fix(fleet): stop redundant client-side merge on declared metadata publish - #1514
fix(fleet): stop redundant client-side merge on declared metadata publish#1514miyaontherelay wants to merge 1 commit into
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`publish_declared_metadata` read the agent, merged the declared fields
over the record client-side, and wrote the whole bag back. Both halves
of that are wrong:
- It is redundant. `PATCH /v1/agents/:name` already merges the supplied
metadata over the record's existing metadata server-side, verified in
the engine at both the ref fleet-e2e pins (v7.0.0, eb7563ff) and
relaycast `main`: `nextMetadata = { ...existing.metadata,
...body.metadata }` in packages/engine/src/routes/agent.ts.
- It is a lost update. This call is deliberately detached from the
spawn, so anything written between our read and our write — the node
bind, or the engine's own `fleet` placement record — is clobbered by
our stale snapshot.
Send only the declared keys. The unit test now matches the PATCH body
exactly and asserts ZERO reads, so a re-introduced read-merge-write
fails; the live-engine e2e snapshots the record before the publish and
asserts every engine-owned key survives it.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe broker now sends only declared metadata fields and relies on server-side merging. Unit tests verify that no metadata read occurs. The fleet end-to-end test verifies that existing metadata remains unchanged after publication. ChangesMetadata merge publication
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The client now sends only declared metadata, avoiding stale-snapshot overwrites. Merge readiness is low risk, but the end-to-end preservation check should require an existing engine-owned metadata key so it cannot pass without validating that unrelated metadata is preserved. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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In `@tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 702-706: Update the setup around getAgent in the fleet metadata
merge test to require an existing agent with pre-existing metadata before
capturing before. Seed or wait for a known engine-owned metadata key, then
assert the agent and metadata are present instead of defaulting missing values
to an empty object, so the subsequent preservation assertion is meaningful.
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| // Snapshot whatever the engine already owns on this record, so the merge | ||
| // assertion below is against real engine-owned keys rather than a guess at | ||
| // which ones exist. | ||
| const before = (await getAgent(engine, workspaceKey, agent))?.metadata ?? {}; | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Require pre-existing metadata before the preservation assertion.
Line 705 converts a missing agent record or absent metadata into {}. The loop at Lines 720-723 then passes without proving that server-side merging preserved an engine-owned key.
Assert that the agent exists and wait for or seed a known engine-owned metadata key before taking before.
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In `@tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.ts` around lines 702 - 706, Update the setup
around getAgent in the fleet metadata merge test to require an existing agent
with pre-existing metadata before capturing before. Seed or wait for a known
engine-owned metadata key, then assert the agent and metadata are present
instead of defaulting missing values to an empty object, so the subsequent
preservation assertion is meaningful.
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<file name="tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.ts">
<violation number="1" location="tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.ts:705">
P3: The `before` snapshot is read in a single non-waiting call after the spawn settles, but the metadata publish is a detached task that fires immediately after registration (spawn_declared_metadata_publish / tokio::spawn on register) while the 'ack and wait' invocation settle takes much longer. So `before` frequently already reflects the post-publish state. When that happens the loop over `Object.entries(before)` is vacuous and `expect(metadata).toHaveProperty(key)` trivially passes, so the new merge assertion cannot actually detect a client that clobbers engine-owned keys — exactly the regression this PR is guarding against. Snapshot the engine-owned keys before the publish can apply (e.g. gate the read on the agent existing but assert it is captured prior to the publish task, or capture `before` before the spawn's publish is dispatched) or assert the engine-owned subset is preserved independently of timing.</violation>
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| // Snapshot whatever the engine already owns on this record, so the merge | ||
| // assertion below is against real engine-owned keys rather than a guess at | ||
| // which ones exist. | ||
| const before = (await getAgent(engine, workspaceKey, agent))?.metadata ?? {}; |
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P3: The before snapshot is read in a single non-waiting call after the spawn settles, but the metadata publish is a detached task that fires immediately after registration (spawn_declared_metadata_publish / tokio::spawn on register) while the 'ack and wait' invocation settle takes much longer. So before frequently already reflects the post-publish state. When that happens the loop over Object.entries(before) is vacuous and expect(metadata).toHaveProperty(key) trivially passes, so the new merge assertion cannot actually detect a client that clobbers engine-owned keys — exactly the regression this PR is guarding against. Snapshot the engine-owned keys before the publish can apply (e.g. gate the read on the agent existing but assert it is captured prior to the publish task, or capture before before the spawn's publish is dispatched) or assert the engine-owned subset is preserved independently of timing.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.ts, line 705:
<comment>The `before` snapshot is read in a single non-waiting call after the spawn settles, but the metadata publish is a detached task that fires immediately after registration (spawn_declared_metadata_publish / tokio::spawn on register) while the 'ack and wait' invocation settle takes much longer. So `before` frequently already reflects the post-publish state. When that happens the loop over `Object.entries(before)` is vacuous and `expect(metadata).toHaveProperty(key)` trivially passes, so the new merge assertion cannot actually detect a client that clobbers engine-owned keys — exactly the regression this PR is guarding against. Snapshot the engine-owned keys before the publish can apply (e.g. gate the read on the agent existing but assert it is captured prior to the publish task, or capture `before` before the spawn's publish is dispatched) or assert the engine-owned subset is preserved independently of timing.</comment>
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@@ -699,6 +699,11 @@ describe.skipIf(!pre.ok)('two-node fleet scenario matrix', () => {
+ // Snapshot whatever the engine already owns on this record, so the merge
+ // assertion below is against real engine-owned keys rather than a guess at
+ // which ones exist.
+ const before = (await getAgent(engine, workspaceKey, agent))?.metadata ?? {};
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// Poll rather than read once: the publish is intentionally detached from the
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Original author of this branch. The verification caveat I attached to it is now half retired, not fully — flagging the remaining half so a reviewer does not read "tests pass" as broader than it is. Retired. The re-application is faithful for the Rust half. I had lost these edits from my working tree and re-applied them verbatim from context without recompiling, so I refused to carry my earlier green forward. sf-mini has now built and run Not retired. Two gaps:
To close gap 1, the fleet e2e needs a built relaycast engine: clone I ran exactly that against these edits before losing them and it was 29 passed / 4 skipped, so I expect it to pass — but that was the pre-loss tree, which is the whole reason this caveat exists. One more thing for the reviewer. A test merged in #1504 pins the old read-merge-write as intended behaviour, so the defect is currently locked in by a passing test. This PR replaces that test rather than adding to it. If you find yourself wondering why an existing test disappeared, that is why — the old one asserted the bug. |
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Two framing notes worth keeping in the record here, from relay-lead-0814's final handoff before its process ended: On why this defect existed at all: "When you detach something, re-ask what its non-atomicity now means." The read-modify-write in On why it survived #1504's review: the test at 🤖 Generated with Claude Code |
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Closing the loop on who can execute, so the open question above comes with an answer attached rather than just a decision.
So the decision is one word: if the live-engine exercise of the server-side-merge assumption is wanted before merge, ping My own read, for whatever it's worth as the author: low risk, but it is the last unexercised assumption on the branch, and it is the one whose failure mode is silent. |
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Defect
#1504(merged as592d371a8) introducedRelaycastHttpClient::publish_declared_metadata(crates/broker/src/relaycast/ws.rs:159-191), which does a client-side read-merge-write:get_agent→ merge declared fields over the existing metadata →update_agent(PATCH).This is redundant and worse:
PATCH /v1/agents/:namealready merges metadata server-side (shallow merge, confirmed againstpackages/engine/src/routes/agent.ts:291). Because this call runs detached from the spawn (fire-and-forgettokio::spawn, by design — seespawn_declared_metadata_publish), there is a real window between the client'sget_agentread and itsupdate_agentwrite in which another write can land (the node bind, the engine's ownfleetplacement record). The client's PATCH — built from the earlier, now-stale snapshot — silently clobbers that intervening write.A test at
ws.rs:973(publish_declared_metadata_merges_over_engine_owned_fields, pre-fix name) encoded the read-merge-write as intended behavior rather than testing for its absence.Fix
Send only the declared keys in the PATCH body and let the engine's server-side merge preserve everything else. No read, no stale-snapshot window.
publish_declared_metadatano longer callsget_agentbeforeupdate_agent.publish_declared_metadata_sends_only_the_declared_keys; the mock GET now returns 500 and the test asserts it is never hit (read.assert_hits(0)), and the PATCH body is matched exactly against only the declared fields (nocli, nofleet.node).tests/e2e/fleet/fleet-e2e.test.tsupdated accordingly (not re-run in this verification pass — needs the full broker/engine e2e harness).Verification
cargo test -p agent-relay-broker --lib --no-run: clean build, no new warnings.relaycast::ws::testssuite: 7 passed, 0 failed, 2 pre-existing unrelated ignores (DM-mode fixture mismatches predating this branch).publish_declared_metadata_sends_only_the_declared_keys— passes, confirms no GET occurs and the PATCH body carries only declared keys.publish_declared_metadata_makes_no_request_when_nothing_is_declared— passes, no regression.🤖 Generated with Claude Code