fix(database): rebuild media database when its schema is newer - #1268
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A media database migrated by a newer build made an older build refuse to start: CheckSchemaVersion returns ErrSchemaAhead and makeDatabase treated it as fatal, so hopping beta to stable by hand left an unbootable device. Everything in the media database is reproducible by a reindex, so discard it instead. Recreate leaves the fresh file marked pending, which the existing startup resume check picks up. The user database keeps failing fatally: nothing can reconstruct what is in it. The rebuild happens before the inbox service exists, so makeDatabase reports it to Start, which posts the message once the inbox is up.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStartup now detects media databases with unsupported newer schemas, rescues recoverable favorites and launcher overrides, rebuilds the media database, and reports the reset through the inbox service. Shared corrupt-backup path handling and comprehensive recovery tests were added. ChangesMedia database schema reset
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to During schema-ahead recovery, a partially populated user database may be treated as complete, causing rescued favorites or launcher overrides to be silently discarded while the recoverable database copy is removed. This is a high-impact data-loss risk, so merge should wait for durable completion or reconciliation handling. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ServiceStart
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participant UserDatabase
participant MediaDatabase
participant InboxService
ServiceStart->>makeDatabase: create and migrate databases
makeDatabase->>UserDatabase: open and migrate
makeDatabase->>MediaDatabase: open and migrate
MediaDatabase-->>makeDatabase: ErrSchemaAhead
makeDatabase->>MediaDatabase: rescue data and rebuild
makeDatabase-->>ServiceStart: database and mediaDBReset
ServiceStart->>InboxService: initialize inbox
ServiceStart->>InboxService: post reset warning
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| if resetErr := resetMediaDBForNewerSchema(mediaDB); resetErr != nil { | ||
| return db, false, fmt.Errorf("rebuilding media database with a newer schema: %w", resetErr) | ||
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When UserDB has not yet been seeded—for example, a user upgrades directly from a version that stored favourites and launcher overrides only in media.db, the newer build migrates MediaDB, and startup is interrupted before backfillMediaUserData runs—this rebuild permanently deletes the only copy of that user-authored data. The backfill at line 142 subsequently reads the newly empty MediaDB, so reindexing cannot restore those values; preserve/import the legacy rows before discarding the schema-ahead database.
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pkg/service/startup.go (1)
381-383: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winTest the
Startnotification path.
TestNotifyMediaDBSchemaReset_PostsInboxMessagecallsnotifyMediaDBSchemaResetdirectly. It does not test thatStartconsumesmediaDBResetand posts the message after inbox initialization. Add a startup-level test that creates a schema-ahead media database and verifies the persisted reset category.As per coding guidelines,
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In `@pkg/service/startup.go`:
- Around line 381-383: Add a startup-level test covering Start’s mediaDBReset
notification path: initialize the inbox, create a media database with a schema
ahead of the application, run Start, and verify the persisted reset-category
inbox message. Keep the existing direct notifyMediaDBSchemaReset test, and place
the new coverage around the Start startup flow.
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Favourites and launcher overrides written by versions that stored them only in media.db are copied into UserDB by backfillMediaUserData. If a newer build migrated media.db but startup was interrupted before that backfill ran, discarding the file on downgrade destroyed the only copy, and a reindex cannot reconstruct it. Read those rows out of the schema-ahead database before Recreate and pass them to the backfill, which still skips the import when UserDB already holds a row so nothing stale is resurrected. The read is best-effort: the file was written by a newer build, so a query failure just leaves the rebuild as it was.
The inbox message is posted by Start, not makeDatabase, and only the helper was tested directly. Add a test that runs Start against a schema-ahead media database with the API port occupied, so it stops after inbox init and before the reindex, then asserts the persisted message. Also covers the end-to-end preservation of favourites and launcher overrides through a rebuild, and a failed inbox write not stopping startup.
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| rescuedUserData = rescueMediaUserData(ctx, mediaDB) | ||
| if resetErr := resetMediaDBForNewerSchema(mediaDB); resetErr != nil { |
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When UserDB is still empty and legacy favourites or launcher overrides exist only in the schema-ahead media database, rescuedUserData holds the only remaining copy in memory after this call deletes the file; a process exit or any openAndRecoverUserDB error before the import at line 148 permanently loses those rows. Fresh evidence after the prior comment is that the new rescue path is not durable: persist/import the rescued rows before deleting MediaDB, or retain a recoverable copy until the import succeeds.
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| // on this database yet, so there is no background work to lock out. | ||
| log.Warn().Err(err).Msg("media database schema is newer than this build supports, rebuilding it") | ||
| rescuedUserData = rescueMediaUserData(ctx, mediaDB) | ||
| if resetErr := resetMediaDBForNewerSchema(mediaDB); resetErr != nil { |
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When a downgrade encounters both databases with newer schemas, this reset erases the media index before openAndRecoverUserDB returns ErrSchemaAhead and aborts startup. The older binary therefore still cannot boot, while reinstalling the newer version now requires an avoidable full reindex and loses cached scrape metadata; validate or open UserDB before performing this destructive reset.
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pkg/service/startup.go (1)
119-123: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDefer MediaDB recreation until UserDB is available.
Line 119 stores the recoverable rows only in
rescuedUserData. Lines 120-123 then discard the original MediaDB beforeopenAndRecoverUserDBruns.If UserDB open or migration fails,
makeDatabasereturns and the in-memory rows are lost. The next startup sees the rebuilt MediaDB and cannot recover the favourites or launcher overrides.Open UserDB and persist rescued rows before
Recreate, or defer the reset when UserDB cannot open. Add a test where both MediaDB and UserDB cannot be migrated in the same startup.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/service/mediadb_schema_reset_test.go`:
- Around line 205-209: Replace the real net.ListenConfig call in this test with
an injectable API listener factory interface, and provide a mock implementation
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In `@pkg/service/startup.go`:
- Around line 119-123: Update the startup flow around rescueMediaUserData,
resetMediaDBForNewerSchema, and openAndRecoverUserDB so rescued MediaDB rows are
persisted before the original database is recreated, or the reset is deferred
when UserDB cannot open or migrate. Preserve recoverability of favourites and
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| listener, err := (&net.ListenConfig{}).Listen(ctx, "tcp", "127.0.0.1:0") | ||
| require.NoError(t, err) | ||
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Mock the listener boundary.
This test opens a real TCP listener. It depends on an OS network resource and can fail in restricted or parallel test environments.
Inject the API listener factory behind an interface and mock the bind failure in this test.
As per coding guidelines, "**/*_test.go: Mock at interface boundaries — all hardware interactions must be mocked."
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In `@pkg/service/mediadb_schema_reset_test.go` around lines 205 - 209, Replace the
real net.ListenConfig call in this test with an injectable API listener factory
interface, and provide a mock implementation that simulates the bind failure.
Update the test setup to use the mocked factory while preserving the existing
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Two problems with the order the databases were opened in. Rescued favourites and launcher overrides were held in memory across the rebuild and only written once the user database opened, so a failure or exit in between lost them. And a downgrade normally leaves both databases ahead of the build, so the media index was discarded before the user database aborted startup anyway, costing a full reindex and the scraped metadata with it for nothing. Open and migrate the user database first, then import the rescued rows before deleting the file rather than after.
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| if rescued := rescueMediaUserData(ctx, mediaDB); len(rescued) > 0 { | ||
| backfillMediaUserData(ctx, db, rescued) | ||
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When UserDB cannot accept every rescued row—particularly when the disk is full, since deleting the large MediaDB may then free enough space for recreation to succeed—backfillMediaUserData only logs each UpsertMediaUserData error and returns no status, so this path proceeds to delete the sole remaining copy of those favourites or launcher overrides. Fresh evidence in this revision is that rescue now occurs before deletion but is still unchecked and non-atomic; require every rescued row to be durably imported (ideally in a transaction) before calling the reset.
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| if rescued := rescueMediaUserData(ctx, mediaDB); len(rescued) > 0 { | ||
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When startup has an interrupted backup transaction whose journal has UserDBStarted, this import is not durable: Start calls backupManager.RecoverRestore only after makeDatabase returns, and recovery then replaces UserDB with the pre-restore rollback artifact. If both UserDB copies lacked these legacy rows, the successful import is erased after Recreate has deleted the only MediaDB copy, permanently losing favourites and launcher overrides. Recover the transaction before importing/deleting, or retain the MediaDB backup until recovery succeeds.
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| rows, err := mediaDB.GetExistingMediaUserData(ctx) | ||
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| log.Warn().Err(err).Msg("could not read media user data out of the newer media database") | ||
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When the schema-ahead database changed or removed a table/column used by GetExistingMediaUserData, or that query otherwise fails, this branch converts the error into an empty slice; rebuildMediaDBForNewerSchema therefore leaves keepDiscarded false and deletes the file even if it contains the only legacy favourites or launcher overrides. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier rescue comments is that the current rescue still treats an unreadable source as containing no user data; propagate the error so the original database is preserved before rebuilding.
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- Around line 67-72: Add focused unit tests for CorruptBackupPath covering both
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- Around line 189-217: Update TestBackfillMediaUserDataReportsFailedRows to make
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When rescued rows cannot be read or imported and keepFile is true, MediaDB.Recreate still treats preservation as best-effort: if its os.Rename fails, it deletes the original database and returns success whenever that deletion succeeds. In that filesystem-error case startup continues after destroying the only recoverable copy of the favourites or launcher overrides this branch explicitly intended to keep; use a preservation operation whose failure is returned instead of falling back to deletion.
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Replace the direct os.Remove call with an injected or otherwise testable afero filesystem operation. This new startup cleanup path performs a real filesystem mutation inside testable service code, bypassing the repository's filesystem abstraction requirement and preventing tests from exercising removal errors or alternate filesystems without touching the host filesystem.
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| backup := database.CorruptBackupPath(db.dbPath) | ||
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When an earlier schema reset retained this backup because some legacy rows could not be imported, a later schema reset or development-build corruption recovery unconditionally removes that sole recoverable copy before renaming the current database. The current database may contain only the successfully imported subset, so repeated beta/stable switching can permanently erase the rows the prior backup was explicitly kept to protect; refuse to overwrite an existing retained copy or preserve each copy under a unique path.
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When the initial rescued-data import writes at least one row but another UpsertMediaUserData fails transiently, finishMediaDBRebuild calls this function again to retry, but the newly nonempty UserDB makes this guard return success without attempting the missing rows. Startup therefore continues with favourites or launcher overrides absent even though the rows remain available in rebuild.rescued; make the rescued-row retry distinguish a partial import from an already-authoritative UserDB, or perform the initial import atomically.
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Both databases rename a file aside to <db>.corrupt.bak when they replace it but want to keep a copy, and both spelled the path out by hand. Move the mapping next to CorruptMarkerPath so the two cannot drift apart. No behaviour change: the helper produces the same path both sites built.
The rebuild reads favorites and launcher overrides out of the media database before discarding it, because devices that predate the UserDB backfill hold them nowhere else. That read can fail outright: the file was written by a newer build, so this build's queries may not fit its schema. When it did fail, the inbox message still said only that media was being reindexed and to re-scrape the library, which reads as though everything comes back. Nothing can rebuild those rows, so tell the user instead of letting them find out later. makeDatabase now returns a mediaDBSchemaReset carrying userDataLost, set when the rescue read fails or when the import does not land every row. The notice hedges rather than asserting a loss, since a failed read cannot tell an empty database from a full one. Startup behaviour is unchanged: both new error paths log and continue into the rebuild exactly as before.
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A media database migrated by a newer build stops an older build from starting:
CheckSchemaVersionreturnsErrSchemaAheadandmakeDatabasetreated that as fatal, so switching from beta to stable by hand leaves an unbootable device.Everything in the media database can be rebuilt by a reindex, so discard it instead.
Recreate(false)deletes the file and its-wal/-shmsidecars, reopens at this build's schema, and marks the fresh database pending — the intent the existing startup resume check already acts on.MigrateUpruns again afterwards so the new file gets the planner-stat seeding a fresh install gets. No.corrupt.bakcopy is kept: the cause is known, the contents are reproducible, and the devices most likely to hit this have the least free space.The user database keeps failing fatally. Nothing can reconstruct what is in it, so starting up against a schema this build does not understand would lose data.
The rebuild happens before the inbox service exists, so
makeDatabasereturns a flag andStartposts the message (newmediadb_schema_resetcategory) once the inbox is up.Tests run against real SQLite files: schema-ahead rebuilds and leaves the database pending, migrated and empty of the old rows; a compatible database is untouched; a schema-ahead user database still fails startup; the inbox message carries the right category and severity; a nil state or missing inbox does not panic.
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