Breaking the cycle with HttpServerErrorException

releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/tech/BuildUnstableException.java

@@ -19,12 +19,15 @@ package releaser.internal.tech;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException;
+
 /**
  * Exception to be thrown if one wants to continue with the build and throw this exception
  * at the end of the release.
@@ -52,13 +55,14 @@ public class BuildUnstableException extends RuntimeException implements Serializ
 	private final List<Throwable> exceptions = new ArrayList<>();
 
 	public BuildUnstableException(Throwable cause) {
-		super(cause);
+		super(breakReferenceChain(cause));
 		log.warn("\n\n" + DESCRIPTION, cause);
-		this.exceptions.add(cause);
+		this.exceptions.add((breakReferenceChain(cause)));
 	}
 
 	public BuildUnstableException(String message, List<Throwable> throwables) {
-		this(throwables);
+		this(throwables.stream().map(BuildUnstableException::breakReferenceChain)
+				.collect(Collectors.toList()));
 		log.warn("\n\n" + DESCRIPTION + message + " with causes " + throwables);
 	}
 
@@ -66,6 +70,14 @@ public class BuildUnstableException extends RuntimeException implements Serializ
 	public BuildUnstableException() {
 	}
 
+	private static Throwable breakReferenceChain(Throwable cause) {
+		if (cause instanceof HttpServerErrorException) {
+			return new RuntimeException(
+					"[Breaking self reference chain] " + cause.toString());
+		}
+		return cause;
+	}
+
 	@JsonCreator
 	public BuildUnstableException(@JsonProperty List<Throwable> throwables) {
 		this.exceptions.addAll(throwables);

releaser-core/src/main/java/releaser/internal/tech/ExecutionResult.java

@@ -19,9 +19,12 @@ package releaser.internal.tech;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
 
+import org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException;
+
 /**
  * Task execution result. Contains a list of exceptions thrown while running the task.
  */
@@ -57,11 +60,20 @@ public class ExecutionResult implements Serializable {
 	}
 
 	public static ExecutionResult failure(Exception throwable) {
-		return new ExecutionResult(throwable);
+		return new ExecutionResult(breakReferenceChain(throwable));
 	}
 
 	public static ExecutionResult failure(List<Exception> throwables) {
-		return new ExecutionResult(throwables);
+		return new ExecutionResult(throwables.stream()
+				.map(ExecutionResult::breakReferenceChain).collect(Collectors.toList()));
+	}
+
+	private static Exception breakReferenceChain(Exception cause) {
+		if (cause instanceof HttpServerErrorException) {
+			return new RuntimeException(
+					"[Breaking self reference chain] " + cause.toString());
+		}
+		return cause;
 	}
 
 	public static ExecutionResult unstable(Exception ex) {

releaser-spring/src/test/java/releaser/internal/spring/SpringBatchFlowRunnerTests.java

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package releaser.internal.spring;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 
 import org.assertj.core.api.BDDAssertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -35,7 +36,10 @@ import org.springframework.boot.SpringBootConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
 import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
 import org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfiles;
+import org.springframework.web.client.HttpServerErrorException;
 
 @SpringBootTest
 @ActiveProfiles("batch")
@@ -135,7 +139,9 @@ class MyProjectPostReleaseTask implements ProjectPostReleaseReleaserTask {
 
 	@Override
 	public ExecutionResult runTask(Arguments args) {
-		return ExecutionResult.unstable(new RuntimeException("Some instability"));
+		return ExecutionResult.unstable(
+				HttpServerErrorException.create(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR, "foo",
+						new HttpHeaders(), "".getBytes(), Charset.defaultCharset()));
 	}
 
 	@Override