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Complete channel acquisition before rethrowing fatal errors
yzfeng2020 Sep 1, 2026
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Do not wrap the cause in notifyConnect's fallback handler
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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions core/src/main/java/com/linecorp/armeria/client/HttpChannelPool.java
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import com.linecorp.armeria.common.util.AsyncCloseable;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.util.AsyncCloseableSupport;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.util.DomainSocketAddress;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.util.Exceptions;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.client.HttpSession;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.client.PooledChannel;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.common.ConnectionEventListener;
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}
promise.completeExceptionally(UnprocessedRequestException.of(throwable));
}
} catch (Exception e) {
promise.completeExceptionally(UnprocessedRequestException.of(e));
} catch (Throwable t) {
// Complete the promise before rethrowing, so that a fatal error cannot leave the request
// pending forever. The cause is not wrapped with UnprocessedRequestException here because
// HttpClientDelegate already does that for every acquisition failure, and wrapping could
// fail for the same reason the original attempt did.
promise.completeExceptionally(t);
Exceptions.throwIfFatal(t);
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Preserve fatal-error propagation after promise completion.

ChannelAcquisitionFuture.completeExceptionally() invokes pending piggyback handlers synchronously. If a handler throws a non-fatal exception, promise.completeExceptionally(t) exits before Exceptions.throwIfFatal(t), so a fatal t such as StackOverflowError is not rethrown. Move Exceptions.throwIfFatal(t) into a finally block and add a regression test.

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In `@core/src/main/java/com/linecorp/armeria/client/HttpChannelPool.java` around
lines 559 - 560, Update the exception handling around ChannelAcquisitionFuture
completion so Exceptions.throwIfFatal(t) always executes in a finally block
after promise.completeExceptionally(t), preserving fatal-error propagation even
when a pending piggyback handler throws; add a regression test covering this
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87 changes: 87 additions & 0 deletions core/src/test/java/com/linecorp/armeria/client/HttpClientFactoryTest.java
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import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
import static org.awaitility.Awaitility.await;

import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletionException;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.RegisterExtension;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;

import com.linecorp.armeria.client.endpoint.dns.TestDnsServer;
import com.linecorp.armeria.client.proxy.ProxyConfig;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.AggregatedHttpResponse;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.CommonPools;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.HttpRequest;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.HttpResponse;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.SerializationFormat;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.SessionProtocol;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.logging.ClientConnectionTimings;
import com.linecorp.armeria.common.metric.PrometheusMeterRegistries;
import com.linecorp.armeria.internal.client.PooledChannel;
import com.linecorp.armeria.server.AbstractHttpService;
import com.linecorp.armeria.server.Server;
import com.linecorp.armeria.server.ServerBuilder;
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import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelPromise;
import io.netty.channel.EventLoop;
import io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DatagramDnsQuery;
import io.netty.resolver.ResolvedAddressTypes;
import io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsServerAddressStreamProvider;
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}
};

@ParameterizedTest
@MethodSource("fatalErrors")
void fatalErrorDuringChannelAcquisitionDoesNotLeaveRequestPending(Error fatalError) {
try (ClientFactory clientFactory = newFailingClientFactory(throwingOnToString(fatalError))) {
final CompletableFuture<AggregatedHttpResponse> response =
WebClient.builder(server.httpUri())
.factory(clientFactory)
.build()
.get("/")
.aggregate();

await().until(response::isDone);
assertThat(response).isCompletedExceptionally();
}
}

private static Stream<Error> fatalErrors() {
return Stream.of(new StackOverflowError(), new NoClassDefFoundError());
}

@Test
void unwrappableFatalErrorCompletesChannelAcquisition() {
final Error fatalError = new StackOverflowError() {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

@Override
public String toString() {
throw this;
}
};
try (ClientFactory clientFactory = newFailingClientFactory(throwingOnToString(fatalError))) {
final HttpClientFactory factory = (HttpClientFactory) clientFactory.unwrap();
final EventLoop eventLoop = clientFactory.eventLoopGroup().next();
final HttpChannelPool pool = factory.pool(eventLoop);
final CompletableFuture<CompletableFuture<PooledChannel>> acquisitionFutureFuture =
new CompletableFuture<>();
eventLoop.execute(() -> acquisitionFutureFuture.complete(
pool.acquireLater(SessionProtocol.H1C, SerializationFormat.NONE,
new HttpChannelPool.PoolKey(server.httpEndpoint(), ProxyConfig.direct(),
null, null),
ClientConnectionTimings.builder())));
final CompletableFuture<PooledChannel> acquisitionFuture = acquisitionFutureFuture.join();

await().until(acquisitionFuture::isDone);
assertThat(acquisitionFuture).isCompletedExceptionally();
}
}

private static Throwable throwingOnToString(Error error) {
return new Throwable() {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

@Override
public String toString() {
throw error;
}
};
}

private static ClientFactory newFailingClientFactory(Throwable connectFailure) {
return ClientFactory.builder()
.option(ClientFactoryOptions.CHANNEL_PIPELINE_CUSTOMIZER, pipeline -> {
pipeline.addLast(new ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter() {
@Override
public void connect(ChannelHandlerContext ctx,
SocketAddress remoteAddress,
SocketAddress localAddress,
ChannelPromise promise) {
ctx.executor().execute(() -> promise.setFailure(connectFailure));
}
});
})
.build();
}

@Test
void numConnections() {
final ClientFactory clientFactory = ClientFactory.builder().build();
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