Accept 429 response codes as an indication of the secondary rate limit being exceeded #1895

holly-cummins · 2024-07-04T18:11:17Z

Resolves #1842.
Resolves #1805.

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If a user uses this library to drive the GitHub API hard, there will quite often be failures caused by secondary rate limits being breached (#1842 and #1805). There’s been some discussion of headers on #1842, and also of pluggable 'handle the rate limit' modules, but I think there’s a more fundamental problem with the handling of rate limits. (The good news is this means there's a simpler solution, too.)

The AbuseLimitHandler checks for a rate limit violation by looking for a 403 header and some headers:  

@Override
boolean isError(@Nonnull GitHubConnectorResponse connectorResponse) {
    return isForbidden(connectorResponse) && hasRetryOrLimitHeader(connectorResponse);
}

HTTP_FORBIDDEN is a 403. The GitHub docs indicate that limits from GitHub are signalled with either 403 or TOO_MANY_REQUESTS responses (429). In my experience, I've only seen 429s.

What about headers?

The GitHub docs docs suggest that any headers are optional, and that in the absence of headers the code should just wait a minute (which, luckily, is what the current implementation already does):

If the retry-after response header is present, you should not retry your request until after that many seconds has elapsed. If the x-ratelimit-remaining header is 0, you should not retry your request until after the time, in UTC epoch seconds, specified by the x-ratelimit-reset header. Otherwise, wait for at least one minute before retrying. If your request continues to fail due to a secondary rate limit, wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time between retries, and throw an error after a specific number of retries.

Based on these docs, I think it's sufficient to count a 429 as a rate limit response, even if headers are missing. Semantically, a 429 is an indication of an abuse detection/rate limit scenario, and should be handled as such.

What about the rate limit handler?

GitHubRateLimitHandler also requires a 403 to 'count' a response as rate limited:

@Override
boolean isError(@NotNull GitHubConnectorResponse connectorResponse) throws IOException {
connectorResponse.statusCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_FORBIDDEN
            && "0".equals(connectorResponse.header("X-RateLimit-Remaining"));

I didn't update this one, since the secondary rate limit checks are now correctly being handled on the abuse path with my changes. It might be worth updating it, or also even considering whether the distinction between the abuse and rate limit paths is so fuzzy that having both is just maintenance overhead. But that’s a different discussion.

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bitwiseman

This is a definite improvement.

It still needs tests. Look at the existing abuse limit tests, which use manually constructed test data. Maybe just add one more step to the existing test rather than adding a whole new test. Up to you.

src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GitHubAbuseLimitHandler.java

bitwiseman · 2024-07-07T17:16:36Z

src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandler.java

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public void onError(IOException e, HttpURLConnection uc) throws IOException {
        private long parseWaitTime(HttpURLConnection uc) {
            String v = uc.getHeaderField("Retry-After");
            if (v == null)
-                return 60 * 1000; // can't tell, return 1 min
+                return 61 * 1000; // can't tell, return 1 min plus 1 second for luck


Is there a functional reason for this?

The GitHub docs say "Otherwise, wait for at least one minute before retrying." I never know if the check is < 60s or <=60s, but it seems like waiting something that is unambiguously more than a minute is safest.

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holly-cummins · 2024-07-09T08:34:49Z

Oh good, I'm glad it looks sensible. I've added some tests and squashed.

src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandler.java

Co-Authored-By: Liam Newman <[email protected]>

bitwiseman · 2024-07-16T17:04:30Z

Please don't squash/force-push. We can squash when merging the PR.

bitwiseman

Test failure needs fixing.

… wiremock

holly-cummins · 2024-07-17T21:24:57Z

Test failure needs fixing.

Oops, sorry about that. And noted about the squashing - different orgs have different requirements, so I have a squash habit, but I'll keep the commits separate. I agree it does make subsequent reviews easier!

src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandlerTest.java

…ere retry-after is a date, and light refactoring

holly-cummins · 2024-07-30T20:01:31Z

The CI's failing because I didn't have enough coverage, even with the new test. To get the parseWaitTime method to be testable, I had to do a bit of refactoring to make it visible to the test code. I also added a new test to cover both paths, and then I realised that the original code could fail with a NumberFormatException, because Retry-After can be a date. So I added new code and tests to handle that case. I also did a bit of refactoring of the test code and removing assertions about the mock that I was pretty sure we definitely didn't care about.

bitwiseman

Sorry for the slow response cycle.

bitwiseman · 2024-08-05T16:53:43Z

src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandler.java

+        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
+            // The retry-after header could be a number in seconds, or an http-date
+            ZonedDateTime zdt = ZonedDateTime.parse(v, DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME);
+            return ChronoUnit.MILLIS.between(ZonedDateTime.now(), zdt);


GitHubClient has a method to get Date (or Instant).
https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/blob/main/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GitHubClient.java#L916

Unfortunately, diff from local machine time is not reliable. The local machine may not be synchronized with the server time. We have to use the diff from the response time.
https://github.com/hub4j/github-api/blob/main/src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/GHRateLimit.java#L543-L571

However, this PR is a huge step forward and I'd rather have this less than perfect code added than wait for the next release.

I'll approve and file an issue to fix this.

Thanks! (And thanks for explaining about the diff to the response time, that makes a lot of sense.)

Sure thing. If you have time to circle back and address #1909 , that would be awesome. Thanks for the great contribution!

src/main/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandler.java

src/test/java/org/kohsuke/github/AbuseLimitHandlerTest.java

holly-cummins changed the title ~~Accept 429 as an indication of the rate limit~~ Accept 429 as an indication of the secondary rate limit being exceeded Jul 4, 2024

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AbuseLimitHandler does not handle scenarios where the local time is not synchronized with GitHub server time #1909

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What about the rate limit handler?

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