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JakeBreath bd2417aff8 Keep a broken Redis from 500ing the whole API
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.
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"""Redis cache that degrades instead of taking the whole API down.
Redis backs the DRF throttles and a few caches (storage stats, guest
blacklist, tag clouds). With Django's stock ``RedisCache``, a Redis that is
unreachable — or merely refusing writes because its RDB snapshot failed, the
default ``stop-writes-on-bgsave-error`` behaviour — raises inside the
throttle check on every request, so a cache outage becomes a blanket 500.
This backend treats cache failures as misses: rate limits and cached values
simply stop working until Redis is back, and the first failure per worker is
logged once so the cause is still visible.
"""
import logging
from django.core.cache.backends.redis import RedisCache
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
_warned = False
def _degrade(operation: str, error: Exception, default):
global _warned
if not _warned:
_warned = True
logger.warning(
"Cache unavailable (%s failed: %s) — continuing without it.",
operation,
error,
)
return default
class ResilientRedisCache(RedisCache):
"""``RedisCache`` where a broken Redis behaves like an empty cache."""
def add(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().add(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001 - any backend failure degrades
return _degrade("add", error, False)
def get(self, key, default=None, version=None):
try:
return super().get(key, default, version)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("get", error, default)
def set(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().set(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("set", error, None)
def touch(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().touch(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("touch", error, False)
def delete(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().delete(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("delete", error, False)
def get_many(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().get_many(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("get_many", error, {})
def has_key(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().has_key(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("has_key", error, False)
def incr(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().incr(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("incr", error, None)
def set_many(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().set_many(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("set_many", error, [])
def delete_many(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().delete_many(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("delete_many", error, None)
def clear(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().clear(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("clear", error, None)
def close(self, *args, **kwargs):
try:
return super().close(*args, **kwargs)
except Exception as error: # noqa: BLE001
return _degrade("close", error, None)