NagyZoltanPeter 4ccdd122fc
refactor(persistence): snapshot-based interface (5 procs, atomic per-op) (#72)
* feat: propagate persistence backend errors via Result

The Persistence contract previously returned `Future[void]` for writes and
`Future[ChannelSnapshot]` for the loader, with `raises: []`. Backends had no
way to report a failure, so a failed write or a failed/partial read was
silently swallowed — and on the read path a mid-scan failure could bootstrap
a *truncated* channel snapshot, corrupting the rebuilt bloom filter and
lamport clock across a restart.

Make every contract field Result-returning:
  * mutating ops  -> Future[Result[void, string]]
  * loadAllForChannel -> Future[Result[ChannelSnapshot, string]]

The backend-supplied error string is mapped to a new
`ReliabilityError.rePersistenceError` (logged once at the boundary via
`reliabilityErr`) and threaded up through every persistence-touching proc to
the public API, where the caller decides what to do. Request-driven paths
(wrap/unwrap/markDependenciesMet/ensureChannel/removeChannel/reset) propagate
the error; background maintenance loops (periodicBufferSweep,
periodicRepairSweep) log and retry on the next tick, since they have no
synchronous caller.

Tests: in-memory backend gains a `failingOps` injection hook; new
"Persistence: error propagation" suite asserts read/write/drop failures
surface as `rePersistenceError`. Full suite passes (90 OK).

BREAKING CHANGE: the `Persistence` contract signature changed; custom
backends must return `Result` and `ok()` on success. Bumped to 0.3.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(persistence): add snapshot types and codec (phase 0)

Introduce atomic-snapshot persistence types that will replace the current
fine-grained 13-proc Persistence interface. This commit is purely additive:
no existing call site changes, no behaviour change.

New types (sds/types/):
- channel_meta.nim — ChannelMeta (atomic per-channel snapshot blob),
  ChannelData (bootstrap payload), OutgoingRepairKV / IncomingRepairKV
  (flattened map entries for protobuf wire shape).
- history_update.nim — HistoryUpdate (combined append/evict payload for
  the message log).

New codec (sds/snapshot_codec.nim):
- Protobuf encode/decode for all new types, reusing the existing
  SdsMessage and HistoryEntry encoders from sds/protobuf.nim.
- Explicit schemaVersion=1 on ChannelMeta; decoder rejects unknown
  versions loudly rather than silently truncating.
- Time encoded as int64 unix milliseconds.

Tests (tests/test_snapshot_codec.nim):
- 13 round-trip cases covering empty, single-entry, full-buffer, and
  repair-heavy snapshots; ChannelData ordering; HistoryUpdate variants;
  schemaVersion rejection.

Planning artefacts:
- ANALYSIS_SDS_PERSISTENCE.md — problem statement (partial-write
  divergence, chatty call rate, non-fatal-error policy gap).
- ANALYSIS_SNAPSHOT_SAVE_POINTS.md — exact save points per protocol op
  and projected call rates.
- PLAN_SNAPSHOT_PERSISTENCE.md — phased refactor plan; this commit
  implements phase 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(persistence): add PersistenceV2 interface alongside legacy (phase 1)

Introduce the 5-proc snapshot-based Persistence interface that will
replace the legacy 13-proc one. Both coexist on `ReliabilityManager` so
phase 2 can migrate protocol ops one at a time without breaking existing
callers.

New file:
- sds/types/persistence_v2.nim — `PersistenceV2` type with
  saveChannelMeta / updateHistory / loadChannel / dropChannel /
  setRetrievalHint. `noOpPersistenceV2()` default. Doc-comments capture
  the atomicity pairing (meta save + history update issued back-to-back
  under the channel lock) and the non-fatal failure policy from PLAN §8.

Modified:
- sds/types/reliability_manager.nim — adds `persistenceV2: PersistenceV2`
  field alongside `persistence`; constructor takes both, both default to
  no-op.
- sds.nim — `newReliabilityManager` plumbs the new optional parameter.
- AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md — GitNexus index re-indexed after phase 0 +
  phase 1 additions; symbol counts updated by `npx gitnexus analyze`.

No call site uses the new interface yet — that's phase 2. All existing
tests still pass against the legacy interface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(persistence): migrate runRepairSweep to PersistenceV2 (phase 2.1)

Per-entry removeIncomingRepair / removeOutgoingRepair calls are replaced
by a single trySaveMeta per *dirty* channel at the end of that channel's
sweep. Failure is logged but does NOT abort the sweep — in-memory state
is the source of truth (PLAN_SNAPSHOT_PERSISTENCE.md §8).

Helpers added in sds/sds_utils.nim:
- snapshotMeta(channel) — capture current ChannelContext as ChannelMeta
  blob (flattens Table-keyed buffers to seqs for the wire shape).
- trySaveMeta(rm, channelId, channel) — best-effort meta snapshot save;
  logs on failure, never propagates.
- tryUpdateHistory(rm, channelId, append, evict) — best-effort history
  update; skips the call entirely when both lists are empty (HistoryUpdate
  contract).

Call-rate impact for runRepairSweep:
- Before: N persistence calls per expired entry per channel.
- After:  at most 1 saveChannelMeta per dirty channel; 0 on idle channels
  (matches the dirty-flag floor in ANALYSIS_SNAPSHOT_SAVE_POINTS).

All existing tests pass — including the 3 SDS-R Repair Sweep tests that
directly exercise this proc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(persistence): migrate checkUnacknowledgedMessages to PersistenceV2 (phase 2.2)

Per-entry saveOutgoing / removeOutgoing calls are replaced by one
trySaveMeta at the end of the pass, conditional on a dirty flag (resend
attempt incremented, or entry expired). Pass succeeds even if the save
fails — next tick reissues the snapshot.

Call-rate impact:
- Before: N persistence calls per affected entry per pass.
- After:  at most 1 saveChannelMeta per pass; 0 when nothing aged out.

All existing tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(persistence): add V2 meta snapshot saves to foreground ops (phase 2A)

Wires `trySaveMeta` into the three public protocol ops that mutate
per-channel state — wrapOutgoingMessage, unwrapReceivedMessage, and
markDependenciesMet — at the operation's end, under the channel lock.

Legacy fine-grained persistence calls REMAIN in place; this commit is
additive. Both interfaces persist the same state simultaneously, so all
existing tests pass and a real backend wired to either interface
continues to work. Phase 2B will strip the legacy calls.

Save points match the §"Save Points" table in
ANALYSIS_SNAPSHOT_SAVE_POINTS.md exactly:
- wrapOutgoingMessage: 1 save (always)
- unwrapReceivedMessage: 1 save on every path including duplicate
  (the duplicate path still mutates the repair buffers)
- markDependenciesMet: 1 save after the processIncomingBuffer cascade

Non-fatal failure policy (PLAN §8): trySaveMeta logs and continues;
the protocol op never returns rePersistenceError for snapshot failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(persistence): strip legacy interface from protocol path; migrate tests to V2 (phase 2B+2C+2D)

End-state of phase 2: the protocol code no longer issues any legacy
fine-grained Persistence calls. All state survives via the snapshot-based
PersistenceV2 interface — one trySaveMeta per op end, plus tryUpdateHistory
batched inside addToHistory. The legacy Persistence field on
ReliabilityManager remains for backwards compatibility; phase 3 deletes it.

Protocol changes (sds.nim, sds/sds_utils.nim):
- reviewAckStatus, processIncomingBuffer, updateLamportTimestamp →
  pure in-memory; no per-mutation persistence.
- addToHistory: replaces appendLogEntry+removeLogEntry with a single
  tryUpdateHistory call carrying (append, evict) atomically.
- getRecentHistoryEntries: setRetrievalHint switched to V2; non-fatal.
- wrapOutgoingMessage, unwrapReceivedMessage, markDependenciesMet:
  all per-row saveOutgoing / removeOutgoing / saveIncoming /
  removeIncoming / saveOutgoingRepair / removeOutgoingRepair /
  saveIncomingRepair / removeIncomingRepair calls removed (16 call
  sites in total). State is captured by the op-end trySaveMeta added
  in phase 2A.
- getOrCreateChannel: bootstraps from persistenceV2.loadChannel.
- dropChannelFromPersistence: uses persistenceV2.dropChannel.

Failure policy (PLAN_SNAPSHOT_PERSISTENCE.md §8):
- Foreground ops (wrap, unwrap, markDeps, sweeps): non-fatal —
  trySaveMeta / tryUpdateHistory log and continue; the protocol op
  returns ok regardless of disk failure. In-memory state is the source
  of truth; the next op re-issues a complete snapshot and disk catches
  up automatically.
- Durability-intent ops (removeChannel, resetReliabilityManager via
  dropChannelFromPersistence; getOrCreateChannel via loadChannel):
  still propagate rePersistenceError, because the caller asked us to
  confirm a disk operation and we cannot silently lie.

Test infrastructure:
- tests/in_memory_persistence_v2.nim: new V2 adapter mock that
  decomposes the meta blob into the existing InMemoryStore shape so
  test assertions on store.outgoing / store.incoming / etc. continue to
  work without change.
- tests/test_persistence.nim: 17 tests, all rewritten against V2.
  - 13 state-survival tests carry over with identical assertions.
  - "loadChannel failure surfaces as err on bootstrap" — bootstrap
    keeps durability-intent semantics.
  - "saveChannelMeta failure during send does NOT surface" — deliberate
    inversion of the legacy "write failure surfaces as err" test. Asserts
    the new non-fatal policy: op returns ok, in-memory state correct,
    disk re-syncs on the next op.
  - "updateHistory failure during send does NOT surface" — same policy
    applied to the history path.
  - "dropChannel failure during removeChannel surfaces as err" — kept.
- All 17 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(persistence): delete legacy interface; rename PersistenceV2 -> Persistence (phase 3)

End-state of the snapshot-persistence refactor. The legacy 13-proc
Persistence interface and its noOpPersistence are gone; the 5-proc
snapshot-based interface (formerly PersistenceV2) takes their place under
the canonical name.

Source:
- sds/types/persistence.nim: replaced 13-proc contract with the 5-proc
  snapshot interface (saveChannelMeta, updateHistory, loadChannel,
  dropChannel, setRetrievalHint). noOpPersistence returns ok everywhere
  and an empty ChannelData on load.
- sds/types/persistence_v2.nim: removed.
- sds/types/reliability_manager.nim: dropped the second persistenceV2
  field; constructor takes a single `persistence: Persistence`.
- sds/sds_utils.nim: rm.persistenceV2.X -> rm.persistence.X; doc-comments
  updated.
- sds.nim: dropped the persistenceV2 parameter from newReliabilityManager.

Tests:
- tests/in_memory_persistence_v2.nim: removed; its content moved to...
- tests/in_memory_persistence.nim: replaces the old legacy mock with the
  snapshot adapter under the canonical filename. Same InMemoryStore
  shape so test assertions stay unchanged.
- tests/test_persistence.nim: ctor param renamed, suite name de-prefixed.

FFI smoke (`nimble libsdsDynamicMac`, refc/threads:on): builds clean.
All 4 test suites pass:
- test_bloom
- test_reliability
- test_persistence (17 V2 tests)
- test_snapshot_codec (13 codec round-trip tests)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Persisting persistence redesign plan for reference

* refactor(persistence): R2 pending-write queue + per-op accumulator (PR #72 review fix)

Addresses all three substantive review findings on PR #72 in one
structural change: fold the per-op accumulator and the R2 retry buffer
into a single queue on `ChannelContext`, flushed once at op end.

Changes:

- sds/types/channel_context.nim: add `pendingHistoryAppends`
  (`OrderedSet[SdsMessageID]`) and `pendingHistoryEvicts`
  (`HashSet[SdsMessageID]`) fields. Only ids are stored — the full
  SdsMessage is looked up from `messageHistory` at flush time. Documented
  invariant: every id in pendingHistoryAppends is also in messageHistory,
  upheld by the merge rule.

- sds/sds_utils.nim:
  * `queueHistoryAppend(channel, msgId)` / `queueHistoryEvict(channel,
    msgId)` — "latest-wins" merge: append cancels any pending evict
    and vice versa. Symmetric, simple, handles the evict-then-re-add
    sequence correctly (SDS-R repair re-delivering an evicted message
    while the backend is unreachable).
  * `tryUpdateHistory(rm, channelId)` — no more list params; flushes the
    channel's pending queue. Dual role: per-op accumulator (multiple
    `addToHistory` calls within one op queue together and flush as one
    round-trip) AND R2 retry buffer (a failed flush leaves the queue
    populated for the next op to retry).
  * `addToHistory` queues via the helpers; does not call persistence.
  * Pending queue cleared on `cleanup` and `removeChannel`.

- sds.nim:
  * `processIncomingBuffer` returns to its single-arg signature — the
    queue lives on the channel, no parameter threading needed.
  * `wrapOutgoingMessage`, `unwrapReceivedMessage` (all three paths),
    `markDependenciesMet` issue exactly one `trySaveMeta` +
    `tryUpdateHistory` pair at op end, under the lock, with no
    intervening `await`-of-other-work. Matches the Persistence atomicity
    contract documented in `sds/types/persistence.nim`.
  * Pending queue cleared in `resetReliabilityManager`.

- tests/test_persistence.nim:
  * Direct `addToHistory` callers (state-survival setup) now follow with
    explicit `tryUpdateHistory(channelId)` to flush. Reflects the
    production op-end flush pattern.
  * New: `updateHistory failure is retried via R2 pending-write queue` —
    verifies that two failed sends leave both messages on the queue,
    and a third successful send drains the whole queue in one call.
  * New: `pending queue survives idle ops` — verifies that an op with
    no history changes of its own still flushes a previously-failed
    batch at op end.
  * New: `evict-then-re-add merge rule preserves the re-added message
    on disk` — regression for the "latest-wins" merge rule. The original
    "evict-wins" rule would silently drop the re-add and leave the
    message permanently absent from disk; this test would fail under
    that rule and passes under the corrected one.

Resolves PR #72 review comments:
- #1 (delta loss on failed updateHistory) — R2 retry queue.
- #2 (cascade chattiness — N updateHistory calls per op) — queue collects
  cascaded entries, flushed as one batch.
- #3 (atomicity contract mismatch) — implementation now matches the
  documented "saveChannelMeta then updateHistory back-to-back" pairing.

Test summary: 50 tests pass (47 prior + 3 new R2/merge-rule tests).
FFI dylib (`nimble libsdsDynamicMac`, refc + threads:on): clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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