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Fixes #528.

On KurrentDB 26.x, a follower rejects appendRecords and multiStreamAppend with FAILED_PRECONDITION and a NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails status detail, without the v1 exception: not-leader trailers. convertToCommandError mapped this to UnknownError, so shouldReconnect returned false and the client kept sending appends to the follower until the process restarted.

convertToCommandError now maps NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails to NotLeaderError, with leader read from current_leader, so the client reconnects to the leader as it does for v1 not-leader errors. When the details carry no leader, it returns UnavailableError, which reconnects through discovery.

Test: connection/reconnect/NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails.test.ts sends appendRecords and multiStreamAppend to a follower and checks that the first call throws NotLeaderError naming a cluster node, and that the next call succeeds on that node. It runs only against servers >= 26.0. On kurrentplatform/kurrentdb:26.1.3, both cases pass with the fix and fail without it (UnknownError). The existing connection/reconnect, connection/not-leader, streams/appendRecords and streams/multiAppendStream suites pass.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of requests sent to a follower: when the leader is known, the error now identifies the leader’s endpoint, helping the client reconnect to the correct node.
  • When no leader endpoint is available, the error is reported as unavailable.
  • Improved recovery after a follower response so subsequent append requests can succeed once the client reconnects to the leader.

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Walkthrough

The client now maps FAILED_PRECONDITION not-leader details to NotLeaderError when a leader endpoint is present, or to UnavailableError when it is absent. Integration tests check reconnection for appendRecords and multiStreamAppend.

Changes: Not-leader handling and reconnection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Decode not-leader status details packages/db-client/src/utils/CommandError.ts	NotLeaderError accepts an optional leader endpoint. The error conversion uses the endpoint from NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails, or returns UnavailableError when that detail has no current leader.
Verify append reconnection packages/test/src/connection/reconnect/NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails.test.ts	Integration tests exercise appendRecords and multiStreamAppend with follower preference. They verify that a subsequent append succeeds and the client connects to the reported leader.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Low · up to a02dd

The normal reconnection path is covered, but an unusable reported leader can make a subsequent append fail. Merge risk is low with owner awareness of this edge case; endpoint validation and absent-leader coverage would improve resilience.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to a02dd

The fix extends the existing leader-redirection behavior to the newer protocol without changing credential ownership or automatically replaying failed writes. No introduced security vulnerability was established. Concurrent recovery and some failure paths remain insufficiently demonstrated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A server-controlled leader detail can redirect the affected client instance's subsequent RPCs to another network-reachable target. The relevant authority is the client's existing transport configuration and future request credentials, not a newly created service identity or tenant privilege.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — Abusing the new endpoint input requires control of a response accepted from the connected peer. That peer could already request direct redirection through legacy not-leader metadata. The added v2 encoding therefore extends protocol reachability without demonstrating greater maximum attacker authority. Disabling certificate verification remains a pre-existing weakening of target authentication.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Redirected channels reuse the client's configured TLS channel credentials. Request authorization remains resolved from per-call credentials, the credentials provider, or defaults. In insecure mode, the metadata generator suppresses authorization credentials rather than forwarding them to the redirected target.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recovery is shared across RPC clients using the channel, so its containment scope exceeds the failed append. Discovery has bounded attempts, and discovery rejection clears cached channel/client state. The new tests demonstrate sequential populated-leader recovery, not concurrent pending-RPC containment or interrupted recovery.

Pre-merge checks: 3

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Linked Issues check		[#528] convertToCommandError maps NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails to NotLeaderError with the supplied leader endpoint. If the detail has no leader, it returns UnavailableError for discovery-based re…
Out of Scope Changes check		[#528] The error conversion, optional leader endpoint, and integration tests support the requested reconnection behavior. The changes shown in the whole-PR summary are within scope.

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Explanation

[#528] convertToCommandError maps NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails to NotLeaderError with the supplied leader endpoint. If the detail has no leader, it returns UnavailableError for discovery-based reconnection. The new integration test covers reconnection for both append operations on servers >= 26.0. The PR reports that both cases pass on 26.1.3 and fail without the fix.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 1

packages/test/src/connection/reconnect/NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails.test.ts: 1

65-75: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Poor tradeoff

Test reconnection when the leader is absent.

Both cases require a NotLeaderError with a leader. Add a deterministic response without currentLeader and check for UnavailableError and discovery on a subsequent append. The suite could otherwise pass if this conversion regresses to UnknownError.

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Review comment at
@packages/test/src/connection/reconnect/NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails.test.ts around
lines 65 - 75:
Extend the reconnect tests around `NotLeaderError` to cover a deterministic
response with no `currentLeader`; assert that the operation produces
`UnavailableError` rather than `UnknownError`, then verify that a subsequent
append discovers the leader and succeeds.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/db-client/src/utils/CommandError.ts:
- Around line 692-697: Validate currentLeader’s host and port before
constructing NotLeaderError in the leader-redirection path; return
UnavailableError when the leader is absent, its host is empty, or its port is
zero, so the client can rediscover a leader.
- Line 687: Update the NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails handling in the conversion flow
to decode the v2 detail and expose currentLeader before attempting to read
legacy endpoint trailers. Retain the legacy trailer path as a fallback when no
usable v2 leader is available.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@packages/test/src/connection/reconnect/NotLeaderNodeErrorDetails.test.ts:
- Around line 65-75: Extend the reconnect tests around `NotLeaderError` to cover
a deterministic response with no `currentLeader`; assert that the operation
produces `UnavailableError` rather than `UnknownError`, then verify that a
subsequent append discovers the leader and succeeds.

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