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Implement CvdFlasher.flash() to upload image archives to the Cuttlefish Host Orchestrator's user-artifact store and stage them for the next CVD creation

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The Cuttlefish storage driver now implements archive flashing through the Host Orchestrator user-artifact API. It stages extracted artifacts in image directories, injects them during CVD creation, promotes staged state after power-on, and cleans up staged directories.

Cuttlefish storage flash

Layer / File(s) Summary
Artifact operations and response handling
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver_test.py
Operation responses now support empty success bodies and accepted statuses. Artifact extraction, image-directory creation, population, and best-effort deletion are implemented and tested.
Archive upload and staging
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver_test.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/pyproject.toml
CvdFlasher.flash() streams and hashes archives, detects ZIP and gzip formats, uploads missing artifacts in retried chunks, stages target roles, and validates target/format combinations.
CVD configuration and lifecycle
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver_test.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/README.md
Power-on configuration receives staged or active image-directory tokens. Staged directories become active after creation, previous active directories are reclaimed, and teardown removes staged directories while retaining active state. Documentation describes targets, URL resources, generation behavior, and cleanup.
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e4410

Image flashing can currently hang indefinitely on a stalled upload or consume exporter disk after repeated interrupted streams. These failure paths should be bounded and cleaned up before the feature is merged; the populate return type also needs a small correction.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant StorageClient
  participant CvdFlasher
  participant HostOrchestrator
  participant Cuttlefish
  StorageClient->>CvdFlasher: flash archive with target
  CvdFlasher->>HostOrchestrator: upload, extract, and populate staged image directory
  StorageClient->>Cuttlefish: power on
  Cuttlefish->>Cuttlefish: inject staged image-directory token
  Cuttlefish->>HostOrchestrator: create CVD
  Cuttlefish->>Cuttlefish: promote staged directory to active
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Actionable comments posted: 2

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python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py (1)

265-267: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Widen the return annotation to include None.

_do_operation now returns dict | list | str | None, but _populate_image_dir declares dict | list | str. A populate call whose wait response is an accepted status or an empty body returns None, so the declared type is wrong and type checking can fail.

♻️ Proposed fix
-    def _populate_image_dir(self, dir_id: str, checksum: str) -> dict | list | str:
+    def _populate_image_dir(self, dir_id: str, checksum: str) -> dict | list | str | None:
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In
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around lines 265 - 267, Update the return annotation of _populate_image_dir to
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_do_operation while preserving its existing operation behavior.
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In
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- Around line 755-767: Update the _spool copy flow around
FileWriteStream.from_path and self.resource(source) so any exception during
streaming or writing removes the temporary file at tmp_path before propagating
the error. Preserve successful return behavior and existing format-error cleanup
through _sniff_suffix, avoiding double-cleanup issues.
- Line 804: Update the httpx.AsyncClient configuration in _put_chunk to use
finite connect, read, and pool timeout values while retaining write=None for
large uploads. Replace the unbounded httpx.Timeout(None) setup without changing
the existing upload or retry flow.

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- Around line 265-267: Update the return annotation of _populate_image_dir to
include None, matching the dict | list | str | None result returned by
_do_operation while preserving its existing operation behavior.

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Comment on lines +755 to +767
fd, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="cvd-flash-")
os.close(fd)
hasher = hashlib.sha256()
size = 0
head = b""
async with await FileWriteStream.from_path(tmp_path) as out:
async with self.resource(source) as res:
async for chunk in res:
if len(head) < 4:
head += bytes(chunk[: 4 - len(head)])
hasher.update(chunk)
size += len(chunk)
await out.send(chunk)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the spool file when streaming fails.

_spool unlinks the temp file only through _sniff_suffix on a format error. If the resource stream or the write raises during the copy loop, _spool propagates the exception before returning tmp_path, so flash's finally never runs and the partially written file stays in the temp directory. For multi-GB archives, repeated failed flashes can exhaust exporter disk space.

Wrap the copy in a guard that removes the spool on any failure.

🛡️ Proposed fix
         hasher = hashlib.sha256()
         size = 0
         head = b""
-        async with await FileWriteStream.from_path(tmp_path) as out:
-            async with self.resource(source) as res:
-                async for chunk in res:
-                    if len(head) < 4:
-                        head += bytes(chunk[: 4 - len(head)])
-                    hasher.update(chunk)
-                    size += len(chunk)
-                    await out.send(chunk)
+        try:
+            async with await FileWriteStream.from_path(tmp_path) as out:
+                async with self.resource(source) as res:
+                    async for chunk in res:
+                        if len(head) < 4:
+                            head += bytes(chunk[: 4 - len(head)])
+                        hasher.update(chunk)
+                        size += len(chunk)
+                        await out.send(chunk)
+        except BaseException:
+            try:
+                os.unlink(tmp_path)
+            except OSError:
+                pass
+            raise
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fd, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="cvd-flash-")
os.close(fd)
hasher = hashlib.sha256()
size = 0
head = b""
async with await FileWriteStream.from_path(tmp_path) as out:
async with self.resource(source) as res:
async for chunk in res:
if len(head) < 4:
head += bytes(chunk[: 4 - len(head)])
hasher.update(chunk)
size += len(chunk)
await out.send(chunk)
fd, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="cvd-flash-")
os.close(fd)
hasher = hashlib.sha256()
size = 0
head = b""
try:
async with await FileWriteStream.from_path(tmp_path) as out:
async with self.resource(source) as res:
async for chunk in res:
if len(head) < 4:
head += bytes(chunk[: 4 - len(head)])
hasher.update(chunk)
size += len(chunk)
await out.send(chunk)
except BaseException:
try:
os.unlink(tmp_path)
except OSError:
pass
raise
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In
`@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py`
around lines 755 - 767, Update the _spool copy flow around
FileWriteStream.from_path and self.resource(source) so any exception during
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through _sniff_suffix, avoiding double-cleanup issues.

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# The stored filename's suffix is what HO's extractor dispatches on, so
# it must reflect the real archive format (see _sniff_suffix).
filename = f"{checksum}{suffix}"
async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=httpx.Timeout(None)) as client:

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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httpx.Timeout default None with connect read write pool overrides

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In HTTPX, httpx.Timeout is used to configure timeouts for network operations [1][2]. Passing None as the first argument to httpx.Timeout explicitly disables timeouts [1][3]. When configuring a Timeout object, you can provide a base value for all operations and then override specific phases (connect, read, write, or pool) [1][4]. Key usage patterns: - httpx.Timeout(None): Disables all timeouts [1][5]. - httpx.Timeout(5.0): Sets a 5-second timeout for all operations [1][5]. - httpx.Timeout(None, connect=5.0): Sets a 5-second connect timeout and disables read, write, and pool timeouts [1][3]. - httpx.Timeout(5.0, pool=None): Sets a 5-second timeout for connect, read, and write operations, but disables the pool timeout [1][3]. When using httpx.Client or httpx.request, setting timeout=None ensures that no timeouts are applied to the request [5][6]. This is distinct from omitting the timeout parameter, which defaults to httpx.Timeout(5.0) [5][6][7]. The four configurable timeout phases are: - connect: Time to establish the TCP connection [8][2]. - read: Time to receive data chunks [8][2]. - write: Time to send data chunks [8][2]. - pool: Time to acquire a connection from the connection pool [8][2]. For more precise control, you can define these values individually within the httpx.Timeout constructor [8][2]. The library requires that the default value be explicitly stated (e.g., httpx.Timeout(None) or httpx.Timeout(5.0)), as creating a Timeout instance without an explicit default is not permitted [3].

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In the httpx library, the Timeout object and the TimeoutException class are core components for managing and handling network operation limits. Timeout Configuration The httpx.Timeout class allows you to configure specific limits for different network operations [1]. When you initialize it, you can provide values for the following parameters [1]: connect: Time allowed to establish a socket connection to the host [1]. read: Time allowed to wait for a chunk of data to be received [1]. write: Time allowed to wait for a chunk of data to be sent [1]. pool: Time allowed to wait for acquiring a connection from the connection pool [1]. If you pass None as an argument (e.g., httpx.Timeout(None)), you disable all timeout behaviors, meaning the operation will wait indefinitely [1][2]. By default, httpx applies a 5-second timeout to all operations [3][2]. TimeoutException Hierarchy When an operation exceeds its configured limit, httpx raises a specific exception [4]. All timeout-related errors inherit from the base class httpx.TimeoutException, which is itself a subclass of httpx.HTTPError [4]. The specific exceptions that may be raised include [4]: ConnectTimeout: Raised when a connection cannot be established within the connect timeout period [1]. ReadTimeout: Raised when a response chunk is not received within the read timeout period [1]. WriteTimeout: Raised when a request chunk cannot be sent within the write timeout period [1]. PoolTimeout: Raised when a connection cannot be acquired from the pool within the pool timeout period [1]. For most use cases, you should use the higher-level timeout API (such as passing a timeout parameter to client methods) rather than interacting with internal extensions or the Timeout object directly [1][5]. Set timeout=None to achieve behavior similar to the requests library, where no default timeouts are applied [6].

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Bound the connect, read, and pool timeouts on the upload client.

httpx.Timeout(None) disables all timeout phases. If client.put stalls, _put_chunk cannot reach its retry handling and flash can hang indefinitely. Keep write=None for large chunks, but set finite connect, read, and pool values.

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In
`@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-cuttlefish/jumpstarter_driver_cuttlefish/driver.py`
at line 804, Update the httpx.AsyncClient configuration in _put_chunk to use
finite connect, read, and pool timeout values while retaining write=None for
large uploads. Replace the unbounded httpx.Timeout(None) setup without changing
the existing upload or retry flow.

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bennyz force-pushed the cuttlefish-storage-flash branch from e441084 to 6a44ff4 Compare September 3, 2026 11:55
Implement CvdFlasher.flash() to upload image archives to the Cuttlefish
Host Orchestrator's user-artifact store and stage them for the next CVD
creation.

The flow: stream the source to a temp file while computing its SHA-256
(HO addresses artifacts by checksum), skip the transfer if already
present, chunked-multipart PUT to /v1/userartifacts/{checksum}, extract
server-side, then create and populate an image directory. The resulting
dir id is staged on the parent so the next power.on() references it via
HO's @image_dirs/{id} token.

The large streaming upload uses httpx.AsyncClient so a multi-GB transfer
never blocks the event loop; the small JSON control-plane calls reuse the
existing sync operation-polling helpers via anyio.to_thread. A failed
chunk retries at the same offset (the offset scheme makes resume free),
rather than aborting the whole transfer.

power.on() injects the staged image dir via _env_config_for_create(),
which deep-copies the configured env_config and rewrites
common.host_package and each instance's disk.default_build to the
@image_dirs/{id} token (synthesizing an instance when none is
configured). With no staged dirs the configured env_config passes
through unchanged, preserving existing behavior.

Staged image dirs are reclaimed best-effort: re-flashing deletes the
previously staged dir, and close() deletes any remaining dirs at
teardown (a failed DELETE is logged, not raised, since HO refuses to
delete a dir a running CVD still references).

Signed-off-by: Benny Zlotnik <bzlotnik@redhat.com>
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