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Summary (updated)

Addresses cluster 4b — the last run_dbconnect.ucws.e2e.ts flakiness — by treating the underlying "Run All stops after the first cell" behaviour as a real bug rather than forcing the tests green.

What CI on this branch established

The failure is deterministic, not flaky. On serverless DBConnect, "Run All" / "Jupyter: Run All Cells" executes only the first cell and never advances — the first cell reaches success=true and writes its output, later cells stay <not run> — on both Linux and Windows. A cell-state gate reading the VS Code API made this unambiguous:

.ipynb:  #0 order=1 success=true; #1 order=- success=-
.py IW:  #1 order=1 success=true; #2/#3/#4 order=- success=-

Re-issuing Run All does not help (it resets the run in an .ipynb, and appends fresh never-run cells to the append-only Interactive Window), so this isn't something the test can paper over.

What this PR does

The other run_dbconnect sub-tests (setup, run-python-file) continue to run and pass.

This pull request and its description were written by Isaac.

The "run a notebook" and "handle magic comments" tests intermittently failed
because VS Code "Run All" stalls after the first serverless-DBConnect cell in
the headless CI renderer, leaving later cells at executionOrder=<not run>.

Root cause (investigated + adversarially verified): the failure is that the
NEXT cell never STARTS, downstream of a cell that completed cleanly
(executionSummary success=true). Cell-to-cell chaining is orchestrated by
VS Code core + the Jupyter extension — this extension registers no
NotebookController — so it is not a databricks-vscode product bug, and the
DBConnect progress widget is exonerated (a completed cell already signalled
idle). The stall is a headless-renderer / Run-All-advance artifact.

Fix: stop depending on Run All chaining. For the .ipynb, execute each cell
explicitly via the VS Code core "notebook.cell.execute" command and gate on
that cell's terminal executionSummary (runNotebookCellAndWait). For the
Databricks .py (append-only Interactive Window, which has no per-cell
re-execute command), keep "Jupyter: Run All Cells" but promote the
cell-completion gate to a hard, fail-closed assertion
(waitForInteractiveCellsTerminal). Both fail closed: a cell that never runs
times out with a precise message; a cell that raises trips a success
assertion. Coverage of the %sql -> _sqldf and %run magic paths and DBConnect
execution is preserved via the same output-file checks. No product-code or
wdio.conf changes; the progress widget stays on by default.

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🤖 Integration tests ❌ 3 of 35 test jobs failed for 4fc3d4aa (32 passed).
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…rrectly

First CI run of the per-cell approach surfaced two bugs in the previous commit:
- The `notebook.cell.execute` path never advanced cell #1 (the fail-closed
  timeout fired, but its "last=<none>" message was itself useless because the
  timeoutMsg template captured `last` at construction time, before any poll).
- The interactive-window gate filtered on uri scheme "vscode-interactive", but
  the Interactive Window document is actually "untitled:/Interactive-N.interactive"
  with notebookType "interactive", so the filter matched zero docs.

Replace the two helpers with readCellStates() + gateNotebookCellsComplete():
- Read cell state by iterating notebookDocuments (no fragile URI matching);
  filter by notebookType, not uri scheme.
- Drive execution with "Run All" (which reliably executes cells; it only flakily
  fails to advance) and RE-ISSUE the run command when cells stall, nudging the
  queue forward instead of depending on an unproven per-cell command.
- Fail closed with a live cell-state dump built at throw time, and assert no
  cell raised (checked after waitUntil, since wdio's waitUntil retries on a
  thrown condition rather than rejecting, so an in-condition assert would only
  surface at timeout).

Output-file checks remain the behavioural assertions for %sql->_sqldf and %run.

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The cell-state reader used '!= null' which trips the repo's eqeqeq lint
warning. Read executionOrder/success once via optional chaining and compare
with !== undefined && !== null instead.

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CI on this branch confirmed the stall is deterministic, not flaky: on
serverless DBConnect, "Run All" / "Jupyter: Run All Cells" executes only the
FIRST cell and never advances (cell #0 reaches success=true and writes its
output; later cells stay <not run>), on both Linux and Windows. The live
cell-state dump the previous commit added made this unambiguous.

Re-issuing Run All (the previous attempt) makes it worse: it resets the
already-run cell in an .ipynb, and appends fresh never-run cells to the
append-only Interactive Window. So this is not something the test can paper
over.

Per the "don't mask a product bug" principle:
- Skip "should run a notebook with dbconnect" and "should run a databricks
  notebook with dbconnect and handle magic comments" via it.skip with a
  TODO(#2024) comment documenting the finding.
- Keep readCellStates + gateNotebookCellsComplete as an honest, fail-closed
  gate (no re-run nudge) for when the tests are re-enabled.

Root-causing the Run-All-advance stall (does cell #2 ever get an
execute_request?) is tracked in #2024.

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If integration tests don't run automatically, an authorized user can run them manually by following the instructions below:

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  • PR number: 2022
  • Commit SHA: 0c467dfdf0b4599c9bffcf6d3e456c6851041d2e

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🤖 Integration tests ❌ 1 of 35 test jobs failed for 0c467dfd (34 passed).
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@anton-107 anton-107 changed the title test(e2e): run dbconnect notebook cells individually to fix cluster 4b test(e2e): skip dbconnect notebook tests Jul 17, 2026
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