RFR: 1658: Minimize race window when updating PR body [v6]

Erik Joelsson erikj at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 30 13:35:06 UTC 2022


On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:07:02 GMT, Zhao Song <zsong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Currently, when the pr bot tries to update the PR body, users are also likely to update the PR body at the same time. Therefore, users' updates are likely to be overwritten by bot.  
>> 
>> This is a race between the bot and user and the race window is a little big right now.
>> 
>> To reduce the race window, in this patch, when PR bot is trying to update PR body, it will check whether the PR body has been modified by user. And if the PR bot has been modified, PR bot would not overwrite it.
>
> Zhao Song has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   remove latestBody()

bots/pr/src/main/java/org/openjdk/skara/bots/pr/CheckRun.java line 754:

> 752:             pr.setBody(newBody);
> 753:         } else {
> 754:             log.info("PR body has been modified, won't update PR body this time");

Suggestion:

            // The modification should trigger another round of checks, so
            // no need to force a retry by throwing a RuntimeException.
            log.info("PR body has been modified, won't update PR body this time");

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/skara/pull/1416


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