From be38fe6ac2f00831ef34e9b898ec03e34663b4d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Asger Geel Weirsoee <asger@weircon.dk>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:08:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(realtime): tolerate missing scoreboard channel layer

---
 realtime/broadcast.py | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 realtime/tests.py     | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/realtime/broadcast.py b/realtime/broadcast.py
index 95d1a5d..aa3d11a 100644
--- a/realtime/broadcast.py
+++ b/realtime/broadcast.py
@@ -1,20 +1,35 @@
 from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync
+from channels.exceptions import InvalidChannelLayerError
 from channels.layers import get_channel_layer
+from redis.exceptions import ConnectionError as RedisConnectionError
 
 
 async def broadcast_phase_event(session_code: str, event_type: str, payload: dict) -> None:
     """Send a phase event to all WebSocket clients connected to a game session."""
-    channel_layer = get_channel_layer()
+    try:
+        channel_layer = get_channel_layer()
+    except InvalidChannelLayerError:
+        return
+
+    if channel_layer is None:
+        return
+
     group_name = f"game_{session_code.upper()}"
-    await channel_layer.group_send(
-        group_name,
-        {
-            "type": "phase_event",
-            "payload": {"type": event_type, **payload},
-        },
-    )
+    try:
+        await channel_layer.group_send(
+            group_name,
+            {
+                "type": "phase_event",
+                "payload": {"type": event_type, **payload},
+            },
+        )
+    except (InvalidChannelLayerError, RedisConnectionError):
+        return
 
 
 def sync_broadcast_phase_event(session_code: str, event_type: str, payload: dict) -> None:
     """Sync wrapper for calling broadcast_phase_event from synchronous Django views."""
-    async_to_sync(broadcast_phase_event)(session_code, event_type, payload)
+    try:
+        async_to_sync(broadcast_phase_event)(session_code, event_type, payload)
+    except (InvalidChannelLayerError, RedisConnectionError):
+        return
diff --git a/realtime/tests.py b/realtime/tests.py
index 7ce503c..41229eb 100644
--- a/realtime/tests.py
+++ b/realtime/tests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,27 @@
-from django.test import TestCase
+from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
 
-# Create your tests here.
+from channels.exceptions import InvalidChannelLayerError
+from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+
+from realtime.broadcast import broadcast_phase_event, sync_broadcast_phase_event
+
+
+class BroadcastPhaseEventTests(SimpleTestCase):
+    @patch("realtime.broadcast.get_channel_layer", return_value=None)
+    async def test_broadcast_phase_event_noops_without_channel_layer(self, _mock_get_channel_layer):
+        await broadcast_phase_event("ABCD", "phase.scoreboard", {"phase": "scoreboard"})
+
+    @patch("realtime.broadcast.async_to_sync")
+    def test_sync_broadcast_phase_event_noops_when_channel_layer_is_unavailable(self, mock_async_to_sync):
+        mock_async_to_sync.return_value.side_effect = InvalidChannelLayerError("missing channel layer")
+
+        sync_broadcast_phase_event("ABCD", "phase.scoreboard", {"phase": "scoreboard"})
+
+    @patch("realtime.broadcast.async_to_sync")
+    def test_sync_broadcast_phase_event_still_broadcasts_when_channel_layer_exists(self, mock_async_to_sync):
+        sender = Mock()
+        mock_async_to_sync.return_value = sender
+
+        sync_broadcast_phase_event("ABCD", "phase.scoreboard", {"phase": "scoreboard"})
+
+        sender.assert_called_once_with("ABCD", "phase.scoreboard", {"phase": "scoreboard"})