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notify: generic handling of 429 in retrier similiar spirit to #5389 - #5497

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[BUGFIX] notify: Don't skip exponential backoff upon slow request failure.

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The notification framework now uses notify.NotifyVerdict for success, retryability, delays, errors, and failure reasons. Notifier implementations, retry orchestration, helper code, and tests were migrated from (bool, error) returns.

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Notification verdict migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Verdict contract and retry orchestration
notify/notify.go, notify/retry_stage.go, notify/util.go, notify/notify_test.go
Added NotifyVerdict constructors and accessors. Updated integration tracing, retry timing, reason propagation, and shared tests.
Notifier integrations
notify/*/*.go
Converted notifier outcomes to Success, Retry, or Unrecoverable verdicts. Status-derived reasons, redacted errors, and retry delays now travel in the verdict.
Notifier and retry tests
notify/*/*_test.go, notify/test/test.go, test/with_api_v2/acceptance/send_test.go
Updated assertions to use Err(), ShouldRetry(), Delay(), and Reason(). Retry-delay tests now validate reported delays instead of local sleeps.
Reason handling cleanup
notify/util.go, notify/sns/sns.go, notify/telegram/telegram.go
Removed ErrorWithReason wrapping and passed failure reasons through verdicts and helper return values.

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In `@notify/slack/slack.go`:
- Line 225: Update the HTTP 429 handling in Notify to return the parsed Slack
delay d via notify.Retry(d, err, reason) instead of waiting locally and
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🟡 Minor · Test the Slack delay through RetryStage. · slack.go:213-222

notify/slack/slack.go:213-222
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Test the Slack delay through RetryStage.

notify/slack/slack_test.go:363-399 checks only that the Slack 429 response produces a one-second NotifyVerdict delay. The shared retry-stage test at notify/notify_test.go:499-544 supplies Retry(0, ...) and does not assert the max(b.NextBackOff(), verdict.Delay()) scheduling contract. Add a focused integration test that sends a Slack 429 through RetryStage and verifies that the retry uses the greater of Retry-After and exponential backoff. This protects both the Slack delay producer and the retry-stage consumer from independent regressions.

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In `@notify/slack/slack.go` around lines 213 - 222, Add a focused integration test
connecting Slack’s 429 handling with RetryStage, using the existing Slack retry
flow and Retry-After response setup. Verify the scheduled retry delay follows
the greater of the parsed Retry-After delay and RetryStage’s exponential
backoff, covering the max(backoff, verdict.Delay()) contract and preserving the
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In `@notify/slack/slack.go`:
- Around line 213-222: Add a focused integration test connecting Slack’s 429
handling with RetryStage, using the existing Slack retry flow and Retry-After
response setup. Verify the scheduled retry delay follows the greater of the
parsed Retry-After delay and RetryStage’s exponential backoff, covering the
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🟠 Major · Make the HTTP 429 case retryable. · sns_test.go:242-246

notify/sns/sns_test.go:242-246
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Make the HTTP 429 case retryable.

This test preserves retry: false for a 429 response. With notify.Retrier{}, Retrier.Check treats the response as unrecoverable because 429 is neither 5xx nor a configured retry code. This defeats the generic rate-limit retry behavior in the PR objective and stops SNS delivery after a normal throttling response.

Treat HTTP 429 as retryable in notify.Retrier.Check, then set this case to retry: true.

Proposed fix
- retry := statusCode/100 == 5 || slices.Contains(r.RetryCodes, statusCode)
+ retry := statusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests ||
+   statusCode/100 == 5 ||
+   slices.Contains(r.RetryCodes, statusCode)
- retry:  false,
+ retry:  true,
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In `@notify/sns/sns_test.go` around lines 242 - 246, Update notify.Retrier.Check
to classify HTTP 429 responses as retryable alongside the existing retry
conditions, then change the “publish, rate limited” test case to expect retry:
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In `@notify/jira/jira.go`:
- Line 429: Propagate the parsed Retry-After delay through doAPIRequestFullPath
and its callers, passing notify.ParseRetryAfter(resp.Header, received) to
notify.Retry for retryable Jira responses instead of zero. Apply the same
response-header parsing before returning retry verdicts in the WeChat and
Webhook flows, while preserving notify.PostJSON response headers before deferred
notify.Drain.

In `@notify/sns/sns.go`:
- Line 159: Update the SNS publish validation failures, including the api_url
template error near notify.Retry and the related missing FIFO group key and
non-UTF-8 message checks, to return an unrecoverable verdict directly instead of
wrapping them in notify.Retry. Keep retry behavior unchanged for genuinely
transient SNS failures.

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In `@notify/sns/sns_test.go`:
- Around line 242-246: Update notify.Retrier.Check to classify HTTP 429
responses as retryable alongside the existing retry conditions, then change the
“publish, rate limited” test case to expect retry: true while preserving its
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Comment thread notify/sns/sns.go
A purely mechanical change, behaviour should match exactly what it was
before.

Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>
Prepares follow-up change. Does not affect behaviour.

Change-Id: Iaf9da45cab96e391debd01e3fff21f38a534a617
Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>
This change shifts in how scheduling on retries works: A slow failure
will no longer cause AM to immediately retry upon failure. This change
is in line with what RFC 9110, Section 10.2.3 specifies.

AM cancels the retry, once `group_wait` elapses. The exponential wait
times are
```
  attempt     wait    cumulative
        1     0.50s        0:00.5
        2     0.75s        0:01.3
        3     1.13s        0:02.4
        4     1.69s        0:04.1
        5     2.53s        0:06.6
        6     3.80s        0:10.4
        7     5.70s        0:16.1
        8     8.54s        0:24.6
        9    12.81s        0:37.4
       10    19.22s        0:56.7
       11    28.83s        1:25.5
       12    43.25s        2:08.7
       13    60.00s        3:08.7
       14    60.00s        4:08.7
```
Thus, this change will leave most attempts, which need to be retried,
unaffected.

Moreover, notifiers can now speficy a delay, which differs from the
previous exponential backoff.

Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>
Small changes in (non-released) behaviour:

* Backoff period no longer counts towards latency period.
* `Retry-After` header is always honored.

Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>
Small changes in (non-released) behaviour:

* Backoff period no longer counts towards latency period.
* `Retry-After` header is always honored.

Signed-off-by: Solomon Jacobs <solomonjacobs@protonmail.com>

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🟠 Major · Retry HTTP 429 responses. · sns.go:137-142

notify/sns/sns.go:137-142
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Retry HTTP 429 responses.

Retrier.Check returns false for HTTP 429 unless RetryCodes contains 429. This path then returns notify.Unrecoverable. The supplied test context confirms that a default Retrier{} marks 429 as non-retryable.

Return notify.Retry for HTTP 429 so RetryStage applies exponential backoff instead of dropping the notification attempt.

Proposed fix
 			retryable, checkErr := n.retrier.Check(statusCode, strings.NewReader(apiErr.ErrorMessage()))
 			reason := notify.GetFailureReasonFromStatusCode(statusCode)
-			if retryable {
+			if retryable || statusCode == http.StatusTooManyRequests {
 				return notify.Retry(0, checkErr, reason)
 			}
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In `@notify/sns/sns.go` around lines 137 - 142, Update the retry decision in the
SNS error-handling path around Retrier.Check so HTTP 429
(http.StatusTooManyRequests) returns notify.Retry even when the configured
retrier marks it non-retryable; preserve existing retry behavior for other
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