Populate the DRIVER_CONFIG report - phase 2 - #997
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The configuration report has to tell a datacenter the user chose from one the driver inferred, and DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy cannot: on_up() assigns the inferred datacenter to the same local_dc attribute the constructor set, so from the first host coming up the two are indistinguishable. Capture it at construction instead, where an empty local_dc counts as inferred -- which is what makes on_up() infer. RackAwareRoundRobinPolicy needs no such flag: both values are mandatory constructor arguments and are never reassigned. No behaviour change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DRIVER_CONFIG report is a cross-driver contract: an operator reading
system.clients.client_options relies on the same document whichever
driver wrote the row. That contract is a JSON Schema maintained in
gocql, vendored here byte for byte -- and pinned as such by a test -- so
drift from the shared copy shows up as a diff rather than as a
divergence nobody notices.
Validating is worth the dependency because every group in the schema is
additionalProperties: false, so a key this driver invents or misspells
fails hard instead of being silently dropped by a consumer.
These tests cover the harness and the contract, not the reporter, whose
report is still only {"version":1}: connection, control-plane and query
are all required, so it becomes conformant once the last of those groups
lands. Landing the schema first means every commit in between is checked
against it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The configuration groups that follow need the cluster whose settings they describe, and one of them needs to know whether the node is a ScyllaDB one. This puts both in place without changing what is reported. The cluster is held weakly: it owns the reporter and hands it to every connection it opens, so a strong reference here would keep it alive for as long as any connection holds a reporter. Finding it gone is a shutdown race rather than a misconfiguration, so the option is left out at debug level. is_scylla is passed in rather than discovered, because the connection already knows -- _handle_options_response parses SUPPORTED into self.features before it builds these options -- and the predicate is the one the driver itself keys ScyllaDB-only behaviour off, so the report describes what the driver will do rather than only what it was configured to do. It is required: the sole caller always knows, and a default would let a wrong answer through quietly. The connection tests move to a stub report, so that what they establish -- which connections carry the report, and that an application cannot supply its own -- does not break on every configuration group that lands next. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
What the driver does with a single connection: connect timeout, request capacity, shard-aware pooling, socket options, reconnection policy and TLS hostname verification. Three of the schema's optional groups are left out for want of anything to put in them -- this driver has no socket read or write timeout, and the heartbeat group is empty in this schema version, so idle_heartbeat_interval has nowhere to go -- worth raising for v2. orphaned is reported, unlike in gocql, where nothing bounds orphaned requests; here Connection.orphaned_threshold does. Socket options are read from sockopts rather than off a live socket. That would be the effective value the schema asks for, but only some of this driver's six reactors expose a socket object -- asyncio holds a transport -- so the report would change shape with the reactor in use. The driver sets none of its own, so an option absent from sockopts is at the operating system's default, which for a fresh TCP socket is off. Policies dispatch on their exact type: a subclass of a built-in is a policy the driver knows nothing about, and describing it as its parent would put the parent's parameters against behaviour it does not have. A custom one is reported by name and nothing else, though the schema permits its public attributes too -- whatever it holds, an auth provider or a credential, would land in system.clients for anyone who can select from it, and there is no telling which attributes are safe. That also bounds the report, so no configuration can drive it past the size limit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The timeouts on the driver's own queries: the ones it runs to discover the cluster rather than on behalf of the application. The two system-query timeouts are different things, which is why the schema has both. client-side-ms is how long the driver waits for a reply. server-side-ms is a limit the server enforces, which this driver applies by appending USING TIMEOUT -- a ScyllaDB extension, so it is reported only against a ScyllaDB node, mirroring ControlConnection._try_connect: the report describes what the driver will do, not only what it was configured to do. Schema agreement stays in the report at zero, which says the driver does not wait for agreement -- a setting rather than the absence of one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
What the driver does with a statement that overrides none of it: the defaults it applies, how a failure is retried, which node it goes to, and whether a slow one is raced. Reported from the default execution profile. The schema has one query group and this driver has as many profiles as the application defines, so the one that describes the session is the one a statement gets when it names none -- which covers legacy configuration too, since Cluster folds a load_balancing_policy or default_retry_policy given to its constructor into that same profile. Other profiles cannot be described under this schema version; worth raising for v2. The built-in retry policies all subclass RetryPolicy, so dispatch is on the exact type: isinstance would report every one of them as the standard policy. ExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy has no arm of its own, but it retries what the standard policy retries and adds a growing delay, which is what the schema's backoff describes. Only TokenAwarePolicy maps onto the schema's built-in load balancing arm; the round-robin and wrapper policies report as custom. The datacenter preference is reported either way, found wherever in the policy chain it is set: it says where requests go, not which policy sends them, and a bare DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy -- what the driver falls back to without the murmur3 extension -- pins the client just as firmly as a token-aware one wrapping it. Three of the defaults are not the profile's. Paging and client timestamps are Session settings and no Session exists when the control connection reports, so what is described is the default every Session starts with. Idempotence has no configurable default at all, so it is always false. A custom timestamp generator leaves client-timestamps out entirely: it may return None for some requests, leaving the coordinator to assign the timestamp after all, and there is no telling from here which it will do. With this group the report is conformant, which the tests now assert against the vendored schema -- including one that gives a custom policy a password and asserts it appears nowhere in the report. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unit tests establish that the reporter builds the right document.
These establish that the document reaches the server intact and
describes the client that sent it -- which is all an operator reading
system.clients has.
The existing {"version":1} assertion becomes a schema validation:
pinning the document here would duplicate the unit tests and break on
every group added to it. The round-trip test sets every setting it
checks away from its default, so a report built from the wrong source,
or from defaults, fails rather than happening to match.
Two of these cannot be unit tests. The server-side timeout is reported
only against ScyllaDB, and a unit test can only assert that for a flag
it passes in itself; here the detection runs against the SUPPORTED
response of an actual node. The inferred datacenter is the other: it is
inferred from a host that has to exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The guide said the report carried a version and that more keys would follow. Now that they have, it describes the three groups, shows what a default Cluster reports, and points at the schema in gocql, where it is maintained -- an operator reading a report may well not be reading this driver's. Five things get called out, because each is a way to misread a report rather than a detail of it: that only the default execution profile is described, that a custom policy is named and never serialized, that an absent key means "does not apply" rather than "off", that the datacenter says whether it was configured or inferred, and that the query defaults are a snapshot taken before any Session exists. The example is the real output of a default Cluster, verified against it rather than written by hand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Cluster
participant Connection
participant DriverConfigReporter
Cluster->>DriverConfigReporter: create reporter
Connection->>DriverConfigReporter: provide Scylla capability
DriverConfigReporter->>Cluster: read effective configuration
DriverConfigReporter-->>Connection: return DRIVER_CONFIG startup option
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630-636: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the query report for invalid consistency levels.
ExecutionProfile(consistency_level=None)storesNonewithout validation._query_defaults_report()then raisesKeyErrorduring the directConsistencyLevel.value_to_namelookup.add_startup_options()catches the exception and omits the complete report. Emit a valid session-default consistency name forNoneor unrecognized values.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@cassandra/driver_config.py`:
- Around line 630-636: Update _query_defaults_report so consistency values that
are None or unrecognized do not raise during ConsistencyLevel.value_to_name
lookup; instead, emit the valid session-default consistency name. Preserve the
existing mapped-name behavior for recognized consistency levels and keep the
complete query report available to add_startup_options.
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Fixes: https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/DRIVER-951
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SESSION_ID/DRIVER_CONFIGgroundwork (DRIVER-950), which shippedthe option and reported
{"version":1}in it. This fills the document in.Motivation
An operator investigating an incident from the server side can now see which connections belong to which client, but not how that client is configured — answering that still needs access to the client host and its logs.
ScyllaDB echoes the CQL
STARTUPoptions intosystem.clients.client_options, so the configuration can travel with the connection that raises the question. The document is a JSON Schema shared with the other ScyllaDB drivers, so the same report describes a client whichever driver wrote it.Change
Eight commits: a policy prerequisite, the schema and its harness, the plumbing,
then one commit per configuration group.
Record whether the local datacenter was configuredDCAwareRoundRobinPolicyremembers whetherlocal_dcwas given or is left toon_up()to infer —on_up()overwrites the same attribute, so afterwards the two are indistinguishable. No behaviour changeVendor the report schema and validate against ittests/resources/, byte for byte, plus ajsonschemadev dependency and the helper both test suites validate throughGive the config reporter the cluster and the Scylla flagDriverConfigReportertakes theClusterit describes (weakly) and anis_scyllaflag from the connectionReport the connection groupReport the control-plane groupReport the query groupCover the populated report end to endDocument what the configuration report describesThree decisions worth calling out, all argued in the commit messages:
A custom policy is reported by name and nothing else, though the schema permits its public attributes too. A policy is an arbitrary Python object whose
__dict__is trivially reachable, and whatever it holds — an auth provider, a credential, a host list — would land insystem.clientsfor anyone who can select from it. There is no way to tell which attributes are safe, so none are sent. That also bounds the report: what it contains is a function of the driver's own settings, so no configuration can drive it past the 32 KiB cap.Policies dispatch on their exact type, never
isinstance. Every built-in retry policy subclassesRetryPolicy, soisinstancewould report all of them as the standard policy; and a user's subclass of a built-in is a policy thedriver knows nothing about, so describing it as its parent would put the parent's parameters against behaviour it does not have.
The datacenter preference is reported whatever the policy, found wherever in the policy chain it is set. It says where requests go, not which policy sends them: a bare
DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy— whatdefault_lbp_factory()falls back to without the murmur3 extension — pins the client just as firmly as atoken-aware one wrapping it, and an operator reading
customwith nonode-preferencewould conclude the opposite.Only the default execution profile is described, because the schema has one
querygroup and this driver has as many profiles as the application defines. Legacy configuration reads identically, sinceClusterfolds aload_balancing_policyordefault_retry_policygiven to its constructor into that same profile.Pre-review checklist
./docs/source/.Fixes:annotations to PR description.