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Summary

Two root causes in FakeOtlpCollector, the test-only in-process OTLP sink used by the integration suite:

1. Flaky: FakeOtlpCollector HttpListener disposed / address in use in OtlpSubprocessExporterTests and FakeOtlpCollectorTests #672 — a lost port race left the collector unable to retry. The original constructor probed a free port, then bound a single, shared HttpListener instance to it. HttpListener.Start() disposes the listener object on any failure, so once the probed port lost the race to another process, the retry loop's next attempt tried to reuse an already-disposed listener and threw ObjectDisposedException instead of retrying cleanly. The fix retries on a fresh HttpListener instance every attempt (up to 10), with the port source now injectable so the regression test can force the first attempt onto an already-bound port.

2. Flaky under CPU load: OtlpSubprocessExporterTests "an OTLP request arrived while export was expected to be disabled" (reproduces 5/5 pinned to one core, on base and head alike) #676 — non-export traffic was read as a protocol violation. The accept loop published any request it received to the fixture's request queue. A local port scanner's GET / (or any non-OTLP traffic) landed there indistinguishably from a real export, and a raw connection dying mid-request could fault the whole collector for tests that never touched it. The fix gates each accepted request through IsOtlpExport (POST to a /v1/... path) — anything else gets a 404 and is dropped, never published — and narrows the per-request exception handling so a dead client mid-exchange (HttpListenerException/IOException while still listening) is absorbed rather than faulting the collector.

This is test scaffolding only — no product code under src/ changed.

Scope note

Three sibling probe-then-bind sites were reviewed and deliberately left alone: OtlpSubprocessExporterTests.GetFreeTcpPort, MultiInstanceIdempotencyTests.cs:100, MultiInstanceRateLimitTests.cs:107. Each hands the probed port to a child process rather than binding it in-process, so a lost race there fails the child's own bind and surfaces as a readiness timeout — a different failure shape with no sighting on record, unlike the in-process HttpListenerException/ObjectDisposedException this PR fixes.

No user-visible behaviour changed, so no glossary or Help page update is owed.

Closes #672
Closes #676

Test plan

• dotnet build Cluckwork.sln --configuration Release --no-restore — 0 warnings, 0 errors
• dotnet test Cluckwork.sln --configuration Release --no-build --verbosity normal — Domain 365, AppHost 10, Application 234, Api.IntegrationTests 1667, all Test Run Successful.
• tools/schema-docs/generate.sh --check — up to date
• Six mutation checks (one control + five guard mutants) run locally: each mutant reddened its named test on the expected message, restored, rebuilt, confirmed green

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved fake OTLP collector resilience when clients disconnect during export.
  • Prevented in-progress exports from being incorrectly reported as absent.
  • Improved handling and reporting of aborted or incomplete exports.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for interrupted requests, stalled exports, and collector resilience.
  • Made aborted-export verification more deterministic.

• Documentation

  • Added implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and regression-testing runbooks for the fake OTLP collector.
  • Clarified documentation formatting and validation steps across the runbooks.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The fake OTLP collector now supports fresh-listener binding retries, OTLP request filtering, aborted-export tracking, and in-flight export detection. Integration tests cover incomplete and aborted requests. Runbooks define implementation, mutation, lint, and validation procedures.

Changes

Fake OTLP collector resilience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fresh-listener binding retries docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/01-implementer-runbook.md	The runbook specifies injectable port selection, fresh listeners for binding retries, listener disposal, retry limits, and a lost-port-race regression test.
OTLP request filtering docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/01-implementer-runbook.md	The runbook specifies rejection of unsupported methods and paths with 404 responses and publication only for accepted OTLP exports.
Aborted and in-flight export handling tests/Cluckwork.Api.IntegrationTests/Infrastructure/FakeOtlpCollector.cs, tests/Cluckwork.Api.IntegrationTests/Infrastructure/FakeOtlpCollectorTests.cs, docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/03-fix-increment-2.md	The collector tracks exports during body reception, reports in-flight exports through AssertNoRequestAsync, preserves aborted-export diagnostics, and moves listener acceptance outside the client-fault catch. Tests synchronize aborted transfers and verify incomplete exports are not published.
Implementation and validation procedures docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/01-implementer-runbook.md, docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/02-fix-increment-1.md, docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/03-fix-increment-2.md, docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/04-fix-increment-3.md, docs/plans/672-fake-otlp-collector/05-fix-increment-4.md	The runbooks define build gates, mutation checks, markdown formatting corrections, commit steps, fixture-state checks, and final reporting requirements.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cdf43

The collector behavior changes are test-only, but its supporting runbooks contain minor conflicting validation instructions. Correcting those instructions will keep documented mutation and reporting workflows reproducible.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (1 warning, 1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 16 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The description states the objectives for [#672] and [#676]. However, the supplied file summaries confirm in-flight tracking and dead-client handling but do not confirm fresh-listener retry behavior o…	Provide the relevant implementation or test evidence showing that each bind retry creates a fresh HttpListener for [#672], and that non-POST or non-/v1/... requests receive 404 and are not queued for [#676].

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise and directly names the two primary fixes: retrying after a lost port race and ignoring non-export traffic.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains both root causes, the implementation scope, linked issues, verification commands, and results. It uses different headings from the template and omits the full checklist, but t…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code and tests remain within test-only FakeOtlpCollector scaffolding. The added runbooks document the same issue work, and no unrelated product-code changes are shown.

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The description explains both root causes, the implementation scope, linked issues, verification commands, and results. It uses different headings from the template and omits the full checklist, but the substantive information is mostly complete.

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The description states the objectives for [#672] and [#676]. However, the supplied file summaries confirm in-flight tracking and dead-client handling but do not confirm fresh-listener retry behavior or POST /v1/... filtering with 404 responses.

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