filecoin-project/boost

Graphsync retrievals canceled by client show as Failed in Boost UI

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#1,767 opened on Oct 20, 2023

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  • This is not a question or a support request. If you have any boost related questions, please ask in the discussion forum.
  • This is not a new feature request. If it is, please file a feature request instead.
  • I have searched on the issue tracker and the discussion forum, and there is no existing related issue or discussion.
  • I am running the Latest release, or the most recent RC(release canadiate) for the upcoming release or the dev branch(master), or have an issue updating to any of these.

Boost component

  • boost daemon - storage providers
  • boost client
  • boost UI
  • boost data-transfer
  • boost index-provider
  • Other

Improvement Suggestion

Graphsync retrievals that are cancelled by boost client result in retrieval marked as Failed in the boostd UI:

We should detect errors better and mark these retrievals as canceled by client, and not really failed.

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Research direction
Inspect the retrieval status handling code to differentiate between client cancelled and failed retrievals in the Boost UI.
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go
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backendfull stack
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2
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75