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Retire downloads SABnzbd failed instead of waiting for the stall timeout - #102
SABnzbd usually fails a dead NZB within seconds, but ROMarr only reads its Completed history. The queue row stays grabbed until the stall timeout runs out, 180 minutes by default.
What changes
SABnzbd.failed_jobs() asks for mode=history&failed_only=1 in the client's category. For each job it returns the nzo_id, the fail_message, and whether that message blames the release.
Each new queue row records the romarr_id of the client that took it as download_client. retire_dead_downloads collects failures from every client that has failed_jobs. When a grabbed row's client and download_id match a failed job that blames the release, the row becomes failed with release_fault set and SABnzbd's reason as its detail. The existing code then blocklists it and grabs a replacement in the same sweep, which runs every 15 minutes.
What doesn't change
I tried to keep this from touching any setup it isn't about.
Clients without failed_jobs are skipped. That's qBittorrent and every client type other than SABnzbd, so for them the stall timeout is still the only signal.
Failures are matched to rows by the client that took the job and that client's job id, never by title. A job id is only unique within one client, and the same release name often comes from several indexers, so a title match could pin an old failure on a new grab. Rows queued before this change have no recorded client and keep today's stall-timeout behaviour, as do rows without a download_id.
Only reasons that blame the release count: missing articles, encryption, a password, an unwanted extension, CRC errors, corrupt or unusable RARs, and failed verification or repair. A full disk, a failed move, a post-processing script, or any wording it doesn't recognise waits for the stall timeout as before. Blocklisting on a local fault would burn through good releases one sweep at a time.
With blocklist_failed_downloads off, none of this runs, because the check lives inside retire_dead_downloads.
Every missing-articles failure since SABnzbd 2.3 ends in https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete. SABnzbd appends that link outside its translation, so it matches in any UI language. The other phrases are English, and on a translated install those reasons fall back to the stall timeout.
NZBGet has the same gap, but NZBGet.add doesn't record a job id, so this PR leaves it alone.
Older SABnzbd versions
failed_only, fail_message and the nzo_ids returned by addurl exist in SABnzbd's source at 2.3.9, 3.0.0, 3.7.2, 4.0.0 and the 5.1.x branch, and a live 5.1.3 accepts failed_only. The failure messages this matches read the same in 2.3.9, 3.7.2 and 5.1.x. failed_jobs() also checks each slot's status, in case some build ignores failed_only.
Tests
tests/test_sabnzbd_failed_jobs.py adds 40 cases. Besides the fast path, they pin what must not change: qBittorrent-only setups, local failures, title-only matches, a failure from another client with the same job id, rows queued before download_client existed, matching across a restart, rows already past grabbed, and the setting turned off.
Full suite: 2683 passed, 5 skipped, 1 deselected. main gives 2643 passed.
I also ran the patched failed_jobs() read-only against my SABnzbd 5.1.3. It found 21 failed jobs and classified all of them as the release's fault: 20 with Aborted, cannot be completed - https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete and one with Aborted, unwanted extension detected. The one in the romarr category has the same nzo_id as the still-grabbed queue row shown in #101.
Live test
I copied the two patched files into my running 1.8.0 container, whose files matched main byte for byte, and restarted it. The row from #101 had sat grabbed for half an hour after SABnzbd failed it. The first sweep after the restart retired it. The next scheduled sweep, 15 minutes later, retired the next two grabs, which SABnzbd had failed within 15 seconds:
download_id grabbed SAB failed retired detail
5b309f58-e147-4b04-ac08-5dacac811d6e 14:59:49Z 15:00:01Z 15:29Z SABnzbd failed the download: Aborted, cannot be completed - https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete
d96f90c3-f5af-43de-a05f-ef0708b8f553 15:29:19Z 15:29:30Z 15:44Z SABnzbd failed the download: Aborted, cannot be completed - https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete
0a0be008-d4d0-4047-b891-a5cc5bcf2042 15:29:24Z 15:29:39Z 15:44Z SABnzbd failed the download: Aborted, cannot be completed - https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete
All three were blocklisted, and each sweep grabbed one replacement. This ran the first commit. The later ones only narrow matching to the client that took the job and add tests.
SABnzbd.completed() reads only Completed history, so a job SABnzbd
failed within seconds left its queue row grabbed until the stall
timeout, 180 minutes by default.
SABnzbd.failed_jobs() reads failed history in the client's category,
and retire_dead_downloads marks a grabbed row failed when its
download_id matches a failed job whose reason blames the release.
Clients without failed_jobs, rows without a job id, and local failures
such as a full disk keep the stall timeout as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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SABnzbd now reports failed-history entries and classifies release-related failures. The download sweep uses client and job IDs to match reports to grabbed queue rows and retire matching releases before the stall timeout.
SABnzbd retrieves failed jobs for its configured category and returns each job’s name, ID, reason, and release-fault classification. Tests cover request parameters, failed-entry filtering, connection errors, missing API keys, and reason classification.
The sweep collects reports from configured clients that provide failed_jobs. It marks a grabbed row failed when a release-fault report matches the client ID and download ID. Tests cover matching, timeout behavior, client errors, disabled handling, and replacement grabs.
sequenceDiagram
participant SAB as SABnzbd
participant FailedJobs as _failed_jobs
participant Sweep as retire_dead_downloads
participant Queue as Grabbed queue row
SAB->>FailedJobs: Return failed-history entries
FailedJobs->>Sweep: Provide reports with client ID and job ID
Sweep->>Queue: Mark matching release-fault row failed
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Possibly related issues
BlizzHacker/romarr#101 — The PR adds early retirement for matching SABnzbd failures, addressing the reported delay until the stall timeout.
Possibly related PRs
BlizzHacker/romarr#76 — That PR adds download-client identity, which this PR persists on queue items and uses to match failed jobs.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review df129
Failed SABnzbd downloads can now be replaced sooner, but replacements can lose external-request tracking or duplicate an active download. Resolve or explicitly accept these issues before merging. Older failures outside the history window retain timeout-based handling.
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Issue #101 requires ROMarr to detect failed SABnzbd jobs before the stall timeout. SABnzbd.failed_jobs() reads failed history for the configured category and classifies release faults. `retire_dead_…
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The title names the main change: SABnzbd failures now retire grabbed downloads before the stall timeout. The changeset adds SABnzbd failed-job detection to the retirement sweep, matching on client and job ID with a release-fault check, and the existing stall-timeout path remains for other cases. The title is specific and accurate, and it matches the PR objectives and linked issue #101.
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Issue #101 requires ROMarr to detect failed SABnzbd jobs before the stall timeout. SABnzbd.failed_jobs() reads failed history for the configured category and classifies release faults. retire_dead_downloads() matches the client ID and download ID, changes only matching grabbed rows to failed, and uses the existing blocklist and replacement flow. QueueItem.download_client preserves the client identity. Focused tests cover early retirement, same-sweep replacement, local failures, mismatches, old rows, disabled handling, and SABnzbd parsing.
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The changes in romarr/app.py, romarr/downloaders.py, romarr/store.py, and the focused test file support Issue #101. Clients without failed_jobs() retain stall-timeout behavior. NZBGet remains unchanged. The client-and-job matching, release-fault filtering, persistence field, and tests are necessary for the requested SABnzbd behavior.
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Minor · Paginate the SABnzbd failed-history query, or document the 100-entry… · downloaders.py:190-191
romarr/downloaders.py:190-191 Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Paginate the SABnzbd failed-history query, or document the 100-entry cap.
failed_jobs reads at most 100 failed history entries and never requests another page. A grabbed row whose failure falls outside that window is not retired on the fast path. It waits for the stall timeout, which is 180 minutes by default.
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Loop over the start offset of the history call until a page comes back empty. If paging is not added, state the 100-entry limit in the failed_jobs docstring.
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Review comment at @romarr/downloaders.py around lines 190 - 191:
Update failed_jobs to paginate the SABnzbd history query using the start offset
until a page contains no failed entries, so failures beyond the initial 100
results are included. Keep the existing failed-job filtering and result handling
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Review comments at @romarr/app.py:
- Around line 2432-2436: In the release-fault failure path, skip the sweep’s
replacement request when another row for the same game is still grabbed; check
that condition after marking the failed row and before calling request(). Keep
the existing blocklist behavior unchanged.
- Line 2424: Update the failure sweep in the _failed_jobs flow to match failures
by both the reporting client’s romarr_id and the job ID, and record that client
ID as download_client on each QueueItem when a grab is created. Add
download_client to QueueItem with an empty default so existing rows retain the
stall-timeout path and cannot match failures without a recorded client.
Review comments at @tests/test_sabnzbd_failed_jobs.py:
- Around line 104-109: Update retire_dead_downloads so replacement requests
preserve the row’s external_request_id, then extend the replacement test to set
an external ID and verify it is carried into the replacement and the external
request receives its final status.
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Review comments at @romarr/downloaders.py:
- Around line 190-191: Update failed_jobs to paginate the SABnzbd history query
using the start offset until a page contains no failed entries, so failures
beyond the initial 100 results are included. Keep the existing failed-job
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sed -n '1727,1760p' romarr/app.py
echo'---GRAB BODY---'
sed -n '1835,1925p' romarr/app.py
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Skip the replacement grab when another row for the game is still grabbed.
When a release-fault failure blocklists a row, the sweep calls request() for the same game. Neither request() nor grab() checks for another grabbed row, and best_release() filters only by blocklist. The other release can be picked again, so the game gets an extra download.
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Review comment at @romarr/app.py around lines 2432 - 2436:
In the release-fault failure path, skip the sweep’s replacement request when
another row for the same game is still grabbed; check that condition after
marking the failed row and before calling request(). Keep the existing blocklist
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This is how retire_dead_downloads already replaces a row on the stall-timeout and refused paths, and search_missing doesn't check for an in-flight grab either. I'd rather fix it for all of those paths separately than special-case it here, so I opened #103.
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@Atkion The supplied code confirms that all retirement paths use the same replacement logic, and search_missing() also lacks an in-flight check. This is a shared issue, not a SABnzbd-specific defect.
Handling it across those paths in #103 is appropriate. I won’t press for a special-case guard in this PR. The duplicate-download concern remains unfixed.
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Learning: Within repository "BlizzHacker/romarr", only for files matching one of ["romarr/app.py"]: When reviewing failed-download matching in romarr/app.py, check that each grab records the client's romarr_id as download_client and that reported failures match queue rows by both client ID and job ID. Do not use job ID or client display name alone. Rows without a recorded download_client must not match reported failures and must retain the stall-timeout path.
Carry the external request ID into replacement grabs, and test it.
When SABnzbd reports a release fault, the sweep replaces the download with self.request(row.game, row.platform), which omits external_request_id. The replacement's completion then skips the external asset and status update. The replacement test never sets an external ID, so it passes with this loss. Add a test that tracks an external request through a replacement, then assert its ID and final status.
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Update retire_dead_downloads so replacement requests preserve the row’s
external_request_id, then extend the replacement test to set an external ID and
verify it is carried into the replacement and the external request receives its
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The replacement grab here is the existing self.request(row.game, row.platform) call, so stalled and refused rows already lose the external request id the same way. I'd rather fix that for every retire path in its own change than fold it into this PR, so I opened #104.
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@Atkion The shared external_request_id loss can stay in #104, with tests for all retirement paths. I won’t require that fix in this SABnzbd-focused PR. This is deferred, not fixed.
A job id is only unique within one download client, and two SABnzbd
client rows can both be enabled. Each queue row now records the
romarr_id of the client that took the job as download_client, and a
failure matches on that and the job id together. Rows queued before
this field existed have no download_client, match no failure, and
wait for the stall timeout.
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Follow-up Comments
Page the SABnzbd failed-history lookup, or document the window limit.
2425-2426: Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Page the SABnzbd failed-history lookup, or document the window limit.
failed_jobs() reads one history response capped at 100 entries and never passes a start offset. A failed grab older than the 100 newest failures in the category is never matched, so it stays grabbed until the stall timeout. This PR adds the lookup, so the cutoff is new code, but the fallback outcome matches the pre-PR behavior.
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Review comment at @romarr/app.py around lines 2425 - 2426:
Update _failed_jobs to page through SABnzbd history using start offsets until
all relevant failed entries are retrieved, so failures beyond the first 100 can
be matched; alternatively, explicitly document and expose the 100-entry lookup
limit.
Add a restart assertion for the client and job identity.
184-188: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Add a restart assertion for the client and job identity.
The live-row test does not protect the persisted (download_client, download_id) pair. Add the proposed restart test so a persistence regression cannot break failed-job matching after restart.
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Review comment at @tests/test_sabnzbd_failed_jobs.py around lines 184 - 188:
Extend the restart coverage alongside
test_a_queue_row_without_download_client_loads_from_old_state to persist and
reload a queue item, then assert both download_client and download_id retain
their values so failed-job matching can use the restored pair.
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failed_jobs() reads only the newest 100 failures, like completed();
say why that is enough. Add a test that a grab's download_client and
download_id survive a reload and still match a reported failure.
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I kept the 100-entry window. completed() reads the same window, the sweep runs far more often than a category collects 100 failures, and anything older falls back to the stall timeout. Paging would add a request to every sweep for no practical gain, so failed_jobs() now says this in a comment.
Added the restart test. A grab's download_client and download_id survive a reload, and the reloaded service still retires the job when SABnzbd reports it failed.
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Fixes #101.
SABnzbd usually fails a dead NZB within seconds, but ROMarr only reads its Completed history. The queue row stays
grabbeduntil the stall timeout runs out, 180 minutes by default.What changes
SABnzbd.failed_jobs()asks formode=history&failed_only=1in the client's category. For each job it returns thenzo_id, thefail_message, and whether that message blames the release.Each new queue row records the
romarr_idof the client that took it asdownload_client.retire_dead_downloadscollects failures from every client that hasfailed_jobs. When agrabbedrow's client anddownload_idmatch a failed job that blames the release, the row becomesfailedwithrelease_faultset and SABnzbd's reason as its detail. The existing code then blocklists it and grabs a replacement in the same sweep, which runs every 15 minutes.What doesn't change
I tried to keep this from touching any setup it isn't about.
failed_jobsare skipped. That's qBittorrent and every client type other than SABnzbd, so for them the stall timeout is still the only signal.download_id.blocklist_failed_downloadsoff, none of this runs, because the check lives insideretire_dead_downloads.Every missing-articles failure since SABnzbd 2.3 ends in
https://sabnzbd.org/not-complete. SABnzbd appends that link outside its translation, so it matches in any UI language. The other phrases are English, and on a translated install those reasons fall back to the stall timeout.NZBGet has the same gap, but
NZBGet.adddoesn't record a job id, so this PR leaves it alone.Older SABnzbd versions
failed_only,fail_messageand thenzo_idsreturned byaddurlexist in SABnzbd's source at 2.3.9, 3.0.0, 3.7.2, 4.0.0 and the 5.1.x branch, and a live 5.1.3 acceptsfailed_only. The failure messages this matches read the same in 2.3.9, 3.7.2 and 5.1.x.failed_jobs()also checks each slot's status, in case some build ignoresfailed_only.Tests
tests/test_sabnzbd_failed_jobs.pyadds 40 cases. Besides the fast path, they pin what must not change: qBittorrent-only setups, local failures, title-only matches, a failure from another client with the same job id, rows queued beforedownload_clientexisted, matching across a restart, rows already pastgrabbed, and the setting turned off.Full suite: 2683 passed, 5 skipped, 1 deselected.
maingives 2643 passed.I also ran the patched
failed_jobs()read-only against my SABnzbd 5.1.3. It found 21 failed jobs and classified all of them as the release's fault: 20 withAborted, cannot be completed - https://sabnzbd.org/not-completeand one withAborted, unwanted extension detected. The one in theromarrcategory has the samenzo_idas the still-grabbedqueue row shown in #101.Live test
I copied the two patched files into my running 1.8.0 container, whose files matched
mainbyte for byte, and restarted it. The row from #101 had satgrabbedfor half an hour after SABnzbd failed it. The first sweep after the restart retired it. The next scheduled sweep, 15 minutes later, retired the next two grabs, which SABnzbd had failed within 15 seconds:All three were blocklisted, and each sweep grabbed one replacement. This ran the first commit. The later ones only narrow matching to the client that took the job and add tests.
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