fix(common): servers#startOnPreferredPort no graceful fallback #683

The code of the method was not waiting for a promise to resolve
which was masking the underlying exception that the code
was supposed to catch and examine in order to determine if
it should perform a fallback of binding to port zero or not.
Fixed it by making sure the initial try of the preferred port
allocation is awaited for so that the exception is thrown
where it is expected by the algorithm.

Fixes #683

Signed-off-by: Peter Somogyvari <[email protected]>

packages/cactus-common/src/main/typescript/servers.ts

@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ export class Servers {
   ): Promise<Server> {
     if (preferredPort) {
       try {
-        return Servers.startOnPort(preferredPort, host);
+        const server = await Servers.startOnPort(preferredPort, host);
+        return server;
       } catch (ex) {
         // if something else went wrong we still want to just give up
         if (!ex.message.includes("EADDRINUSE")) {

packages/cactus-common/src/test/typescript/unit/servers.test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { createServer } from "http";
+import { AddressInfo } from "net";
 
 import test, { Test } from "tape-promise/tape";
 
@@ -37,5 +38,34 @@ test("Servers", async (tParent: Test) => {
     t.end();
   });
 
+  test("Servers#startOnPreferredPort()", async (t: Test) => {
+    const prefPort = 4123;
+    const host = "0.0.0.0";
+    const portBlocker = createServer();
+    test.onFinish(() => portBlocker.close());
+    const listenOptionsBlocker = {
+      server: portBlocker,
+      hostname: host,
+      port: prefPort,
+    };
+    await Servers.listen(listenOptionsBlocker);
+
+    await t.doesNotReject(async () => {
+      const server = await Servers.startOnPreferredPort(prefPort, host);
+      test.onFinish(() => server.close());
+      t.ok(server, "Server returned truthy OK");
+      const addressInfo = server.address() as AddressInfo;
+      t.ok(addressInfo, "AddressInfo returned truthy OK");
+      t.ok(addressInfo.port, "AddressInfo.port returned truthy OK");
+      t.doesNotEqual(
+        addressInfo.port,
+        prefPort,
+        "Peferred and actually allocated ports are different, therefore fallback is considered successful OK",
+      );
+    }, "Servers.startOnPreferredPort falls back without throwing OK");
+
+    t.end();
+  });
+
   tParent.end();
 });