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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.fluss.server;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.FileVisitResult;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.nio.file.SimpleFileVisitor;
+import java.nio.file.attribute.BasicFileAttributes;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * A meta-test for {@link RpcServiceBase} and related server-side catalog/coordinator code.
+ *
+ * <p>This test scans all Java source files under {@code fluss-server/src/main/java} to detect
+ * patterns where a {@code catch} block catches an exception variable but throws a new exception
+ * without passing the caught variable as the cause. This helps prevent loss of root-cause
+ * information in exception chains.
+ */
+class RpcServiceBaseTest {
+
+    private static final Path SERVER_SOURCE_DIR =
+            Paths.get("src/main/java/org/apache/fluss/server");
+
+    private static final Pattern CATCH_PATTERN =
+            Pattern.compile("\\s*catch\\s*\\(\\s*\\w+(?:\\.\\w+)*\\s+(\\w+)\\s*\\)\\s*\\{?");
+
+    private static final Pattern THROW_NEW_PATTERN =
+            Pattern.compile("throw\\s+new\\s+\\w+Exception\\s*\\(");
+
+    @Test
+    void metaTestNoCatchRethrowWithoutCause() throws IOException {
+        assertThat(Files.exists(SERVER_SOURCE_DIR))
+                .as("Server source directory must exist: " + SERVER_SOURCE_DIR.toAbsolutePath())
+                .isTrue();
+
+        List<String> violations = new ArrayList<>();
+        Files.walkFileTree(
+                SERVER_SOURCE_DIR,
+                new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() {
+                    @Override
+                    public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) {
+                        if (file.toString().endsWith(".java")) {
+                            scanFileForViolations(file, violations);
+                        }
+                        return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE;
+                    }
+                });
+
+        assertThat(violations)
+                .as(
+                        "Found catch blocks that throw new exceptions without preserving the cause. "
+                                + "Please pass the caught exception as the second argument to the "
+                                + "new exception constructor.\nViolations:\n"
+                                + String.join("\n", violations))
+                .isEmpty();
+    }
+
+    private void scanFileForViolations(Path file, List<String> violations) {
+        List<String> lines;
+        try {
+            lines = Files.readAllLines(file);
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Failed to read file: " + file, e);
+        }
+
+        List<CatchContext> activeCatches = new ArrayList<>();
+        int braceDepth = 0;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {
+            String line = lines.get(i);
+            int lineNum = i + 1;
+
+            Matcher catchMatcher = CATCH_PATTERN.matcher(line);
+            if (catchMatcher.find()) {
+                String varName = catchMatcher.group(1);
+                activeCatches.add(new CatchContext(varName, lineNum, braceDepth));
+            }
+
+            for (int j = 0; j < line.length(); j++) {
+                char ch = line.charAt(j);
+                if (ch == '{') {
+                    braceDepth++;
+                } else if (ch == '}') {
+                    braceDepth--;
+                    final int currentDepth = braceDepth;
+                    activeCatches.removeIf(ctx -> ctx.catchBraceDepth >= currentDepth);
+                }
+            }
+
+            if (THROW_NEW_PATTERN.matcher(line).find()) {
+                String throwStatement = collectThrowStatement(lines, i);
+                for (CatchContext ctx : activeCatches) {
+                    if (!throwStatement.contains(ctx.varName)) {
+                        String trimmed = throwStatement.replaceAll("\\s+", " ").trim();
+                        violations.add(
+                                String.format(
+                                        "  %s:%d: catch(%s) -> %s",
+                                        file, lineNum, ctx.varName, trimmed));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    private String collectThrowStatement(List<String> lines, int startIndex) {
+        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
+        int parenDepth = 0;
+        boolean started = false;
+        for (int i = startIndex; i < lines.size(); i++) {
+            String line = lines.get(i);
+            for (int j = 0; j < line.length(); j++) {
+                char ch = line.charAt(j);
+                if (ch == '(') {
+                    parenDepth++;
+                    started = true;
+                } else if (ch == ')') {
+                    parenDepth--;
+                }
+                if (started) {
+                    sb.append(ch);
+                }
+            }
+            sb.append(" ");
+            if (started && parenDepth <= 0) {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+        return sb.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static class CatchContext {
+        private final String varName;
+        private final int catchStartLine;
+        private final int catchBraceDepth;
+
+        CatchContext(String varName, int catchStartLine, int catchBraceDepth) {
+            this.varName = varName;
+            this.catchStartLine = catchStartLine;
+            this.catchBraceDepth = catchBraceDepth;
+        }
+    }
+}