gstack/design/test
Stefan Neamtu 4bdb02070f fix(design): honor Retry-After header in variants 429 handler
Closes #1244.

The 429 handler in `generateVariant` discarded the `Retry-After` response
header and fell straight through to a local exponential schedule (2s/4s/8s).
In image-generation batches, that burns retry attempts inside the provider's
cooldown window and the request never recovers.

Now we parse `Retry-After` per RFC 7231 — both delta-seconds (`Retry-After: 5`)
and HTTP-date (`Retry-After: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 23:59:59 GMT`). Honored waits
are capped at 60s to bound stalls from hostile or buggy headers. Delta-seconds
are validated as digits-only (rejects `2abc`). When `Retry-After` is honored
(including 0 / past-date "retry now"), the next iteration's leading exponential
sleep is skipped so we don't double-wait. Invalid or missing headers fall
through to the existing exponential schedule unchanged.

Behavior matrix:

| Header                          | Behavior                                  |
|---------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| Retry-After: 5                  | wait 5s, skip leading on next attempt     |
| Retry-After: 999999             | capped to 60s, skip leading               |
| Retry-After: 2abc               | invalid, fall through to exponential      |
| Retry-After: 0                  | wait 0, skip leading (retry immediately)  |
| Retry-After: <past HTTP-date>   | wait 0, skip leading                      |
| Retry-After: <future date>      | wait diff capped at 60s, skip leading     |
| no header                       | fall through to existing exponential      |

`generateVariant` now accepts an optional `fetchFn` parameter (defaults to
`globalThis.fetch`) so tests can inject a stub. Production call sites are
unchanged.

Tests cover the five behavior buckets above, asserting both the 1st-to-2nd
call timing gap and call counts. All five pass in ~8s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-06 12:01:52 +02:00
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variants-retry-after.test.ts fix(design): honor Retry-After header in variants 429 handler 2026-05-06 12:01:52 +02:00