Listen on instance updates of a running prebuild

even if you are not the workspace owner.

Author: AlexTugarev

components/server/ee/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts

@@ -886,6 +886,30 @@ export class GitpodServerEEImpl extends GitpodServerImpl {
 
                     return;
                 }
+
+                // (AT) At this point we found a running/building prebuild, which might also include
+                // image build in current state.
+                //
+                // The owner's client connection is automatically registered to listen on instance updates.
+                // For the remaining client connections which would handle `createWorkspace` and end up here, it
+                // also would be reasonable to listen on the instance updates of a running prebuild, or image build.
+                //
+                const ws = await this.workspaceDb.trace(ctx).findById(workspaceID);
+                if (!!ws && !!wsi && ws.ownerId !== this.user?.id) {
+                    const resetListener = this.localMessageBroker.listenForWorkspaceInstanceUpdates(
+                        ws.ownerId,
+                        (ctx, instance) => {
+                            if (instance.id === wsi.id) {
+                                this.forwardInstanceUpdateToClient(ctx, instance);
+                                if (instance.status.phase === "stopped") {
+                                    resetListener.dispose();
+                                }
+                            }
+                        },
+                    );
+                    this.disposables.push(resetListener);
+                }
+
                 const result = makeResult(wsi.id);
 
                 const inSameCluster = wsi.region === this.config.installationShortname;

components/server/src/workspace/gitpod-server-impl.ts

@@ -276,20 +276,24 @@ export class GitpodServerImpl implements GitpodServerWithTracing, Disposable {
         //           to clients who might not otherwise have access to that information.
         this.disposables.push(
             this.localMessageBroker.listenForWorkspaceInstanceUpdates(this.user.id, (ctx, instance) =>
-                TraceContext.withSpan(
-                    "forwardInstanceUpdateToClient",
-                    (ctx) => {
-                        traceClientMetadata(ctx, this.clientMetadata);
-                        TraceContext.setJsonRPCMetadata(ctx, "onInstanceUpdate");
-
-                        this.client?.onInstanceUpdate(this.censorInstance(instance));
-                    },
-                    ctx,
-                ),
+                this.forwardInstanceUpdateToClient(ctx, instance),
             ),
         );
     }
 
+    protected forwardInstanceUpdateToClient(ctx: TraceContext, instance: WorkspaceInstance) {
+        TraceContext.withSpan(
+            "forwardInstanceUpdateToClient",
+            (ctx) => {
+                traceClientMetadata(ctx, this.clientMetadata);
+                TraceContext.setJsonRPCMetadata(ctx, "onInstanceUpdate");
+
+                this.client?.onInstanceUpdate(this.censorInstance(instance));
+            },
+            ctx,
+        );
+    }
+
     setClient(ctx: TraceContext, client: GitpodApiClient | undefined): void {
         throw new Error("Unsupported operation. Use initialize.");
     }