fix(price): bound relayed price staleness at one TTL, not two - #925
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Closes MostroP2P#860. The Nostr provider accepts a trusted-node rate event up to `max_price_staleness_seconds` old, and the store then stamped it `as_of = now` and served it for another full window. The two windows stacked, so a relayed price could outlive the configured TTL. Stamp `as_of` with the event's own `created_at` instead. Total age is then bounded at exactly one TTL whatever age the event arrived with, and it needs no new configuration. `PriceProvider` gains a defaulted `last_observed_at()` returning `None` — correct for every HTTP provider, where ingestion time is observation time. Only `NostrProvider` overrides it, recording the `created_at` of the event that sourced the tick. `nostr_anchor_dependent` currencies are backdated too: a fiat-cross value built on a relayed anchor is no fresher than that anchor, even though `contributors` names only the cross provider.
Self-review follow-ups on the backdating change. `PriceStore::update` now drops a write whose observation is older than the one already stored. Without it a relayed event predating a direct fetch moved `as_of` backwards, refusing a currency that was servable a moment earlier — worse than writing nothing at all. The parameter is renamed `now` -> `as_of` and its doc corrected, since it is no longer always the wall clock. `observe_freshness` re-arms the past-TTL refusal flag on any served read, not only on a value younger than one poll interval. A relayed currency's age is measured from observation, so it can sit above one interval for its whole servable life — which would have let the "refusing" warning fire exactly once per process. The relayed test is `contributors.contains(&Nostr)` rather than equality: today `restrict_nostr_to_fallback` makes them equivalent, but `contains` fails safe if that invariant ever relaxes. Also: spec §6.4 updated to match, and two tests — an older relayed event must not shorten a window a direct fetch earned, and a tick without a Nostr contribution must not be backdated by leftover provider state.
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WalkthroughChangesPrice observation and staleness
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The price-staleness fix is merge-ready after normal checks; the only remaining follow-up is to update the price-provider documentation so the as_of definition matches the new observation-time behavior. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PriceManager
participant NostrProvider
participant PriceStore
participant PriceReader
PriceManager->>NostrProvider: fetch price event
NostrProvider-->>PriceManager: quotes and created_at
PriceManager->>PriceStore: store relayed prices with created_at
PriceManager->>PriceStore: store direct prices with tick time
PriceReader->>PriceStore: read price
PriceStore-->>PriceReader: serve or refuse by as_of age
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- Around line 344-355: Update the opening definition in §6.4 to define `as_of`
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| - A tick that yields a fresh value overwrites the entry with `as_of` = when | ||
| the value was **observed**. For a directly-fetched rate that is the tick's | ||
| `now` (the HTTP request returns the rate as of now). For a rate relayed | ||
| over Nostr it is the source event's own `created_at`, so the provider's | ||
| acceptance window and this serving window do not stack: a relayed price is | ||
| bounded at one `max_price_staleness_seconds` from observation, whatever age | ||
| the event arrived with (issue #860). The same applies to a fiat-cross | ||
| currency resolved against a Nostr-sourced anchor | ||
| (`nostr_anchor_dependent`, §6.3), which is no fresher than that anchor. | ||
| - `as_of` never moves backwards: a write carrying an observation older than | ||
| the one already stored is dropped, so a relayed rate predating a direct | ||
| fetch cannot shorten a currency's remaining serving window. |
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Align the as_of definition with the observation-time rule.
The opening definition in §6.4 still says that as_of is the time of the producing tick. That is false for Nostr-relayed rates and Nostr-anchor-dependent rates. Define as_of as the observation time of the accepted aggregate.
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In `@docs/PRICE_PROVIDERS.md` around lines 344 - 355, Update the opening
definition in §6.4 to define `as_of` as the observation time of the accepted
aggregate, rather than the producing tick’s time. Keep the existing distinctions
for directly fetched, Nostr-relayed, and Nostr-anchor-dependent rates consistent
with this definition.
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Closes #860. Replaces #886, which I withdrew — its premise did not survive
@Catrya's review, and the correction is on the issue.
The bug, restated correctly
The Nostr provider accepts a trusted-node rate event that is already some
age, and
PriceStorethen stamped itas_of = nowand served it for anotherfull
max_price_staleness_seconds. The two windows stack, so a relayed priceoutlives the configured TTL.
The size, corrected — the original issue said ~2x, which was wrong because it
missed the NIP-40 gate at
nostr.rs:194:is_expired_at)max_age)Both exceed the setting. This bounds both at exactly 1.0x.
The fix
This is the approach @arkanoider endorsed in the first reply on #860 ("carry
the event's own
created_atthrough toas_of") and @Catrya arrived atindependently in the #886 review. It turned out not to need the architecture
change I claimed it did.
Stamp
as_offrom when the rate was observed rather than when we ingestedit. Total age is then bounded at one TTL whatever age the event arrived with,
and no new configuration is involved.
PriceProvidergains a defaultedlast_observed_at() -> Option<i64>.Noneis correct for every HTTP provider — ingestion time is observationtime — so the five HTTP adapters are untouched.
NostrProvideroverrides it, recording thecreated_atof the event thatsourced the tick.
pick_first_usablenow returns the winning event so thetimestamp comes from the candidate that actually parsed, not the newest one.
PriceManagerstamps relayed currencies from that timestamp and everythingelse from
now.PriceStore::update'sas_ofnever moves backwards: a write carryingan older observation is dropped. Without this a relayed event predating a
direct fetch would move
as_ofback and refuse a currency that was servablea moment earlier — worse than writing nothing.
nostr_anchor_dependentcurrencies are backdated too: a fiat-cross valuebuilt on a relayed anchor is no fresher than that anchor, even though
contributorsnames only the cross provider. That case is the one acontributors == [Nostr]test alone does not catch.Deliberate choices worth reviewing
contains, not equality. Todayrestrict_nostr_to_fallbackdrops Nostr's quote for any currency anotherprovider covers, so the two are equivalent.
containsfails safe (stalesooner) if that invariant ever relaxes, rather than failing open (served
past its true age).
republishable_rates, whose predicate is the apparentinverse. They answer different questions: that one deliberately republishes
a value Nostr merely corroborated (pinned by
republishable_rates_keeps_a_currency_nostr_only_partly_helped_with), whilebackdating must trigger on any Nostr involvement. Sharing a helper would
break one of them.
nostr_anchor_dependentis coarse. The flag is set when any survivingcontributor resolved through a Nostr-touched anchor, so a currency that also
has an independent direct contributor is backdated as a whole. It
over-refuses rather than over-serves, which is the right way to be wrong on
a price that quotes trades; separating them needs per-contributor provenance
AggregateResultdoes not carry.Known limitations, not fixed here
max_ageis still the full TTL, so an event arriving at nearly TTL age isaccepted, counted as a successful tick, and stamped effectively
dead-on-arrival. Tightening the acceptance window is a separate decision
from fixing the double-count, and I would rather it be settled on the issue
than smuggled in here.
travelling with the quotes. Safe today (Nostr can only appear in
contributorswhen it fetched successfully this tick, and there is a testfor the failure path), but threading it through
fetch— or ontoAggregateResult— would remove the coupling, drop the map split, and letthe store write from one borrowed map. Worth doing if a second relaying
provider ever lands.
Test plan
relayed_currency_is_stamped_from_observation_not_ingestion— one tick,two stamps: Yadio's USD keeps
now, Nostr's ARS is bounded at exactlyone TTL from observation, and the old stacked window is unreachable.
nostr_anchor_dependent_currency_is_also_backdated.a_relayed_event_older_than_the_stored_value_does_not_regress_as_of.a_tick_without_a_nostr_contribution_is_not_backdated— leftoverprovider state must not backdate an unrelated tick.
they are regressions, not restatements.
cargo build,cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings,cargo test --bin mostrod(1248 passed, 2 ignored) — all clean.Summary by CodeRabbit