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Summary

  • _is_retryable_exc only handled TransientChatError and httpx.HTTPStatusError (status-code based) — a mid-stream disconnect (httpx.RemoteProtocolError, e.g. "peer closed connection without sending complete message body") fell through to return False and hard-failed with zero retry attempts.
  • Confirmed live against visualization eval runs: this pure network flake contaminated ~1-4% of runs with a hard fail, indistinguishable in the result from a real agent/content failure.

Test plan

  • Added test_create_conversation_retries_remote_protocol_error — raises RemoteProtocolError twice then succeeds, confirms the standard backoff schedule applies.
  • pytest packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py — 59/59 pass.
  • Full package suite run; 9 unrelated pre-existing failures confirmed caused by openai not being installed locally (llm-judge extra), not by this change.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved conversation reliability by retrying when a connection closes unexpectedly during streaming.
    • Transient connection interruptions can now recover automatically instead of failing immediately.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage confirming retries succeed after temporary connection failures with the expected backoff behavior.

Mid-stream disconnects ("peer closed connection without sending
complete message body") were not retried at all -- _is_retryable_exc
only handled TransientChatError and HTTPStatusError. Confirmed live:
this contaminated ~1-4% of visualization runs with a hard fail on pure
network flake, indistinguishable from a real agent/content failure in
the result.
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The SSE client now retries httpx.RemoteProtocolError. Tests verify two retries, third-attempt success, and backoff delays of 5 and 10 seconds.

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SSE retry handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Remote protocol retry flow
packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/chat/sse_client.py, packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_sse_client.py
httpx.RemoteProtocolError is retryable. Tests verify successful conversation creation after two retries and the [5, 10] backoff schedule.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 09ebe

The change adds retries for connection failures, but disconnects occurring during SSE response parsing can still bypass retry handling and fail the conversation. Retrying conversation creation may also create duplicate or orphaned conversations when the server succeeds but the response is lost, so the PR is not merge-ready until these behaviors are addressed or explicitly accepted.

Suggested reviewers: lupko, pcerny, hkad98

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A rabbit found a stream gone quiet,
And taught retries to calm the riot.
Five hops, then ten, the wait was right,
The third try brought the ID to light.
The SSE path now runs bright.

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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/chat/sse_client.py`:
- Around line 92-97: Update parse_sse_lines to catch httpx.RemoteProtocolError
from the SSE line iterator before the generic exception handler and raise
TransientChatError while preserving the partial result; add a regression test
that triggers the error during iterator consumption and verifies the transient
error and partial-result behavior.
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✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 80.16%. Comparing base (fa00fc3) to head (ef68e5b).

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…t time

parse_sse_lines wrapped every next(it) failure in the non-retryable ChatError,
including httpx.RemoteProtocolError -- so _is_retryable_exc's RemoteProtocolError
branch only ever fired for a disconnect at connect time, never for the mid-stream
case CodeRabbit flagged and the one actually seen in production. Raise
TransientChatError instead when the wrapped exception is a RemoteProtocolError.
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