feat: add options.allowWarmUp as a creation option

index.js

@@ -22,6 +22,30 @@ const defaults = {
  * opening. Default 10.
  * @param options.resetTimeout The time in milliseconds to wait before setting
  * the breaker to `halfOpen` state, and trying the action again.
+ * @param options.rollingCountTimeout Sets the duration of the statistical rolling
+ * window, in milliseconds. This is how long Opossum keeps metrics for the circuit
+ * breaker to use and for publishing. Default: 10000
+ * @param options.rollingCountBuckets Sets the number of buckets the rolling
+ * statistical window is divided into. So, if options.rollingCountTimeout is
+ * 10000, and options.rollingCountBuckets is 10, then the statistical window will
+ * be 1000 1 second snapshots in the statistical window. Default: 10
+ * @param options.name the circuit name to use when reporting stats
+ * @param options.rollingPercentilesEnabled This property indicates whether
+ * execution latencies should be tracked and calculated as percentiles. If they
+ * are disabled, all summary statistics (mean, percentiles) are returned as -1.
+ * Default: false
+ * @param options.capacity the number of concurrent requests allowed. If the number
+ * currently executing function calls is equal to options.capacity, further calls
+ * to `fire()` are rejected until at least one of the current requests completes.
+ * @param options.errorThresholdPercentage the error percentage at which to open the
+ * circuit and start short-circuiting requests to fallback.
+ * @param options.enabled whether this circuit is enabled upon construction. Default: true
+ * @param options.allowWarmUp {boolean} determines whether to allow failures
+ * without opening the circuit during a brief warmup period (this is the
+ * `rollingCountDuration` property). Default: false
+ * allow before enabling the circuit. This can help in situations where no matter
+ * what your `errorThresholdPercentage` is, if the first execution times out or
+ * fails, the circuit immediately opens. Default: 0
  * @return a {@link CircuitBreaker} instance
  */
 function circuitBreaker (action, options) {

lib/circuit.js

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ const GROUP = Symbol('group');
 const HYSTRIX_STATS = Symbol('hystrix-stats');
 const CACHE = new WeakMap();
 const ENABLED = Symbol('Enabled');
+const WARMING_UP = Symbol('warming-up');
 const deprecation = `options.maxFailures is deprecated. \
 Please use options.errorThresholdPercentage`;
 
@@ -58,6 +59,12 @@ Please use options.errorThresholdPercentage`;
  * which to open the circuit and start short-circuiting requests to fallback.
  * @param options.enabled {boolean} whether this circuit is enabled upon
  * construction. Default: true
+ * @param options.allowWarmUp {boolean} determines whether to allow failures
+ * without opening the circuit during a brief warmup period (this is the
+ * `rollingCountDuration` property). Default: false
+ * allow before enabling the circuit. This can help in situations where no matter
+ * what your `errorThresholdPercentage` is, if the first execution times out or
+ * fails, the circuit immediately opens. Default: 0
  */
 class CircuitBreaker extends EventEmitter {
   constructor (action, options) {
@@ -67,10 +74,11 @@ class CircuitBreaker extends EventEmitter {
     this.options.rollingCountBuckets = options.rollingCountBuckets || 10;
     this.options.rollingPercentilesEnabled =
       options.rollingPercentilesEnabled !== false;
-    this.options.capacity =
-      typeof options.capacity === 'number' ? options.capacity : 10;
+    this.options.capacity = Number.isInteger(options.capacity) ? options.capacity : 10;
+
     this.semaphore = new Semaphore(this.options.capacity);
 
+    this[WARMING_UP] = options.allowWarmUp === true;
     this[STATUS] = new Status(this.options);
     this[STATE] = CLOSED;
     this[FALLBACK_FUNCTION] = null;
@@ -79,6 +87,14 @@ class CircuitBreaker extends EventEmitter {
     this[GROUP] = options.group || this[NAME];
     this[ENABLED] = options.enabled !== false;
 
+    if (this[WARMING_UP]) {
+      const timer = setTimeout(_ => (this[WARMING_UP] = false),
+        this.options.rollingCountTimeout);
+      if (typeof timer.unref === 'function') {
+        timer.unref();
+      }
+    }
+
     if (typeof action !== 'function') {
       this.action = _ => Promise.resolve(action);
     } else this.action = action;
@@ -226,6 +242,10 @@ class CircuitBreaker extends EventEmitter {
     return this[ENABLED];
   }
 
+  get warmUp () {
+    return this[WARMING_UP];
+  }
+
   /**
    * Provide a fallback function for this {@link CircuitBreaker}. This
    * function will be executed when the circuit is `fire`d and fails.
@@ -487,6 +507,7 @@ function fail (circuit, err, args, latency) {
    * @event CircuitBreaker#failure
    */
   circuit.emit('failure', err, latency);
+  if (circuit.warmUp) return;
 
   // check stats to see if the circuit should be opened
   const stats = circuit.stats;

lib/status.js

@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ class Status extends EventEmitter {
    */
   get stats () {
     const totals = this[WINDOW].reduce((acc, val) => {
-      // the window starts with all but one bucket undefined
-      if (!val) return acc;
+      if (!val) { return acc; }
       Object.keys(acc).forEach(key => {
         if (key !== 'latencyTimes' && key !== 'percentiles') {
           (acc[key] += val[key] || 0);

test/warmup-test.js

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const test = require('tape');
+const opossum = require('../');
+const { passFail } = require('./common');
+
+test('By default does not allow for warmup', t => {
+  t.plan(3);
+  const options = {
+    errorThresholdPercentage: 1,
+    resetTimeout: 100
+  };
+
+  const breaker = opossum(passFail, options);
+  breaker.fire(-1)
+    .catch(e => t.equals(e, 'Error: -1 is < 0'))
+    .then(() => {
+      t.ok(breaker.opened, 'should be open after initial fire');
+      t.notOk(breaker.pendingClose,
+        'should not be pending close after initial fire');
+    });
+});
+
+test('Allows for warmup when option is provided', t => {
+  t.plan(3);
+  const options = {
+    errorThresholdPercentage: 1,
+    resetTimeout: 100,
+    allowWarmUp: true
+  };
+
+  const breaker = opossum(passFail, options);
+  breaker.fire(-1)
+    .catch(e => t.equals(e, 'Error: -1 is < 0'))
+    .then(() => {
+      t.notOk(breaker.opened, 'should not be open after initial fire');
+      t.notOk(breaker.pendingClose,
+        'should not be pending close after initial fire');
+    });
+});
+
+test('Only warms up for rollingCountTimeout', t => {
+  t.plan(4);
+  const options = {
+    errorThresholdPercentage: 1,
+    resetTimeout: 100,
+    allowWarmUp: true,
+    rollingCountTimeout: 500
+  };
+
+  const breaker = opossum(passFail, options);
+  breaker.fire(-1)
+    .catch(e => t.equals(e, 'Error: -1 is < 0'))
+    .then(() => {
+      t.notOk(breaker.opened, 'should not be open after initial fire');
+      t.notOk(breaker.pendingClose,
+        'should not be pending close after initial fire');
+    })
+    .then(() => {
+      setTimeout(_ => {
+        t.notOk(breaker.warmUp, 'Warmup should end after rollingCountTimeout');
+      }, 500);
+    });
+});