Merge pull request #44 from block/myron/too-many-buckets-exception

Handle `too_many_buckets_exception` more gracefully.

elasticgraph-graphql/lib/elastic_graph/graphql/datastore_search_router.rb

@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ def raise_search_failed_if_any_failures(responses_by_query)
         return if failures.empty?
 
         formatted_failures = failures.map do |(query, response), index|
+          raise_execution_exception_for_known_public_error(response)
+
           # Note: we intentionally omit the body of the request here, because it could contain PII
           # or other sensitive values that we don't want logged.
           <<~ERROR
@@ -130,6 +132,21 @@ def raise_search_failed_if_any_failures(responses_by_query)
         raise Errors::SearchFailedError, "Got #{failures.size} search failure(s):\n\n#{formatted_failures}"
       end
 
+      # In general, when we receive a datastore response indicating a search failed, we raise
+      # `Errors::SearchFailedError` which translates into a `500 Internal Server Error`. That's
+      # appropriate for transient errors (particularly when there's nothing the client can do about
+      # it) but for non-transient errors that the client can do something about, we'd like to provide
+      # a friendlier error. This method handles those cases.
+      #
+      # GraphQL::ExecutionError is automatically translated into a nice error response.
+      def raise_execution_exception_for_known_public_error(response)
+        if response.dig("error", "caused_by", "type") == "too_many_buckets_exception"
+          max_buckets = response.dig("error", "caused_by", "max_buckets")
+          raise ::GraphQL::ExecutionError, "Aggregation query produces too many groupings. " \
+            "Reduce the grouping cardinality to less than #{max_buckets} and try again."
+        end
+      end
+
       # Examine successful query responses and log any shard failure they encounter
       def log_shard_failure_if_necessary(responses_by_query)
         shard_failures = responses_by_query.each_with_index.select do |(query, response), query_numeric_index|

elasticgraph-graphql/spec/unit/elastic_graph/graphql/datastore_search_router_spec.rb

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class GraphQL
           ]
         end
 
-        it "raises `Errors::SearchFailedError` if a search fails for any reason" do
+        it "raises `Errors::SearchFailedError` if a search fails for a transient reason" do
           allow(main_datastore_client).to receive(:msearch).and_return("took" => 10, "responses" => [
             empty_response,
             {"took" => 5, "error" => {"bad stuff" => "happened"}, "status" => 400}
@@ -159,6 +159,32 @@ class GraphQL
           )))
         end
 
+        it "raises `::GraphQL::ExecutionError` if a search fails for a non-transient `too_many_buckets_exception` reason" do
+          allow(main_datastore_client).to receive(:msearch).and_return("took" => 10, "responses" => [
+            empty_response,
+            {
+              "status" => 400,
+              "error" => {
+                "root_cause" => [],
+                "type" => "search_phase_execution_exception",
+                "reason" => "",
+                "grouped" => true,
+                "caused_by" => {
+                  "type" => "too_many_buckets_exception",
+                  "reason" => "Trying to create too many buckets. Must be less than or equal to: [65535] but was [2056004]. This limit can be set by changing the [search.max_buckets] cluster level setting.",
+                  "max_buckets" => 65535
+                }
+              }
+            }
+          ])
+
+          expect {
+            router.msearch([query1, query2])
+          }.to raise_error ::GraphQL::ExecutionError, a_string_including(
+            "Aggregation query produces too many groupings. Reduce the grouping cardinality to less than 65535 and try again."
+          )
+        end
+
         it "logs warning if a query has failed shards" do
           shard_failure_bits = {
             "_shards" => {