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Summary

  • contain synchronous CQL, admin, and continuous-request setup failures
  • cover initial admission plus retry and reprepare callback paths
  • complete result stages, cancel reserved stream IDs and scheduled work, and return throttler permits exactly once
  • drain concurrency-throttler readiness callbacks iteratively

Fixes #980.

Scope

This PR is limited to setup-failure cleanup and the directly related throttler callback paths. It does not close every request-lifecycle gap:

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  • Java 11: mvn -pl core -DskipITs test
  • 3,944 core unit tests passed (1 skipped); 76 Reactive Streams TCK tests passed (24 skipped).

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CqlRequestHandler routes synchronous setup, retry, reprepare, and speculative execution failures through setFinalError. Throttler signaling now depends on admission. Continuous and admin handlers apply the same admission-aware cleanup. ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler drains reentrant readiness callbacks iteratively. Tests cover failure propagation, cancellation, timeout cleanup, delayed admission, and callback draining.

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The change contains request-setup failures and cleans up throttling state across retry and reprepare paths. It is mergeable with owner awareness because reprepare coverage does not currently detect whether a rejected nested handler emits an extra throttler error signal.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #980 by containing setup failures, completing results, cancelling cleanup work, and returning throttler permits once.
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Pull request overview

Contains synchronous CQL setup failures and ensures terminal cleanup follows throttler admission semantics.

Changes:

  • Converts setup exceptions into failed result stages.
  • Cancels scheduled work and returns throttler permits exactly once.
  • Adds immediate, delayed, rejected, and reprepare regression coverage.

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CqlRequestHandler.java Routes admission failures through terminal cleanup.
CqlRequestHandlerTest.java Covers throttling failure lifecycle scenarios.

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core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java-405-406 (1)

405-406: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert one throttler error signal.

Line 406 does not detect signalError from the rejected reprepare handler. Verify exactly one signalError call for failure across all handlers.

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In
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around lines 405 - 406, Update the CqlRequestHandlerTest assertion around
handler.handle() to verify exactly one throttler.signalError call for failure
across all relevant handlers, including the rejected reprepare handler, rather
than only verifying a call occurred on the current handler. Preserve the
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- Around line 405-406: Update the CqlRequestHandlerTest assertion around
handler.handle() to verify exactly one throttler.signalError call for failure
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The containment itself looks right for CqlRequestHandler: setFinalError -> result.completeExceptionally -> cancelScheduledTasks() does cancel the timeout #980 complains about, and wasAdmitted returns the permit exactly once.

My one substantive point is scope: Fixes #980 overstates it. #980 describes the escape generally, and two other onThrottleReady implementations still rethrow from below this frame, so the exception can still leave register() and session.execute() — including straight through the new catch.

The remaining #965 findings that this PR doesn't touch are now #1009 (a leaked stream-id bit in InFlightHandler, CqlPrepareHandler stranding its prepareAsync future, and the write-coalescer shutdown gate).

Route synchronous CQL, admin, and continuous-request setup failures through terminal completion, including retry and reprepare callbacks. Cancel reserved stream IDs and scheduled timeouts, and distinguish rejected, admitted, and cancelled requests so throttler permits are returned exactly once.

Drain concurrency-throttler readiness callbacks iteratively to prevent recursive failure chains and continue admitting queued work after a callback fails.
@dkropachev dkropachev changed the title fix: clean up throttled CQL setup failures fix: contain throttled request setup failures Aug 19, 2026
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@nikagra, the follow-up fixes are force-pushed as a single cleaned-up commit. The retry/reprepare and timeout-race cases are covered, the PR scope now explicitly excludes #949/#1013/#1014, and the full Java 11 core suite passes. Please take another look.

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Prior round's four points all look genuinely addressed. What's left is mostly outside this diff:

  • RateLimitingRequestThrottler.drain() still calls onThrottleReady() unguarded inside its loop. A throw aborts the loop and skips the trailing reschedule, and register() only schedules a drain when the queue is empty — so the throttler never drains again, silently (the throw dies in the Netty ScheduledFuture). Same class of escape as #980, untouched here.
  • GraphRequestHandler (async graph) is still the pre-PR shape: unguarded onThrottleReady/sendRequest, and !(error instanceof RequestThrottlingException) at L513 instead of an admission flag. #949/#1013/#1014 don't cover it — and it's one of the handlers that can still throw into the drain above.
  • Narrow: when scheduleTimeout() fails it completes result directly (L267), so after admission sendRequestInternal returns at L408 and no signal* ever fires — permit held for the session's lifetime.

// sendRequest is also invoked from write, reprepare, retry, and speculative-execution
// callbacks. Contain setup failures at this common boundary so every invocation completes the
// request and releases its throttler permit instead of relying on onThrottleReady's caller.
setFinalError(statement, t, retriedNode, currentExecutionIndex);

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This fails the whole request when a non-initial execution's setup throws: the timer in scheduleSpeculativeExecution calls sendRequest(..., index, ...) (L809) while execution 0 is still in flight, so setFinalError -> completeExceptionally + cancelScheduledTasks() kills the healthy execution. Pre-PR the throw was just logged by the timer. Gate on activeExecutionsCount.decrementAndGet() == 0, like L437 and the continuous handler already do.

retryCount,
scheduleNextExecution);
} catch (Throwable t) {
// sendRequest is also invoked from write, reprepare, retry, and speculative-execution

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The retry path isn't fully covered: verdict.getRetryRequest(statement) (L1058/L1069) is evaluated at the call site, outside this try, so a throwing RetryVerdict still escapes to onResponse. Either hoist it into a local inside the guarded region, or narrow the comment.

}
}
if (firstFailure != null) {
rethrow(firstFailure);

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firstFailure can belong to a different request, so it gets rethrown into whoever triggered the drain — A's signalSuccess throws B's exception. That's also what makes ThrottledAdminRequestHandler.start()'s new admitted.get() branch abort an already-written request with a foreign error. Log-and-drop rather than rethrow?

// Completion can synchronously admit another request. Trampoline those callbacks to keep queue
// draining iterative instead of growing the call stack once per failed request.
private static final ThreadLocal<Map<ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler, Deque<ReadyCallback>>>
READY_CALLBACKS = ThreadLocal.withInitial(IdentityHashMap::new);

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Re-entrancy is the rare case, but this makes every admission pay a ThreadLocal lookup + IdentityHashMap + ArrayDeque + ReadyCallback allocation. A non-static ThreadLocal<Deque<ReadyCallback>> instance field gives the same per-throttler/per-thread isolation and drops the map, the identity keying and the two-step teardown.

@@ -393,11 +402,11 @@ private void sendRequest(
writeFuture.addListener(nodeResponseCallback);
} catch (Throwable t) {
if (!writeSubmitted && activeExecutionsCount.decrementAndGet() == 0) {

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With throw t gone, a setup failure that isn't the last active execution is now discarded entirely — no abort, no log (the Netty timer at least warned before). Worth logging/recording it in the non-terminal branch.

// Immediate admission happens in the continuous graph handler's constructor. If setup failed
// there, chosenCallback is already terminal and there is no live request to time out.
if (!chosenCallback.isCompletedExceptionally()) {
globalTimeout = scheduleGlobalTimeout();

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onThrottleFailure() (L282) needs the same treatment: a request that was queued — so handle() already armed globalTimeout — and then rejected (throttler close() -> fail()) aborts the callback but leaves the timeout armed for the full request timeout.

defaultFrameOf(new Unprepared("mock message", Bytes.getArray(mockId))));

assertThatStage(handler.handle()).isFailed(error -> assertThat(error).isSameAs(failure));
verify(throttler).signalError(any(), eq(failure));

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any() doesn't pin which handler released its permit — the reprepare ThrottledAdminRequestHandler's signal satisfies it, so reverting the wasAdmitted change at L677 might not fail this test. The other new cases (L196, L257, L299) use signalError(handler, failure); match them.

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