acquireLease occurred after release for environment ${enviro

Error message

acquireLease occurred after release for environment ${environmentId}

What it means

Test-helper assertion in assertLeaseLifecycle: the acquireLease event's timestamp is later than the release/destroy event's timestamp for the same environmentId. The recorded event stream violates the required acquire-before-release ordering, indicating the plugin (or the test clock/events) recorded events out of lifecycle order.

Source

Thrown at packages/plugins/sdk/src/testing.ts:275

  }
  if (matched.length !== expectedOrder.length) {
    throw new Error(
      `Environment event order mismatch.\nExpected: ${JSON.stringify(expectedOrder)}\nActual:   ${JSON.stringify(actual)}`,
    );
  }
}

/** Assert that a full lease lifecycle (acquire → release) occurred for an environment. */
export function assertLeaseLifecycle(
  events: EnvironmentEventRecord[],
  environmentId: string,
): { acquire: EnvironmentEventRecord; release: EnvironmentEventRecord } {
  const acquire = events.find((e) => e.type === "acquireLease" && e.environmentId === environmentId);
  const release = events.find((e) => (e.type === "releaseLease" || e.type === "destroyLease") && e.environmentId === environmentId);
  if (!acquire) throw new Error(`No acquireLease event found for environment ${environmentId}`);
  if (!release) throw new Error(`No releaseLease/destroyLease event found for environment ${environmentId}`);
  if (acquire.timestamp > release.timestamp) {
    throw new Error(`acquireLease occurred after release for environment ${environmentId}`);
  }
  return { acquire, release };
}

/** Assert that workspace realization occurred between lease acquire and release. */
export function assertWorkspaceRealizationLifecycle(
  events: EnvironmentEventRecord[],
  environmentId: string,
): EnvironmentEventRecord {
  const lifecycle = assertLeaseLifecycle(events, environmentId);
  const realize = events.find(
    (e) => e.type === "realizeWorkspace" && e.environmentId === environmentId,
  );
  if (!realize) throw new Error(`No realizeWorkspace event found for environment ${environmentId}`);
  if (realize.timestamp < lifecycle.acquire.timestamp) {
    throw new Error(`realizeWorkspace occurred before acquireLease for environment ${environmentId}`);
  }
  if (realize.timestamp > lifecycle.release.timestamp) {

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Solutions

Fix lifecycle ordering so acquireLease happens before release.

Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/plugins/sdk/src/testing.ts:275 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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