Fix: Keep abctl's cached events across proxy restarts - #933
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Users reported the events they were investigating vanishing. The session store is in-memory and per-pod, so abctl's cache is the only copy, and the periodic /v1/sessions refresh deleted cached events for every session the server's list omitted — then bounced the user back to the sessions pane. An empty list arrives as an ordinary message, not an error, so a proxy restart destroyed the history about two seconds after the user looked away. Reproduced on main before changing anything: 3 events -> 0, pane 3 (events) -> pane 2 (sessions), selection cleared. The refresh no longer deletes anything and no longer changes the focused pane. Cached events are released in exactly one place: when the user returns to the picker and selects a different session. That is the only reliable signal the previous events have stopped mattering, and it is what bounds the cache now. Retention alone would have been half a fix. After a restart the server lists nothing, so rebuildSessionsTable produced zero rows and the retained events were unreachable — verified, the picker was empty. The picker now also lists sessions whose events are still cached, marked "cached". Plain text, not styled: bubbles truncates each cell before styling and runewidth is not ANSI-aware, so a styled cell comes out mangled with its reset stripped. A test forces a colour profile, since CI has no TTY and cannot see that class of bug. Eight tests; the four that guard rossoctl#870 were verified to fail against the old reconcile with the symptoms users described. One adjacent fix, authorized after I raised it rather than taken silently: removing the pane-bounce left TestColumnPicker_DoesNotReturnAfterAnAsyncPaneChange without a trigger. Re-pointed at the transition that survives (backToPodsPane) it failed, having found a live pre-existing bug — that function never cleared colPicker, so the popup returned unbidden after a pod switch and owned the keyboard. One line, and verified load-bearing. termenv moves from indirect to direct: the render test imports it. Local go test hides this because go.work resolves it either way; CI sets GOWORK=off, which is what notices. Fixes rossoctl#870 Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesEvent retention and cached sessions
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Server
participant sessionsLoadedMsg
participant abctlModel
participant SessionsPicker
Server->>sessionsLoadedMsg: send session list
sessionsLoadedMsg->>abctlModel: update sessions and preserve events
SessionsPicker->>abctlModel: request cached-only sessions
abctlModel-->>SessionsPicker: return cached session rows
SessionsPicker->>abctlModel: select a session
abctlModel->>abctlModel: release unrelated cached events
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Switching sessions can still cause a previously released session and its stale history to reappear when an in-flight snapshot completes. This should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go`:
- Around line 422-428: Update snapshot result handling in snapshotLoadedMsg so
results whose msg.id differs from m.selectedSess are discarded instead of
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| if id != m.selectedSess { | ||
| for cached := range m.events { | ||
| if cached != id { | ||
| delete(m.events, cached) | ||
| } | ||
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Discard snapshots after the selected session changes.
When a snapshot for default is in flight and the user selects other, this block deletes default. A later snapshotLoadedMsg unconditionally restores m.events["default"] in authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/app.go Lines 718-723. The released session then reappears as a cached-only row.
Drop snapshot results when msg.id != m.selectedSess, or attach a selection generation to the snapshot command and message.
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case snapshotLoadedMsg:
- m.events[msg.id] = trim(msg.events, maxEventsPerSession)
- if m.pane == paneEvents && m.selectedSess == msg.id {
+ if m.selectedSess != msg.id {
+ return m, nil
+ }
+ m.events[msg.id] = trim(msg.events, maxEventsPerSession)
+ if m.pane == paneEvents {
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In `@authbridge/cmd/abctl/tui/keys.go` around lines 422 - 428, Update snapshot
result handling in snapshotLoadedMsg so results whose msg.id differs from
m.selectedSess are discarded instead of restoring m.events for a released
session. Preserve applying snapshots for the currently selected session, and
ensure the related snapshot command/message flow carries the session identifier
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Two must-fixes from review, both reproduced before changing anything. The release loop deleted every cached session except the one being opened, cached-only ones included. Since their copy is the only copy, that was the same unrecoverable loss rossoctl#870 is about — reintroduced by the release logic meant to bound the cache. Verified with three cached-only sessions after a restart: opening one left the other two at 0 events. Release is now scoped to sessions the server still lists. Those are recoverable via snapshotCmd, so dropping them costs nothing; a cached-only session is kept. After a restart every previously-visited session is cached-only, which is exactly when the old behaviour was most destructive. snapshotCmd was also unconditional, so opening a cached-only row fired a GetSession that 404s, and errMsg flashes that over the events this change preserves. Verified, and skipped now when the id is not live. rossoctl#923 had this guard; it was lost with the gone map it keyed off. Consequence, measured rather than asserted: cached-only sessions are never released while abctl runs, so the cache grows one entry per restart the user visited a session across. At ~165 bytes per event and 1000 events per session that is ~161 KB per session, a few MB for a long session — noted in the comment. The alternative is deleting the only copy of what someone is reading. Three tests added, each verified to fail against the pre-fix code with the symptoms described: cached-only sessions survive the release, opening one fires no snapshot, and a live one still does. On the third review point: TestPickingAnotherSession_ReleasesThePrevious does set both ids live, so it does exercise the live-release path and still passes. What it never covered was the cached-only case, which the new tests do. Refs rossoctl#870 Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Careful fix for a real data-loss bug, and the reasoning in the comments holds up. I verified the load-bearing claims rather than taking them on trust:
maxEventsPerSession = 1000genuinely exists and is enforced on both paths —trim()onsnapshotLoadedMsg(app.go:720) and a ring-trim on the stream append (app.go:1070-1075) — so the "~1000 events, ~161 KB per session" arithmetic in the release comment is real rather than aspirational.sessionTokens(0, cached)is the correct call for a cached-only row:serverTotal > 0fails, so it sumsTotalTokensfrom the retained response events instead of showing a misleading zero.- The cached-only filter predicate (
strings.Contains(id, m.filter)) matches the live path exactly, so filtering does not behave differently for retained rows. - Deleting from
m.eventswhile ranging over it is well-defined in Go, and appending cached-only rows after the sorted live ones keeps the cursor-restore logic stable.
The single release point — picking a different session, scoped to live sessions only — is the right invariant, and TestPickingAnotherSession_KeepsCachedOnlySessions guards precisely the mistake an obvious implementation would make.
The 11 new tests are assertive with no skips. TestSessionsPicker_CachedMarkerRendersIntact is worth calling out: it forces a colour profile because CI has no TTY and therefore structurally cannot catch the styled-cell truncation bug it guards. That is also why muesli/termenv moves from indirect to direct — a promotion of an existing charmbracelet transitive dependency, not new supply-chain surface.
No blockers; three things worth considering inline.
Author: esnible (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: abctl TUI (Go), tests, go.mod dependency change
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none — only authbridge/cmd/abctl/**
Commits: 2, DCO passing
CI status: all green, including Verify module graph is tidy and Dependency Review (the tidy job reporting skipping is a separate conditional workflow, not the module check)
| // stop. After a restart every previously-visited session is | ||
| // cached-only, so opening one must not destroy the rest. | ||
| // | ||
| // The honest consequence: cached-only sessions are never released |
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The per-session bound is solid, but there is now no bound on the number of cached-only sessions — they have no release path at all while abctl runs.
The estimate here ("a few MB for a long debugging afternoon") holds for a handful of restarts, and the tradeoff is clearly the right one. The case it does not cover is a crash-looping proxy, which is precisely what someone has abctl open to debug: each restart cycle can strand another set of session IDs, each able to hold 1000 events at ~161 KB. Over a few hours that is a different order of magnitude than "a few MB", in the one scenario where you least want the tool to degrade.
An LRU cap on cached-only entries — release the oldest once the count exceeds some N — would bound it without weakening #870 at all, since the entries you would drop are the ones nobody has looked at in longest.
| // pane"; this covers the return trip. | ||
| m.colPicker = false | ||
| } | ||
| // The server list says what is LIVE. It does not say what is worth |
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The code being removed carried a specific justification this comment does not address: it existed to drop "the bootstrap default bucket after rekey". That names an ID the server can plausibly recreate, rather than one it merely forgets.
If default can come back as a genuinely different session, then the cache keyed on that ID now holds pre-rekey events while post-rekey events stream into the same key — so the events pane would show both under one ID with no boundary between them. Re-opening it re-snapshots, and m.events[msg.id] = trim(...) assigns rather than appends, so the mixing window is only while the user stays on the pane without returning to the picker. Narrow, and arguably even desirable as continuity.
But since the new comment reframes the reconcile purely as "the server list says what is LIVE", it would be worth one sentence on whether ID reuse is possible and, if it is, that the merge is intended. As it stands the rekey rationale is deleted without a verdict.
| // their events. The picker-lifecycle bug guarded here is independent of which | ||
| // transition triggers it, so this now drives the pane change that remains. | ||
| m.parentCtx = context.Background() | ||
| m.backToPodsPane() |
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The test name no longer matches what it drives. DoesNotReturnAfterAnAsyncPaneChange now calls m.backToPodsPane() — a synchronous key-handler path — where it previously drove sessionsLoadedMsg, i.e. a message arriving while the picker was open.
The async case was the interesting one, because that is where a flag outlives its pane with no keypress involved. The substitution is honest given the bounce is deliberately gone, and the fix did move into backToPodsPane, so the test and the fix are consistent. It is just the name that now claims more than it covers — worth renaming, or noting that no async pane change remains reachable with the picker open.
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Fixes #870. Replaces #923, which was closed for doing unrelated work.
abctl's cache is the only copy of session events (the store is in-memory and per-pod). The
/v1/sessionsrefresh deleted cached events for any session the server's list omitted, and bounced the user out of their pane. An empty list arrives as an ordinary message, not an error, so a proxy restart destroyed the history ~2s after the user looked away.Reproduced on main:
3 events → 0, pane events → sessions, selection cleared.Fix: the refresh no longer deletes anything and never changes the pane (15 lines → 1). Cached events are released in exactly one place — when the user picks a different session in the picker.
Retention alone was half a fix: after a restart the server lists nothing, so the picker had zero rows and the retained events were unreachable. It now also lists cached-only sessions, marked
cached— plain text, because bubbles truncates cells before styling and runewidth is not ANSI-aware.75 lines of product code. Eight tests; the four guarding #870 verified to fail against the old reconcile.
One adjacent fix, authorized by the repo owner after I raised it: removing the pane-bounce orphaned a column-picker test, which then failed on the surviving transition —
backToPodsPanenever clearedcolPicker, so the popup returned unbidden after a pod switch. One line, verified load-bearing.termenvmoves indirect → direct (the render test imports it;GOWORK=offis what notices).Left out: no "why did this go quiet" banner; the dead
drops: Nfooter indicator (m.dropsis never incremented, so it always reads 0 — needs the count on the SSE wire first); no boot/instance id for direct restart detection;maxEventsPerSession(1000) vs servermax_events(500) mismatch. No refactors or renames.Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com