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Avoid race condition between HttpServer.stop() and HttpServerSetup methods #64487

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Fixes #64381
Fixes #64480

This change should reduce flakiness in integration tests. The issue that appeared to be causing other integration tests to fail was a situation where the server would start stopping before setup had completed, causing some HttpServiceSetup methods to fail.

I attempted writing a high-level test for executing stop at different points in the setup lifecycle, but I was unable to find a practical way of doing so that wasn't highly specific the one known scenario. The challenge is in controlling the execution of the various promises that are resolved during setup to insert the stop call at the specific point that could cause failure.

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Comment on lines 196 to 204
public async stop() {
this.stopped = true;
if (this.server === undefined) {
return;
}

this.log.debug('stopping http server');
await this.server.stop();
this.server = undefined;
}
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Would it be too pragmatic to have stop await a promise that would be resolved at the end of start?
Are there practical use cases where stop should be called before setup/start are completed (if they were invoked).

In most graceful shutdown implementations I'm aware of, this is what is actually done (either this or signal-based cancelation request/awaiting, which is definitely cleaner but also approximatively 42 times harder to implement correctly).

This should probably be done in both core's main Server and I guess HttpServer for ITs.

setup() {
  this.startingPromise = new Promise();
  // do setup
}

start() {
   // do start
   this.startingPromise.resolve(); // yea I know, this doesn't work like that. You get the idea.
}

stop() {
   if(this.startingPromise) {
      await this.startingPromise()
   }
  // do stop
}

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Good idea, I will try that tomorrow.

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I suspect there will be a lot of complaints that Kibana doesn't react to the stop signal and continue working. But 👍 as a temporary solution.

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LGTM

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@pgayvallet @restrry I have changed this to use Pierre's suggestion and wait for start to complete before stopping continues.

@joshdover joshdover added Feature:New Platform release_note:skip Skip the PR/issue when compiling release notes Team:Core Core services & architecture: plugins, logging, config, saved objects, http, ES client, i18n, etc v7.8.0 labels Apr 29, 2020
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Pinging @elastic/kibana-platform (Team:Platform)

@joshdover joshdover marked this pull request as ready for review April 29, 2020 17:13
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@joshdover joshdover changed the title Avoid race condition between HttpServer.stop() and HttpServerSetup methods Wait to stop Core server until after start has completed Apr 29, 2020
@joshdover joshdover force-pushed the np/flaky-integration branch from ea4cb3f to e34ae40 Compare April 30, 2020 13:22
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This other solution is going to take more time than I have right now to work on this. Rolling back to the previous solution and will merge once CI is green.

@joshdover joshdover changed the title Wait to stop Core server until after start has completed Avoid race condition between HttpServer.stop() and HttpServerSetup methods Apr 30, 2020
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