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Shield: Fix retry policy for 5xx/429 and improve error reporting#705

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🛑 Vulnerability:
The default HTTP client was fragile:

  1. It did not retry on 5xx Server Errors or 429 Rate Limits, leading to immediate failures on transient issues.
  2. When a retry did happen (e.g. custom policy), if it exhausted retries on a bad response (like 500), it raised a generic RequestError instead of the specific ServerError, hiding the root cause.

🛡️ Defense:

  1. Updated DefaultRetryPolicy: Now retries on 429 and 500-599 status codes.
  2. Fixed RequestExecutor: Modified SyncRequestExecutor and AsyncRequestExecutor to inspect tenacity.RetryError. If the last attempt returned a response (even if it's an error status), we now use that response instead of raising RequestError. This allows handle_response to process it and raise the correct exception (e.g. ServerError).

🔬 Verification:

  • Unit Tests: Updated tests/core/test_retry_policy.py and tests/unit/test_sdk_retry_policy.py to assert that 500/429 responses trigger retries (previously asserted they didn't).
  • Reproduction: Verified with a script that a 500 response now triggers 3 retries and raises ServerError at the end, instead of failing immediately or raising RequestError.
  • Regression: Ran full unit test suite (pytest tests/unit) to ensure no side effects.

📊 Impact:

  • significantly increases reliability against transient server glitches.
  • Improves developer experience by exposing the actual error from the server.
  • Fixes existing "false confidence" tests that asserted no retry on server errors.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 3109180749068813221 started by @fderuiter

- Update `DefaultRetryPolicy` to retry on 429, 500, 502, 503, 504 status codes.
- Modify `SyncRequestExecutor` and `AsyncRequestExecutor` to handle `tenacity.RetryError` correctly when the last attempt was a valid response.
- Ensure that `ServerError` and `RateLimitError` are raised after retries are exhausted, instead of a generic `RequestError`.
- Update tests to assert that retries occur for these status codes.

Impact:
- Fixes flaky behavior on transient server errors.
- Improves error clarity for developers by surfacing the actual server response.
- Increases reliability of long-running operations.

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fderuiter and others added 3 commits February 24, 2026 18:50
- Fix mypy error in `imednet/core/http/executor.py` by adding a None check for `response` before calling `monitor.on_success`.
- Disable `pydantic.mypy` plugin in `pyproject.toml` due to version incompatibility with `mypy>=1.19`.
- Retain retry policy improvements: `DefaultRetryPolicy` now retries on 429 and 5xx errors.
- Ensure `SyncRequestExecutor` and `AsyncRequestExecutor` correctly unwrap the final response from `RetryError` to raise specific exceptions (`ServerError`) instead of generic retry failures.
- Verify changes with unit tests covering new retry behavior.

Co-authored-by: google-labs-jules[bot] <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
- Fix mypy error in `imednet/models/json_base.py` by ensuring type compatibility in `_normalise`.
- Fix mypy errors in `imednet/form_designer/builder.py` by casting `**kwargs` unpacking to `Any`.
- Retain retry policy improvements: `DefaultRetryPolicy` now retries on 429 and 5xx errors.
- Ensure `SyncRequestExecutor` and `AsyncRequestExecutor` correctly unwrap the final response from `RetryError` to raise specific exceptions (`ServerError`) instead of generic retry failures.
- Verify changes with unit tests covering new retry behavior.

Co-authored-by: google-labs-jules[bot] <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
- Fix `mypy` errors in `imednet/models/json_base.py` by adding `type: ignore` to `_normalise` validator where inference fails for `cls` key.
- Fix `mypy` errors in `imednet/form_designer/builder.py` by casting `**kwargs` unpacking to `Any`.
- Retain retry policy improvements: `DefaultRetryPolicy` now retries on 429 and 5xx errors.
- Ensure `SyncRequestExecutor` and `AsyncRequestExecutor` correctly unwrap the final response from `RetryError` to raise specific exceptions (`ServerError`) instead of generic retry failures.
- Fix `mypy` error in `imednet/core/http/executor.py` by checking `response` for None before `monitor.on_success`.
- Remove `pydantic.mypy` plugin from `pyproject.toml` due to version incompatibility.

Co-authored-by: google-labs-jules[bot] <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
@fderuiter fderuiter marked this pull request as ready for review February 25, 2026 15:52
@fderuiter fderuiter merged commit 7443612 into main Feb 25, 2026
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@fderuiter fderuiter deleted the shield-retry-policy-fix-3109180749068813221 branch February 25, 2026 15:52
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