ConnectionClosedEvent for API consumers

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What does this implement/fix?

Adds a dedicated event for when the API connection has closed.

The ESPHome device can begin an OTA update, be rebooted, or fall off the network. When serialx is passed an API connection object directly we cannot attach a callback to on_stop and thus cannot be notified when the API connection is no longer valid (unless we perform an outgoing operation, which some workloads do not do often).

Types of changes

• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Code quality improvements to existing code or addition of tests
• Other

Related issue or feature (if applicable):

• fixes

Pull request in esphome (if applicable):

• esphome/esphome#

Checklist:

• The code change is tested and works locally.
• If api.proto was modified, a linked pull request has been made to esphome with the same changes.
• Tests have been added to verify that the new code works (under tests/ folder).

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PR Review — ConnectionClosedEvent for API consumers

Well-scoped, well-tested addition — merge-ready with a few non-blocking nits.

Specific things done right:

• The firing point is correct. Hooking APIClient._on_stop means callbacks only fire for connections that actually reached CONNECTED — APIConnection._cleanup gates on_stop on was_connected (connection.py:443), which is precisely the contract the docstring promises and the not_called_for_failed_connect test pins.
• The ordering comment earns its place. Firing before _create_background_task(on_stop(...)) matters because create_eager_task starts the coroutine synchronously, so reconnect machinery would otherwise observe the close first. That's a genuinely non-obvious invariant and exactly the kind of why the repo's comment bar asks for.
• Callback isolation is right. Iterating a .copy() plus per-callback try/except means one bad subscriber can't abort the others or leak an exception back into _cleanup — which is except * in the .pxd, so a raise there would propagate into the frame-helper/read path.
• Cython bookkeeping is complete. _connection_closed_callbacks added to both __slots__ and client_base.pxd as cdef public list; KEEP_ALIVE_FREQUENCY (newly imported by tests) is not cdef-typed, so it stays Python-importable under the compiled build. CodSpeed shows no movement on 56 benchmarks.
• Test coverage is genuinely broad for a feature like this: multi-subscriber, unsubscribe, self-unsubscribe-during-dispatch, raising callback, device-supplied reason, unknown reason, ping timeout, survives-reconnect, and not-fired-on-failed-connect.

One thing worth calling out for the description: the PR also adds a public APIClient.is_connected property and a public APIConnection.fatal_exception property, neither of which the description mentions. Both are tightly coupled to the feature (the docstring tells consumers to check is_connected), so this is a note rather than a complaint.

Nits, none blocking:

• _remove_connection_closed_callback uses list.remove() → ValueError on double-unsub, whereas the sibling add_message_callback unsub uses idempotent set.discard.
• The reason field comment says "only set when the device requested the disconnect", but it is always set — UNSPECIFIED is the no-reason case, None is the unknown-reason case.
• Nothing guards model.DisconnectReason against drift from api_pb2.DisconnectReason; a future firmware reason silently degrades to None. A one-line set-equality test would catch it.
• ConnectionClosedEvent uses a bare @dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True) instead of the file's _frozen_dataclass_decorator alias.
• _on_stop builds the event from self._connection rather than the connection that stopped; I could not find a reachable divergence, but threading the connection through the partial would make it structurally impossible.

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🟢 Suggestions

1. Unsubscribe raises `ValueError` on double-call, unlike the existing callback-removal pattern
aioesphomeapi/client_base.py:466-469

_remove_connection_closed_callback uses list.remove(), which raises ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list if the returned unsub callable is invoked twice.

The established pattern in this codebase is idempotent — APIConnection.add_message_callback returns partial(self._remove_message_callback, ...) and that helper uses handlers.discard(on_message) (connection.py:965-971), which is a no-op on a second call.

Why it matters: consumers that defensively call unsub in both a normal teardown path and an error/cleanup path (a common shape in Home Assistant-style code) will get an exception out of a cleanup routine instead of a no-op. Making it idempotent keeps the two public subscription APIs of this library behaving the same way.

Suggested fix — guard the removal:

def _remove_connection_closed_callback(
    self, callback: Callable[[ConnectionClosedEvent], None]
) -> None:
    if callback in self._connection_closed_callbacks:
        self._connection_closed_callbacks.remove(callback)

self._connection_closed_callbacks.remove(callback)

2. `reason` comment contradicts the field's actual behaviour
aioesphomeapi/model.py:119-121

The comment says "Only set when the device requested the disconnect", but reason is always populated: client.py passes DisconnectReason.convert(connection.disconnect_reason), and APIConnection.disconnect_reason is initialised to DISCONNECT_REASON_UNSPECIFIED (connection.py:379) and only overwritten by _handle_disconnect_request_internal.

So the three observable states are:

• UNSPECIFIED — no device-supplied reason (local close, ping timeout, socket drop, or a DisconnectRequest carrying reason 0)
• a known member — the device supplied a reason this client understands
• None — the device supplied a reason this client does not know

Why it matters: a consumer reading the comment could reasonably write if event.reason is not None: expecting that to mean "the device asked us to disconnect", which is wrong in exactly the common case. Rewording to describe the tri-state (as your two tests already pin) removes the trap.

# Only set when the device requested the disconnect. None for a reason this
# version of the client does not know about.
reason: DisconnectReason | None = DisconnectReason.UNSPECIFIED

3. No parity guard between `model.DisconnectReason` and the generated proto enum
aioesphomeapi/model.py:109-111

model.DisconnectReason hand-mirrors api_pb2.DisconnectReason. When firmware adds a new reason and api.proto / api_pb2.py are regenerated, nothing fails if this enum isn't updated — convert() just starts returning None for the new value and consumers silently lose the distinction.

This repo has repeatedly hit exactly this class of drift on proto-mirroring enums, and the tests here only pin the two currently-known values plus the synthetic 9999 unknown case.

A cheap guard, in the spirit of the existing enum-parity tests:

def test_disconnect_reason_matches_proto() -> None:
    assert {r.value for r in DisconnectReason} == set(DisconnectReasonPb.values())

That turns a future firmware addition into a failing test with an obvious fix, rather than a silent None.

class DisconnectReason(APIIntEnum):
    UNSPECIFIED = 0
    PROVISIONING_CLOSED = 1

4. Use `_frozen_dataclass_decorator` for consistency with the rest of model.py
aioesphomeapi/model.py:114

model.py defines _frozen_dataclass_decorator = partial(dataclass, frozen=True, slots=True) at line 13 and uses it for every dataclass in the file. The only bare @dataclass(...) is APIVersion at line 103, and that one is a deliberate exception because it needs order=True.

ConnectionClosedEvent passes exactly frozen=True, slots=True — i.e. the alias verbatim — so @_frozen_dataclass_decorator is the drop-in and keeps the file's single knob for these flags.

@dataclass(frozen=True, slots=True)
class ConnectionClosedEvent:

5. Event is built from `self._connection` rather than the connection that actually stopped
aioesphomeapi/client.py:325-328

_on_stop reads reason and error off whatever is currently in self._connection, not off the connection whose _cleanup() invoked this callback. The if connection is not None guard suggests you already considered that these can diverge.

Two consequences of the coupling:

• If self._connection is None when _on_stop fires, the close is silently not reported at all, even though APIConnection._cleanup only calls on_stop when was_connected was true (connection.py:443-445) — i.e. exactly the case this API promises to report.
• If self._connection had been replaced by a newer connection, the event would carry the new connection's state, and the pre-existing self._connection = None on line 326 would additionally tear down the live one.

I could not construct a confirmed reachable path to either — every _execute_connection_coro failure path routes through report_fatal_error → _cleanup before self._connection is cleared, so the two normally stay in lockstep. Treating this as a robustness suggestion rather than a bug.

The structural fix is to bind the connection into the callback at construction time, e.g. in start_resolve_host:

connection = APIConnection(...)
connection.on_stop = partial(self._on_stop, on_stop, connection)

so _on_stop reports on — and only clears — the connection that actually stopped. Alternatively, if the guard really is unreachable, dropping it makes the invariant explicit instead of silently swallowing the event.

connection = self._connection
self._connection = None
self._cached_device_info = None
if connection is not None:

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Checklist

• Callback exceptions isolated, don't break connection cleanup
• Cython .pxd updated for new attributes on Cythonized classes
• No cdef-typed constants imported from Python (ImportError trap)
• New public API re-exported via model.all
• Callback lifecycle: unsubscribe is safe and symmetric with existing APIs — suggestion ＃1
• Event state read from the correct connection object — suggestion ＃5
• Proto-mirroring enum protected against firmware drift — suggestion ＃4
• Comments/docstrings accurately describe behaviour — suggestion ＃2
• Consistent with file-local dataclass idiom — suggestion ＃3
• Edge cases tested (unknown reason, failed connect, reconnect, raising callback)
• No hardcoded secrets or unsafe operations
• No backward-incompatible changes to public API

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Silent Failure Analysis

🟡 **MEDIUM** — silent no-op on lost object identity
aioesphomeapi/client.py:322-336

Risk: _on_stop reads whatever is currently in self._connection instead of the connection that actually stopped, and _execute_connection_coro clears self._connection on any failure/cancellation — including one delivered after finish_connection already set CONNECTION_STATE_CONNECTED — so that orphaned-but-established connection's later close either fires nothing at all (guard sees None) or, if a reconnect already installed a new connection, fires an event carrying the new connection's disconnect_reason/fatal_exception while also nulling the live connection.

connection = self._connection
self._connection = None
if connection is not None:
    self._fire_connection_closed_callbacks(
        ConnectionClosedEvent(..., reason=DisconnectReason.convert(connection.disconnect_reason), error=connection.fatal_exception))

Fix: Bind the connection into the callback at construction time — partial(self._on_stop, on_stop, connection) in start_resolve_host — and have _on_stop use that argument for the event, only clearing self._connection when it is the same object.

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Automated review by Kōan (Claude) HEAD=3f9f84f 5 min 41s

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Pull request overview

Adds a consumer-facing “connection closed” event so callers can be notified when an established ESPHome API connection becomes invalid (e.g., reboot/OTA/network loss), even if they aren’t actively issuing API calls.

Changes:

• Introduces ConnectionClosedEvent (+ DisconnectReason) in the public model layer for callback payloads.
• Adds subscription/dispatch plumbing in APIClientBase and fires the event from APIClient when an established connection stops.
• Adds test coverage for callback dispatch behavior, unsubscribe behavior, device-reported disconnect reasons, and ping-timeout closes.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
tests/test_client.py	Adds tests validating connection-closed callback semantics and payload contents.
aioesphomeapi/model.py	Adds the public ConnectionClosedEvent dataclass and DisconnectReason enum.
aioesphomeapi/connection.py	Exposes the connection-ending exception via a new fatal_exception property.
aioesphomeapi/client.py	Fires ConnectionClosedEvent during _on_stop for established connections.
aioesphomeapi/client_base.py	Adds subscription list, registration API, and callback dispatch helper.
aioesphomeapi/client_base.pxd	Updates Cython declarations for the new _connection_closed_callbacks attribute.

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Walkthrough

Adds typed connection-closure events, persistent close callbacks, connection state reporting, fatal exception access, disconnect reason conversion, and tests for closure and callback behavior.

Changes

Connection closure reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Closure event and callback contract aioesphomeapi/model.py, aioesphomeapi/client_base.py, aioesphomeapi/client_base.pxd, aioesphomeapi/connection.py	Adds DisconnectReason and frozen ConnectionClosedEvent models. Adds persistent callback registration, callback dispatch isolation, is_connected, and fatal_exception.
Connection stop dispatch aioesphomeapi/client.py, tests/test_client.py	APIClient._on_stop emits closure events with expected-disconnect status, reason, and fatal error. Tests cover disconnect paths, callback lifecycle, reconnects, failures, and callback exceptions.

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This adds a dedicated connection-closed event for API consumers without any identified current-head merge-blocking risk; it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant APIConnection
  participant APIClient
  participant ConnectionClosedCallbacks
  APIConnection->>APIClient: connection stop with reason and fatal exception
  APIClient->>APIClient: clear active connection state
  APIClient->>ConnectionClosedCallbacks: dispatch ConnectionClosedEvent
  ConnectionClosedCallbacks-->>APIClient: callback completion

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Inline comments:
In `@aioesphomeapi/client_base.py`:
- Around line 535-538: Make connection-closed callback unsubscription
idempotent: update _remove_connection_closed_callback to remove the callback
only when it is registered, and document this no-op behavior in
add_connection_closed_callback. In tests/test_client.py lines 5714-5725, update
test_connection_closed_callback_unsubscribe to call unsub() a second time and
verify it does not raise.

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In `@aioesphomeapi/model.py`:
- Around line 108-113: Update the comment for ConnectionClosedEvent.reason to
state that DisconnectReason.UNSPECIFIED is used when no device reason exists,
including ping failures, while None represents an unknown reason value.

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