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Runs the Olla sticky session integration test end-to-end across all provider-scoped routes. Trigger when the user asks to: verify sticky sessions work, run the sticky session integration test, test provider-route affinity, or check whether the providerProxyHandler bug fix is holding. Delegable to Sonnet - does not require Opus.

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/test-sticky-sessions - Sticky Session Integration Test

Verifies KV-cache affinity routing across every provider-scoped route that AIMock can serve, including the issue #178 log-field assertions that confirm routing decisions reach the structured log.

Route table

RouteRequest pathStatus
Main proxy/olla/proxy/v1/chat/completionstested
openai-compatible/olla/openai-compatible/v1/chat/completionstested (primary regression target)
openai/olla/openai/v1/chat/completionstested
vllm/olla/vllm/v1/chat/completionstested
sglang/olla/sglang/v1/chat/completionstested
llamacpp/olla/llamacpp/v1/chat/completionstested
lmstudio/olla/lmstudio/v1/chat/completionstested
lm-studio (alt prefix)/olla/lm-studio/v1/chat/completionstested
litellm/olla/litellm/v1/chat/completionstested
dmr/olla/dmr/v1/chat/completionstested
vllm-mlx/olla/vllm-mlx/v1/chat/completionstested
anthropic translator/olla/anthropic/v1/messagestested + passthrough assertion + log-field check
lemonade/olla/lemonade/api/v1/chat/completionsskipped - AIMock does not serve /api/v1/*
ollama/olla/ollama/api/chatskipped - AIMock does not speak Ollama /api/* protocol

Constants

OLLA_PORT="${OLLA_PORT:-40114}"
OLLA_URL="http://localhost:${OLLA_PORT}"
LOG="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/olla-sticky.log"
OPENAI_BODY='{"model":"test-model","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"ping"}],"max_tokens":50}'
ANTHROPIC_BODY='{"model":"claude-3-haiku-20240307","max_tokens":50,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"ping"}]}'
CURL_TIMEOUT=30

Phase 0 - Pre-flight

Check Docker is available:

docker info > /dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "Docker not running - start Docker Desktop first"; exit 1; }

Check port $OLLA_PORT is free before starting:

curl -sf --max-time 2 "${OLLA_URL}/internal/health" > /dev/null 2>&1 && \
  echo "ERROR: Olla already running on ${OLLA_PORT} - stop it first" && exit 1 || true

Phase 1 - Start AIMock

make mock-up

Waits until all three AIMock containers report healthy (ports 9300/9301/9302). Each instance embeds a unique BACKEND:instance-{a,b,c} marker in its response body so affinity tests can confirm which backend served each response.

Phase 2 - Start Olla

go build -o build/olla-sticky .
build/olla-sticky --config test/manual/config.sticky.yaml > "$LOG" 2>&1 &
OLLA_PID=$!
echo "Olla PID: $OLLA_PID (log: $LOG)"

Wait for health (poll up to 30s, 1s interval; abort to teardown on timeout):

attempt=0
until curl -sf --max-time 2 "${OLLA_URL}/internal/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
    attempt=$((attempt+1))
    if [ "$attempt" -ge 30 ]; then
        echo "ERROR: Olla did not become healthy within 30s"
        tail -n 80 "$LOG"
        # go to teardown
        exit 1
    fi
    sleep 1
done
echo "Olla ready"

Phase 3 - Per-route sticky session assertions

For each active (non-skipped) route, run three turns. Use the helper functions below and track PASSED/FAILED/SKIPPED counts. Record every assertion result as PASS:, FAIL:, or SKIP:.

Helper: extract_header

extract_header() {
    local file=$1 header=$2
    grep -i "^${header}:" "$file" | head -1 | cut -d' ' -f2- | tr -d '\r\n' || true
}

Helper: extract_backend_marker

extract_backend_marker() {
    echo "$1" | grep -oE 'BACKEND:instance-[a-z]+' | head -1 || true
}

Per-route test sequence

For each route call run_sticky_test LABEL URL_PATH BODY [check_passthrough] [skip_turn3_reason]:

Turn 1 - expect miss:

http_code=$(curl -s -w "%{http_code}" -o "$BODY_FILE" -D "$HDR_FILE" \
    --max-time $CURL_TIMEOUT \
    -X POST \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "X-Olla-Session-ID: ${SESSION_ID}" \
    -d "$BODY" "${OLLA_URL}${URL_PATH}" 2>/dev/null)

Assert HTTP 2xx, then:

  • X-Olla-Sticky-Session: miss
  • X-Olla-Sticky-Key-Source: session_header
  • Body contains a BACKEND:instance-* marker (record it as marker1)
  • Record X-Olla-Endpoint as ep1
  • If check_passthrough == true: X-Olla-Mode: passthrough

Turn 2 - same session, expect hit:

Re-use the same X-Olla-Session-ID value.

  • HTTP 2xx
  • X-Olla-Sticky-Session: hit
  • X-Olla-Endpoint equals ep1
  • Backend marker in body equals marker1

Turn 3 - load balancing diversity (unless skip_turn3_reason is set):

Issue 30 requests with distinct session IDs. Assert that at least one response has X-Olla-Endpoint different from ep1.

seen_other=false
for i in $(seq 1 30); do
    new_session="sess-div-${LABEL}-${TS}-${i}"
    ep_div=$(curl -s -D - -o /dev/null --max-time $CURL_TIMEOUT \
        -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -H "X-Olla-Session-ID: ${new_session}" \
        -d "$BODY" "${OLLA_URL}${URL_PATH}" 2>/dev/null \
        | grep -i "^X-Olla-Endpoint:" | cut -d' ' -f2- | tr -d '\r\n')
    if [ -n "$ep_div" ] && [ "$ep_div" != "$ep1" ]; then
        seen_other=true; break
    fi
done
$seen_other || echo "FAIL: Turn 3 all 30 attempts hit ${ep1} only"

Route list

Process these rows in order. Skip entire row when SKIP_REASON is non-empty (print SKIP: LABEL (PATH) - REASON). Skip turn 3 when SKIP_TURN3_REASON is non-empty.

# LABEL | PATH | BODY | CHECK_PASSTHROUGH | SKIP_REASON | SKIP_TURN3_REASON
main-proxy        | /olla/proxy/v1/chat/completions               | openai     | false |  | main-proxy pool spans all endpoints - LCB tie-break is deterministic at zero connections
openai-compatible | /olla/openai-compatible/v1/chat/completions   | openai     | false |  |
openai            | /olla/openai/v1/chat/completions               | openai     | false |  |
vllm              | /olla/vllm/v1/chat/completions                 | openai     | false |  |
sglang            | /olla/sglang/v1/chat/completions               | openai     | false |  |
llamacpp          | /olla/llamacpp/v1/chat/completions             | openai     | false |  |
lmstudio          | /olla/lmstudio/v1/chat/completions             | openai     | false |  |
lm-studio         | /olla/lm-studio/v1/chat/completions            | openai     | false |  |
litellm           | /olla/litellm/v1/chat/completions              | openai     | false |  |
dmr               | /olla/dmr/v1/chat/completions                  | openai     | false |  |
vllm-mlx          | /olla/vllm-mlx/v1/chat/completions             | openai     | false |  |
lemonade          | /olla/lemonade/api/v1/chat/completions         | openai     | false | AIMock does not serve /api/v1/* - Lemonade uses a non-standard path prefix |
ollama            | /olla/ollama/api/chat                          | openai     | false | AIMock does not speak the Ollama /api/* protocol |
anthropic-translator | /olla/anthropic/v1/messages               | anthropic  | true  |  |

Phase 4 - Sticky stats assertion

body=$(curl -sf --max-time 10 "${OLLA_URL}/internal/stats/sticky" 2>/dev/null || true)

Assert (using jq when available, or grep fallback):

  • insertions > 0
  • hits > 0
  • active_sessions > 0

Phase 5 - Log-field assertions (issue #178)

These assert that routing decisions reach the structured log.

sticky_outcome must appear in at least one completed-request line:

if grep -q "sticky_outcome=" "$LOG" 2>/dev/null; then
    echo "PASS: log contains sticky_outcome"
else
    echo "FAIL: log missing sticky_outcome - check logRequestResult in handler_proxy.go"
fi

routing_strategy must appear:

if grep -q "routing_strategy=" "$LOG" 2>/dev/null; then
    echo "PASS: log contains routing_strategy"
else
    echo "FAIL: log missing routing_strategy - check RoutingDecision wiring"
fi

provider_model - non-fatal if absent (backend may not report model):

if grep -q "provider_model=" "$LOG" 2>/dev/null; then
    echo "PASS: log contains provider_model"
else
    echo "INFO: provider_model not found - backend may not report model in response (non-fatal)"
fi

session_id must appear on INFO "Request completed" lines:

if grep "Request completed" "$LOG" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "session_id="; then
    echo "PASS: session_id present on INFO Request completed lines"
else
    echo "FAIL: session_id missing from INFO Request completed lines - check logRequestResult"
fi

Phase 6 - Teardown (always run)

kill "$OLLA_PID" 2>/dev/null || taskkill //F //PID "$OLLA_PID" 2>/dev/null || true
make mock-down

Phase 7 - Report verdict

Print a summary:

Results: N passed  N failed  N skipped  (N total assertions)

Exit 0 on zero failures, exit 1 otherwise.


Notes

  • test/manual/config.sticky.yaml registers three endpoints per provider type (all pointing at AIMock on 9300/9301/9302) so affinity checks are meaningful. The default engine: "sherpa" covers the Sherpa path; change it to "olla" to exercise the high-performance engine.
  • The openai-compatible profile declares anthropic_support.enabled: true, enabling passthrough mode on the Anthropic translator path.
  • Lemonade and Ollama are skipped because AIMock does not implement their native wire protocols (/api/v1/chat/completions and /api/chat).
  • The log-field assertions (Phase 5) require the log file path. They grep plain key=value pairs from structured slog text output, not JSON.