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Fixes: https://scylladb.atlassian.net/browse/DRIVER-951

Builds on the SESSION_ID/DRIVER_CONFIG groundwork (DRIVER-950), which shipped
the option and reported {"version":1} in it. This fills the document in.

Motivation

An operator investigating an incident from the server side can now see which connections belong to which client, but not how that client is configured — answering that still needs access to the client host and its logs.

ScyllaDB echoes the CQL STARTUP options into system.clients.client_options, so the configuration can travel with the connection that raises the question. The document is a JSON Schema shared with the other ScyllaDB drivers, so the same report describes a client whichever driver wrote it.

Change

Eight commits: a policy prerequisite, the schema and its harness, the plumbing,
then one commit per configuration group.

Commit What
Record whether the local datacenter was configured DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy remembers whether local_dc was given or is left to on_up() to infer — on_up() overwrites the same attribute, so afterwards the two are indistinguishable. No behaviour change
Vendor the report schema and validate against it The shared schema under tests/resources/, byte for byte, plus a jsonschema dev dependency and the helper both test suites validate through
Give the config reporter the cluster and the Scylla flag DriverConfigReporter takes the Cluster it describes (weakly) and an is_scylla flag from the connection
Report the connection group Connect timeout, request capacity, shard-aware pooling, socket options, reconnection policy, TLS hostname verification
Report the control-plane group The timeouts on the driver's own discovery queries, and schema agreement
Report the query group Query defaults and the retry, load-balancing and speculative-execution policies of the default execution profile. The report is conformant from here
Cover the populated report end to end Integration coverage: the document reaches the server intact and describes the client that sent it
Document what the configuration report describes Guide section, worked example, CHANGELOG

Three decisions worth calling out, all argued in the commit messages:

A custom policy is reported by name and nothing else, though the schema permits its public attributes too. A policy is an arbitrary Python object whose __dict__ is trivially reachable, and whatever it holds — an auth provider, a credential, a host list — would land in system.clients for anyone who can select from it. There is no way to tell which attributes are safe, so none are sent. That also bounds the report: what it contains is a function of the driver's own settings, so no configuration can drive it past the 32 KiB cap.

Policies dispatch on their exact type, never isinstance. Every built-in retry policy subclasses RetryPolicy, so isinstance would report all of them as the standard policy; and a user's subclass of a built-in is a policy the
driver knows nothing about, so describing it as its parent would put the parent's parameters against behaviour it does not have.

The datacenter preference is reported whatever the policy, found wherever in the policy chain it is set. It says where requests go, not which policy sends them: a bare DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy — what default_lbp_factory() falls back to without the murmur3 extension — pins the client just as firmly as a
token-aware one wrapping it, and an operator reading custom with no node-preference would conclude the opposite.

Only the default execution profile is described, because the schema has one query group and this driver has as many profiles as the application defines. Legacy configuration reads identically, since Cluster folds a
load_balancing_policy or default_retry_policy given to its constructor into that same profile.

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DRIVER_CONFIG now reports effective connection, control-plane, and default-profile query settings. The report follows a shared JSON Schema with strict validation for built-in policies and omission rules for unsupported values. Custom policies report only their type names. The reporter uses a weak cluster reference and receives Scylla capability information from connections. Cluster.sockopts is materialized during construction. Tests and documentation cover schema validation, configuration conversion, policy reporting, integration round trips, inferred datacenters, and credential non-disclosure.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Cluster
  participant Connection
  participant DriverConfigReporter
  Cluster->>DriverConfigReporter: create reporter with cluster
  Connection->>DriverConfigReporter: provide is_scylla
  DriverConfigReporter->>Cluster: read effective configuration
  DriverConfigReporter-->>Connection: return DRIVER_CONFIG startup option
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cassandra/driver_config.py-630-636 (1)

630-636: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the query report for invalid consistency levels.

ExecutionProfile(consistency_level=None) stores None without validation. _query_defaults_report() then raises KeyError during the direct ConsistencyLevel.value_to_name lookup. add_startup_options() catches the exception and omits the complete report. Emit a valid session-default consistency name for None or unrecognized values.

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302-307: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The exponential backoff report clamps in the wrong direction. ExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy._calculate_backoff caps each delay at max_interval, so when max_interval < min_interval the effective delay is max_interval; the report raises max-ms to base-ms instead and overstates the delay.

  • cassandra/driver_config.py#L302-L307: clamp base-ms down to max-ms rather than raising max-ms to base-ms.
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Narrow the expected exception.

Ruff flags pytest.raises(Exception) (B017). The test intends to show that consistency_level=None cannot be packed. Assert the concrete exception type that send_body raises so the test cannot pass for an unrelated failure.

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302-307, clamp backoff['base-ms'] down to backoff['max-ms'] so the reported
effective delay matches the policy; in tests/unit/test_driver_config.py lines
690-698, update the case with min_interval=10.0 and max_interval=1.0 to assert
base-ms and max-ms are both 1000.

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Stage 2 looks solid overall -- the schema-conformance harness and the "report what the driver will do, not what it was configured with" discipline are the right call.

Five comments below are places where the report contradicts runtime behaviour, each reproduced by running the policy and pool code, plus what looks like an unintended lockfile revision downgrade; the rest are nits and design questions. The behavioural five cluster on one pattern: a zero or sub-millisecond setting normalised into a positive value the driver never acts on.

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`gocql repository
<https://github.com/scylladb/gocql/blob/master/docs/driver-config-schema.json>`_.

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nit -- this ~~~~ subsection swallows the rest of the section: the system.clients example, driver_config_reporting_enabled (466) and application_info (476) all nest under a heading about report contents.

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located = _location_policy(policy)

if type(policy) is TokenAwarePolicy:

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question -- the exact-type check ignores the child, so TokenAwarePolicy(WhiteListRoundRobinPolicy(...)) and TokenAwarePolicy(MyCustomPolicy()) both report the built-in token-aware arm. java-driver #974 and csharp claim it only when the whole chain is describable, else custom -- nikagra raised this on the csharp PR. Deliberate here?

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not deliberate, will fix


shard_aware_options = cluster.shard_aware_options
report = {
'connect': {},

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question -- connection.node-preference looks expressible: ProfileManager.distance() returns IGNORED for remote DCs while used_hosts_per_remote_dc == 0, so no pool opens outside the local DC. java-driver 4.x emits it from toDatacenterPreference(), csharp across profiles, gocql from the HostFilter.

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report = {}
for key, level, name in _SOCKET_FLAGS:
report[key] = bool(configured.get((level, name), False))

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question -- reactor-dependent: AsyncioConnection's TLS path goes through loop.create_connection() (asyncioreactor.py:220), which sets TCP_NODELAY unconditionally, so False is not the effective state. Out of scope for this PR, or worth reporting per-reactor? gocql reports true here.

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[Question] 🔵 Coming back to this one: _socket_report's docstring now states it as fact -- "sockopts is applied by Connection._connect_socket and nothing else touches them". AsyncioConnection over TLS goes through loop.create_connection(sock=..., ssl=...) (asyncioreactor.py:220), whose transport sets TCP_NODELAY itself, so tcp-no-delay: false is not the effective state there.

Happy to leave the reported value alone for this PR -- should the docstring carry the exception, so the next reader doesn't take the claim at face value?

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336-337: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The ~~~~ subsection captures the remainder of the section.

Everything after this heading, including the system.clients example (line 446), driver_config_reporting_enabled (line 466), and application_info (line 476), nests under "What the report describes". Those parts describe the whole feature, not the report contents. Close the subsection or promote the later text back to the parent level.

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ends before the later feature-wide content. Promote the `system.clients`,
`driver_config_reporting_enabled`, and `application_info` sections back to the
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cassandra/driver_config.py-378-389 (1)

378-389: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Omit backoff when the effective interval is not positive.

The guard tests only min_interval > 0. _calculate_backoff is min(max_interval, min_interval * 2 ** attempt), so a non-positive max_interval flattens the curve to zero or below at every attempt. With ExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy(3, 0.1, 0) the report emits backoff with base-ms and max-ms of 1, which claims a delay the policy never waits. Gate on the effective bound instead.

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-        if policy.min_interval > 0:
+        effective_base = min(policy.min_interval, policy.max_interval)
+        if effective_base > 0:
             # The initial delay is min(max_interval, min_interval), not
             # min_interval: _calculate_backoff caps the whole curve at
             # max_interval, and the policy does not check that the two were
             # given the right way round. Reporting min_interval would claim a
             # first delay the policy never waits whenever max_interval is the
             # smaller. Taking the minimum also keeps the schema's requirement
             # that max-ms be at least base-ms true by construction.
-            base_ms = _required_ms(min(policy.min_interval, policy.max_interval))
+            base_ms = _required_ms(effective_base)
             report['backoff'] = {'type': 'exponential',
                                  'base-ms': base_ms,
                                  'max-ms': _required_ms(policy.max_interval)}
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In `@cassandra/driver_config.py` around lines 378 - 389, Update the
backoff-reporting guard around _calculate_backoff to require a positive
effective bound, using the minimum of policy.min_interval and
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Preserve the existing base-ms and max-ms calculations when the effective
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1442-1448: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Narrow the expected exception.

pytest.raises(Exception) passes for any failure, including one unrelated to packing a None consistency level. That weakens the premise this test exists to establish. Assert the concrete exception type the protocol raises.

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-        with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        with pytest.raises((TypeError, struct.error)):
             QueryMessage(query='SELECT 1', consistency_level=None).send_body(BytesIO(), 4)
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The loop proves nothing.

in_flight is incremented until it equals max_request_id, which is the value computed on line 297. The assertion therefore compares the report against the same expression twice, not against the gate in borrow_connection.

♻️ Proposed change
-        max_request_id = min(Cluster.connection_class.max_in_flight - 1, (2 ** 15) - 1)
-
-        in_flight = 0
-        while in_flight < max_request_id:
-            in_flight += 1
-
-        assert connection_report(self)['requests']['in-flight']['max'] == in_flight
+        connection = Mock(max_request_id=min(Cluster.connection_class.max_in_flight - 1,
+                                             (2 ** 15) - 1),
+                          in_flight=0)
+        admitted = 0
+        while connection.in_flight < connection.max_request_id:
+            connection.in_flight += 1
+            admitted += 1
+
+        assert connection_report(self)['requests']['in-flight']['max'] == admitted
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Other comments:
In `@cassandra/driver_config.py`:
- Around line 378-389: Update the backoff-reporting guard around
_calculate_backoff to require a positive effective bound, using the minimum of
policy.min_interval and policy.max_interval, so backoff is omitted when
max_interval is non-positive. Preserve the existing base-ms and max-ms
calculations when the effective interval is positive.

In `@docs/scylla-specific.rst`:
- Around line 336-337: Adjust the reStructuredText heading hierarchy around
“What the report describes” so the `~~~~` subsection ends before the later
feature-wide content. Promote the `system.clients`,
`driver_config_reporting_enabled`, and `application_info` sections back to the
parent heading level while preserving “What the report describes” only for
report-content details.

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In `@tests/unit/test_driver_config.py`:
- Around line 1442-1448: Update test_no_working_configuration_is_affected to
expect the concrete exception type raised when QueryMessage.send_body packs a
None consistency_level, replacing the broad pytest.raises(Exception) assertion
while preserving the existing query and send_body setup.
- Around line 290-303: Update
test_in_flight_is_the_admission_ceiling_not_the_stream_pool so it exercises the
borrow_connection admission gate and derives the reported maximum from actual
connection activity, rather than incrementing in_flight to the precomputed
max_request_id and asserting that same value. Keep the assertion focused on
verifying the gate’s ceiling.

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cassandra/policies.py-240-245 (1)

240-245: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the contradictory comment.

The comment states that inference assigns _local_dc directly. on_up at line 317 assigns through this setter and then resets _local_dc_explicit, and the comment at lines 318-324 explains why writing _local_dc directly is wrong. Correct this text so the two comments agree.

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-        # Assigning is the application choosing a datacenter, at construction or
-        # at any point afterwards -- this stays publicly writable. Inference
-        # assigns _local_dc directly, so that a guess never comes through here
-        # and reads as a choice. Nothing else can tell the two apart afterwards:
-        # both leave the same value in the same attribute.
+        # Assigning is the application choosing a datacenter, at construction or
+        # at any point afterwards -- this stays publicly writable. Inference goes
+        # through this setter too and then clears the flag again (see on_up), so
+        # that a guess never reads as a choice. Nothing else can tell the two
+        # apart afterwards: both leave the same value in the same attribute.
         self._local_dc_explicit = bool(dc)
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In `@cassandra/policies.py` around lines 240 - 245, Update the comment above
_local_dc_explicit in the setter to remove the incorrect claim that inference
assigns _local_dc directly; describe assignment as an explicit application
choice while keeping it consistent with on_up’s setter usage and subsequent
reset of _local_dc_explicit.
CHANGELOG.rst-17-25 (1)

17-25: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve the contradiction with the earlier Unreleased bullet.

Lines 11-12 in the same Unreleased section state that DRIVER_CONFIG "carries only the schema version it follows". The new bullet states it now describes the whole configuration. Both ship in one release, so the notes contradict each other. Fold the content into the first bullet or amend Lines 11-12.

📝 Amend the earlier bullet
   control connection additionally sends ``DRIVER_CONFIG``, a JSON description of the
-  effective configuration, which for now carries only the schema version it follows.
+  effective configuration.
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst` around lines 17 - 25, Update the earlier Unreleased CHANGELOG
bullet describing DRIVER_CONFIG so it no longer says the value carries only the
schema version; make it consistent with the newer bullet by stating that it
describes the complete driver configuration while retaining the schema-version
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tests/integration/standard/test_driver_config.py-112-136 (1)

112-136: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the control-connection row, not for any one row.

_wait_for_connections(session, session_id, count=1) returns as soon as one row with this session id appears. That row can be a pool connection, which never carries DRIVER_CONFIG. In that case reports is empty and the assertion at Line 134 fails even though the driver behaved correctly. The same file already documents this ordering hazard at Lines 203-206.

Poll until a report appears, or wait for the settled connection count as test_only_the_control_connection_reports_the_driver_config does.

🔧 Poll for the report instead of for one row
-    options = _wait_for_connections(session, session_id, count=1)
-    _assert_listed(options, 1, session_id)
-
-    reports = [o[DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION] for o in options if DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION in o]
-    assert reports, "the control connection reported no configuration"
+    deadline = time.time() + CONNECTION_WAIT_TIMEOUT
+    while True:
+        options = _wait_for_connections(session, session_id, count=1)
+        reports = [o[DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION] for o in options if DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION in o]
+        if reports or time.time() >= deadline:
+            break
+        time.sleep(0.5)
+
+    _assert_listed(options, 1, session_id)
+    assert reports, "the control connection reported no configuration"
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In `@tests/integration/standard/test_driver_config.py` around lines 112 - 136,
Update _reported_config to wait specifically for a connection row containing
DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION instead of stopping after any single session row; poll
until such a report appears, then validate and return it while preserving the
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Other comments:
In `@cassandra/policies.py`:
- Around line 240-245: Update the comment above _local_dc_explicit in the setter
to remove the incorrect claim that inference assigns _local_dc directly;
describe assignment as an explicit application choice while keeping it
consistent with on_up’s setter usage and subsequent reset of _local_dc_explicit.

In `@CHANGELOG.rst`:
- Around line 17-25: Update the earlier Unreleased CHANGELOG bullet describing
DRIVER_CONFIG so it no longer says the value carries only the schema version;
make it consistent with the newer bullet by stating that it describes the
complete driver configuration while retaining the schema-version information.

In `@tests/integration/standard/test_driver_config.py`:
- Around line 112-136: Update _reported_config to wait specifically for a
connection row containing DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION instead of stopping after any
single session row; poll until such a report appears, then validate and return
it while preserving the existing session filtering and assertion behavior.

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🟡 nit -- the docstring does not cover the case where both are set, which is the one Cluster(cloud=...) creates: a context that does not verify, plus ssl_options={'check_hostname': True} (cluster.py:1260). Preferring the context is correct -- Connection only builds one from options when there is none (connection.py:944), and check_hostname is never forwarded to wrap_socket (connection.py:1048). It took reading both to be sure, so one clause saying the context wins would help the next reader.

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def _milliseconds(seconds):

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[Blocker] 🔴 Raises on non-finite input: int(round(inf * 1000))OverflowError, nanValueError. ExecutionProfile(request_timeout=float('inf')) is a plausible spelling of "no timeout", and one of those costs every other group in the report.

_integer_ceiling already sets the contract for this ("none of them may raise", line 343), and there's a test for it on the retry limit. The duration helpers — _optional_ms, _required_ms, _non_negative_ms — are the gap.

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[Blocker] 🔴 Still open at e2d3bb4: _milliseconds is int(round(seconds * 1000)) with no guard, and _server_side_timeout_ms reaches the same failure through timedelta(seconds=...). inf raises OverflowError, nan raises ValueError, and either escapes to add_startup_options and costs every other group in the report.

Constructor-reachable through connect_timeout, request_timeout, max_schema_agreement_wait, metadata_request_timeout, and the constant reconnection and speculative delays.

What makes it worth another round rather than a nit: this PR settled inf as the spelling for "no limit" on the count side. _integer_ceiling catches (TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError), tests/unit/test_driver_config.py:1427 covers inf/nan/'lots', and ConstantSpeculativeExecutionPolicy(0.5, float('inf')) is a case at :1899. An application that spells a duration the same way takes the whole report down.

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_local_dc_explicit = False
used_hosts_per_remote_dc = 0

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[Major] 🟠 This removes a documented public attribute: policy.local_dc = 'dc2' now raises AttributeError, and a subclass assigning it in its own __init__ breaks at construction.

A setter that sets _local_dc_explicit = True gives you the configured-vs-inferred distinction without the break. Worth noting RackAwareRoundRobinPolicy.local_dc (line 353) stays a plain writable attribute, so the two sibling policies now disagree about whether it can be assigned.

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@nikagra it is deliberate see this comment #997 (comment)

session = cluster.connect(wait_for_all_pools=True)
session_id = str(cluster.session_id)

options = _wait_for_connections(session, session_id, count=1)

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[Minor] 🟡 The docstring's premise doesn't hold on a shard-aware node: count=1 returns as soon as any connection for this session id is registered, the pool opens one per shard concurrently with the control connection, and the order rows appear in system.clients is the server's. If a pool connection lands first, line 134 fails — a flake in the three tests using this helper.

_settled_connection_count(session) (line 55, as at 152/207/335), or polling until a row carrying DRIVER_CONFIG shows up, makes it deterministic.

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[Minor] 🟡 The new docstring's premise holds for the driver's ordering -- the control connection is the first opened -- but the wait is on rows appearing in system.clients, and that ordering is the server's. On a shard-aware node the pool opens one connection per shard while the control connection is registering, so count=1 can still return a single row without DRIVER_CONFIG, and line 134 fails.

Polling until a row carrying DRIVER_CONFIG_OPTION shows up is one predicate and drops the dependence on that ordering.

return _PolicyChainSurvey(located, token_aware, describable)


def _location_policy(policy):

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[Minor] 🟡 Nothing in cassandra/ calls this — _load_balancing_report reads survey.located directly, and the only callers are two unit tests. The docstring also restates rationale already given in _survey_policy_chain and _node_location_preference_report, so it's a third copy to keep in step.

if isinstance(report, (str, bytes)):
report = json.loads(report)

jsonschema.validate(instance=report, schema=load_schema())

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[Nit] 🟢 Re-reads the 30 KiB file and recompiles the validator on every call, and this is called from ~60 unit tests plus every integration case. A module-level Draft202012Validator keeps the "no shared mutable document" property the docstring wants — the validator never hands the schema back — without the repeated parse and $ref resolution.

the groups read real settings, and inventing them would keep a test passing
after one had been renamed.
"""
cluster = Cluster(**cluster_kwargs)

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[Nit] 🟢 A real Cluster per assertion means a ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=2) and a _Scheduler thread built and torn down dozens of times — test_recognized_levels_are_unaffected makes one per consistency level. A module-scope cluster reused where the kwargs don't vary, with only the varying cases building their own, would cut most of that.

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The configuration report has to tell a datacenter the user chose from
one the driver inferred, and DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy cannot: on_up()
assigns the inferred datacenter to the same local_dc attribute the
constructor set, so from the first host coming up the two are
indistinguishable. Capture it at construction instead, where an empty
local_dc counts as inferred -- which is what makes on_up() infer.

local_dc becomes read-only for the same reason. An assignment afterwards
would be indistinguishable from that inference all over again, so there
would be nothing left to capture: the constructor sets it, and on_up()
fills it in when the constructor was given none. Code that assigned it
should pass local_dc to the constructor instead.

RackAwareRoundRobinPolicy needs no such flag: both values are mandatory
constructor arguments and are never reassigned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Connection.max_request_id and Connection.orphaned_threshold are both
derived from max_in_flight in the class body -- which runs once. A
subclass that lowers max_in_flight inherits values derived from this
class's, not from its own.

For orphaned_threshold that leaves a max_in_flight of 256 paired with a
threshold of 24576. A connection can hold no more orphaned stream ids
than it has request ids, so the count never reaches the threshold and
orphan-based replacement never happens for such a subclass at all -- the
safety mechanism is there and silently dead. max_in_flight is documented
as the knob for lower-level integrations that want an upper bound
without reimplementing the connection, so it is meant to be lowered.

Both are now derived rather than fixed in the class body. A connection
derives them in __init__ from the limit in force when it is built, so
they follow max_in_flight however it was tuned -- a subclass setting it
in a class body, an assignment on the class, or a patch in a test. The
last two are how the integration tests covering the in-flight bound set
it, and a value derived once would leave the pool's `in_flight <
max_request_id` gate at the untuned bound, never tripping.

The two staticmethods are for the configuration report, which has to
describe both before any connection exists: it asks with the class's
current limit rather than restating the arithmetic. Three places did
restate it -- the report and two of its tests -- and halving the
expression in __init__ left every one of them agreeing with each other
and disagreeing with the driver, with the whole suite passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DRIVER_CONFIG report is a cross-driver contract: an operator reading
system.clients.client_options relies on the same document whichever
driver wrote the row. That contract is a JSON Schema maintained
upstream, vendored here byte for byte -- and pinned as such by a test --
so drift from the shared copy shows up as a diff rather than as a
divergence nobody notices.

Validating is worth the dependency because every group in the schema is
additionalProperties: false, so a key this driver invents or misspells
fails hard instead of being silently dropped by a consumer.

These tests cover the harness and the contract, not the reporter, whose
report is still only {"version":1}: connection, control-plane and query
are all required, so it becomes conformant once the last of those groups
lands. Landing the schema first means every commit in between is checked
against it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The configuration groups that follow need the cluster whose settings
they describe, and one of them needs to know whether the node is a
ScyllaDB one. This puts both in place without changing what is reported.

The cluster is held weakly: it owns the reporter and hands it to every
connection it opens, so a strong reference here would keep it alive for
as long as any connection holds a reporter. Finding it gone is a
shutdown race rather than a misconfiguration, so the option is left out
at debug level.

is_scylla is passed in rather than discovered, because the connection
already knows -- _handle_options_response parses SUPPORTED into
self.features before it builds these options -- and the predicate is the
one the driver itself keys ScyllaDB-only behaviour off, so the report
describes what the driver will do rather than only what it was
configured to do. It is required: the sole caller always knows, and a
default would let a wrong answer through quietly.

The connection tests move to a stub report, so that what they establish
-- which connections carry the report, and that an application cannot
supply its own -- does not break on every configuration group that lands
next.

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return min(max_in_flight - 1, (2 ** 15) - 1)

@staticmethod
def orphaned_threshold_for(max_in_flight):

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[Major] 🟠 Not capped the way max_request_id_for is two lines up. max_in_flight = 2 ** 20 gives max_request_id 32767 and orphaned_threshold 786432: a connection holds at most 32768 stream ids, so len(orphaned_request_ids) >= orphaned_threshold (cluster.py:4846) never trips and orphan-based replacement is silently dead.

The report then prints in-flight.max: 32767 next to orphaned.max: 786431, which the schema says should be the lower of the two. Same shape as the 256-with-a-threshold-of-24576 case the CHANGELOG entry fixes, in the raising direction -- min(3 * max_in_flight // 4, max_request_id_for(max_in_flight) + 1) covers both.


if not Session.use_client_timestamp:
return False
if timestamp_generator is None:

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[Major] 🟠 cluster.timestamp_generator = None reports client-timestamps: false, which an operator reads as "the coordinator assigns them". What actually happens is _create_response_future calling self.cluster.timestamp_generator() (cluster.py:2973) and every request raising TypeError.

_retry_report (549) and _load_balancing_report (833) raise ValueError for the identical shape, each with a docstring arguing the case. This key is optional, though, so returning None -- the schema's unknown -- agrees with them without dropping the report.

Comment thread CHANGELOG.rst
and the two mean different things: a datacenter the application chose against one the
driver guessed. Code that assigned it should pass ``local_dc`` to the constructor
instead.
* ``Connection.max_request_id`` and ``Connection.orphaned_threshold`` are now derived

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[Minor] 🟡 The entry describes the __init_subclass__ version rather than what shipped: both limits are derived in __init__ (connection.py:975-976), not in the class body; a subclass that sets either in its class body has it overwritten, so "A subclass that sets either itself keeps it" is not true; and max_request_id is still an instance attribute, so it has not moved to the class -- orphaned_threshold is the one that gained a classmethod for the report to read.

To be clear, the code is what I asked for last round. It's the entry that needs to follow it.

under a generic "unable to build the report" warning.
"""
try:
return ConsistencyLevel.value_to_name[level]

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[Minor] 🟡 except KeyError misses two:

  • profile.consistency_level = [] raises TypeError: unhashable type: 'list' past this handler, so the ValueError you wrote never runs and the report dies under the generic "unable to build" warning instead -- the outcome the message exists to avoid.
  • True hashes equal to 1 and reports as ONE, for a value that will not pack into a request. Same shape as the bool normalisation the integer fields got.

token_aware = link
if located is None and kind in (DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy, RackAwareRoundRobinPolicy):
located = link
if kind not in _DESCRIBABLE_LOAD_BALANCING_POLICIES:

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[Minor] 🟡 Truncation leaves describable True. _policy_chain just returns at the cap, so for the chain the cap exists for -- a _child_policy manufacturing a new object per access -- the survey answers "every policy in it is one this module can account for" about a chain it stopped walking. With a TokenAwarePolicy in the visited prefix, the report then claims the built-in arm and its routing flags for links it never reached.

Setting describable = False when the loop runs out keeps the docstring's promise. Not about the 1024 -- that number is right.

costs nothing and changes nothing.
"""
nothing = object()
return next(iter(policy.new_schedule()), nothing) is nothing

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[Minor] 🟡 The probe runs the policy's own comparison, so it can raise where _integer_ceiling deliberately does not: p.max_attempts = 'lots' by assignment -- the pattern the tests already use for -1 (test_driver_config.py:788) -- makes new_schedule evaluate 0 < 'lots', and the TypeError takes the whole report with it.

Catching TypeError around the next() and answering False treats a probe that cannot be answered the way _integer_ceiling treats a limit no integer can name.

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# Materialized once: these are applied to every socket the cluster opens
# and are read again to build the configuration report, so a one-shot
# iterable would leave whichever consumer ran second with nothing at all.
self.sockopts = list(sockopts) if sockopts is not None else None

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[Question] 🔵 What does the list() buy now that _socket_report guards its own iteration? It costs a constructor-time TypeError for Cluster(sockopts=42), which used to build fine and fail at connect, on a documented public attribute -- and it doesn't close the generator hole it looks aimed at: cluster.sockopts = (o for o in opts) after construction is still exhausted by the report, leaving _connect_socket nothing to apply and no error anywhere.

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What the driver does with a single connection: connect timeout, request
capacity, shard-aware pooling, socket options, reconnection policy and
TLS hostname verification.

Three of the schema's optional groups are left out for want of anything
to put in them -- this driver has no socket read or write timeout, and
the heartbeat group is empty in this schema version, so
idle_heartbeat_interval has nowhere to go -- worth raising for v2.
orphaned is reported, since Connection.orphaned_threshold bounds them;
the schema leaves the group out for a client where nothing does. Its max
is one below that threshold and floored at zero: the count is tested
after the id is added, so a threshold of one or less tolerates no orphan
at all, and the schema's nonNegativeInteger has no room for what
subtracting would otherwise give.

Socket options are read from sockopts rather than off a live socket.
That would be the effective value the schema asks for, but only some of
this driver's six reactors expose a socket object -- asyncio holds a
transport -- so the report would change shape with the reactor in use.
The driver sets none of its own, so an option absent from sockopts is at
the operating system's default, which for a fresh TCP socket is off.

Cluster.sockopts is materialized at construction, because it now has two
readers: the sockets the cluster opens, and this report. A one-shot
iterable would leave whichever ran second with nothing at all.

The reconnection policy is described by driving its schedule rather than
by reading max_attempts, because the values that stop one are not one kind
of thing: zero and a negative stop the loop on its first test, and a nan
stops it because every comparison against one is false -- and reaches the
constructor unchallenged, since `nan < 0` is false too. float('inf')
passes all three of those tests and means the opposite. A schedule that
yields nothing is the schema's null arm; reporting an exponential policy
with max-attempts left out would say the opposite, since the schema reads
an absent max-attempts as unlimited.

The reported base-ms is min(base_delay, max_delay). _add_jitter clamps
every delay with `min(max(base_delay, delay), max_delay)`, so max_delay
wins when the two are the wrong way round -- which the constructor
rejects, but both stay writable afterwards. Taking the minimum reports the
delay the policy will actually start at, and keeps the schema's
requirement that max-ms be at least base-ms true by construction: it is a
cross-property invariant JSON Schema cannot express, so the producer is
the only thing that can hold it.

inf and nan reach every duration setting unchallenged -- nothing
validates one, and a nan passes even the constructors that reject a
negative, since every comparison against one is false -- and both then
raise out of int(). That cost the whole report rather than the one key
that could not be converted, so each duration now says what the driver
does with such a value: the optional fields leave the key out, which is
already how this report says no limit is imposed, and the required ones
raise with a message naming the kind of value rather than an opaque
OverflowError.

A reconnection delay is the null arm. Both schedulers compare a deadline
of time.time() + delay against the clock, so an infinite delay or a nan
is never due and nothing is ever reconnected -- the same thing the null
arm already says of a schedule that yields nothing. A negative infinity
is the opposite and is not one of these: its deadline is already past,
so the timer fires at once and it reports as the immediate delay it is.

Policies dispatch on their exact type: a subclass of a built-in is a
policy the driver knows nothing about, and describing it as its parent
would put the parent's parameters against behaviour it does not have. A
custom one is reported by name and nothing else, though the schema
permits its public attributes too -- whatever it holds, an auth provider
or a credential, would land in system.clients for anyone who can select
from it, and there is no telling which attributes are safe. That also
bounds the report, so no configuration can drive it past the size limit.

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The timeouts on the driver's own queries: the ones it runs to discover
the cluster rather than on behalf of the application.

The two system-query timeouts are different things, which is why the
schema has both. client-side-ms is how long the driver waits for a
reply. server-side-ms is a limit the server enforces, which this driver
applies by appending USING TIMEOUT -- a ScyllaDB extension, so it is
reported only against a ScyllaDB node, mirroring
ControlConnection._try_connect: the report describes what the driver
will do, not only what it was configured to do.

Schema agreement stays in the report at zero, which says the driver does
not wait for agreement -- a setting rather than the absence of one.

Its timeout-ms is also the one field here that a duration the report
cannot carry takes down with it. A wait of inf or nan has no describable
length and the schema requires the key, so there is no conformant
document to be had and the report is dropped -- with a message saying
which kind of value did it, where an OverflowError under the generic
warning would not. The other two are optional and are simply left out:
server-side-ms because the builder cannot carry one either, being a
timedelta, so no USING TIMEOUT clause is appended at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
What the driver does with a statement that overrides none of it: the
defaults it applies, how a failure is retried, which node it goes to,
and whether a slow one is raced.

Reported from the default execution profile. The schema has one query
group and this driver has as many profiles as the application defines,
so the one that describes the session is the one a statement gets when
it names none -- which covers legacy configuration too, since Cluster
folds a load_balancing_policy or default_retry_policy given to its
constructor into that same profile. Other profiles cannot be described
under this schema version; worth raising for v2.

The built-in retry policies all subclass RetryPolicy, so dispatch is on
the exact type: isinstance would report every one of them as the
standard policy. ExponentialBackoffRetryPolicy has no arm of its own,
but it retries what the standard policy retries and adds a growing
delay, which is what the schema's backoff describes.

The schema's built-in load balancing arm carries flags describing where
a request may go, so it is claimed only when the chain holds a
token-aware policy and every policy in it is one this driver can account
for. A transparent wrapper above the token-aware policy does not
disqualify the chain; a policy whose routing cannot be seen from here
does, however ordinary the policy wrapping it --
WhiteListRoundRobinPolicy and HostFilterPolicy each confine routing to a
subset the flags have nowhere to record. The datacenter preference is
reported either way, found wherever in the policy chain it is set: it
says where requests go, not which policy sends them, and a bare
DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy -- what the driver falls back to without the
murmur3 extension -- pins the client just as firmly as a token-aware one
wrapping it.

A load balancer of None is resolved the way ResponseFuture resolves it --
`load_balancer or _default_load_balancing_policy` -- so legacy mode with
none set reports the policy a request routes with rather than the None.
One that nothing resolves raises instead of being reported: a request
takes make_query_plan off None and raises too, policy is a required key so
there is no conformant document to be had, and reporting a custom policy
would tell an operator a user-supplied one is routing.

Both of the durations this group adds are left out when they are not
finite, which the schema lets it do: speculative-execution because a
delay that is never due starts no additional execution, and retry
backoff because a retry scheduled that far out is one the driver never
reaches -- backoff being optional for exactly the case where there is no
delay to describe.

Three of the defaults are not the profile's. Paging and client
timestamps are Session settings and no Session exists when the control
connection reports, so what is described is the default every Session
starts with. Idempotence has no configurable default at all, so it is
always false. A custom timestamp generator leaves client-timestamps out
entirely: it may return None for some requests, leaving the coordinator
to assign the timestamp after all, and there is no telling from here
which it will do.

With this group the report is conformant, which the tests now assert
against the vendored schema -- including one that gives a custom policy
a password and asserts it appears nowhere in the report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The unit tests establish that the reporter builds the right document.
These establish that the document reaches the server intact and
describes the client that sent it -- which is all an operator reading
system.clients has.

The existing {"version":1} assertion becomes a schema validation:
pinning the document here would duplicate the unit tests and break on
every group added to it. The round-trip test sets every setting it
checks away from its default, so a report built from the wrong source,
or from defaults, fails rather than happening to match.

Two of these cannot be unit tests. The server-side timeout is reported
only against ScyllaDB, and a unit test can only assert that for a flag
it passes in itself; here the detection runs against the SUPPORTED
response of an actual node. The inferred datacenter is the other: it is
inferred from a host that has to exist.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The guide said the report carried a version and that more keys would
follow. Now that they have, it describes the three groups, shows what a
default Cluster reports, and links the schema where it is maintained --
an operator reading a report may well not be reading this driver's.

Five things get called out, because each is a way to misread a report
rather than a detail of it: that only the default execution profile is
described, that a custom policy is named and never serialized, that an
absent key means "does not apply" rather than "off", that the datacenter
says whether it was configured or inferred, and that the query defaults
are a snapshot taken before any Session exists.

The example is the real output of a default Cluster, verified against it
rather than written by hand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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sylwiaszunejko force-pushed the driver-379-stage-2-populate-driver-config branch from e2d3bb4 to fa1c0bd Compare August 28, 2026 18:58
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