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Summary of Changes

Fixes #936

  • Guarded sendWhisperModelDownloadProgress against null, undefined, and destroyed webContents to prevent TypeError: Object has been destroyed uncaught exception popups when the window or application is closed during a model download.
  • Wrapped webContents.send in a protective try/catch to handle concurrent window destruction race conditions.
  • Added AbortSignal support to downloadFileWithProgress.
  • Attached a webContents.once("destroyed", ...) listener in downloadWhisperSmallModel to cleanly abort active HTTPS download streams and wipe temporary .download files when the initiating window is destroyed.
  • Added comprehensive unit tests in electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts.

Verification

All quality gates and tests pass:

  • npx vitest run electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts (6/6 tests passed)
  • npm test (all 125 test suites, 1115 tests passed)
  • npx tsc --noEmit (0 type errors)
  • npm run lint & npm run format:check (clean Biome checks across all 583 files)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Whisper model download reliability when the application window is closed or unavailable.
    • Prevented download progress updates from causing errors when a window is destroyed during downloading.
    • Added support for safely cancelling downloads that are interrupted or aborted.
    • Improved handling of download failures, timeouts, redirects, and incomplete transfers.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for download progress reporting, cancellation, redirects, timeouts, and request failures.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Whisper model downloads now handle redirects, request errors, timeouts, stream cleanup, and destroyed windows more safely. Tests cover these paths and progress reporting. JSDoc was added to the exported Whisper caption functions.

Changes

Whisper download error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Download settlement and stream cleanup
electron/ipc/captions/whisper.ts, electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts
Redirect handling settles the original request and destroys its response. Request errors and timeouts destroy the active file stream. Timeout handling reuses one error object and destroys the request.
Lifecycle coverage and API documentation
electron/ipc/captions/whisper.ts, electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts
Tests cover safe progress reporting, destroyed web contents, aborted downloads, redirects, request errors, and timeouts. JSDoc documents the Whisper caption functions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 67fc1

The window-closure download flow includes cancellation and cleanup handling, with coverage for the relevant failure paths. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary fix: guarding Electron webContents and aborting Whisper model downloads when the window closes.
Description check ✅ Passed The description explains the purpose, motivation, implementation, related issue, and verification results. It does not use every template heading or checklist item, but it provides the required inform…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR meets the coding objective in issue #936. sendWhisperModelDownloadProgress handles null, undefined, and destroyed webContents, and catches WebContents.send failures. Download cancellation…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #936. Abort-signal support, temporary-file cleanup, redirect and request error handling, documentation, and unit tests support safe download handling when the window cl…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files.
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In `@electron/ipc/captions/whisper.ts`:
- Around line 92-94: Update the redirect handling in the request/response flow
around cleanupSignal and redirectCount so the original request is marked as
handed off and its response lifecycle is stopped before starting the recursive
redirected request. Prevent later timeout or error events from rejecting the
outer promise after a valid redirect, and add a regression test covering an open
redirect response while the redirected request completes.
- Around line 158-162: Update the request error and timeout handlers around
req.on("error") and the corresponding timeout path to explicitly destroy
fileStream with the relevant error before or alongside rejecting. Preserve
cleanupSignal() and settled guarding, ensuring the output stream closes even
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🟡 Minor · Cover destruction during an in-flight model download. · whisper.test.ts:133-237

electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts:133-237
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Cover destruction during an in-flight model download. The current test starts with an already-destroyed WebContents, so it does not exercise webContents.once("destroyed", handleDestroyed). A regression that stops passing the AbortSignal to downloadFileWithProgress or skips temporary-file cleanup would still pass.

Keep the WebContents alive, hold the download pending, emit destroyed, and assert rejection, signal abortion, no post-destruction send, and removal of the temporary .download file.

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In `@electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts` around lines 133 - 237, Update the
in-flight model download test around downloadFileWithProgress to keep the
WebContents alive and leave the mocked download pending until destruction. Emit
the destroyed event, then assert rejection, AbortSignal abortion, no
post-destruction send, and removal of the temporary .download file; ensure the
test exercises webContents.once("destroyed", handleDestroyed) rather than
starting with an already-destroyed WebContents.
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In `@electron/ipc/captions/whisper.test.ts`:
- Around line 133-237: Update the in-flight model download test around
downloadFileWithProgress to keep the WebContents alive and leave the mocked
download pending until destruction. Emit the destroyed event, then assert
rejection, AbortSignal abortion, no post-destruction send, and removal of the
temporary .download file; ensure the test exercises
webContents.once("destroyed", handleDestroyed) rather than starting with an
already-destroyed WebContents.

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