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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 without common-path queue allocations

Fixes #980.

Scope

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

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  • Java 11: mvn -pl core -DskipITs test
  • 3,949 core unit tests passed (1 skipped); 76 Reactive Streams TCK tests passed (24 skipped).

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CqlRequestHandler routes setup, retry, reprepare, speculative execution, cancellation, and timeout failures through terminal cleanup. Throttler signaling now tracks admission and prevents duplicate release. Continuous and admin handlers apply similar cleanup rules. ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler drains reentrant callbacks iteratively. Tests cover these failure paths, timeout cleanup, cancellation, delayed admission, and callback draining.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #980 by containing setup failures, cleaning reservations and timeouts, and releasing throttler permits exactly once.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #980 and its directly related concurrency-throttler callback path.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: containing throttled request setup failures.
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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
`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`
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
existing failed-stage assertion.
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In
`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`:
- Around line 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
existing failed-stage assertion.

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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).

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@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.

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Third pass on the unchanged head — 8 new findings, plus follow-ups on three open threads.

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.

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core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandler.java-1116-1126 (1)

1116-1126: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

verdict.getRetryDecision() stays outside the guarded region.

Line 1117 and line 1126 call getRetryDecision() outside the try block. A throwing RetryVerdict implementation still escapes processRetryVerdict. onResponse catches it at line 949, but onFailure calls processRetryVerdict at line 1193 with no catch, so the throw escapes into the Netty callback and the request never completes. Read the decision once inside the guard.

Proposed fix
-      Statement<?> retryStatement = null;
-      if (verdict.getRetryDecision() == RetryDecision.RETRY_SAME
-          || verdict.getRetryDecision() == RetryDecision.RETRY_NEXT) {
-        try {
-          retryStatement = verdict.getRetryRequest(statement);
-        } catch (Throwable t) {
-          handleRequestSetupFailure(statement, t, node, execution);
-          return;
-        }
-      }
-      switch (verdict.getRetryDecision()) {
+      Statement<?> retryStatement = null;
+      RetryDecision decision;
+      try {
+        decision = verdict.getRetryDecision();
+        if (decision == RetryDecision.RETRY_SAME || decision == RetryDecision.RETRY_NEXT) {
+          retryStatement = verdict.getRetryRequest(statement);
+        }
+      } catch (Throwable t) {
+        handleRequestSetupFailure(statement, t, node, execution);
+        return;
+      }
+      switch (decision) {
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In
`@core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandler.java`
around lines 1116 - 1126, Update processRetryVerdict to read
verdict.getRetryDecision() once inside the existing try block, store it for both
the retry-statement condition and subsequent switch, and route any thrown error
through handleRequestSetupFailure so onFailure cannot let it escape.
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/cql/continuous/ContinuousRequestHandlerBase.java-408-416 (1)

408-416: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The CancellationException guard leaks the throttler permit.

terminalSetupFailure is set only when abortGlobalRequestOrChosenCallback returns true, which means this frame completed chosenCallback itself. A CancellationException raised by user cancel() cannot reach that branch, because cancel() completes chosenCallback first and signalCancel already ran. So the guard only excludes a CancellationException thrown by setup code such as getMessage or createPayload. In that case no throttler signal is emitted and the permit is never returned. Signal cancel for that case.

Proposed fix
       } catch (Throwable t) {
         recordError(node, t);
         if (activeExecutionsCount.decrementAndGet() == 0) {
-          if (abortGlobalRequestOrChosenCallback(t) && !(t instanceof CancellationException)) {
+          if (abortGlobalRequestOrChosenCallback(t)) {
             terminalSetupFailure = t;
           }
         } else {

and at the signalling site:

       if (terminalSetupFailure != null) {
-        throttler.signalError(this, terminalSetupFailure);
+        if (terminalSetupFailure instanceof CancellationException) {
+          throttler.signalCancel(this);
+        } else {
+          throttler.signalError(this, terminalSetupFailure);
+        }
       }
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In
`@core/src/main/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/cql/continuous/ContinuousRequestHandlerBase.java`
around lines 408 - 416, Update the terminal setup-failure handling in
ContinuousRequestHandlerBase so a CancellationException originating from setup
code still signals cancellation and releases the throttler permit. Do not
exclude CancellationException when processing the final active execution;
preserve the existing abortGlobalRequestOrChosenCallback and
terminalSetupFailure behavior for other failures.
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core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java (1)

226-261: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rename the test to match its assertions.

The name states that the failure is not propagated. The assertions state that the returned stage fails with the same exception. The contract under test is that the delayed setup failure completes the owning request and does not escape through the admitting caller. Use a name that states this.

♻️ Proposed rename
-  public void should_not_propagate_delayed_request_setup_failure() {
+  public void should_complete_result_and_cleanup_if_delayed_request_setup_fails() {
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In
`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`
around lines 226 - 261, Rename the test method
should_not_propagate_delayed_request_setup_failure to reflect that the delayed
setup failure completes the owning request with the same exception while
remaining contained from the admitting caller. Keep the existing assertions and
test behavior unchanged.
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Other comments:
In
`@core/src/main/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/cql/continuous/ContinuousRequestHandlerBase.java`:
- Around line 408-416: Update the terminal setup-failure handling in
ContinuousRequestHandlerBase so a CancellationException originating from setup
code still signals cancellation and releases the throttler permit. Do not
exclude CancellationException when processing the final active execution;
preserve the existing abortGlobalRequestOrChosenCallback and
terminalSetupFailure behavior for other failures.

In
`@core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandler.java`:
- Around line 1116-1126: Update processRetryVerdict to read
verdict.getRetryDecision() once inside the existing try block, store it for both
the retry-statement condition and subsequent switch, and route any thrown error
through handleRequestSetupFailure so onFailure cannot let it escape.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`:
- Around line 226-261: Rename the test method
should_not_propagate_delayed_request_setup_failure to reflect that the delayed
setup failure completes the owning request with the same exception while
remaining contained from the admitting caller. Keep the existing assertions and
test behavior unchanged.

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  • core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/adminrequest/ThrottledAdminRequestHandler.java
  • core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandler.java
  • core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/session/throttling/ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler.java
  • core/src/test/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/graph/ContinuousGraphRequestHandlerTest.java
  • core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerRetryTest.java
  • core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerSpeculativeExecutionTest.java
  • core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java
  • core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/session/throttling/ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottlerTest.java
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4.x: CQL throttler slot and request timeout leak when onThrottleReady() throws

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