Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Event stream intermittently blocks on reconnection

Open
  • Is something wrong?
#153 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

A pull request for this has already been merged.

  • #152 by @peterbroadhurst — merged

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend, networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing the long-lived web socket client's disconnect and reconnection sequence, then investigate why the event stream can remain blocked afterward. Done means the stream reliably unblocks after reconnection without requiring an ethconnect restart, with coverage for the intermittent failure if a test entry point is identified.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

When a long lived web socket client is used it is common for the connection to be lost and then re-established. While the connection is lost the event stream gets blocked. As soon as the client re-connects, the stream is unblocked. It has been observed however that every once in a while event streams remain blocked even after the client re-connects. So far the only work around that appear to take it out of that state is restarting ethconnect.

Dominant language
Go
Stars
76
Forks
31
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from hyperledger-firefly/ethconnect

All issues in hyperledger-firefly/ethconnect

Similar issues

More Go issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.