Preserve cached key fetch failure details

[junghoon-vans]

Summary

Preserve the error type and diagnostic details of cached signing-key fetch failures so applications can classify fresh and cached failures consistently.

Related issue

Closes #1168

Changes

• Restore known FetchError and UrlError instances, including the fetch URL and URL failure reason.
• Preserve the immediate cause's name and message, restoring DOMException causes as DOMException instances.
• Keep the existing errorName and errorMessage fields for rolling-upgrade compatibility; retain generic error handling for legacy entries and unknown classes.
• Add regression coverage for fresh and cached timeout, DNS, and private-address failures, legacy entries, and unknown error classes.
• Document the preserved error details and add a changelog fragment and generated CHANGES.md entry.

Benefits

Applications can continue using instanceof FetchError, UrlError.reason, and timeout cause information after failures are read from a new key-cache instance, without parsing error messages or refetching the key.

Checklist

• Added a changelog entry to CHANGES.md.
• Updated relevant documentation.
• Added regression tests that failed before the fix and passed afterward.
• New-feature tests (not applicable: bug fix).
• Ran mise test (not run as a full repository test command; package-level runtime tests and checks are listed below).

Additional notes

Targets 2.1-maintenance, the oldest affected maintenance branch with KvKeyCache.getFetchError() / setFetchError().

Verification:

• mise exec -- deno test --allow-all packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.test.ts packages/fedify/src/sig/http.test.ts: 63 passed, 31 steps, 0 failed.
• mise run check-each fedify: passed.
• Package-level Deno, Node.js, and Bun tests passed during implementation.
• mise run check and mise run docs:build passed during implementation.
• A local HTTP timeout smoke scenario verified class, URL, message, and DOMException cause preservation across new cache instances, plus compatibility with the previous name/message reader.
• mise exec -- hongdown --check docs/manual/inbox.md changes.d/fedify/cached-key-fetch-errors.md CHANGES.md and mise exec -- sacho check --base upstream/2.1-maintenance exited successfully. The standalone fragment reference warning resolves in the generated changelog; Sacho skipped its missing-fragment check because check.paths is empty.

The fork push CI passed its Deno test command, Node.js, Bun, Cloudflare Workers, lint, and release-test jobs. Its test job failed afterward in codecov/test-results-action@v1 with a TLS handshake error, not a test failure: https://github.com/junghoon-vans/fedify/actions/runs/37259473668

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Walkthrough

KvKeyCache now stores and restores additional details for cached signing-key fetch failures. It reconstructs recognized FetchError and UrlError instances and preserves cause details. Tests cover legacy records, unknown error classes, and verification with cached failures.

Changes

Cached key-fetch errors

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store and restore error details packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.ts, packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.test.ts	Cached records now include additional details for FetchError and UrlError, plus supported cause details. Reading records reconstructs recognized error types. Tests cover legacy records and unknown error classes.
Verify cached errors and document behavior packages/fedify/src/sig/http.test.ts, docs/manual/inbox.md, CHANGES.md, changes.d/fedify/cached-key-fetch-errors.md	Verification tests check that cached failures retain applicable error details and that the document is fetched only once across two verifications. The manual and changelogs describe the behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: dahlia

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3a178

Cached key-fetch failures now keep their error details. The direct CHANGES.md edit should be removed before merge because the changelog is generated from fragments, but this is a minor housekeeping issue.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving details from cached key-fetch failures.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the cached error preservation changes, compatibility behavior, tests, and documentation updates.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1168 requires cached no-response failures to preserve known types and diagnostic details, read legacy records, and keep old fields for rolling upgrades. KvKeyCache.setFetchError() retains `er…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reported changes are limited to cached key-fetch error handling, regression tests for that behavior, and its documentation and changelog entries. Each change supports issue #1168. The whole-PR dif…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 3…

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• CHANGES.md
• changes.d/fedify/cached-key-fetch-errors.md
• docs/manual/inbox.md
• packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.test.ts
• packages/fedify/src/federation/keycache.ts
• packages/fedify/src/sig/http.test.ts

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[dahlia]

Thanks! You should put the pull request number in the changelog fragment, but never mind—I'll put it for you.