feat: poll notifications from single tab (#9613)

* feat: useSharedExecutionFn composable

* feat: poll notifications only from single tab

* fix: allow propagate for stale lock acquire

* fix: avoid multiple resolve on timeout

* fix: release lock on timeout from any tab

packages/nc-gui/composables/useSharedExecutionFn.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+import { useStorage, useTimeoutFn } from '@vueuse/core'
+
+interface SharedExecutionOptions {
+  timeout?: number // Maximum time a lock can be held before it's considered stale - default 5000ms
+  storageDelay?: number // Delay before reading from storage to allow for changes to propagate - default 50ms
+  debug?: boolean // Enable or disable debug logging
+}
+
+const tabId = `tab-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 9)}`
+
+/**
+ * Creates a composable that ensures a function is executed only once across all tabs
+ * @param key Unique key to identify the function
+ * @param fn Function to be executed
+ * @param options Optional configuration (timeout, storageDelay)
+ * @returns A wrapped function that ensures single execution across tabs
+ */
+export function useSharedExecutionFn<T>(key: string, fn: () => Promise<T> | T, options: SharedExecutionOptions = {}) {
+  const { timeout = 5000, storageDelay = 50, debug = false } = options
+
+  const storageResultKey = `nc-shared-execution-${key}-result`
+  const storageLockKey = `nc-shared-execution-${key}-lock`
+  const storageResultState = useStorage<{
+    status?: 'success' | 'error'
+    result?: T
+    error?: any
+  }>(storageResultKey, {})
+
+  const debugLog = (...args: any[]) => {
+    if (debug) console.log(`[${tabId}]`, ...args)
+  }
+
+  debugLog(`Tab initialized with ID: ${tabId}`)
+
+  const getLock = (): { timestamp: number; tabId: string } | null => {
+    try {
+      return JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(storageLockKey) || 'null')
+    } catch (error) {
+      debugLog(`Error reading lock:`, error)
+      return null
+    }
+  }
+
+  const acquireLock = async (): Promise<boolean> => {
+    let currentLock = getLock()
+    const now = Date.now()
+
+    if (!currentLock) {
+      localStorage.setItem(storageLockKey, JSON.stringify({ timestamp: now, tabId }))
+
+      // Allow storage updates to propagate - which will determine strictness of lock
+      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, storageDelay))
+
+      currentLock = getLock()
+      if (currentLock?.tabId === tabId) {
+        debugLog(`Lock acquired successfully`)
+        return true
+      }
+
+      debugLog(`Lock acquired by ${currentLock?.tabId}`)
+      return false
+    }
+
+    const lockIsStale = now - currentLock.timestamp > timeout
+    if (lockIsStale) {
+      localStorage.setItem(storageLockKey, JSON.stringify({ timestamp: now, tabId }))
+
+      // Allow storage updates to propagate - which will determine strictness of lock
+      await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, storageDelay))
+
+      currentLock = getLock()
+      if (currentLock?.tabId === tabId) {
+        debugLog(`Stale lock acquired successfully`)
+        return true
+      }
+
+      debugLog(`Stale lock acquired by ${currentLock?.tabId}`)
+      return false
+    }
+
+    debugLog(`Lock is held by ${currentLock?.tabId}`)
+    return false
+  }
+
+  const releaseLock = (): void => {
+    const currentLock = getLock()
+    if (currentLock?.tabId === tabId) {
+      debugLog(`Releasing lock.`)
+      localStorage.removeItem(storageLockKey)
+    }
+  }
+
+  const sharedExecutionFn = async (): Promise<T> => {
+    debugLog(`sharedExecutionFn called`)
+
+    if (!(await acquireLock())) {
+      const currentLock = getLock()
+      return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+        let timedOut = false
+
+        const { start: startTimeout, stop: stopTimeout } = useTimeoutFn(
+          () => {
+            timedOut = true
+            localStorage.removeItem(storageLockKey)
+            reject(new Error(`Timeout waiting for result on key ${key}`))
+          },
+          currentLock?.timestamp ? timeout - (Date.now() - currentLock.timestamp) : timeout,
+        )
+
+        startTimeout()
+
+        if (storageResultState.value.status) {
+          storageResultState.value = { ...storageResultState.value, status: undefined }
+        }
+
+        until(() => storageResultState.value)
+          .toMatch((v) => v.status === 'success' || v.status === 'error')
+          .then((res) => {
+            if (timedOut) return
+
+            stopTimeout()
+            const { result, error } = res
+            result ? resolve(result) : reject(error)
+          })
+      })
+    }
+
+    try {
+      storageResultState.value = { ...storageResultState.value, status: undefined }
+      const result = await fn()
+      storageResultState.value = { status: 'success', result }
+      return result
+    } catch (error) {
+      storageResultState.value = { status: 'error', error }
+      throw error
+    } finally {
+      releaseLock()
+      debugLog(`Function execution completed (success or failure).`)
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Make sure to release lock on page unload
+  onBeforeMount(() => {
+    window.addEventListener('beforeunload', releaseLock)
+  })
+
+  // Remove listener on component unmount to avoid leaks
+  onBeforeUnmount(() => {
+    window.removeEventListener('beforeunload', releaseLock)
+  })
+
+  return sharedExecutionFn
+}

packages/nc-gui/store/notification.ts

@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import { defineStore } from 'pinia'
 import type { NotificationType } from 'nocodb-sdk'
 import axios, { type CancelTokenSource } from 'axios'
-import { CancelToken } from 'axios'
 import { useStorage } from '@vueuse/core'
 
+const CancelToken = axios.CancelToken
+
 export const useNotification = defineStore('notificationStore', () => {
   const isTokenRefreshInProgress = useStorage(TOKEN_REFRESH_PROGRESS_KEY, false)
 
@@ -27,16 +28,24 @@ export const useNotification = defineStore('notificationStore', () => {
 
   let cancelTokenSource: CancelTokenSource | null
 
+  const pollNotificationsApiCall = async () => {
+    // set up cancel token for polling to cancel when token changes/token is removed
+    cancelTokenSource = CancelToken.source()
+
+    return await api.notification.poll({
+      cancelToken: cancelTokenSource.token,
+    })
+  }
+
+  const sharedExecutionPollNotificationsApiCall = useSharedExecutionFn('notification', pollNotificationsApiCall, {
+    timeout: 30000,
+  })
+
   const pollNotifications = async () => {
     try {
       if (!token.value) return
 
-      // set up cancel token for polling to cancel when token changes/token is removed
+      const res = await sharedExecutionPollNotificationsApiCall()
-      cancelTokenSource = CancelToken.source()
-
-      const res = await api.notification.poll({
-        cancelToken: cancelTokenSource.token,
-      })
 
       if (res.status === 'success') {
         if (notificationTab.value === 'unread') {