fix: record the underlying cause of transport failures for diagnostics

[lukemacauley]

During the 2026-08-19 gator-liquidators production incident (StrobeLabs/gator-liquidators#34), the liquidator logged error.ConnectionFailed for an hour with no way to tell whether the cause was DNS, TCP connect, TLS, or a dead pooled connection — HttpTransport discards the underlying fetch error (else |_|).

This records the cause in a lastFailure() diagnostic on the transport:

• .transport — the underlying std.http.Client.fetch error behind error.ConnectionFailed
• .http_status — the non-200 status behind error.HttpError (e.g. Alchemy 429)

Mirrors the existing Provider.lastError() pattern: the library stays silent (no std.log), the error surface is unchanged, and callers decide what to log. gator-liquidators#34 consumes this from its logRpcErrorDetail.

Tests: extended the 429 regression test to assert the captured status, and added a connection-refused test asserting .transport capture. 898/898 pass.

Closes #114

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added access to diagnostics for the most recent failed HTTP request.
  • Diagnostics distinguish between transport failures and HTTP status failures.
  • Reports specific connection failure causes when available.

• Bug Fixes

  • Cleared outdated failure details before each request.
  • Preserved underlying transport errors while maintaining existing request error behavior.
  • Improved failure reporting for both individual and batch requests.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

HttpTransport now records the latest HTTP status or transport error. Batch and single requests clear stale diagnostics before execution. The public Failure union and lastFailure() accessor expose these diagnostics while existing error values remain unchanged.

Changes

HTTP failure diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diagnostic contract src/http_transport.zig	Adds the public Failure union, stores the latest failure, and exposes it through lastFailure().
Request failure capture src/http_transport.zig	Clears stale diagnostics and records HTTP statuses or underlying transport errors for batch and single requests.
Diagnostic validation src/http_transport.zig	Tests initial null state, repeated 429 diagnostics, and transport-level failure capture.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to be85c

The transport diagnostics change is localized and merge-ready after normal checks; one test error path should clean up its listening socket, but no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: koko1123

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant HttpTransport
  participant HTTPClient
  Caller->>HttpTransport: request or requestBatch
  HttpTransport->>HttpTransport: clear last_failure
  HttpTransport->>HTTPClient: fetch
  HTTPClient-->>HttpTransport: response status or transport error
  HttpTransport->>HttpTransport: record failure diagnostic
  HttpTransport-->>Caller: HttpError or ConnectionFailed

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: recording underlying transport failure causes for diagnostics.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The PR captures transport errors before mapping them to ConnectionFailed and exposes them through lastFailure(), satisfying issue #114.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within diagnostic capture for transport and HTTP failures, including the related tests and documentation.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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In `@src/http_transport.zig`:
- Around line 379-382: Update the test around transport.lastFailure() to assert
that the recorded transport failure payload is error.ConnectionRefused, not only
that its union tag is .transport. Preserve the existing request error
expectation and initial null check.
- Around line 41-45: Update the documentation for HttpTransport.lastFailure() to
state that it reports only captured failures and may return null even when the
most recent request()/requestBatch() invocation failed, such as during
request-body allocation. Do not imply that null proves the last request
succeeded.

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src/http_transport.zig (1)

368-374: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Close the test socket on every error path.

At Line 371, return error.GetSockNameFailed bypasses Line 374. The listening socket then remains open. Register cleanup immediately after listen and remove the manual cleanup.

Proposed fix

     var server = try addr.listen(io, .{ .reuse_address = true });
+    defer server.deinit(io);
     var bound: std.c.sockaddr.in = undefined;
     var bound_len: std.c.socklen_t = `@sizeOf`(`@TypeOf`(bound));
     if (std.c.getsockname(server.socket.handle, `@ptrCast`(&bound), &bound_len) != 0)
         return error.GetSockNameFailed;
     const port = std.mem.bigToNative(u16, bound.port);
-    server.deinit(io);

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In `@src/http_transport.zig` around lines 368 - 374, In the socket setup flow
after server is created by listen, register deferred cleanup so
server.deinit(io) runs on every subsequent exit path, including getsockname
failure; then remove the manual server.deinit(io) call at the end to avoid
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In `@src/http_transport.zig`:
- Around line 368-374: In the socket setup flow after server is created by
listen, register deferred cleanup so server.deinit(io) runs on every subsequent
exit path, including getsockname failure; then remove the manual
server.deinit(io) call at the end to avoid duplicate cleanup.

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