influxdata/influxdb · error · MultiTenantExtractError

<transparent: V2WriteParseError>

Error message

<transparent: V2WriteParseError>

What it means

This is a transparent wrapper in MultiTenantExtractError for V2WriteParseError. It occurs when a WriteParamsV2 payload fails to be parsed from the multi-tenant HTTP write request. The display output is entirely the inner error's message.

Solutions

  1. Read the inner V2WriteParseError message for the exact parse failure.
  2. Ensure the request matches the v2 write API contract (correct headers and body format).
  3. Check client and server versions for protocol compatibility.
  4. Validate the payload shape before sending (org, bucket, precision, encoding).
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

// Rust: validate v2 write payload fields before sending
fn v2_params_valid(org: &str, bucket: &str, precision: &str, encoding: &str) -> bool {
    !org.is_empty() && !bucket.is_empty()
        && matches!(precision, "ns" | "us" | "ms" | "s")
        && matches!(encoding, "utf-8" | "gzip" | "identity")
}

Type guard

fn is_v2_parse_err(e: &MultiTenantExtractError) -> bool {
    matches!(e, MultiTenantExtractError::ParseV2Request(_))
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: POSTing to the v2 write endpoint with a body/headers that do not deserialize into WriteParamsV2 (missing precision, malformed encoding header, invalid body).

Common situations: SDK/server version mismatch on the v2 write protocol; clients sending v1-style bodies to v2 endpoints; wrong Content-Encoding headers.

Understand the failure class

Background: Schema validation failed / invalid input schema: payload rejected because its shape doesn't match the expected schema — this error's family across 28 libraries.

Related errors


AI-assisted analysis of influxdata/influxdb@06200ef96b (2026-09-19). Data as JSON: /api/errors/a1f3169eb0949716. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at core/iox_http/src/write/multi_tenant.rs:23

use async_trait::async_trait;
use data_types::{NamespaceName, OrgBucketMappingError};
use iox_http_util::Request;

use super::{
    WriteParams, WriteParseError, WriteRequestUnifier,
    v2::{V2WriteParseError, WriteParamsV2},
};

/// Request parsing errors when operating in "single tenant" mode.
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
pub enum MultiTenantExtractError {
    /// A failure to map a org & bucket to a reasonable [`NamespaceName`].
    #[error(transparent)]
    InvalidOrgAndBucket(#[from] OrgBucketMappingError),

    /// A [`WriteParamsV2`] failed to be parsed from the HTTP request.
    #[error(transparent)]
    ParseV2Request(#[from] V2WriteParseError),
}

/// Implement a by-ref conversion to avoid "moving" the inner errors when only
/// matching against the variants is necessary (the actual error content is
/// discarded, replaced with only a HTTP code)
impl From<&MultiTenantExtractError> for hyper::StatusCode {
    fn from(value: &MultiTenantExtractError) -> Self {
        // Exhaustively match the inner parser errors to ensure new additions
        // have to be explicitly mapped and are not accidentally mapped to a
        // "catch all" code.
        match value {
            MultiTenantExtractError::InvalidOrgAndBucket(_) => Self::BAD_REQUEST,
            MultiTenantExtractError::ParseV2Request(
                V2WriteParseError::NoQueryParams | V2WriteParseError::DecodeFail(_),
            ) => Self::BAD_REQUEST,
        }
    }

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