[BUG] <title>concurrent-tool-calls
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Current Behavior
Bug Report
Which version of ShenYu?
master (verified against f7602e324). The affected code has been unchanged since it was introduced in e2cb6f3ab (2025-07-15, #5999).
Expected behavior
Two or more MCP tools/call requests issued concurrently within the same MCP session should each be proxied independently and return their own result. MCP clients routinely issue parallel tool calls, and at the transport level each call is already a separate HTTP POST carrying its own JSON-RPC id.
Actual behavior
Every concurrent tool call fails. Not a rare race — a 100% failure rate in my tests. Failures surface as three different errors that all look like downstream/network problems:
{"code":-103,"message":"Service invocation exception, or no result is returned!"}
{"code":-106,"message":"Can not find url, please check your configuration!"}
"" (empty response)
Tool execution failed: ... NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.lang.Long.longValue()"Responses can also be truncated mid-JSON:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"p-P1","result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"code\
^ stream cut, 81 bytes totalHow to reproduce
- Configure an
mcpServerselector with one tool whoserequestConfigproxies a POST endpoint that echoes its request body, e.g.
{
"name": "echo_tool",
"parameters": [{ "name": "note", "type": "string", "description": "echoed back" }],
"requestConfig": "{\"requestTemplate\":{\"url\":\"/echo\",\"method\":\"POST\",\"argsToJsonBody\":true,\"headers\":[]},\"argsPosition\":{\"note\":\"body\"}}"
}- Open one MCP session:
GW=http://<gateway-host>:9195/<mcp-path>/streamablehttp
SID=$(curl -sD- -o/dev/null -X POST "$GW" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"probe","version":"1.0"}}}' \
| grep -i '^Mcp-Session-Id:' | tr -d '\r' | awk '{print $2}')
curl -s -o/dev/null -X POST "$GW" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -H "Mcp-Session-Id: $SID" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}'Baseline — call the tool serially twice with distinct
notevalues. Both succeed and each response carries its ownnote.Now fire three calls concurrently on the same session:
for n in X Y Z; do
curl -s -X POST "$GW" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -H "Mcp-Session-Id: $SID" \
-d "{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":\"c-$n\",\"method\":\"tools/call\",\"params\":{\"name\":\"echo_tool\",\"arguments\":{\"note\":\"$n\"}}}" &
done; waitResults observed
| scenario | outcome |
|---|---|
| 2 serial calls (before concurrency) | 2/2 correct, each response matched its own note |
| 3 concurrent × 3 rounds | 9/9 failed, 0 succeeded |
| 2 concurrent | 2/2 failed (one -103, one truncated response) |
| 2 serial calls (after concurrency) | 2/2 correct — the session is not poisoned; failures are strictly concurrent-only |
Root cause
Each concurrent tool call arrives as its own HTTP POST and therefore already has its own ServerWebExchange. That isolation is then discarded: the exchange is stored in a static map keyed by session id, so N concurrent requests collapse into one slot.
ShenyuMcpExchangeHolder:
private static final Map<String, ServerWebExchange> EXCHANGE_MAP = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
public static void put(final String sessionId, final ServerWebExchange exchange) {
EXCHANGE_MAP.put(sessionId, exchange); // later request overwrites the earlier one
}ShenyuStreamableHttpServerTransportProvider#configureExchangeForSession (line 566) stores every POST's exchange under that single key, and ShenyuToolCallback#call (line 134) reads it back by session id:
final String sessionId = extractSessionId(mcpExchange);
final ServerWebExchange originExchange = getOriginExchange(sessionId);
final ShenyuPluginChain chain = getPluginChain(originExchange);Because the tool call reuses the inbound exchange and replays the plugin chain on it, all per-request state lives on that now-shared object and concurrent calls overwrite each other's attributes. Each observed error maps to one clobbered attribute:
| error | attribute lost | site |
|---|---|---|
-106 Can not find url |
HTTP_URI (written by URIPlugin) |
AbstractHttpClientPlugin:67 |
-103 no result |
CLIENT_RESPONSE_CONN_ATTR |
NettyClientMessageWriter:60 |
| empty / truncated body | response written by two writers | NettyClientMessageWriter response.writeWith(body) |
Suggested fix
Either of:
- Key the holder by the JSON-RPC request id (or any per-call token) instead of the session id, and clean the entry up when the call completes. MCP explicitly allows concurrent in-flight requests per session, which is exactly what the JSON-RPC
idis for. - Do not reuse the inbound exchange at all — build a fresh outbound request per tool call rather than mutating and replaying the inbound one.
Option 2 also removes the need for the blocking wait in ShenyuToolCallback:270 (responseFuture.get(60, SECONDS)), which currently blocks inside a reactive pipeline.
Notes
Since the per-tool-call timeout here is 60s while a divide rule with the default retry = 3 can take 4 × timeout, the two limits can also disagree; that is a separate, smaller concern.
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Environment
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Source: apache/shenyu