feat(notify): generic handling of 429 in retrier

[TheMeier]

Add generic handling of HTTP responses with 429 status code in Retrier. This will allow to remove any handling of 429 in the individual notifiers and instead rely on the Retrier to handle it (TBD in follow-up PRs).

This is a re-implementation of #5088 but only the backend part. It adds a, currently unused, new receiver (CheckResponse()) to notifiy.Retrier that is meant as future replacment for the Check() receiver

Pull Request Checklist

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• Please list all open issue(s) discussed with maintainers related to this change
  • Refs: Implement proper retries for integrations #2205, slack: retry on 429 and honor Retry-After header #5048
• Is this a new Receiver integration? NO
• Is this a bugfix? NOT YET
• Is this a new feature?
  • I have added tests that test the new feature's functionality
• Does this change affect performance? NO
• Is this a breaking change? NO
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notify/util.go adds the exported ParseRetryAfter function. It parses integer-second and HTTP-date Retry-After values and returns zero for missing, invalid, or past values.

Changes

Retry-After parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry-After duration parser notify/util.go	Adds ParseRetryAfter and the imports required to parse numeric seconds and HTTP-date values into time.Duration results.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2dffe

The PR adds a shared Retry-After parser, but negative numeric header values currently produce negative durations. This is a bounded correctness issue in the new API; the change remains mergeable with owner awareness and a follow-up fix before the parser is used for retry scheduling.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 11.11% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the notify retrier change and the generic handling of HTTP 429 responses.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the change, linked issues, feature tests, release notes, and applicable checklist items. It states that the change has no user-facing impact.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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notify/notify_test.go (1)

582-617: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a comment explaining the timing assumption, matching sibling tests.

Unlike TestRetryStageHonorsRetryAfter and TestRetryStageWithoutRetryAfterUsesExponentialBackoff, this test doesn't document why 2 attempts (and not more) fit in the 200ms window — it relies on the same coupling to backoff.NewExponentialBackOff() defaults (the second NextBackOff() call producing a delay that exceeds the remaining budget). A short comment would help future maintainers understand the timing assumption if backoff defaults change.

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In `@notify/notify_test.go` around lines 582 - 617, Add a short comment in
TestRetryStageRecalculatesBackoffAfterRetryAfter near the 200ms context timeout
or attempt assertions, documenting that the test expects exactly two attempts
because the default exponential backoff’s second delay exceeds the remaining
timeout budget. Match the wording and placement style used by
TestRetryStageHonorsRetryAfter and
TestRetryStageWithoutRetryAfterUsesExponentialBackoff.

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Inline comments:
In `@notify/util.go`:
- Around line 244-264: Update parseRetryAfter to prevent overflow when
converting integer Retry-After values to time.Duration: validate or clamp secs
before multiplying by time.Second, using the maximum representable duration as
the upper bound. Preserve the existing zero result for absent, invalid, or
past-date values and keep valid in-range delays unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@notify/notify_test.go`:
- Around line 582-617: Add a short comment in
TestRetryStageRecalculatesBackoffAfterRetryAfter near the 200ms context timeout
or attempt assertions, documenting that the test expects exactly two attempts
because the default exponential backoff’s second delay exceeds the remaining
timeout budget. Match the wording and placement style used by
TestRetryStageHonorsRetryAfter and
TestRetryStageWithoutRetryAfterUsesExponentialBackoff.

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Inline comments:
In `@notify/util.go`:
- Around line 251-253: Update the integer-seconds parsing branch to return 0
when Atoi produces a negative secs value, while preserving positive and zero
durations; add a regression test covering a negative numeric Retry-After value.

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