feat: dedup shared-file parsing/embedding across users in vector sync

A file shared across many users — directly, or via a group folder shared
to a group — was parsed and embedded once per user. Chunk point IDs are
user-agnostic (uuid5(tenant_id, doc_id=fileid, chunk_index)), but the
per-user freshness gate filtered Qdrant by user_id, so two readers
ping-ponged: each overwrote the other's points and each kept seeing "not
indexed for me", reprocessing every scan. Production telemetry (note
386945, finding #5) measured identical docs re-processed every few hours
at 7-13s each, with PDF parse ~62% of per-doc cost.

Layer 1 — tenant-wide dedup:
- Thread the scanner's tag-REPORT etag into the file DocumentTask and the
  chunk payload; index `etag` as a KEYWORD field.
- vector/sharing_state.find_indexed_content scrolls tenant-wide (no
  user_id filter) for a non-placeholder point matching
  (doc_id, doc_type, etag), gated on embedding_identity in Python so a
  model switch correctly forces a re-embed.
- Scanner skips enqueue and the processor skips fetch/parse/embed when a
  match exists (cross-worker race-guard before WebDAV read). Dedup is
  fail-safe: a Qdrant error degrades to "process normally".

Layer 2 — observed-access ACL (no admin / GroupFolders API needed):
- Each point carries `acl_principals` = the set of user:<uid> whose
  scanner has observed (hence can read) the file. The per-user tag REPORT
  is the access oracle; group membership/GroupFolders enumeration is
  admin-only and unavailable in multi-user modes.
- build_ownership_filter ORs MatchAny(acl_principals, ["user:<me>"]) so a
  deduplicated shared/group-folder point surfaces to every reader;
  verify-on-read (_verify_files) remains the precise ACL gate.
- Deletion/eviction become "release one user": drop the principal and
  delete the points only when the set empties, so one user untagging a
  shared file doesn't evict it for the others. Legacy points without the
  field keep the original per-user delete.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Chris Coutinho
2026-06-04 12:55:17 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent 0919513f21
commit 1c93e7286d
9 changed files with 671 additions and 68 deletions
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ from typing import Any, cast
import anyio
from anyio.abc import TaskStatus
from anyio.streams.memory import MemoryObjectReceiveStream
from qdrant_client.models import FieldCondition, Filter, MatchValue, PointStruct
from qdrant_client.models import PointStruct
from nextcloud_mcp_server.acl_hash import compute_acl_hash
from nextcloud_mcp_server.client import NextcloudClient
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.html_processor import html_to_markdown
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.placeholder import delete_placeholder_point
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.qdrant_client import get_qdrant_client
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.scanner import DocumentTask
from nextcloud_mcp_server.vector.sharing_state import (
claim_existing_index,
existing_principals,
release_document_for_user,
)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -192,28 +197,15 @@ async def process_document(
):
try:
qdrant_client = await get_qdrant_client()
settings = get_settings()
# Handle deletion
if doc_task.operation == "delete":
await qdrant_client.delete(
collection_name=settings.get_collection_name(),
points_selector=Filter(
must=[
FieldCondition(
key="user_id",
match=MatchValue(value=doc_task.user_id),
),
FieldCondition(
key="doc_id",
match=MatchValue(value=doc_task.doc_id),
),
FieldCondition(
key="doc_type",
match=MatchValue(value=doc_task.doc_type),
),
]
),
# Release this user rather than blind-delete: a file shared across
# users has one user-agnostic point set referenced by multiple
# principals, so the points are removed only once the last reader
# is gone (see vector/sharing_state.release_document_for_user).
await release_document_for_user(
doc_task.doc_id, doc_task.doc_type, doc_task.user_id
)
logger.info(
"Deleted %s_%s for %s",
@@ -479,6 +471,28 @@ async def _index_document(
)
file_path = doc_task.file_path
# Cross-worker dedup race-guard: two users' tasks for the same shared
# file can be enqueued before either finishes. If another worker has
# already indexed this exact content (fileid + etag + embedding model)
# in the tenant, claim it for this user (observed-access ACL) and skip
# the expensive fetch/parse/embed entirely.
if doc_task.etag and await claim_existing_index(
doc_task.doc_id, "file", doc_task.etag, doc_task.user_id
):
await delete_placeholder_point(
doc_id=doc_task.doc_id,
doc_type="file",
user_id=doc_task.user_id,
)
logger.info(
"Dedup hit for file %s (etag=%s); claimed for user %s "
"without reprocessing",
doc_task.doc_id,
doc_task.etag,
doc_task.user_id,
)
return
# Read file content via WebDAV
content_bytes, content_type = await nc_client.webdav.read_file(file_path)
else:
@@ -510,7 +524,10 @@ async def _index_document(
content = result.text
file_metadata = result.metadata
title = file_metadata.get("title") or file_path.split("/")[-1]
etag = "" # WebDAV read_file doesn't return etag
# etag comes from the scanner's tag REPORT (threaded via the
# DocumentTask); read_file itself returns no etag. It is the
# tenant-wide content-dedup key, so it must be persisted.
etag = doc_task.etag or ""
# Diagnostic: Log page boundary information if available
if "page_boundaries" in file_metadata:
@@ -763,6 +780,19 @@ async def _index_document(
_embedding_identity = settings.get_embedding_model_name()
_acl_hash = compute_acl_hash([("user", doc_task.user_id)])
# Observed-access ACL principals (computed once per document, not per chunk).
# Seed with the indexer (and owner, if distinct) unioned with any principals
# already recorded — so re-indexing after a content change preserves
# visibility for readers who had previously claimed the file rather than
# resetting it to just the indexer.
_acl_principals = sorted(
set(await existing_principals(doc_task.doc_id, doc_task.doc_type))
| {
f"user:{doc_task.user_id}",
f"user:{doc_task.owner_id or doc_task.user_id}",
}
)
# Surface deck card data quality issues at indexing time rather than
# only at verification time (where _verify_deck_cards falls through to
# legacy-data pass-through when board_id/stack_id are missing). This is
@@ -807,6 +837,13 @@ async def _index_document(
# crawl shared-with-them content can set owner_id to the
# true owner without losing the "who indexed this" trail.
"owner_id": doc_task.owner_id or doc_task.user_id,
# Observed-access ACL set: every user whose scanner has seen
# (hence can read) this document. Seeded with the indexer (and
# owner, if distinct); grown lazily as other readers' scanners
# hit the tenant-wide dedup path. Search ORs a
# MatchAny(acl_principals, ["user:<me>"]) branch so a
# deduplicated shared file stays findable by every reader.
"acl_principals": _acl_principals,
"doc_id": doc_task.doc_id,
"doc_type": doc_task.doc_type,
"is_placeholder": False, # Real indexed document (not placeholder)