fix: Server crash from unhandled promise rejection when Redis is unavailable during a cache write

[AdrianCurtin]

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Issue

Closes #10634.

RedisCacheAdapter#get catches adapter errors, logs them and resolves. put, del and clear do not, so they reject when Redis is unavailable. Parse Server calls all three without awaiting them in six places, so a transient Redis failure becomes an unhandled promise rejection, which depending on the Node version and process configuration either logs a warning or terminates the process.

Location	Call	Runs on
src/Auth.js:140	cacheController.user.del(sessionToken)	every expired-session auth
src/Auth.js:203	cacheController.user.put(sessionToken, …)	every session-token auth
src/Auth.js:342	cacheController.role.put(user.id, …)	every role-closure computation
src/Auth.js:350	cacheController.role.del(user.id)	clearRoleCache
src/Auth.js:351	cacheController.user.del(sessionToken)	clearRoleCache
src/RestWrite.js:1566	cacheController.role.clear()	every _Role write

Not awaiting is correct in each case, since a cache write must not delay or fail the request that triggered it. The defect is that the adapter rejects at all, when its own get establishes the opposite contract.

Approach

put, del and clear get the handling get already has: the operation is wrapped, the error is logged with the operation name, and the promise resolves. No call site changes, so every current and future caller is covered.

Details worth noting for review:

• The awaited calls inside each try use return await rather than returning the promise, otherwise the rejection escapes the try block.
• Error messages follow the existing RedisCacheAdapter error on get wording, so a log line now names the failing operation instead of surfacing as a bare unhandled rejection.
• Behavior on success is unchanged, including the ttl === 0 no-op and the ttl === Infinity path in put.

Two overlaps with open work, both trivial to resolve:

• fix: Deleting a role does not invalidate the cached role closures #10620 adds a .catch() at a single new call site in src/rest.js in response to the same review comment. Once this lands, that .catch() is redundant. It is harmless either way, so no change is proposed there.
• fix: Saving a role clears the entire cache instead of only the cached roles #10618 rewrites clear() to take a prefix. Whichever of the two lands second needs a small rebase inside that one method.

Tests

spec/RedisCacheAdapter.spec.js gains a describe block that runs without a Redis server, since a client that always rejects is what an outage looks like to the adapter. The existing Redis specs remain gated behind PARSE_SERVER_TEST_CACHE=redis.

• get, put, put with an infinite TTL, del and clear each resolve and log an error naming the operation
• an unawaited put, del and clear produce no unhandled rejection, asserted with a process.on('unhandledRejection') listener, which is the reported symptom

On alpha the five write-path cases fail with Expected a promise to be resolved but it was rejected with Error: Redis is unavailable, and the last reports three unhandled rejections. The get case passes on alpha and is included as a control for the behavior being matched.

Tasks

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Cache operations now handle Redis outages gracefully without interrupting application flows.
  • Cache writes, deletions, and clearing operations log operation-specific errors instead of propagating failures.
  • Non-expiring cache writes now complete reliably, including when Redis is unavailable.
  • Prevented unhandled promise rejections from background cache operations.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Redis cache operations now catch Redis and queue errors, log operation-specific failures, and resolve during outages. Tests cover get, put, del, clear, infinite TTL writes, and unawaited operations.

Changes

Redis cache resilience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache error handling and outage tests src/Adapters/Cache/RedisCacheAdapter.js, spec/RedisCacheAdapter.spec.js	put, del, and clear catch operation failures and log errors. Non-expiring writes are awaited. Tests verify resolved promises, log messages, infinite TTL handling, and the absence of unhandled rejections.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 32234

Redis cache write, delete, and clear failures can still be swallowed instead of rejected, while affected callers need coordinated updates. The PR is not merge-ready until the error contract, callers, and outage tests are corrected.

Possibly related issues

• parse-community/parse-server#10634 — Directly covers Redis outage handling for put, del, and clear, including unhandled rejection prevention.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Engage In Review Feedback	❌ Error	The tip still swallows Redis write errors and adds tests that require resolution, directly opposing review feedback to rethrow, handle callers, and remove the swallowed-rejection test.	Rethrow caught errors, update all unawaited callers, and change outage tests to expect rejection; remove the swallowed-rejection test.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Security Check	✅ Passed	The diff only adds Redis error handling and tests. It introduces no new input, credential, authorization, or dynamic-execution path; Redis error logging already existed for client and get failures.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required fix: prefix, starts the summary with a capital letter, and accurately describes the unhandled rejection fix.
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In `@src/Adapters/Cache/RedisCacheAdapter.js`:
- Around line 61-98: Update the RedisCacheAdapter write-related catch blocks in
put, del, and clear to rethrow err after logging instead of resolving undefined.
Audit and handle every unawaited call at affected callers in Auth, rest.js,
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