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WLANHandler.write subtracts the requested chunk length from remaining, even when socket.send accepts fewer bytes. A 10-byte payload accepted three bytes at a time therefore returns after sending only three bytes. Count the bytes actually accepted, and keep sending the remainder.

Also raise ConnectionError when recv returns EOF or send returns zero. Reads previously looped indefinitely after peer disconnection, and zero-byte writes returned an incomplete transfer as if it had completed. Both methods document the exception.

Adds hardware-independent regression coverage for small and multi-chunk partial sends, EOF before/during a read, zero-byte sends, empty transfers, and both directions of a real socket-pair transfer. This addresses separate cases from the chunk-slicing correction in #246.

Validation on Windows/Python 3.13:

  • 25 tests pass (tests/test_wlan.py and tests/test_pico_scpi_transport.py); five new cases fail before the fix.
  • Black, Flake8, Bandit and pydocstyle pass for the changed source (Black/Flake8/pydocstyle also checked the new tests).
  • Wheel build succeeds. Sphinx HTML builds with 35 warnings in existing documentation/imports; not a warning-free build.
  • Physical PSLab integration tests were not run; no device is connected.

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Summary by Sourcery

Ensure WLAN transfers correctly handle partial progress and disconnected sockets.

Bug Fixes:

  • Handle partial socket sends by continuing until the complete payload is transferred.
  • Raise ConnectionError when reads encounter EOF or writes accept zero bytes instead of silently completing incomplete transfers.

Enhancements:

  • Document connection-closure errors for WLAN reads and writes.

Tests:

  • Add hardware-independent coverage for partial transfers, closed connections, zero-length operations, and bidirectional socket-pair transfers.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • WLAN reads now report a connection error if the connection closes before all requested data arrives, rather than treating an incomplete read as successful.
    • WLAN writes now correctly account for partial sends and report a connection error if the connection stops accepting data, preventing incomplete transfers from being reported as complete.

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Corrects WLANHandler transfer accounting for partial socket sends and raises ConnectionError on EOF or zero-byte sends, with mock- and socket-pair-based regression tests covering normal, empty, partial, and disconnected transfers.

Sequence diagram for partial WLAN write handling

sequenceDiagram
    participant Caller
    participant WLANHandler
    participant Socket

    Caller->>WLANHandler: write(data)
    loop while bytes remain
        WLANHandler->>Socket: send(chunk)
        Socket-->>WLANHandler: count
        WLANHandler->>WLANHandler: update sent and remaining by count
    end
    WLANHandler-->>Caller: return sent
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Sequence diagram for WLAN connection closure during transfer

sequenceDiagram
    participant Caller
    participant WLANHandler
    participant Socket

    alt read encounters EOF
        Caller->>WLANHandler: read(numbytes)
        WLANHandler->>Socket: recv(requested bytes)
        Socket-->>WLANHandler: empty bytes
        WLANHandler-->>Caller: raise ConnectionError
    else write encounters zero-byte send
        Caller->>WLANHandler: write(data)
        WLANHandler->>Socket: send(chunk)
        Socket-->>WLANHandler: 0
        WLANHandler-->>Caller: raise ConnectionError
    end
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Make WLAN reads and writes detect closed connections and fail instead of hanging or reporting incomplete transfers as successful.
  • Raise ConnectionError when recv returns EOF before the requested byte count.
  • Raise ConnectionError when send returns zero bytes.
  • Document the new failure behavior in both method docstrings.
pslab/connection/wlan.py
Track the number of bytes actually accepted by each socket send so partial transfers continue until complete.
  • Subtract the socket-reported byte count rather than the requested chunk length.
  • Preserve correct behavior for empty transfers and chunks larger than the socket’s accepted partial size.
pslab/connection/wlan.py
Add hardware-independent regression coverage for transfer completion and connection-closure handling.
  • Test partial sends for small and multi-chunk payloads.
  • Test EOF during reads, zero-byte sends, empty transfers, and bidirectional socket-pair communication.
tests/test_wlan.py

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WLANHandler now raises ConnectionError when a read reaches EOF before receiving the requested bytes or when a socket send returns zero. Writes track progress by the number of bytes sent. Tests cover partial sends, EOF, connected sockets, and zero-length operations.

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WLAN transfer handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Socket transfer completion and errors
pslab/connection/wlan.py, tests/test_wlan.py
Reads raise ConnectionError on premature EOF. Writes raise ConnectionError on zero-byte sends and track the bytes actually sent. Tests cover partial sends, EOF, socket-pair transfers, and zero-length operations.

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No remaining issue was identified that should delay merging the WLAN transfer change.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bd690

The change improves transfer completion and failure reporting without showing a new access path or weaker boundary. Recovery after a partially completed command remains a consideration, and device behavior has not been validated on physical hardware.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A connected peer can end a read early, but the resulting failure remains within the existing configured WLAN connection; no expanded peer reachability is shown.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Connection setup closes its socket when the version query fails, including when the changed read raises; direct transfer methods do not themselves close the socket on failure.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — After a failed direct write, a caller cannot infer a safe resume offset from the exception. No repository-local retry policy establishes that such a command will be replayed.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define caller recovery for failed direct transfers, including when to discard the connection and how to avoid blindly replaying a possibly accepted command prefix.
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