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  • New Features

    • Invalid or duplicate server entries are tracked consistently across startup and configuration refreshes.
    • Server recovery and recurring configuration issues are reported more consistently.
    • Configuration validation provides clearer handling for feed and agency details.
    • The application now shuts down gracefully when interrupted.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid entries are re-evaluated during later refreshes, allowing recovered servers to return automatically.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration examples to remove the no-longer-supported agency_ids field.

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Configuration loading now shares a DroppedServersStore across startup and refresh. The store validates entries, suppresses duplicates, reports state transitions to Sentry, and supports recovery and re-reporting. Startup now performs context-driven HTTP server shutdown.

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Dropped-server reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reconciliation and Sentry reporting
internal/config/*, internal/report/test_helpers.go
DroppedServersStore tracks invalid and duplicate entries, reports transitions, filters invalid entries, and removes stale state. Tests cover recovery, pruning, duplicate handling, and credential redaction.
Configuration loading propagation
internal/config/config_loader.go, internal/config/config_service.go, internal/config/compat.go, internal/config/*_test.go
File, URL, and refresh loaders pass the shared store through decoding. Refresh waits and URL requests now respond to context cancellation.
Application wiring and startup lifecycle
cmd/watchdog/main.go, internal/app/*
Startup creates one store and passes it through loaders, app.New, and ConfigService. HTTP server failures and context cancellation now follow separate shutdown paths.
Feed model and configuration updates
internal/models/oba_server.go, README.md, config.json.template, internal/integration/integration_config.json.template
GTFS-RT feed agency IDs were removed from the model, legacy conversion, examples, templates, and fixtures.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Suggested reviewers: aaronbrethorst

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Watchdog
  participant ConfigService
  participant ConfigLoader
  participant DroppedServersStore
  participant Sentry
  Watchdog->>ConfigService: Create with shared store
  ConfigService->>ConfigLoader: Load or refresh configuration
  ConfigLoader->>DroppedServersStore: Reconcile raw entries
  DroppedServersStore->>Sentry: Report invalid or recovered state
  DroppedServersStore-->>ConfigLoader: Return valid servers
  ConfigLoader-->>ConfigService: Return configuration
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The change can reject the integration template, mishandle mixed configuration entries, and produce unreliable invalid-server reporting. These issues should be resolved before merge.

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internal/config/config_loader_test.go (1)

333-337: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the configuration update instead of a fixed delay.

Line 335 waits for 200 milliseconds. The HTTP handler can increment serverHitCount before refreshConfig calls cfg.UpdateConfig. The test can then read the old configuration at line 341.

Poll cfg.GetServers() with a deadline until server 999 appears. This removes timing-dependent test failures.

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In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go` around lines 333 - 337, Replace the
fixed 200ms sleep in the refreshConfig test with deadline-based polling of
cfg.GetServers(), waiting until server 999 appears before asserting the update
and serverHitCount. Keep the existing timeout behavior so the test fails clearly
if the configuration is never refreshed.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/config/config_validation_test.go`:
- Around line 230-254: Add duplicate-ID validation before servers are passed to
Reconcile, ensuring repeated non-zero IDs are rejected and reported
independently rather than being deduplicated by Reconcile. Update the test
around TestReconcileReportsInvalidServerOnce or the preceding
unmarshaling/validation flow to verify duplicate IDs are detected before
Reconcile invokes ValidateServer.

In `@internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go`:
- Around line 38-83: Update DroppedServersStore.Reconcile to key invalid records
with ID 0 by a stable record-specific key, while retaining the numeric ID key
for records with IDs; use the same keying scheme when populating present and
cleaning reported so distinct ID-less records are tracked independently. Add a
test covering two distinct invalid records without IDs, verifying both are
reported.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go`:
- Around line 333-337: Replace the fixed 200ms sleep in the refreshConfig test
with deadline-based polling of cfg.GetServers(), waiting until server 999
appears before asserting the update and serverHitCount. Keep the existing
timeout behavior so the test fails clearly if the configuration is never
refreshed.
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  • cmd/watchdog/main.go
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  • internal/config/config_loader.go
  • internal/config/config_loader_test.go
  • internal/config/config_service.go
  • internal/config/config_validation.go
  • internal/config/config_validation_test.go
  • internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go
  • internal/integration/gtfs_integration_test.go
  • internal/integration/integration_test.go
  • internal/report/test_helpers.go

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Found 1 issue:

  1. rejectDuplicateServerIDs never clears reportedDuplicates when a duplicate is resolved while the ID stays in the config, so a duplicate that is fixed and later reintroduced is silently swallowed forever. The prune loop keys on present, which is populated for every server ID (line 111), not just the ones that were duplicated this cycle. Trace: [A(id=1), A'(id=1)] reports and sets reportedDuplicates={1}; operator fixes it to [A(id=1)], but present={1} so 1 is not pruned; a later regression back to [A(id=1), A'(id=1)] reports nothing. The doc comment states the intent ("a duplicate that reappears later reports again") and TestRejectDuplicateServerIDs/prunes duplicate IDs that leave the config so they report again asserts it, but that test only exercises the case where the ID disappears from the config entirely (validServer() has ID 1, dup has ID 7) — not the normal fix-then-regress path. Reconcile handles the analogous transition correctly by deleting from reported on recovery; this path is missing the equivalent. Fix: track the IDs that were actually duplicated this cycle and prune reportedDuplicates against that set instead of present.

for _, server := range servers {
present[server.ID] = struct{}{}
if _, ok := seen[server.ID]; ok {
if _, reported := s.reportedDuplicates[server.ID]; !reported {
s.reportedDuplicates[server.ID] = struct{}{}
report.ReportErrorWithSentryOptions(
fmt.Errorf("duplicate server id %d (%q) dropped: keeping the first server with this id", server.ID, server.Name),
report.SentryReportOptions{
Tags: map[string]string{
"server_id": strconv.Itoa(server.ID),
"server_name": server.Name,
},
Level: sentry.LevelError,
},
)
}
continue
}
seen[server.ID] = struct{}{}
unique = append(unique, server)
}
for id := range s.reportedDuplicates {
if _, ok := present[id]; !ok {
delete(s.reportedDuplicates, id)
}
}

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Thanks for this — the design is right, and the implementation quality is high. Edge-triggering the Sentry reports off the valid→invalid transition is exactly the fix this needed, the info-level recovery report is a nice touch, and the store is wired through app.New()ConfigService the way the rest of the codebase does it. The rejectDuplicateServerIDs pre-pass is a subtle thing to have anticipated, and the doc comments explaining why it must run before Reconcile are the kind of comment I wish more code had.

Two things before this can land.

1. reportedDuplicates is never cleared when a duplicate is fixed but the ID stays

In rejectDuplicateServerIDs, present is populated for every server ID:

for _, server := range servers {
    present[server.ID] = struct{}{}   // every ID, duplicated or not

but the prune loop at the bottom only deletes from reportedDuplicates when the ID is absent from present. So the entry clears only when the ID disappears from the config entirely:

  • Cycle 1: [A(id=1), A'(id=1)] → duplicate reported, reportedDuplicates = {1}
  • Cycle 2: someone fixes it, config is [A(id=1)]present = {1}, so the entry survives
  • Cycle 3: the duplicate is reintroduced → already in reportedDuplicates → silent, permanently

That's the failure mode this PR exists to prevent, just moved up a level. Your doc comment says "a duplicate that reappears later reports again," which is the behavior I want — it's just not what the code does today.

The fix is small: track the IDs actually duplicated this cycle and prune against that set rather than present.

The existing test passes because dup uses ID 7 while validServer() is ID 1, so the ID does fully disappear. Worth adding a case where the ID stays present.

2. CI has never run on this branch

There is no workflow run at all for fix/report-invalid-servers-once. Actions is working repo-wide — #129 and #131 both ran — it just never triggered here. Push an empty commit or re-push to kick it off; I'd like to see tests green before merging.

Smaller things, your call, not blockers

  • rejectDuplicateServerIDs runs before ValidateServer, so two entries with a missing or null id both land on ID == 0. The second is reported as "duplicate server id 0", which misattributes a missing-field problem as an ID collision, and a third id-less entry is dropped with no report at all. Previously each was reported individually.
  • reported is keyed by ID alone, so a server that becomes invalid for a new reason (was missing gtfs_url, now missing agency_id) stays silent. That may be the semantics you intended — I just want it to be a deliberate choice.

One sequencing note that isn't your fault: this and #131 can't both merge as-is. #131 deletes ObaServer.ID, which this store is keyed on, and both rewrite filterValidServers. I'd like #131 to go first since it's the larger structural change, which would mean rebasing this onto the agency_id key.

Happy to re-review as soon as the prune fix and a green CI run are up.

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internal/config/compat.go (1)

108-108: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Detect every legacy-only root field.

A v2 entry with a legacy name field has hasV1 == false. json.Unmarshal then ignores name and accepts the mixed entry. This violates the mixed-schema rejection contract and can silently discard legacy configuration data.

Include name, id, gtfs_rt_api_key, and gtfs_rt_api_value in hasV1. Add a regression test with name plus valid v2 feed arrays.

Proposed fix
- hasV1 := fields["gtfs_url"] != nil || fields["trip_update_url"] != nil || fields["vehicle_position_url"] != nil
+ hasV1 := fields["name"] != nil ||
+   fields["id"] != nil ||
+   fields["gtfs_url"] != nil ||
+   fields["trip_update_url"] != nil ||
+   fields["vehicle_position_url"] != nil ||
+   fields["gtfs_rt_api_key"] != nil ||
+   fields["gtfs_rt_api_value"] != nil
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In `@internal/config/compat.go` at line 108, Update the legacy-schema detection
expression in the compatibility unmarshalling logic so hasV1 also recognizes the
root fields name, id, gtfs_rt_api_key, and gtfs_rt_api_value alongside the
existing URL fields. Add a regression test covering name combined with valid v2
feed arrays and verify the mixed-schema entry is rejected.
internal/config/config_loader.go (1)

92-95: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Suppress repeated empty-refresh Sentry reports.

When every remote entry remains invalid, DroppedServersStore.Reconcile returns an empty slice on each refresh. The refresh loop then reports a warning-level Sentry event on every interval. Report only the first empty refresh, and reset suppression after a non-empty refresh.

Add a test for consecutive all-invalid refresh responses.

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In `@internal/config/config_loader.go` around lines 92 - 95, Update the refresh
loop around DroppedServersStore.Reconcile to report the warning-level Sentry
event only on the first consecutive empty result, suppressing subsequent empty
refresh reports and resetting the suppression state whenever a non-empty result
is received. Add a test covering consecutive all-invalid refresh responses and
the reset after a successful refresh.
internal/config/config_loader_test.go (1)

416-421: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wait for the empty-configuration warning before cancelling.

served fires after the handler writes the response. refreshConfig still must decode [] and evaluate the empty-config guard. The request is not bound to ctx, so cancellation does not stop this processing. The test can assert before the guard runs and allow a guard regression to pass. Signal from the warning logger, wait for that signal, then cancel and assert.

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In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go` around lines 416 - 421, Update the
test around refreshConfig and the served channel to wait for the
empty-configuration warning logger signal, rather than treating the handler
response as proof that processing completed. Assert that warning signal before
calling cancel, while retaining the timeout and existing post-cancellation
assertions.
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internal/config/config_loader_test.go (1)

98-98: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the write result before signaling served. At line 392, the handler signals served even when w.Write fails. refreshConfig then leaves the existing configuration unchanged, so the test can pass without decoding [] or exercising the empty-configuration guard. Report the error and return before signaling served. The repository does not enforce errcheck; its diagnostic alone does not require changing line 98.

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In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go` at line 98, Update the handler around
refreshConfig and its served signal to capture and check the w.Write result,
report any write error, and return before signaling served when the write fails.
Preserve the existing signaling behavior for successful writes; the
diagnostic-only write at the test setup does not need modification.
internal/app/test_helpers.go (1)

93-95: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Construct the test application through New.

newTestApplication bypasses New, so GtfsService.Observer remains nil. A bundle download through this helper can omit GtfsStaticStopsCount and GtfsStaticRoutesCount. Use New with the existing configuration and seed its returned stores with the fixtures. This also follows the repository wiring guideline.

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to construct the application through New using the existing configuration, then
seed the stores returned by New with the test fixtures instead of manually
instantiating services. Preserve the current fixture setup while ensuring
GtfsService.Observer is initialized and the returned application uses New’s
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go`:
- Line 90: Update Reconcile to log each invalid-entry failure through the
injected slog.Logger before calling report.ReportErrorWithSentryOptions,
including the error and correlated agency_id and agency_name attributes.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@internal/config/compat.go`:
- Line 108: Update the legacy-schema detection expression in the compatibility
unmarshalling logic so hasV1 also recognizes the root fields name, id,
gtfs_rt_api_key, and gtfs_rt_api_value alongside the existing URL fields. Add a
regression test covering name combined with valid v2 feed arrays and verify the
mixed-schema entry is rejected.

In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go`:
- Around line 416-421: Update the test around refreshConfig and the served
channel to wait for the empty-configuration warning logger signal, rather than
treating the handler response as proof that processing completed. Assert that
warning signal before calling cancel, while retaining the timeout and existing
post-cancellation assertions.

In `@internal/config/config_loader.go`:
- Around line 92-95: Update the refresh loop around
DroppedServersStore.Reconcile to report the warning-level Sentry event only on
the first consecutive empty result, suppressing subsequent empty refresh reports
and resetting the suppression state whenever a non-empty result is received. Add
a test covering consecutive all-invalid refresh responses and the reset after a
successful refresh.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/app/test_helpers.go`:
- Around line 93-95: Update newTestApplication to construct the application
through New using the existing configuration, then seed the stores returned by
New with the test fixtures instead of manually instantiating services. Preserve
the current fixture setup while ensuring GtfsService.Observer is initialized and
the returned application uses New’s complete wiring.

In `@internal/config/config_loader_test.go`:
- Line 98: Update the handler around refreshConfig and its served signal to
capture and check the w.Write result, report any write error, and return before
signaling served when the write fails. Preserve the existing signaling behavior
for successful writes; the diagnostic-only write at the test setup does not need
modification.

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if err != nil {
if _, alreadyReported := s.reported[identity]; !alreadyReported {
s.reported[identity] = struct{}{}
report.ReportErrorWithSentryOptions(err, report.SentryReportOptions{

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Log invalid-entry failures before reporting them.

Reconcile sends invalid-entry errors to Sentry but does not use the injected slog.Logger. Add logger.Error with the error, agency_id, and agency_name before the Sentry call so operators receive the required correlated local log.

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In `@internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go` at line 90, Update Reconcile to log
each invalid-entry failure through the injected slog.Logger before calling
report.ReportErrorWithSentryOptions, including the error and correlated
agency_id and agency_name attributes.

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The two blockers are genuinely fixed, and I verified them rather than reading the commit messages.

  • The prune now works. duplicated is built from the per-cycle counts[identity] > 1 pre-pass and the loop at the bottom deletes from reportedDuplicates when the identity is no longer duplicated this cycle, not when it disappears from present. The two → one → two cycle reports twice, which is what the doc comment promised all along.
  • TestReconcileReportsDuplicateAgainAfterItIsFixed is a real regression test: the shared identity is present in all three cycles, so it fails under the old present-based prune instead of passing trivially.
  • CI is green on the rebased head, and the #131 sequencing problem resolved itself when #131 and #133 landed. Keying on models.ServerKey instead of the deleted ObaServer.ID is the right landing spot, and routing id-less entries through a raw identity with duplicateEligible == false cleanly fixes the "duplicate server id 0" misattribution I raised as a non-blocker.

One new thing I'd like fixed before this lands, because it moves in the wrong direction for a monitoring service.

A valid server is now dropped when a malformed entry shares its identity

The duplicate check runs before decodeServerEntry, and seen[identity] is marked on the way past regardless of whether the entry decodes. So for a config containing [E1 malformed, E2 valid] that share an (oba_base_url, agency_id):

  • E1 marks seen[X], then fails to decode and is reported as invalid.
  • E2 hits the seen[X] branch, is reported as a duplicate, and is dropped without ever being decoded.

Both copies are gone and the server stops being monitored. On main this doesn't happen: decodeServers runs decodeServerEntry first and continues on failure before seenServers is ever touched, so the malformed copy never claims the slot and the valid one survives.

That's a silent reduction in what Watchdog watches, which is the same failure class as the frozen-series problem PruneStaleServers exists to prevent — the fleet looks fine because nothing is reporting on it. It needs a duplicated identity whose first copy is malformed, so it isn't common, but handling malformed entries gracefully is the entire premise of this PR.

The fix shouldn't cost you the raw-identity mechanism you added, which I do want to keep. Keep the counts pre-pass for the reporting decision, but only let an entry claim seen[identity] after decodeServerEntry succeeds, so a malformed entry can't reserve an identity on behalf of a valid one.

Smaller things, none blocking:

  • serverTagsFromRaw in internal/config/compat.go is dead now — this PR deleted its only caller. Neither the compiler nor go vet will tell you, so it'll sit there.
  • The recovery report hardcodes only agency_id/agency_name, while the invalid and duplicate reports use the tags map that includes server_name. The error event is correlatable per server and the matching recovery event isn't, which is awkward when you're trying to pair them.
  • The duplicate logger.Error sits inside the !alreadyReported guard, so on cycles 2..N a duplicate is dropped with no local output at all. Once-per-process is a defensible reading of this PR's thesis, but it's the opposite of what I asked for on #131, so I'd rather it be deliberate than incidental.
  • Reconcile's doc comment covers the reported lifecycle but says nothing about reportedDuplicates or the pruning rule, which is the thing this round of review was actually about. Worth a sentence.

Also, on the "same identity, new failure reason stays silent" note from last time: unchanged, which is fine — I only wanted it to be a choice. A line in the doc comment saying so would close it out.

Separately, the CLA check is blocking this and your four other open PRs. One of two committers has signed; the unsigned commits are authored as Mohamed Ahmed Aboomar <aboomar@Mohameds-MacBook-Air.local>, a local machine hostname rather than a real address, so the bot's advice to add the email to your GitHub account won't work. Rewrite the authorship and force-push:

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Fix the drop-both case and I'll re-review promptly.

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Found 2 issues:

  1. The [malformed, valid] same-identity fix trades a dropped server for a permanent report loop. s.reported[identity] is written on the decode-failure path and read back by the recovery check within the same pass, so for a config containing two entries sharing an (oba_base_url, agency_id) where one is malformed, every refresh emits an error report for the malformed copy followed by an info "recovered" report for the valid copy — then clears the state, so the next cycle does it again. I ran this against the head SHA: 5 identical Reconcile calls produced 10 events, alternating missing required fields / recovered: previously invalid configuration, forever. TestReconcileMalformedFirstValidSecondSameIdentity asserts the single-cycle half of this as correct behavior, so it locks the flapping in. The doc comment two screens up says "invalid server already reported -> silent", which is the behavior this PR exists to deliver.

if _, wasReported := s.reported[identity]; wasReported {
delete(s.reported, identity)
report.ReportErrorWithSentryOptions(
newErrRecovered(server),
report.SentryReportOptions{
Tags: tags,
ExtraContext: map[string]interface{}{"oba_base_url": server.ObaBaseURL},
Level: sentry.LevelInfo,
},
)
}
valid = append(valid, server)

  1. reportedDuplicates does not reset when one copy of a duplicated identity becomes invalid, so a restored duplicate is dropped silently. The counts pre-pass is built from the raw entries before decodeServerEntry runs, so a malformed copy still contributes to counts[identity] > 1; the surviving valid copy therefore sets duplicated[identity] and the prune loop at the bottom keeps the reportedDuplicates entry alive. Sequence: cycle 1 [A, A'] both valid → duplicate reported; cycle 2 A' goes malformed → invalid reported; cycle 3 A' is fixed → a server is again dropped as a duplicate with no Sentry report (verified at head: 3 events total, none of them the second duplicate). The doc comment added this round states the opposite — "when all but one copy are removed or become invalid, the entry is pruned".

seen := make(map[string]struct{}, len(rawEntries))
duplicated := make(map[string]struct{})
counts := make(map[string]int, len(rawEntries))
for _, raw := range rawEntries {
identity, _, _, duplicateEligible := serverIdentityFromRaw(raw)
if duplicateEligible {
counts[identity]++
}
}

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The blocker from last round is genuinely fixed, and I verified it in the code rather than reading the commit message. decodeServerEntry now runs before the duplicate check and seen[identity] is only claimed after a successful decode, with a comment saying exactly why. For [malformed, valid] sharing an identity the valid entry survives and keeps being monitored, which is what I was worried about losing. The other four items are done too: serverTagsFromRaw is gone, the recovery report passes the full tags map so server_name rides along, the duplicate logger.Error moved outside the !alreadyReported guard, and the CLA is signed.

The fix works, but it opened a new hole in the same configuration, and it's the failure mode this PR exists to close. Two things, one root cause.

1. [malformed, valid] sharing an identity now flaps error/recovery forever

s.reported[identity] is written on the decode-failure path and read back by the recovery check in the same pass, which then deletes it. Walking [E1 malformed, E2 valid], both with identity X:

  • E1 fails to decode. reported[X] is absent, so it's set and an error report fires. continue.
  • E2 decodes fine, reaches the recovery check, finds reported[X] — the entry E1 just set — deletes it and fires a recovery report at info level.
  • End of cycle: reported is empty again.

Next refresh does exactly the same thing. So this config emits one error plus one false "recovered: previously invalid configuration" on every cycle, indefinitely. That's noisier than main, which at least only emitted the error, and the recovery event is a lie — nothing recovered, the malformed entry is still malformed.

TestReconcileMalformedFirstValidSecondSameIdentity cements it rather than catching it: it runs a single cycle, asserts exactly 2 events, and its comment describes the recovery report as correct behavior. Running it twice is what exposes the problem.

The fix is small. Snapshot the reported set at the top of Reconcile and drive the recovery check off the snapshot, so an identity first reported this cycle can't also be "recovered" in the same pass:

previouslyReported := make(map[string]struct{}, len(s.reported))
for k := range s.reported {
    previouslyReported[k] = struct{}{}
}

then test previouslyReported instead of s.reported at the recovery branch. A genuine repair — invalid last cycle, valid this cycle — still reports exactly once.

2. reportedDuplicates isn't pruned when one copy goes invalid, so a later real duplicate is dropped silently

counts is built from the raw entries before any decode, so a malformed copy still pushes counts[identity] above 1. The surviving valid copy then reaches if duplicateEligible && counts[identity] > 1 and sets duplicated[identity], which keeps the bottom prune loop from clearing reportedDuplicates[identity]. Across three cycles:

  1. [A, A'] both valid → duplicate detected, reported, reportedDuplicates[X] set.
  2. [A, A'] with A' now malformed → A' is reported invalid; A still marks duplicated[X], so reportedDuplicates[X] survives the prune.
  3. A' is fixed, [A, A'] both valid again → A' is dropped as a duplicate, but reportedDuplicates[X] already exists, so no report fires.

A server is actively dropped and nothing says so. That's the same shape as the bug I raised in the first round — a duplicate that reappears going silent — reached through a different door, and the doc comment you added this round promises the opposite ("or become invalid, the entry is pruned").

The cleanest fix is to set duplicated[identity] where the duplicate is actually detected — inside the if _, exists := seen[identity]; exists branch — rather than from the raw counts pre-pass. Then it means "two decoded entries really did claim this identity this cycle," the prune clears it when that stops being true, and a reappearing duplicate reports again.

Both issues come from the same place: malformed entries participate in present and counts but not in seen. Fixing the two spots above should close them together.

Smaller, not blocking

  • TestReconcileRejectsDuplicatesBeforeValidation now asserts that duplicates are not detected for malformed entries, which is the opposite of what its name says. Worth renaming while you're in there.
  • The "same identity, new failure reason stays silent" note from last round still isn't mentioned in the Reconcile doc comment. I'd still like a line marking it as deliberate.

I checked for unbounded growth specifically since that's the risk with this kind of dedup state, and it's fine — both maps are pruned every cycle against per-cycle sets, so they stay bounded by config size.

Add a test that calls Reconcile twice with an unchanged [malformed, valid] config and asserts 1 error and 0 recoveries on the second pass, and the first issue can't come back. Happy to re-review as soon as these are up.

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One logistical note on top of the review above: #142, #136 and #144 landed on main while I was going through this queue, and this branch now has merge conflicts. Please merge main in as part of the same pass rather than rebasing twice.

Heads up that #144 in particular touches code near yours — it threads ctx through the config and metrics seams, including loadConfigFromURL, which is one of Reconcile's callers.

- Reorder Reconcile to decode before duplicate check so malformed entries
  never claim identities in , preventing valid entries with the same
  key from being incorrectly dropped as duplicates.
- Recovery reports now reuse the same tags map as invalid/duplicate reports,
  including server_name for consistent correlation.
- Duplicate local logging always fires each cycle; Sentry reporting remains
  transition-based (once per duplication episode).
- Remove dead  function (no remaining callers).
- Document reportedDuplicates lifecycle in Reconcile doc comment.
- Add regression test TestReconcileMalformedFirstValidSecondSameIdentity
  and TestReconcileRecoveryReportIncludesServerName.
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internal/integration/integration_config.json.template (1)

3-3: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add server_name to both integration entries.

Lines 3 and 16 define v2 configuration entries without server_name. The documented v2 contract rejects entries without this required field. Integration deployments that use this template will not load either configured server.

Proposed fix
 {
+  "server_name": "Test Server 1",
   "agency_name": "Test Server 1",
   "agency_id": "agency-1",
@@
 {
+  "server_name": "Test Server 2",
   "agency_name": "Test Server 2",
   "agency_id": "agency-2",

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cmd/watchdog/main.go (1)

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Flush Sentry before exiting when all servers are invalid.

Reconcile can report each invalid server and return an empty slice. Line 129 then calls os.Exit(1), which skips the deferred report.FlushSentry() call. The startup reports can be lost.

Call report.FlushSentry() before this exit, as the server failure branch already does.

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 if len(servers) == 0 {
     logger.Error("Error: No servers found in configuration.")
+    report.FlushSentry()
     os.Exit(1)
 }
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In `@internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go`:
- Around line 177-178: Update the missing-ObaBaseURL branch in the
dropped-server identity logic to canonicalize the JSON object and use a
deterministic hash rather than raw JSON text, so property order and whitespace
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- Line 129: Update the all-invalid-servers failure branch in Reconcile’s caller
to invoke report.FlushSentry() immediately before os.Exit(1), matching the
existing server failure branch and preserving the startup reports.

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if fields.ObaBaseURL == "" {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a canonical identity for entries without oba_base_url.

The raw JSON text changes when property order or whitespace changes. The same invalid entry then receives a new identity and produces another Sentry report on the next refresh.

Canonicalize the JSON and use a hash as the identity. Add a test that reconciles the same missing-base-URL object with a different property order.

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In `@internal/config/dropped_servers_store.go` around lines 177 - 178, Update the
missing-ObaBaseURL branch in the dropped-server identity logic to canonicalize
the JSON object and use a deterministic hash rather than raw JSON text, so
property order and whitespace do not change its identity. Add a test covering
reconciliation of the same object with reordered properties and verifying no
duplicate identity/report is created.

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