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One dead ticket id no longer voids the whole Linear batch - #108

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Third and final cause of the branch cache never carrying Linear tickets. #103 and #105 fixed the two short-circuits that prevented healing; this is why there was nothing to heal to.

The mechanism. fetchTicketsBatch builds one aliased GraphQL query for every id. Linear answers with HTTP 200, an errors array (Entity not found: Issue) and an empty data payload the moment a single alias names an issue it cannot resolve — deleted, or invisible to the key. The bare catch {} turned that into an empty map, and callers (refreshAllMRs) write fetchedAt: now regardless, so one dead id parked the whole cache at ticket: null forever.

Measured on a real machine before the fix: 203 distinct cached ids → 0 tickets resolved. Bisected: batch of 1 fine, batch of 2 fine, batch of 3 returns nothing. Captured the swallowed response to confirm the empty-data behavior rather than inferring it.

After: the same 203 ids resolve 173; the other 30 are genuinely unresolvable. A failed chunk is halved and retried, so a dead id costs log2(chunk) extra queries to isolate instead of taking its neighbours down. A whole-live batch still costs exactly one query — pinned by a test, since the obvious naive fix (per-id queries) would have been 203 round trips.

The GraphQL runner is now injectable, so all four tests run without the network. Unit stage green (4,242).

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Batch ticket retrieval now returns valid tickets when some requested IDs cannot be resolved.
    • Requests with entirely unresolvable IDs safely return empty results.
    • Transport, timeout, HTTP, and rate-limit failures now correctly surface instead of being silently ignored or returning partial results.
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    • Added coverage for mixed, fully valid, and entirely invalid batches, as well as transport and post-recovery failure scenarios.

Linear answers an aliased batch query with HTTP 200, an errors array and
an EMPTY data payload as soon as ONE alias names an issue it cannot
resolve -- a deleted ticket, or one the key cannot see. fetchTicketsBatch
swallowed that in a bare catch and returned an empty map, and callers
write fetchedAt regardless, so a single dead id held the entire branch
cache at ticket:null indefinitely. Measured on this machine: 203 cached
ids resolved 0 tickets; the batch of 2 worked and the batch of 3 did not.

Failed chunks are now halved and retried, so live tickets still land and
a dead id costs log2(chunk) queries to isolate instead of taking its
neighbours with it. Same 203 ids now resolve 173, the remaining 30 being
genuinely unresolvable. The GraphQL runner is injectable so the tests
pin the behaviour without touching the network.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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fetchTicketsBatch now separates GraphQL entity errors from transport failures. It recursively isolates unresolvable identifiers while preserving valid tickets. It accepts an injectable GraphqlRunner and limits batches to 50 identifiers.

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Linear batch resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Batch query construction and failure isolation
lib/linear.ts
Adds GraphQL error classification, the injectable GraphqlRunner, 50-identifier batching, aliased queries, and recursive isolation of unresolvable identifiers. Transport and HTTP failures propagate unchanged.
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lib/__tests__/linear-batch.test.ts
Tests live-ticket recovery, healthy-batch query counts, dead-ID isolation, all-dead batches, and rejection of timeout, HTTP, rate-limit, and later-chunk failures without partial results.

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The change preserves successful batch fetching while isolating genuinely missing tickets, but unexpected Linear errors could still be mistaken for missing tickets and clear cached results, with limited diagnostic logging. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to distinguish expected missing-issue errors and record unexpected failures.

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  participant fetchTicketsBatch
  participant GraphqlRunner
  participant LinearGraphQL
  fetchTicketsBatch->>GraphqlRunner: Execute an aliased batch query
  GraphqlRunner->>LinearGraphQL: Request ticket fields
  LinearGraphQL-->>GraphqlRunner: Return tickets or GraphQL errors
  GraphqlRunner-->>fetchTicketsBatch: Return results or throw classified error
  fetchTicketsBatch->>GraphqlRunner: Retry GraphQL-error batches as halves
  fetchTicketsBatch-->>fetchTicketsBatch: Drop an unresolved identifier
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In `@lib/linear.ts`:
- Around line 225-229: The catch in collect must only treat the expected
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Comment on lines +225 to +229
} catch {
if (chunk.length === 1) return; // this id is the unresolvable one
const mid = Math.ceil(chunk.length / 2);
await collect(chunk.slice(0, mid));
await collect(chunk.slice(mid));

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not classify every GraphQL failure as an unresolvable identifier.

linearGraphql throws for timeouts, non-OK HTTP responses, and all GraphQL errors. Line 225 catches each failure and eventually drops every single-ID chunk.

fetchAndCache then receives a resolved empty map and overwrites cached tickets with null. This bypasses its existing rejection path that preserves cached entries during a Linear outage.

Only split a chunk after the error is classified as the expected inaccessible-or-deleted-issue response. Rethrow operational, authentication, rate-limit, and query failures. Add a test where run throws a timeout error and verify that fetchTicketsBatch rejects. Log a caught non-expected error at warn with { err }.

As per coding guidelines, “Below a logged seam, an empty catch is acceptable only for genuinely expected conditions … anything else logs at warn with { err }.”

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In `@lib/linear.ts` around lines 225 - 229, The catch in collect must only treat
the expected inaccessible-or-deleted issue response as an unresolvable
identifier; rethrow timeouts, HTTP, authentication, rate-limit, and other
GraphQL/query failures so fetchTicketsBatch rejects and cached entries remain
protected. Log rethrown non-expected errors at warn with { err }, preserve
recursive splitting for classified expected errors, and add coverage where run
throws a timeout and fetchTicketsBatch rejects.

Source: Coding guidelines

Halving caught every error, so an outage resolved to an empty map that
looks exactly like "none of these tickets exist". enrichBranches keeps
its cached tickets only on a rejection, so that would overwrite good
tickets with null on every Linear blip.

LinearGraphqlError marks the HTTP-200-plus-errors answer. Only it halves;
timeouts, 5xx, 401 and 429 rethrow.
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