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Hoss Man updated SOLR-13490:
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      Assignee: Hoss Man
    Attachment: SOLR-13490.patch
        Status: Open  (was: Open)

{quote}Your hypothetical watcher sounds like it wants to watch two things (live 
nodes and state) and I like the solution to not conflate the two items. ...
{quote}
The problem is this isn't hypothetical: there are already lots of uses of 
CollectionStateWatcher in the code base (not to mention the *additional* 
hypothetical end user use cases via the existing CloudSolrClient's public API) 
that care about both the liveNodes and the DocCollection instance (mostly 
because it's imposible to know if a replica listed in DocCollection is "active" 
w/o consulting liveNodes).
{quote}The watcher can watch one or the other and query when it sees a change, 
...
{quote}
The problem with "Watch X, and then ask ZkStateReader for Y when notified about 
X" is that Y might not be updated in the local state until *after* the 
notification of X happens – Anybody that cares about both X & Y really _must_ 
watch both. (the watcher could ignores the local data in ZkStateReader and do a 
"force refresh" of data from ZK, but that's more intensive on ZK then just 
waiting on a second watcher, and still doesn't garuntee it won't 'miss' updates 
to Y that happen on the quorum _after_ the watcher for X fires) ...
{quote}... or it can watch both and keep a state machine if it prefers.
{quote}
but since ZkStateReader already has (public) watch/predicate APIs that _imply_ 
they "watch" both liveNodes & a DocCollection (and have callback methods that 
pass both as args), I'm starting to come around to thinking that the best 
solution is:
 # "Fix" and Keep (and clearly document) the existing 
CollectionStateWatcher/Predicate based APIs to "notify" on *both* DocCollection 
_and_ liveNode changes
 # For clients that don't care about liveNodes, add newer & simpler 
Watcher/Predicate APIs that *only* notify on changes to the DocCollection.
 # Update javadocs to encourage people to use the most restrictive 
Watchers/Predicates for their usecase

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These changes aren't actually as hard/complex as i initially imagined they 
would be when i initially speculated about them – I'm attaching a new patch 
that "fixes" ZkStateReader by:
 * add new DocCollectionWatcher & DocCollectionPredicate interfaces
 * add new registerDocCollectionWatcher(...), removeDocCollectionWatcher(...) & 
waitForState(..., DocCollectionPredicate) impls in ZkStateReader
 * refactor the existing CollectionStateWatcher & CollectionStatePredicate 
methods in ZkStateReader to be syntactic sugar around using a 
DocCollectionWatcher + LiveNodesListener.

On the testing side:
 * patch includes my earlier TestWaitForStateWithJettyShutdowns
 * all existing tests in TestCollectionStateWatchers still pass (AFAICT ... 
haven't beasted agressively yet)
 ** added additional testing showing that liveNode changes are enough to ensure 
that CollectionStateWatchers are notified.

Still TODO...
 * add DocCollectionWatcher & DocCollectionPredicate impls to CloudSolrClient 
and update javadocs of existing methods similar to changes already made in 
ZkStateReader
 * clone TestCollectionStateWatchers into TestDocCollectionWatcher and modify 
to test the new simplified API directly
 * audit all existing uses of CollectionStateWatchers and waitForState 
throughout the code base:
 ** see what existing impls/callers don't care about liveNodes and can be 
refactored to use the new lighter weight methods
 ** add new static factory helpers (like "clusterShape(...)") when appropriate

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I'm planning to keep moving forward on this ... any feedback/concerns on the 
API/impl/docs would be apprecaited.

> waitForState/registerCollectionStateWatcher can see stale liveNodes data due 
> to (Zk) Watcher race condition
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-13490
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13490
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Hoss Man
>            Assignee: Hoss Man
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: SOLR-13490.patch, SOLR-13490.patch
>
>
> I was investigating some failures in 
> {{TestCloudSearcherWarming.testRepFactor1LeaderStartup}} which lead me to the 
> hunch that {{waitForState}} wasn't ensuring that the predicates registered 
> would always be called if/when a node was shutdown.
> Digging into it a bit more, I found that the root cause seems to be the way 
> the {{CollectionStateWatcher}} / {{CollectionStatePredicate}} APIs pass in 
> *both* the {{DocCollection}}, and the "current" {{liveNodes}} - but are only 
> _triggered_ by the {{StateWatcher}} on the {{state.json}} (which is used to 
> rebuild the {{DocCollection}}) - when the {{CollectionStateWatcher}} / 
> {{CollectionStatePredicate}} are called, they get the "fresh" 
> {{DocCollection}} but they get the _cached_ {{ZkStateReader.liveNodes}}
> Meanwhile, the {{LiveNodeWatcher}} only calls {{refreshLiveNodes()}} only 
> updates {{ZkStateReader.liveNodes}} and triggers any {{LiveNodesListener}} - 
> it does *NOT* invoke any {{CollectionStateWatcher}} that may have replicas 
> hosted on any of changed nodes.
> Since there is no garunteed order that Watchers will be triggered, this means 
> there is a race condition where the following can happen...
>  * client1 has a ZkStateReader with cached {{liveNodes=[N1, N2, N3]}}
>  * client1 registers a {{CollectionStateWatcher}} "watcherZ" that cares if 
> "replicaX" of collectionA is on a "down" node
>  * client2 causes shutdown of node N1 which is hosting replicaX
>  * client1's zkStateReader gets a WatchedEvent for state.json of collectionA
>  ** DocCollection for collectionA is rebuilt
>  ** watcherZ is fired w/cached {{liveNodes=[N1, N2, N3]}} and the new 
> DocCollection
>  *** watcherZ sees that replicaX is on N1, but thinks N1 is live
>  *** watcherZ says "everything ok, not the event i was waiting for" and 
> doesn't take any action
>  * client1's zkStateReader gets a WatchedEvent for LIVE_NODES_ZKNODE
>  ** zkStateReader.liveNodes is rebuilt
> ...at no point in this sequence (or after this) will watcherZ be notified 
> fired with the updated liveNodes (unless/until another {{state.json}} change 
> is made for collectionA.
> ----
> While this is definitely be problematic in _tests_ that deal with node 
> lifecyle and use things like {{SolrCloudTestCase.waitForState(..., 
> SolrCloudTestCase.clusterShape(...))}} to check for the expected 
> shards/replicas, a cursory search of how/where 
> {{ZkStateReader.waitForState(...)}} and 
> {{ZkStateReader.registerCollectionStateWatcher(...)}} are used in solr-core 
> suggests that could also lead to bad behavior in situations like reacting to 
> shard leader loss, waiting for all leaders of SYSTEM_COLL to come online for 
> upgrade, running PrepRecoveryOp, etc... (anywhere that liveNodes is used by 
> the watcher/predicate)



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