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briandevans d4c2c74ece test(proxy): cover credential resolution blocking the proxy event loop
Adds `tests/hermes_cli/test_proxy_off_loop.py`, mirroring the harness in
`test_proxy.py`: the proxy and a fake upstream run as real aiohttp
servers on ephemeral ports under a single `asyncio.run`, guarded by
`pytest.importorskip("aiohttp")` — no pytest-aiohttp dependency.

The primary assertion is thread identity, not latency. A latency
assertion measured with an HTTP client on the blocked loop is vacuous:
the client's own timer cannot advance until the block ends, so it reports
a fast response on code that was provably frozen.

- `test_get_credential_runs_off_the_event_loop` records
  `threading.get_ident()` inside the adapter and compares it to the loop
  thread. Before the fix both are the same ident.
- `test_event_loop_keeps_running_while_credentials_resolve` runs a
  heartbeat task on the loop and has the adapter sample its counter on
  entry and exit, so the reading is taken from the loop rather than
  through a client that shares it. Before the fix exactly 0 iterations
  run across a 0.5s stall; after it, ~50.
- `test_credential_failure_still_maps_to_401` pins the error contract
  across the change of call form. It is deliberately not in the
  red-before set — it guards behaviour the fix must leave alone.
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"""`hermes proxy` must resolve upstream credentials off the event loop.
``UpstreamAdapter`` is a synchronous contract (``adapters/base.py`` — every
method is a plain ``def``), and both shipped adapters implement it with
blocking I/O:
* ``NousPortalAdapter.get_credential`` takes ``_auth_store_lock()``, a
*cross-process* advisory lock with ``AUTH_LOCK_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 15.0``
(``hermes_cli/auth.py:110``), reads ``auth.json`` from disk, and may issue a
token-refresh POST. Its terminal-error path takes that lock a second time to
persist the quarantined state.
* ``XAIGrokAdapter`` reads its key pool off disk under a ``threading.Lock``.
``create_app`` registers two ``async def`` handlers, so calling those methods
directly from a handler freezes the proxy's single event loop — and with it
every other in-flight streaming completion — for the whole duration.
The primary assertions here are **thread identity**, not latency. A latency
assertion measured with an HTTP client on the blocked loop is vacuous: the
client's own timer cannot advance until the block ends, so it reports a fast
response on code that was provably frozen. Thread identity has no such failure
mode and no timing sensitivity.
The harness mirrors ``tests/hermes_cli/test_proxy.py``: the proxy and a fake
upstream run as real aiohttp servers on ephemeral ports, driven by
``asyncio.run``. That keeps everything on exactly one event loop, which is what
makes the loop-starvation observations meaningful, and it avoids taking a
pytest-aiohttp dependency for one test file.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import threading
import time
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
import pytest
from hermes_cli.proxy.adapters.base import UpstreamAdapter, UpstreamCredential
aiohttp = pytest.importorskip("aiohttp")
from aiohttp import web # noqa: E402
from hermes_cli.proxy.server import create_app # noqa: E402
# How long the fake adapter blocks. Long enough that a starved loop records
# zero heartbeats, short enough to keep the suite fast. The thread-identity
# assertions do not depend on this value at all.
_STALL_SECONDS = 0.5
# Heartbeat cadence. A healthy loop fires ~50 ticks across the stall above; a
# blocked one fires exactly 0, so the threshold has three orders of magnitude
# of headroom on a loaded runner.
_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 0.01
_MIN_TICKS_ACROSS_STALL = 3
class _RecordingAdapter(UpstreamAdapter):
"""Adapter that records the thread each blocking call ran on.
``get_credential`` and ``is_authenticated`` are plain synchronous methods
that sleep, standing in for the auth-store lock and token refresh under the
real adapters. Each also samples the loop-heartbeat counter on entry and
exit, so ``ticks_across_*`` is the number of loop iterations that got to run
*while the adapter was blocking*.
"""
def __init__(
self,
base_url: str,
*,
stall: float = 0.0,
ticks: Optional[List[int]] = None,
raise_on_credential: bool = False,
) -> None:
self._base_url = base_url
self._stall = stall
self._ticks = ticks if ticks is not None else [0]
self._raise_on_credential = raise_on_credential
self.credential_thread: Optional[int] = None
self.authenticated_thread: Optional[int] = None
self.ticks_across_credential: Optional[int] = None
self.ticks_across_is_authenticated: Optional[int] = None
@property
def name(self) -> str:
return "recording"
@property
def display_name(self) -> str:
return "Recording Provider"
@property
def allowed_paths(self):
return frozenset({"/chat/completions"})
def is_authenticated(self) -> bool:
self.authenticated_thread = threading.get_ident()
before = self._ticks[0]
if self._stall:
time.sleep(self._stall)
self.ticks_across_is_authenticated = self._ticks[0] - before
return True
def get_credential(self) -> UpstreamCredential:
self.credential_thread = threading.get_ident()
before = self._ticks[0]
if self._stall:
time.sleep(self._stall)
self.ticks_across_credential = self._ticks[0] - before
if self._raise_on_credential:
raise RuntimeError("simulated auth failure")
return UpstreamCredential(
bearer="test-bearer",
base_url=self._base_url,
expires_at="2099-01-01T00:00:00Z",
)
def get_retry_credential(self, *, failed_credential, status_code):
_ = failed_credential, status_code
return None
async def _start_runner(app: "web.Application"):
"""Spin up an aiohttp app on an ephemeral localhost port. Returns (runner, base_url)."""
runner = web.AppRunner(app, access_log=None)
await runner.setup()
site = web.TCPSite(runner, host="127.0.0.1", port=0)
await site.start()
sockets = list(site._server.sockets) # type: ignore[union-attr]
port = sockets[0].getsockname()[1]
return runner, f"http://127.0.0.1:{port}"
def _build_fake_upstream(captured: Dict[str, Any]) -> "web.Application":
async def echo(request):
body = await request.read()
captured["requests"].append(
{"path": request.path, "auth": request.headers.get("Authorization")}
)
return web.json_response({"echoed": True, "body": body.decode("utf-8") if body else ""})
app = web.Application()
app.router.add_route("*", "/v1/chat/completions", echo)
return app
async def _heartbeat(ticks: List[int], running: List[bool]) -> None:
"""Tick a counter on the event loop until told to stop."""
while running[0]:
ticks[0] += 1
await asyncio.sleep(_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# handle_proxy -> get_credential
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def test_get_credential_runs_off_the_event_loop():
"""The blocking credential resolution must not execute on the loop thread.
On the unfixed handler ``adapter.get_credential()`` is called inline, so the
recorded thread is the loop's own and this assertion fails.
"""
async def run():
loop_thread = threading.get_ident()
captured: Dict[str, Any] = {"requests": []}
upstream_runner, upstream_base = await _start_runner(_build_fake_upstream(captured))
adapter = _RecordingAdapter(f"{upstream_base}/v1")
proxy_runner, proxy_base = await _start_runner(create_app(adapter))
try:
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
async with session.post(
f"{proxy_base}/v1/chat/completions", json={}
) as resp:
assert resp.status == 200
await resp.read()
assert adapter.credential_thread is not None, "get_credential was never called"
assert adapter.credential_thread != loop_thread, (
"get_credential ran on the event-loop thread "
f"({adapter.credential_thread}); it blocks on a cross-process "
"auth-store lock and must be offloaded"
)
# The forward itself still worked, with our bearer attached.
assert captured["requests"][0]["auth"] == "Bearer test-bearer"
finally:
await proxy_runner.cleanup()
await upstream_runner.cleanup()
asyncio.run(run())
def test_event_loop_keeps_running_while_credentials_resolve():
"""A stalled credential resolution must not starve the rest of the loop.
Measured from a heartbeat task *on the loop*, sampled by the adapter itself
on entry and exit — not from an HTTP client, whose clock cannot advance
while the loop is blocked and which would therefore report a false pass.
"""
async def run():
ticks = [0]
running = [True]
captured: Dict[str, Any] = {"requests": []}
upstream_runner, upstream_base = await _start_runner(_build_fake_upstream(captured))
adapter = _RecordingAdapter(
f"{upstream_base}/v1", stall=_STALL_SECONDS, ticks=ticks
)
proxy_runner, proxy_base = await _start_runner(create_app(adapter))
beat = asyncio.create_task(_heartbeat(ticks, running))
try:
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
async with session.post(
f"{proxy_base}/v1/chat/completions", json={}
) as resp:
await resp.read()
assert adapter.ticks_across_credential is not None
assert adapter.ticks_across_credential >= _MIN_TICKS_ACROSS_STALL, (
f"only {adapter.ticks_across_credential} loop iterations ran during a "
f"{_STALL_SECONDS}s credential resolution — the event loop was frozen"
)
finally:
running[0] = False
beat.cancel()
await asyncio.gather(beat, return_exceptions=True)
await proxy_runner.cleanup()
await upstream_runner.cleanup()
asyncio.run(run())
def test_credential_failure_still_maps_to_401():
"""Offloading must not change the error contract.
``asyncio.to_thread`` re-raises the worker's exception in the awaiting
frame, so the handler's existing ``except Exception`` still produces the
``upstream_auth_failed`` 401. This one is deliberately *not* in the
red-before set — it guards the behaviour the fix must leave alone.
"""
async def run():
captured: Dict[str, Any] = {"requests": []}
upstream_runner, upstream_base = await _start_runner(_build_fake_upstream(captured))
adapter = _RecordingAdapter(f"{upstream_base}/v1", raise_on_credential=True)
proxy_runner, proxy_base = await _start_runner(create_app(adapter))
try:
async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session:
async with session.post(
f"{proxy_base}/v1/chat/completions", json={}
) as resp:
assert resp.status == 401
payload = await resp.json()
assert payload["error"]["code"] == "upstream_auth_failed"
assert "simulated auth failure" in payload["error"]["message"]
# The request never reached the upstream.
assert captured["requests"] == []
finally:
await proxy_runner.cleanup()
await upstream_runner.cleanup()
asyncio.run(run())