add more test cases for retry on status code

libs/telemetry/upload.go

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package telemetry
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
@@ -83,49 +82,43 @@ func Upload(ctx context.Context) (*ResponseBody, error) {
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, maxUploadTime)
 	defer cancel()
 
-	maxRetries := 3
-	count := 0
-
 	resp := &ResponseBody{}
-	for {
-		select {
-		case <-ctx.Done():
-			return nil, errors.New("Failed to flush telemetry log due to timeout")
-
-		default:
-			// Proceed
-		}
-
-		count++
 
+	// Retry uploading logs a maximum of 3 times incase the uploads are partially successful.
+	for range 3 {
 		// Log the CLI telemetry events.
 		err := apiClient.Do(ctx, http.MethodPost, "/telemetry-ext", nil, nil, RequestBody{
 			UploadTime: time.Now().UnixMilli(),
-			Items:      []string{},
+			// There is a bug in the `/telemetry-ext` API which requires us to
-			ProtoLogs:  protoLogs,
+			// send an empty array for the `Items` field. Otherwise the API returns
+			// a 500.
+			Items:     []string{},
+			ProtoLogs: protoLogs,
 		}, resp)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to upload telemetry logs: %s\n", err)
 		}
 
+		// Skip retrying if the upload fails with an error.
 		if len(resp.Errors) > 0 {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to upload telemetry logs: %s\n", resp.Errors)
 		}
 
+		// All logs were uploaded successfully.
 		if resp.NumProtoSuccess == int64(len(in.Logs)) {
 			return resp, nil
 		}
 
-		// We retry if the logs were partially uploaded. Subsequent retries have
-		// a chance of uploading all logs successfully. However we limit the number
-		// of retries to avoid excessive load on the telemetry endpoint.
-		if count > maxRetries {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to upload all telemetry logs after 4 tries. Only %d/%d logs uploaded", resp.NumProtoSuccess, len(in.Logs))
-		}
-
 		// Add a delay of 1 second before retrying. We avoid retrying immediately
 		// to avoid overwhelming the telemetry endpoint.
+		// We only return incase of partial successful uploads. The SDK layer takes
+		// care of retrying in case of retriable status codes.
+		//
+		// TODO: I think I was wrong about the SDKs automatically doing retries.
+		// Look into this more and confirm with ankit what the 5xx status codes are.
+		// TODO: Confirm that the timeout of a request here is indeed one minute.
 		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
-
 	}
+
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("Failed to upload all telemetry logs after 4 tries. Only %d/%d logs uploaded", resp.NumProtoSuccess, len(in.Logs))
 }

libs/telemetry/upload_test.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/databricks/cli/internal/testutil"
 	"github.com/databricks/cli/libs/telemetry/protos"
 	"github.com/databricks/cli/libs/testserver"
+	"github.com/databricks/databricks-sdk-go/apierr"
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ func configureStdin(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
-func TestTelemetryUploadRetries(t *testing.T) {
+func TestTelemetryUploadRetriesOnPartialSuccess(t *testing.T) {
 	server := testserver.New(t)
 	t.Cleanup(server.Close)
 
@@ -88,6 +89,51 @@ func TestTelemetryUploadRetries(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, 2, count)
 }
 
+func uploadRetriesFor(t *testing.T, statusCode int) {
+	server := testserver.New(t)
+	t.Cleanup(server.Close)
+
+	count := 0
+	server.Handle("POST", "/telemetry-ext", func(req testserver.Request) any {
+		count++
+		if count == 1 {
+			return testserver.Response{
+				StatusCode: statusCode,
+				Body: apierr.APIError{
+					StatusCode: statusCode,
+					Message:    "Some error",
+				},
+			}
+		}
+		if count == 2 {
+			return ResponseBody{
+				NumProtoSuccess: 2,
+			}
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+
+	t.Setenv("DATABRICKS_HOST", server.URL)
+	t.Setenv("DATABRICKS_TOKEN", "token")
+
+	configureStdin(t)
+
+	resp, err := Upload(context.Background())
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	assert.Equal(t, int64(2), resp.NumProtoSuccess)
+	assert.Equal(t, 2, count)
+}
+
+// TODO: Confirm that the SDK always parses non-200 status codes as apierr.APIError.
+// Only then is this reliable.
+func TestTelemetryUploadRetriesForStatusCodes(t *testing.T) {
+	// Note: The SDK retries automatically for 429 and 503.
+	// TODO: Are there other status codes we need to retry on? Do we need custom
+	// handler for them?
+	uploadRetriesFor(t, 503)
+	uploadRetriesFor(t, 429)
+}
+
 func TestTelemetryUploadCanceled(t *testing.T) {
 	server := testserver.New(t)
 	t.Cleanup(server.Close)