fix(client-python): retry pipe open() on transient connect-refused - #2117
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ChangesDataPipe open retry behavior
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Low Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to DataPipe.open() now retries one narrowly defined transient listener-startup failure while preserving immediate errors and server error details for other failures. The bounded retry and failure behavior are covered, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DataPipe.open
participant rrext_process
participant Data listener
DataPipe.open->>rrext_process: Send pipe-open request
rrext_process->>Data listener: Connect to listener
Data listener-->>rrext_process: Transient "Connect call failed"
DataPipe.open->>DataPipe.open: Wait with backoff
DataPipe.open->>rrext_process: Rebuild and resend request
rrext_process->>Data listener: Connect again
Data listener-->>DataPipe.open: Return pipe identifier
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This is conflicted because #2127 (4e6e56c) rewrote the exact block the diff edits. On develop, Two things for the rebase:
Also worth adding a One question on the substance, not blocking: retrying inside the SDK fixes the CI flake for every caller, but it also means a genuinely-down listener now takes ~0.75s and three round trips to report. Is a shorter first backoff (or making the attempt count a keyword) worth it, so callers who'd rather fail fast can? |
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@madhumitha-chandrasekaran-1 Reviewed at head Three things before merge:
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A just-registered pipeline's per-pipe data listener can occasionally
still be binding when open() reaches it - under heavy concurrent load
(e.g. many pipelines opened at once) this surfaces as a transient
ECONNREFUSED ("Connect call failed") that is indistinguishable from a
real "pipeline isn't running" failure to the caller.
Retry a few times with a short backoff when the failure message
matches this specific transient pattern; any other failure still
raises immediately on the first attempt, so genuine errors (bad
token, wrong MIME type, terminated pipeline) are not masked or
delayed.
Surfaced by CI flakiness on unrelated PRs: the same
[Errno 111] Connect call failed error hit two different, unrelated
tests (nodes/test/guardrails/test_lane_forward_once.py and
nodes/test/test_dynamic.py) on consecutive runs, each on a different
ephemeral port - consistent with this race rather than a test bug.
…e fix Nihal's review on rocketride-org#2117: - Rebase onto develop needed a deliberate resolution: rocketride-org#2127 (merged after this branch was cut) rewrote the same open() failure hunk to split the server message from a `hint` field and add `code`. Keep that split; only the retry loop wraps it now. - The predicate also matched "Connection refused", which a misconfigured `remote` node raises for a permanent failure the engine's inner connect retry never runs for — retrying it only added latency. Narrow to the actual race-condition signature, "Connect call failed". - The retry budget undersold itself: the engine already retries this same connect internally (10x, 150ms apart, ~1.5s worst case) before it reports failure, so each SDK-level attempt re-runs that whole loop. Drop from 3 attempts to 2 (one retry) and document the ~3.2s worst case instead of silently multiplying it further. Also pins the rebase resolution with tests for the narrowed predicate and the message/hint split, and updates the co-located SDK doc's retry note.
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Added tests pinning the narrowed predicate and the message/hint split, and updated the co-located SDK doc. Filed #2218 for this and added |
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In `@packages/client-python/src/rocketride/mixins/data.py`:
- Around line 182-186: Update the retry documentation in
packages/client-python/src/rocketride/mixins/data.py lines 182-186 to state the
full approximately 1.75-second additional delay, including the 0.25-second SDK
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CodeRabbit on rocketride-org#2117: the retry's added delay is the 0.25s SDK backoff plus the engine's own ~1.5s internal connect-retry cycle, so ~1.75s - not the ~1.5s the docstring and doc claimed. Also reworded the doc's PipeException description to "past that retry budget" rather than "genuinely could not be opened" (the earlier module comment already gets this right).
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messagebefore matching.If
response['message']is truthy and non-string,response.get('message') or ''preserves it._is_transient_pipe_open_error()then raisesTypeErrorwhen it evaluates'Connect call failed' in message, beforePipeExceptionis created. Convert the value to a string or guard the predicate withisinstance(message, str).🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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the retry logic around _is_transient_pipe_open_error: ensure non-string truthy
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…ing message CodeRabbit on rocketride-org#2117: response.get('message') or '' passes through a truthy non-string value (e.g. a malformed server response with an int message) unchanged, so _is_transient_pipe_open_error()'s `'Connect call failed' in message` raises TypeError before PipeException can even be raised. Coerce to str right after extraction so the retry classification and the exception it may raise both stay safe.
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Addressed the outside-diff-range finding: `response.get('message') or ''` at what was line 223 let a truthy non-string `message` (e.g. a malformed response with an int) through unchanged, so `_is_transient_pipe_open_error()`'s `'Connect call failed' in message` would raise `TypeError` before `PipeException` could even be constructed. Coerced to `str` right after extraction and added a regression test with a non-string message. |
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- Around line 223-227: Update the message extraction before the non-string
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…o generic CodeRabbit on rocketride-org#2117: response.get('message') or '' runs before the just-added isinstance check, so a real-but-falsey message like 0 or False was already flattened to '' by the time it got there - PipeException then showed the generic "Failed to open a data pipe." instead of the server's actual value. Check for None explicitly instead of using `or`.
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Addressed: `response.get('message') or ''` ran before the isinstance check I'd just added, so a real-but-falsey message like `0` or `False` was already collapsed to `''` and would've hit the generic "Failed to open a data pipe." fallback instead of showing the server's actual value. Switched to an explicit `is None` check before the str() coercion, and added a regression test with message `0`. |
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Reviewed at head e12c911.
Approved: the implementation is narrowly bounded to one retry of the actual Connect call failed listener-startup signature, preserves the newer message/hint exception contract, and has focused tests for recovery, exhaustion, permanent errors, malformed messages, and hint preservation. Current platform, lint, contract, and aggregate CI checks are green.
Please update the PR description before merge: it still says Connection refused and “a few times,” while the final code deliberately does one retry and lets plain Connection refused fail immediately.
Resolves one modify/delete conflict: develop (#2117) added an open() retry note to packages/client-python/docs/index.md, which this branch removed in the docs consolidation. Kept the deletion and ported the note into docs/public/python/reference.md under the DataPipe methods table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017bVEisz8uY1PzUgZ1iLPjy
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Fixes #2218
DataMixin.DataPipe.open()now retries a few times with a short backoff when the server'srrext_processopen call fails with a transientConnect call failed/Connection refusederror, before surfacing it as aPipeException.Why
A just-registered pipeline's per-pipe data listener can occasionally still be binding when
open()reaches it, under heavy concurrent load (many pipelines opened at once — e.g. thenodestest suite running underpytest-xdistin CI). This surfaces client-side as[Errno 111] Connect call failed ('127.0.0.1', <port>), indistinguishable from a real "pipeline isn't running" failure.This was diagnosed after investigating CI flakiness on an unrelated PR (#2113): two consecutive CI runs each failed exactly one test, with the identical
PipeException: [Errno 111] Connect call failedsignature on a different ephemeral port each time, hitting two different, unrelated tests (nodes/test/guardrails/test_lane_forward_once.pyandnodes/test/test_dynamic.py). Neither failing test, nor the PR's own diff, touches this code path — consistent with a resource-contention race in pipe-open rather than a bug in either test.Approach
Chose a client-side retry over a C++ engine-side fix (making pipe-open synchronous on the listener being bound) because it's surgical, low-risk, and benefits real production callers hitting the same race under load — not just CI. The engine-side fix would be the more "correct" root cause fix but is a much larger, riskier change to core engine code.
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packages/client-python/tests/test_pipe_open_retry.py): retries on the transient error, gives up after exhausting retries, does not retry a non-transient failure.ruff check/ruff format --checkpasstest_deploy.py/test_tool.pyfailures (require a live server, absent in this environment) are pre-existing and unaffected by this changeChecklist
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