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Should not place unusable responses from providers into metadata cache

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the linked detailed writeup, then trace how provider responses are parsed and inserted into the metadata cache. Reproduce the invalid-JSON retry scenario; done means unusable responses are not cached and a retry requests a fresh provider response.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Describe the bug

See this detailed writeup

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Download a library but get an invalid (unparseable) JSON response from the provider
  2. Try again, expecting the retry to return a valid JSON payload

Operation fails again, because the bad response is placed in the cache, so we keep reusing it.

Expected behavior

Should issue the request to the provider again, and get a fresh (hopefully functional) response.

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C#
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