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Summary

New or edited users can remain absent or stale on nodes when a queue wake-up is lost, a full snapshot overlaps pending updates, or database commits and queue writes arrive in different orders. Repeated edits with unchanged node settings also generate unnecessary work for every node.

  • Make pending updates durable and revision guarded: preserve active claims, acknowledge only the claimed revision, and recover interrupted or expired work without resurrecting stale payloads.
  • Read current user state immediately before delivery. Coalesce reads within each worker process, use indexed batches of up to 400 user IDs, and bound database and delivery timeouts.
  • Coordinate full snapshots with a renewable per-node fence. Wait for in-flight deltas, load the snapshot inside the fence, and retire captured revisions only after a successful sync.
  • Skip node dispatch when the serialized credentials and inbound set are unchanged. Preserve normal database writes, edit timestamps, notifications and API responses; changes to the effective node state still propagate.
  • Avoid loading full user snapshots during healthy reconnect recovery. Resume shared work, bound queue batches, retain chunked delta transport, and compact expired KV history with revision-limited batched purges.

Type of change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Breaking change
  • Refactor / cleanup
  • Documentation
  • Tests / CI

Checklist

  • I tested the change locally or explained why it cannot be tested.
  • I added or updated tests for behavior changes.
  • I updated documentation, translations, or examples if needed. (Operational considerations are described below; no UI changes.)
  • I checked database migrations when models or schema changed. (No schema changes; migration upgrade and consistency checks passed.)
  • I did not include secrets, tokens, private keys, or unrelated changes.

Testing

Validated head: b6f8846f9cb3e9efa3fa0730b03c4452d8140ff8.

Validation Result
Full suite with SQLite 743 passed, zero failures/errors/skips
Full suite with PostgreSQL 17, four configured workers and real NATS JetStream 743 passed, zero failures/errors/skips
Focused synchronization and recovery suites 108 passed
Real NATS, gRPC transport and independent-process integration suites 32 passed
Alembic upgrade and consistency checks Passed
GitHub Actions on this head: SQLite, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, MySQL, MariaDB, Ruff and Python CodeQL Passed
Ruff lint/format checks on all 23 changed Python files; git diff --check Passed

Full-suite command: python -m pytest tests -q -rs --tb=short -p no:cacheprovider -o faulthandler_timeout=300, with isolated databases, TZ=UTC, DEBUG=false, and the appropriate NATS/worker configuration. Migration checks used python -m alembic upgrade head and python -m alembic check against the isolated databases.

Regression coverage includes lost wake-ups and idle-worker races; cross-process claims, expiry and crash recovery; concurrent snapshots and updates; failed RPCs and fence renewal; reversed commit/enqueue order; bounded current-state queries and cancellation; unchanged versus effective user edits; healthy reconnect recovery; and concurrent key recreation during compaction.

Controlled deployment validation of the same runtime files:

  • On 12 enabled nodes, create, credential rotation, disable, re-enable and delete were verified through actual WebSocket and Reality connections. The lifecycle checks also passed during a bulk edit workload; API-start-to-confirmation bounds were below five seconds, including client setup and probing overhead.
  • Twelve repeated same-group edits produced zero owned queue writes, compared with 296 before suppression. A note-only edit dropped from 24 writes to zero; a credential change still reached all 12 nodes.
  • Separate continuity checks kept 12 existing connections open across edits to another user: 394/394 requests succeeded.
  • A 35-minute observation recorded all 12 nodes connected in 70 samples, no sync errors or core restarts, and no pending work in 18 detailed queue samples. A bulk workload included 18,182 successful user edits; before the concurrent lifecycle probe began, 15,510 modification events produced no sync-stream writes.

The deployment checks cover the 12 enabled nodes and the specified transports and observation window. The GitHub checks listed above also passed on this head.

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Notes for reviewers

Public API contracts, dependencies, deployment configuration and database schema are unchanged. Full administrative syncs retain their existing node-core restart behavior; ordinary user updates use the delta path. Automatic healthy recovery preserves queued work and avoids restarting the core.

Shared KV documents now carry claim metadata and refresh markers. Legacy claim records are recovered after lease expiry. Upgrade workers together; for a downgrade, stop workers and resolve refresh markers with the newer implementation before starting older workers. This change provides retryable delivery and convergence, not exactly-once transport.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Improved node synchronization with queued, batched updates and safer full-state synchronization.
    • Added automatic recovery for interrupted or expired synchronization work.
    • Added refresh handling to keep node data aligned with current user state.
    • Reduced unnecessary node updates when user changes do not affect delivered connection data.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reconnect behavior without unnecessarily restarting healthy nodes.
    • Increased reliability for concurrent updates, worker failures, and synchronization conflicts.
    • Improved cleanup of expired synchronization data with safer, more efficient batching.

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The pull request adds deferred node-user loading, fenced shared synchronization, durable queued delivery, current-state refresh, rate-limited recovery, payload-change filtering, and grouped KV tombstone cleanup. Unit, integration, subprocess, and transport tests cover these paths.

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Node synchronization and KV cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queued bridge and queue persistence
app/node/bridge.py, app/node/nats_memory.py, app/node/__init__.py, app/nats/kv_*, tests/test_node_bridge.py, tests/test_nats_node_memory.py, tests/test_node_full_sync_processes.py, tests/test_grpc_queue_transport.py, tests/node_delivery_process_worker.py
Queued gRPC and REST nodes use bounded background delivery. The NATS store uses inline claims, refresh markers, revision-aware capture, acknowledgements, requeueing, and leased full-sync fences.
Deferred connection and current-state refresh
app/operation/node.py, app/node/sync.py, app/node/user.py, tests/test_node_current_state.py, tests/test_node_manager.py
Connection flows defer user reads until a Start RPC or sync requires them. Full-sync fences protect snapshots. Current-state reads coalesce requests and limit query sizes.
Connection recovery and manager wiring
app/jobs/node_checker.py, app/node/manager_sync.py, tests/test_node_reconnect_recovery.py, tests/test_nats_sync_integration.py, tests/node_reconnect_process_worker.py, tests/api/test_node.py
Healthy connected nodes recover local attachments or shared sync without restarting the core. Recovery is rate-limited. Connect handling keeps database-dependent operations inside the database context.
Payload change detection
app/operation/user.py, app/node/user.py, tests/test_node_sync.py
User updates publish node synchronization only when the node-relevant payload signature changes.
Grouped tombstone compaction
app/nats/kv_cleanup.py, tests/test_nats_sync_integration.py
Deleted keys are grouped by prefix and purged in batches. Protected prefixes use a bounded per-key fallback. Invalid snapshots raise RuntimeError before purging.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant HealthChecker
  participant NodeOperation
  participant QueuedNode
  participant NatsUserSyncStore
  participant CurrentStateReader
  participant Database
  HealthChecker->>NodeOperation: recover healthy connected node
  NodeOperation->>QueuedNode: attach or resume shared sync
  QueuedNode->>NatsUserSyncStore: claim queued users
  QueuedNode->>CurrentStateReader: refresh current user state
  CurrentStateReader->>Database: issue coalesced indexed query
  Database-->>CurrentStateReader: return current payloads
  CurrentStateReader-->>QueuedNode: return refreshed payloads
  QueuedNode->>NatsUserSyncStore: acknowledge or requeue delivery
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Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to 6b1be

The shared node user-synchronization module contains a syntax error and cannot be loaded at all, so node synchronization and anything importing it would fail immediately on startup. This one-line fix must be applied before merging.

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async def _sync_worker(self):
token = _queued_sync.set(True)
try:
await super()._sync_worker()

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the class not inherited anything how you use super class

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_QueuedBatchSync is used as a mixin here. The concrete classes inherit from both _QueuedBatchSync and GrpcNode/RestNode:

class QueuedGrpcNode(_QueuedBatchSync, GrpcNode):
    pass

class QueuedRestNode(_QueuedBatchSync, RestNode):
    pass

So super() follows the MRO and resolves _sync_worker() from GrpcNode or RestNode. _QueuedBatchSync is not intended to be instantiated on its own.

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pr the bridge part to https://github.com/PasarGuard/node_bridge_py

Users created or modified in the panel could reach nodes late or not at all.
Three mechanisms were reproduced and fixed:

- Lost wake-up: the bridge's lazy sync worker cleared its wake signal on an
  empty claim even when a newer update had set it during the claim, and an
  update racing the worker's idle exit found a still-running task. The panel
  adapter now consumes the wake before reading the queue, keeps draining after
  a full batch, restarts the loop when a wake arrives while it winds down, and
  backs off instead of idling out when the store fails transiently.

- Full snapshot vs deltas: PUT /api/node/{id}/sync read the user snapshot
  before flushing the queue, so an update queued in between was lost, and a
  failed RPC did not restore cleared work. A full snapshot (sync and Start) now
  runs inside a leased per-node fence: workers stop claiming, in-flight
  deliveries are waited out, the snapshot is read afterwards, and flushed
  entries are only retired by revision once the RPC succeeded. A delivery whose
  claim predates the fence is re-derived from the database instead of
  acknowledged. Lease loss or renewal failure aborts the operation before
  anything is sent or retired; a delivery is never sent past its claim lease.

- Stale payload resurrection: requeue and expiry used latest-write semantics,
  so an old payload could overwrite or resurrect a newer state that had
  already been delivered. The shared queue now keeps one revision-guarded
  document per user: claims, acknowledgements and requeues are CAS-guarded on
  the claim revision and identity, enqueues preserve an in-flight claim, and
  unconfirmable acknowledgements leave durable refresh markers resolved from
  the database. Bulk updates use the same durable fenced path.

Queued work is no longer cleared when a node object detaches; node removal
still clears it. Pre-upgrade claim records are honored until they expire and
then re-derived. Tests cover the interleavings with the real bridge control
flow, real JetStream, a real gRPC receiver, independent worker processes, a
worker that dies after sending, and legacy per-user transport.
Two follow-ups to the delta delivery path, both reproduced on a live panel
after the queue fixes:

- Commit-order race: a queued payload was serialized when the API request
  was handled, so two updates to the same user landing in the same batch, or
  a delivery claimed while a later update was still committing, could send a
  state older than the database. Deliveries now re-read the user's current
  node state right before sending, inside the claim's delivery budget. Reads
  from all node workers are coalesced into one indexed query per gather
  window (bounded id batches, query timeout, no cache); a window that times
  out fails only its own batch and later requests recover. A user that is
  gone, disabled, blocked or without inbounds resolves to a removal.

- No-op fan-out: an external scheduler issues PUT /api/user with the user's
  current group_ids for every user (17,793 requests in one observed burst),
  and each request fanned out to all connected nodes although nothing the
  node sees had changed. The modification path now compares the canonical
  node payload (credentials, sorted inbound tags, status) before and after
  the change and skips node delivery when it is identical. Database writes,
  edit timestamps, notifications and the API response are unchanged;
  creation, deletion, status changes and credential or inbound changes still
  reach every node.

core_users accepts an id filter for the indexed current-state read. Tests
cover coalescing and timeout isolation of the reader, bot-style repeated
group assignment versus a real group change, id-filtered reads and the
statement count under a burst.
@DrSaeedHub DrSaeedHub changed the title perf(node): reduce reconnect overhead and bound shared user sync fix(node): make user synchronization reliable and avoid redundant work Sep 13, 2026
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except ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError:
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Fix the invalid except clause; the module cannot be imported.

Python 3 requires a parenthesized tuple for multiple exception types. As written, line 182 is a SyntaxError, so app.node.nats_memory fails to import and every consumer of the shared queue store fails with it.

Note that base64.urlsafe_b64decode raises binascii.Error, which subclasses ValueError, so the tuple still covers padding and alphabet errors.

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     def _unb64(text: str) -> str:
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             return base64.urlsafe_b64decode(text.encode("ascii")).decode("utf-8")
-        except ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError:
+        except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
             return ""
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