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fix(desktop): report an offline cloud API on plugins.sync as unavailable - #9385

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Problem

When the desktop app cannot reach the Paradev cloud API (a connect timeout, DNS failure, or refused connection), the plugins.sync mutation fails with a raw tRPC client "fetch failed" error. The main-process Sentry middleware reports every INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR as a bug, and OrganizationPluginSync retries with backoff, so a machine that is offline sends one report per retry. This family has opened several desktop issues in the last day (one has 100+ events). Each one was archived on its own, and new ones keep opening whenever the bundle chunk hash changes.

Root cause

The middleware's contract says that expected states must be translated into non-500 errors at the throw site. plugins.sync has no such translation. The cause chain (tRPC client error → TypeError: fetch failed → undici UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT) is exactly the case that host-service already classifies with rethrowCloudUnreachable, but the desktop router does not use it.

Fix

  • Expose the existing cloud-api-error module as the @superset/host-service/cloud-api-error subpath. Its only imports are a string constant and a type.
  • In plugins.sync, catch the error, call rethrowCloudUnreachable(error), then rethrow. This is the same pattern as host.ts. Transport failures become SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE. Every other failure (an application error, an unparsable response, or an error with no code) still reports as a 500.

Both packages resolve to the same @trpc/server@11.16.0 install, so the TRPCError from host-service is the instance the desktop router recognizes.

No product behaviour change except the error text: an uninstall toast that fails while offline now says "Could not reach the Paradev cloud API: …" instead of "fetch failed". This string already comes from host-service and is not new copy.

Verification

  • bunx biome check apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts packages/host-service/package.json → Checked 2 files in 74ms. No fixes applied.
  • cd apps/desktop && bunx tsc --noEmit (run with NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=6144, because bun run typecheck was OOM-killed on this sandbox) → exit 0, no output
  • cd packages/host-service && bun test src/trpc/router/host/cloud-api-error.test.ts → 26 pass, 0 fail. These tests already cover the exact three-level undici chain, plus the negatives: a coded non-transport error, an uncoded error, and a SyntaxError.
  • No new tests. The classifier is unchanged and already tested; this PR only connects it.

Refs DESKTOP-1QS


Summary by cubic

Stops offline cloud API failures on plugins.sync from flooding Sentry with 500 errors. The desktop router now catches transport failures (connect timeout, DNS failure, refused connection) and classifies them as SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE, matching the pattern host.ts already uses.

  • Exposes rethrowCloudUnreachable from @superset/host-service/cloud-api-error as a package subpath.
  • Only transport failures are translated; application errors, unparsable responses, and uncoded errors still report as 500s.
  • The only user-visible change is the error text when offline, which now says "Could not reach the Paradev cloud API: …" instead of "fetch failed".

Written for commit 7b44f65. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Plugin synchronization now handles cloud connection failures consistently, making unavailable-cloud errors clearer instead of masking them.

plugins.sync let a transport failure to the cloud API (connect timeout,
DNS, refused) reach the Sentry middleware as INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, so a
user's network reported as a desktop bug on every renderer retry.
Translate it at the throw site with the existing host-service classifier,
the same way host.ts does.

Refs DESKTOP-1QS
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The host-service package now exports the cloud API error helper. The plugin sync mutation catches sync errors, passes them to the helper, and rethrows the original error if the helper returns.

Changes: Plugin sync error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expose cloud API error helper
packages/host-service/package.json
The package exports ./cloud-api-error, with type and default resolution pointing to the helper source.
Handle plugin sync errors
apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts
The sync mutation catches errors from syncPlugins, passes each error to rethrowCloudUnreachable, and rethrows the original error if the helper returns.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: saddlepaddle, harshithmullapudi

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7b44f

The change improves offline error reporting, although individual plugin download failures retain their existing generic error behavior. No newly introduced blocking risk is established.

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1 issue found across 2 files

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<file name="apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts:138">
P2: `rethrowCloudUnreachable` only sees errors that escape `syncPlugins`, but `reconcileOrganizationPlugins` catches each bundle-download failure and replaces it with a plain aggregate error. A connection drop during plugin download therefore still reaches this mutation as a 500/Sentry event; preserve the transport cause or classify that failure before aggregating it.</violation>
</file>
Architecture diagram
sequenceDiagram
    participant UI as Desktop UI
    participant Router as tRPC Router (plugins.sync)
    participant HSError as host-service cloud-api-error
    participant Sync as syncPlugins
    participant TRPC as tRPC Client
    participant Cloud as Paradev Cloud API
    participant Sentry as Sentry Middleware

    Note over UI,Sentry: Offline Cloud API Handling

    UI->>Router: mutate plugins.sync
    Router->>Sync: syncPlugins(organizationId)
    Sync->>TRPC: tRPC client request
    TRPC->>Cloud: HTTP request
    alt Cloud unreachable (connect timeout, DNS, refused)
        Cloud--xTRPC: UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
        TRPC--xSync: TypeError: fetch failed
        Sync--xRouter: Throw error
        Router->>HSError: rethrowCloudUnreachable(error)
        alt Transport failure detected
            HSError-->>Router: TRPCError (SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE)
            Router-->>UI: SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE error
        else Other error (app error, parse error, uncoded)
            HSError-->>Router: No action (returns)
            Router-->>Sentry: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR (500)
            Sentry-->>Sentry: Report bug (per retry)
        end
    else Cloud reachable
        Cloud-->>TRPC: Successful response
        TRPC-->>Sync: Result
        Sync-->>Router: Success
        Router-->>UI: { ok: true }
    end
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try {
await syncPlugins(input?.organizationId);
} catch (error) {
rethrowCloudUnreachable(error);

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P2: rethrowCloudUnreachable only sees errors that escape syncPlugins, but reconcileOrganizationPlugins catches each bundle-download failure and replaces it with a plain aggregate error. A connection drop during plugin download therefore still reaches this mutation as a 500/Sentry event; preserve the transport cause or classify that failure before aggregating it.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. When an issue isn't valid or won't be fixed in this PR, reply in its thread with the reason and then resolve the thread. At apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts, line 138:

<comment>`rethrowCloudUnreachable` only sees errors that escape `syncPlugins`, but `reconcileOrganizationPlugins` catches each bundle-download failure and replaces it with a plain aggregate error. A connection drop during plugin download therefore still reaches this mutation as a 500/Sentry event; preserve the transport cause or classify that failure before aggregating it.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -131,7 +132,12 @@ export const createPluginsRouter = () => {
+				try {
+					await syncPlugins(input?.organizationId);
+				} catch (error) {
+					rethrowCloudUnreachable(error);
+					throw error;
+				}
</file context>

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Minor · Keep the transport error when a plugin download fails during sync. · index.ts:136-138

apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts:136-138
Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff

Keep the transport error when a plugin download fails during sync.

When one organization plugin download fails, reconcileOrganizationPlugins discards the error. syncPlugins then throws a plain Error with no code or cause. The router's rethrowCloudUnreachable cannot classify it, so plugins.sync returns INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR. Keep the transport error and rethrow it so the mutation returns SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE. Add a plugins.sync test that fails a plugin download with ECONNREFUSED.

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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts around
lines 136 - 138:
The plugin sync flow loses the original download error before `syncPlugins`
calls `rethrowCloudUnreachable`; preserve and propagate the transport error
through reconciliation so the router can classify it as `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`.
Add a `plugins.sync` test where a plugin download fails with `ECONNREFUSED` and
verify the mutation returns `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`.

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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/plugins/index.ts:
- Around line 136-138: The plugin sync flow loses the original download error
before `syncPlugins` calls `rethrowCloudUnreachable`; preserve and propagate the
transport error through reconciliation so the router can classify it as
`SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`. Add a `plugins.sync` test where a plugin download fails
with `ECONNREFUSED` and verify the mutation returns `SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE`.

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