Making datastore batch/transaction more robust to failure.

- Ensuring that `Batch` methods `put()`, `delete()`,
  `commit()` and `rollback()` are only called when the batch
  is in progress.
- In `Batch.__enter__()` make sure the batch is only put on the stack
  after `begin()` succeeds.
- `Client.delete_multi()` and `Client.put_multi()` (and downstream methods)
  now call `begin()` on new `Batch` (since required to be in progress).
- `Transaction.begin()` if `begin_transaction()` API call fails, make
  sure to change the status to `ABORTED` before raising the exception
  from the failure.

Fixes #2297.

Also updating the link for the httplib2 docs (the old
docs have moved since the maintainer moved on:
http://bitworking.org/news/2016/03/an_update_on_httplib2).

docs/conf.py

@@ -284,8 +284,8 @@
 # Refer to the Python standard library and the oauth2client and
 # httplib2 libraries.
 intersphinx_mapping = {
-    'httplib2': ('http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/doc/html/', None),
+    'httplib2': ('https://httplib2.readthedocs.io/en/latest', None),
     'oauth2client': ('http://oauth2client.readthedocs.io/en/latest', None),
-    'pandas': ('http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/', None),
+    'pandas': ('http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable', None),
     'python': ('https://docs.python.org/2', None),
 }

google/cloud/datastore/batch.py

@@ -183,9 +183,13 @@ def put(self, entity):
         :type entity: :class:`google.cloud.datastore.entity.Entity`
         :param entity: the entity to be saved.
 
-        :raises: ValueError if entity has no key assigned, or if the key's
+        :raises: :class:`~exceptions.ValueError` if the batch is not in
+                 progress, if entity has no key assigned, or if the key's
                  ``project`` does not match ours.
         """
+        if self._status != self._IN_PROGRESS:
+            raise ValueError('Batch must be in progress to put()')
+
         if entity.key is None:
             raise ValueError("Entity must have a key")
 
@@ -206,9 +210,13 @@ def delete(self, key):
         :type key: :class:`google.cloud.datastore.key.Key`
         :param key: the key to be deleted.
 
-        :raises: ValueError if key is not complete, or if the key's
+        :raises: :class:`~exceptions.ValueError` if the batch is not in
+                 progress, if key is not complete, or if the key's
                  ``project`` does not match ours.
         """
+        if self._status != self._IN_PROGRESS:
+            raise ValueError('Batch must be in progress to delete()')
+
         if key.is_partial:
             raise ValueError("Key must be complete")
 
@@ -255,7 +263,13 @@ def commit(self):
         This is called automatically upon exiting a with statement,
         however it can be called explicitly if you don't want to use a
         context manager.
+
+        :raises: :class:`~exceptions.ValueError` if the batch is not
+                 in progress.
         """
+        if self._status != self._IN_PROGRESS:
+            raise ValueError('Batch must be in progress to commit()')
+
         try:
             self._commit()
         finally:
@@ -267,12 +281,19 @@ def rollback(self):
         Marks the batch as aborted (can't be used again).
 
         Overridden by :class:`google.cloud.datastore.transaction.Transaction`.
+
+        :raises: :class:`~exceptions.ValueError` if the batch is not
+                 in progress.
         """
+        if self._status != self._IN_PROGRESS:
+            raise ValueError('Batch must be in progress to rollback()')
+
         self._status = self._ABORTED
 
     def __enter__(self):
-        self._client._push_batch(self)
         self.begin()
+        # NOTE: We make sure begin() succeeds before pushing onto the stack.
+        self._client._push_batch(self)
         return self
 
     def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):

google/cloud/datastore/client.py

@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ def put_multi(self, entities):
 
         if not in_batch:
             current = self.batch()
+            current.begin()
 
         for entity in entities:
             current.put(entity)
@@ -384,6 +385,7 @@ def delete_multi(self, keys):
 
         if not in_batch:
             current = self.batch()
+            current.begin()
 
         for key in keys:
             current.delete(key)

google/cloud/datastore/transaction.py

@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ class Transaction(Batch):
     :param client: the client used to connect to datastore.
     """
 
+    _status = None
+
     def __init__(self, client):
         super(Transaction, self).__init__(client)
         self._id = None
@@ -125,10 +127,15 @@ def begin(self):
         statement, however it can be called explicitly if you don't want
         to use a context manager.
 
-        :raises: :class:`ValueError` if the transaction has already begun.
+        :raises: :class:`~exceptions.ValueError` if the transaction has
+                 already begun.
         """
         super(Transaction, self).begin()
-        self._id = self.connection.begin_transaction(self.project)
+        try:
+            self._id = self.connection.begin_transaction(self.project)
+        except:
+            self._status = self._ABORTED
+            raise
 
     def rollback(self):
         """Rolls back the current transaction.

unit_tests/datastore/test_batch.py

@@ -68,8 +68,20 @@ def test_put_entity_wo_key(self):
         client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
         batch = self._makeOne(client)
 
+        batch.begin()
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.put, _Entity())
 
+    def test_put_entity_wrong_status(self):
+        _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
+        connection = _Connection()
+        client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
+        batch = self._makeOne(client)
+        entity = _Entity()
+        entity.key = _Key('OTHER')
+
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.put, entity)
+
     def test_put_entity_w_key_wrong_project(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         connection = _Connection()
@@ -78,6 +90,7 @@ def test_put_entity_w_key_wrong_project(self):
         entity = _Entity()
         entity.key = _Key('OTHER')
 
+        batch.begin()
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.put, entity)
 
     def test_put_entity_w_partial_key(self):
@@ -90,6 +103,7 @@ def test_put_entity_w_partial_key(self):
         key = entity.key = _Key(_PROJECT)
         key._id = None
 
+        batch.begin()
         batch.put(entity)
 
         mutated_entity = _mutated_pb(self, batch.mutations, 'insert')
@@ -113,6 +127,7 @@ def test_put_entity_w_completed_key(self):
         entity.exclude_from_indexes = ('baz', 'spam')
         key = entity.key = _Key(_PROJECT)
 
+        batch.begin()
         batch.put(entity)
 
         mutated_entity = _mutated_pb(self, batch.mutations, 'upsert')
@@ -129,6 +144,17 @@ def test_put_entity_w_completed_key(self):
         self.assertTrue(spam_values[2].exclude_from_indexes)
         self.assertFalse('frotz' in prop_dict)
 
+    def test_delete_wrong_status(self):
+        _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
+        connection = _Connection()
+        client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
+        batch = self._makeOne(client)
+        key = _Key(_PROJECT)
+        key._id = None
+
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.delete, key)
+
     def test_delete_w_partial_key(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         connection = _Connection()
@@ -137,6 +163,7 @@ def test_delete_w_partial_key(self):
         key = _Key(_PROJECT)
         key._id = None
 
+        batch.begin()
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.delete, key)
 
     def test_delete_w_key_wrong_project(self):
@@ -146,6 +173,7 @@ def test_delete_w_key_wrong_project(self):
         batch = self._makeOne(client)
         key = _Key('OTHER')
 
+        batch.begin()
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.delete, key)
 
     def test_delete_w_completed_key(self):
@@ -155,6 +183,7 @@ def test_delete_w_completed_key(self):
         batch = self._makeOne(client)
         key = _Key(_PROJECT)
 
+        batch.begin()
         batch.delete(key)
 
         mutated_key = _mutated_pb(self, batch.mutations, 'delete')
@@ -180,23 +209,43 @@ def test_rollback(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         client = _Client(_PROJECT, None)
         batch = self._makeOne(client)
-        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        batch.begin()
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._IN_PROGRESS)
         batch.rollback()
         self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._ABORTED)
 
+    def test_rollback_wrong_status(self):
+        _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
+        client = _Client(_PROJECT, None)
+        batch = self._makeOne(client)
+
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.rollback)
+
     def test_commit(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         connection = _Connection()
         client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
         batch = self._makeOne(client)
 
         self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        batch.begin()
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._IN_PROGRESS)
         batch.commit()
         self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._FINISHED)
 
         self.assertEqual(connection._committed,
                          [(_PROJECT, batch._commit_request, None)])
 
+    def test_commit_wrong_status(self):
+        _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
+        connection = _Connection()
+        client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
+        batch = self._makeOne(client)
+
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, batch.commit)
+
     def test_commit_w_partial_key_entities(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         _NEW_ID = 1234
@@ -209,6 +258,8 @@ def test_commit_w_partial_key_entities(self):
         batch._partial_key_entities.append(entity)
 
         self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._INITIAL)
+        batch.begin()
+        self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._IN_PROGRESS)
         batch.commit()
         self.assertEqual(batch._status, batch._FINISHED)
 
@@ -295,6 +346,26 @@ def test_as_context_mgr_w_error(self):
         self.assertEqual(mutated_entity.key, key._key)
         self.assertEqual(connection._committed, [])
 
+    def test_as_context_mgr_enter_fails(self):
+        klass = self._getTargetClass()
+
+        class FailedBegin(klass):
+
+            def begin(self):
+                raise RuntimeError
+
+        client = _Client(None, None)
+        self.assertEqual(client._batches, [])
+
+        batch = FailedBegin(client)
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+            # The context manager will never be entered because
+            # of the failure.
+            with batch:  # pragma: NO COVER
+                pass
+        # Make sure no batch was added.
+        self.assertEqual(client._batches, [])
+
 
 class _PathElementPB(object):
 

unit_tests/datastore/test_client.py

@@ -960,6 +960,7 @@ def __init__(self, client):
         from google.cloud.datastore.batch import Batch
         self._client = client
         self._batch = Batch(client)
+        self._batch.begin()
 
     def __enter__(self):
         self._client._push_batch(self._batch)
@@ -972,10 +973,12 @@ def __exit__(self, *args):
 class _NoCommitTransaction(object):
 
     def __init__(self, client, transaction_id='TRANSACTION'):
+        from google.cloud.datastore.batch import Batch
         from google.cloud.datastore.transaction import Transaction
         self._client = client
         xact = self._transaction = Transaction(client)
         xact._id = transaction_id
+        Batch.begin(xact)
 
     def __enter__(self):
         self._client._push_batch(self._transaction)

unit_tests/datastore/test_transaction.py

@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ def test_begin_tombstoned(self):
 
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, xact.begin)
 
+    def test_begin_w_begin_transaction_failure(self):
+        _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
+        connection = _Connection(234)
+        client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
+        xact = self._makeOne(client)
+
+        connection._side_effect = RuntimeError
+        with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
+            xact.begin()
+
+        self.assertIsNone(xact.id)
+        self.assertEqual(connection._begun, _PROJECT)
+
     def test_rollback(self):
         _PROJECT = 'PROJECT'
         connection = _Connection(234)
@@ -118,10 +131,10 @@ def test_commit_w_partial_keys(self):
         connection._completed_keys = [_make_key(_KIND, _ID, _PROJECT)]
         client = _Client(_PROJECT, connection)
         xact = self._makeOne(client)
+        xact.begin()
         entity = _Entity()
         xact.put(entity)
         xact._commit_request = commit_request = object()
-        xact.begin()
         xact.commit()
         self.assertEqual(connection._committed,
                          (_PROJECT, commit_request, 234))
@@ -176,7 +189,10 @@ def _make_key(kind, id_, project):
 
 class _Connection(object):
     _marker = object()
-    _begun = _rolled_back = _committed = None
+    _begun = None
+    _rolled_back = None
+    _committed = None
+    _side_effect = None
 
     def __init__(self, xact_id=123):
         self._xact_id = xact_id
@@ -185,7 +201,10 @@ def __init__(self, xact_id=123):
 
     def begin_transaction(self, project):
         self._begun = project
-        return self._xact_id
+        if self._side_effect is None:
+            return self._xact_id
+        else:
+            raise self._side_effect
 
     def rollback(self, project, transaction_id):
         self._rolled_back = project, transaction_id