fix: stabilize the NetBox preview apply and reread loop

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Why

The first v3 preview's shipped NetBox-to-Infrahub path had three interacting failures:
null optional relationships were rendered as id: "None", NetBox L2 values violated the
destination dropdown, and a post-apply reread could not reconstruct a LAG peer's
relationship-valued identity.

Together these failures prevented realistic interface data from completing a stable
plan, apply, and reread cycle.

Related to #167.

What changed

• Omit a literally null optional cardinality-one relationship from its mutation while
  retaining nullable scalars, required relationships, and cardinality-many fields.
• Translate NetBox interface modes for Physical, Virtual, and Lag interfaces and reject
  malformed non-null values at the transform boundary.
• Perform at most one UUID hydration per (kind, UUID) when an identity value is absent
  or None, with populate_store=False and explicit absent/None/string cache states.
• Merge fetched identifiers with the current peer only within one resolution call. Do not
  combine partial evidence across calls and do not use a recursive richness score.
• Preserve SDK cache entries deterministically using identity completeness: UUID entry,
  identity alias, then the non-hydrated current node. Unknown or cardinality-many
  relationship identifiers fail closed.
• Keep bulk model loading on mapped attributes only. Identifier prefetch is separated into
  the measured follow-up SYNC-68.
• Preserve contextual missing-peer errors, propagate unexpected SDK/store failures, and
  document that continue_on_error now retains relationships recoverable by hydration.
• Preserve source and owner lineage on relationship edges added or changed during an
  Infrahub destination update; unchanged existing edges are not backfilled.

null optional to-one -> omitted from the mutation
tagged/tagged-all    -> trunk/trunk_all
shallow LAG peer     -> one UUID hydration, then adapter-local identity reuse

Validation

Exact head: 82a78962b27ca5e5285dd0857b3b75847025d613

• Independent full-diff review: passed with no high-confidence blockers.
• Focused peer tests: 30 passed; focused v3 adapter paths: 78 passed.
• Full local suite: 1,588 passed, 21 skipped, 1 expected xfail.
• Format, lint, type checks, CLI help, and example listing passed; four existing unused
  ty ignore warnings remain outside touched files.
• GitHub CI: green on Python 3.10-3.13, base-install tests, documentation/style, and
  deployment checks.

Exact-head disposable NetBox 4.6 to Infrahub 1.10.6 qualification:

• Generated and reviewed a 420-create plan across 18 destination kinds.
• Refused an incorrect checksum without contacting the destination.
• Applied and reapplied all 420 operations and passed destination verification 31/31
  after the first apply, repeat apply, and fresh reread.
• Fresh reread compared 840/840 source/destination models and produced zero operations.
• With bulk prefetch absent, observed exactly 40 bounded InterfaceLag hydrations for 40
  unique LAGs across 80 bundle references, all using include=[device,name] and
  populate_store=False.
• Verified complete teardown and a clean product worktree at the exact remote head.

Known limitation

The complete shipped tutorial is not yet qualified for IP addresses and prefixes. Those
two kinds remain excluded because their source identifiers do not match the destination
schema's namespace-based identity. The disposable endpoint is the only other scenario
deviation. This PR qualifies the repaired 18-kind path; it does not claim to repair that
separate IPAM identity defect.

This PR is ready for the planned full re-review from feature/v3-develop.

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Walkthrough

Infrahub relationship updates now apply source and owner attribution, retain rich SDK peer nodes, and cache peer hydration results. Planned applies handle null optional and mandatory cardinality-one relationships with omission, warnings, or validation errors. New tests cover attribution, peer resolution, hydration, caching, and planned writes. The NetBox example now transforms layer-2 modes for physical, virtual, and LAG interfaces and rejects unsupported modes. Changelog and documentation entries describe these changes.

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Review follow-up:

• 9e2dcd8 adds a typed refusal for null mandatory to-one relationships.
• Optional to-one null updates now warn and remain a documented no-op because plan v1 cannot distinguish absence from an intentional clear.
• Nullable scalar values remain unchanged.
• 44b5dfc documents the resource-pool lineage limitation and adds the matching code comment.

Related source-lane fixes are in PR #176 at 6eaf633 and PR #177 at e5da195. They still need reconciliation into this branch after those lanes merge.

CI is green at 44b5dfc.

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tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py (1)

15-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add concise docstrings to the public test functions.

• tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L15-L19: document supported-mode translation.
• tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L42-L42: document absent-mode preservation.
• tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L62-L65: document malformed-mode rejection.
• tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L81-L81: document q-in-q refusal.

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In `@tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py` around lines 15 - 19, Add concise
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test_netbox_example_translates_interface_l2_mode should document supported-mode
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absent-mode preservation, malformed-mode rejection, and q-in-q refusal
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infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py (1)

978-998: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename hydration_failed to match what it tests.

hydration_failed is set from cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids. That membership means "a cache entry exists", not "hydration failed". After the early return at Line 989 the entry can only be None, so the later reads are correct, but the name makes the invariant hard to verify. A name such as cache_entry_exists (or a separate hydration_attempted flag) states the condition directly.

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-        hydration_failed = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
-        if hydration_failed:
+        cache_entry_exists = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
+        if cache_entry_exists:
             cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]

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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py` around lines 978 - 998, Rename the
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In `@examples/netbox_to_infrahub/config.yml`:
- Around line 339-349: Add a concise documentation entry under docs describing
the L2-mode transform’s supported mappings—access, tagged, and tagged-all—and
that malformed values and q-in-q are rejected rather than translated. Keep the
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Nitpick comments:
In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 978-998: Rename the boolean variable hydration_failed to
cache_entry_exists throughout the peer hydration flow, including its
initialization from cache_key membership and the checks near the cached
peer-data handling and later reference. Preserve the existing control flow and
cache behavior.

In `@tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py`:
- Around line 15-19: Add concise docstrings to the four public test functions in
tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py:
test_netbox_example_translates_interface_l2_mode should document supported-mode
translation; the functions at lines 42, 62-65, and 81 should document
absent-mode preservation, malformed-mode rejection, and q-in-q refusal
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Add documentation for the new L2-mode configuration.

This example now maps three NetBox modes and rejects malformed values and q-in-q. Add a concise docs/ update that states the supported values and refusal behavior.

As per coding guidelines: “Update docs/ for any user-visible changes (flags, config, adapters). Keep examples minimal, accurate, and redacted.”

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In `@examples/netbox_to_infrahub/config.yml` around lines 339 - 349, Add a concise
documentation entry under docs describing the L2-mode transform’s supported
mappings—access, tagged, and tagged-all—and that malformed values and q-in-q are
rejected rather than translated. Keep the example minimal and redact any
environment-specific details.

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Review notes

Behavior to confirm

• A single q-in-q interface anywhere in the source aborts the entire interface model load, including read-only diff. The transform refuses the value explicitly rather than skipping the record. If a whole-load abort is the intended handling for a valid NetBox 4.2+ mode the destination schema can't represent, no change needed — confirming this is deliberate.

Follow-up to file

• is_protected differs between create and update paths: generate_payload_create stamps is_protected=True on relationship peers, while _relationship_input_data emits only id/source/owner. An edge added by update_node is therefore unprotected while the same logical edge created at sync-create time is protected. Suggest filing as a separate issue.

Low severity

• On the merge-recovery path (peer completed from two partial representations), _reconcile_peer_sdk_alias can alias an identifier-incomplete stub when the SDK store has no richer candidate. Write paths use .id, so impact is low; caching the merged data's richest node (or nothing) would be more consistent.
• The once-per-peer warning names only the first parent referencing an unresolvable peer; other parents' skipped relationships leave no per-parent trace. A per-parent DEBUG log alongside the WARNING would aid diagnosis under continue_on_error.
• _reconcile_peer_sdk_alias recomputes the richness comparison on every cache hit. Negligible cost; noting for completeness.

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The reviewer-approved peer-hydration cleanup and exact-head requalification are complete
at 82a78962b27ca5e5285dd0857b3b75847025d613.

• Removed cross-call partial-evidence merging and the recursive richness scorer.
• Kept bounded same-call hydration and the deterministic identity-complete order: UUID
  entry, identity alias, then non-hydrated fallback.
• Kept bulk identifier prefetch out of this PR; the measured follow-up is
  SYNC-68.
• Added the same null-identifier/fail-closed regressions as fix: preserve peer identity across destination reads #177; the focused peer test
  files are byte-identical across both branches.
• Passed an independent full-diff gate, 30 focused peer tests, 78 focused v3 adapter tests,
  the 1,588-test local suite, and the complete GitHub CI matrix.
• Exact-head Q-002 qualification passed wrong-checksum refusal, first/repeat 420/420
  applies, three 31/31 destination checks, and an 840/840 zero-operation reread. It
  observed exactly 40 bounded LAG hydrations with bulk prefetch absent.

The PR description now contains the final design, accepted F1/F2 qualification boundary,
and exact results. Please re-review the full diff from feature/v3-develop as planned.

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Closing review notes (head 2d446ad)

No blocking findings remain. Two low-severity residuals, neither requiring action before merge:

• A store-resident stub whose identifier attribute is genuinely null still costs one verification GET per distinct peer per run, re-verifying what the bulk load already fetched. Bounded and cached; the SYNC-68 prefetch evaluation would eliminate it.
• _sdk_node_has_identifiers treats a verified-null identifier as identity-incomplete, so a verified-null peer never receives an SDK-store alias even though the diffsync layer accepts its identity. Same residual class as the adapter-local hydration tradeoff; a one-line comment acknowledging the asymmetry would help future readers.

Carryover from earlier rounds, unchanged: the is_protected create/update parity gap should be filed as a separate issue.