feat(backend): bound L1 backfill by the server's remaining freshness (LAB-557) - #268
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…(LAB-557) The read response now carries X-CacheKit-Fresh-For (protocol spec/saas-api.md#remaining-freshness). CachekitIO reads parse it (absent = None/legacy; unparseable/negative = 0, the conservative action) and thread (bytes, is_stale, fresh_for) through the freshness chain; L1 backfill uses min(ttl, fresh_for) so an entry read late in its server-side freshness window is never served fresh from L1 past the server's fresh_until. The freshness read path now gates on backend capability, not just configured SWR — the unbounded backfill predates SWR and applied to every CachekitIO read. Revalidation scheduling stays gated on an actually-configured stale window. Post-lock double-check reads share the same bound and stale-exclusion via _l2_double_check.
WalkthroughCachekitIO now reports remaining freshness. Cache handlers propagate this value through sync and async reads. L1 backfills cap their TTL to server freshness, skip stale or expired entries, and retain legacy behaviour when the signal is absent. ChangesFreshness propagation and bounded L1 backfill
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Provider-backed caches can serve L1 entries beyond the server freshness window, and direct handler consumers can receive an incompatible result shape. These correctness regressions should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Decorator
participant CacheOperationHandler
participant CachekitIOBackend
participant L1Cache
Decorator->>CacheOperationHandler: Request freshness-aware read
CacheOperationHandler->>CachekitIOBackend: Read value and freshness
CachekitIOBackend-->>CacheOperationHandler: Value, stale status, fresh_for
CacheOperationHandler-->>Decorator: Return value and freshness
Decorator->>L1Cache: Backfill with bounded TTL when eligible
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Resolves the one conflict in backends/cachekitio/backend.py: LAB-2846 percent-encodes the key in the request path; LAB-557 adds the fresh_for tuple slot to get_with_freshness. Both kept — the freshness read now goes through _encode_key like every other keyed request.
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| with patch.object(backend, "_request_sync", return_value=_response(200, b"payload", headers)): | ||
| result = backend.get_with_freshness("k") | ||
| assert result == (b"payload", expected_stale) | ||
| assert result == (b"payload", expected_stale, None) |
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tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:109-109tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:110-110tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:116-116tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:189-189tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:196-196tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:216-216tests/unit/backends/test_cachekitio_swr_transport.py:252-252tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:529-529tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:802-802tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:821-821tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:822-822tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:838-838tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:839-839tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:857-857tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:858-858tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:859-859tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:860-860tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:878-878tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:879-879tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:900-900tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:901-901tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:903-903tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:904-904tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:926-926tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:927-927tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:936-936tests/unit/test_swr_decorator.py:937-937
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In `@docs/configuration.md`:
- Line 195: Update the CachekitIO backend documentation to explicitly describe
the ttl=None behavior: L1 uses its 300-second default lifetime and caps that
lifetime by the server’s remaining freshness. Keep the existing rule for
configured TTL values and pre-signal servers unchanged.
In `@src/cachekit/cache_handler.py`:
- Line 1996: Update both StandardCacheHandler methods around get_with_freshness
and the related method to normalize legacy backend results from (bytes,
is_stale) into the promised three-element tuple, including a None expiry value,
before returning. Preserve already-normalized results and add direct handler
tests covering legacy backends.
In `@src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py`:
- Line 677: Update the lazy backend resolution flow in the decorator wrapper so
_l2_swr_backend_capable is recomputed immediately after _backend is assigned.
Defer backend-dependent stale_ttl validation and swr_by_default activation until
after that resolution, ensuring sync reads, async reads, and _l2_double_check
use SWR behavior and preserve the configured fresh_for when backfilling L1.
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| - A failed background recompute is silent: the entry keeps serving stale until its hard eviction bound, after which the next call takes the ordinary synchronous miss path. | ||
| - The background recompute runs with a **snapshot of the caller's `contextvars`** (contextvar-based tenant extraction works), but outside the request otherwise — don't rely on other request-scoped resources (open sessions, connections) inside functions that enable SWR. | ||
| - Stale values are never written to the L1 in-memory cache, and stale reads still count as cache **hits** for metered-misses billing. | ||
| - On the CachekitIO backend, every read (SWR-configured or not) also carries the server's remaining freshness (`X-CacheKit-Fresh-For`, [protocol spec](https://github.com/cachekit-io/protocol/blob/main/spec/saas-api.md#remaining-freshness)): an L2 hit backfilled into L1 lives at most `min(ttl, remaining)` locally, so a value read near the end of its server-side freshness window is never served fresh from L1 past the server's bound. Pre-signal servers omit the header and behavior is unchanged. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the ttl=None case.
When ttl=None, min(ttl, remaining) does not describe the applied rule. State that L1 uses its 300-second default lifetime and caps it by remaining.
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In `@docs/configuration.md` at line 195, Update the CachekitIO backend
documentation to explicitly describe the ttl=None behavior: L1 uses its
300-second default lifetime and caps that lifetime by the server’s remaining
freshness. Keep the existing rule for configured TTL values and pre-signal
servers unchanged.
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| def get_with_freshness(self, key: str) -> Optional[tuple[bytes, bool]]: | ||
| """Get value plus SWR staleness from an SWR-capable backend (LAB-381). | ||
| def get_with_freshness(self, key: str) -> Optional[tuple[bytes, bool, Optional[int]]]: |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Normalise legacy backend results before returning them.
A legacy backend returning (bytes, is_stale) passes supports_swr. Lines 2008 and 2022 return that two-element value unchanged, although these methods now promise three elements. CacheOperationHandler repairs the shape only for its own callers. Normalise the result in both StandardCacheHandler methods and add direct handler tests for legacy backends.
Also applies to: 2016-2016
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In `@src/cachekit/cache_handler.py` at line 1996, Update both StandardCacheHandler
methods around get_with_freshness and the related method to normalize legacy
backend results from (bytes, is_stale) into the promised three-element tuple,
including a None expiry value, before returning. Preserve already-normalized
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| _l2_swr_backend_capable = _backend is not None and hasattr(_backend, "get_with_freshness") | ||
| # Class-level capability check (shared with the read-path fallback): an | ||
| # instance-level hasattr would read Mock/proxy objects as SWR-capable. | ||
| _l2_swr_backend_capable = _backend is not None and supports_swr(_backend) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Recompute SWR capability after lazy backend resolution.
For provider-backed decorators, line 677 evaluates while _backend is None, so supports_swr returns False. The sync path then uses an ordinary read and misses stale-hit detection. The async path and _l2_double_check also use ordinary reads, and the async path can backfill L1 with the full ttl because fresh_for remains None. This can serve L1 data beyond X-CacheKit-Fresh-For. The same value also rejects provider-backed stale_ttl and disables swr_by_default. Recompute the capability immediately after lazy backend assignment, and defer backend-dependent SWR validation and activation until that point.
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In `@src/cachekit/decorators/wrapper.py` at line 677, Update the lazy backend
resolution flow in the decorator wrapper so _l2_swr_backend_capable is
recomputed immediately after _backend is assigned. Defer backend-dependent
stale_ttl validation and swr_by_default activation until after that resolution,
ensuring sync reads, async reads, and _l2_double_check use SWR behavior and
preserve the configured fresh_for when backfilling L1.
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Bounds L1 backfill by the server's remaining freshness (LAB-557): CachekitIO reads parse the new
X-CacheKit-Fresh-Forresponse header (protocol#51, emitted by saas#325) and L1 backfill usesmin(ttl, fresh_for)— an entry read late in its server-side freshness window is never served fresh from L1 past the server'sfresh_until. Origin: CodeRabbit outside-diff finding on #233 (LAB-506), deferred there because it wasn't fixable SDK-side alone.What ships
CachekitIOBackend.get_with_freshness→(bytes, is_stale, fresh_for); absent header =None(pre-signal server, legacy behavior); unparseable/negative =0(conservative, mirrors unrecognized-freshness → stale; debug-logged so a garbage-emitting proxy is diagnosable). Threaded through the handler/operation-handler chain; a third-party backend still returning the released 2-tuple degrades tofresh_for=Nonevia a length-tolerant unpack instead of a swallowed unpack error turning every hit into a miss.supports_swr— instancehasattrread Mock/__getattr__proxies as capable), not just configured SWR: the unbounded backfill predates SWR and applied to every CachekitIO read. Revalidation scheduling stays gated on an actually-configured stale window._l1_backfill_from_l2holds both invariants at all three backfill sites in lockstep (stale never recorded; fresh bounded); the post-lock double-checks use a freshness-aware read (_l2_double_check) so an L2-read-error + still-live-old-entry double fault can't sneak an unbounded backfill through a side door.ttl=Nonethe bound clamps to L1's ownDEFAULT_L1_TTL_SECONDS(300s) — a long server remainder must never extend local service toward the 30-day cap (DELETE-as-revocation relies on the ≤300s ageout).Tests: regression per the ticket AC (fresh hit with 0s remaining is not L1-recorded; next read reaches L2), bound/legacy/no-SWR/mixed-reader-stale cases, clamp-never-extend, 2-tuple compat, header-parse vectors.
tests/unit/1960 passed; ruff + basedpyright clean; full-suite failure set identical to main modulo timing-flaky perf benchmarks.Expert-panel review (4 agents, high stakes — crypto/protocol gate): FIX-FIRST → applied: ttl=None clamp (CWE-613 — the bound had become an extension), 2-tuple tolerance, backfill-guard dedup, garbage-header debug log, honest
_l2_double_checkdocstring. Rejected: scheduling revalidation from the double-check (spec-permitted asymmetry on a double-fault rarity — documented instead).Docs:
docs/configuration.mdSWR section documents the bound; protocol matrix row stays 🚧 until this ships in a release (matrix verifies released artifacts). Ticket: LAB-557.Summary by CodeRabbit
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