Internal SSR RPC cache for the web tier's server renders - #73
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The web tier fetched the same Hive RPC reads (accounts, profiles, communities, per-tag feeds, posts) straight from public nodes from every renderer process, each at full upstream latency and with nothing shared. POST /private-api/ssr/rpc answers an allowlisted read method from one cache per host: the upstream result is serialized once (JsJson, lone surrogates included) and the bytes are written to every reader unchanged; concurrent misses for one key make one upstream call, the same single flight pattern as the chain balance fetch. Per-method TTLs follow how fast each read legitimately changes for a page. A lookup that outlives the budget answers 504 while the fill completes in the background; an RPC error answers 502; either way the consumer falls back to its own pool. Both routes are gated by a shared header secret and otherwise answer exactly like unknown routes (Routes.Fallback is now reusable), so nothing is learnable from outside and the parity catalog sees no new behavior. BytesCache is a bounded LRU of byte arrays with per-entry TTL; MemCache deep-clones on every access and has no size bound, which is wrong for whole feed payloads served to many readers. GET /private-api/ssr/stats exposes per-method hit, miss, coalesced, error and timeout counters behind the same header; no per-request logging.
PR Summary by QodoAdd header-gated SSR Hive RPC proxy with per-host byte LRU cache
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When two requests both miss Cache.TryGet, the second can pause before examining InFlight while the first fill completes, caches its result, and removes its task. The second request then sees neither an in-flight task nor the now-populated cache and starts a duplicate upstream call, violating the per-key single-flight guarantee under this interleaving. Recheck the cache after winning the GetOrAdd, before launching Fill.
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Fixed in 4ae19ea: the fill rechecks the cache right after winning GetOrAdd and before calling upstream, so the interleaving you describe serves the cached bytes instead of a second call.
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Under cache pressure with mixed TTLs, an expired entry can remain near the LRU tail—for example, a short-lived feed entry accessed after an older, still-valid community entry. Set then evicts the valid head entry without checking for expired entries elsewhere, allowing unusable data to consume the byte budget and reducing the cache's effective capacity. Purge expired entries before evicting live entries for space.
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Fixed in 4ae19ea: when a Set pushes the cache over budget it first drops expired entries anywhere in the list (a full pass, rate-limited to once per 30s so pressure cannot make every Set O(n)), then evicts live entries from the LRU head only if still needed. Test: an expired entry goes before an older live one.
Greptile SummaryThis PR adds an authenticated, bounded SSR RPC read-through cache with single-flight request coalescing, per-method TTLs, upstream failover, and statistics. The expired-fill retry still needs to reject work before creating a replacement fill once the original request deadline has passed.
Confidence Score: 4/5The PR is not yet safe to merge because an expired retry can still launch unnecessary upstream work after its request deadline. The route now preserves its response deadline, but the rejection handler retries before checking that deadline, allowing an already-expired request to consume fill capacity and start a detached Hive RPC before returning 504. Files Needing Attention: dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs
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| dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs | Implements authorization, canonical cache keys, single-flight resolution, bounded fill admission, deadline handling, and stats; the rejection retry can launch replacement work after the request deadline. |
| dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/BytesCache.cs | Adds a synchronized byte-bounded TTL/LRU cache with expiry-first eviction. |
| dotnet/EcencyApi/Config.cs | Adds validated environment configuration for the internal secret, cache budget, RPC deadlines, node pool, and fill bounds. |
| dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/Routes.cs | Registers the internal SSR endpoints and extracts the existing fallback response for authorization parity. |
| dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SsrRpcTests.cs | Covers cache behavior, bounded fills, queued-fill expiry, fresh-reader attachment, authorization, allowlisting, and upstream failures, but not the post-deadline rejection retry. |
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2. Null params mismatch 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
SsrRpc computes the cache key from params (which can be null) but calls upstream with `new JsonObject() when params` is null, so the key and the actual upstream call semantics diverge and no-params methods can fail (e.g., get_dynamic_global_properties expects an empty array). This can produce incorrect 502s and/or cache entries under keys that don’t correspond to the actual request shape.
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### Issue description
`SsrRpc` currently allows `params` to be missing (null). The cache key is derived from `null` (`"...:null"`), but the upstream call is executed with `{}` (`new JsonObject()`), which changes the JSON-RPC `params` type and can break methods that require `[]` for “no params”. It also creates inconsistent caching because `null` and `{}` produce different keys.
### Issue Context
- HTTP handler passes `body.Field("params")` directly, which is null when omitted.
- `CacheKey()` includes `JsJson.Stringify(Canonical(@params))`, so null becomes `"null"` in the key.
- `Fill()` calls `Client.Call(..., @params ?? new JsonObject())`, turning null into `{}`.
- Existing typed helper `GetDynamicGlobalProperties()` uses `new JsonArray()` (empty array) for that same upstream method.
### Fix Focus Areas
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs[239-248]
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs[116-118]
- dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs[206-213]
### Concrete fix options (pick one)
1) **Strict contract (recommended):** require `params` to be present for all SSR RPC calls. If missing, answer via `Routes.Fallback(ctx)` (maintains “route does not exist” behavior). This makes upstream semantics explicit and keeps cache keys stable.
2) **Normalization:** define a single normalization for missing params (e.g., `var p = body.Field("params") ?? new JsonArray();`) and use `p` for both `CacheKey()` and `Client.Call()`. If you need per-method defaults (object vs array), implement it inside `MethodPolicy` (e.g., a `DefaultParamsKind`).
Add/adjust tests to cover an HTTP request omitting `params` for `condenser_api.get_dynamic_global_properties` and verify it succeeds (or is rejected consistently if you choose strict mode).
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Fixed in 4ae19ea: params must be present and structured (an array for condenser methods, an object for bridge). Both the cache key and the upstream call use that same node; nothing is substituted. Missing or scalar params answer like an unknown route. Test added.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds configurable SSR RPC caching with authenticated routes, allowlisted Hive reads, canonical byte caching, bounded request fills, statistics, Docker settings, and integration tests. ChangesSSR RPC cache
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new SSR RPC cache can fail during expiry cleanup for certain request keys, potentially causing request errors and leaving cache state inconsistent. Additional unresolved issues affect node configuration, cache sharing, and valid scalar or null responses, so the PR is not safe to merge without fixes or explicit acceptance. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SSRClient
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SSRClient->>Routes: POST SSR RPC request
Routes->>SsrRpc: Delegate authenticated request
SsrRpc->>BytesCache: Lookup canonical cache key
alt cache miss
SsrRpc->>HiveRpcClient: Invoke allowlisted Hive read
HiveRpcClient-->>SsrRpc: Return result or error
SsrRpc->>BytesCache: Store serialized result
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SsrRpc-->>Routes: Return result or failure
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In `@dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/SsrRpcTests.cs`:
- Around line 267-274: Add configured-secret coverage for SsrRpc.Authorized by
introducing a test seam or isolated process that supplies
Config.SsrInternalSecret before evaluation; verify matching headers authorize
while missing and nonmatching headers deny, and confirm authorized RPC and
statistics requests bypass Routes.Fallback.
In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Config.cs`:
- Around line 52-55: Update the SsrRpcNodes configuration in Config to return
null when splitting SSR_RPC_NODES produces no entries, preserving fallback to
HiveClients.DefaultNodes for unusable values such as commas.
In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs`:
- Around line 149-169: Normalize `@params` to the same empty JsonObject
representation used by Fill before computing CacheKey and before launching or
joining in-flight work in Resolve. Ensure omitted, null, and empty-object
parameters share cache entries and single-flight requests, and add coverage for
all three inputs.
- Around line 33-34: Declare both handler hosts as public static partial
classes: update SsrRpc in dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/SsrRpc.cs lines 33-34 and
Routes in dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/Routes.cs lines 191-215. Keep their handlers
wired 1:1 through Routes.cs.
- Around line 212-216: Update the SSR RPC response and cache flow around
Client.Call, Cache.Set, and the success response handling to preserve the
upstream response kind alongside cached bytes: emit null as an empty body
without a content type, strings as text/html, numbers in their string form, and
objects as JSON. Apply the same behavior on cache hits and misses, and add
coverage for object, string, number, and null responses in both paths.
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…uire params A reader that loses the in-flight race to a fill that completes and leaves could win GetOrAdd with the value already cached; the fill now rechecks the cache before calling upstream. Fills in progress are bounded (SSR_RPC_MAX_FILLS, default 64) so a slow pool plus many distinct keys queues instead of piling up detached calls. Under byte pressure the cache drops expired entries anywhere in the list before evicting a live one, at most once per 30s per pass. params must be an array or an object and both the key and the upstream call use that same node. A whitespace-only SSR_RPC_NODES falls back to the shared pool, which is exposed read-only. The EWMA is read under its lock.
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… clone params Fills waiting for the gate are bounded too (SSR_RPC_MAX_QUEUED_FILLS, default 256; only fills actually waiting count), and a fill that waited past the budget is dropped instead of calling upstream for readers that have all given up. The secret comparison runs over SHA-256 digests so its timing is independent of the presented length. SsrRpc and Routes are static partial classes like the other handler hosts. The authorized handler path now has tests of its own (the digest is a replaceable seam), and they found a real defect: the request body's params node was placed into the RPC envelope directly and could not be re-parented, so every handler call answered 502. It travels as a clone. A null result is served as JSON null with a JSON content type; the route is an internal JSON contract, not a pipe of an upstream body, so the Express res.send quirks do not apply, and the handler says so.
A queued fill is dropped only when no reader has attached within the budget. A fresh same-key reader that coalesces while the fill waits keeps it alive, so that reader is not refused for a timeout it never had. Test drives exactly that interleaving.
A reader attaching to a queued fill and the fill deciding it has expired were two unsynchronized steps, so a fresh reader could attach just after the stale timestamp was read and be refused within its own budget. Both now happen under the pending entry's lock: an expiring fill marks itself, and a reader that finds the mark clears the entry and starts a fresh fill.
… once Attaching and starting the wait are two steps; a reader descheduled for longer than the budget between them can find the fill it attached to already judged expired. Its own budget has been spent on nothing yet, so it retries once from the cache instead of surfacing the rejection.
The retry after an expired fill waits only for what is left of the lookup's original budget, so the route never stays active past it.
The throttled full pass let an entry that expired inside the 30s window outlive a live one under pressure. The cache keeps an expiry-ordered index alongside the LRU, so every over-budget Set drops every expired entry first at O(log n) apiece, and only then evicts from the LRU head. Test covers two expiries in quick succession under pressure.
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Follow-up in dde07c7: the expired-first policy now holds on every over-budget Set, not once per 30s. The cache keeps an expiry-ordered index next to the LRU, so each purge drops every expired entry at O(log n) apiece before any live entry is evicted from the head. Test: two short-lived entries expiring in quick succession under pressure, both gone before any live entry. Suite: 151 passing. |
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In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Infrastructure/BytesCache.cs`:
- Around line 28-30: Update the _byExpiry SortedSet comparer to compare tuple
keys using ordinal string semantics, while preserving ExpiresAtMs as the primary
ordering field. Ensure the comparer distinguishes keys consistently with the
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The index compares keys ordinally, as the dictionary does, so two distinct keys that a culture-aware comparison could collate as equal cannot desynchronize the two structures; the purge also tolerates an index entry without a map entry rather than throwing under the lock.
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If a coalesced reader is descheduled past its lookup deadline before its queued fill is rejected, goto again creates and starts a replacement fill before recalculating the remaining budget. The request then immediately returns 504 while the replacement can consume fill capacity, call Hive, and populate the cache despite being created after the deadline.
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Fixed in 39f7938: the retry is taken only while the reader's own deadline has not passed; past it the lookup answers timeout and starts no replacement fill, so nothing is created for a reader that has already given up.
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Closes #72
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POST /private-api/ssr/rpcwith{api, method, params}: allowlisted read methods only (bridge.get_ranked_posts,get_account_posts,get_post,get_discussion,get_profile,get_profiles,get_community,list_communities;condenser_api.get_accounts,get_content,get_dynamic_global_properties,get_trending_tags), each with a TTL. Response is the raw upstreamresult, serialized once withJsJsonand served as bytes,X-Ssr-Cache: HIT|MISS|COALESCED. Single-flight per key (object keys sorted at every level for the key). Budget exceeded: 504 while the fill completes and lands in the cache. RPC error: 502.GET /private-api/ssr/stats: per-method counters and cache occupancy.SSR_INTERNAL_SECRET(headerX-Ecency-Internal, fixed-time compare). Without it, or with a wrong header, they answer throughRoutes.Fallbackexactly like unknown routes, so the parity catalog sees no new behavior and nothing is learnable from outside.Infrastructure/BytesCache.cs: bounded LRU of byte arrays with per-entry TTL.MemCachedeep-clones on every access and has no size bound, which does not fit whole feed payloads served to many readers.HiveRpcClientinstance (one attempt per node, short per-node timeout, pool overridable viaSSR_RPC_NODES).HiveClients.DefaultNodesis now exported for that.Why
The web tier's server renders made these reads from every renderer process straight to public nodes, with nothing shared between processes and each at full upstream latency. This puts one read-through cache per host in front of them. The consumer change (SDK server-side proxy with fallback) is a separate PR in vision-web and stays off until both sides carry the secret.
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SsrRpcTests(13): 12 concurrent misses make one upstream call; hit with identical bytes and key-order independence; bytes are the bare result with a lone surrogate re-emitted as an escape; TTL expiry; budget exceeded answers timeout while the fill lands; RPC error reported and not cached; unreachable node; LRU eviction and oversize refusal; expiry on read; canonical key; both routes answer like unknown routes without the secret; authorization; allowlist contents. Suite: 143 passing.Rollout
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SSR_INTERNAL_SECRETin the stack env for both vapi and the web service before the consumer is switched on. Alpha first.Summary by CodeRabbit
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nullresponses and stricter request parameter validation.Documentation