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fix: bound rate-limit retries and honor Retry-After - #134

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Description

Repeated 429 responses currently bypass max_retries, so an enabled retry policy can loop indefinitely. Both sync and async requests now stop after the configured retry budget and raise the last APIError.

The same rate-limit path also reads Retry-After from response_headers, while APIError stores it in http_headers. Read the actual headers, preserve a zero-second delay, and compare HTTP dates against timezone-aware UTC.

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All 62 unittest tests pass. The added regressions demonstrate seven failing cases before the fix, including both client modes with zero/two retries and Retry-After parsing. Existing successful-retry tests remain passing. git diff --check passes.

Synchronous and asynchronous requests now stop retrying after the configured limit and raise the last APIError. Retry-After parsing now reads http_headers, preserves zero-second delays, and compares HTTP dates against timezone-aware UTC.

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Synchronous and asynchronous response processing now enforces configured retry limits and preserves zero-valued Retry-After delays. Retry-After parsing now reads error headers and handles timezone-naive HTTP dates as UTC.

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Rate-limit retries

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retry-After parsing
chargebee/http_request.py, tests/test_rate_limit_retries.py
Parsing reads http_headers and uses timezone-aware UTC handling for HTTP dates. Tests cover numeric, zero, invalid, and HTTP-date values.
Retry limits and 429 handling
chargebee/http_request.py, tests/test_rate_limit_retries.py
Synchronous and asynchronous response processing stops at the configured retry limit and preserves a parsed zero delay. Tests check request counts and sleep behavior.

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The change correctly stops repeated 429 retries at the configured limit and honors a zero Retry-After delay. An unusually large Retry-After value could still make a request wait a very long time. This is an edge case worth a maximum-wait cap but not a blocker.

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Review comments at @chargebee/http_request.py:
- Around line 338-344: Bound HTTP-date delays in parse_retry_after to a maximum
wait, using the configured fallback delay when a parsed date exceeds that bound;
ensure both synchronous and asynchronous response paths use the bounded result.

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A Retry-After HTTP-date far in the future could make the client sleep for days. Delays above MAX_RETRY_AFTER_MS (60 s) now fall back to the configured delay, and negative values are treated as 0.
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Added a 60s cap: longer Retry-After values (including far-future HTTP-dates) use the configured delay.

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