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Problem

internal/itunes performed raw HTTP with zero retry: any non-200 became an immediate httpStatusError. Apple's public storefront endpoints rate limit hard, and telemetry shows sustained 429s on the public search surface, so a single rate-limited reply failed the whole command even though every call is an idempotent GET.

Change

All public GETs now run through one helper (internal/itunes/retry.go) that replays 429 and 5xx replies on the shared asc.WithRetry engine, mirroring the Apple Ads client wiring:

  • Covered surfaces: SearchApps, LookupApps/LookupApp/LookupAppByBundleID, the ratings histogram fetch behind GetRatings/GetAllRatings, and the TV_OS storefront search behind RankApp.
  • Retry-After is honored in both formats Apple sends (delay-seconds and HTTP-date) and capped at ASC_MAX_DELAY.
  • Retry budget and delays come from asc.ResolveRetryOptions(), so ASC_MAX_RETRIES, ASC_BASE_DELAY, ASC_MAX_DELAY, and ASC_RETRY_LOG behave exactly as they do for the App Store Connect client.
  • Only idempotent reads are replayed; transport failures, decode failures, and every non-429/5xx status keep their current single-attempt behavior and error text.

Preserved error contract

Retry bookkeeping stays inside the package. An exhausted retry budget returns the original *httpStatusError, not a retry wrapper, so HTTPStatusCode() and PublicStorefrontError() still resolve for telemetry classification (cmd/invocation_context.go) and error strings are byte-identical to today.

Deadline guard

If a Retry-After hint outlasts the caller's context deadline, the request fails fast with the storefront status instead of sleeping into a deadline error. Without this, asc reviews ratings --all — which treats a per-country deadline as a whole-run abort — would turn a partial-result run into a hard failure when Apple returns a long Retry-After.

Tests

New internal/itunes/retry_test.go (httptest, written RED first):

  • 429-then-200 and 500-then-200 succeed across search, lookup, lookup-by-bundle-ID, ratings, and storefront search.
  • Retry-After in seconds and in HTTP-date form are both honored and capped at ASC_MAX_DELAY.
  • 404 and 403 fail immediately with exactly one request and unchanged error text plus intact status/storefront markers.
  • Retry counts follow ResolveRetryOptions (0 → 1 attempt, 1 → 2 attempts, unset → asc.DefaultMaxRetries + 1).
  • A Retry-After beyond the deadline stops after one attempt with the storefront status.
  • Table test for the Retry-After parser: seconds, capping, zero/negative, unparsable, HTTP-date, HTTP-date capping, past dates.

New internal/itunes/main_test.go pins a throwaway config path and ASC_MAX_RETRIES=0 so the package's existing fail-fast assertions stay hermetic now that retry options resolve from config/env; retry tests opt in per test.

Two dependent suites that assert terminal public failures now pin ASC_MAX_RETRIES=0 (cmd/test_main_test.go, two tests in internal/cli/reviews/reviews_ratings_test.go). Without that, reviews ratings --all against an all-503 server spent over two minutes retrying 175 storefronts.

Validation

make build, make format, make check-docs, make lint, and ASC_BYPASS_KEYCHAIN=1 make test all pass. No live API calls.

Risks

  • asc reviews ratings --all fans out per storefront, so a full-storefront outage now costs up to ASC_MAX_RETRIES extra attempts per country before the run reports failures. The per-country timeout still bounds it, and the deadline guard keeps long Retry-After hints from escalating into a run-wide deadline error.
  • Retries are silent by default; ASC_RETRY_LOG surfaces them, same as the authenticated client.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automatic retries for temporary public storefront failures, including rate limits and server errors.
    • Supports server-provided retry timing and shared exponential backoff.
    • Preserves correct behavior for canceled requests and non-retryable errors.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved consistency and reliability across storefront search, app lookup, ratings, and ranking requests.
    • Ensured failed responses are handled cleanly before retrying.
  • Documentation

    • Documented retry behavior, limits, cancellation handling, and terminal error outcomes.

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Public iTunes storefront requests now share retry handling through Client.do. Safe requests retry transient 429 and 5xx responses, honor capped Retry-After delays, and preserve terminal errors. Tests cover cancellation, deadlines, response draining, configuration, and endpoint integration.

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Public iTunes retries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry engine
internal/itunes/retry.go
Client.do retries safe public requests for 429 and 5xx responses. It parses and caps numeric and HTTP-date Retry-After values, drains retryable responses, and preserves terminal status errors.
Shared request integration
internal/itunes/search.go, internal/itunes/lookup.go, internal/itunes/rank.go, internal/itunes/ratings.go
Public search, lookup, ranking, and ratings requests now use Client.do for request execution, response cleanup, status validation, and error propagation.
Validation and documentation
internal/itunes/retry_test.go, internal/itunes/main_test.go, internal/asc/client_test.go, internal/cli/reviews/reviews_ratings_test.go, cmd/test_main_test.go, docs/API_NOTES.md
Tests cover retry boundaries, cancellation, deadlines, replay, connection reuse, configuration, and endpoint behavior. Test setup disables retries where terminal errors are required. API notes document the retry behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e1764

The change adds retries for rate-limited public reads while preserving deadline-aware failure behavior. The remaining bounded risk is that the deadline tests do not firmly prove fail-fast timing, so the PR is mergeable with owner awareness and a small test-hardening follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client.do
  participant Public storefront
  participant Request context
  Client.do->>Public storefront: Send public GET request
  Public storefront-->>Client.do: Return 429 or 5xx response
  Client.do->>Request context: Check cancellation and retry timing
  Client.do->>Public storefront: Retry request when permitted
  Public storefront-->>Client.do: Return response or terminal status
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docs/API_NOTES.md (1)

97-97: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Expand the retry documentation for this substantial change.

Line 97 documents protocol behavior only. Add the invocation, output and error contract, compatibility impact, deadline edge case, validation, live verification, trade-offs, and unresolved risks. Add links if maintained material already contains these details.

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In `@docs/API_NOTES.md` at line 97, Expand the retry documentation around the
unauthenticated storefront-read behavior to cover invocation examples, output
and error contracts, compatibility impact, deadline handling, validation and
live-verification steps, trade-offs, and unresolved risks. Link to existing
maintained documentation where applicable, while preserving the stated
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In `@internal/itunes/retry.go`:
- Around line 55-58: Update the retry handling around isRetryablePublicStatus
and publicRetryDelay to evaluate the effective exponential backoff, including
jitter, against the remaining context deadline before returning a retryable
error. When that wait cannot complete within the deadline, return the original
statusErr instead so the storefront status is preserved; retain the existing
Retry-After and retryFitsDeadline behavior when the retry remains viable.

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- Line 97: Expand the retry documentation around the unauthenticated
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@rudrankriyam rudrankriyam added the p1 High priority: important workflow issue or high-impact bug label Aug 19, 2026
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The public iTunes client issued raw HTTP with no retry, so a single 429
or 5xx from Apple's public endpoints failed the command immediately.
Sustained rate limiting on `asc apps public search` made that the common
outcome.

Route every public GET (search, lookup, lookup by bundle ID, ratings
histogram, and the TV_OS storefront search) through one helper that
replays 429 and 5xx replies on the shared asc.WithRetry backoff engine,
mirroring the Apple Ads client. Retry-After is honored in both seconds
and HTTP-date form and capped at ASC_MAX_DELAY; retry counts and delays
come from asc.ResolveRetryOptions, so ASC_MAX_RETRIES, ASC_BASE_DELAY,
and ASC_MAX_DELAY apply unchanged.

Only idempotent reads are replayed. Retry bookkeeping stays internal:
terminal failures still surface the original httpStatusError, keeping
the HTTPStatusCode and PublicStorefrontError markers that telemetry
classification depends on. A Retry-After that outlasts the caller's
deadline fails fast instead of trading a storefront status for a
deadline error, which `asc reviews ratings --all` would escalate into a
whole-run failure.

Tests that assert terminal public failures now pin ASC_MAX_RETRIES=0 so
they keep exercising the single-attempt path.
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internal/itunes/retry.go (1)

131-151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider reusing capPublicRetryDelay in the seconds path.

publicRetryDelayFromSeconds repeats the cap logic that capPublicRetryDelay already implements. Convert the seconds value with the existing overflow guard, then call capPublicRetryDelay. This keeps one cap rule.

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 func publicRetryDelayFromSeconds(seconds int64, maxDelay time.Duration) time.Duration {
 	if seconds <= 0 {
 		return 0
 	}
-	if maxDelay > 0 && seconds > int64(maxDelay/time.Second) {
-		return maxDelay
-	}
-
 	const maxDuration = time.Duration(1<<63 - 1)
 	if seconds > int64(maxDuration/time.Second) {
-		return maxDuration
+		return capPublicRetryDelay(maxDuration, maxDelay)
 	}
-	return time.Duration(seconds) * time.Second
+	return capPublicRetryDelay(time.Duration(seconds)*time.Second, maxDelay)
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In `@internal/itunes/retry.go` around lines 131 - 151, Refactor
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