feat(ingestion): conditional HTTP validators and 304 skip - #739
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Store each source's ETag and Last-Modified and send them as If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since during --check and --sync. A 304 response is a MATCH and the body is not read or hashed. A 200 still extracts HTML, compares the SHA-256, and --sync writes the new validators back to sources.yaml. Issue #698 Co-authored-by: Derek Roberts <DerekRoberts@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe source synchronizer stores ETag and upstream Last-Modified validators. It sends conditional requests only when local content matches the registry baseline. It handles valid 304 responses without extracting or writing source content. Successful 200 responses can update the source and its validators. ChangesConditional source synchronization
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Sync as sync_sources.py
participant Fetch as fetch_upstream
participant Upstream as Upstream server
Sync->>Fetch: Pass validators for intact local baseline
Fetch->>Upstream: Send conditional GET
alt HTTP 304
Upstream-->>Fetch: Return 304
Fetch-->>Sync: Raise NotModified
Sync->>Sync: Skip extraction and writing for intact baseline
else HTTP 200
Upstream-->>Fetch: Return content and response headers
Fetch-->>Sync: Return content and normalized headers
Sync->>Sync: Extract, compare or write, and update validators
end
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The 304 path can conceal local drift, and the catalogue currently cannot activate conditional requests.
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What changed in this PR
Adds conditional HTTP validation to source ingestion for issue #698.
Changes:
- Persists and sends ETag/Last-Modified validators.
- Treats HTTP 304 responses as unchanged without parsing.
- Adds coverage for conditional requests and registry updates.
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app/scripts/sync_sources.py |
Implements validators and 304 handling. |
app/tests/test_sync_sources.py |
Tests conditional request behavior. |
app/data/sources.yaml |
Documents new validator fields. |
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- Line 1081: Update the validator selection at the fetch_upstream call to send
stored validators only when the local document exists and its substantive hash
matches source.content_hash; otherwise fetch unconditionally. Preserve the 304
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🏆 Best part: The two new commits actually took last round's medicine. The deleted-file MATCH now dies on the real 200 path (branch 3 + "Local file is absent"), the tautological 304 re-check is gone with the contract enforced inside 💀 Worst part: The fingerprint forgot the URL. It attests to version/type/selector/part, so editing 📊 Overall: Like re-keying every lock in the building but programming the new fob to also open the old garage — excellent work undermined by one credential that never got rotated. Files Reviewed (3 files)
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🏆 Best part: The incremental commit actually took the medicine. The unsolicited-304 fix is the exact one-liner ( 💀 Worst part: The victory lap outran the fix. Deleted-file protection now lives exclusively on the 📊 Overall: Like installing a deadbolt on a door you then removed from its hinges — the lock is excellent, the opening is architectural. Files Reviewed (3 files)
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🏆 Best part: The conditional-request plumbing itself is genuinely tidy — 💀 Worst part: The nastiest defect on this PR — a 304 reporting MATCH while the local file may have been edited or deleted — was already flagged by Copilot and CodeRabbit before I fired a shot, so my headline is the one everyone missed: 📊 Overall: Like upgrading the locks but installing them backwards — the mechanics are solid, the direction of trust is not. Files Reviewed (3 files)
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Send stored validators only when the local file still matches content_hash. An edited or deleted file is fetched unconditionally, and a 304 in that case is drift rather than MATCH. A 304 on a request that sent no validators stays an HTTP error. Issue #698 Co-authored-by: Derek Roberts <DerekRoberts@users.noreply.github.com>
A 200 whose hash matches the registry is still drift when the local file is missing or unreadable. --check no longer prints a match for a document that is not there, and an unreadable file does not abort the rest of the run. Deleted and edited cases are covered at the urlopen layer. Issue #698 Co-authored-by: Derek Roberts <DerekRoberts@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Around line 1210-1211: Conditional validators in sync_source can return a 304
even after extraction settings or extractor logic change, leaving stale Markdown
in place. Add a force option to the sync flow and bypass
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Store a fingerprint of extractor version, type, selector, and part with the HTTP validators. Conditional requests are sent only when that fingerprint still matches and the local file still matches content_hash. A missing or different fingerprint is a full fetch, and --check does not report MATCH for a changed extractor. Issue #698 Co-authored-by: Derek Roberts <DerekRoberts@users.noreply.github.com>
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| def extraction_fingerprint(source: SourceEntry) -> str: | ||
| """Identity of the inputs that turn upstream HTML into the stored Markdown.""" | ||
| raw = "\n".join(( |
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🔥 The Roast: The fingerprint signs EXTRACTOR_VERSION, type, selector, and part — everything except the input that decides which document is being extracted: source.url. Edit a registry entry's URL (page moved, consolidation changed) while content_hash and the local file stay intact, and _validators_for_intact_baseline mails the old If-Modified-Since to the brand-new address — where any server whose new document was last modified before the stored date answers 304, and --check reports MATCH for content it never fetched. A different page now vouches for your local file, which is precisely the con this PR was written to shut down. The stored Markdown even embeds the old URL in its provenance header, so the validators and the bytes they describe were already estranged.
🩹 The Fix: Add source.url or "" to the raw tuple (e.g. right after EXTRACTOR_VERSION) so a URL edit invalidates the stored fingerprint and forces a full fetch. Entries without a stored fingerprint already fail open, so this only tightens the gate.
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| elif local_hash and upstream_hash != local_hash: | ||
| if local_hash is None and registry_hash: |
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🔥 The Roast: local_hash is None and registry_hash — truthiness here, is None up at the UNTRACKED gate (line 1126). So a registry entry with a falsy-but-present content_hash (say a hand-edited content_hash: "" — load_registry passes it through raw at line 1043, and _validate_registry only checks duplicates of truthy hashes) plus a missing file sails past UNTRACKED, sails past this branch ("" is falsy), and lands on MATCH for a file that does not exist. That is the exact ghost commits b449ce6/165f23f exorcised, back in through the basement window. The tool itself never writes an empty hash — but the registry is a YAML file, and YAML files meet text editors.
🩹 The Fix: Pick one honesty standard. Either normalize at load (content_hash=_optional_header(s.get("content_hash")), which turns "" into None and makes UNTRACKED tell the truth), or make every gate is not None-based so a present-but-empty hash can never impersonate "no baseline".
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| local_hash=local_hash, | ||
| local_hash=local_hash or registry_hash, |
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🔥 The Roast: When the file is missing, the ERROR results still report the registry's digest in a field labeled local_hash — thirteen lines below a comment (added this PR) that explicitly says the registry hash "is not a baseline, and it is not the local hash", and while the new DRIFT branches correctly report local_hash: null for the identical filesystem state. So a --json consumer learns DRIFT means "file gone" and ERROR means "file present and matching the registry" — the second claim being fiction. The field learned to tell the truth in one status and immediately started lying in three others (this one plus lines 1149 and 1230).
🩹 The Fix:
| local_hash=local_hash or registry_hash, | |
| local_hash=local_hash, |
Apply the same to lines 1149 and 1230; null is the honest value for "could not verify a local file".
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| local_hash=local_hash, | ||
| upstream_hash=upstream_hash, | ||
| upstream_last_modified=upstream_last_modified, | ||
| error="Local file is absent" if local_hash is None else None, |
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🔥 The Roast: "Local file is absent" — the diagnosis for a file that _local_substantive_hash classified as absent or unreadable (its own docstring, updated this very PR, says "absent or unreadable"). One bad byte and the drift report accuses the file of ghosting when it's actually locked or undecodable. The status logic is fail-safe; the message is a 2 a.m. false lead for whoever responds to the alert. And test_unreadable_local_file_checks_unconditionally_and_does_not_match (line 1758) now nails the wrong diagnosis into the contract as an assertion.
🩹 The Fix: Make the message cover both cases, e.g. error="Local file is absent or unreadable" — here and at the twin on line 1182 — or track why the hash is None so the report can say which.
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🔥 The Roast: This _assert_unconditional is a security checkpoint where the guard is also the getaway driver. sync_source wraps the whole fetch in except Exception (sync_sources.py:1290), so if a regression starts sending validators for the missing file, this assert raises AssertionError — and sync_source files it under (False, str(e)). Every assertion below then still passes: success is False ✓, detail != NOT_MODIFIED_DETAIL ✓, no file written ✓, error.fp.read untouched ✓. The test would even pass if the fetch never happened at all. A test that cannot fail for the reason its docstring claims is a commemorative plaque, not a test. (Your sibling test_sync_deleted_local_fetches_unconditionally_and_restores enforces unconditionality for this same state via success is True, so the actual enforcement exists — just not here.)
🩹 The Fix: Assert on the observable detail — the real path yields "HTTP Error 304: Not Modified" while the masked path yields the assert text or "". Tighten line 1710 to assert "304" in detail alongside the existing checks.
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| _html_paragraph("Restored from upstream.").encode("utf-8"), | ||
| {"ETag": '"v2"', "Last-Modified": "Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT"}, | ||
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| assert sent["if-none-match"] == '"good"' |
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🔥 The Roast: assert sent["if-none-match"] == '"good"' — a dead man's switch wired to a cannon that fires into a mattress. If production stops sending that validator, this line raises KeyError, which sync_source's blanket except Exception converts into (False, "'if-none-match'") — the bad source still gets restored, updated stays 1, main() still returns 0, and every assertion below still passes. The good source's 304-skip path, the whole reason this fixture stores a fingerprint, is now verified by nobody. Loudly.
🩹 The Fix: Record what the responder saw and assert it after main() returns, outside sync_source's try — e.g. append (req.full_url, sent.get("if-none-match")) to a list and assert the last entry carries '"good"' once the run completes.
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Summary
etagandupstream_last_modifiedon each source.--checkand--syncsend them asIf-None-MatchandIf-Modified-Sinceonly when the local file still matchescontent_hash.--syncdoes not rewrite the document or the registry.content_hash. The registry hash is still compared, so upstream drift remains visible, and the result says the file is absent.--syncrestores a missing file from a 200 and does not treat a missing file as success without writing it. An unreadable file does not abort the rest of the run.--syncthen writes the new validators intosources.yaml.html_selectorandbclaws. No PDF ingestion path.Fixes #698
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pytest tests/test_sync_sources.py --noconftest— 68 passedurlopen--syncand is not a MATCHSummary by CodeRabbit