Round-4 review nits on PR #920 (none blocking):
- record_document_dead_lettered: enumerate the oversize reason (added this PR)
alongside timeout/oom/error in the docstring + counter comment.
- Note the clear-dead-letter-before-upsert ordering implication (a transient
upsert failure re-parses once, never a silent drop).
- Clarify the orphan sweep's kept counter for tenant-wide dead-letter markers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A pathological PDF (a 206-page ChronoScan scan with ~3400 JBIG2/JPX images)
jammed a tenant's structured ingest worker in an infinite reprocess loop,
re-burning a 120s pymupdf4llm parse (and occasionally OOM-racing the 2Gi pod)
every few minutes.
Root cause: the per-user placeholder "failed" mark could not stop the loop. The
placeholder point ID is user-agnostic (uuid5("file:<doc_id>:placeholder")) but
the scanner's freshness gate, query, and status update all filter by user_id.
For a file visible to several users the single shared placeholder's user_id is
overwritten by whoever scanned last, so every other user's scan sees "no record"
and re-queues -- an N-user ping-pong that never honours the failed status.
Fix: when a parse fails terminally (no higher escalation tier available, e.g.
structured with OCR off) record a durable, content-addressed, user-agnostic
dead-letter marker (mirrors vector/sharing_state.py). The scanner consults it
tenant-wide for every user and skips re-queuing until the content (etag) OR the
escalation-tier set (tiers_sig -- e.g. OCR enabled) changes, so the document is
attempted once per content-version instead of forever.
- new vector/dead_letter.py: mark/is/clear, content-addressed marker carrying
is_placeholder=True (inherits search exclusion) + dead_letter=True
- escalation.escalation_tiers_signature(settings): retry-on-tier-change key
- processor: dead-letter terminal failures, clear on successful (re-)index
- scanner: user-agnostic is_dead_lettered skip beside claim_existing_index
- placeholder: exempt dead_letter markers from the orphan sweep (durability)
- metrics: astrolabe_document_dead_lettered_total{reason}
Deck #349.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The startup sweep was reading settings.qdrant_collection (the raw config
value, default "nextcloud_content") instead of settings.get_collection_name(),
which is what every other vector-sync operation uses. When QDRANT_COLLECTION
is not overridden, get_collection_name() auto-generates a
{deployment-id}-{model-name} name; the sweep was targeting a non-existent
collection and silently returning (0, 0).
Also adds the AsyncQdrantClient type annotation that was missing on
sweep_orphan_placeholders, and renames its parameter from collection_name
to collection to make it clear the value must be the resolved name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the per-tenant nextcloud-mcp-server Pod OOMKills mid-batch, the
in-memory anyio processor queue is lost but the placeholder Qdrant
points (is_placeholder=true, status=pending) survive. The next Pod's
scanner re-runs, sees the existing placeholders, applies the
5 × VECTOR_SYNC_SCAN_INTERVAL staleness gate (~5h with the deployed
1h scan interval), and skips them. Result: 0 documents indexed for
the duration of the gate after every restart.
Stamps a process-level instance_id (UUID per Pod-process) onto every
placeholder write. A new sweep_orphan_placeholders helper, called
once from starlette_lifespan after the Qdrant client is initialised
and before the scanner / user-manager spawns, scrolls the collection
and deletes any placeholder whose instance_id doesn't match the
current Pod's (including placeholders with no instance_id field —
back-compat for pre-fix Pod versions). The scanner's next cycle
naturally re-creates fresh placeholders and queues work normally;
no DocumentTask reconstruction needed.
Sweep is one-shot at startup, not periodic — the existing staleness
gate still covers same-Pod recovery, and the cross-Pod-restart gap
was the only failure mode. Failure is non-fatal (logged via
vector_sync.orphan_sweep_failed) so a transient Qdrant hiccup at
boot doesn't prevent the scanner from running.
Both lifespan branches (single-user BasicAuth, OAuth / multi-user
BasicAuth) call the sweep via a module-local helper. A new
VECTOR_SYNC_ORPHAN_SWEEP_ENABLED setting (default True) provides
an escape hatch.
Closes Deck #101.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Production was logging two cascading classes of Qdrant errors against the
welcomed-malamute deployment:
1. HTTP 400 — "Bad request: Index required but not found for \"doc_id\" of
one of the following types: [keyword]". The collection was created via
create_collection() with no payload indexes, so any FieldCondition
filter on doc_id failed at the Qdrant layer (placeholder writes/reads,
eviction, search context lookups).
2. Compounding the missing index, producers wrote a mix of int and str
doc_ids: webhook_parser stringified node_id, scanner stringified note
IDs, news IDs, and deck card IDs — but the file scanner passed the
numeric file_id through unchanged. A keyword index would not have
covered both kinds even if it had existed.
This change:
- Normalizes doc_id to str at every producer site (scanner.py:459,
DocumentTask.doc_id, indexed_*_ids reads from Qdrant).
- Tightens str|int annotations to str across placeholder.py,
eviction.py, search/verification.py, search/context.py,
SearchResult.id, and the auth/api visualization endpoints.
- Defensive str() coercion on doc_id reads in semantic.py /
bm25_hybrid.py / vector/visualization.py for the transition window
before the backfill runs.
- Adds an idempotent startup migration in get_qdrant_client():
- _ensure_keyword_payload_indexes creates KEYWORD indexes for
doc_id, user_id, and doc_type (tolerates "already exists" 400s).
- _backfill_doc_id_to_string scrolls the collection once and rewrites
int doc_ids to str. Skipped after a quick sample shows no legacy
int payloads.
- Public API preserved: SemanticSearchResult.id stays int via explicit
int(r.id) narrowing in server/semantic.py — surfaces a TypeError with
actionable context if a future doc_type ships non-numeric ids.
- Documents the startup migration in docs/configuration.md.
Tests: 11 new unit tests in tests/unit/vector/test_qdrant_client.py
covering happy path / already-exists / unrelated-400 for the index
helpers, and sample-skip / mixed-batch rewrite / payload=None edge cases
for the backfill. 889 unit tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Enable ruff PLC0415 rule for all source files (tests excluded via
per-file-ignores). Move 136 inline imports to top-level across 33 files.
8 imports suppressed with noqa for legitimate reasons: circular
dependencies (client/__init__.py, context.py), optional dependency
guards (app.py document processors, auth/userinfo_routes.py), and
post-env-setup imports (smithery_main.py).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Qdrant validation rejects None for sparse vectors in named vector dicts.
Use models.SparseVector(indices=[], values=[]) instead to create valid
empty sparse vectors for placeholder points.
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Introduces a placeholder-based state tracking system to prevent duplicate
document processing during the gap between scanner queuing and processor
completion.
**Key Changes:**
1. **Placeholder Helper Functions** (`vector/placeholder.py`):
- `write_placeholder_point()` - Creates zero-vector placeholder when queuing
- `query_document_metadata()` - Queries for existing entry (placeholder or real)
- `delete_placeholder_point()` - Removes placeholder before writing real vectors
- `get_placeholder_filter()` - Filters placeholders from user-facing queries
2. **Scanner Updates** (`vector/scanner.py`):
- Replace `indexed_at` comparison with `modified_at` comparison
- Write placeholder before queuing each document
- Query per-document metadata instead of bulk-querying indexed_at
- Fixes bug where files were resubmitted every scan cycle
3. **Processor Updates** (`vector/processor.py`):
- Delete placeholder before upserting real vectors
- Ensures no duplicate points in Qdrant
4. **Query Filters** (all search files):
- Add `get_placeholder_filter()` to all user-facing queries
- Ensures placeholders never appear in search results or visualizations
- Applied to: bm25_hybrid.py, semantic.py, viz_routes.py, algorithms.py
**Architecture:**
- Placeholders use zero vectors with dimension from embedding service
- Payload includes `is_placeholder: True` flag for filtering
- Status field tracks: "pending", "processing", "completed", "failed"
- Deterministic UUIDs using uuid5 for consistent point IDs
**Impact:**
- Eliminates duplicate processing of same documents
- Fixes race condition where long-running documents get queued multiple times
- Prevents scanner from resubmitting files every scan cycle
- Maintains clean separation between in-flight and indexed documents
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