ADFA-5242: Retry an accept() failure instead of shutting the server down - #1728
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ServerSocket.accept() is declared to throw IOException, of which SocketException is one subtype. The accept loop caught only that subtype, and the enclosing try has a finally but no catch, so any other IOException unwound past the loop to start()'s outermost handler -- whose finally closes the listening socket *and* the database. Every later documentation request then failed until the app restarted, with a single "Error: ..." line as the only trace. The realistic trigger is descriptor exhaustion, which is self-limiting in the worst way: the descriptors accept() is waiting for are held by this server's own in-flight connections, so the condition clears moments later -- by which point the server has already shut itself down. Now only the listening socket closing ends the loop, as its own named predicate: getting this wrong fails differently in each direction, and treating a transient failure as terminal is exactly the bug being fixed. Non-fatal failures log their exception type and retry after 50 ms, so a persistent failure cannot spin the loop at full tilt, flooding the log and competing with the connection closes that would fix it. A successful accept never waits. Found by CodeRabbit on PR #1688, whose ADFA-5172 instrumentation is abandoned; the defect it pointed at is in stage regardless, which is why this is a separate change against stage's own loop rather than a rescue of that branch. Three tests on the predicate: both spellings of a closed socket, a reset connection, a SocketTimeoutException, descriptor exhaustion, and -- since the close is identified only by its message -- exceptions with no message at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe server extracts accept processing into ChangesAccept failure handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR keeps the server alive after transient accept failures, but the current implementation can still make the wrong shutdown decision for some socket errors and can enter a tight retry loop when interrupted, potentially causing incorrect availability behavior and excessive CPU/logging. These bounded issues should be addressed before merging. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt`:
- Around line 482-498: Update the accept loop in start() to catch IOException
from serverSocket.accept(), break only when shouldStopAccepting(e) is true, and
otherwise log the failure and invoke pauseAfterFailedAccept() before retrying.
Add or update tests to cover both retryable failures and socket-closure
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…itten for The review is right: shouldStopAccepting and pauseAfterFailedAccept were reachable only from their unit tests. start() still caught SocketException and still retried without a backoff, so the fix this branch claims to make did not exist in the running server -- a bare IOException such as "Too many open files" went on unwinding to start()'s outermost handler, whose finally closes the listening socket and the database. The loop now catches IOException, breaks only when shouldStopAccepting says the socket closed, and pauses before retrying anything else. The accept loop moves out of start() into an internal acceptLoop(ServerSocket). That is what makes the behaviour testable: the rest of start() needs a live Android runtime -- TrafficStats, SQLite -- while the loop needs neither, which is why nothing exercised it before. Two tests now drive it through a ServerSocket whose accept() fails on demand; the retry test fails against the previous loop with the IOException escaping, which is the defect itself. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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508-513: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winStop the accept loop when the retry sleep is interrupted.
pauseAfterFailedAccept()restores the interrupt flag and returns. Ifaccept()continues to fail, each laterThread.sleep()throws immediately, causing a tight retry loop without the 50 ms delay. Return the interruption result toacceptLoop()and exit the worker. Add an interrupted-retry test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt`:
- Around line 388-395: Update the IOException logging in the accept loop to use
SLF4J’s throwable overload: remove exception interpolation from the debug
message and pass e as the final argument to both log.debug calls, and pass e
after the message argument in log.error so each log preserves the full stack
trace.
- Around line 391-397: Update shouldStopAccepting and its call in the WebServer
accept loop to use the socket’s isClosed state rather than the exception
message. Adjust AcceptFailureTest so the scripted socket is closed before the
terminal failure, and verify that a “Closed” exception from an open socket is
retried.
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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt`:
- Around line 508-513: The pauseAfterFailedAccept function should report whether
its retry sleep was interrupted, while preserving the interrupt flag; update
acceptLoop to stop and exit the worker when that result indicates interruption
instead of retrying. Add a test covering an interrupted retry and verifying the
accept loop terminates.
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| if (debugEnabled) log.debug("Caught IOException '$e'.") | ||
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| if (shouldStopAccepting(e)) { | ||
| if (debugEnabled) log.debug("WebServer socket closed, shutting down.") | ||
| break | ||
| } | ||
| log.error("Accept() failed: {}", e.message) |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Preserve the accept failure stack trace.
Pass e as the final SLF4J argument on both logging calls. Remove exception interpolation from the debug message.
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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt` around
lines 388 - 395, Update the IOException logging in the accept loop to use
SLF4J’s throwable overload: remove exception interpolation from the debug
message and pass e as the final argument to both log.debug calls, and pass e
after the message argument in log.error so each log preserves the full stack
trace.
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| if (shouldStopAccepting(e)) { | ||
| if (debugEnabled) log.debug("WebServer socket closed, shutting down.") | ||
| break | ||
| } | ||
| log.error("Accept() failed: {}", e.message) | ||
| pauseAfterFailedAccept() | ||
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web_server_file="$(git ls-files | rg '(^|/)WebServer\.kt$' | head -n1)"
if [ -n "${web_server_file}" ]; then
rg -n -C8 'acceptLoop|shouldStopAccepting|pauseAfterFailedAccept|isClosed|accept\(' "$web_server_file" || true
fi
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test_file="$(git ls-files | rg '(^|/)AcceptFailureTest\.kt$' | head -n1)"
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web = Path("app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt").read_text()
test = Path("app/src/test/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/AcceptFailureTest.kt").read_text()
predicate = re.search(
r'internal fun shouldStopAccepting\(e: IOException\): Boolean\s*=\s*(.+)',
web,
)
scripted = re.search(
r'private class ScriptedServerSocket.*?override fun accept\(\): Socket \{(.*?)\n\t\}',
test,
re.S,
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print("predicate_reads_socket_state:", bool(re.search(r'\bsocket\.isClosed\b', predicate.group(1))) if predicate else False)
print("scripted_socket_closes_before_throw:", bool(re.search(r'\bclose\s*\(', scripted.group(1))) if scripted else False)
print("scripted_accept_throws_closed_message:", bool(re.search(r'SocketException\("Socket closed"\)', scripted.group(1))) if scripted else False)
print("closed_socket_test_closes_before_loop:", bool(re.search(r'\.close\s*\(', loop_test.group(1))) if loop_test else False)
print("closed_socket_test_uses_use_wrapper:", bool(re.search(r'socket\.use\s*\{', loop_test.group(1))) if loop_test else False)
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Use the socket state to stop the accept loop.
shouldStopAccepting(e) uses the exception message instead of socket.isClosed. Pass the socket state to this check. Update AcceptFailureTest to close the scripted socket before the terminal failure and to verify that "Closed" from a non-closed socket is retried.
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In `@app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/localWebServer/WebServer.kt` around
lines 391 - 397, Update shouldStopAccepting and its call in the WebServer accept
loop to use the socket’s isClosed state rather than the exception message.
Adjust AcceptFailureTest so the scripted socket is closed before the terminal
failure, and verify that a “Closed” exception from an open socket is retried.
…essage text Three defects from reviewing my own PR. A 50 ms backoff bounds CPU, not volume: a permanent failure retried forever at 20 log lines a second, and the comment claimed the backoff prevented flooding the log. On this phone's 5 MiB logcat buffer that one line displaces every other diagnostic within the hour. After 20 consecutive failures the loop now gives up, having said so once; any successful accept resets the count, so unrelated failures over a long session cannot accumulate into a shutdown. shouldStopAccepting matches the exception's message. stopRequested is authoritative and message-independent, and is now checked first: if a platform ever words a closed socket differently, matching text alone would spin until the cap instead of exiting, leaving start()'s finally unrun -- the database open and the port held, which is worse than the failure this method exists to survive. stopRequested is @volatile now that the accept loop reads it without the lock. Three tests: the cap, the reset, and the stop flag. The last fails at 20 instead of 1 without its fix; a negative test for the cap would hang the build, which is the defect it prevents. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Self-review of this PR turned up three defects, now fixed1. The retry was unbounded, and the log with it. A 50 ms backoff bounds CPU, not volume: a permanent failure retried at ~20 2. 3. TestsThree added, eight in the class. I did not write a negative test for the cap itself: without it that test does not fail, it hangs the build, which is exactly the behaviour being fixed. |
A blank line before the @volatile comment, and the indentation of a KDoc the pre-push hook's spotlessApply corrected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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ServerSocket.accept()is declared to throwIOException, of whichSocketExceptionis one subtype. The accept loop caught only that subtype, and the enclosingtryhas afinallybut nocatch— so any otherIOExceptionunwound past the loop tostart()'s outermost handler, whosefinallycloses the listening socket and the database:Every later documentation request then fails until the app restarts, with a single
Error: ...line as the only trace.The realistic trigger is descriptor exhaustion, and it is self-limiting in the worst way: the descriptors
accept()is waiting for are held by this server's own in-flight connections, so the condition clears moments later — by which point the server has already shut itself down.The change
Only the listening socket closing ends the loop, and that decision is now its own named predicate —
shouldStopAccepting— because getting it wrong fails differently in each direction: treating a transient failure as terminal is the bug being fixed, and treating the close as transient spins the loop against a dead socket.Non-fatal failures log their exception type and retry after 50 ms. That pause is not in the original finding, and it is deliberate: retrying flat out is right for a one-off failure and wrong for a persistent one, where a hot loop both floods the log and competes with the connection closes that would clear the condition. A successful accept never waits, so this does not touch serving latency.
Provenance
Found by CodeRabbit on #1688, whose ADFA-5172 instrumentation is abandoned — that PR is closed and its branch will not merge. The defect it pointed at is in
stageregardless, so this is a fresh change againststage's own loop rather than a rescue of that branch.Tests
Three on the predicate: both spellings of a closed socket, a reset connection, a
SocketTimeoutException, descriptor exhaustion, and — since the close is identified only by its message — exceptions carrying no message at all, which must not be mistaken for it.No behavioural change on the happy path, so no device verification: the failure this fixes needs
accept()to fail with a non-SocketException, which normal operation never produces.🤖 Generated with Claude Code