Found while self-reviewing phase 1. PersistentPublisher held the connect
handshake result on the instance, so a refused attempt left its reason code
behind for the next one. On retry the wait loop saw a non-None value straight
away and never waited for the new connection's CONNACK, which is wrong in both
directions:
* a healthy second connection was rejected using the first attempt's rc, and
* once a late callback had written a success rc, a subsequent connection that
never acknowledged could be accepted on that stale value, letting a publish
proceed on a socket that was not ready.
Both need an asynchronous CONNACK to reproduce, which is exactly how paho
delivers it; the earlier fake called the callback inline and hid it. The
handshake state is now a local the callback closes over, so it can only ever
describe the connection that produced it, and a client that fails the handshake
is torn down instead of leaked.
No production path is affected today: the CLI and shell helpers publish once
per process and use OneShotPublisher. The defect mattered because the phase 2a
engine is meant to build on this prototype, which is where a transient refusal
would have become a stuck publisher.
Also tightens PV-1 to check the bound tree against pytest's real basetemp
rather than sniffing for "pytest-" in the path.
Verified: the three new regressions fail against the previous implementation
(2 of 3, the third covers the healthy path) and pass against this one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UrDNJkHmm18uu7n7JwV5Qd