go data_error ai_generated partial

rpc error: code = DataLoss desc = message checksum mismatch: expected 0x1234, got 0x5678

ID: go/grpc-data-loss-message-corrupted

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80%Fix Rate
83%Confidence
0Evidence
2025-05-18First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
1.0 active — — —
1.1 active — — —

Root Cause

The protobuf message was corrupted during transmission, causing a checksum validation failure.

generic

中文

protobuf消息在传输过程中被损坏，导致校验和验证失败。

Workarounds

  1. 80% success Implement retry with a new context to avoid reusing corrupted data. 
    for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
    ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
    resp, err := client.SomeRPC(ctx, req)
    cancel()
    if err == nil { return resp }
    if status.Code(err) != codes.DataLoss { return err }
    time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
}
  2. 95% success Use a reliable transport like TLS to reduce corruption. 
    conn, err := grpc.Dial("localhost:8080", grpc.WithTransportCredentials(creds))

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Ignore the checksum and resend the same message. 70% fail

    The same corruption may occur again if the underlying network issue persists.

  2. Disable checksum validation on the server. 90% fail

    This compromises data integrity and is not recommended.