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Groundwork for expanding a contact-point hostname to every address it resolves to (next PR in the stack): nothing in the driver can ask Netty's configured resolver for all the addresses of a name, only for one, and only inside Bootstrap.connect().

  • ChannelFactory.resolveAll(SocketAddress) builds a bootstrap the way connect() does, runs NettyOptions.afterBootstrapInitialized on it, and asks the resolver that hook left installed, so a custom AddressResolverGroup is honoured.
  • The lookup runs on one pinned I/O event loop, never on the calling thread: AddressResolver#resolveAll resolves inline, and the default resolver blocks on the JDK lookup. A connect already pays that on an event loop, so this is parity, and the admin executor is left free.
  • The hook is asked once, and the loop is pinned in the same step, behind one lock — one shaped bootstrap.resolver(new DnsAddressResolverGroup(...)) would otherwise mint a resolver, a socket and an empty DNS cache every time.
  • Netty's own short-circuits are mirrored: a disabled resolver, an unsupported address or one already resolved comes back as is, as the only element. Otherwise the resolver's answer is returned verbatim, immutable; a failure fails the stage, nothing throws, and every driver path completes it — the loop terminating under an in-flight lookup included, which is otherwise pending for good.
  • No caller yet, no change to connect().

Verified: ChannelFactoryResolveAllTest (15 cases), the thread, hook-count, hook-race and loop-termination cases proven red against the pre-change file; every existing ChannelFactory*Test unmodified and green; full core unit suite green (3983) on JDK 11. Not covered: no integration test — the caller in the next PR carries those.

#1065 has merged, so this is one commit on scylla-4.x now. #1074 stacks on it.

Refs: #890, #215

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ChannelFactory adds asynchronous resolveAll(SocketAddress) support. It reuses the bootstrap resolver configuration, runs lookups on a cached I/O event loop, preserves Netty short-circuit behavior, and completes failures exceptionally. Tests cover custom, default, disabled, deferred, unsupported, resolved, empty, and failing resolvers. NettyOptions documents the additional bootstrap hook invocation.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant ChannelFactory
  participant IOEventLoop
  participant AddressResolver
  Caller->>ChannelFactory: resolveAll(address)
  ChannelFactory->>IOEventLoop: schedule lookup
  IOEventLoop->>AddressResolver: resolveAll(address)
  AddressResolver-->>ChannelFactory: resolved addresses or failure
  ChannelFactory-->>Caller: complete CompletionStage
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aa69a

Concurrent initial lookups can run bootstrap configuration multiple times and lose the promised pinned resolver execution context. Synchronize or atomically initialize the cached resolver state before merge.

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ChannelFactory.resolveAll(SocketAddress) asks the resolver the driver's
bootstrap would use for a connect, so a custom AddressResolverGroup
installed through NettyOptions.afterBootstrapInitialized is honoured,
for every address a name currently maps to. It mirrors Netty's own
short-circuits (disabled resolver, unsupported or already-resolved
address: the input as is). AddressResolver#resolveAll resolves inline,
so the lookup runs on one pinned I/O loop, never on the caller; the
hook is asked once. No caller yet: the contact-point expansion follows.

Refs: scylladb#890

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1. Concurrent lookups split resolver state ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
resolverGroup() and resolverExecutor() use independent unsynchronized check-then-set
initialization despite their volatile fields. When first lookups overlap, the bootstrap hook can run
multiple times and each request can select a different resolver group and event loop, duplicating
user side effects and losing the intended shared resolver cache.
Code

core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[R307-309]

+    ResolvedResolverGroup discovered = this.resolverGroup;
+    if (discovered == null) {
+      NettyOptions nettyOptions = context.getNettyOptions();
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●●● Strong

Concurrent lazy initialization can duplicate user hooks and violate the intended single shared
resolver state.

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Evidence
The resolver group performs user-code discovery after an unsynchronized null check, while the
executor performs a separate unsynchronized selection. The call path captures each result
independently, and the tests only establish one-time behavior for sequential calls rather than
overlapping initialization.

core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[242-249]
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[306-336]
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/context/NettyOptions.java[68-76]
core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactoryResolveAllTest.java[135-149]

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## Issue description
Concurrent first calls can initialize multiple resolver groups and executors, contrary to the documented one-time setup.

## Fix Focus Areas
- core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[306-336]
- core/src/test/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactoryResolveAllTest.java[135-150]

## Recommended Fix
Create one safely published holder containing both the resolver group and pinned executor, initialize it atomically with synchronization or equivalent one-time initialization, and add a concurrent-first-call test proving the hook runs once and all lookups share one executor.

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2. Slow lookups stall live connections ✗ Dismissed 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
resolveAll() schedules every lookup on one pinned member of the driver's connection I/O event-loop
group, where the documented default resolver performs the blocking JDK lookup inline. When name
resolution is slow, that loop cannot service channels already registered to it and every subsequent
resolution queued on the same loop also waits.
Code

core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[R248-249]

+      EventExecutor executor = resolverExecutor();
+      executor.execute(() -> resolveAllOnExecutor(resolverGroup, executor, address, result));
Relevance

●● Moderate

Architectural tradeoff is explicitly intentional, but blocking shared I/O loops creates a concrete
reliability risk.

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Evidence
The method's own contract states that the default resolver blocks on the JDK lookup, and the
implementation deliberately pins all calls to one executor obtained from ioEventLoopGroup(). Real
connection bootstraps use that same group, so the selected loop is also responsible for channel I/O.

core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[229-234]
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[247-249]
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[327-336]
core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[403-409]

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## Issue description
Blocking default hostname resolution runs on a pinned event loop that also services connection traffic, allowing a slow lookup to stall live channels.

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- core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[229-249]
- core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/channel/ChannelFactory.java[327-336]
- core/src/main/java/com/datastax/oss/driver/internal/core/context/NettyOptions.java[85-90]

## Recommended Fix
Run blocking resolver implementations on a dedicated lifecycle-managed executor while retaining compatible event-loop execution for asynchronous custom resolver groups, and add a test showing a blocked default lookup cannot prevent channel event-loop tasks from running.

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Review mode: ⚖️ Balanced: This adds substantial asynchronous resolver logic and lifecycle/concurrency behavior to a core networking path, warranting a complete single-pass review, but it is localized rather than broadly bug-dense enough for extended.

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- Around line 307-322: Make initialization of the cached resolver state in the
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resolverGroup. Synchronize or use an atomic holder around Bootstrap creation,
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private AddressResolverGroup<?> resolverGroup() {
ResolvedResolverGroup discovered = this.resolverGroup;

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[P2] Initialize the cached resolver state atomically

ChannelFactory is @ThreadSafe, but concurrent first resolveAll calls can both pass this null check. They can invoke afterBootstrapInitialized multiple times, create separate resolver groups, and select different event loops. This violates the PR's once-only hook and pinned-loop guarantees and can duplicate DNS resolver resources. Publish the resolver group and executor through one synchronized or atomic holder, and add a concurrent-first-call test; the current sequential test does not exercise this race.

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Fixed in 4623305. resolverGroup() and resolverExecutor() are now one resolverState(): the group and the pinned loop are discovered together, in one critical section, behind a single lock, and published as an immutable holder through a volatile field. A hook that throws still caches nothing.

New test should_run_the_bootstrap_hook_once_when_lookups_race: 8 callers released by a barrier, the hook sleeps 50 ms and builds the group it installs. 8 hook calls against the previous file, 1 now; 15/15 runs green.

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resolver
.resolveAll(address)
.addListener(

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[P2] Fail an in-flight lookup when its event loop terminates

After scheduling succeeds, this listener is the only path that completes result. With Netty 4.1.136 DnsAddressResolverGroup, shutting down the event loop during a pending query cancels its timeout and closes the resolver without completing the resolution future. Reproduced result: both the Netty future and returned stage remain incomplete after shutdownGracefully().sync(). This directly contradicts the PR's no-incomplete-path guarantee. The new shutdown test only covers calls started after shutdown. Race pending lookups against executor.terminationFuture() and remove that listener after normal completion.

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Confirmed and fixed in 4623305. The chain is as you describe: confirmShutdown() cancels scheduled tasks rather than running them, so DnsQueryContext's timeout never fires, and DnsResponseHandler has no channelInactive, so closing the resolver's channel completes nothing either.

failWhenExecutorTerminates races each lookup against executor.terminationFuture() — a promise on GlobalEventExecutor, so it is notified off the loop that is dying — and removes the listener when the stage completes, so a long-lived loop does not accumulate one per lookup. Registered after execute() is accepted, not before: on an already-terminated loop addListener notifies immediately and would otherwise race RejectedExecutionException to the stage, making the existing shutdown test nondeterministic.

New test should_fail_the_stage_when_the_io_loop_terminates_mid_lookup, with a resolver that never answers and a latch proving the lookup is in flight: the stage stayed pending against the previous file, fails now.

The javadoc and the PR body no longer claim an absolute "no path can leave the stage incomplete" — a resolver that never answers on a loop that never terminates still hangs, exactly as a connect's resolution does.

…ER-201)

Two review findings, both about guarantees this commit claims.

Initialise the resolver group and the pinned loop together, once, behind
one lock: two concurrent first calls could each run the bootstrap hook
and pin a loop of their own.

Fail a lookup whose event loop terminates under it. An asynchronous
resolver completes its promise from a response or from a scheduled
timeout, and shutdown cancels the latter without running it, so the
stage stayed pending for good. The listener goes on after the task is
accepted, and comes off when the stage completes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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