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Fixes #1442

Problem

findReaperContainers matched any running Ryuk on the host. On a CI host shared between a testcontainers-node project and e.g. a testcontainers-python project, Node workers adopted the Python binding's reaper. A foreign reaper carries no org.testcontainers.session-id label, so every worker fell into

const existingSessionId = reaperContainer.Labels[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID] ?? new RandomUuid().nextUuid();

and minted a fresh per-worker session id — asking the adopted reaper to watch a session it was never durably told about. Every container created under those ids leaks once the run ends (measured 13/13 and 23/23 reproductions in the issue).

Fix

Extract the adoption predicate into reaper-discovery.ts and narrow it so this binding only adopts a reaper it can actually own:

  • require org.testcontainers.lang === "node" — this library already writes that label on everything it creates via createLabels();
  • require a durable org.testcontainers.session-id label on the reaper container — adopting a reaper whose session cannot be identified is precisely the step that silently broke reaping.

A reaper that fails the predicate is left to the binding that owns it, and the Node run starts its own reaper instead.

Verification (red-green, per AGENTS.md)

New reaper-discovery.test.ts exercises the extracted predicate with stub clients (no Docker needed):

  • Red (pre-fix logic, only export added): 2 failed / 1 passed — the foreign-reaper fixture was adopted and the anonymous-reaper fixture triggered the random-id mint.
  • Green (after the predicate change): 3 passed / 0 failed, covering foreign-reaper rejection, unidentifiable-session rejection, and the preserved non-running/test-label exclusions.

Additionally reaper-discovery.docker.test.ts adds a Docker-gated integration case (starts an alpine container labeled as a foreign binding's reaper and asserts it is not adopted); it runs in CI and skips automatically when no Docker daemon is reachable.

  • tsc --noEmit clean, prettier/eslint clean on all touched files.
  • reaper.test.ts unchanged and still Docker-gated as before (fails locally only due to no Docker daemon, same as on main).

Notes

  • Local install required --engine-strict=false because the dev dependency npm-check-updates@23.0.0 demands node ^24.15.0 while the repo itself requires >= 22.22 — no repository files were changed for this.
  • Cross-binding behavior follows the de-facto reference implementations: bindings only share a reaper they can identify as their own.

findReaperContainers matched any running Ryuk on the host, so on a CI
host shared between testcontainers-node and another language binding
(e.g. testcontainers-python), Node workers adopted the other binding's
reaper every worker minted a fresh session id and asked the adopted
reaper to watch a session it was never durably told about — leaking
every container created under it.

Narrow the adoption predicate: require org.testcontainers.lang ===
"node" (this library already labels everything it creates with it via
createLabels()) and require a durable org.testcontainers.session-id
label. A reaper whose session cannot be identified is left to the
binding that owns it, and the node run starts its own reaper instead
of silently losing reaping.

Fixes testcontainers#1442

Signed-off-by: kilisamemarisaaa <1798456934@qq.com>

Co-Authored-By: EvoX <evox@evomap.ai>
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reaper container discovery to avoid adopting containers from other language bindings.
    • Excludes test containers, stopped containers, and containers without a valid session identifier from reaper adoption.
    • Prevents orphaned containers caused by incorrectly assigned reaper sessions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for reaper discovery and shared-host container scenarios.

Walkthrough

Reaper discovery now uses a shared predicate that requires a running Node reaper with a session ID and excludes test reapers. Unit and Docker-backed tests cover foreign-language, unidentified, stopped, test, and shared-host containers.

Changes

Reaper discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adoptable reaper predicate
packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.ts, packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper.ts
Adds isAdoptableReaperContainer. The predicate requires a running Node reaper with a string session ID and excludes test reapers. findReaperContainers uses the predicate and is exported.
Reaper discovery validation
packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts, packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.docker.test.ts
Adds unit and Docker-backed tests for foreign-language, missing-session, stopped, test, and shared-host reapers.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b6a71

Reaper adoption is restricted to Node-labeled sessions, but an empty session label can still be reused and the foreign-reaper cases do not fully prove language-based exclusion. This creates a bounded risk of incorrect reaper adoption or future regression.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 4 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: restricting reaper adoption to reapers started by this binding.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains issue #1442, the reaper adoption bug, the implemented fix, and the verification performed.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1442 by requiring the Node language label and a durable session ID before adopting a running Ryuk container. The added unit and Docker-gated integration tests cover foreign,…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changes support the linked issue. The extracted predicate, exported discovery function, unit tests, and Docker-gated integration test are directly related to reaper discovery and adoption.
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In `@packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts`:
- Around line 26-30: Add a non-empty LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID value to
the foreignReaper fixture in
packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts lines 26-30 and
packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.docker.test.ts lines 26-29;
in the Docker test, import the constant first. Keep the fixtures’ language
labels unchanged so the tests specifically validate the foreign-language
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In `@packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.ts`:
- Line 25: Update the session-label predicate in the reaper discovery logic to
require a non-empty string, rejecting empty session identifiers while preserving
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Comment on lines +26 to +30
const foreignReaper = reaperFixture("foreign", { [LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_LANG]: "python" });
const nodeReaper = reaperFixture("node", {
[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_LANG]: "node",
[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID]: "0123456789ab",
});

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make the foreign-reaper fixtures identifiable.

Both fixtures omit org.testcontainers.session-id. Each test can pass if the Node-language condition is removed because the missing session label rejects the container first. Add a non-empty session label to each foreign reaper.

  • packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts#L26-L30: add LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID to foreignReaper.
  • packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.docker.test.ts#L26-L29: import and add LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID to foreignReaper.
📍 Affects 2 files
  • packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts#L26-L30 (this comment)
  • packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.docker.test.ts#L26-L29
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In `@packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts` around lines 26
- 30, Add a non-empty LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID value to the foreignReaper
fixture in packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.test.ts lines
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container.Labels[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_RYUK] === "true" &&
container.Labels[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_RYUK_TEST_LABEL] !== "true" &&
container.Labels[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_LANG] === "node" &&
typeof container.Labels[LABEL_TESTCONTAINERS_SESSION_ID] === "string"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject empty session identifiers.

typeof ... === "string" accepts "". A running Node Ryuk with an empty session label can pass this predicate and be reused with an empty sessionId. Require a non-empty session identifier and add an empty-label case.

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In `@packages/testcontainers/src/reaper/reaper-discovery.ts` at line 25, Update
the session-label predicate in the reaper discovery logic to require a non-empty
string, rejecting empty session identifiers while preserving valid-label
behavior. Add coverage for a container with an empty session label.

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Self-review correction on my own PR, following the repo's cross-language guidance (I cited a de-facto-reference sentence without evidence — that was sloppy):

I verified the Java binding now: RyukResourceReaper (core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/utility/RyukResourceReaper.java) never discovers or adopts an existing Ryuk container — it always starts its own per session (maybeStart()) and registers only its own containers via label filters sent over the Ryuk socket (DEATH_NOTE / register(filters)). There is no adoption/discovery path at all.

So the de-facto reference behavior is actually stricter than this PR's predicate: mature bindings don't adopt foreign reapers period, which further supports narrowing the node-side adoption predicate (here we keep the useful cross-process reuse of node-owned reapers, but refuse anything the binding can't own). I could not complete a verified check of the Python binding from this environment — leaving that part to reviewers rather than asserting it.

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