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Fixes: #54

This fixes client calls that hang forever, and a Close() that crashes the process, when the client can't reach the server. Calls also respect their context while they wait for a connection. With a healthy connection, reads, writes, subscriptions, reconnects and not-leader handling behave as before, and error codes are unchanged

Calling the client from several goroutines when the server is unreachable

The client hands out connections one request at a time. When discovery ran out of attempts, it answered the call it was serving and then stopped listening, so any other call waiting in line never got an answer and blocked forever, whatever its deadline said. Every waiting call now gets the discovery error. The new unit test points two concurrent calls at a port that never speaks gRPC and checks both return within 5 seconds, with and without a deadline

// server is down, two goroutines call at once
go func() { _, err := client.ReadStream(ctx, "orders", opts, 1); log.Println(err) }()
go func() { _, err := client.ReadStream(ctx, "orders", opts, 1); log.Println(err) }()

before   goroutine A  maximum discovery attempt count reached ...
         goroutine B  (never returns)

after    goroutine A  maximum discovery attempt count reached ...
         goroutine B  maximum discovery attempt count reached ...

Closing the client while calls are in flight

Two problems stood in the way here. The first was a crash. Close() shut the request line while a call was still trying to get into it, which Go reports as panic: send on closed channel and takes the whole app down. It took a stuck call like goroutine B above, or just bad timing between Close() and an in-flight call or reconnect. Close() now signals shutdown without shutting the request line, so it never panics

client.Close()

before   panic: send on closed channel   (in the waiting goroutine)
after    returns nil, the waiting call gets an error

The second was a wait. Once the crash was gone, a call waiting on discovery still kept waiting after Close() until discovery gave up, which can take minutes. It now returns right away with ErrorCodeConnectionClosed, and the new unit test checks it does so within 1 second of Close()

go client.ReadStream(context.Background(), "orders", opts, 1)
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
client.Close()

before   ReadStream blocks until discovery gives up
after    ReadStream returns at once with ErrorCodeConnectionClosed

Deadlines and cancellation while the client is connecting

Your context only reached the gRPC call itself, never the step that waits for a connection before it. A call made during discovery blocked for the whole discovery, which is maxDiscoverAttempts times gossipTimeout, no matter how short its deadline. It now returns when its deadline passes or it's cancelled, and discovery carries on in the background for the next call

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Second)
defer cancel()

_, err := client.AppendToStream(ctx, "orders", opts, event)

before   blocks for the whole discovery, can be minutes
after    returns at 2s with ErrorCodeDeadlineExceeded

A cancelled context comes back as ErrorCodeUnknown, since there is no dedicated code for it, but errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) matches. The persistent subscription calls that go over HTTP get the same behavior

What calls return once discovery has failed

A client whose discovery has failed stays dead, and every later call fails at once with ErrorCodeConnectionClosed, as before. The error now wraps the discovery error, so the message says why the client is dead and errors.Is can match the cause. Code that rebuilds its client on ErrorCodeConnectionClosed keeps working

_, err := client.ReadStream(ctx, "orders", opts, 1) // any call after the failure

kurrentErr, _ := kurrentdb.FromError(err)
kurrentErr.Code()  // ErrorCodeConnectionClosed, same as before
kurrentErr.Err()   // maximum discovery attempt count reached ..., was "connection is closed"

After a normal Close(), calls still return ErrorCodeConnectionClosed with connection is closed

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Database and projection requests now honor their supplied contexts while obtaining connections, so canceled or timed-out requests can stop waiting sooner.
  • Concurrent requests now receive errors when connection discovery fails, rather than remaining blocked.
  • Closing a client now releases requests waiting during connection discovery.
  • Connection shutdown and discovery failures are handled more reliably across client operations, including reads, subscriptions, and persistent-subscription requests.

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Walkthrough

The gRPC client now supports context-aware connection handle acquisition and shutdown signaling. Client operations pass contexts through this path. Tests cover discovery failure, client closure, and the updated unit test workflow.

Changes: Context-aware connection acquisition

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Connection lifecycle and discovery failure kurrentdb/endpoint.go, kurrentdb/impl.go	The gRPC client uses a done channel and stored close errors instead of an atomic close flag. Connection requests can return on context cancellation or shutdown. The state machine records discovery failures through closeWith.
Context propagation to connection acquisition kurrentdb/client.go, kurrentdb/projection_client.go, kurrentdb/persistent_subscription_http_client.go, kurrentdb/operations.go	Client, projection, and persistent-subscription HTTP operations pass contexts to connection handle acquisition. GetServerVersion uses context.Background().
Discovery and closure tests kurrentdb/connection_test.go, .github/workflows/tests.yml	Tests check concurrent ReadStream calls during discovery failure and verify that client closure releases a blocked caller. The workflow runs all tests in ./kurrentdb and TestMisc in ./test.

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

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• KurrentDB-Client-Go issue 54 describes concurrent calls blocked after discovery fails and a panic when closing the client. This change adds context cancellation and shutdown handling to connection requests; the issue remains open.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to cfa42

Calls may report inconsistent discovery failures or outlive configured deadlines, while the shutdown regression test may pass without exercising the intended scenario. Resolve these before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to cfa42

The change releases blocked calls without an observed expansion of access or privileges. Remaining uncertainty concerns concurrent shutdown and connection cleanup; no PR-introduced security exploit was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A discovery or shutdown transition affects operations sharing the same grpcClient, making that client instance the demonstrated failure-containment scope. The inspected changes do not establish broader tenant, datastore, or deployment authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Connection creation continues to select transport credentials from configuration, including certificate roots and optional client certificates. The inspected cancellation and shutdown paths return handles or errors; they do not grant credentials or replace request authentication.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Close releases waiters but does not synchronously finish discovery or connection cleanup. Discovery uses independent timeout and attempt controls. A response can win a concurrent shutdown race, returning a handle before the state machine subsequently closes its connection; the inspected evidence does not establish a stronger shutdown-completion contract or whether this differs from the base.
• observed — The inspected reconnect branch creates a connection locally but neither closes nor adopts it when feature probing fails. Shutdown cleanup only reaches state.connection. This resource-ownership gap is outside the supplied changed ranges; unavailable base evidence prevents attributing it to this PR or establishing changed exposure, so it is not retained as an introduced security concern.

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Nitpick comments: 2

kurrentdb/connection_test.go: 2

71-71: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Wait for discovery to start before calling Close().

The fixed 100 ms sleep does not ensure that the ReadStream goroutine is blocked in discovery. If Close() runs first, the call returns the closed error immediately, and the test passes without checking that Close() releases a waiting caller. Accepting the listener connection gives a signal that discovery has started, because the first dial in this test comes from discovery.

Suggested fix

 	listener, err := net.Listen("tcp", "127.0.0.1:0")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	defer listener.Close()
+
+	accepted := make(chan net.Conn, 1)
+	go func() {
+		conn, err := listener.Accept()
+		if err == nil {
+			accepted <- conn
+		}
+	}()
 
 	config, err := ParseConnectionString("kurrentdb://" + listener.Addr().String() + "?tls=false&maxDiscoverAttempts=10&gossipTimeout=5")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@
-	time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	select {
+	case conn := <-accepted:
+		defer conn.Close()
+	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("discovery did not connect to the listener")
+	}
 	require.NoError(t, client.Close())

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Review comment at @kurrentdb/connection_test.go at line 71:
Replace the fixed sleep in the Close test with synchronization that confirms
discovery has started before calling client.Close. Use the listener’s accepted
connection as the signal, with a bounded timeout that fails the test if
discovery does not connect, and close the accepted connection during cleanup.

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38-42: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Assert ErrorCodeDeadlineExceeded for the 250 ms case.

The current test does not distinguish deadline cancellation from discovery failure. Use a fixture that keeps discovery active beyond 250 ms, then extract the returned error with FromError and assert ErrorCodeDeadlineExceeded. This catches a regression that removes the ctx.Done() handling.

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Review comment at @kurrentdb/connection_test.go around lines 38 - 42:
Update the 250 ms case in the test loop to use a fixture that keeps discovery
active past the deadline, then extract the returned error with FromError and
assert ErrorCodeDeadlineExceeded. Preserve the existing error assertions for
other cases.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @kurrentdb/connection_test.go:
- Line 71: Replace the fixed sleep in the Close test with synchronization that
confirms discovery has started before calling client.Close. Use the listener’s
accepted connection as the signal, with a bounded timeout that fails the test if
discovery does not connect, and close the accepted connection during cleanup.
- Around line 38-42: Update the 250 ms case in the test loop to use a fixture
that keeps discovery active past the deadline, then extract the returned error
with FromError and assert ErrorCodeDeadlineExceeded. Preserve the existing error
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Minor · Preserve the discovery error for the request that received the response. · impl.go:128-129

kurrentdb/impl.go:128-129
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve the discovery error for the request that received the response.

When discovery fails, the state machine sends the response and then closes client.done. Both cases in this select can be ready. Go selects one ready case pseudo-randomly, so the initiating call can return client.closedError() with ErrorCodeConnectionClosed instead of resp.err. This makes the error code nondeterministic. The current test checks only the error message, so it does not detect this race. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Prioritize a buffered response in the shutdown branch, and add a test for the initiating call's error code.

Suggested fix

 case <-client.done:
-    return nil, client.closedError()
+    select {
+    case resp := <-msg.channel:
+        return &resp, resp.err
+    default:
+        return nil, client.closedError()
+    }

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Review comment at @kurrentdb/impl.go around lines 128 - 129:
Update client.send so that when shutdown and a response are both ready, it
checks for and returns the buffered response and its error before falling back
to client.closedError(). Add a test asserting that the initiating call preserves
the discovery error code when discovery fails.

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Review comments at @kurrentdb/impl.go:
- Around line 128-129: Update client.send so that when shutdown and a response
are both ready, it checks for and returns the buffered response and its error
before falling back to client.closedError(). Add a test asserting that the
initiating call preserves the discovery error code when discovery fails.

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