Don't swallow intermediate write failures in MessageToMessageEncoder (#8454)

Motivation:

If the encoder needs to flush more than one outbound message it will
create a new ChannelPromise for all but the last write which will
swallow failures.

Modification:

Use a PromiseCombiner in the case of multiple messages and the parent
promise isn't the `VoidPromise`.

Result:

Intermediate failures are propagated to the original ChannelPromise.

codec/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/MessageToMessageEncoder.java

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelPromise;
 import io.netty.util.ReferenceCountUtil;
 import io.netty.util.ReferenceCounted;
+import io.netty.util.concurrent.PromiseCombiner;
 import io.netty.util.internal.StringUtil;
 import io.netty.util.internal.TypeParameterMatcher;
 
@@ -108,28 +109,36 @@ public abstract class MessageToMessageEncoder<I> extends ChannelOutboundHandlerA
             if (out != null) {
                 final int sizeMinusOne = out.size() - 1;
                 if (sizeMinusOne == 0) {
-                    ctx.write(out.get(0), promise);
+                    ctx.write(out.getUnsafe(0), promise);
                 } else if (sizeMinusOne > 0) {
                     // Check if we can use a voidPromise for our extra writes to reduce GC-Pressure
                     // See https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2525
-                    ChannelPromise voidPromise = ctx.voidPromise();
-                    boolean isVoidPromise = promise == voidPromise;
-                    for (int i = 0; i < sizeMinusOne; i ++) {
-                        ChannelPromise p;
-                        if (isVoidPromise) {
-                            p = voidPromise;
+                    if (promise == ctx.voidPromise()) {
+                        writeVoidPromise(ctx, out);
                     } else {
-                            p = ctx.newPromise();
+                        writePromiseCombiner(ctx, out, promise);
                     }
-                        ctx.write(out.getUnsafe(i), p);
-                    }
-                    ctx.write(out.getUnsafe(sizeMinusOne), promise);
                 }
                 out.recycle();
             }
         }
     }
 
+    private static void writeVoidPromise(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, CodecOutputList out) {
+        final ChannelPromise voidPromise = ctx.voidPromise();
+        for (int i = 0; i < out.size(); i++) {
+            ctx.write(out.getUnsafe(i), voidPromise);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void writePromiseCombiner(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, CodecOutputList out, ChannelPromise promise) {
+        final PromiseCombiner combiner = new PromiseCombiner();
+        for (int i = 0; i < out.size(); i++) {
+            combiner.add(ctx.write(out.getUnsafe(i)));
+        }
+        combiner.finish(promise);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Encode from one message to an other. This method will be called for each written message that can be handled
      * by this encoder.

codec/src/test/java/io/netty/handler/codec/MessageToMessageEncoderTest.java

@@ -15,9 +15,14 @@
  */
 package io.netty.handler.codec;
 
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandler;
 import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter;
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelPromise;
 import io.netty.channel.embedded.EmbeddedChannel;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -37,4 +42,37 @@ public class MessageToMessageEncoderTest {
         });
         channel.writeOutbound(new Object());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testIntermediateWriteFailures() {
+        ChannelHandler encoder = new MessageToMessageEncoder<Object>() {
+            @Override
+            protected void encode(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg, List<Object> out) {
+                out.add(new Object());
+                out.add(msg);
+            }
+        };
+
+        final Exception firstWriteException = new Exception();
+
+        ChannelHandler writeThrower = new ChannelOutboundHandlerAdapter() {
+            private boolean firstWritten;
+            @Override
+            public void write(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Object msg, ChannelPromise promise) {
+                if (firstWritten) {
+                    ctx.write(msg, promise);
+                } else {
+                    firstWritten = true;
+                    promise.setFailure(firstWriteException);
+                }
+            }
+        };
+
+        EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(writeThrower, encoder);
+        Object msg = new Object();
+        ChannelFuture write = channel.writeAndFlush(msg);
+        assertSame(firstWriteException, write.cause());
+        assertSame(msg, channel.readOutbound());
+        assertFalse(channel.finish());
+    }
 }