fix: mark presets as validation_failed to prevent endless prebuild retries (#22085)

## Description

- Updates `wsbuilder` to return a `BuildError` with
`http.StatusBadRequest` to signify a "validation error" on missing or
invalid parameters
- Adds a short-circuit in `prebuilds.StoreReconciler` to mark presets
for which creating a build returns a "validation error" as "validation
failed" and skip further attempts to reconcile.
- Adds a test to verify the above
- Introduces a new Prometheus metric
`coderd_prebuilt_workspaces_preset_validation_failed` to track the above

Closes: https://github.com/coder/coder/issues/21237

---------

Co-authored-by: Cian Johnston <cian@coder.com>
This commit is contained in:
Susana Ferreira
2026-02-27 14:26:48 +00:00
committed by GitHub
parent dea451de41
commit ca234f346d
8 changed files with 596 additions and 43 deletions
+64
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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
package wsbuilder_test
import (
"net/http"
"testing"
"github.com/hashicorp/hcl/v2"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"golang.org/x/xerrors"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/dynamicparameters"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/wsbuilder"
)
func TestBuildErrorResponseDelegation(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
t.Run("plain_error", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
be := wsbuilder.BuildError{
Status: http.StatusBadRequest,
Message: "bad",
Wrapped: xerrors.New("oops"),
}
status, resp := be.Response()
require.Equal(t, http.StatusBadRequest, status)
require.Equal(t, "bad", resp.Message)
require.Contains(t, resp.Detail, "oops")
require.Empty(t, resp.Validations)
})
t.Run("responder_error", func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
inner := &dynamicparameters.DiagnosticError{
Message: "resolve parameters",
KeyedDiagnostics: map[string]hcl.Diagnostics{
"param1": {
{
Severity: hcl.DiagError,
Summary: "required parameter",
},
},
},
}
be := wsbuilder.BuildError{
Status: http.StatusBadRequest,
Message: "build error wrapper",
Wrapped: inner,
}
status, resp := be.Response()
// Should delegate to the inner DiagnosticError's response.
innerStatus, innerResp := inner.Response()
require.Equal(t, innerStatus, status)
require.Equal(t, innerResp.Message, resp.Message)
require.Len(t, resp.Validations, 1)
require.Equal(t, "param1", resp.Validations[0].Field)
})
}
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@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/dynamicparameters"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/files"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/httpapi"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/httpapi/httperror"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/prebuilds"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/provisionerdserver"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/rbac"
@@ -280,6 +281,13 @@ func (e BuildError) Unwrap() error {
}
func (e BuildError) Response() (int, codersdk.Response) {
// If the wrapped error knows how to produce its own response
// (e.g. DiagnosticError with Validations), prefer that over
// the generic BuildError response.
if inner, ok := httperror.IsResponder(e.Wrapped); ok {
return inner.Response()
}
return e.Status, codersdk.Response{
Message: e.Message,
Detail: e.Error(),
@@ -875,7 +883,7 @@ func (b *Builder) getDynamicParameters() (names, values []string, err error) {
b.richParameterValues,
presetParameterValues)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, xerrors.Errorf("resolve parameters: %w", err)
return nil, nil, BuildError{http.StatusBadRequest, "resolve parameters", err}
}
names = make([]string, 0, len(buildValues))
@@ -1112,7 +1120,7 @@ func (b *Builder) getDynamicProvisionerTags() (map[string]string, error) {
output, diags := render.Render(b.ctx, b.workspace.OwnerID, vals)
tagErr := dynamicparameters.CheckTags(output, diags)
if tagErr != nil {
return nil, tagErr
return nil, BuildError{http.StatusBadRequest, "workspace tags validation failed", tagErr}
}
for k, v := range output.WorkspaceTags.Tags() {