fix(keys)!: put the real serializer identity in the cache key (LAB-4351) by 27Bslash6 · Pull Request #311 · cachekit-io/cachekit-py

27Bslash6 · 2026-09-21T00:08:42Z

Summary

Threads the configured serializer identity into the generated cache key so the key's {ic_flag}{serializer_code} suffix reflects the serializer in use rather than the constant s fallback. The write path, the read path and CacheInvalidator now derive the suffix from a single source, CacheSerializationHandler.

Public API changes

CacheKeyGenerator (src/cachekit/key_generator.py)

SERIALIZER_CODES re-keyed to canonical names only: "std" → "default". Callers reading this mapping by the old key must update.
New class attributes:
- SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES — {"std": "default", "standard": "default", "pythonic": "auto"}, relocated from cache_handler, which now imports it rather than defining its own copy.
- CUSTOM_SERIALIZER_PREFIX = "<custom>:" — applied to serializer instances before code lookup; angle brackets are not valid identifier characters, so a class name cannot be spelled as a table key.
- UNKNOWN_SERIALIZER_CODE = "x" and _UNKNOWN_CODE_DIGEST_BYTES = 2.
New classmethod serializer_code(serializer_type) -> str. Resolves aliases, then returns the one-character code or "x" + 4 hex digits from a blake2b digest of the identity. The digest is content-derived (not id()/hash()), so codes are stable across processes; the 16-bit space implies a ~1/65536 collision rate between distinct identities, degrading hit rate only — the frame-header mismatch guard still fires.

CacheSerializationHandler (src/cachekit/cache_handler.py)

New read-only property serializer_key_name, returning the frame-tag name for string-configured serializers and the <custom>:-prefixed class name for instances.

CacheInvalidator.__init__

New required, keyword-only serializer_type parameter. Direct constructions of CacheInvalidator are a breaking change; create_cache_wrapper supplies serialization_handler.serializer_key_name.

CacheOperationHandler.get_cache_key

Now forwards serializer_type from the serialization handler. Signature unchanged.

Notable behavioral detail

Serializer instances — including built-ins such as StandardSerializer() — deliberately do not canonicalize to their string name; they route through the x-prefixed derived code. This keeps serializer="arrow" and serializer=ArrowSerializer() in separate keyspaces, consistent with the frame header, which already recorded them under different names.

Tests

Corrected three pre-existing tests that supplied serializer_type themselves; they now assert on the key observed in the backend (redis_test_client.keys(...)). The cross-serializer isolation test collapses its two decorators onto one shared namespace so the serializer code is the only discriminator.
tests/critical/test_encryption_integration.py reads the written key via scan instead of re-deriving it, since an instance-configured serializer no longer matches a hand-built key.
tests/unit/test_key_generator_blake2b.py updated for the re-keyed SERIALIZER_CODES and asserts the custom bucket is disjoint from registered codes.
New tests/unit/test_key_serializer_suffix.py (264 lines) with a recording backend: suffix emission, invalidation/write-path key agreement, integrity-flag independence, alias resolution, registry coverage (excluding the unreachable "encrypted" entry), impersonation resistance, per-instance code distinctness, and an end-to-end no-mutual-eviction check asserting exactly 2 backend entries and 2 function invocations over 6 calls.

Ancillary

.secrets.baseline regenerated for shifted line numbers.

Summary

Cache keys now encode the serializer actually in use. Previously the serializer half of the key's metadata suffix was effectively constant (:1s for every configured serializer, :0s with integrity checking disabled), so functions cached under different serializers collided in a single keyspace and evicted each other through the Serializer mismatch path.

This is a breaking change to key identity for all non-default serializers.

Changes

CacheKeyGenerator

SERIALIZER_CODES and SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES are now exposed as MappingProxyType (read-only). Mutation raises TypeError, preventing process-wide re-keying at runtime.
serializer_code() gained input validation: raises TypeError for non-str input and ValueError for an empty string. The guard runs before the alias/code lookup, so no fallback code is ever produced — a fallback would place unrelated entries in a shared bucket and let invalidate_cache() report success for a key nothing ever wrote. Centralizing the check here covers the write path, CacheInvalidator, and direct generate_key() callers.

CacheSerializationHandler

Passing a serializer class instead of an instance (e.g. a missing ()) now raises TypeError with a corrective message. Classes previously satisfied the runtime_checkable protocol check, then resolved their identity to their metaclass name type, collapsing all such serializers into one code and producing unbound serialize() calls.
The module-level _SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES copy was removed; alias canonicalization now reads CacheKeyGenerator.SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES directly, keeping the key's serializer code and the stored envelope's frame tag derived from a single map.

Key identity impact

Configured as	Suffix	Before v0.19.0
`"std"` / `"default"` / `"standard"`	`:1s`	`:1s`
`"auto"` / `"pythonic"`	`:1a`	`:1s`
`"orjson"`	`:1o`	`:1s`
`"arrow"`	`:1w`	`:1s`
any serializer instance	`:1x` + 4 hex	`:1s`
`@cache.local()`	`:0l`	`:0l`

Unaffected: the default serializer, @cache.local(), a custom key= function, and interop_mode=True.

Affected functions take a one-time cold cache at cut-over; pre-upgrade entries become unreachable and cannot be removed by invalidate_cache().

Documentation

docs/serializers/README.md adds a v0.19.0 breaking-change section covering the affected configurations, the coexistence of previously-conflicting decorators, and rollout guidance. The data-retention warning now spells out the absence of a bulk-delete API and per-backend flush procedures (Redis SCAN + UNLINK, File backend directory removal, TTL-only for Memcached and CachekitIO), and stresses flushing only after the last replica on the prior release is retired. docs/api-reference.md links to the new section.

Tests

tests/unit/test_key_serializer_suffix.py adds coverage for invalidation with an empty serializer identity, non-str and empty identities, serializer classes passed in place of instances, and the immutability of both code tables.

Summary

Corrects documentation and docstrings describing how serializer identity is encoded into cache keys. No public API signatures were changed; the only source-level modification is a return type annotation.

Changes

Documentation (docs/serializers/README.md, docs/serializers/custom.md)

Prior text claimed each instance-configured serializer receives its own cache-key code. This was inaccurate. The revised text states:

The x-prefixed code is derived from the serializer's class name, so two instances of the same class share a single code (constructor arguments included).
The four hex digits are a two-byte digest, yielding 65,536 possible codes; collisions between distinct class names are therefore possible rather than impossible.
A collision cannot cause mis-deserialization — the envelope records the serializer name and the mismatch guard rejects the entry — but it does cost keyspace isolation, causing the colliding pair to share a key and miss on each other's entries.
Recommended mitigation: assign a distinct namespace= to one of the colliding serializers.

src/cachekit/key_generator.py

Updated the serializer_code classmethod docstring to reflect the same collision semantics, clarifying that separation holds only up to the digest's 65,536 codes and that the reader's serializer-name check against the envelope — not this code — is the safeguard against mis-deserialization.

src/cachekit/cache_handler.py

Added an explicit -> None return annotation to an __init__ method.

Breaking change

Migration table and steps: docs/serializers/README.md → "Breaking change in v0.19.0: the key carries the real serializer".

BREAKING CHANGE: cache keys for any serializer other than the default change identity on upgrade — no configuration change is required to be affected. A deployment using serializer="auto", "orjson", "arrow", or any serializer passed as an instance was writing :1s keys and will now write :1a, :1o, :1w or an x-prefixed code. That function's entire working set recomputes once at deploy, so plan a cold cache or roll out behind existing warm-up / stampede controls. Deployments on the default serializer are unaffected: their keys were already :1s and stay :1s. Orphaned entries are also a retention question, not only a hit-rate one: once the key changes, invalidate_cache() computes the new key and can no longer reach the old copy, so a deletion for erasure, consent withdrawal or permission revocation reports success while the pre-upgrade entry survives to its TTL — or indefinitely where ttl=None. Flush the affected namespaces on upgrade if you cache personal data rather than relying on expiry.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Cache entries are separated by serialiser, preventing collisions between formats and custom serialisers.
- Custom serialiser instances receive distinct cache-key identities.
- Cache invalidation targets entries for the matching serialiser.
Bug Fixes
- Invalid or ambiguous serialiser identities are rejected instead of silently using the default.
Documentation
- Added migration guidance for the v0.19 key-format change, including cold-cache behaviour, rolling deployments, cleanup and custom serialiser naming.
- Documented serialiser-specific key formats and compatibility considerations.

`CacheKeyGenerator.generate_key` has always accepted a `serializer_type`, but no caller on the main read/write path passed it: all three `generate_key` call sites in `cache_handler.py` stopped at `integrity_checking`, so the parameter fell back to "std" and every key ended `:1s` whatever serializer was in use. The suffix is two independent fields, `{ic_flag}{serializer_code}`. The ic half worked. The serializer half was a constant. So two decorators over one function differing only in serializer produced the same key. `deserialize_data`'s serializer-mismatch guard caught the collision on read and evicted, so each decorator evicted the other's entry on every call: a permanent 0% hit rate for both, a backend write per call, and no error reaching the caller. The guard turned wrong data into wasted work, which is why this never showed up as a failure. Threaded through from the one place that knows the answer — the serialization handler — so the write path and `CacheInvalidator` cannot disagree about which key to delete. `CacheInvalidator.serializer_type` is required and keyword-only: a defaulted value that must equal another object's state is this bug's own shape. The alias map moves to `CacheKeyGenerator` and `SERIALIZER_CODES` is keyed by canonical name only, so the serializer name written into the frame header and the key's serializer code resolve through ONE map. Two maps would drift, and a drift here means invalidation deleting a key nothing ever wrote. Identities outside the table get `x` plus four hex digits derived from the identity, not a shared bucket. A shared bucket reproduces the bug above verbatim: an instance is the only way to configure a built-in (`ArrowSerializer(return_format=...)`) and is what the docs teach, so `StandardSerializer()` beside `AutoSerializer()` is an ordinary arrangement, and collapsing both onto one code has them evict each other forever. Measured 6 of 6 misses on one backend before, 2 of 6 after. A serializer instance's identity is prefixed before that lookup, so a class name can never be spelled as a table key. Without it a custom class literally named `auto` takes AutoSerializer's code AND passes the mismatch guard, which compares that same string, and reads the genuine serializer's entries. The frame-tag collision behind that is older than this change and survives it; keeping the keyspaces apart is what closes the reachable path. Built-in *instances* deliberately do NOT canonicalize to their string names. They would then share both a key and a frame header name with the string form, which stops the mismatch guard firing between two differently configured serializers — turning an eviction loop into `ArrowSerializer(return_format= "arrow")` silently serving bytes written for `"pandas"`. Two instances of one class remain one identity for the same reason the guard cannot help there; docs now say so and point at `namespace=`. Three pre-existing tests claimed to cover this and could not: they called `generate_key(..., serializer_type="auto")` themselves and asserted the generator honoured an argument the test had just supplied, while the decorator path under test never passed one. The cross-serializer isolation test also gave its two decorators different namespaces, so its keys differed for a reason unrelated to the serializer. They now read the key the decorator actually wrote. BREAKING CHANGE: cache keys for any serializer other than the default change identity on upgrade — no configuration change required to be affected. A deployment using `serializer="auto"`, `"orjson"`, `"arrow"`, or any serializer passed as an instance was writing `:1s` keys and will now write `:1a`, `:1o`, `:1w` or an `x`-prefixed code. That function's entire working set recomputes once at deploy, so plan a cold cache or roll out behind existing warm-up / stampede controls. Deployments on the default serializer are unaffected: their keys were already `:1s` and stay `:1s`. Orphaned entries are also a retention question, not only a hit-rate one. Once the key changes, `invalidate_cache()` computes the new key and can no longer reach the old copy, so a deletion for erasure, consent withdrawal or permission revocation reports success while the previous entry survives to its TTL — or indefinitely where `ttl=None`. Flush the affected namespace on upgrade if you cache personal data rather than relying on expiry. Refs: cachekit-io/protocol spec/cache-key-format.md

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The change adds serializer identity to cache keys and invalidation. It defines codes for built-in and custom serializers, updates tests and documentation, and refreshes two secrets-baseline metadata values.

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Serializer keyspace

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Serializer identity encoding `src/cachekit/key_generator.py`, `tests/unit/test_key_generator_blake2b.py`, `tests/unit/test_key_serializer_suffix.py`	Canonical aliases and immutable mappings produce fixed built-in codes or hashed custom codes. The generator rejects non-string and empty identities.
Cache operation and invalidation wiring `src/cachekit/cache_handler.py`, `src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py`, `tests/unit/test_error_path_key_redaction.py`, `tests/unit/test_key_serializer_suffix.py`	Cache operations and synchronous and asynchronous invalidation use the serializer identity exposed by the serialization handler. Serializer classes passed instead of instances raise `TypeError`.
Documented key behaviour and validation `docs/api-reference.md`, `docs/data-flow-architecture.md`, `docs/serializers/`, `tests/unit/test_key_serializer_suffix.py`, `tests/integration/`, `tests/critical/*`	Documentation describes serializer-specific keyspaces, migration behaviour, custom identity collisions, and retention. Tests check suffixes, serializer isolation, cache hits, and encryption lookup.

Secrets baseline maintenance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Baseline metadata refresh `.secrets.baseline`	The recorded finding line number and baseline generation timestamp changed.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Decorator
  participant CacheOperationHandler
  participant CacheKeyGenerator
  participant CacheInvalidator
  Decorator->>CacheOperationHandler: execute operation with serializer
  CacheOperationHandler->>CacheKeyGenerator: generate serializer-specific key
  CacheKeyGenerator-->>CacheOperationHandler: return key with serializer suffix
  Decorator->>CacheInvalidator: pass serializer_key_name
  CacheInvalidator->>CacheKeyGenerator: generate matching invalidation key

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### [1/4] docs/serializers/README.md:112
Issue identified during code review:
This documents a breaking behavior change—the cache key format now embeds a serializer code, so every existing key for a function changes identity and the previous `SerializationError` mismatch path no longer triggers for most configurations. Consumers upgrading across this release will silently lose cache hits and, worse, deletions for erasure or consent withdrawal will report success while stale personal data survives. Add a dedicated 'BREAKING CHANGE' section to this README stating the old vs new key suffix format, which configurations change identity, the affected consumers, and migration steps (flush affected namespaces before deploy, bump `namespace=` for instance-configured serializers).

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Issue identified during code review:
Mutable module global `_SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES` aliases `CacheKeyGenerator.SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES`, so any code that mutates this binding also mutates the class attribute process-wide, silently changing key generation and frame-tag resolution. Replace with `_SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES = MappingProxyType(CacheKeyGenerator.SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES)` to make it immutable, or access the class attribute through an accessor instead.

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Missing validation on `serializer_type` allows a missing, empty, or non-string value to silently produce cache keys that never match anything written, making invalidation a no-op that is very hard to debug. Add validation before assignment: `if not isinstance(serializer_type, str) or not serializer_type: raise ValueError('serializer_type must be a non-empty string')`.

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### [4/4] src/cachekit/key_generator.py:163
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Dereferencing `canonical` with `.encode()` without a null check allows a missing or None serializer identity from `SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES.get(serializer_type, serializer_type)` to crash key generation. Guard with a default: `canonical = cls.SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES.get(serializer_type, serializer_type) or "default"`.

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…r classes (LAB-4351) Review follow-ups on the serializer-code change. `SERIALIZER_CODES` and `SERIALIZER_NAME_ALIASES` are read-only now. Both tables decide the key's serializer code and the frame tag it must agree with; an in-place mutation anywhere in the process would silently re-key every entry and desync the two. The module-level alias in cache_handler is gone — both call sites read the class attribute — so there is one binding to reason about, not two. `serializer_code` rejects a non-str or empty identity instead of producing a key nothing wrote. It does NOT fall back to "default": a fallback is a shared bucket, the exact shape of the bug this branch fixes, and an invalidator with no identity would then delete the default serializer's entry — a key it never wrote — and report success. The guard sits at the one function every key passes through (write path, `CacheInvalidator`, direct `generate_key` callers) rather than in each caller. A serializer CLASS passed where an instance belongs (`serializer= ArrowSerializer`, the missing-parens typo) used to be accepted: a class object satisfies the runtime_checkable protocol because it has the methods, and its identity was then its metaclass name, `type`. Every class passed that way shared one frame tag and one key code — the same shared bucket, one layer up — and `serialize()` was an unbound call failing on every write with caching silently off. Rejected at the existing type check with a message that names the fix. Docs: `docs/serializers/README.md` gains a breaking-change section at the top of the Migration Guide — which configurations change identity on upgrade and which do not, a "Before v0.19.0" column on the code table, and the retention step made honest: the SDK has no bulk delete and `cache_clear()` only knows the keys the current process wrote, so the flush happens on the backend, per backend, and during a rolling deploy only after the last replica still writing the old keys is gone. A `namespace=` bump orphans the old keyspace, it does not delete it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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🟡 Minor · Use one serialiser-aware key builder for fast mode and invalidation. · wrapper.py:1170-1178

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Use one serialiser-aware key builder for fast mode and invalidation.

The synchronous and asynchronous fast-mode branches build keys without serialiser metadata. Decorators with the same namespace, function hash, and arguments but different serialisers can therefore share one backend entry. Deserialisation can then report a serialiser mismatch; fail-open handling deletes the shared entry and recomputes it, so the decorators can repeatedly evict each other’s entries.

Non-interop single-key invalidation uses the standard serialiser-aware key builder, so it can miss entries written by fast mode. Add a shared fast-mode key builder with the canonical integrity and serialiser metadata, and use it for both wrappers and both single-key invalidation paths.
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In `@src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py` around lines 1170 - 1178, Replace the
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In `@docs/serializers/custom.md`:
- Around line 67-70: Update the serializer cache-key documentation around
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In `@src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py`:
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…lidator ctor Three review findings, all verified against the code first. The four hex digits come from a two-byte blake2b digest, so there are 65,536 codes and two distinct class names CAN collide. `docs/serializers/custom.md` said "distinct classes never share a keyspace" and `docs/serializers/README.md` said "each instance-configured serializer gets its own code" — the first is an absolute the digest size cannot back, the second reads per-instance when the derivation is per-class and contradicted the caution eight lines below it. Both now state the real guarantee: per-class, collision-possible, and the envelope's serializer-name check (not the code) is what prevents a mis-deserialization — a collision costs isolation and hit rate, not correctness. `CacheKeyGenerator.serializer_code`'s own docstring carried the same overclaim ("keeps every unrecognised serializer in its own keyspace"). Corrected at the source too, rather than leaving the authoritative docstring contradicting the two pages that cite it. `CacheInvalidator.__init__` gained a keyword-only parameter in this change and had no return annotation; added `-> None` per the repo's public-API type-hint convention. No behaviour change: prose, a docstring, and one annotation. CodeRabbit-Resolved: custom.md:70:Do not describe the fou CodeRabbit-Resolved: README.md:95:Correct the serializer- CodeRabbit-Resolved: cache_handler.py:1764:Add the return type t

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…ode-in-cache-key # Conflicts: # .secrets.baseline # src/cachekit/cache_handler.py

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Resolved src/cachekit/cache_handler.py (kept this branch's serializer_key_name property, took main's _resolve_single_tenant_id rewrite) and regenerated .secrets.baseline with detect-secrets. Merged main into the branch; CI will re-run.

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docs(cache-key): serializer code must be derived, and per-identity (LAB-4351) cachekit-io/protocol#67

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