fix: Phase 1 – repair scheduling endpoints, align flip timing, harden input - #18
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main_test.go contained a second, simplified copy of every route and the integration tests ran against that copy, never against main.go. The routes themselves lived inside main() and were unreachable from tests. Two consequences: the copy had already drifted (it dropped `tags` from every response), and the activateAt/deactivateAt routes were never copied at all, so nothing ever executed them. Move the route registration into setupRouter(), called by both main() and the tests, and delete the copy. No behaviour change. TestCollectionHash is removed here and returns with the integration suite: the handler uses digest()/string_agg()/array_to_string(), which SQLite cannot run. The copy had papered over this with different SQL, so the test asserted nothing about the shipped query.
Both handlers assigned through the pointer they were about to set:
*toggle.ActiveAt, _ = time.Parse(time.RFC3339, date)
ActiveAt and DisabledAt are *time.Time and NULL until a date is scheduled, so
this dereferenced nil on every toggle that had no date yet -- i.e. every
freshly created one. The request died with a recovered panic and a 500.
The discarded parse error was the second half: where the pointer did happen to
be set, an unparseable date stored the zero time (0001-01-01) instead of being
rejected, and the next cron run flipped the feature.
Parse into a local, return 400 on error with the offending date logged, and
assign the address. Only RFC 3339 with an offset is accepted; bare dates and
offset-less timestamps are rejected, matching the format rule the ports and
the conformance suite depend on.
Value must now be exactly "true" or "false". Any other string was accepted before and stored verbatim, which every client library then reads as "off" -- a toggle showing "TRUE" in the database looked enabled and behaved disabled. Key is capped at 256 characters including the generated UUID prefix, so one request cannot create an arbitrarily large row. Keys arriving without a prefix are checked against the budget left after the prefix is added, and the error names that effective limit. Both return 400 and leave existing rows untouched. TestCreateFeatureToggle previously asserted that a payload with no value was created successfully, which is the behaviour this commit removes; it now covers both valid values, a missing value, "TRUE", "1", and the key length boundary at 256 and 257 characters.
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markdownlint-cli2reports MD040 for these fences. Add the applicable language identifier to each opening fence. This keeps the roadmap lint-clean.Also applies to: 391-391, 410-410, 475-475, 675-675
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main.go (1)
133-133: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winHandle the error returned by
Run().
Run()returns an error when the listener cannot bind, for example when the port is already in use. The process then exits with status 0 and logs nothing, so an orchestrator treats the failed start as a clean shutdown. Log the error instead.♻️ Proposed fix
- setupRouter().Run() + if err := setupRouter().Run(); err != nil { + logger.Fatal("failed to run HTTP server: ", err) + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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db/init.sql (1)
16-16: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRestrict the scheduled updates with a
WHEREclause.Both cron jobs run
UPDATE feature_toggleswithout aWHEREclause. TheELSE valuebranch still writes a new row version for every row, so each job rewrites the whole table once per minute. With two jobs, the table accumulates dead tuples continuously and autovacuum must reclaim them forever, even when no toggle is due to flip.Move the predicate into a
WHEREclause and skip rows that already hold the target value.♻️ Proposed fix
SELECT cron.schedule('* * * * *', $$ UPDATE feature_toggles - SET value = CASE - WHEN active_at <= now() THEN 'true' - ELSE value - END; + SET value = 'true' + WHERE active_at <= now() AND value <> 'true'; $$); SELECT cron.schedule('* * * * *', $$ UPDATE feature_toggles - SET value = CASE - WHEN disabled_at <= now() THEN 'false' - ELSE value - END; + SET value = 'false' + WHERE disabled_at <= now() AND value <> 'false'; $$);Also applies to: 23-23
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In `@db/init.sql`:
- Line 16: Update both cron-scheduled UPDATE statements on feature_toggles to
set value directly to the target boolean and add WHERE predicates requiring the
corresponding active_at or disabled_at timestamp to be due and value to differ
from the target. Preserve the true activation behavior and false deactivation
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In `@main.go`:
- Line 133: Update the server startup call in main to handle the error returned
by setupRouter().Run(); when it fails, log the failure through logger.Fatal with
the returned error so the process exits unsuccessfully instead of silently
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The scheduled flips compared against CURRENT_DATE, which is midnight of the current day. A toggle scheduled for 15:00 therefore flipped at midnight the following day, while every client library evaluates the same timestamp against the wall clock and flipped at 15:00 -- the two disagreed for up to 24 hours. Both jobs now compare against now(). Retention: cleanup_stale_feature_toggles() drops a toggle group once none of its members has been modified within the window (30 days by default). Grouping is by UUID prefix, so a group still in use never loses individual toggles. It is deliberately NOT scheduled -- a local stack must not silently delete the operator's data -- and public instances opt in with one cron.schedule call. Rows with NULL timestamps are never collected, so databases predating the new columns are safe until their rows are next written. CreatedAt/UpdatedAt join the model for that job; GORM maintains them and AutoMigrate adds the columns to existing databases. FeatureToggleDTO does not carry them, so the public API shape is unchanged. Testing needed a real database: none of this runs on SQLite, and neither does the collectionHash query, which is why its old test asserted against different SQL than production ships. docker-compose-test.yml provides PostgreSQL with pg_cron initialised from db/init.sql, and integration_test.go (build tag `integration`, skipped without YAFT_TEST_DSN) covers the flips under a real cron tick, retention, collectionHash, and a schema-drift check between the model and init.sql. Verified discriminating: reverting to CURRENT_DATE fails the flip test, now() passes it. The test database password is a required variable with no default rather than a literal, so no credential is stored in the repository, and scripts/integration-tests.sh generates a random one per run. Every Compose call passes --env-file /dev/null, because Compose would otherwise resolve POSTGRES_PASSWORD from the .env used for local development and the test stack would silently borrow the developer's real password. README documents the 60-second flip delay, the RFC 3339 requirement, retention and the manual upgrade path for existing databases, whose cron jobs init.sql will not replace. Its activateAt/deactivateAt examples used bare dates, which the previous commit made invalid; they now carry an offset.
TODO.md joins the repo and is updated to match what Phase 1 actually found. Two findings were wrong or incomplete as written: - the activateAt/deactivateAt defect was described as a discarded parse error storing the zero time; it was a nil pointer dereference that made the endpoint panic on any toggle without a date already set - the plan assumed the Go integration tests covered main.go; they ran against a second copy of the handlers inside main_test.go Phase 1 is marked done with the retention job's deliberate opt-out and the manual steps an existing database needs. Phase 0 is now the critical path, so the dependency section names it and the first concrete step in yaft-ts. .gitignore picks up .diary/.
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Two findings from the review of the new integration workflow. The failure-only log step never ran: the script's EXIT trap tears the stack down as soon as the test command fails under `set -e`, so by the time the workflow reached that step the container was gone. The logs are the only record of why a database-backed test failed, so the script now dumps them itself before teardown and passes the original exit status through. Verified with a deliberately failing test: exit 1 preserved, logs captured. The job runs repository-controlled scripts on the host, including for pull_request events, while actions/checkout leaves the GITHUB_TOKEN on the runner. The suite needs no credential at all, so persist-credentials: false.
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Implements Phase 1 of the roadmap in
TODO.md: align the backend's timesemantics with the client libraries and close the gaps that make the public
instance viable. Version 0.1.3.
Two findings the plan did not have
The
activateAt/deactivateAtdefect was a crash, not a silent dataerror. Both handlers assigned through the pointer they were about to set:
ActiveAt/DisabledAtare*time.Timeand NULL until a date is scheduled, sothis dereferenced nil on every toggle without a date yet — i.e. every freshly
created one. The endpoint answered 500 via a recovered panic. The discarded
parse error was only the second half.
The integration tests never exercised
main.go.main_test.gocontained asecond, simplified copy of every handler, and the tests ran against that copy;
the real routes lived inside
main()and were unreachable. The copy hadalready drifted (it dropped
tagsfrom every response) and never included the...Atroutes at all, which is how the panic survived unnoticed.Fixing that came first — otherwise the new validation would have been tested
against a stand-in rather than the shipped code.
What changed
CURRENT_DATE→now()activateAt/deactivateAtrepairedPOST /featuresvalidatesValue"true"/"false"Keycapped at 256 charsCreatedAt/UpdatedAt+ retention jobVERSIONbumpCURRENT_DATEis midnight of the current day, so a toggle scheduled for 15:00flipped at midnight the following day while every client library flipped at
15:00 — the two disagreed for up to 24 hours.
Retention is off by default
cleanup_stale_feature_toggles()drops a toggle group once no member has beenmodified within the window (30 days default). Grouping is by UUID prefix, so a
group still in use never loses individual toggles.
It is not scheduled: a local stack must never silently delete the
operator's data. Public instances opt in with one
cron.schedulecall, and atest asserts it stays unscheduled. Rows with NULL timestamps — databases
predating the new columns — are never collected.
Testing
None of this runs on SQLite, and neither does the
collectionHashquery, whoseold test asserted against different SQL than production ships.
docker-compose-test.ymlbrings up PostgreSQL with pg_cron initialised fromdb/init.sql.integration_test.go(build tagintegration, skipped withoutYAFT_TEST_DSN) covers the flips under a real cron tick, retention,collectionHash, and a schema-drift check between the model andinit.sql.New CI job; the fast SQLite suite stays at ~1s.
The flip test was verified to discriminate: reverting
init.sqltoCURRENT_DATEfails it after 90s,now()passes it.Deployment note
db/init.sqlonly runs on an empty data directory, so an existing databaseneeds the old cron jobs replaced by hand — documented in the README under
"Upgrading an existing database". This applies when
yaft.tehwolf.deis set upin Phase 2, along with enabling the retention job.
The README's
activateAtexamples used2026-10-10, a bare date that is nowrejected; they carry an offset.
Validation
gofmt,go vet(both tags),go test -race -cover(55.3%),go build, andthe full integration suite from a clean database — all green.
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