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fix(scrobbling): spend the joker on the entry, not on its descendant - #199

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Decision 13 of RFC-010 gives a
person one joker per ambiguous listen: retry it once, knowing the destination
may already hold it. Whether that joker had been spent was read as a join — the
entry stayed answerable for as long as no other row named it through
retry_of.

That holds only while rows are immortal, and the retention this RFC is about to
add makes them mortal. A retry ends sent, so it is the first thing a purge
takes, and the original turns answerable again.

Measured rather than feared. With the retry row gone:

  • it reappears in uncertain_scrobbles,
  • retry_uncertain_scrobble accepts it a second time,
  • discard_uncertain_scrobble accepts it too,
  • and the link's uncertain counter puts it back to degraded for a listen
    answered weeks ago — decision 12's visible fault turned into a permanent
    false alarm.

What changes

scrobble_outbox.retried_at, null until it is not. The retry writes it in a
conditional UPDATE … RETURNING id that precedes the insert and is the
arbitration, so two simultaneous calls cannot both find the entry unanswered.
retry_of and its unique index stay — provenance, and a second rampart — but
nothing observable depends on the survival of the row they name any more.

updated_at is deliberately left alone: it is what the listing publishes as the
moment the listen became ambiguous, and answering it did not make it ambiguous
again.

The RFC named three readers; there are four. discard_uncertain_scrobble
has carried the same exclusion since #193 and was missed by a count taken from
the decision instead of from the file. The RFC is corrected here too.

The backfill, and why it is not optional

Retried entries exist on every database linked since #191. Adding the column
empty would hand every one of those originals a second joker: on the only
servers with anything to reintroduce it to, the migration would reintroduce
exactly the defect it exists to correct. It reads retry_of one last time and
takes the retry row's created_at, which is when the joker was spent.

How it is proved

  • a_spent_joker_is_not_returned_when_the_retry_is_purged plays the purge by
    hand and checks all four readers. Each of the four was inverted on its own
    — put back on the join while the other three stay on the column — and each
    took down its own assertion, at lines 706, 716, 730 and 741. A single broad
    inversion would have been caught by the first of them and said nothing about
    the other three.
  • a_retry_queued_before_the_column_counts_as_the_joker_spent populates a
    database at the schema version before the column, then migrates: the
    answered entry carries the retry's instant, the unanswered one stays null, and
    the retry itself spent nobody's joker. Inverted by removing the backfill
    UPDATE, it falls on the first assertion.

cargo fmt, cargo clippy -D warnings and the full suite (nineteen targets)
are green. CodeRabbit returned one trivial finding — use RETURNING — which is
taken, along with the false claim about the SQLite floor that had kept me from
it; the second pass returned none.

The rest of RFC-010 — retention, named destinations, Maloja, Last.fm — follows
in its own pull request. This one is the correction to shipped code, kept apart
so it stays extractable.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Correctifs
    • Les éléments incertains déjà relancés ne réapparaissent plus comme actions disponibles après la purge de leur relance.
    • Les compteurs et listes d’éléments incertains reflètent désormais correctement leur état réel.
    • Les relances concurrentes d’un même élément sont évitées.
    • Les actions de relance et de rejet sont correctement refusées lorsqu’un élément a déjà été traité.
    • Les bases existantes sont mises à jour automatiquement tout en préservant l’historique des relances.

Whether an ambiguous listen has already been retried was read as a join:
the entry stayed answerable for as long as no other row named it through
`retry_of`. That holds only while rows are immortal, and RFC-010's
retention makes them mortal — a retry ends `sent`, so it is the first
thing a purge takes, and the original then turns answerable again.

Measured rather than feared: with the retry row gone the entry reappears
in `uncertain_scrobbles`, `retry_uncertain_scrobble` accepts it a second
time, `discard_uncertain_scrobble` accepts it too, and the link's
`uncertain` counter puts it back to `degraded` for a listen answered
weeks ago — decision 12's visible fault turned into a permanent false
alarm.

So the fact moves onto the row: `retried_at`, null until it is not. The
retry writes it in a conditional UPDATE that precedes the insert and
*is* the arbitration, so two simultaneous calls cannot both find the
entry unanswered; `retry_of` and its unique index stay as provenance and
as a second rampart. `updated_at` is deliberately left alone — it is
what the listing publishes as the moment the listen became ambiguous,
and answering it did not make it ambiguous again.

The RFC named three readers; there are four. `discard_uncertain_scrobble`
has carried the same exclusion since #193. Each of the four is proved
apart, by an inversion that puts only that one back on the join and
takes down its own assertion — lines 706, 716, 730 and 741 of the test.

And the column is filled on databases already in service. Retried
entries exist since #191, so adding it empty would hand every one of
those originals a second joker: on the only servers with anything to
reintroduce it to, the migration would reintroduce exactly the defect it
exists to correct. It reads `retry_of` one last time and takes the retry
row's `created_at`, which is when the joker was spent. Proved on a
database populated at the schema version before the column, not on a
rereading of the SQL.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
Decision 13's revision counted the places asking "has this entry already
spent its joker" from a rereading of the decision rather than from the
file. `discard_uncertain_scrobble` carries the same exclusion since #193
and was not among them. The file is the one that is right.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
…e floor

The conditional UPDATE now carries `RETURNING id`, so the rowid comes
back from the write that took it rather than from a second lookup by
`public_id`. The lookup named the same row, and was a separate claim
about which row that is.

It also retires the reason given for avoiding `RETURNING` in the first
place. A comment in this file held that `COUNT(*) FILTER` wanted a
SQLite newer than the crate builds against, so anything newer still was
out of reach. Measured: the library is bundled at 3.51, and the schema
has required 3.37 since the first `STRICT` table — the note was never
true, and the count query keeps its shape for the reason that is.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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La migration ajoute scrobble_outbox.retried_at et renseigne les bases existantes. Les services utilisent ce champ pour filtrer les entrées déjà relancées. La relance devient atomique. Les tests couvrent le backfill et la purge des lignes de retry.

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État de relance des scrobbles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Migration et initialisation de retried_at
migrations-v2/..., src/database.rs
La migration ajoute la colonne nullable et la renseigne depuis les lignes de retry existantes. Le test vérifie les entrées répondues, non répondues et les lignes de retry.
Filtrage et relance atomique
src/services/scrobbling.rs, src/api/scrobbling.rs, tests/scrobbling.rs, docs/rfcs/RFC-010-external-scrobbling.md
Les listes, compteurs et suppressions utilisent retried_at. La relance réserve l’entrée avec une mise à jour conditionnelle et RETURNING. Le test vérifie le comportement après purge de la ligne de retry. La RFC et le commentaire d’API décrivent la nouvelle règle.

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Title check ✅ Passed Le titre décrit précisément le changement principal : l’état de retry est porté par l’entrée d’origine, et non par sa ligne descendante. Il est concis et lié aux modifications.
Description check ✅ Passed La description présente le problème, la solution, le backfill, les tests et les résultats de validation. Elle ne reprend pas les intitulés exacts du modèle et ne contient pas la confirmation explicite…
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The note explaining why this route declares no `409` described the
`NOT EXISTS` clause that carried the refusal until this branch. The
refusal is the same and reads `retried_at`.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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Vérifier l’identité de la destination avant une reprise.

retry_uncertain_scrobble vérifie uniquement que scrobble_link.status = 'active'. initialize enregistre la cible construite avec le listenbrainz_url courant, sans réconcilier cette URL avec les liens existants. Une reprise peut donc envoyer l’écoute vers une destination différente de celle utilisée lors de sa mise en file. Persister l’empreinte de l’URL normalisée, la réconcilier dans initialize et l’inclure dans l’UPDATE transactionnel avant de créer la reprise.

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In `@docs/rfcs/RFC-010-external-scrobbling.md` around lines 872 - 879, Dans
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The record of the session that shipped #199 and #200: the correction to
decision 13 that went first and alone, the three places named instances
had to move together, what the Last.fm journey settles, and the decision
a review reversed — an adapter may read a body to reach a verdict,
because decision 12 governs what reaches a member and not what an
adapter reads.

Five traps, each of which cost something here: an inversion whose anchor
spanned two lines and silently did nothing, a refusal reached by an
earlier layer than the one under test, `all` over an empty collection,
splitting a URL on its first `=`, and `endpoint` dropping the trailing
slash Last.fm answers on.

And the previous handoff's "No code yet" about RFC-010 now carries a
dated note saying when it stopped being true.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HreLtK4rFopmncpZEHzp59
Signed-off-by: InstaZDLL <github.105mh@8shield.net>
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