts
Dry-run branches emit the banner before canned output. Plan acceptance emits it after --only validation. Tests verify that missing --project emits no banner and that a valid list emits one banner. The project command comment is clarified without changing runtime behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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Invalid rerun filters can appear to succeed, and a missing sample can still print the banner. These should be fixed, but their impact is limited to dry-run output.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: delaying dry-run banner emission until the first dry-run response.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #360 requires no dry-run banner before local validation fails. The client factory now validates the dry-run endpoint and wraps the fetch instead of emitting the banner during construction. `with…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes stay within issue #360. Source changes defer banner emission, preserve endpoint validation, support fetch-free canned responses, and add focused tests. The project.ts comment documents t…
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Issue #360 requires no dry-run banner before local validation fails. The client factory now validates the dry-run endpoint and wraps the fetch instead of emitting the banner during construction. withDryRunBannerOnce emits the banner once after a response returns. Fetch-free dry-run branches emit the banner after their validation. The added tests cover the reported test list failure, successful output, injected fetch behavior, and one-time emission.

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The changes stay within issue #360. Source changes defer banner emission, preserve endpoint validation, support fetch-free canned responses, and add focused tests. The project.ts comment documents the same banner behavior. No unrelated change is established by the reviewed diff.

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Comment thread src/commands/test.ts
// The client no longer emits the banner at construction (it is lazy on
// the first dry-run response); this branch prints a canned envelope
// without any fetch, so emit it explicitly.
emitDryRunBanner(stderrFn);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate --status before emitting the rerun banner.

If a user runs test rerun --all --project p --status not_a_status --dry-run, this branch prints the banner and a canned success response, then exits 0. validateStatusFilter runs only in the later real-request branch. Validate statusFilter before this dry-run branch so the invalid flag exits 5 without a banner. As per path instructions, “invalid flags or fields … are validation errors with exit 5.”

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Review comment at @src/commands/test.ts at line 12472:
Validate statusFilter with validateStatusFilter before entering the dry-run
branch that calls emitDryRunBanner, ensuring invalid --status values exit with
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Per maintainer scope update on TestSprite#360: print the banner the first time a
dry-run request actually returns a canned sample, for every command at
once, instead of the reorder-per-command approach.

createDryRunFetch is back to its plain signature; new withDryRunBannerOnce
wraps whichever fetch the client factory uses (default canned fetch or an
injected test fetch) and fires the banner callback exactly once, after the
first returned response. A rejected fetch produces no banner. The banner
stays at most once per run via the existing per-process idempotency, so it
never duplicates a command's own emitDryRunBanner call. Fetch-level tests
live in src/lib/dry-run/fetch.test.ts.

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if (!fired) {
fired = true;
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Emit the banner only for a successful sample response.

If findSample finds no match, createDryRunFetch returns HTTP 500. This wrapper still emits a banner that says a sample response was produced. Check res.ok before setting fired, so a later successful response can emit the banner. The PR objective calls for emission on the first successful dry-run response.

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--- "a/src/lib/dry-run/fetch.ts"
+++ "b/src/lib/dry-run/fetch.ts"
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@
   let fired = false;
   return async (input, init) => {
     const res = await fetch(input, init);
-    if (!fired) {
+    if (!fired && res.ok) {
       fired = true;
       onFirstResponse();
     }
     return res;
   };
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Thanks @Vinayak19112003, the lazy banner is the right fix. Two dry-run paths build the client, send no request, and now lose the banner: test plan put --dry-run --dry-run-simulate-error PRECONDITION_FAILED, and test code put --dry-run --dry-run-simulate-error PRECONDITION_FAILED with --force or --expected-version. Please call emitDryRunBanner in both branches before the simulated error and add a test for each. Then update the branch onto current main (v0.16.0 landed after your last CI run) and re-run the full suite. Also, the PR description says onFirstRequest; the code uses withDryRunBannerOnce.

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