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fix(server): SQS batch failure redelivers already-processed purchase messages (no BatchItemFailures) - #382
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handleLambdaSQSEvent looped over every record, collected the failed
message IDs, then returned a single error for the whole batch. Lambda's
SQS integration treats any non-nil handler error as "the entire batch
failed" and redelivers every record, including ones HandleSQSMessage
already processed successfully. On redelivery those already-succeeded
records typically fail a second time (their status already advanced
past what the CAS-guarded handlers expect), which redelivers the whole
batch again and burns the redrive budget on records that were never
actually broken, until the one genuinely poison message drags the rest
of the batch to the DLQ with it -- surfacing phantom failures for
purchases that actually completed, the worst possible signal during a
money-path incident.
Return events.SQSEventResponse{BatchItemFailures: [...]} naming only
the records that actually failed, with a nil error, so SQS (per the
Lambda SQS partial-batch-response contract) redelivers only those
records.
Note: this repo's IaC provisions no SQS queue and no Lambda event
source mapping at all -- confirmed via a full-repo search for
aws_sqs_queue, AWS::SQS::Queue, EventSourceMapping, and batch_size,
all with zero hits across terraform/, cloudformation/, iac/, and arm/.
This matches the originating audit's own caveat (docs/audits/
codebase-audit-2026-09-02.md:6025), which called the scenario
"PLAUSIBLE" rather than confirmed for exactly this reason. The
`function_response_types = ["ReportBatchItemFailures"]` setting the
issue asks for cannot be added to a resource that does not exist in
this repo; provisioning that queue (batch size, DLQ, redrive policy,
IAM grants) is a separate infrastructure decision, not a one-line
addition, and is called out in the PR body rather than folded into
this focused code fix.
Regression test: internal/server/lambda_test.go adds
TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_PartialBatchFailure (batch of 3, record 2
fails, asserts BatchItemFailures contains only msg-2's own
messageId and the returned error is nil) and
TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_AllSucceedReturnsEmptyFailures. Confirmed
both fail pre-fix: stashing lambda.go alone reproduces the old
aggregate-error return and the old map[string]string success shape.
Closes #108
Co-Authored-By: claude-flow <ruv@ruv.net>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SQS handler now returns failed message IDs in a partial batch response and continues processing all records. Tests cover a batch with one failed record and a batch with no failures. Comments state that the event-source mapping must enable ChangesSQS partial batch failures
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Failed SQS messages can be dropped silently if the queue's Lambda trigger does not enable ReportBatchItemFailures. That setting is managed outside this repository. Confirm the setting is enabled, or keep returning an error, before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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- Line 259: Update the SQS handler path that returns `events.SQSEventResponse`
so it retains an invocation-level error when `ReportBatchItemFailures` is not
enabled, rather than returning `nil` and allowing failed messages to be
acknowledged. Correct the nearby comment to reflect that Lambda may ignore
`BatchItemFailures` without this mapping setting.
- Line 255: Update handleLambdaSQSEvent to stop processing records at the first
failure for FIFO batches and include that record plus every unprocessed record
in BatchItemFailures. Preserve the existing behavior for records processed
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| if err := app.HandleSQSMessage(ctx, record.Body); err != nil { | ||
| log.Printf("Failed to process message %s: %v", record.MessageId, err) | ||
| failures = append(failures, record.MessageId) | ||
| failures = append(failures, events.SQSBatchItemFailure{ItemIdentifier: record.MessageId}) |
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Stop after the first failure for FIFO batches.
handleLambdaSQSEvent continues processing records after a failure. If a FIFO event-source mapping invokes this handler, later records can execute before the failed record is retried. Stop at the first failure and add that record and every remaining record to BatchItemFailures. If deployment is restricted to standard queues, document that restriction.
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Review comment at @internal/server/lambda.go at line 255:
Update handleLambdaSQSEvent to stop processing records at the first failure for
FIFO batches and include that record plus every unprocessed record in
BatchItemFailures. Preserve the existing behavior for records processed before
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Returning events.SQSEventResponse{BatchItemFailures} with a nil error
unconditionally was itself unsafe: this repo's SQS event source
mapping (which does not exist yet, see issue #399) has no
function_response_types = ["ReportBatchItemFailures"], so AWS would
ignore the response body entirely and treat the nil error as the
WHOLE BATCH succeeding, deleting every message including the ones
that just failed. That is worse than the pre-#108 behavior, which at
least redelivered a genuine failure until it hit the DLQ.
Add SQS_REPORT_BATCH_ITEM_FAILURES (bool, parsed at startup via
loadReportSQSBatchItemFailures, error on an unparseable value rather
than a silently-ignored typo). Default false keeps the old
all-or-nothing aggregate-error behavior until an operator confirms the
Terraform side is live and flips the flag. Regardless of the flag, a
batch where every record failed always returns an error -- there is
nothing to partially succeed on.
Also: initialize failures as an empty slice rather than nil, so a
below-the-flag empty response marshals as [] rather than null.
Tests: split the partial-failure case into
_FlagOn (partial response, nil error) and _FlagOff (old aggregate
error) variants, added _AllFailed_ReturnsErrorRegardlessOfFlag, and
TestLoadReportSQSBatchItemFailures covering unset/true/false/garbage.
Filed #399 to either provision the SQS queue and event source mapping
(with the setting this flag expects) or remove the dead async-SQS
purchase-execution path entirely.
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Independent adversarial review (two rounds) + local verification: MERGE at 1f972b0. With SQS_REPORT_BATCH_ITEM_FAILURES unset (default), behaviour is exactly the pre-#108 whole-batch redelivery, so no message can be lost; the partial BatchItemFailures response is returned only when the flag explicitly confirms the event source mapping reports partial failures; an all-failed batch always errors. The flag is parsed once at startup (garbage fails loud). Four behavioural mutants killed. Infra follow-up in #399. |
Summary
The Lambda SQS handler looped over every record in a batch, collected the failed message IDs, and returned one aggregate error for the whole batch. Lambda's SQS integration treats any non-nil handler error as "the entire batch failed" and redelivers every record, including ones that already succeeded, which then typically fail a second time (their status already advanced past what the CAS-guarded handlers expect) -- redelivering the whole batch again and burning the redrive budget on records that were never broken, until the one genuinely poison message drags the rest of the batch to the DLQ with it.
Fix, revised after independent review
The first version of this PR unconditionally returned
events.SQSEventResponse{BatchItemFailures: [...]}with a nil error on any partial failure. An independent review caught that this is itself unsafe here specifically because no SQS event source mapping exists in this repo's IaC (see below): withoutfunction_response_types = ["ReportBatchItemFailures"]actually set on that mapping, AWS ignores the response body entirely and treats a nil error as the whole batch succeeding -- deleting every message from the queue, including the ones that just failed. That is strictly worse than the pre-#108 behavior (which at least redelivered a real failure until it hit the DLQ): a transient DB error would now silently drop an approval, and a genuinely poison message would vanish instead of landing in the DLQ for investigation.Current behavior:
SQS_REPORT_BATCH_ITEM_FAILURES(bool env var, parsed once at startup inNewApplicationvialoadReportSQSBatchItemFailures). Defaultfalse(fail closed): keeps the old all-or-nothing aggregate-error behavior -- safe, if noisier -- until an operator has confirmed the Terraform side is live and explicitly opts in.true: returns the partialevents.SQSEventResponse{BatchItemFailures: [...]}naming only the failed records, nil error.false(default) and some (not all) records fail: returns the original aggregate error, so the whole batch is redelivered as before.SQS_REPORT_BATCH_ITEM_FAILURESvalue is a startup error, not a silently-ignored typo: flipping this flag is a deploy-time contract with the Terraform setting, and getting it wrong risks silently dropping failed purchase messages.failuresis now initialized as[]events.SQSBatchItemFailure{}rather than a nil slice, so an empty response marshals as[]rather thannull.Terraform side: could not be verified or set
This repo's IaC provisions no SQS queue and no Lambda event source mapping at all. I confirmed this independently with a full-repo search (
rg, not the ugrep-shadowedgrepwrapper) foraws_sqs_queue,AWS::SQS::Queue,EventSourceMapping, andbatch_sizeacrossterraform/,cloudformation/,iac/, andarm/-- zero hits in every case, including insideterraform/modules/compute/aws/lambda/where the Lambda function itself is defined.This matches the originating audit's own caveat, still in the tree at
docs/audits/codebase-audit-2026-09-02.md:6025:Filed #399 to either provision that queue (batch size, DLQ, redrive policy, visibility timeout, IAM grants, and the
function_response_typessetting) or remove the dead async-SQS purchase-execution path entirely, since it isn't wired to any infrastructure in this repo today.Regression test
internal/server/lambda_test.go:TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_PartialBatchFailure_FlagOn: flag true, batch of 3 with record 2 failing -> nil error,BatchItemFailurescontains onlymsg-2.TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_PartialBatchFailure_FlagOff: flag false (default), same batch -> aggregate error namingmsg-2, nil result.TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_AllFailed_ReturnsErrorRegardlessOfFlag: all records fail under both flag values -> error both times.TestHandleLambdaSQSEvent_AllSucceedReturnsEmptyFailures: unaffected by the flag.TestLoadReportSQSBatchItemFailures: unset -> false;"true"/"false"parse; garbage -> error.Confirmed pre-fix (the original single-branch version of this PR) would have returned the partial-success shape unconditionally, which is exactly the bug this revision closes.
Verification
GOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6 go build ./...— passGOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6 go vet ./...— passGOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6 go test ./... -short— 6145 tests passGOWORK=off GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6 go mod tidy -diff— emptygofmt -lon changed files — cleangosec ./internal/server/...— 0 issuesgolangci-lintat the CI-pinned v2.10.1: reproduces the same pre-existing local toolchain issue noted on the sibling PRs from this same worker session, unrelated to this diff; relying on CI's clean go1.26.6 environment for the authoritative lint run.Closes #108