microsoft / microsoft/durabletask-netherite

Implement poison message handling

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enhancement
Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 10h
Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Observing an execution where a message got corrupted (four consecutive \0 bytes in a string) and then gets infinitely retried.
Need to

  1. investigate source of corruption
  2. consider poison message handling

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the corrupted message and tracing why it is retried indefinitely; done requires identifying the corruption source and establishing poison-message handling for this case.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
backend, distributed-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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