{
"explanation": "The function has no error handling, timeout, retry or fallback logic, making it prone to upstream failures causing unhandled exceptions.",
"score": 0.2
}
fault agent
code-review
Here’s a small, focused refactor of your `/` handler that will immediately improve resilience, observability and error‐handling without drastically changing your app:
1. **Single, long-lived HTTP client**
Re-using an `httpx.Client` gives you connection pooling and lets you centrally configure timeouts.
2. **Per-request timeouts**
By setting `timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=5, read=10)` we fail fast on network issues.
3. **Retries with exponential backoff**
The [`backoff`](https://pypi.org/project/backoff/) library wraps `_fetch_todo()` so that transient errors and 5xx status codes automatically retry (up to 5× or ~30 s total).
4. **Error propagation & HTTPExceptions**
We catch `RequestError` (network) vs `HTTPStatusError` (non-2xx) and translate them into appropriate 5xx/4xx FastAPI responses.
5. **Logging**
Warnings on upstream 4xxs and errors on network failures let you trace the failure mode in your logs.
## Next steps
- **Metrics & tracing**:
Plug in Prometheus counters or OpenTelemetry spans around `_fetch_todo` to observe retry counts, latencies, and success/fail rates.
- **Circuit breaker**:
If your upstream is flapping, consider a circuit-breaker pattern (e.g. [`pybreaker`](https://pypi.org/project/pybreaker/)) to avoid overwhelming it.
- **Async support**:
If you expect high concurrency, convert to `httpx.AsyncClient` and make `index` an `async def`.
These minimal changes will immediately make your endpoint far more reliable under network glitches or upstream outages—yet remain straightforward to slot into your existing `app.py`.
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