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What's the purpose of this pull request?

Two related fixes to how v3 reports and reacts to upstream failures. They are bundled because they only work together (see Why one PR).

Automated crawlers periodically hit a store's public routes and trip the "Increased 5XX error rate by account and cluster" alert, remediated so far only by manual, per-incident IP blocks that never converge (the offender rotates IPs). Investigation showed the "5xx" is largely an artifact:

  1. A low-volume bot (~20 req/s) trips VTEX per-account upstream rate limits, which answer 429.
  2. The v3 BFF mislabels that 429 as 500, which is what fires the 5xx alert.
  3. The storefront then retries 3×, tripling the load on an upstream that is already shedding it.

This PR fixes (2) and (3). Nothing here blocks or throttles legitimate crawlers.

Why one PR

Skipping a retry on 429 is a no-op while the BFF still answers 500, and fixing the status alone leaves the 3× amplification in place. They have to land in the same release, so they are reviewed and merged as one unit.

How it works?

1. Propagate the upstream error status (backport of #3379)

The GraphQL BFF (/api/graphql handler in @faststore/core) collapsed every error into HTTP 500, even when the upstream VTEX error was a client error (400/401/403/404/429/...). For example, an invalid postalCode in the shipping simulation makes VTEX Checkout return 400, but the storefront received 500, hiding the real cause from consumers and server logs.

Root cause: after useMaskedErrors, the errors array holds GraphQLError instances (name === 'GraphQLError'). The handler used errors.find(isFastStoreError), which checks name === 'FastStoreError' and therefore never matched — the real FastStoreError (carrying extensions.status) is nested in originalError. So the status always fell back to 500.

Changes in packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts:

  • Added recoverFastStoreError to unwrap the FastStoreError whether it is the error itself or nested in the originalError of a masked GraphQLError.
  • hasErrors now also checks errors.length > 0. Without this, an empty errors array fell into the error branch, found nothing recoverable, and answered 500 — another spurious 5xx.
  • The handler responds with the recovered extensions.status (still ?? 500 as the safe default).
  • For a recovered FastStoreError, the JSON body exposes extensions.type and extensions.status always; the free-text message is included only when NODE_ENV !== 'production' (and always logged server-side).
  • Non-FastStoreErrors keep the masked, body-less 500 (error masking unchanged).

fetchAPI already preserved the upstream status (its default branch throws FastStoreError({ status, type: 'UnknownError' })), so no change to @faststore/api was needed — the status was being produced correctly and discarded downstream.

v3 adaptation notes. The handler code is a 1:1 port of #3379, with two deliberate deviations. (a) The original test targets the dev/v4 toolchain (Vitest + graphql 16); on 3.x core uses Jest and graphql 15, so the test was adapted: vijest, vi.stubEnv → manual NODE_ENV handling, and the masked-error helper uses graphql 15's positional originalError constructor argument. (b) v4's version of this block also calls OTELLogger, which does not exist anywhere in 3.x; here the structured payload goes to console.error only, rather than adding that dependency to a maintenance branch.

2. Never retry an upstream 429

DEFAULT_OPTIONS in packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/useQuery.ts set errorRetryCount: 3 and shouldRetryOnError: true, so every failure was retried — including a 429. Retrying a rate limit multiplies exactly the traffic the upstream is trying to reject.

  • The policy lives in a new packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts and is wired in as DEFAULT_OPTIONS.onErrorRetry. It is a separate module so it can be unit-tested without pulling the session/SDK graph in through useQuery.
  • No plumbing was needed to see the status client-side: baseRequest in request.ts already builds { status, message } from response.status and request throws it. Note it is a plain object, not an Error, hence the error?.status read.
  • Important for review: providing onErrorRetry replaces SWR's default implementation entirely — it does not compose. So the fall-through branch mirrors swr@2.3.1's default (the errorRetryCount ceiling plus the jittered exponential backoff, capped at 1 << 8) to keep every other status retrying exactly as it does today. The tests pin both branches, and Math.random is stubbed so the backoff assertions are exact. This is the one spot to revisit on an SWR upgrade.
  • Narrowing to 429 is deliberate: it is the only status the bot induces, and touching other 4xx risks regressing flows that may rely on a retry. The 401/refresh-token recovery is a separate explicit path in the session SDK, not SWR-retry-driven, so it is unaffected.

Behavior changes (for the changelog)

  • The BFF now returns accurate upstream statuses (429/400/404/...) instead of a blanket 500. Intended, from fix(core): propagate upstream error status instead of always 500 #3379. Consumers treating "any non-200" as failure are unaffected; consumers branching specifically on 500 will now see the real code.
  • A 429 is no longer retried by the client. All other statuses retry exactly as before.
  • An empty errors array is treated as success instead of 500.
  • No schema or public-API signature changes.

As a side effect, once bot-induced 429s stop being reported as 500, they drop out of the 5xx metric and the existing alert self-corrects — no suppression rules to maintain.

How to test it?

Unit tests (29 assertions across the two halves):

cd packages/core
pnpm test -- test/pages/api/graphql.test.ts        # 11 passing
pnpm test -- test/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.test.ts  # 18 passing

The handler tests were also confirmed to fail against 3.x without this change (9 of 11), so they are pinning real behavior rather than the implementation.

Manually, against a store:

  • Trigger a shipping simulation with an invalid postalCode (e.g. 555) → /api/graphql should return 400 (was 500).
  • Confirm a genuine upstream 500 still returns 500.
  • In a non-production build, confirm the JSON error body carries extensions.type, extensions.status and message; in production the message is omitted.
  • Force a 429 from an upstream (or stub it) and confirm the request is not retried, while a 500 is still retried 3×.

Follow-ups (not in this PR)

  • The same retry change should land on dev (v4). It is necessarily a separate PR since the base branch differs; the v4 status fix is already in via fix(core): propagate upstream error status instead of always 500 #3379.
  • The "elevated 429 rate across multiple client IPs" signal and the detect → stopgap → recommend runbook are Grafana/process work, meaningful only once this ships.
  • Honoring Retry-After (instead of just skipping the retry) would need the header captured in fetchAPI, carried on the error, set on the BFF response and honored in SWR — a cross-package change, deliberately out of scope.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved GraphQL error responses with accurate HTTP status and error type details.
    • Preserved secure production responses while providing additional diagnostic messages in non-production environments.
    • Prevented automatic retries for rate-limit errors.
    • Added controlled retries with exponential backoff for other GraphQL failures.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for error handling, status propagation, retry limits, rate limiting, and backoff behavior.

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The GraphQL API now recovers masked FastStoreError values and propagates their status and response details. The GraphQL client now uses a bounded retry policy that skips HTTP 429 retries and applies capped jittered backoff. Jest tests cover both flows.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Recover and serialize FastStore errors
packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts
The handler unwraps masked errors, derives HTTP statuses, logs recovered details, and conditionally includes messages in JSON responses.
Validate GraphQL error responses
packages/core/test/pages/api/graphql.test.ts
Tests cover direct and wrapped errors, status propagation, 500 fallbacks, production message omission, first-recoverable-error selection, and empty error arrays.
Configure GraphQL request retries
packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts, packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/useQuery.ts
useQuery uses onErrorRetry. The policy suppresses 429 retries, enforces retry limits, and schedules capped jittered backoff for other errors.
Validate retry scheduling
packages/core/test/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.test.ts
Tests cover retry suppression, retry limits, statusless failures, exponential backoff, jitter, and exponent capping.

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packages/core/test/pages/api/graphql.test.ts (1)

136-148: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the content-type header for recovered-error responses.

Tests verify the JSON body but never assert res.setHeader was called with 'content-type', 'application/json' for the recovered-error branch — worth locking in since it's part of the new response contract.

✅ Proposed addition
     const body = JSON.parse((res.send as jest.Mock).mock.calls[0][0])
     expect(body.errors[0]).toEqual({
       extensions: { type: 'BadRequestError', status: 400 },
       message: 'invalid CEP',
     })
+    expect(res.setHeader).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      'content-type',
+      'application/json'
+    )
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In `@packages/core/test/pages/api/graphql.test.ts` around lines 136 - 148, The
recovered-error test should also verify the response content type. In the test
named “exposes type, status and message in the body outside production,” assert
that res.setHeader was called with 'content-type' and 'application/json' after
invoking handler.
packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts (2)

24-33: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the unknown type assertion with a type guard.

(graphqlError as { originalError?: unknown })?.originalError widens unknown via an assertion. A small type-guard keeps the same behavior without asserting.

As per path instructions, "Ensure type safety and avoid type assertions when possible."

♻️ Proposed refactor
+const hasOriginalError = (
+  error: unknown
+): error is { originalError: unknown } =>
+  typeof error === 'object' && error !== null && 'originalError' in error
+
 const recoverFastStoreError = (graphqlError: unknown) => {
   if (isFastStoreError(graphqlError)) {
     return graphqlError
   }

-  const originalError = (graphqlError as { originalError?: unknown })
-    ?.originalError
-
-  return isFastStoreError(originalError) ? originalError : undefined
+  if (hasOriginalError(graphqlError) && isFastStoreError(graphqlError.originalError)) {
+    return graphqlError.originalError
+  }
+
+  return undefined
 }
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In `@packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts` around lines 24 - 33, Update
recoverFastStoreError to avoid asserting graphqlError as an object when reading
originalError. Add a small type guard that safely determines whether the unknown
value can expose an originalError property, then use it before accessing that
property while preserving the existing FastStoreError checks and return
behavior.

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225-243: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Dedupe the repeated recoverFastStoreError calls.

Each error is run through recoverFastStoreError twice — once to find the first recoverable error, once again inside the logging map. Compute it once per error and reuse.

♻️ Proposed refactor
-      const fastStoreError = errors.map(recoverFastStoreError).find(Boolean)
-
-      console.error(
-        'Graphql execution returned with error: ',
-        errors.map((graphqlError) => {
-          const fsError = recoverFastStoreError(graphqlError)
-
-          return {
-            message: (graphqlError as { message?: string })?.message,
-            status: fsError?.extensions.status,
-            type: fsError?.extensions.type,
-          }
-        })
-      )
+      const recoveredErrors = errors.map((graphqlError) => ({
+        graphqlError,
+        fsError: recoverFastStoreError(graphqlError),
+      }))
+
+      const fastStoreError = recoveredErrors.find(({ fsError }) => fsError)
+        ?.fsError
+
+      console.error(
+        'Graphql execution returned with error: ',
+        recoveredErrors.map(({ graphqlError, fsError }) => ({
+          message: (graphqlError as { message?: string })?.message,
+          status: fsError?.extensions.status,
+          type: fsError?.extensions.type,
+        }))
+      )
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rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts` around lines 225 - 243, Update the
error handling around recoverFastStoreError to compute each recovered error
once, then reuse those results both for selecting fastStoreError and building
the console.error payload. Preserve the existing first-recoverable-error
selection and logged message, status, and type fields.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/core/src/pages/api/graphql.ts`:
- Around line 24-33: Update recoverFastStoreError to avoid asserting
graphqlError as an object when reading originalError. Add a small type guard
that safely determines whether the unknown value can expose an originalError
property, then use it before accessing that property while preserving the
existing FastStoreError checks and return behavior.
- Around line 225-243: Update the error handling around recoverFastStoreError to
compute each recovered error once, then reuse those results both for selecting
fastStoreError and building the console.error payload. Preserve the existing
first-recoverable-error selection and logged message, status, and type fields.

In `@packages/core/test/pages/api/graphql.test.ts`:
- Around line 136-148: The recovered-error test should also verify the response
content type. In the test named “exposes type, status and message in the body
outside production,” assert that res.setHeader was called with 'content-type'
and 'application/json' after invoking handler.

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VTEX upstreams answer 429 when they rate-limit an account. SWR retried those
3 times, so the storefront tripled the load an upstream was already shedding —
part of why a crawler burst inflates into a much larger request count.

Skip retries for 429 only. Every other status keeps the retry count and backoff
it has today: since a custom `onErrorRetry` replaces SWR's default entirely, the
fall-through branch mirrors swr@2.3.1's default implementation.

The policy lives in its own module so it can be unit-tested without pulling the
session/SDK graph in through `useQuery`.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
`hasErrors` now also requires `errors.length > 0`. Without that guard an empty
array fell into the error branch and answered 500 with no recoverable error,
which is one of the spurious 5xx this change set is meant to remove. Pin it.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
@hellofanny hellofanny changed the title fix: propagate upstream error status instead of always 500 fix: propagate upstream error status and stop retrying 429 (v3) Aug 14, 2026
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packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts (1)

27-30: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove assertion-based retry-policy typing. Both sites suppress useful TypeScript checks instead of modeling the required values.

  • packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts#L27-L30: add a type guard before comparing error.status.
  • packages/core/test/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.test.ts#L5-L10: derive fixture and helper types from Parameters<typeof onErrorRetry> instead of using as never.
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In `@packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts` around lines 27 - 30, Remove
assertion-based typing in both affected sites: in
packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts lines 27-30, add a type guard
before comparing error.status with TOO_MANY_REQUESTS; in
packages/core/test/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.test.ts lines 5-10, derive fixture
and helper types from Parameters<typeof onErrorRetry> and eliminate the as never
cast.

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In `@packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts`:
- Around line 27-30: Remove assertion-based typing in both affected sites: in
packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.ts lines 27-30, add a type guard
before comparing error.status with TOO_MANY_REQUESTS; in
packages/core/test/sdk/graphql/retryPolicy.test.ts lines 5-10, derive fixture
and helper types from Parameters<typeof onErrorRetry> and eliminate the as never
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@lemagnetic no outro PR (da v4) o sonarqube reclamou disso, o que achas de fazer a mudança aqui tb?

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Review notes, verified against origin/3.x (and origin/dev for the shared half).

Blocking — the retry half is dead code on 3.x today

useQuery's fetcher never rejects, so SWR's error path — and therefore onErrorRetry — never runs:

// packages/core/src/sdk/graphql/useQuery.ts
fetcher: () => new Promise((resolve) => {
  setTimeout(async () => { resolve(await request(...)) })
})

If request() rejects, the await throws inside the async setTimeout callback. That rejects the callback's promise (unhandled), while the outer promise stays pending forever — resolve is never called. Reproduced in Node: the rejection surfaces as an unhandled rejection and the promise is still unsettled after 500ms.

Consequences:

  • onErrorRetry, errorRetryCount: 3 and shouldRetryOnError: true on DEFAULT_OPTIONS have never had any effect for useQuery. So the premise "the storefront then retries 3×, tripling the load" does not hold through this path — the amplification is coming from somewhere else, or is not happening. Worth re-deriving from the incident data before merging on that justification.
  • useLazyQuery passes DEFAULT_OPTIONS but its fetcher is () => null and execute() calls request outside SWR — also inert.
  • Session and cart call request directly, with no SWR at all (src/sdk/session/index.ts:170, src/sdk/cart/index.ts:122). Per SO-631 those uncacheable mutations are the dominant bot-5xx source, and the retry policy does not cover them.

The policy code itself is faithful — I diffed it against the SWR default (~~((Math.random() + 0.5) * (1 << (n < 8 ? n : 8))) * config.errorRetryInterval, ceiling check after the timeout computation) and it matches exactly, including the argument-order quirk. The lockfile version cited in the description is correct (3.x → swr 2.3.1). The problem is only that nothing calls it.

Fixing the fetcher is the prerequisite. Note that fixing it would turn on 3 retries for every status for the first time — which makes the 429 guard genuinely load-bearing at that moment, rather than before it.

BFF status propagation

  1. Error responses set no Cache-Control. The error branch returns before the cache-control block, same as before. That was harmless while every error was a 500; now NotFoundError produces a bare 404, which is heuristically cacheable by intermediary caches (RFC 9111 §4.2.2 lists 404, 405, 410, 301). A CDN could cache an error for a /api/graphql?operationName=… URL. Suggest setting cache-control: no-store on the error branch.

  2. First-error-wins can hide a genuine 5xx. errors.map(recoverFastStoreError).find(Boolean) takes the first FastStoreError in array order. A multi-field response carrying both a NotFoundError and a real upstream 500 answers 404. Since the point is making the 5xx metric truthful, that is a monitoring blind spot in the wrong direction — consider selecting the highest status, or preferring 5xx over 4xx. The test uses the first recoverable FastStoreError when several errors exist currently pins the weaker behavior.

  3. The new JSON body is invisible to the FastStore client. ParseInvalidRequest in src/sdk/graphql/request.ts short-circuits on !response.ok and synthesizes errors: [{ status, message: statusText }], discarding the response body entirely. So extensions.type and the dev-only message only reach direct/external consumers, not the SDK — which softens the "hiding the real cause from consumers" motivation.

  4. Unflagged behavior change on the 401 refresh-token path. src/sdk/session/index.ts:182 branches on error?.status === 401. An UnauthorizedError raised inside GraphQL execution previously arrived as 500, so that branch never fired for it; now it fires and triggers handleRefreshToken when experimental.refreshToken is on. The description says the 401 path "is unaffected" — true for the retry policy, not for the status change. Under a crawler wave this adds a refresh request per failure, on exactly the path SO-631 flagged.

  5. The catch block is now inconsistent with the new error branch. It still hardcodes 400/401 via instanceof and ends body-less, so a thrown FastStoreError with status 429 there still becomes 500 — same masking, different branch.

  6. console.error loses the Error object. It now logs { message, status, type } only — no stack trace, and no extensions for non-FastStore errors. Minor, but diagnosability is the stated goal.

  7. The dev-only message is the raw upstream body. fetchAPI passes await response.text() as the message, so outside production the BFF echoes whatever VTEX returned, potentially large HTML. The NODE_ENV gate is the right call; just worth confirming no store build runs with NODE_ENV !== 'production'.

  8. The 429 check only reads error.status. extractStatusFromError in src/utils/utilities.ts:55 exists precisely because errors also arrive shaped as error.extensions.status (a 200 response carrying GraphQL errors, which GraphqlRequest rethrows as response.errors[0]). A 429 in that shape still retries. error?.status ?? error?.extensions?.status would close it.

  9. Fake-timer teardown order in retryPolicy.test.ts: jest.useRealTimers() runs before jest.restoreAllMocks(), so the setTimeout spy restores the faked timer onto globalThis after real timers were reinstated. Harmless within this file since each beforeEach re-fakes, but the two lines should be swapped.

What holds up

  • The recoverFastStoreError diagnosis is correct: isFastStoreError checks name === 'FastStoreError' (packages/api/src/platforms/errors.ts:47), and post-masking the entries are GraphQLErrors, so errors.find(isFastStoreError) genuinely never matched.
  • The errors.length > 0 fix is real, and it also unblocks the set-cookie propagation that the old Array.isArray check short-circuited.
  • No @faststore/api change needed — fetchAPI's default branch does preserve response.status.
  • Bundling both halves here is justified, and the graphql-15 positional originalError adaptation is right for this branch.

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