Redis backs the DRF throttles, and the stock RedisCache raises inside the throttle check when Redis is unreachable or refusing writes (a failed RDB snapshot disables writes by default) — turning a cache problem into a blanket 500, which is exactly what took prod down. ResilientRedisCache treats backend failures as cache misses, logs the first one per worker, and lets rate limits degrade until Redis is back.
37 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
37 lines
1.2 KiB
Python
"""A broken Redis must degrade the cache, not 500 the API.
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A Redis that cannot persist (the default ``stop-writes-on-bgsave-error``)
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or is simply unreachable used to raise inside the DRF throttle check on
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every request; ``ResilientRedisCache`` treats that as a cache miss.
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"""
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from unittest import mock
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from django.core.cache import cache
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from django.core.cache.backends.redis import RedisCacheClient
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from django.test import SimpleTestCase
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def failing(method: str):
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return mock.patch.object(
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RedisCacheClient,
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method,
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side_effect=RuntimeError("redis is down"),
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)
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class ResilientCacheTests(SimpleTestCase):
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def test_get_returns_the_default_when_redis_fails(self):
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with failing("get"):
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self.assertIsNone(cache.get("j621-cache-test"))
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self.assertEqual(cache.get("j621-cache-test", "fallback"), "fallback")
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def test_writes_report_failure_without_raising(self):
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with failing("set"):
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self.assertIsNone(cache.set("j621-cache-test", "value"))
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def test_bulk_and_delete_operations_degrade(self):
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with failing("get_many"), failing("delete"):
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self.assertEqual(cache.get_many(["a", "b"]), {})
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self.assertFalse(cache.delete("a"))
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