Commit graph CultLib/src/GameCult.Caching.MessagePack/DirectoryMessagePackBackingStore.cs
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067df993a3 Apply refusal: a write over a durable record under an undeclared id is refused at ApplyWriteSet and reloads read-only
ForeignOnDisk and the two RefuseForeign calls in PushAll and CommitBatchCore are
gone. ApplyWriteSet refuses first, over every key it writes or removes, by
Registry.Declares for a cache and by the catalog entry it writes for a cacheless
CultMesh write. Both refusals reload through one DurableAt; the directory store
reloads through LoadPage, the per-record body of LoadRecordPages.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 13:11:23 +02:00
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e9a668769a Ownership by declaration, staging half: a write that would change a record under an id no registered type declares is refused before staging
Declares (registry) is the one answer to whether a cache may write, relabel
or remove a record stored under an id. RefuseUndeclared applies it from
Validate's Claim, which every cache write passes, to what the home store
holds at the key: a foreign record or one held under an undeclared id.
RefuseOverwrite and its two Push calls are deleted.

Red until rewritten: ForeignRecordTests.AWriteOfTheRecordItselfStoresItUnderTheTypesOwnId
and CompatibleSchemaIdTests.AnotherNewerCacheRestoringTheIdAfterAnOlderRewriteStillFailsTheCondition,
which pin the relabel rule 3 forbids.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 12:31:53 +02:00
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2a3773a463 CultCache: the store owns a file's bytes, not the record object
Delete RawBytes from CultPersistedRecord and CultSchemaCatalogEntry, with every
drop-on-assign hook and the catalog's content guard. A decoded record or snapshot
carries no stored bytes, so an in-place edit of its payload or overrides can never
be shadowed by cached bytes, and the public snapshot and record serializers encode
every record from its fields.

SingleFileBackingStore now reads through ReadStore, which returns the snapshot and,
parallel to it, the exact slice the file holds for each catalog entry and record. Its
durable index keeps, by record key, that slice and its SHA-256 (hashed when a
comparison asks), which is the record's version. A write re-encodes every record
the writer staged and copies every other record, and every catalog entry it keeps,
as the slice the file holds. The directory store keeps its manifest's catalog slices
the same way. SerializeSnapshot/DeserializeSnapshot hooks become
SerializeStore/ReadStore plus SerializeCatalogEntry.

A staged but unchanged non-canonical record is now re-encoded canonically and gets
a new version; an untouched one keeps its bytes and version.

Tests: in-place edits through the snapshot API (payload, override) and through a
held document (collection, nested object) are written as edited; an untouched
non-canonical record survives a neighbour's write byte for byte; a staged one is
re-encoded. The cost test counts record hashes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 10:47:30 +02:00
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b195525d64 CultCache: a record's version is the SHA-256 of its stored bytes; conditions, pulls, the staleness check and a refusal's reload compare it, never storedAt
Adds CultStoredDocument.StoredVersion, CacheBackingStore.VersionOf and the
SingleFileBackingStore.SerializeRecord hook, and swaps every identity comparison
in the same commit: SameStoredIdentity stays the one comparison, over versions.
Deletes the Identity helper, the (schemaId, storedAt) Expected tuple, the
in-memory fake-record projection and the directory's storedAt arrival.
Breaking public API for 2.0.0: CultCommitRequest.Expected, ConditionsHold and
the abstract SingleFileBackingStore.SerializeRecord.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 08:23:31 +02:00
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25d6cb2951 C# store header: the durable header owns "holds element ids"; StoredHoldsIds and KnownIdFree are deleted
A record's bytes cannot say whether it holds an element id (an id is an ordinary keyed
string), so the per-record fact decoded by whichever type loaded the record was a split
authority: a narrower type unmarked a v3 store over bytes holding ids. HeaderForWrite is now
a pure function of the durable header, the HoldsIds of the records the write encodes, and
whether it copies any record forward: a write that copies keeps a marked header, a write
that encodes every record decides by content. The directory store takes the same rule.

Also pins the three Low test findings deferred from c2a-write-set s3: the reload cause is
observed by type and message, the author's own Expect after a commit, and the directory
store's re-mint branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 07:04:48 +02:00
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2e3312635d C# write set: one re-mint for every store kind, and a foreign refusal carries its reload failure
The directory store wrote an earlier storedAt over a later record it replaced, against the contract.
CacheBackingStore.StoredAtOver is now the one re-mint; the single-file apply and the directory
generation write both call it. A foreign refusal passes the reload's cause to
CultSchemaConflictException as its inner exception. Per-commit build not verified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 06:05:41 +02:00
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a7114a1f9f C# write set: tests for copy-forward, raw catalog carry, header rule and the inverted lay-back rules
New WriteSetTests (single-file and directory stores, flush and commit): another writer's write and
removal survive, a store that appeared after open is kept, an unstaged in-place change is not
written, a copied record keeps the catalog entry the store holds now, an entry's unknown trailing
fields survive byte for byte, conditional and unconditional commits write the same bytes, the
header drops only when every copied record is known id-free, v2 exactly with a variant. Mesh: a
write copies neighbours forward and replaces only its key. The lay-back and whole-view tests and
the flush-restamp tests are rewritten or removed with the rules they pinned.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 03:16:49 +02:00
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aa186513a5 C# stores: every flush, commit and CultMesh single-file write applies a write set to the durable store
SingleFileBackingStore.ApplyWriteSet replaces WholeView and ReplaceDurable: under the lock, from the
durable snapshot read there, it removes staged removals, writes staged upserts and copies every other
record and the catalog entries they reference unchanged. PushAll, CommitBatchCore (conditional and
unconditional, one apply) and CultMesh's write call only it. Catalog entries read from a store keep
their exact bytes and are written verbatim while their decoded fields are unchanged. Derive no longer
lets a registered entry publish an id nothing staged sits under. HeaderForWrite is the one header rule
for the single-file and directory stores. A write is judged against variants another writer left in the
file. Tests of the deleted rules are rewritten in the next commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-03 03:05:08 +02:00
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425531d88e C#: a dangling link is an I/O error on read; the directory refusal echoes a header only as store version digits; contract names Rust's real type
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 20:49:12 +02:00
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86eea40bce One owner for the foreign-record refusal: it reaches the cache, names every key, and refuses only what the cache wrote
CacheBackingStore.RefuseForeign now decides, for both store kinds, which written keys a foreign record refuses, drops the
store's staged change and the cache's copy of each through the Loaded path a pull uses, and throws one conflict naming every
refused key. The single-file store tracks the keys staged since its last load or write, as the directory store already did, so
a clean copy of a record another writer made foreign is carried, not refused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 18:34:09 +02:00
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b0f7d59c96 Directory store: a refused foreign overwrite leaves the pending set with its failed write
WriteGeneration left the refused key in the dirty and deleted sets, so every later generation
refused it. The refusal is now one check before any staging, shared by flush and commit, that
removes the refused keys from the pending sets. Tests cover both store kinds.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-02 16:51:54 +02:00
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05221dae74 C#: a record no registered type claims is carried untouched, and a write over it is refused
C2a F2, operator: "CultCache never destroys or relabels a record it doesn't
understand; keeps it byte-for-byte, refuses writes that would overwrite it."

- The registry's claim decision (Claimant) is split out of resolution. It
  never decodes or compares shapes, so a store classifies a record from its
  header. The last branch, "No local CultCache schema matches", now means
  foreign instead of a refused load.
- Both store kinds keep a foreign record out of the cache and list it in
  CacheBackingStore.ForeignRecords (key, schema id, catalog name, storedAt).
- Single-file store: a whole-view write lays back every foreign record the
  file holds now, with its catalog entry, and keeps a marked header while it
  carries one (it cannot see their ids). A staged write, a commit (onto the
  file or whole view) and a whole view over a key the file holds as foreign
  refuse with CultSchemaConflictException naming the key and id. A merge
  judgement never decodes a foreign record, and one that replaced a held
  record takes it away.
- Directory store: a foreign record's page is never read; a generation that
  would replace or remove one refuses before any page is written.
- Contracts: hard rejection no longer lists "no compatible local schema
  candidate"; the persistence format says what a foreign record is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 20:50:15 +02:00
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5607d9703d C#: the directory store's loaded id is its manifest's; the variant fixture names itself
A directory-store record's identity on disk is its manifest entry, which is what
a commit condition compares; the page holds its own copy of the id. A load now
takes StoredSchemaId from the manifest, so a manifest rewritten under an older
id (AConditionOnARecordUnderADeclaredOldIdHoldsInTheDirectoryStore) is the id
the condition expects. Canonicalisation had hidden the page and manifest
disagreeing in that fixture.

The whole-view test's variant overrides its name: a variant may not share its
base's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 12:52:15 +02:00
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5c8af219f9 C#: a commit condition compares the id a record was loaded under with the file's, exactly
Each stored document carries StoredSchemaId: the id its record sits under in its
store, the one it was loaded under until a write puts it under its type's own id.
Expect, ExpectUnchanged, the reload and merge identity checks compare
(StoredSchemaId, storedAt) with the store's bytes exactly. CanonicalSchemaId is
deleted: canonicalising the disk id let an older version's whole-view rewrite
(same storedAt, restamped to its own id, a member shed) pass a newer cache's
condition (Soul F1), and failed every condition on a record resolved by name or
through a file entry listing the local id (F3). A whole-view write marks every
record it wrote as stored under its type's id, in the store and the cache.

Tests: Soul's rolling-deploy probe as AWholeViewRewriteByAnOlderVersionFails...
(Mismatch for Expect and ExpectUnchanged, nothing derived lands, a pull shows the
rewrite and the retry commits); F3's H1, H1b, H2 pass Expect and ExpectUnchanged
when nothing changed; conditions after a whole-view commit hold for a plain
record and a variant. BareDeck is emitted at run time (EmittedDocumentTypes) so
the shared registry never sees it beside DeclaringDeck; the CanonicalSchemaId
tests and their Claimant fixtures go with the function.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 12:35:40 +02:00
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186e5b29ae C#: a document type declares the older schema ids its records may sit under
CultDocumentAttribute.CompatibleSchemaIds, as TypeScript and Python already name it. The
registered catalog entry lists the ids after its own, the registry resolves a record under one
to the type (its own id first, then the first registered type that declares it), and a
condition on a record compares schema ids through that resolution, so a record still under a
declared old id counts as the record the cache holds. The cache already stamps every record it
writes with the descriptor's own id; the store writers still change no identity, so a record a
commit does not rewrite stays under the id the file holds it under, published by the registered
entry. Without the declaration such a commit is refused, typed, as before.

Contract and XML docs describe the declaration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 11:30:05 +02:00
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9cee5e3f42 C#: no store writer restamps a record; the directory store has one source of arrived entries
Deleted the heuristic that rewrote a record the cache held "unchanged since read" (same key and
storedAt) under the registered id, in the single-file commit and in the directory generation. It
could overwrite a record another writer changed while keeping its storedAt. A commit onto a file
now writes its batch and leaves every other record as the file holds it; a record under an id only
an arrived entry lists is refused, typed, with the file left as it was. Deleted the directory
store's _durableCatalog, a second stale-able source of arrived entries beside the manifest read
under the lease.

Tests: the lost-update probe, the two refusals that replace the restamp tests, the
arrived-overwrites-registered guard in both id orders, the content-hash tie-break against the
compatible-list order, and refusal determinism across record arrival order.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 11:04:12 +02:00
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e77246b657 Writers derive the catalog from the records they write; the merging is deleted
Every writer (C# single-file and directory, TypeScript, Python; Rust already did) chooses, for each schema id a record carries, one
entry that publishes it: the entry that owns the id (a registered descriptor, else an arrived entry), else one that lists it as
compatible. A registered descriptor wins over an arrived entry with the same own id. Entries are written as chosen, with no union of
compatible ids and no dependence on arrival order; an entry no record needs is not written. Two entries of one tier that share an own id
and disagree on the schema name, records of different types under one id, or a record no chosen entry publishes refuse the write with a
typed error (CultSchemaConflictException, SchemaConflictError) naming the id, the names and a record key, and the store is left as it was.
CultSchemaCatalogEntry.MergeById and the Python and TypeScript merge paths are gone. A cache-held record unchanged since the file was read
is rewritten under its registered id (C# single-file and directory), so an entry that lists an older id is not needed to publish it.
Changelogs for cultnet-py (removed export) and cultcache-py.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 10:03:34 +02:00
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f96a0e7f7a Catalog writers merge entries that share an id; every reader resolves an id by its owner first
Entries that share a schema id are one schema seen by different writers, so the writer lists every id any of them lists, in any
order: C# single-file and directory (CultSchemaCatalogEntry.MergeById), TypeScript and Python. Rust synthesises one entry per id and
has no such merge. An id that one entry owns and another lists as compatible names the owner in Rust, TypeScript, Python and the TS
inspector, as C# already did (own-id-over-compatible-v3). Also: a directory manifest in an unreadable format is the typed refusal
naming it, cultnet-py applies and reports a record under the local schema id, and Rust's error prints its cause once.
Vectors for the Mesh layout discriminator: a nil and an integer at catalog slot 5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 08:17:59 +02:00
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2647f10d20 C#: a rewrite keeps the catalog entry that publishes a record's schema as a compatible id
The single-file and directory writers dropped an entry whose own id no record carried, leaving a record under a compatible id with
no catalog entry that publishes it: the same store nothing could open. An entry now stays while it publishes any id a record
carries. The conditional-commit readability test over compatible-id-only-v3 pins it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 07:02:06 +02:00
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969d78de39 C#: compatible schema ids publish a schema on open, Mesh takes only the older layout, the refusal names its file
A record whose schema id the catalog lists only as a compatible id now opens (the cache resolved a persisted schema by entry id
alone). CultMesh's fallback to the older catalog-entry reader fires only for a store in that layout, decided by the entry's slot 5,
not for any decode failure, so a current-layout store with a malformed slot is refused as CultCache refuses it.
CultStoreUnreadableException.Path names the refused file. New vectors: compatible-id-only-v3 (accepted by all four) and three
current-layout catalogs with one malformed slot. The contract states the writer's invariant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-30 06:54:17 +02:00
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41d0dd9bfb C# header: one function decides it for every writer; a store's own ids are the only source
CacheBackingStore.HeaderFor(holdsIds, existingHeader, wholeStore, directoryStore) replaces FormatFor,
DirectoryFormatFor and the writers' private marker logic. A writer that rewrites the whole store
decides by content; a writer that touches part of it keeps a header already marked. Flush,
unconditional and conditional commit, the directory store and CultMesh's single-file write all call
it. A typed CultMesh write replaces the file with a document it can see, so it decides by content;
a raw payload is opaque and keeps a marked file marked.

A record's HoldsIds is what its stored form persists: a load keeps a variant's delta as read, so
the ids a load mints in an override exist only in memory and no longer mark the store. A
conditional commit onto the file no longer reads this cache's view of what the file held, so a
stale view cannot over-mark it. IdPlan.HoldsIds is derived from HeldIds and the fills.

Reverts InternalsVisibleTo GameCult.Caching.MessagePack and the public DirectoryFormatV4/V5
constants: the directory store reaches the decision through the protected member it inherits.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 21:54:01 +02:00
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6a7d17bdda C2a fix: a flattened record is marked by the document it stores; every writer decides its header by content
A flattened variant's HoldsIds is read off the document re-resolved against the post-batch base, not carried from the
variant or from the document the flatten was planned against. The conditional commit onto a file decides by the same
rule as the unconditional commit (ids in the records the file will hold, ids only this cache minted excepted, a marked
file staying marked). The directory manifest's header choice moves beside FormatFor. Pins the three-batch flatten
probe on the commit and flush paths, the conditional commit, the last id leaving, an id-bearing override that is not
the last, and a failed CultMesh write giving its ids back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 21:20:01 +02:00
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490f7b811f C2a: mark the header by content, refuse an element twice in a list, route CultMesh single-file through the id rule
A store is written v3 (v5 for a directory) only when a record in it holds a non-empty
element id. CultElementIds.Plan reports that as IdPlan.HoldsIds; the admission stamps it
on the stored record and every store reads it. The descriptor's CarriesElementIds is
deleted. A file already marked on disk stays marked. CultPersistedStoreSnapshot.FormatFor
is the one header decision.

Plan refuses one element object sitting twice in a list at write, naming the record and
list, instead of writing both ids and refusing the store at load.

CultMesh single-file write mints, refuses and marks as a cache write does; the read applies
the load-time plan, so a write and a load refuse the same things.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 19:40:36 +02:00
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fc52f984db CultCache: element id rules, atomic minting, minted override values, the v3 marker
The id rule is one plan, made before anything is written: Plan decides every fill and
refuses a duplicate, a random id that is not 12 lowercase hex characters, and a derived
id whose source is null or empty, naming the record and list (CultElementIdException).
A load refuses what a write refuses. Apply and Undo make minting part of the admission:
a refused or uncommitted write leaves the caller's documents as they were.

Override values mint inside Resolve, into the decoded copy, so the public
CultVariantOverride.Set, C1-era overrides and Override() all get ids on write and on load;
Override() no longer mints. Interface unions are judged on their concrete types, the same
rule registration and minting share, and a subtype reusing the id's key is refused at
registration. Dictionary keys format with the invariant culture.

Records minted at load are marked per entry (IdsInMemoryOnly) instead of listed by key, so
a deleted record leaves the mark with it, and a flush of the whole store clears it. A store
whose types reach an object list declares cultcache.store.v3 (directory: v5), which every
reader older than ids refuses; a marked file stays marked when a writer merges onto it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 18:27:16 +02:00
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282e337c2c Variants C1: the held index tells the truth; a merge is judged on what the file will hold
The held index kept one key per value, last writer winning, and RemoveKey dropped
a value outright. Two consequences: removing or changing one of two plain
holders left the other unfindable, and the variant index rule judged a variant
against that lossy view, so a variant could land on a value a plain record still
held and the store then refused to reopen.

- _indexes maps a value to the keys holding it, oldest first. Index, Unindex and
  the removal maintain the set. GetByIndex finds the most recently indexed
  holder of a value, so removing the winner finds the other (behaviour change for
  plain duplicates: it used to find nothing).
- One rule, RefuseVariantIndexSharing, serves both write orders. It reads the
  truthful index minus what the commit replaces or removes, plus what it lands.
  ResolveOne no longer judges indexes; ClaimIncomingIndexValues, HeldByVariants
  and RefusePlainSharingWithVariant are gone.
- A conditional commit merged onto the file is judged by the cache's own
  resolution (CacheBackingStore.Judging) on the merged set: records other writers
  added, records they removed, and the batch. Another writer's variant sharing a
  value with the batch, or a base removal that strands another writer's variant,
  is refused with the named refusal instead of writing an unopenable store.
- Shedding is one decision at load. ToStoredDocument resolves the schema once and
  returns the report with it; a variant's override of a slot the type lacks is
  dropped from the delta there, so flush needs no predicate and every store
  reports through the same surface (ReportVariantSheds and OverridesTheTypeHas
  are gone). The directory store refuses variants and loads through the same call.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 09:20:47 +02:00
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c66d79e248 Variant overrides follow the plain-record outcome; bad writes and shared indexes are refused
F3: an override drifts exactly as the same member would on a plain record. A
slot the type dropped is ignored and reported by the store's schema resolution
(LastSchemaMigrationReports), the one surface a plain record uses; a value that
no longer decodes refuses the load, naming the variant and member. The second
report surface (VariantMigrationReports, the per-variant report map, the
catalog slot-name plumbing) is deleted.

F4: an override for a slot the type does not have, or a value that does not
decode as the member, is refused at write. Drift is for type changes after the
fact, not for bad writes. F5: two overrides of one slot are refused.

F2: a variant that shares an indexed value with another record is refused,
naming both keys and the index (the R6 rule extended to [CultIndex]); plain
record duplicate handling is unchanged.

F7: a flatten now resolves against the same batch, so a base edited in that
batch is in the flattened record; and the directory store refuses to load a
variant page as it refuses to write one.

The C1 vector's big variant now overrides its indexed code, as the unique-index
rule requires.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 06:58:51 +02:00
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dbc87b9447 C# core: variant records, top-level Set overrides, resolution in the admitting hold
A variant record stores [baseKey, overrides[]] in record slot 4 and an empty
payload; the cache resolves it against its base inside the hold that admits it or
any record on its base chain, and re-resolves dependents in the same Apply, so a
base change reaches its variants with contiguous sequences and no stamp. Plain
Upsert at a variant key is refused (Flatten is the explicit way); cycle, missing
base, different concrete type, evicted base with survivors and a name that
shadows the base are refused naming the keys. Overrides of a dropped slot or an
undecodable value are ignored with a warning and reported as compatible drift.

The store writes cultcache.store.v2 only when it holds a variant and reads v1 and
v2. The codec pair CultInspectorModel took becomes CultCodec, shared with the
cache, which needs it to clone documents and overlay override values. The
directory store, CultMesh single-file reads and CultNet row building refuse a
variant by name until their own cuts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-29 03:51:53 +02:00
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bddec0fe4d Re-read the manifest outside the unleased load's exception filter
An exception thrown inside a `when` filter is swallowed as false, so a manifest
re-read failing mid-File.Replace turned a race that should retry into a thrown
torn-page error. The re-read now runs in the handler, and a failed re-read
counts as moved. Parallel.For's AggregateException is unwrapped where the pages
are read, so the page's own failure propagates and the torn check no longer
walks wrappers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:51:37 +02:00
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838bbfffec Retry an unlocked directory load only when the manifest moved
A missing or hash-failing page under an unchanged manifest is corruption,
not a writer mid-commit, but every InvalidDataException was retried five
times and reported as "did not settle" with the real cause buried. The
retry now also requires the manifest bytes to have changed; otherwise the
corruption error is thrown on the first attempt. A vanished page directory
is a race under the same condition.

The reload test's writer now commits under every unleased read, so it only
settles if the retry takes the lease that commit created.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:33:43 +02:00
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12fae728c8 Reload a directory store pull that a writer committed under
A pull takes the commit lease only when .commit.lock exists. Without it
(no writer has created one yet, or the store was copied without it) the
reader loaded with no lease, and a writer committing between its manifest
read and its page reads left it with a vanished page or a stale manifest.

An unleased pull now keeps its load only if the manifest bytes it read are
still current afterwards; a changed manifest, or a named page that is
missing or fails its content hash, reloads it, at most five times, and a
pull that has not settled by then throws. A retry takes the lease once a
writer has created it. Opening still creates nothing. The lease comment no
longer claims a missing lock means no writer ever committed, and the store
composition contract states the rule.

The test deletes the lock from a seeded store and commits from a second
cache through an internal seam between the manifest read and the page
reads, once replacing the page the reader named and once only adding a key.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 14:16:41 +02:00
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debe616716 Open a directory store without creating anything
Opening a directory store, read-only or writable, created the .records
folder and its .commit.lock before reading a manifest that might not
exist. Only a write creates them now: PullAll takes the commit lease with
create: false, which opens an existing lock and returns no lease when
there is none (no writer has ever committed there, so there is nothing to
exclude). CommitBatch and PushAll create the folder and lock as before.

Test DirectoryMessagePackBackingStore_Open_CreatesNothing_UntilAWrite:
opening a missing store and a manifest-less .records folder, read-only
and writable, leaves the filesystem unchanged; the first flush creates the
manifest, the lock and one page. With the previous lease code restored
the test fails on the first read-only open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-14 13:43:45 +02:00
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544c087cf1 Publish each hold's own changes to its own caller
The cache-wide unpublished list let any thread drain and deliver another
thread's changes: a throwing observer dropped the rest of the queue and threw
into an unrelated writer, writes returned before their change was published,
and a third-party load could wait indefinitely.

Every admission now runs in a hold (Held). The outermost hold on a thread
collects exactly the changes it admits and publishes them after it leaves the
gate, before it returns, on its caller's thread; nested holds append to it.
Every change is delivered even when an observer throws; the first exception
(AggregateException for several) is then rethrown, and a failing body's own
exception wins over observer exceptions.

Stores take the hold instead of locking a shared Gate object, so a direct
PullAll on an attached store publishes its own load and the empty follow-up
Loaded hand-over is gone. Gate is replaced by protected Held.

Tests: OwnChangeIsPublishedBeforeWriteReturns and
ThrowingObserverDoesNotLoseOtherChanges fail on 4eacd87 and pass here. The
repull tests now record a write that reaches the gate while the pull is paused
instead of inferring readiness from thread state; both fail when the pull does
not hold the gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 19:46:18 +02:00
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4eacd876bf Publish observers after the gate, gate every store entry point, stamp under one hold
Observers and OnUpdate never run under the cache gate. Admit queues changes
while the gate is held; the outermost entry point (attach, pull, commit,
upsert, remove) publishes them after releasing it. A store's direct PullAll
hands over an empty load outside its lock so the cache publishes then.

A throwing observer can no longer split store from cache: publication starts
only after the store has adopted its loaded view. The directory store adopts
its durable catalog only after the cache admits the load; the write-only
_durableIndex is deleted.

Single-file Push, Delete, PushAll and CommitBatch take the gate like the
directory store; Dispose flushes under it. Write mints storedAt and admits
under one gate hold, and Land re-stamps staged upserts under the gate that
admits them, so a concurrent pull cannot land a later storedAt in between.

Tests: ObserverDoesNotRunUnderTheGate,
ThrowingOnUpdateHandlerDoesNotResurrectDeletedRecord,
RepullNeverErasesAStagedWriteOnDirectoryStore,
DirectCallsOnAnAttachedStoreShareTheCacheGate; the directory last-writer
result is pinned to {a,c,x}; the single-file re-pull test waits for the write
to reach the store or block instead of sleeping. Pausing tests always release
the pause so a failure cannot deadlock Dispose.

Docs: observer rule, direct store calls share the gate, directory TryCommit
contention and gate wait, per-key last-writer-wins, directory flush merge.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 19:23:44 +02:00
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5aad137e61 Share the cache gate with its stores and make unconditional commit last-writer-wins
An attached store takes its cache's gate as its own lock (CacheBackingStore.Gate),
so a pull's load callback into the cache can no longer take the gate after the
store lock. The directory store's private mutation gate is deleted; the
single-file pull now runs under the gate; PullAllBackingStoresAsync takes the
gate around each store's pull. Fixes the pull/upsert deadlock on directory
stores and the re-pull that erased a staged single-file write.

An unconditional single-file Commit writes the store's whole view plus the batch,
exactly as a flush would, instead of merging onto the file; it persists earlier
staged writes and leaves the store clean. Conditional commits still land onto
the file under the lock. Directory-store commit and flush already share one
generation writer (staged keys onto the current manifest) and are unchanged.

Contracts state both rules, the lock order, that OnUpdate fires for loads only,
that a missing single file keeps staged writes, and that a store failing to
hydrate on open throws and is left byte-identical.

Tests: PullAndUpsertOnDirectoryStoreDoNotDeadlock, RepullNeverErasesAStagedWrite,
UnconditionalCommitIsLastWriterWinsLikeFlush, UnconditionalCommitPersistsStagedWrites,
OpeningACorruptStoreThrowsAndLeavesItUntouched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 18:45:27 +02:00
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a3cc394241 Route each document type to one home store; attach hydrates; commit explicit batches
Cut 3 of the CultCache migration (Aetheria docs/cultcache-migration-cut.md, 2.1
and 2.2). One commit, because routing, the batch that replaces the ambient
transaction, and conditional commit share one admission path.

Deleted first:
- globals: InitializeGlobals, MaterializeMissingGlobals, the two-argument
  constructor, the initializeGlobals plumbing in CultCacheMessagePack,
  ContainsDurableRecord (cache and directory store)
- replication: the push-to-every-store loops and the attach-time push of
  existing records
- typeof(T) as the schema owner in AddAsync/UpsertAsync and in
  CultNetDatabase.PutAsync/PutPredictedAsync
- the ambient transaction: ExecuteTransactionAsync x2, CultCacheTransaction,
  CommitTransaction, VisibleStoredDocuments, the AsyncLocal, the SemaphoreSlim
  gate, and every ambient check
- CultCacheOpenOptions.PullOnOpen; OpenAsync is Task.FromResult(Create(...))
- DirectoryMessagePackBackingStore.ResolveLegacyUncataloguedRecordCatalog: the
  catalog precommit (fe55bff) is an ancestor of the v4 page format (eea8248),
  so no v4 manifest can reach it
- CultCache.DeleteAsync<T>; its one caller, CultNetDatabaseSubscriptionClient,
  called it by reflection and now calls Remove(key)

Added:
- AddBackingStore(store, params Type[] homes): attach validates (clean, not
  already attached, one untyped store, no claimed home type, no admitted
  record changes home) and then pulls under the gate
- Home(type): most derived routed home, else the untyped store
- Admit: every add and remove, from a write, a batch or a load, validates
  (home, read-only, loaded-from-home, global singleton), lands durably, then
  applies and publishes; a pull hands its whole delta over in one call, so a
  refused record leaves the store and the cache unchanged
- read-only stores (CacheBackingStore(readOnly), both store constructors,
  CultCacheOpenOptions.ReadOnly); flush skips them and writes only dirty stores
- assignable GetGlobal<T>/GetByName<T>/GetByIndex<T>/Watch<T>; more than one
  candidate throws naming them
- Commit(Action<CultCacheBatch>) returning bool, TryCommit returning
  CultCommitOutcome, CultCacheBatch (Upsert, Remove, Expect, ExpectUnchanged,
  sealed after commit), CultCommitRequest; CacheBackingStore.CommitBatch
  evaluates conditions under the store's exclusive lock
- single-file store: <path>.lock sidecar for CommitBatch and PushAll; a clean
  store commits onto the file as it is, so records it never loaded survive
- storedAt minted in one place and bumped a tick when not later than the record
  it replaces

Consumer adjustments in this repo: Mesh streaming tests drop PullOnOpen; the
Studio bridge stops reflecting on it; BackingStoreTests' global test creates
its global explicitly and its transaction tests are rewritten against Commit
(the two that proved ambient hydration rules are deleted); the pre-Cut 2
refusal test expects the attach to throw.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 17:57:58 +02:00
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b26c98f185 Note that CultManagedDocument is parked with SoA; state the page load rule
The parked/cultcache-soa tag message says the managed document was deleted
separately. parked-features.md now supersedes that; the tag is unchanged.
The directory store gains its design statement and a comment that only
manifest-named pages are loaded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 17:17:14 +02:00
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60cbfdde6d Strip doc comments from the Caching projects
Every /// line in GameCult.Caching and GameCult.Caching.MessagePack goes; they
restated member names. Three blocks that state a rule stay as // comments:
MaterializeMissingGlobals runs after hydration so persisted globals win,
ExecuteTransactionAsync commits durably before the cache and observers
advance, and CommitBatch implementations restore their staged view on
failure. Both projects add NoWarn CS1591, since GenerateDocumentationFile is
on in src/Directory.Build.props.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 16:54:43 +02:00
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900e148d8a Read only v4 directory stores; delete probes and selective hydration
DirectoryMessagePackBackingStore loses HydrationFilter, FlushStageProbe,
ReadStageProbe and their stage constants, ReadPersistedGeneration,
PullSelected, and every legacy path: the v2 directory-indexed and v3
immutable-pages formats, v1 inline records and split pages, the index
upgrade on flush, and the legacy page paths. CacheBackingStore.PullSelected
and CultPersistedRecordMetadata go with them.

A missing manifest is an empty store. An existing manifest whose
FormatVersion is not cultcache.store.v4.directory-content-addressed-pages
throws "Directory store {path} is {format}; only {v4} is readable." A clean
flush writes nothing, since there is no legacy index left to upgrade.

Tests deleted with the surface they injected through: the v1 missing-catalog
load, pages-before-manifest, fault-before-manifest (4 cases), same-timestamp
page, mutation-during-flush and reader-lease tests. The orphan-page test now
checks through a fresh store pull instead of ReadPersistedGeneration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 16:50:08 +02:00
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85f2089f0e Delete CultCache wrappers and unused members
Removes FlushBackingStore, both PrepareForReloadOrShutdown overloads,
PullBackingStoreRecordsAsync, TryGet<T>, TryGetByName, TryGetByIndex,
Resolve<T>, the cache and store Logger, and LastSuccessfulFlushAtUtc on the
cache and stores. GetStoredDocuments<T> folds into GetAll<T>.

The soft flag goes from FlushAllBackingStores, ExecuteTransactionAsync,
CommitBatch and PushAll. It stays on FlushAsync(bool) because
CultCacheStudioWindow reflects on that signature until Cut 6.
CultMesh.FlushAsync and CultNetLocal.FlushAsync keep their parameter and
stop forwarding it.

The store's EntryAdded/EntryUpdated/EntryDeleted subjects become
protected internal Loaded/Unloaded callbacks set by the cache at attach.
AddStoredDocumentInternal is synchronous, so the GetAwaiter().GetResult()
bridges on the store subscriptions and the global materializer are gone.

Tests: drop the LastSuccessfulFlushAtUtc asserts; OpenAsync and GetAll tests
read through Get/GetAll; the persisted-global test proves the durable global
loads without staging a default instead of going through selective hydration;
the lease-before-observers test observes through CultCache.Watch; the
PullSelected selective-hydration test is deleted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-13 16:44:11 +02:00
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b9cbd7561d Gate cache hydration and preserve legacy generations 2026-08-19 02:36:49 +02:00
Meta Vens
72153a46a2 Seal cache transactions and expose coherent generations 2026-08-19 02:17:38 +02:00
Meta Vens
e80383c33f Make CultCache transactions atomic to observers 2026-08-19 01:44:17 +02:00
Meta Vens
81ca92fe40 Keep CultCache readers on one committed generation 2026-08-19 00:56:37 +02:00
Meta Vens
eea8248877 Make CultCache page commits content-addressed 2026-08-19 00:11:20 +02:00
Meta Vens
cc89aae4a0 Make CultCache directory commits generation-atomic 2026-08-18 23:42:15 +02:00
Meta Vens
2194d14f0b Attribute CultCache page hydration by schema 2026-07-20 02:38:17 +01:00
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13dc1368dd Trace CultMesh local startup phases 2026-07-20 02:31:10 +01:00
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d69fa61412 Hydrate durable globals before defaults 2026-07-20 02:23:42 +01:00
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f714ceee43 Skip clean CultCache directory flushes 2026-07-20 02:12:22 +01:00
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085e177742 Make CultCache hydration subscription-shaped 2026-07-20 01:48:56 +01:00