hyperledger/fabric · error

bad config metadata option RequestBatchMaxInterval

Error message

bad config metadata option RequestBatchMaxInterval

What it means

ConfigFromMetadataOptions wraps a time.ParseDuration failure on the smartbft Options.RequestBatchMaxInterval string. The value in the consensus metadata is not a valid Go duration (bad format, empty where required, or non-numeric).

Source

Thrown at orderer/consensus/smartbft/util/util.go:30

	"github.com/hyperledger-labs/SmartBFT/pkg/types"
	"github.com/hyperledger/fabric-protos-go-apiv2/orderer/smartbft"
	"github.com/pkg/errors"
)

func ConfigFromMetadataOptions(selfID uint64, options *smartbft.Options) (types.Configuration, error) {
	var err error

	config := types.DefaultConfig
	config.SelfID = selfID

	if options == nil {
		return config, errors.New("config metadata options field is nil")
	}

	config.RequestBatchMaxCount = options.RequestBatchMaxCount
	config.RequestBatchMaxBytes = options.RequestBatchMaxBytes
	if config.RequestBatchMaxInterval, err = time.ParseDuration(options.RequestBatchMaxInterval); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option RequestBatchMaxInterval")
	}
	config.IncomingMessageBufferSize = options.IncomingMessageBufferSize
	config.RequestPoolSize = options.RequestPoolSize
	if config.RequestForwardTimeout, err = time.ParseDuration(options.RequestForwardTimeout); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option RequestForwardTimeout")
	}
	if config.RequestComplainTimeout, err = time.ParseDuration(options.RequestComplainTimeout); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option RequestComplainTimeout")
	}
	if config.RequestAutoRemoveTimeout, err = time.ParseDuration(options.RequestAutoRemoveTimeout); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option RequestAutoRemoveTimeout")
	}
	if config.ViewChangeResendInterval, err = time.ParseDuration(options.ViewChangeResendInterval); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option ViewChangeResendInterval")
	}
	if config.ViewChangeTimeout, err = time.ParseDuration(options.ViewChangeTimeout); err != nil {
		return config, errors.Wrap(err, "bad config metadata option ViewChangeTimeout")
	}

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Solutions

1. Set RequestBatchMaxInterval to a valid duration string (e.g. '50ms')
2. Validate options before submitting the channel config update

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at orderer/consensus/smartbft/util/util.go:30 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of hyperledger/fabric@2736b63f8f (2026-09-04). Data as JSON: /api/errors/ba6281c169bf3faa. Report an issue: GitHub.