refactor(datastore/fetch): Makes more failure proof fetching user-data files

- Adds URL validations
- Adds timeout support for http client
- Limits the amount of retries to not spin forever
- Fails faster if response status code is 4xx
- Does a little bit more of logging
- Adds more tests

datasource/datasource.go

@@ -1,53 +1,108 @@
 package datasource
 
 import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"log"
 	"math"
+	"net"
 	"net/http"
+	neturl "net/url"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 )
 
-const maxTimeout = time.Second * 5
+const (
+	HTTP_2xx = 2
+	HTTP_4xx = 4
+
+	maxTimeout = time.Second * 5
+	maxRetries = 15
+)
 
 type Datasource interface {
 	Fetch() ([]byte, error)
 	Type() string
 }
 
-func fetchURL(url string) ([]byte, error) {
+// HTTP client timeout
-	resp, err := getWithExponentialBackoff(url)
+// This one is low since exponential backoff will kick off too.
-	if err != nil {
+var timeout = time.Duration(2) * time.Second
-		return []byte{}, err
-	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
 
-	respBytes, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+func dialTimeout(network, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(timeout)
+	c, err := net.DialTimeout(network, addr, timeout)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	c.SetDeadline(deadline)
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+// Fetches user-data url with support for
+// exponential backoff and maximum retries
+func fetchURL(rawurl string) ([]byte, error) {
+	if rawurl == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("user-data URL is empty. Skipping.")
+	}
+
+	url, err := neturl.Parse(rawurl)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	return respBytes, nil
+	// Unfortunately, url.Parse
+	// is too generic to throw errors
+	// if a URL does not have a valid HTTP scheme.
+	// So we have to do this extra validation
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(url.Scheme, "http") {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("user-data URL %s, does not have a valid HTTP scheme. Skipping.", rawurl)
 	}
 
-// getWithExponentialBackoff issues a GET to the specified URL. If the
+	userdataURL := url.String()
-// response is a non-2xx or produces an error, retry the GET forever using
+
-// an exponential backoff.
+	// We need to create our own client in order to
-func getWithExponentialBackoff(url string) (*http.Response, error) {
+	// add timeout support.
-	var err error
+	// TODO(c4milo) Replace it once Go 1.3 is officially used by CoreOS
-	var resp *http.Response
+	//              More info: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=ada6f2d5f99f
-	for i := 0; ; i++ {
+	transport := &http.Transport{
-		resp, err = http.Get(url)
+		Dial: dialTimeout,
-		if err == nil && resp.StatusCode/100 == 2 {
-			return resp, nil
 	}
-		duration := time.Millisecond * time.Duration((math.Pow(float64(2), float64(i)) * 100))
+
+	client := &http.Client{
+		Transport: transport,
+	}
+
+	for retry := 0; retry <= maxRetries; retry++ {
+		log.Printf("Fetching user-data from %s. Attempt #%d", userdataURL, retry)
+
+		resp, err := client.Get(userdataURL)
+
+		if err == nil {
+			defer resp.Body.Close()
+			status := resp.StatusCode / 100
+
+			if status == HTTP_2xx {
+				return ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+			}
+
+			if status == HTTP_4xx {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("user-data not found. HTTP status code: %d", resp.StatusCode)
+			}
+
+			log.Printf("user-data not found. HTTP status code: %d", resp.StatusCode)
+		} else {
+			log.Printf("unable to fetch user-data: %s", err.Error())
+		}
+
+		duration := time.Millisecond * time.Duration((math.Pow(float64(2), float64(retry)) * 100))
 		if duration > maxTimeout {
 			duration = maxTimeout
 		}
 
-		log.Printf("unable to fetch user-data from %s, try again in %s", url, duration)
 		time.Sleep(duration)
 	}
-	return resp, err
+
+	return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to fetch user-data. Maximum retries reached: %d", maxRetries)
 }

datasource/datasource_test.go

@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ var expBackoffTests = []struct {
 	{2, "number of attempts: 2"},
 }
 
-func TestGetWithExponentialBackoff(t *testing.T) {
+// Test exponential backoff
+// and that it continues retrying if a 5xx
+// response is received
+func TestFetchURLExpBackOff(t *testing.T) {
 	for i, tt := range expBackoffTests {
 		mux := http.NewServeMux()
 		count := 0
@@ -31,15 +34,87 @@ func TestGetWithExponentialBackoff(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 		ts := httptest.NewServer(mux)
 		defer ts.Close()
+
 		data, err := fetchURL(ts.URL)
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Errorf("Test case %d produced error: %v", i, err)
 		}
+
 		if count != tt.count {
 			t.Errorf("Test case %d failed: %d != %d", i, count, tt.count)
 		}
+
 		if string(data) != tt.body {
 			t.Errorf("Test case %d failed: %s != %s", i, tt.body, data)
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// Test that it stops retrying if a 4xx response comes back
+func TestFetchURL4xx(t *testing.T) {
+	retries := 0
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		retries++
+		http.Error(w, "", 404)
+	}))
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	_, err := fetchURL(ts.URL)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Errorf("Incorrect result\ngot:  %s\nwant: %s", err.Error(), "user-data not found. HTTP status code: 404")
+	}
+
+	if retries > 1 {
+		t.Errorf("Number of retries:\n%d\nExpected number of retries:\n%s", retries, 1)
+	}
+}
+
+// Test that it fetches and returns user-data just fine
+func TestFetchURL2xx(t *testing.T) {
+	var cloudcfg = `
+#cloud-config
+coreos: 
+	oem:
+	    id: test
+	    name: CoreOS.box for Test
+	    version-id: %VERSION_ID%+%BUILD_ID%
+	    home-url: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-cloudinit
+	    bug-report-url: https://github.com/coreos/coreos-cloudinit
+	update:
+		reboot-strategy: best-effort
+`
+
+	ts := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		fmt.Fprint(w, cloudcfg)
+	}))
+	defer ts.Close()
+
+	data, err := fetchURL(ts.URL)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Errorf("Incorrect result\ngot:  %v\nwant: %v", err, nil)
+	}
+
+	if string(data) != cloudcfg {
+		t.Errorf("Incorrect result\ngot:  %s\nwant: %s", string(data), cloudcfg)
+	}
+}
+
+// Test attempt to fetching using malformed URL
+func TestFetchURLMalformed(t *testing.T) {
+	var tests = []struct {
+		url  string
+		want string
+	}{
+		{"boo", "user-data URL boo, does not have a valid HTTP scheme. Skipping."},
+		{"mailto://boo", "user-data URL mailto://boo, does not have a valid HTTP scheme. Skipping."},
+		{"ftp://boo", "user-data URL ftp://boo, does not have a valid HTTP scheme. Skipping."},
+		{"", "user-data URL is empty. Skipping."},
+	}
+
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		_, err := fetchURL(test.url)
+		if err != nil && err.Error() != test.want {
+			t.Errorf("Incorrect result\ngot:  %v\nwant: %v", err, test.want)
+		}
+	}
+}