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Bug #7492

Updated by Tom Clegg over 9 years ago

Keepproxy (which uses keepclient) is failing requests because one of the upstream servers returned "read tcp 10.26.0.7:25107: use of closed network connection".    This is being returned to the client as a 404, but actually should be a 502 (Bad Gateway) which would trigger retry logic on the client. 

 h3. Implementation 

 keepclient: 
 * create an Error interface (similar to https://golang.org/pkg/net/#Error) 
 ** <pre><code>type Error struct { 
	 error 
	 Temporary() bool // Is the error temporary? 
 }</code></pre> 
 * create a multipleResponseError type that implements Error 
 ** <pre><code>type multipleResponseError struct { 
	 error 
	 isTemp bool 
 } 
 func (e *multipleResponseError) Temporary() bool { 
	 return e.isTemp 
 } 
 </code></pre> 
 * create a NotFoundError type that implements Error 
 ** <pre><code>type NotFoundError struct { 
	 multipleResponseError 
 } 
 </code></pre> 
 * Change BlockNotFound to a NotFoundError 
 ** <pre><code>var BlockNotFound = &NotFoundError{multipleResponseError{ 
	 error:    errors.New("Block not found"), 
	 isTemp: false, 
 }} 
 </code></pre> 
 * in Get(), count how many responses are http.StatusNotFound 
 * when returning from Get() after all attempts have failed, make a NotFoundError or a multipleResponseError: 
 ** <pre><code> 
 if count404 == len(serversToTry) { 
	 err = BlockNotFound 
 } else { 
	 err = &multipleResponseError{ 
		 error: 	 fmt.Errorf("%s %s failed: %v", method, locator, errs), 
		 isTemp: len(serversToTry) > 0, 
	 } 
 } 
 </code></pre> 

 (*Defer:* add a way for clients to see a slice of all errors encountered, or at least the last error from each server. For now, that information is only available as a string, via the usual Error() method.) 

 keepproxy: 
 * Do a type select on the error returned from keepclient.Get() to determine the appropriate HTTP response 
 ** <pre><code> 
 switch err := err.(type) { 
 case keepclient.NotFoundError: 
	 // respond 404 
 case keepclient.Error: 
	 if err.Temporary() { 
		 // respond 502 
	 } else { 
		 // respond 422 
	 } 
 default: 
	 // respond 500 
 } 
 </code></pre> 
 * In all cases, return err.Error() in the response body. 

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