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What does this PR do?

Adds a new Testcontainers.DuckDb module for DuckDB, following the existing module pattern (builder / configuration / container, tests, docs).

Since DuckDB is an embedded database and the official duckdb/duckdb image is a distroless image shipping only the CLI binary (no shell), the module keeps the container alive by running an in-memory DuckDB CLI process with an open stdin (-cmd "SELECT 1;" + OpenStdin). ExecScriptAsync(string) copies the script into the container and executes it with a fresh CLI process against the configured database file (default /database.duckdb). The in-memory keep-alive process holds no file lock, so script executions can open the database file freely and state persists across executions (covered by a test). GetDatabaseFilePath() allows copying the database file to the test host via ReadFileAsync.

Why is it important?

DuckDB is increasingly used for analytical workloads; downstream projects (e.g. FluentMigrator, per the issue) would like native Testcontainers infrastructure for their integration tests instead of ad-hoc image setups.

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dotnet test tests/Testcontainers.DuckDb.Tests (4 tests, verified locally against Docker 27.4).

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  • New Features

    • Added DuckDB container support with configurable Docker images and database file paths.
    • Added SQL script execution, persistent database state, and access to the configured database file.
    • Serialized script executions to prevent concurrent write access and support non-ASCII SQL content.
  • Documentation

    • Added DuckDB module setup, configuration, and usage guidance.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for script execution, persistence, concurrent execution, non-ASCII characters, and database path configuration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

Adds a DuckDB Testcontainers module with configurable database paths and serialized SQL script execution. The solution includes the source and test projects. Tests cover script execution, persistence, concurrency, UTF-8 content, and database path retrieval. Documentation describes installation and use.

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DuckDB module

Layer / File(s) Summary
Builder and container execution
src/Testcontainers.DuckDb/..., Testcontainers.slnx
Adds DuckDB configuration and builder APIs. The builder configures the CLI, database path, stdin, and readiness strategy. The container serializes script execution and writes scripts as UTF-8.
Container tests and test setup
tests/Testcontainers.DuckDb.Tests/..., Testcontainers.slnx
Adds a pinned DuckDB image, test project and shared fixture, lifecycle example, and tests for execution, persistence, concurrent scripts, UTF-8 content, and database path retrieval.
Module documentation
docs/modules/duckdb.md, mkdocs.yml
Documents package installation, container lifecycle, SQL execution, database file configuration, and test execution. Adds the page to navigation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DuckDbBuilder
  participant DuckDbContainer
  participant DuckDBCLI
  DuckDbBuilder->>DuckDbContainer: Build configured container
  DuckDbContainer->>DuckDBCLI: Serialize and execute SQL script
  DuckDBCLI-->>DuckDbContainer: Return execution result
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 30a2b

The concurrency test may pass with an incorrect row count, reducing confidence that it catches future write regressions. This is a bounded test-confidence risk; the implementation serializes calls through the same container instance.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 30a2b

The change is isolated to an optional module and uses existing container operations. No security vulnerability was established. The main uncertainty is whether cancellation preserves execution isolation before another script starts against the same database.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Cancellation can release local execution ownership before remote DuckDB termination is established. If the remote process continues, a subsequent script can start against the still-active database, undermining the module's serialized-execution and recovery boundary. Database locking may reject the successor rather than permit concurrent writes; process survival and resulting database state remain unverified.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly evidenced execution and recovery scope is the selected container and its configured database file, not a new tenant-facing service. Effective SQL access can inherit resources granted through container configuration; shared mounts and external consumers were not assessed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The API delegates file upload and execution to existing container operations. Its semaphore controls calls through one DuckDbContainer instance; it does not coordinate inherited execution APIs or separate instances that might access a shared database file.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Local semaphore cleanup is established, but cancellation does not establish that remote mutation has reached a terminal state. Normal concurrency tests provide counterevidence for ordinary overlap, not for interruption and subsequent recovery.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define cancellation recovery explicitly: establish remote termination before reusing execution ownership, or require container recovery before further scripts. Validate that lifecycle with an interrupted mutation followed by another execution, without assuming cancellation rolls back SQL.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding the Testcontainers.DuckDb module.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the required sections. It explains what the module does, why it is important, related issue #1749, and how to test it.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #1749 requests a DuckDB NuGet package that uses the duckdb/duckdb image and follows the existing Testcontainers module pattern. The PR adds the Testcontainers.DuckDb project, builder, config…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reviewed changes remain within Issue #1749. Source files implement the DuckDB module. Tests verify the module behavior. Documentation describes package usage and the embedded DuckDB container mode…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 92.86% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 28 functions across 7 files. (2 skipped: 2 …
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In `@src/Testcontainers.DuckDb/DuckDbContainer.cs`:
- Line 46: Update ExecScriptAsync to serialize executions for the configured
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Comment thread src/Testcontainers.DuckDb/DuckDbContainer.cs Outdated
DuckDB does not support concurrent write access to the same database file
from multiple processes; an instance-scoped semaphore now serializes
ExecScriptAsync executions. Script content is copied as UTF-8 instead of
Encoding.Default, which is the ANSI code page on .NET Framework consumers.
Adds concurrent-execution and non-ASCII round-trip tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressed the review feedback in 5029151: ExecScriptAsync executions are now serialized with an instance-scoped SemaphoreSlim (DuckDB does not support concurrent multi-process write access to the same database file), script content is copied as UTF-8 instead of Encoding.Default (which is the ANSI code page on .NET Framework consumers), and I added a concurrent-execution test plus a non-ASCII round-trip test. All 6 tests pass locally.

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Regarding the CodeRabbit slop flag (redundant_comments): the repeated comments it detects — e.g. the 'Passes the configuration upwards to the base implementations to create an updated immutable copy.' lines in DuckDbConfiguration and the Given/When/Then markers in the tests — are intentionally copied from the repository's existing module template (the same lines appear in ClickHouseConfiguration, KurrentDbConfiguration, etc.) to keep the new module consistent with the established pattern. For transparency: I developed this module with AI assistance, as the commit trailers note. I reviewed the design and code myself and validated the behavior against the real duckdb/duckdb image locally (all tests pass, including the concurrency and UTF-8 cases). Happy to adjust or remove any comments the maintainers consider noise.

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- Line 79: Update the assertion using countResult.Stdout in DuckDbContainerTest
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