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What changed

test/conftest.py is rewritten. Every fixture now checks that the process
started, waits for the port with a retry loop, and uses @pytest.fixture in
place of the deprecated pytest.yield_fixture. The unix socket file is removed
before start and on teardown. The IPv6 server moves to port 5002. A new
memcached_sasl fixture starts memcached with SASL authentication enabled.

Three test files change or arrive:

  • test/test_ipv6.py is new. It does a real set, get, set_multi, and
    get_multi over IPv6.
  • test/test_sasl_integration.py is new. It authenticates against a real
    SASL-enabled server and does a set and a get.
  • test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py gains four tests. They check the
    key-to-server mapping after a server joins and after a server leaves.

flake.nix builds memcached with SASL, in the same way it already builds it
with TLS. It adds cyrus_sasl.bin to the dev shell for saslpasswd2.

Why

The fixtures started real memcached processes and never checked the result. A
missing memcached binary failed every test with an opaque
ConnectionRefusedError. A fixed time.sleep(0.1) made a slow start flaky. A
run that died before teardown left /tmp/memcached.sock behind, and the next
run then failed to bind.

Two coverage gaps were larger. The IPv6 fixture ran on every session and no
test connected to it, so nothing proved the IPv6 path worked end to end.
test/test_auth.py mocks Protocol._get_response and feeds canned bytes, so
no test ever ran against a server with authentication turned on.
test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py held 12 lines and asserted one key
against one server ten times. It never tested ring rebalance, which is the
property consistent hashing exists for.

Verification

nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q'

Result: 271 passed. The baseline on main is 261 passed. This pull request
adds 10 tests and changes no existing count. It also removes four
PytestDeprecationWarning lines; one remains, from test/test_tls.py.

nix develop --command bash -c 'flake8'

Result: 0 errors.

The new tests, run alone:

nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q test/test_ipv6.py test/test_sasl_integration.py'
nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py'

Result: 6 passed and 5 passed.

The skip path, with memcached removed from PATH:

PATH=<without the memcached directory> pytest -q test/test_ipv6.py -rs

Result: 3 skipped, each with
Cannot run memcached: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'memcached'. Is memcached on PATH?
On main this run fails instead, with ConnectionRefusedError.

Stale socket recovery:

touch /tmp/memcached.sock
nix develop --command bash -c 'pytest -q test/test_socket.py'

Result: 44 passed, and /tmp/memcached.sock is gone after the run. On main
the memcached process fails to bind.

Risks

A reviewer must check four points.

  1. The SASL test skips in CI as things stand. The fixture needs
    saslpasswd2, which Ubuntu ships in the sasl2-bin package, and a
    memcached built with SASL support. .ci-before-script.sh installs neither.
    Adding them belongs to the CI workflow issue (Modernize the tests-and-lint workflow and add Renovate #271), not here. The fixture
    skips cleanly with a clear reason rather than failing. It does run and pass
    in the Nix dev shell.
  2. flake.nix changes the memcached build. It adds --enable-sasl and
    --enable-sasl-pwdb next to the existing --enable-tls, and it adds
    cyrus_sasl as a build input. This forces a memcached rebuild on the first
    nix develop after checkout. Verified locally: memcached --help now lists
    -S, --enable-sasl, and the full suite still passes.
  3. The IPv6 fixture moved from port 11211 to port 5002. It had to. On Linux
    a plain memcached binds both INADDR_ANY and IN6ADDR_ANY, so the
    memcached_standard_port fixture already holds 11211 and the -l::1
    process cannot bind it. That failure was silent before, because nothing
    checked the process and no test used the fixture.
  4. Fixed ports are still fixed. Problem 2 in the issue describes port
    collisions between two runners on one host. This pull request does not make
    the ports dynamic. That is not in the acceptance criteria, and the test
    files hardcode :11211 and :5000 in many places. What did change is the
    failure mode: a collision now gives one clear skip that names the port and
    the memcached stderr, in place of an opaque error in every test.

Two findings came out of this work. Neither is folded into this pull request.

On the related report: #250 says the unit tests do not run successfully on
Ubuntu. This pull request turns the most likely cause, a missing or slow
memcached, into a clear skip message rather than a wall of connection
errors. It does not confirm the original diagnosis, so I have not closed that
issue.

Closes #274

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    • Added support for building memcached with TLS and SASL in the development environment.
  • Tests

    • Expanded checks for authenticated connections, IPv6 operations, and consistent key distribution across changing server lists.
    • Improved test-server startup checks and diagnostics, including handling of active and stale Unix socket files.
    • Prevented the system memcached service from conflicting with test servers.

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The change hardens memcached test fixtures with endpoint checks, readiness polling, and cleanup. It enables TLS and SASL support in the Nix environment and adds IPv6 and SASL integration tests, plus broader distributed-hashing coverage.

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Test hardening and protocol coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Fixture startup and cleanup hardening
test/conftest.py, .github/workflows/tests-and-lint.yml
Fixtures check for occupied endpoints, poll until connections succeed, distinguish required from optional startup failures, and manage process and Unix socket cleanup. CI stops the system memcached service after installation.
IPv6 and SASL integration coverage
flake.nix, test/conftest.py, test/test_ipv6.py, test/test_sasl_integration.py
The Nix environment enables TLS and SASL support and provides Cyrus SASL tools. Tests exercise IPv6 operations, authenticated set/get, rejected credentials, and protocol authentication.
Consistent hashing behavior coverage
test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py
Tests check ring consistency, key movement after server removal or addition, distribution across three servers, and existing placement behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SASLDatabase
  participant MemcachedSASL
  participant Client
  SASLDatabase->>MemcachedSASL: provide user database
  Client->>MemcachedSASL: connect and authenticate
  MemcachedSASL-->>Client: return authentication result
  Client->>MemcachedSASL: set and get data
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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Most coding requirements in #274 are implemented. The fixtures use connection retries and timeouts, use @pytest.fixture, remove stale socket files, and add IPv6, SASL, and distributed-hashing tests.… Preserve the required startup-failure behavior specified by #274, and make _stop() safe when the process already exited or was already reaped. Ensure the SASL fixture preserves a clear skip for unavailable or failed startup. Provide CI ev…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 41.94% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 31 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: more reliable test fixtures plus IPv6 and SASL coverage.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed summary, motivation, verification results, risks, issue references, and test commands. It does not use the template's explicit Type of change or Checklist sections,…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within #274. The flake.nix and workflow changes support SASL integration and reliable fixture startup. The fixture hardening and added IPv6, SASL, and hashing tests implement the li…
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Most coding requirements in #274 are implemented. The fixtures use connection retries and timeouts, use @pytest.fixture, remove stale socket files, and add IPv6, SASL, and distributed-hashing tests. However, required fixture startup failures call pytest.fail() through _give_up() instead of the required clear pytest.skip() path. The SASL fixture also calls _stop() in finally after _wait_until_accepting() may have already stopped or observed an exited process. This can raise ProcessLookupError and replace the intended skip. The summary reports local tests and lint results, but it does not establish CI success.

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Preserve the required startup-failure behavior specified by #274, and make _stop() safe when the process already exited or was already reaped. Ensure the SASL fixture preserves a clear skip for unavailable or failed startup. Provide CI evidence for the full suite.

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I rebased this branch onto main. I resolved the conflicts in flake.nix, test/conftest.py, and test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py. The IPv6 fixture is still not autouse. The unix socket fixture still probes the socket and unlinks only a stale file.

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- Line 53: Update _wait_until_accepting and memcached_socket to tie readiness
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This is a solid hardening pass — the retry-based readiness check, the stale-socket cleanup, and the new IPv6/SASL/hashing tests are a clear improvement over the previous fixed-sleep(0.1) fixtures. A few notes:

Earlier bot findings already addressed in the current HEAD (7c56198)

  • memcached_ipv6 (test/conftest.py:153) is no longer autouse; test/test_ipv6.py requests it explicitly, so an unavailable IPv6 stack only skips those three tests, not the whole suite. ✅
  • memcached_socket (test/conftest.py:135-150) now probes with _unix_socket_is_active before touching /tmp/memcached.sock, and only unlinks a genuinely stale file. ✅

Still-open item worth a look: readiness is tied to the socket, not to the child process (test/conftest.py:36-61, flagged by CodeRabbit as unresolved)
_wait_until_accepting treats a successful connect() as proof the fixture's memcached is ready. If a stray process from a previous crashed run (or an unrelated service) already owns the fixed port/socket, connect() succeeds immediately against that stray process while the newly spawned child may still be starting, or may be about to exit with "address already in use." The fixture then yields the new child as if it were the live server, _stop() kills it at teardown, and the stray process silently keeps serving the tests the whole session. This is a real but narrow edge case (mainly relevant to reused hosts/CI runners rather than fresh containers), and it existed in spirit before this PR too (the old code did no readiness check at all). Given the PR description explicitly calls out "fixed ports are still fixed" as an accepted limitation, I'd treat this as a follow-up rather than a blocker, but flagging it since it's still open in the last CodeRabbit pass.

Checked and NOT an issue: the "_stop() double-kill raises ProcessLookupError" claim from Codex/CodeRabbit
Both _wait_until_accepting's timeout branch and memcached_sasl's finally can call process.kill()/.wait() on a process that was already reaped. However, subprocess.Popen.send_signal() (which .kill() calls) has polled self.returncode and skipped signaling an already-completed process since Python 3.9 (bpo-38630), and .wait() on an already-reaped process just returns the cached return code. Since this repo targets Python 3.10+ (tox.ini), this path is safe in practice — no fix needed here.

Test content (test/test_ipv6.py, test/test_sasl_integration.py, test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py)

  • The IPv6 and SASL integration tests do real round trips and correctly document the two follow-up issues (Map memcached SASL status 0x20 to InvalidCredentials #283 status-code mapping, Replace the deprecated pytest.yield_fixture in test/test_tls.py #284 yield_fixture) instead of silently working around them. I confirmed bmemcached/protocol.py:76,361 does map only 0x08, not 0x20, to InvalidCredentials, so test_wrong_password_is_rejected asserting the base MemcachedException is accurate to current behavior, not a bug in the test.
  • The new hashing tests (test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py) correctly rely on DistributedClient._get_server() doing only ring lookups (no eager socket connections — verified in bmemcached/client/distributed.py), so they don't need live memcached on ports 11212-11214.
  • flake.nix's SASL build addition mirrors the existing TLS pattern and looks correct.

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I don't have permission to execute ruff check/ruff format --check/pytest or git fetch in this sandbox (commands beyond simple read-only git log/git diff/Read require approval that isn't available here), so I relied on static reading rather than running the suite or linter myself. The PR description's own verification output (271 passed, flake8 0 errors) is consistent with what I read in the diff, but you may want CI to confirm on this exact HEAD.

Overall: no new correctness issues found beyond what's already tracked in open review threads; the one substantive open item (readiness-vs-stray-process race) is low severity and already acknowledged as an accepted trade-off in the PR description.

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The fixtures started real memcached processes without any check that the
start worked.

Fixture changes in test/conftest.py:

- Every fixture checks the process after start. A dead process or a missing
  memcached binary now gives one clear skip with the process stderr. It gave
  an opaque ConnectionRefusedError in every test before.
- Every fixture replaces time.sleep(0.1) with a connect-retry loop and a
  10 second timeout. A fixed sleep makes a slow start flaky.
- pytest.yield_fixture becomes @pytest.fixture. The old name is a deprecated
  alias.
- The unix socket file is removed before start and on teardown. A run that
  died before teardown left the file behind, and memcached then failed to
  bind.
- The IPv6 server moves to port 5002. On Linux a plain memcached binds both
  INADDR_ANY and IN6ADDR_ANY, so port 11211 was already taken.
- A new memcached_sasl fixture starts memcached with SASL enabled. It builds
  a temporary Cyrus SASL user database with saslpasswd2 and points
  SASL_CONF_PATH at a temporary config. It skips when saslpasswd2 is absent
  or when memcached is not built with SASL.

New coverage:

- test/test_ipv6.py does a real set, get, set_multi, and get_multi over
  IPv6. The IPv6 fixture ran on every session and tested nothing before.
  test/test_server_parsing.py only parses '::1' strings.
- test/test_sasl_integration.py authenticates against a real SASL-enabled
  server and does a set and a get. test/test_auth.py mocks
  Protocol._get_response and feeds canned bytes, so it covers the client
  state machine only.
- test/test_distributed_client_hashing.py tests the key-to-server mapping
  after a server joins and after a server leaves. That is the property
  consistent hashing exists for. The file asserted one key against one
  server ten times before.

flake.nix builds memcached with SASL, in the same way it already builds it
with TLS. It adds cyrus_sasl.bin to the dev shell for saslpasswd2. Without
both, the SASL test always skips.

Refs #274
The session-scoped IPv6 fixture was autouse, so pytest.skip on a missing
IPv6 stack or a bound port 5002 skipped the whole suite. Request it only
from the IPv6 tests.

Unlinking /tmp/memcached.sock without a probe also tore down a live
socket owned by another session. Connect first, reuse an active socket,
and unlink only a stale leftover file.

Co-authored-by: Jayson Reis <santosdosreis@gmail.com>
The rebase put these files onto a main that runs ruff check and ruff format.
Keep the IPv6 fixture non-autouse and keep the unix socket probe before unlink.

Co-authored-by: Jayson Reis <santosdosreis@gmail.com>
The readiness check accepted any listener on the fixed endpoint. A stray
memcached or another service on that endpoint then served the tests in
place of the fixture process.

Each fixture now connects to its endpoint before it starts memcached. If
a process already listens there, the fixture fails with a clear message.
The unix socket fixture no longer reuses an active socket. After a
connect succeeds, the wait loop also confirms that the child process did
not exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WGdME3krw5JKH4mKnAoeLX
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P1 Badge Fail the suite when required memcached is missing

When memcached is absent or cannot be executed, this converts the setup failure into a skip; because the standard-port, alternate-port, and Unix-socket fixtures are all session-scoped and autouse, every test is consequently skipped and pytest exits successfully without validating the package. The fresh evidence after the earlier IPv6 fix is that only the IPv6 fixture was made opt-in—the three required fixtures still reach this shared skip path. Treat failure to launch the required base servers as an error, reserving skips for optional capabilities such as IPv6 or SASL.

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Fixed in the latest push. The standard-port, port-5000, and unix socket fixtures now fail when memcached is missing or does not start. Only the optional IPv6 and SASL fixtures still skip.

The three autouse fixtures skipped when memcached was missing or did not
start. Every test then skipped, and pytest exited with success. These
fixtures now fail. The IPv6 and SASL fixtures still skip, because they
are optional.

The Ubuntu package starts a system memcached on port 11211. The CI job
now stops that service, so the fixtures can start their own server.

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