fix: contain throttled request setup failures

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Summary

• contain synchronous CQL, admin, and continuous-request setup failures
• cover initial admission plus retry and reprepare callback paths
• complete result stages, cancel reserved stream IDs and scheduled work, and return throttler permits exactly once
• drain concurrency-throttler readiness callbacks iteratively

Fixes #980.

Scope

This PR is limited to setup-failure cleanup and the directly related throttler callback paths. It does not close every request-lifecycle gap:

• 4.x: onThrottleReady exceptions can escape or leave request futures incomplete #949 remains open for onThrottleReady() failures outside the protected setup boundaries. In particular, continuous query-plan polling or channel selection can still throw before the containment block.
• 4.x: Continuous requests can leak throttler permits on terminal pre-admission paths #1013 tracks continuous requests that become terminal without selecting a node callback, including pre-admission global timeouts.
• 4.x: CqlPrepareHandler leaks lifecycle resources on synchronous setup failure #1014 tracks equivalent synchronous setup cleanup in CqlPrepareHandler.

Tests

• Java 11: mvn -pl core -DskipITs test
• 3,944 core unit tests passed (1 skipped); 76 Reactive Streams TCK tests passed (24 skipped).

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• core/src/main/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/cql/continuous/ContinuousRequestHandlerBase.java
• core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/adminrequest/ThrottledAdminRequestHandler.java
• core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandler.java
• core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/session/throttling/ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler.java
• core/src/test/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/cql/continuous/ContinuousCqlRequestHandlerTest.java
• core/src/test/java/com/datastax/dse/driver/internal/core/graph/ContinuousGraphRequestHandlerTest.java
• core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/adminrequest/ThrottledAdminRequestHandlerTest.java
• core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java
• core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/session/throttling/ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottlerTest.java

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Walkthrough

CqlRequestHandler routes synchronous setup, retry, reprepare, and speculative execution failures through setFinalError. Throttler signaling now depends on admission. Continuous and admin handlers apply the same admission-aware cleanup. ConcurrencyLimitingRequestThrottler drains reentrant readiness callbacks iteratively. Tests cover failure propagation, cancellation, timeout cleanup, delayed admission, and callback draining.

Possibly related issues

• 4.x: stream-id and write-coalescer cleanup gaps left by #965 #1009: Covers admission-aware throttler cleanup in ThrottledAdminRequestHandler.
• 4.x: onThrottleReady exceptions can escape or leave request futures incomplete #949: Covers onThrottleReady exception handling and incomplete request results.
• 4.x: CqlPrepareHandler leaks lifecycle resources on synchronous setup failure #1014: Covers synchronous throttled setup failures and lifecycle cleanup in another handler.

Possibly related PRs

• scylladb/java-driver#963: Introduces related synchronous throttled request-failure handling.
• scylladb/java-driver#965: Updates request failure and throttling cleanup paths.
• scylladb/java-driver#960: Modifies CqlRequestHandler retry and timeout paths.

Suggested labels: area/Driver_-_java-driver-4.x, P3

Suggested reviewers: nikagra

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4b4dd

The change contains request-setup failures and cleans up throttling state across retry and reprepare paths. It is mergeable with owner awareness because reprepare coverage does not currently detect whether a rejected nested handler emits an extra throttler error signal.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: containing throttled request setup failures.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the setup-failure cleanup changes, scope, linked issue, and tests.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #980 by containing setup failures, completing results, cancelling cleanup work, and returning throttler permits once.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #980 and directly related throttler callback paths; excluded lifecycle gaps are explicitly documented.

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Pull request overview

Contains synchronous CQL setup failures and ensures terminal cleanup follows throttler admission semantics.

Changes:

• Converts setup exceptions into failed result stages.
• Cancels scheduled work and returns throttler permits exactly once.
• Adds immediate, delayed, rejected, and reprepare regression coverage.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
CqlRequestHandler.java	Routes admission failures through terminal cleanup.
CqlRequestHandlerTest.java	Covers throttling failure lifecycle scenarios.

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core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java-405-406 (1)

405-406: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert one throttler error signal.

Line 406 does not detect signalError from the rejected reprepare handler. Verify exactly one signalError call for failure across all handlers.

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In
`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`
around lines 405 - 406, Update the CqlRequestHandlerTest assertion around
handler.handle() to verify exactly one throttler.signalError call for failure
across all relevant handlers, including the rejected reprepare handler, rather
than only verifying a call occurred on the current handler. Preserve the
existing failed-stage assertion.

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`@core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/cql/CqlRequestHandlerTest.java`:
- Around line 405-406: Update the CqlRequestHandlerTest assertion around
handler.handle() to verify exactly one throttler.signalError call for failure
across all relevant handlers, including the rejected reprepare handler, rather
than only verifying a call occurred on the current handler. Preserve the
existing failed-stage assertion.

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[nikagra]

The containment itself looks right for CqlRequestHandler: setFinalError -> result.completeExceptionally -> cancelScheduledTasks() does cancel the timeout #980 complains about, and wasAdmitted returns the permit exactly once.

My one substantive point is scope: Fixes #980 overstates it. #980 describes the escape generally, and two other onThrottleReady implementations still rethrow from below this frame, so the exception can still leave register() and session.execute() — including straight through the new catch.

The remaining #965 findings that this PR doesn't touch are now #1009 (a leaked stream-id bit in InFlightHandler, CqlPrepareHandler stranding its prepareAsync future, and the write-coalescer shutdown gate).

[dkropachev]

@nikagra, the follow-up fixes are force-pushed as a single cleaned-up commit. The retry/reprepare and timeout-race cases are covered, the PR scope now explicitly excludes #949/#1013/#1014, and the full Java 11 core suite passes. Please take another look.

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