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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE +SOFTWARE. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/README.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d165f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +# resilience4j-circuit-breaker + +Companion module for the ankurm.com post [**"Resilience4j Circuit Breaker in Spring Boot 4.1: +What It's Still For"**](https://ankurm.com/resilience4j-circuit-breaker-spring-boot/). Every +claim in the post about the new `@Retryable`/`@ConcurrencyLimit` API in Spring Framework 7, and +about how it does and doesn't overlap with Resilience4j, is backed by a file under +`docs/output/` produced by a real test run against real Maven Central artifacts. + +Lives in this container repo (not as its own top-level repository) alongside +[`../resilience`](../resilience), the companion module for the sibling post on Framework 7's +built-in `@Retryable`/`@ConcurrencyLimit`. The two modules overlap in theme by design — this one +is entered from "I want a circuit breaker," that one from "what did Framework 7 just ship" — and +intentionally keep separate demo apps rather than sharing one, since each post's transcripts need +to stay independently reproducible from its own module. + +## Versions (verified against `repo1.maven.org` maven-metadata.xml, not aggregators) + +| Component | Version | Notes | +|---|---|---| +| JDK | 25 (Temurin 25.0.4.1+1) | latest LTS | +| Spring Boot | 4.1.1 | latest GA at time of writing; 4.2.0-M1 exists but is a milestone | +| Spring Framework | 7.0.9 | latest GA; 7.1.0-M1 exists but is a milestone | +| Resilience4j | 2.4.0 (`resilience4j-spring-boot4`) | depends internally on `resilience4j-spring6`, not a "spring7" module — see [docs/01](docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md) | + +## Quickstart + +```bash +./scripts/run-all.sh # regenerates every file in docs/output/ from a real test run +./scripts/run.sh # starts the app on :8080 to poke at by hand +curl localhost:8080/actuator/health +curl localhost:8080/actuator/circuitbreakers +``` + +Requires JDK 25 and Maven. First run must be online (Maven needs to fetch plugins into the +local cache); `-o` works for subsequent builds. + +## What's demonstrated where + +| Area | Source | Test | Transcript | +|---|---|---|---| +| Resilience4j circuit breaker: trip, stay open, half-open, recover | [`R4jPaymentService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java) | [`CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest`](src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java) | [`01`](docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt) | +| `@Retryable`: recovers from transient failure | [`SpringRetryablePaymentService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryablePaymentService.java) | [`SpringRetryableTest`](src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryableTest.java) | [`03a`](docs/output/03a-retryable-recovers.txt) | +| `@Retryable`: no memory between calls | same | same | [`03b`](docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt) | +| `@Retryable`: self-invocation trap | same | same | [`03c`](docs/output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt) | +| Resilience4j `@Retry` side-by-side (`maxAttempts` counts differently than `maxRetries`) | [`R4jRetryService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryService.java) | [`R4jRetryTest`](src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryTest.java) | [`03d`](docs/output/03d-r4j-retry.txt), [`03e`](docs/output/03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt) | +| `@ConcurrencyLimit` BLOCK policy | [`ConcurrencyLimitedService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitedService.java) | [`ConcurrencyLimitTest`](src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitTest.java) | [`04a`](docs/output/04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt) | +| `@ConcurrencyLimit` REJECT policy | same | same | [`04b`](docs/output/04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt) | +| Resilience4j `@Bulkhead` (bounded wait) for comparison | [`R4jBulkheadService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jBulkheadService.java) | same | [`04c`](docs/output/04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt) | +| Real `/actuator/health` + `/actuator/circuitbreakers` with a breaker OPEN | [`R4jPaymentService`](src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java) | [`ActuatorHealthTest`](src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/ActuatorHealthTest.java) | [`05`](docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt) | + +## Endpoints (from `scripts/run.sh`) + +| Endpoint | Purpose | +|---|---| +| `GET /actuator/health` | includes circuit breaker health when `management.health.circuitbreakers.enabled=true` | +| `GET /actuator/circuitbreakers` | live circuit breaker state | +| `GET /actuator/circuitbreakerevents` | event stream of state transitions | +| `GET /actuator/metrics` | includes `resilience4j.circuitbreaker.*` Micrometer series | + +There is no custom diagnostic endpoint in this repo — the standard Actuator set above already +exposes everything the post needed, so nothing has to be deleted before shipping. + +**Note on `/actuator/health` in 2.4.0:** with `management.endpoint.health.show-details: always`, +`/actuator/health` reports only an aggregate `"circuitBreakers":{"status":"UNKNOWN"}` — no +per-instance breakdown. The per-breaker detail (`state`, `failureRate`, `bufferedCalls`, etc.) +lives at `/actuator/circuitbreakers` instead. Real captured output of both, side by side, with +the breaker actually OPEN: [docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt](docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt). + +## Documentation chapters + +1. [Two resilience stacks on one classpath](docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md) — what moved into + Spring Framework 7 core, what didn't, and two build breaks you'll hit getting there +2. [The circuit breaker, verified](docs/02-circuit-breaker.md) +3. [@Retryable: retries, but no memory](docs/03-spring-retryable.md) +4. [@ConcurrencyLimit vs Resilience4j's Bulkhead](docs/04-concurrency-limit.md) +5. [Production checklist: which one, for what](docs/05-production-checklist.md) + +## License + +MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/broken-example/pom.xml b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/broken-example/pom.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66c9afa --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/broken-example/pom.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ + + + + 4.0.0 + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-parent + 4.1.1 + + + com.ankurm + break-demo + 1.0.0 + + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-aop + + + diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c85993a --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +# 1. Two resilience stacks on one classpath + +[README](../README.md) | Next: [02-circuit-breaker.md](02-circuit-breaker.md) + +Spring Boot 4.1 sits on Spring Framework 7, and Framework 7 shipped something new under +`org.springframework.resilience`: `@Retryable`, `@ConcurrencyLimit`, and the annotation that +turns them on, `@EnableResilientMethods`. None of this existed in Framework 6. This repo pins +down exactly what moved into core, what didn't, and two build breaks you will hit the moment +you try to wire it up on Boot 4 — both found by running the build, not by reading a changelog. + +## What's actually in core (verified by `javap`, not by the reference docs) + +`org.springframework.resilience.annotation.Retryable` (an annotation, not the unrelated +`org.springframework.core.retry.Retryable` *interface* that also ships in `spring-core` — two +classes with the same simple name in the same major version, easy to import the wrong one): + +``` +value(), includes(), excludes(), predicate(), +maxRetries(), maxRetriesString(), +timeout(), timeoutString(), +delay(), delayString(), +jitter(), jitterString(), +multiplier(), multiplierString(), +maxDelay(), maxDelayString(), +timeUnit() +``` + +`org.springframework.resilience.annotation.ConcurrencyLimit`: + +``` +value(), limit(), limitString(), policy() // policy: BLOCK (default) or REJECT +``` + +Neither annotation has a `fallbackMethod` attribute. Retrying exhausted just rethrows. +Rejecting under `REJECT` throws `org.springframework.resilience.InvocationRejectedException` +(a `java.util.concurrent.RejectedExecutionException` subtype) straight at the caller. + +There is no circuit breaker class anywhere in `spring-context-7.0.9.jar` (grepped the whole +jar listing for `circuitbreaker`, `ratelimit`, `bulkhead` — zero matches). `@ConcurrencyLimit` +is the closest core has to a Resilience4j Bulkhead, and even that is a decades-old class +repurposed: `ConcurrencyLimitBeanPostProcessor$ResilienceConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor` +extends `org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor`, which has shipped +in Spring since the 1.x era. + +## `@EnableResilientMethods` is not automatic + +Spring Boot 4.1's autoconfigure jar carries no auto-configuration for the resilience package — +grepping `spring-boot-autoconfigure-4.1.1.jar`'s listing for "resilien" returns nothing. You +must put `@EnableResilientMethods` on a `@Configuration` class yourself (this repo puts it on +the `@SpringBootApplication` class). Skip it and the annotations are inert: no error, no log +line, the method just runs unprotected. + +## Build break #1: `spring-boot-starter-aop` no longer exists + +Every pre-Boot-4 Resilience4j guide, including the version of this post it replaces, tells you +to add `spring-boot-starter-aop`. On Boot 4 that dependency breaks the build outright: + +``` +[ERROR] 'dependencies.dependency.version' for org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop:jar is missing. +``` + +`repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-starter-aop/maven-metadata.xml` +confirms it: the last version ever published is `4.0.0-M2`, a milestone. It never reached +Boot 4.0 GA and was not revived for 4.1. The fix is `org.springframework:spring-aop` directly — +see [pom.xml](../pom.xml). + +## Build break #2 (silent): no `aspectjweaver`, no proxy, no error + +Swapping in `spring-aop` alone gets you a clean build and a **wrong result**. Resilience4j's +Spring integration (`resilience4j-spring6`, which is what `resilience4j-spring-boot4` actually +depends on — see below) implements `CircuitBreakerAspect`, `BulkheadAspect`, `RateLimiterAspect` +and friends as real `@Aspect` classes (confirmed with `unzip -l` on the jar). Spring's +`AnnotationAwareAspectJAutoProxyCreator` needs `org.aspectj:aspectjweaver` on the classpath to +even recognise a bean as an aspect. Without it, **zero proxies get created, for anything** — +Resilience4j's annotations and Spring's own `@Retryable` both go completely inert, silently. + +That is exactly what happened building this repo: `CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest` failed +with the raw `DownstreamUnavailableException` propagating straight out of `R4jPaymentService`, +no fallback, no state tracking — because there was no proxy in front of it at all. Adding +`org.aspectj:aspectjweaver` fixed every failing test in the same run. `spring-boot-starter-aop` +used to bundle this for you; its replacement doesn't, and nothing tells you that. + +## A naming trap in the dependency itself + +`resilience4j-spring-boot4` is a real, separate artifact from `resilience4j-spring-boot3` +(both currently at `2.4.0`) — but its own POM depends on `resilience4j-spring6`, `spring-core +7.0.2`, `spring-context 7.0.2` and `spring-boot-autoconfigure 4.0.0`. The "spring-boot4" in the +artifact name is about which *Boot* generation it targets, not which internal Resilience4j +module version it's built on — that module never got renamed to "spring7". If you're grepping +your dependency tree for "spring7" expecting to find the pieces Boot 4.1 pulls in, you won't. + +Next: [02-circuit-breaker.md](02-circuit-breaker.md) — the Resilience4j side, verified against +a real trip/recover run. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/02-circuit-breaker.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/02-circuit-breaker.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2833d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/02-circuit-breaker.md @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +# 2. The circuit breaker, verified + +[Previous: 01-two-resilience-stacks.md](01-two-resilience-stacks.md) | [README](../README.md) | Next: [03-spring-retryable.md](03-spring-retryable.md) + +Source: [`R4jPaymentService.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java). +Config: [`application.yml`](../src/main/resources/application.yml). +Test: [`CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java). +Transcript: [`docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt`](output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt). + +## The state machine + +``` +CLOSED --(failure rate >= threshold, over >= minimumNumberOfCalls)--> OPEN +OPEN --(waitDurationInOpenState elapses)--> HALF_OPEN +HALF_OPEN --(permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState calls all succeed)--> CLOSED +HALF_OPEN --(a probe call fails)--> OPEN +``` + +This repo's config: `slidingWindowSize=10`, `minimumNumberOfCalls=5`, `failureRateThreshold=50`, +`waitDurationInOpenState=2s`, `permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState=2`. + +## What the transcript actually shows + +Calls 1-5 against a dead downstream: each one really calls the downstream, gets a +`DownstreamUnavailableException`, and the fallback method runs. By call 5 the breaker has seen +5 calls (the configured minimum) at a 100% failure rate and flips to `OPEN`. Call 6 is the +first call that does **not** touch the downstream at all — it gets `CallNotPermittedException` +instead, straight from the breaker, before `R4jPaymentService.pay()`'s body ever runs. + +Calls 7-9 (phase 2 in the transcript) confirm the downstream call counter is frozen at 5 for +the rest of the OPEN period — three more calls, zero more downstream traffic. This is the +property `@Retryable` cannot offer on its own (see [chapter 3](03-spring-retryable.md)): a +circuit breaker remembers that the dependency is down and stops asking. + +After `waitDurationInOpenState` (2s; the test waits 2.2s to be safely past it) the breaker +allows exactly `permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState` probe calls through. The downstream was +reconfigured to succeed by then, both probes pass, and the breaker closes. + +## `minimumNumberOfCalls` and why it exists + +A fresh breaker with one failed call and no `minimumNumberOfCalls` floor would trip on pure +noise — one deployment-time connection refused, one cold JVM. `minimumNumberOfCalls=5` here +means the first four failures cannot trip anything by themselves; the breaker needs a real +sample before it judges the dependency. + +## Actuator health vs the circuitbreakers endpoint + +With `management.endpoint.health.show-details: always`, `GET /actuator/health` reports only an +aggregate `"circuitBreakers":{"status":"UNKNOWN"}` in this version — no per-instance detail. +The full breakdown (`state`, `failureRate`, `bufferedCalls`, `notPermittedCalls`, ...) is at +`GET /actuator/circuitbreakers` instead. Both captured live, breaker actually OPEN, via +[`ActuatorHealthTest.java`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/ActuatorHealthTest.java): +[`05-actuator-health-tripped.txt`](output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt). + +- Resilience4j reference: [CircuitBreaker](https://resilience4j.readme.io/docs/circuitbreaker) (`rel=nofollow`) +- The actual states and transition rules, from the CircuitBreaker interface itself, are worth + reading directly rather than from a diagram: `io.github.resilience4j.circuitbreaker.CircuitBreaker.State`. + +Next: [03-spring-retryable.md](03-spring-retryable.md). diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/03-spring-retryable.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/03-spring-retryable.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a78bcc --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/03-spring-retryable.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +# 3. @Retryable: retries, but no memory + +[Previous: 02-circuit-breaker.md](02-circuit-breaker.md) | [README](../README.md) | Next: [04-concurrency-limit.md](04-concurrency-limit.md) + +Source: [`SpringRetryablePaymentService.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryablePaymentService.java). +Tests: [`SpringRetryableTest.java`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryableTest.java). +Transcripts: [`03a`](output/03a-retryable-recovers.txt), [`03b`](output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt), [`03c`](output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt). + +## The annotation + +```java +@Retryable(maxRetries = 3, delay = 200, multiplier = 2.0, timeUnit = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) +public String pay(String orderId) { + return downstream.call(); +} +``` + +`maxRetries` is retries *after* the initial attempt, so `maxRetries=3` means up to 4 total +attempts — confirmed by `03b-retryable-no-memory.txt`, where a permanently-dead downstream is +called exactly 4 times per top-level `pay()` call. `delay`/`multiplier` give exponential +backoff (200ms, then 400ms, matching the ~603ms elapsed time in `03a` for a call that succeeds +on its 3rd attempt); `jitter` and `maxDelay` exist for the same reasons Resilience4j's +`Retry.retryExceptions`-style config has them, but this repo doesn't exercise them — see the +attribute list in [chapter 1](01-two-resilience-stacks.md). + +There is no `fallbackMethod`. When retries are exhausted, the original exception is rethrown to +the caller as-is (`03b` asserts the thrown type is `FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException`, +not some wrapper). + +## The no-memory problem, demonstrated + +`03b-retryable-no-memory.txt` calls `pay("order-A")` against a downstream that never recovers, +exhausts all 4 attempts, and throws. It then calls `pay("order-B")` — a completely separate +top-level call — immediately after. The transcript shows **another 4 downstream calls**, not +zero. Compare with [`01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt`](output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt): after a +Resilience4j breaker trips, calls 7 through 9 add zero downstream traffic, because the breaker +carries state between calls that `@Retryable` structurally cannot: each invocation gets its own +fresh `RetryPolicy` execution with no memory of the last one. + +This is not a bug in `@Retryable` — it is not trying to be a circuit breaker. It is the +specific gap the post is about: retry-with-backoff moved into core, but "stop calling a +dependency you already know is down" did not. + +## Same word, different arithmetic + +Resilience4j's own `@Retry` sits right next to `@Retryable` in this repo for a direct +comparison: [`R4jRetryService.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryService.java), +[`R4jRetryTest.java`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryTest.java). +[`03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt`](output/03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt) configures +`maxAttempts=3` against a permanently-dead downstream and counts exactly 3 calls before it +gives up. Core's `@Retryable(maxRetries=3)` against the same permanently-dead downstream +(`03b`) makes 4 calls. Resilience4j's `maxAttempts` counts the initial call; core's `maxRetries` +does not. Porting a number from one config to the other by name alone is off by one. + +## The self-invocation trap still applies + +`@Retryable` is proxy-based, exactly like Resilience4j's annotations, exactly like Spring's own +`@Transactional` and `@Async`. Calling an annotated method on `this` from inside the same bean +bypasses the proxy: [`03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt`](output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt) +shows `payViaSelfInvocation()` making exactly one downstream call before throwing — no retry at +all — because `this.pay(...)` never goes through the advised bean. If you've been burned by this +with Resilience4j before, moving to core Spring buys you nothing here: same proxy model, same trap. + +Next: [04-concurrency-limit.md](04-concurrency-limit.md). diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/04-concurrency-limit.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/04-concurrency-limit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a04450 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/04-concurrency-limit.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# 4. @ConcurrencyLimit vs Resilience4j's Bulkhead + +[Previous: 03-spring-retryable.md](03-spring-retryable.md) | [README](../README.md) | Next: [05-production-checklist.md](05-production-checklist.md) + +Source: [`ConcurrencyLimitedService.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitedService.java), +[`R4jBulkheadService.java`](../src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jBulkheadService.java). +Tests: [`ConcurrencyLimitTest.java`](../src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitTest.java). +Transcripts: [`04a`](output/04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt), [`04b`](output/04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt), [`04c`](output/04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt). + +Both cap concurrent invocations of one method at 2. Both were hit with 4 concurrent callers, +each holding its slot for 300ms, in the same test run. + +## BLOCK: queue, no timeout + +`04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt`: all 4 callers succeed. Sorted completion times were +`[300, 300, 597, 600]` ms — two callers finish almost immediately, the other two only after a +slot frees, for a total wall time of ~601ms instead of the ~300ms it would take with no limit +at all. There is no attribute on `@ConcurrencyLimit` to bound how long a blocked caller waits; +it queues until a slot opens, however long that takes. + +## REJECT: fail fast, no queue + +`04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt`, `policy = ConcurrencyLimit.ThrottlePolicy.REJECT`: 2 callers +succeed in ~300ms, and the other 2 are rejected in ~0ms — not made to wait at all. The exception +is `org.springframework.resilience.InvocationRejectedException`, found with `javap` on +`ConcurrencyLimitBeanPostProcessor$RejectingConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor.onAccessRejected` — +it is not documented on the `@ConcurrencyLimit` annotation itself. + +## What Resilience4j's Bulkhead adds: a bounded wait + +`04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt` runs the identical 4-caller/300ms scenario against a +Resilience4j `@Bulkhead(maxConcurrentCalls=2, maxWaitDuration=100ms)`. Two callers finish +normally around 300ms; the other two wait up to `maxWaitDuration` (observed: 111ms and 117ms, +close to the configured 100ms) and are rejected via the fallback method — a third option that +sits between Spring's BLOCK (wait forever) and REJECT (never wait): **wait, but only briefly**. +Neither `@ConcurrencyLimit` policy offers that middle ground. + +
Picking between them. If you want callers to queue briefly rather than either wait forever or fail instantly, Resilience4j's Bulkhead with a short maxWaitDuration is still the only one of the three that does it. If unlimited blocking is actually fine — e.g. limiting concurrent writers to a single-threaded resource — @ConcurrencyLimit's BLOCK policy is one annotation and one less dependency.
+ +Next: [05-production-checklist.md](05-production-checklist.md). diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/05-production-checklist.md b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/05-production-checklist.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b46aa00 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/05-production-checklist.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +# 5. Production checklist: which one, for what + +[Previous: 04-concurrency-limit.md](04-concurrency-limit.md) | [README](../README.md) + +A decision list, built from what chapters 1-4 actually demonstrated rather than from either +library's marketing: + +- **Need a circuit breaker (state that remembers a dependency is down across calls)?** + Resilience4j. Nothing in Spring Framework 7 core does this — verified by grepping + `spring-context-7.0.9.jar` for `circuitbreaker` (zero matches). See [chapter 1](01-two-resilience-stacks.md). +- **Need declarative retry with backoff, and don't already depend on Resilience4j?** + `@Retryable` from core is genuinely enough — one annotation, no extra dependency, verified + attribute set in [chapter 1](01-two-resilience-stacks.md). Remember it has no fallback and no + memory between calls ([chapter 3](03-spring-retryable.md)). +- **Need a rate limiter (calls per second, not concurrent calls)?** Resilience4j. There is no + rate limiter in Framework 7 core at all. +- **Need to cap concurrency, and unlimited blocking for the overflow is acceptable?** + `@ConcurrencyLimit(policy = BLOCK)` — one annotation. +- **Need to cap concurrency with a bounded wait before giving up?** Resilience4j's Bulkhead + with `maxWaitDuration` — `@ConcurrencyLimit` has no equivalent ([chapter 4](04-concurrency-limit.md)). +- **Need Actuator health/metrics integration, a dashboard, Micrometer gauges per instance?** + Resilience4j — `management.health.circuitbreakers.enabled=true` and the + `resilience4j_circuitbreaker_*` Micrometer series have no equivalent for the core annotations. +- **Migrating off Resilience4j specifically to cut a dependency?** You can drop it only for the + retry and simple-throttle cases above. Circuit breaking and rate limiting are not replaced; + they're just gone if you remove the dependency. + +## Gotchas that apply to both, not just one + +- `@EnableResilientMethods` is not auto-configured by Boot 4.1 — add it yourself ([chapter 1](01-two-resilience-stacks.md)). +- `spring-boot-starter-aop` does not exist on Boot 4 — use `spring-aop` directly, and add + `aspectjweaver` explicitly if you're using Resilience4j's `@Aspect`-based integration, or + the annotations will silently do nothing ([chapter 1](01-two-resilience-stacks.md)). +- Self-invocation bypasses both, silently, the same way it always has for `@Transactional` and + `@Async` ([chapter 3](03-spring-retryable.md)). + +## Before shipping this repo's app + +Nothing here needs removing before production — there's no diagnostic endpoint exposing +internals, just the standard Actuator `health`/`metrics`/`circuitbreakers` set, which is meant +to be exposed (behind auth) in production anyway. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4582045 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +[ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs: +[ERROR] 'dependencies.dependency.version' for org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop:jar is missing. @ line 19, column 17 + @ +[ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] +[ERROR] +[ERROR] The project com.ankurm:break-demo:1.0.0 (/home/claude/work/repos/resilience-boot4-demo/broken-example/pom.xml) has 1 error +[ERROR] 'dependencies.dependency.version' for org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop:jar is missing. @ line 19, column 17 +[ERROR] +[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. +[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. +[ERROR] +[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: +[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc2d17f --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Resilience4j circuit breaker: trip, stay open, half-open, recover +================================================================= +Config: slidingWindowSize=10, minimumNumberOfCalls=5, failureRateThreshold=50%, waitDurationInOpenState=2s + +-- Phase 1: 6 calls against a dead downstream (only 6, to satisfy minimumNumberOfCalls=5) -- +call 1 -> FALLBACK for order-1: DownstreamUnavailableException - payment-gateway rejected call #1 [breaker state=CLOSED] +call 2 -> FALLBACK for order-2: DownstreamUnavailableException - payment-gateway rejected call #2 [breaker state=CLOSED] +call 3 -> FALLBACK for order-3: DownstreamUnavailableException - payment-gateway rejected call #3 [breaker state=CLOSED] +call 4 -> FALLBACK for order-4: DownstreamUnavailableException - payment-gateway rejected call #4 [breaker state=CLOSED] +call 5 -> FALLBACK for order-5: DownstreamUnavailableException - payment-gateway rejected call #5 [breaker state=OPEN] +call 6 -> FALLBACK for order-6: CallNotPermittedException - CircuitBreaker 'paymentService' is OPEN and does not permit further calls [breaker state=OPEN] + +Breaker state after 6 failing calls: OPEN (downstream was actually called 5 times) + +-- Phase 2: 3 more calls while OPEN — these must NOT reach the downstream -- +call 7 -> FALLBACK for order-7: CallNotPermittedException - CircuitBreaker 'paymentService' is OPEN and does not permit further calls [breaker state=OPEN, downstream calls so far=5] +call 8 -> FALLBACK for order-8: CallNotPermittedException - CircuitBreaker 'paymentService' is OPEN and does not permit further calls [breaker state=OPEN, downstream calls so far=5] +call 9 -> FALLBACK for order-9: CallNotPermittedException - CircuitBreaker 'paymentService' is OPEN and does not permit further calls [breaker state=OPEN, downstream calls so far=5] +Downstream call count unchanged (5) -- the breaker short-circuited all 3 calls without touching the downstream. + +-- Phase 3: wait 2.2s for waitDurationInOpenState, downstream now recovers, probe with permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState=2 -- +half-open probe 1 -> OK (call #1) [breaker state=HALF_OPEN] +half-open probe 2 -> OK (call #2) [breaker state=CLOSED] +Breaker state after 2 successful half-open probes: CLOSED diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03a-retryable-recovers.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03a-retryable-recovers.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12040b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03a-retryable-recovers.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +@Retryable(maxRetries=3, delay=200ms, multiplier=2.0): recovering from 2 transient failures +=========================================================================================== +downstream configured to fail its first 2 calls, then succeed +result: OK (call #3) +downstream was actually called 3 times +elapsed: ~601ms (expect >= 200ms delay before the 2nd attempt, plus backoff before the 3rd) diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cde47b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +@Retryable against a permanently-dead downstream: two consecutive calls, no shared state +======================================================================================== +-- Call 1: pay("order-A") -- +threw FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException after exhausting retries +downstream calls so far: 4 (1 initial attempt + 3 retries = 4 expected) + +-- Call 2: pay("order-B"), immediately after Call 1 exhausted its retries -- +downstream calls so far: 8 (another 4 attempts, not fast-failed) + +Contrast with docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt: there, calls 7-9 after the trip +added ZERO downstream calls. Here, call 2 pays the same 4-attempt cost as call 1. +@Retryable has no OPEN state -- it cannot tell you 'this dependency is currently down'. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..41deeed --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +@Retryable via self-invocation: the AOP proxy trap, same one that bites Resilience4j +==================================================================================== +Calling payViaSelfInvocation(...), which calls this.pay(...) from inside the same bean. +downstream calls: 1 (expected 1 -- no retry happened; the proxy was bypassed) diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03d-r4j-retry.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03d-r4j-retry.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..047332f --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03d-r4j-retry.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Resilience4j @Retry(maxAttempts=3, waitDuration=200ms, exponentialBackoffMultiplier=2): recovering from 1 transient failure +=========================================================================================================================== +downstream configured to fail its first call, then succeed +result: OK (call #2) +downstream was actually called 2 times +elapsed: ~206ms (expect >= 200ms wait before the 2nd attempt) diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a6d614 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Resilience4j @Retry(maxAttempts=3) against a permanently-dead downstream: counting convention +============================================================================================= +maxAttempts=3, downstream permanently down +downstream calls before giving up: 3 +Resilience4j's maxAttempts is the TOTAL call count (initial attempt included): 3, not 4. +Core's @Retryable(maxRetries=3) is 3 retries AFTER the initial attempt: 4 total +(see docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt). Same-sounding config, different arithmetic -- +porting a maxRetries value from one to the other by name alone is off by one. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1bd862 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +@ConcurrencyLimit(limit=2, policy=BLOCK), 4 concurrent callers, each sleeps 300ms +================================================================================= +per-caller completion time (ms), sorted: [300, 300, 598, 600] +total wall time for all 4 callers: 601ms +all 4 calls succeeded (BLOCK never rejects): true +expectation: with limit=2 and 300ms per call, 4 callers must take roughly 2x300=600ms+, +not ~300ms as they would with no limit at all. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5fcdadf --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +@ConcurrencyLimit(limit=2, policy=REJECT), 4 concurrent callers, each sleeps 300ms +================================================================================== +OK in 301ms +REJECTED (InvocationRejectedException) in 0ms +OK in 300ms +REJECTED (InvocationRejectedException) in 0ms + +OK: 2, REJECTED: 2 (expected 2 and 2 with limit=2, 4 callers) +Rejection throws org.springframework.resilience.InvocationRejectedException +(a RejectedExecutionException subtype) -- confirmed by javap, not documented on the annotation itself. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7584c64 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Resilience4j @Bulkhead(maxConcurrentCalls=2, maxWaitDuration=100ms), same 4-caller/300ms shape +============================================================================================== +REJECTED:c0 in 112ms +done:c1 in 307ms +done:c2 in 303ms +REJECTED:c3 in 101ms + +REJECTED count: 2 -- these callers waited up to maxWaitDuration=100ms for a slot, +then gave up and ran the fallback method, instead of blocking indefinitely like @ConcurrencyLimit's BLOCK policy. diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ce8f2a --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Real /actuator/health and /actuator/circuitbreakers, captured over HTTP with the breaker actually OPEN +====================================================================================================== +-- GET /actuator/health -- +{"components":{"circuitBreakers":{"status":"UNKNOWN"},"diskSpace":{"details":{"total":270553174016,"free":31630450688,"threshold":10485760,"path":"/home/claude/work/repos/spring-boot-demo-clone/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/.","exists":true},"status":"UP"},"livenessState":{"status":"UP"},"ping":{"status":"UP"},"readinessState":{"status":"UP"},"ssl":{"details":{"expiringChains":[],"invalidChains":[],"validChains":[]},"status":"UP"}},"groups":["liveness","readiness"],"status":"UP"} + +-- GET /actuator/circuitbreakers -- +{"circuitBreakers":{"paymentService":{"bufferedCalls":5,"failedCalls":5,"failureRate":"100.0%","failureRateThreshold":"50.0%","notPermittedCalls":1,"slowCallRate":"0.0%","slowCallRateThreshold":"100.0%","slowCalls":0,"slowFailedCalls":0,"state":"OPEN"}}} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/pom.xml b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/pom.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6b2dd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/pom.xml @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ + + + 4.0.0 + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-parent + 4.1.1 + + + + com.ankurm + resilience-boot4-demo + 1.0.0 + resilience-boot4-demo + Resilience4j vs Spring Framework 7's built-in @Retryable/@ConcurrencyLimit, on Spring Boot 4.1 + + + 25 + 2.4.0 + + + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-web + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-actuator + + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-aspectj + + + + + io.github.resilience4j + resilience4j-spring-boot4 + ${resilience4j.version} + + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-starter-test + test + + + + + + + org.springframework.boot + spring-boot-maven-plugin + + + + diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/reproduce-starter-aop-break.sh b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/reproduce-starter-aop-break.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..aa3043c --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/reproduce-starter-aop-break.sh @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Reproduces, and captures, the real build error from adding spring-boot-starter-aop +# on Spring Boot 4.1 -- the dependency every pre-Boot-4 Resilience4j guide tells you to add. +set -uo pipefail +cd "$(dirname "$0")/../broken-example" +mvn -B -q compile 2>&1 | grep -v '^Picked up\|^WARNING' > ../docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt +echo "captured to docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt:" +cat ../docs/output/00-starter-aop-build-error.txt diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run-all.sh b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run-all.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..0b040ee --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run-all.sh @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Regenerates every file under docs/output/ from a real test run. +# Requires JDK 25 on PATH (or JAVA_HOME set to a JDK 25 install) and Maven. +set -euo pipefail +cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." +mvn -q -B test +echo "docs/output/ regenerated:" +ls -1 docs/output diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run.sh b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..35baf5d --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/scripts/run.sh @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +#!/usr/bin/env bash +# Starts the app so you can poke at it by hand: curl localhost:8080/actuator/health, +# curl localhost:8080/actuator/circuitbreakers, etc. Kills any previous instance first. +set -euo pipefail +cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." +for p in $(ps -eo pid,cmd | grep '[R]esilienceBoot4DemoApplication' | awk '{print $1}'); do + kill -9 "$p" || true +done +setsid nohup mvn -B -q org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:run \ + > /tmp/resilience-boot4-demo.log 2>&1 < /dev/null & +echo "starting, waiting for :8080/actuator/health ..." +for i in $(seq 1 60); do + if curl -s -o /dev/null localhost:8080/actuator/health; then + echo "up." + exit 0 + fi + sleep 2 +done +echo "did not come up in 120s -- check /tmp/resilience-boot4-demo.log" +exit 1 diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/FlakyDownstream.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/FlakyDownstream.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..861693f --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/FlakyDownstream.java @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience; + +import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; + +import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger; + +/** + * A downstream call whose failure pattern is controlled by the test, not by chance. + * A deterministic fake beats a flaky "randomly fails 30% of the time" for teaching: + * the reader can predict exactly which call will fail and check the transcript against it. + * + * See docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md. + */ +@Component +public class FlakyDownstream { + + private final AtomicInteger callCount = new AtomicInteger(); + + /** Calls 1..failUntilInclusive throw; calls after that succeed. Set failUntilInclusive + * to Integer.MAX_VALUE to simulate a downstream that never recovers. */ + private volatile int failUntilInclusive = 0; + + public void configure(int failUntilInclusive) { + this.failUntilInclusive = failUntilInclusive; + this.callCount.set(0); + } + + public void reset() { + this.callCount.set(0); + } + + public int callsSoFar() { + return callCount.get(); + } + + /** The call every service in this repo ultimately makes. */ + public String call() { + int n = callCount.incrementAndGet(); + if (n <= failUntilInclusive) { + throw new DownstreamUnavailableException("payment-gateway rejected call #" + n); + } + return "OK (call #" + n + ")"; + } + + public static class DownstreamUnavailableException extends RuntimeException { + public DownstreamUnavailableException(String message) { + super(message); + } + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/ResilienceBoot4DemoApplication.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/ResilienceBoot4DemoApplication.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cd543ae --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/ResilienceBoot4DemoApplication.java @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience; + +import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication; +import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication; +import org.springframework.resilience.annotation.EnableResilientMethods; + +/** + * Companion app for the ankurm.com post "Resilience4j on Spring Boot 4.1: what it's still for". + * + *

{@code @EnableResilientMethods} is required explicitly — Spring Boot 4.1's + * autoconfigure jar carries no auto-configuration class for it (verified by grepping + * spring-boot-autoconfigure-4.1.1.jar for "resilien": zero matches). The annotations + * only start intercepting once this is present on a configuration class. + * + * See docs/01-two-resilience-stacks.md. + */ +@SpringBootApplication +@EnableResilientMethods +public class ResilienceBoot4DemoApplication { + public static void main(String[] args) { + SpringApplication.run(ResilienceBoot4DemoApplication.class, args); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jBulkheadService.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jBulkheadService.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6e09ff --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jBulkheadService.java @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import io.github.resilience4j.bulkhead.BulkheadFullException; +import io.github.resilience4j.bulkhead.annotation.Bulkhead; +import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; + +/** + * Resilience4j's semaphore Bulkhead, for direct comparison with Spring's + * {@code @ConcurrencyLimit}. Config: resilience4j.bulkhead.instances.slowOp in application.yml, + * maxWaitDuration: 100ms — a bounded wait, which {@code @ConcurrencyLimit}'s BLOCK policy does + * not offer. See docs/04-concurrency-limit.md. + */ +@Service +public class R4jBulkheadService { + + @Bulkhead(name = "slowOp", fallbackMethod = "fallback") + public String slowCall(String id, long sleepMillis) throws InterruptedException { + Thread.sleep(sleepMillis); + return "done:" + id; + } + + private String fallback(String id, long sleepMillis, BulkheadFullException ex) { + return "REJECTED:" + id; + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35834fa --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jPaymentService.java @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import io.github.resilience4j.circuitbreaker.annotation.CircuitBreaker; +import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; + +/** + * Resilience4j's circuit breaker: a state machine (CLOSED / OPEN / HALF_OPEN) that + * remembers failure history *across calls*, sitting in front of the annotated method. + * + * Config lives in application.yml under resilience4j.circuitbreaker.instances.paymentService. + * See docs/02-circuit-breaker.md. + */ +@Service +public class R4jPaymentService { + + private final FlakyDownstream downstream; + + public R4jPaymentService(FlakyDownstream downstream) { + this.downstream = downstream; + } + + @CircuitBreaker(name = "paymentService", fallbackMethod = "fallback") + public String pay(String orderId) { + return downstream.call(); + } + + private String fallback(String orderId, Throwable ex) { + return "FALLBACK for " + orderId + ": " + ex.getClass().getSimpleName() + " - " + ex.getMessage(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryService.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryService.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b9caf1 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryService.java @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import io.github.resilience4j.retry.annotation.Retry; +import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; + +/** + * Resilience4j's own {@code @Retry}, for direct comparison with core's {@code @Retryable} + * (see {@link com.ankurm.resilience.springresilience.SpringRetryablePaymentService}). Config: + * resilience4j.retry.instances.inventoryService in application.yml. See docs/03-spring-retryable.md. + */ +@Service +public class R4jRetryService { + + private final FlakyDownstream downstream; + + public R4jRetryService(FlakyDownstream downstream) { + this.downstream = downstream; + } + + @Retry(name = "inventoryService") + public String checkStock(String productId) { + return downstream.call(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitedService.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitedService.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b7e4ab --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitedService.java @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.springresilience; + +import org.springframework.resilience.annotation.ConcurrencyLimit; +import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; + +/** + * {@code @ConcurrencyLimit} is Spring Framework 7's version of what Resilience4j calls a + * semaphore Bulkhead: cap the number of concurrent invocations of a method. Two policies: + * + *

+ * + * Unlike Resilience4j's Bulkhead, there is no {@code maxWaitDuration} for the BLOCK policy — + * a blocked caller waits until a slot frees, with no timeout of its own. Under the hood BLOCK + * is implemented by extending {@code org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ConcurrencyThrottleInterceptor}, + * a class that has shipped in Spring since the Spring 1.x era — repurposed, not reinvented. + * See docs/04-concurrency-limit.md. + */ +@Service +public class ConcurrencyLimitedService { + + @ConcurrencyLimit(limit = 2) + public String slowCallBlocking(String id, long sleepMillis) throws InterruptedException { + Thread.sleep(sleepMillis); + return "done:" + id; + } + + @ConcurrencyLimit(limit = 2, policy = ConcurrencyLimit.ThrottlePolicy.REJECT) + public String slowCallRejecting(String id, long sleepMillis) throws InterruptedException { + Thread.sleep(sleepMillis); + return "done:" + id; + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryablePaymentService.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryablePaymentService.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c7121c --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryablePaymentService.java @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.springresilience; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import org.springframework.resilience.annotation.Retryable; +import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; + +import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; + +/** + * Spring Framework 7's own {@code @Retryable}: declarative retry with delay, multiplier + * and jitter, no separate dependency. There is no {@code fallbackMethod} attribute — + * unlike Resilience4j, exhausting retries just rethrows the last exception to the caller. + * + * And there is no circuit: each call to {@link #pay} starts its own retry loop from zero. + * Nothing here remembers that the last five calls all failed. See docs/03-spring-retryable.md. + */ +@Service +public class SpringRetryablePaymentService { + + private final FlakyDownstream downstream; + + public SpringRetryablePaymentService(FlakyDownstream downstream) { + this.downstream = downstream; + } + + @Retryable(maxRetries = 3, delay = 200, multiplier = 2.0, timeUnit = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS) + public String pay(String orderId) { + return downstream.call(); + } + + /** + * Self-invocation trap: calling {@code pay(...)} from inside this same bean bypasses + * the AOP proxy entirely, so no retry happens — the exact same trap Resilience4j's + * annotations have via Spring AOP proxies (both are proxy-based interceptors). + */ + public String payViaSelfInvocation(String orderId) { + return this.pay(orderId); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/resources/application.yml b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/resources/application.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..419a0a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/main/resources/application.yml @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +spring: + application: + name: resilience-boot4-demo + +server: + port: 8080 + +management: + endpoints: + web: + exposure: + include: health,metrics,circuitbreakers,circuitbreakerevents + endpoint: + health: + show-details: always + health: + circuitbreakers: + enabled: true + +resilience4j: + circuitbreaker: + instances: + paymentService: + slidingWindowType: COUNT_BASED + slidingWindowSize: 10 + minimumNumberOfCalls: 5 + failureRateThreshold: 50 + waitDurationInOpenState: 2s + permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState: 2 + automaticTransitionFromOpenToHalfOpenEnabled: true + recordExceptions: + - com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream$DownstreamUnavailableException + bulkhead: + instances: + slowOp: + maxConcurrentCalls: 2 + maxWaitDuration: 100ms + retry: + instances: + inventoryService: + maxAttempts: 3 + waitDuration: 200ms + enableExponentialBackoff: true + exponentialBackoffMultiplier: 2 + +logging: + level: + com.ankurm.resilience: INFO diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/Transcript.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/Transcript.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b40fda --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/Transcript.java @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience; + +import java.io.IOException; +import java.io.UncheckedIOException; +import java.nio.file.Files; +import java.nio.file.Path; +import java.nio.file.Paths; +import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption; + +/** + * Writes docs/output/NN-*.txt while a test runs, so every number quoted in the blog post + * is backed by a file produced by an assertion that would fail the build if it stopped + * being true. Never hand-edit files under docs/output/ — regenerate with scripts/run-all.sh. + */ +public final class Transcript { + + private final StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(); + private final Path outFile; + + private Transcript(String fileName) { + this.outFile = Paths.get("docs/output", fileName); + } + + public static Transcript start(String fileName, String header) { + Transcript t = new Transcript(fileName); + t.line(header); + t.line("=".repeat(header.length())); + return t; + } + + public Transcript line(String s) { + buf.append(s).append('\n'); + return this; + } + + public Transcript blank() { + buf.append('\n'); + return this; + } + + public void save() { + try { + Files.createDirectories(outFile.getParent()); + Files.writeString(outFile, buf.toString(), StandardOpenOption.CREATE, + StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING); + } catch (IOException e) { + throw new UncheckedIOException(e); + } + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/ActuatorHealthTest.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/ActuatorHealthTest.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..232c6d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/ActuatorHealthTest.java @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import com.ankurm.resilience.Transcript; +import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; +import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; +import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; +import org.springframework.boot.test.web.server.LocalServerPort; +import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext; +import org.springframework.web.client.RestClient; + +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat; + +/** + * Captures real /actuator/health and /actuator/circuitbreakers output with a breaker + * actually OPEN, over real HTTP against a running embedded server. Output: + * docs/output/05-actuator-health-tripped.txt. See docs/05-production-checklist.md. + */ +@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT) +@DirtiesContext +class ActuatorHealthTest { + + @Autowired + R4jPaymentService service; + @Autowired + FlakyDownstream downstream; + @LocalServerPort + int port; + + @Test + void actuatorReportsCircuitOpenAfterRealTrip() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("05-actuator-health-tripped.txt", + "Real /actuator/health and /actuator/circuitbreakers, captured over HTTP with the breaker actually OPEN"); + + downstream.configure(Integer.MAX_VALUE); + for (int i = 1; i <= 6; i++) { + service.pay("order-" + i); + } + + RestClient rest = RestClient.create("http://localhost:" + port); + String health = rest.get().uri("/actuator/health").retrieve().body(String.class); + String breakers = rest.get().uri("/actuator/circuitbreakers").retrieve().body(String.class); + + t.line("-- GET /actuator/health --"); + t.line(health); + t.blank(); + t.line("-- GET /actuator/circuitbreakers --"); + t.line(breakers); + + assertThat(health).contains("\"circuitBreakers\""); + assertThat(breakers).contains("\"state\":\"OPEN\""); + t.save(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e520663 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest.java @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import com.ankurm.resilience.Transcript; +import io.github.resilience4j.circuitbreaker.CircuitBreaker; +import io.github.resilience4j.circuitbreaker.CircuitBreakerRegistry; +import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; +import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; +import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; +import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext; + +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat; + +/** + * Proves the claim the post makes about circuit breakers: the breaker *remembers* failure + * history across separate top-level calls, and while OPEN it does not even attempt the + * downstream call. Output: docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt. + */ +@SpringBootTest +@DirtiesContext +class CircuitBreakerTripAndRecoverTest { + + @Autowired + R4jPaymentService service; + @Autowired + FlakyDownstream downstream; + @Autowired + CircuitBreakerRegistry registry; + + @Test + void tripsOpenStaysOpenThenRecoversThroughHalfOpen() throws InterruptedException { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt", + "Resilience4j circuit breaker: trip, stay open, half-open, recover"); + + CircuitBreaker cb = registry.circuitBreaker("paymentService"); + downstream.configure(Integer.MAX_VALUE); // downstream permanently down + + t.line("Config: slidingWindowSize=10, minimumNumberOfCalls=5, failureRateThreshold=50%, waitDurationInOpenState=2s"); + t.blank(); + t.line("-- Phase 1: 6 calls against a dead downstream (only 6, to satisfy minimumNumberOfCalls=5) --"); + for (int i = 1; i <= 6; i++) { + String result = service.pay("order-" + i); + t.line("call " + i + " -> " + result + " [breaker state=" + cb.getState() + "]"); + } + assertThat(cb.getState()).isEqualTo(CircuitBreaker.State.OPEN); + int downstreamCallsAtTrip = downstream.callsSoFar(); + t.blank(); + t.line("Breaker state after 6 failing calls: " + cb.getState() + " (downstream was actually called " + downstreamCallsAtTrip + " times)"); + + t.blank(); + t.line("-- Phase 2: 3 more calls while OPEN — these must NOT reach the downstream --"); + for (int i = 7; i <= 9; i++) { + String result = service.pay("order-" + i); + t.line("call " + i + " -> " + result + " [breaker state=" + cb.getState() + ", downstream calls so far=" + downstream.callsSoFar() + "]"); + } + assertThat(downstream.callsSoFar()).isEqualTo(downstreamCallsAtTrip); + t.line("Downstream call count unchanged (" + downstream.callsSoFar() + ") -- the breaker short-circuited all 3 calls without touching the downstream."); + + t.blank(); + t.line("-- Phase 3: wait 2.2s for waitDurationInOpenState, downstream now recovers, probe with permittedNumberOfCallsInHalfOpenState=2 --"); + downstream.configure(0); // downstream now healthy + Thread.sleep(2200); + for (int i = 1; i <= 2; i++) { + String result = service.pay("probe-" + i); + t.line("half-open probe " + i + " -> " + result + " [breaker state=" + cb.getState() + "]"); + } + assertThat(cb.getState()).isEqualTo(CircuitBreaker.State.CLOSED); + t.line("Breaker state after 2 successful half-open probes: " + cb.getState()); + + t.save(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryTest.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryTest.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f12fd51 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/r4j/R4jRetryTest.java @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.r4j; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import com.ankurm.resilience.Transcript; +import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; +import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; +import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; +import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext; + +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat; +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy; + +/** + * Resilience4j's own {@code @Retry}, same shape of test as {@code SpringRetryableTest}, for a + * direct side-by-side. Output: docs/output/03d-r4j-retry.txt. + */ +@SpringBootTest +@DirtiesContext +class R4jRetryTest { + + @Autowired + R4jRetryService service; + @Autowired + FlakyDownstream downstream; + + @Test + void retriesThreeTimesWithExponentialBackoffThenSucceeds() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("03d-r4j-retry.txt", + "Resilience4j @Retry(maxAttempts=3, waitDuration=200ms, exponentialBackoffMultiplier=2): recovering from 1 transient failure"); + downstream.configure(1); // first call fails, 2nd succeeds + long start = System.nanoTime(); + String result = service.checkStock("sku-1"); + long elapsedMs = (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + t.line("downstream configured to fail its first call, then succeed"); + t.line("result: " + result); + t.line("downstream was actually called " + downstream.callsSoFar() + " times"); + t.line("elapsed: ~" + elapsedMs + "ms (expect >= 200ms wait before the 2nd attempt)"); + assertThat(downstream.callsSoFar()).isEqualTo(2); + assertThat(result).startsWith("OK"); + t.save(); + } + + @Test + void maxAttemptsCountsTotalAttemptsNotRetriesAfterTheFirst() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("03e-r4j-retry-exhaustion.txt", + "Resilience4j @Retry(maxAttempts=3) against a permanently-dead downstream: counting convention"); + downstream.configure(Integer.MAX_VALUE); + assertThatThrownBy(() -> service.checkStock("sku-2")) + .isInstanceOf(FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException.class); + int calls = downstream.callsSoFar(); + t.line("maxAttempts=3, downstream permanently down"); + t.line("downstream calls before giving up: " + calls); + t.line("Resilience4j's maxAttempts is the TOTAL call count (initial attempt included): 3, not 4."); + t.line("Core's @Retryable(maxRetries=3) is 3 retries AFTER the initial attempt: 4 total"); + t.line("(see docs/output/03b-retryable-no-memory.txt). Same-sounding config, different arithmetic --"); + t.line("porting a maxRetries value from one to the other by name alone is off by one."); + assertThat(calls).isEqualTo(3); + t.save(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitTest.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitTest.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4eb581 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/ConcurrencyLimitTest.java @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.springresilience; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.Transcript; +import com.ankurm.resilience.r4j.R4jBulkheadService; +import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; +import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; +import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; +import org.springframework.resilience.InvocationRejectedException; +import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext; + +import java.util.List; +import java.util.concurrent.Callable; +import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch; +import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService; +import java.util.concurrent.Executors; +import java.util.concurrent.Future; +import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit; + +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat; + +/** + * {@code @ConcurrencyLimit} vs Resilience4j's Bulkhead, both capped at 2 concurrent callers, + * both hit with 4 concurrent callers each sleeping 300ms. Output: docs/output/04-concurrency-limit.txt. + */ +@SpringBootTest +@DirtiesContext +class ConcurrencyLimitTest { + + @Autowired + ConcurrencyLimitedService blockingService; + @Autowired + R4jBulkheadService bulkheadService; + + private static final long SLEEP_MS = 300; + private static final int CALLERS = 4; + + @Test + void blockPolicyQueuesInsteadOfRejecting() throws Exception { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("04a-concurrencylimit-block.txt", + "@ConcurrencyLimit(limit=2, policy=BLOCK), 4 concurrent callers, each sleeps 300ms"); + + ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(CALLERS); + CountDownLatch startGate = new CountDownLatch(1); + List> tasks = new java.util.ArrayList<>(); + for (int i = 0; i < CALLERS; i++) { + int id = i; + tasks.add(() -> { + startGate.await(); + long start = System.nanoTime(); + blockingService.slowCallBlocking("c" + id, SLEEP_MS); + return (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + }); + } + long wallStart = System.nanoTime(); + startGate.countDown(); + List> futures = pool.invokeAll(tasks); + long totalWallMs = (System.nanoTime() - wallStart) / 1_000_000; + pool.shutdown(); + + List perCallMs = futures.stream().map(f -> { + try { return f.get(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } + }).sorted().toList(); + + t.line("per-caller completion time (ms), sorted: " + perCallMs); + t.line("total wall time for all 4 callers: " + totalWallMs + "ms"); + t.line("all 4 calls succeeded (BLOCK never rejects): true"); + t.line("expectation: with limit=2 and 300ms per call, 4 callers must take roughly 2x300=600ms+,"); + t.line("not ~300ms as they would with no limit at all."); + assertThat(totalWallMs).isGreaterThanOrEqualTo(550); + t.save(); + } + + @Test + void rejectPolicyFailsFastInsteadOfQueuing() throws Exception { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("04b-concurrencylimit-reject.txt", + "@ConcurrencyLimit(limit=2, policy=REJECT), 4 concurrent callers, each sleeps 300ms"); + + ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(CALLERS); + CountDownLatch startGate = new CountDownLatch(1); + List> tasks = new java.util.ArrayList<>(); + for (int i = 0; i < CALLERS; i++) { + int id = i; + tasks.add(() -> { + startGate.await(); + long start = System.nanoTime(); + try { + blockingService.slowCallRejecting("c" + id, SLEEP_MS); + long ms = (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + return "OK in " + ms + "ms"; + } catch (InvocationRejectedException ex) { + long ms = (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + return "REJECTED (" + ex.getClass().getSimpleName() + ") in " + ms + "ms"; + } + }); + } + startGate.countDown(); + List> futures = pool.invokeAll(tasks); + pool.shutdown(); + + List outcomes = futures.stream().map(f -> { + try { return f.get(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } + }).toList(); + outcomes.forEach(o -> t.line(o)); + + long okCount = outcomes.stream().filter(o -> o.startsWith("OK")).count(); + long rejectedCount = outcomes.stream().filter(o -> o.startsWith("REJECTED")).count(); + t.blank(); + t.line("OK: " + okCount + ", REJECTED: " + rejectedCount + " (expected 2 and 2 with limit=2, 4 callers)"); + t.line("Rejection throws org.springframework.resilience.InvocationRejectedException"); + t.line("(a RejectedExecutionException subtype) -- confirmed by javap, not documented on the annotation itself."); + assertThat(okCount).isEqualTo(2); + assertThat(rejectedCount).isEqualTo(2); + t.save(); + } + + @Test + void resilience4jBulkheadHasABoundedWaitThatConcurrencyLimitLacks() throws Exception { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("04c-r4j-bulkhead-comparison.txt", + "Resilience4j @Bulkhead(maxConcurrentCalls=2, maxWaitDuration=100ms), same 4-caller/300ms shape"); + + ExecutorService pool = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(CALLERS); + CountDownLatch startGate = new CountDownLatch(1); + List> tasks = new java.util.ArrayList<>(); + for (int i = 0; i < CALLERS; i++) { + int id = i; + tasks.add(() -> { + startGate.await(); + long start = System.nanoTime(); + String result = bulkheadService.slowCall("c" + id, SLEEP_MS); + long ms = (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + return result + " in " + ms + "ms"; + }); + } + startGate.countDown(); + List> futures = pool.invokeAll(tasks, 5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); + pool.shutdown(); + + List outcomes = futures.stream().map(f -> { + try { return f.get(); } catch (Exception e) { throw new RuntimeException(e); } + }).toList(); + outcomes.forEach(o -> t.line(o)); + + long rejected = outcomes.stream().filter(o -> o.startsWith("REJECTED")).count(); + t.blank(); + t.line("REJECTED count: " + rejected + " -- these callers waited up to maxWaitDuration=100ms for a slot,"); + t.line("then gave up and ran the fallback method, instead of blocking indefinitely like @ConcurrencyLimit's BLOCK policy."); + assertThat(rejected).isGreaterThan(0); + t.save(); + } +} diff --git a/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryableTest.java b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryableTest.java new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b194c87 --- /dev/null +++ b/resilience4j-circuit-breaker/src/test/java/com/ankurm/resilience/springresilience/SpringRetryableTest.java @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +package com.ankurm.resilience.springresilience; + +import com.ankurm.resilience.FlakyDownstream; +import com.ankurm.resilience.Transcript; +import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test; +import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; +import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest; +import org.springframework.test.annotation.DirtiesContext; + +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat; +import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy; + +/** + * Proves the post's central claim about {@code @Retryable}: it retries, but it does not + * remember. Two back-to-back calls against a permanently-dead downstream each pay the full + * retry cost, unlike a tripped circuit breaker which fails fast on the very next call. + * Output: docs/output/03-spring-retryable.txt. + */ +@SpringBootTest +@DirtiesContext +class SpringRetryableTest { + + @Autowired + SpringRetryablePaymentService service; + @Autowired + FlakyDownstream downstream; + + @Test + void retriesThroughTransientFailureThenSucceeds() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("03a-retryable-recovers.txt", + "@Retryable(maxRetries=3, delay=200ms, multiplier=2.0): recovering from 2 transient failures"); + downstream.configure(2); // first 2 calls fail, 3rd succeeds + long start = System.nanoTime(); + String result = service.pay("order-1"); + long elapsedMs = (System.nanoTime() - start) / 1_000_000; + t.line("downstream configured to fail its first 2 calls, then succeed"); + t.line("result: " + result); + t.line("downstream was actually called " + downstream.callsSoFar() + " times"); + t.line("elapsed: ~" + elapsedMs + "ms (expect >= 200ms delay before the 2nd attempt, plus backoff before the 3rd)"); + assertThat(downstream.callsSoFar()).isEqualTo(3); + assertThat(result).startsWith("OK"); + t.save(); + } + + @Test + void exhaustsRetriesAndHasNoMemoryOfIt() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("03b-retryable-no-memory.txt", + "@Retryable against a permanently-dead downstream: two consecutive calls, no shared state"); + downstream.configure(Integer.MAX_VALUE); + + t.line("-- Call 1: pay(\"order-A\") --"); + assertThatThrownBy(() -> service.pay("order-A")) + .isInstanceOf(FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException.class); + int callsAfterFirst = downstream.callsSoFar(); + t.line("threw FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException after exhausting retries"); + t.line("downstream calls so far: " + callsAfterFirst + " (1 initial attempt + 3 retries = 4 expected)"); + assertThat(callsAfterFirst).isEqualTo(4); + + t.blank(); + t.line("-- Call 2: pay(\"order-B\"), immediately after Call 1 exhausted its retries --"); + assertThatThrownBy(() -> service.pay("order-B")) + .isInstanceOf(FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException.class); + int callsAfterSecond = downstream.callsSoFar(); + t.line("downstream calls so far: " + callsAfterSecond + " (another 4 attempts, not fast-failed)"); + assertThat(callsAfterSecond).isEqualTo(8); + t.blank(); + t.line("Contrast with docs/output/01-circuitbreaker-trip.txt: there, calls 7-9 after the trip"); + t.line("added ZERO downstream calls. Here, call 2 pays the same 4-attempt cost as call 1."); + t.line("@Retryable has no OPEN state -- it cannot tell you 'this dependency is currently down'."); + t.save(); + } + + @Test + void selfInvocationBypassesTheProxySilently() { + Transcript t = Transcript.start("03c-retryable-self-invocation.txt", + "@Retryable via self-invocation: the AOP proxy trap, same one that bites Resilience4j"); + downstream.configure(Integer.MAX_VALUE); + t.line("Calling payViaSelfInvocation(...), which calls this.pay(...) from inside the same bean."); + assertThatThrownBy(() -> service.payViaSelfInvocation("order-Z")) + .isInstanceOf(FlakyDownstream.DownstreamUnavailableException.class); + int calls = downstream.callsSoFar(); + t.line("downstream calls: " + calls + " (expected 1 -- no retry happened; the proxy was bypassed)"); + assertThat(calls).isEqualTo(1); + t.save(); + } +}