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Problem

Once a sync has created physical-interface-to-LAG relationships, the next
diff or sync cannot read the destination back:

PeerIdentifierError: Cannot build unique_id for peer InterfaceLag
(relationship InterfacePhysical.bundle): missing identifier key(s) ['device']

The adapter populates one shared SDK store while loading kinds in order. It stores a
fully hydrated InterfaceLag first, then loading InterfacePhysical stores a shallow
copy of that same LAG from the nested bundle payload. The shallow copy has no device
relationship, and the adapter's completeness check only looked at scalar attributes — so
it built an identity from an incomplete node and raised. A converged destination becomes
unreadable, before any plan is produced.

Why not just prefetch identifiers in model_loader

The obvious one-line alternative is to add _identifiers to the include list on the
bulk load. It doesn't fix this bug. The complete node is already in the store; the
failure is the later shallow write replacing it. Prefetching makes the first write
richer and changes nothing about the clobbering that follows.

Whether prefetch is worth it on its own merits — query shape, latency, request count for
every kind on every run — is a measurement question, tracked in
SYNC-68.

Fix

  1. When a peer arrives without an identifier, fetch that peer once by UUID with
    include=[<identifiers>] and populate_store=False, so the narrow result can never
    replace a fuller node in the shared store.
  2. Cache the outcome per (kind, UUID): absent = not attempted, None = one attempt
    failed, string = resolved. At most one extra request per unique peer.
  3. Point the peer's identity key at whichever cached node actually carries the complete
    identity, instead of guessing by field count.
before: shallow LAG peer -> PeerIdentifierError
after:  shallow LAG peer -> one UUID read -> cached identity -> converged reread

Scope and risk

  • Infrahub adapter only; additive to a path that currently raises. Peers that arrive
    complete make no extra request.
  • Unknown fields and cardinality-many identifiers fail closed rather than guessing.
  • Genuine DiffSync ObjectNotFound store misses are handled; unexpected SDK failures
    still propagate, and PeerIdentifierError keeps its parent-relationship context.
  • Operator-visible: under --continue-on-error, peers that bounded hydration can
    recover are now retained instead of having their relationship rows silently dropped.

Verification

  • Full suite 172 passed / 3 skipped. ruff, Pylint (9.60) and ty (3 pre-existing
    diagnostics in untouched tests) all match main.
  • Live run against a disposable Infrahub: 420/420 creates, then a fresh reread compared
    840/840 models and produced zero operations — the crash is gone and the destination
    round-trips.
  • That run issued exactly 40 hydration requests for 40 unique LAGs across 80 bundle
    references, all include=[device,name] with populate_store=False.
  • Rebased onto main at d2761c7.

Closes #167.

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The Infrahub adapter now requests model attributes and identifiers during loading. It validates peer identity completeness, hydrates missing identifiers once, caches resolution results, handles missing store entries, and reconciles SDK store aliases without replacing complete nodes with partial data. Tests cover these paths and model-loader query parameters. A changelog entry documents the fix.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #167 by hydrating incomplete peer identities and preserving relationships during subsequent destination reads.
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498-522: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename hydration_failed to reflect what it measures.

The flag is set from key presence in self._peer_unique_ids, not from a hydration failure. The inference is only valid because a present-and-None entry is written at Line 534. A reader must trace that write to understand the branch at Line 509. Rename the flag to describe the cache state, then derive the retry decision from it.

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-        hydration_failed = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
-        if hydration_failed:
-            cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]
-            if cached_unique_id is not None:
-                return cached_unique_id
+        # A cached ``None`` means a previous attempt already hydrated this peer
+        # and still could not build an identifier, so do not retry the GET.
+        already_attempted = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
+        if already_attempted:
+            cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]
+            if cached_unique_id is not None:
+                return cached_unique_id
 
         peer_data = self.infrahub_node_to_diffsync(peer_node)
         identifiers = tuple(peer_model._identifiers)
         missing = tuple(k for k in identifiers if k not in peer_data)
-        if missing and not hydration_failed:
+        if missing and not already_attempted:

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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py` around lines 498 - 522, Rename
hydration_failed to reflect that it indicates cache-key presence in
self._peer_unique_ids, and apply the same rename at the corresponding assignment
near the cache write. Derive the hydration retry condition from this renamed
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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 498-522: Rename hydration_failed to reflect that it indicates
cache-key presence in self._peer_unique_ids, and apply the same rename at the
corresponding assignment near the cache write. Derive the hydration retry
condition from this renamed cache-state flag while preserving the existing
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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 463-464: Update the model-loading logic around model_loader to
request both model._attributes and model._identifiers when calling
self.client.all, ensuring identifier fields such as relationship-valued device
are included while preserving the existing populate_store behavior.
- Around line 594-599: Update the completeness checks in the peer hydration flow
to require each identifier key to exist with a non-None value, both in the check
before returning peer_data and in the missing calculation near the existing
hydration logic. Ensure peers with None identifier values remain eligible for
hydration and are not passed to create_unique_id as complete.
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estivate and others added 2 commits August 20, 2026 13:12
Cover the second-cycle destination read that receives a relationship peer
without its relationship-valued identifier, plus the hydration, caching and
alias-reconciliation behavior the repair depends on.

Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hydrate a relationship peer's missing identity with at most one UUID read per
(kind, UUID), keep that fetch out of the shared SDK store, and alias the peer
identity key to an identity-complete node so a converged destination stays
readable.

Co-Authored-By: OpenAI Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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