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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds capability-aware plugin providers, retries online lookup for incomplete skip markers, initializes persisted marker snapshots after WebSocket hello, orders snapshots with marker updates, and preserves or clears marker data during file replacement upserts. ChangesMarker provider and playback updates
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Playback marker refreshes may be delayed after a file hash changes, and replaced realtime connections may perform unnecessary marker reads before their results are discarded. The impact is bounded, so the PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up on these two paths. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WebSocketClient
participant sessionRealtimeClient
participant MarkerUpdateNotifier
participant MarkerSnapshotFileLoader
participant RealtimeHub
WebSocketClient->>sessionRealtimeClient: send first valid hello
sessionRealtimeClient->>MarkerUpdateNotifier: request persisted marker snapshot
MarkerUpdateNotifier->>MarkerSnapshotFileLoader: load persisted MediaFile
MarkerSnapshotFileLoader-->>MarkerUpdateNotifier: return marker ranges
MarkerUpdateNotifier->>RealtimeHub: deliver snapshot for active registration
RealtimeHub-->>WebSocketClient: send marker snapshot
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In `@internal/api/handlers/session_ws.go`:
- Line 141: Update the hello handling around setRealtimeConnectionState so
sendCurrentMarkerSnapshot is launched only when the session transitions to
connected, not for already-connected repeated hellos. Add a regression test that
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In `@internal/api/handlers/session_ws_test.go`:
- Around line 193-197: Update the repeated-hello test around resolver.calls to
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In `@internal/api/handlers/session_ws.go`:
- Around line 119-120: Update the sendCurrentMarkerSnapshot flow triggered by
sendMarkerSnapshot so the snapshot job carries the specific WebSocket connection
registration or context rather than resolving only by sessionID; cancel that job
when the connection cleanup runs, preventing delayed snapshots from reaching
replacement connections, and add a regression test covering connection A closing
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internal/playback/marker_update_notifier.go (1)
85-92: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftSkip stale registrations before loading persisted markers.
A replacement connection increments the lane generation, but queued snapshot jobs still acquire this lock and call
loader.GetByID.SendRegisteredrejects the stale registration only after that read completes.A client can repeatedly replace a session WebSocket and send hello messages. Older jobs can then accumulate behind this lock and perform serialized stale reads. Add registration-validity checks before and after lock acquisition. Make queued lock acquisition stop when the registration becomes stale or its connection context ends. Add a channel-based regression test that proves a queued stale snapshot does not call the loader.
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In `@internal/playback/marker_update_notifier.go`:
- Around line 85-92: Update the snapshot job around
sendSessionSnapshotToRegistrationLocked to validate the registration before
acquiring the file lock and again immediately after acquiring it, aborting when
the registration is stale or its connection context is canceled; ensure queued
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Fixed the outside-diff stale-work finding in 3b66ee2 and completed the replacement wake-up path in 58d82ce. Snapshot lock acquisition is context-cancellable, each registration now closes an ownership signal as soon as it is replaced or unregistered, and the notifier verifies ownership both before waiting and after acquiring the per-file lock. Stale jobs wake immediately and exit before GetByID, so reconnect churn cannot queue serialized database reads. The channel-synchronized tests cover replacement and cancellation while queued; they pass 100 consecutive runs, and the focused race test, handler tests, vet, and diff check pass. |
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Code review of the full merge-base diff (10 commits, 14 files). I checked out the branch and ran go vet plus go test -race on internal/playback, internal/markers, and the marker/realtime tests in internal/api/handlers — all green. (go build ./... fails only on web/embed.go: pattern all:dist because there's no frontend build in my worktree; unrelated.)
15 inline comments below. The two I'd want resolved before merge:
- Marker invalidation is source-blind and irreversible (
internal/scanner/file_repo.go). Any OSHash change wipes manual markers too, and the only restore path is an S3 sidecar keyed by the new hash.markers.lazy_playbackdefaults tofalse, so there's no playback-time refill either. A routine remux changes the hash without changing the timeline. hasCompletePlaybackSkipMarkersdropped the source check (internal/api/handlers/playback_lazy_markers.go). The deleted comment recorded the invariant — "Markers from the scanner/s3 path remain refetchable since online sources outrank them" — and the new predicate lets locally-detected markers permanently block the higher-priority online providers. It also still loops forever on files that can only ever have one of the two segments.
The rest are lower-severity correctness notes plus cleanup/altitude observations. Disclosure: this review was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code) and the findings above were verified against the branch by hand.
| file_size = EXCLUDED.file_size, | ||
| file_modified_at = EXCLUDED.file_modified_at, | ||
| file_hash = EXCLUDED.file_hash, | ||
| intro_start = CASE WHEN media_files.file_hash IS NOT NULL AND EXCLUDED.file_hash IS NOT NULL AND media_files.file_hash IS DISTINCT FROM EXCLUDED.file_hash THEN NULL ELSE media_files.intro_start END, |
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Data loss: a hash change wipes manual markers with no restore path.
This clears every marker range and provenance column on any OSHash change, regardless of markers_source. That includes manual — the highest-priority source, the one UpsertMarkers goes out of its way to protect from provider overwrites.
Concrete path:
- An admin hand-enters intro/credits on an episode.
- The user remuxes h264→h265, or re-downloads the same episode.
ComputeOSHash(scanner.go:3887) is size + head/tail bytes, so it changes even though the timeline usually doesn't. - The next scan's
Upsertnulls all 28 marker columns. fetchMarkersonly restores markers when an S3 object exists atmarkers/<newhash>.json— for manual/plugin/online/locally-detected markers there is no sidecar, so nothing comes back.markers.lazy_playbackdefaults to"false"(internal/config/admin_settings.go:72), so the playback-time refill the PR description relies on doesn't run either.
The manual work is gone silently and irreversibly. Worth gating the invalidation on source (leave manual alone), or at least requiring corroborating evidence beyond the hash (e.g. a file_size change too).
| // intro or credits marker after the first playback, and the next fresh | ||
| // playback session is the inexpensive opportunity to fill it for every user. | ||
| // Provider-side caching prevents repeated external requests for a recent miss. | ||
| func hasCompletePlaybackSkipMarkers(file *models.MediaFile) bool { |
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The gate lost its source check, so local markers now permanently block online providers.
The old hasOnlineSourcedMarkers deliberately only counted online/plugin/manual sources, and its comment recorded why:
Markers from the scanner/s3 path remain refetchable since online sources outrank them.
The replacement checks only that the pointers are non-nil. So a file whose intro+credits came from the local chromaprint/chapter analyzer or an S3 sidecar (markers_source scanner/s3) now sets shouldRunOnline = false forever at line 87 — a higher-priority TheIntroDB / IntroDB.app result is never fetched, and the better ranges never replace the locally guessed ones.
Keeping the source check and adding the per-segment completeness check would give you the PR's intended behavior without reversing this invariant.
| shouldRunLocal := markers.ShouldRunLocal(mode) | ||
| shouldRunOnline := (mode == markers.ModeOnline || mode == markers.ModeBoth) && hasOnline | ||
| if shouldRunOnline && hasOnlineSourcedMarkers(file) { | ||
| if shouldRunOnline && hasCompletePlaybackSkipMarkers(file) { |
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Files that can never be "complete" now re-fetch on every single playback start.
The removed comment named exactly this failure mode:
requiring all four kinds before skipping would loop forever on partial data
Going from four kinds to two narrows the problem but doesn't close it. A movie in a library with markers.mode=online and lazy_playback=true where TheIntroDB has credits but no intro will, on every play, re-resolve external IDs, run FetchMerged concurrently across every enabled provider, and attempt an UpsertMarkers that writes nothing.
The PR description's mitigation — "Provider-side caching prevents repeated external requests for a recent miss" — delegates this to third-party plugin implementations, which the server can't enforce. A server-side negative cache (a markers_last_online_attempt_at column, or a TTL entry keyed by file ID next to MarkerLazyInFlight) would make the bound real rather than advisory.
| recap := rangePayload(file.RecapStart, file.RecapEnd) | ||
| preview := rangePayload(file.PreviewStart, file.PreviewEnd) | ||
| lock := n.fileLock(file.ID) | ||
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This holds an uninterruptible shared lock across websocket writes, on HTTP request goroutines.
MarkersUpdated had no lock before. It now takes a bucket lock (fileID % 64, shared library-wide) and holds it across one conn.WriteJSON per matching session, each bounded only by the 5s wsWriteTimeout.
Both production callers are synchronous on a request goroutine:
internal/api/handlers/markers.go:587— manual marker saveinternal/api/handlers/admin_intro.go:181— in a loop over every file of an episode
So one stalled client socket blocks the admin's save for the full write deadline; with three sessions on that file, ~15s. And because the bucket is fileID % 64, unrelated files collide (1 and 65), so a reconnect snapshot for a completely different title blows its 3s context inside lockContext and is silently dropped.
Building the event under the lock and doing the sends outside it would preserve the ordering guarantee you're after without holding the lock across network I/O.
| } | ||
| ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(connectionCtx, 3*time.Second) | ||
| defer cancel() | ||
| if err := notifier.SendSessionSnapshotFromLoader(ctx, registration, session.MediaFileID, h.fileResolver); err != nil { |
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The snapshot is sent unconditionally, including when the file has no markers at all.
Every hello costs a media_files row read and emits a markers_updated whose intro/credits/recap/preview are all JSON null.
That's not inert on the client. web/src/player/utils/watchPageMarkers.ts deliberately distinguishes undefined ("leave alone") from null ("clear") — patchVersionMarkers assigns nextIntro = intro when intro is null. Any client holding ranges from another source gets them cleared by the snapshot.
Guarding the send with the hasAnyMarker predicate that already exists in playback_lazy_markers.go removes both the wasted read and the clearing event.
| // SendSessionSnapshot sends the current persisted marker ranges to one live | ||
| // playback session. Calling it after the client's hello closes the race where | ||
| // lazy marker discovery finishes before the websocket is control-ready. | ||
| func (n *MarkerUpdateNotifier) SendSessionSnapshot(ctx context.Context, sessionID string, file *models.MediaFile) { |
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SendSessionSnapshot has no production caller.
The handler uses SendSessionSnapshotFromLoader; the only reference to this method is TestMarkerUpdateNotifierSendsSnapshotToOnlyRequestedSession. Its doc comment ("Calling it after the client's hello closes the race where lazy marker discovery finishes before the websocket is control-ready") describes a call site that doesn't exist.
That's an active trap: it reads like the intended entry point, but it skips the registration and staleness checks that SendSessionSnapshotFromLoader adds. Worth deleting along with its test.
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| func (h *PlaybackHandler) handleRealtimeClientMessage(sessionID string, data []byte) error { | ||
| func (h *PlaybackHandler) handleRealtimeClientMessage(sessionID string, data []byte, helloReceived *bool) (bool, error) { |
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Connection-scoped state threaded through a per-message parser as an in-out param.
handleRealtimeClientMessage now carries a mutable helloReceived *bool and returns a bool meaning "caller should send a snapshot", with a helloReceived == nil branch at line 142 that exists only so the older tests can pass nil.
The state is now spread across three places: the read loop's local, this parameter, and the return value. The next per-connection flag (subtitle snapshot, chapter-thumb snapshot) repeats the pattern and the signature grows again.
A small per-connection struct holding registration, ctx, and helloReceived, with the snapshot dispatch as a method on it, keeps the state with the connection it belongs to and drops both the out-param and the nil branch.
| // SendRegistered writes only when reg still owns the active connection. It is | ||
| // used for connection-specific work that must not spill into a replacement | ||
| // websocket after a reconnect. | ||
| func (h *RealtimeHub) SendRegistered(reg *RealtimeRegistration, message any) error { |
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SendRegistered validates the registration twice.
HasRegistration does a map read under h.mu plus a lane.mu acquire, then this function re-acquires lane.mu and repeats the identical closed / conn == nil / generation check.
The first check can't prevent anything — the registration can be replaced between the two lock windows, and the second check is what actually decides. So every realtime send pays two map lookups and two acquisitions of the hot per-session lane mutex for no added safety.
The pre-refactor version had this right: do the lookup once and validate inside the single lane.mu critical section. HasRegistration can stay for the SendSessionSnapshotFromLoader pre-checks without SendRegistered routing through it.
| file *models.MediaFile, | ||
| send func(any) error, | ||
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| rangePayload := func(start, end *float64) *TimeRangePayload { |
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The four payloads are now rebuilt per session instead of once.
The old MarkersUpdated computed intro/credits/recap/preview once before the session loop. Routing through sendSessionSnapshotWithLocked allocates the rangePayload closure and all four TimeRangePayload values once per session.
Minor in isolation, but it's 5N allocations instead of 5 on a popular file, and it happens while the bucket lock is held — which compounds the lock-hold-time concern above. Hoisting the payloads back out, or passing a prebuilt struct into the send helper, keeps the registration-aware send without regressing this.
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| } | ||
| if sendMarkerSnapshot { | ||
| go h.sendCurrentMarkerSnapshot(ctx, registration, sessionID) |
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Client coordination checklist for a client-visible realtime change.
This adds a new client-visible behavior: an unconditional markers_updated after every hello. CLAUDE.md asks that a client-visible playback/session change be handled or explicitly ruled out on each of:
Follow-up work is done or filed for both
silo-appleandsilo-android— prefer coordinated multi-repo changes over leaving a platform behind.jellycompat parity was considered (does the Jellyfin surface need the same behavior?).
The Related-changes list names an Apple prompt fix and no Android work, and jellycompat's MediaSegments surface isn't mentioned. Given the null-vs-undefined trap the web client documents in watchPageMarkers.ts, an Apple or Android player that treats the snapshot payload as authoritative will null out ranges it already had — so it'd be good to file the follow-ups even if the answer for jellycompat is "not applicable".
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internal/playback/marker_update_notifier.go (1)
110-124: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMake snapshot lock acquisition interruptible. When another snapshot holds
state.mu,SendSessionSnapshotFromLoaderwaits instate.mu.Lock()without observingRealtimeRegistration.Done(). A replaced registration can therefore runloader.GetByIDafter it loses ownership, thensendRegisteredIfdiscards the result. Use an interruptible file-state wait that selectsctx.Done()andregistration.Done().🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/api/handlers/playback_lazy_markers.go`:
- Line 181: Update maybeQueueLazyPlaybackMarkers and recordOnlineMarkerAttempt
so the cooldown is keyed to the current FileHash rather than only file.ID;
alternatively clear the existing cooldown whenever FileHash changes. Preserve
the cooldown behavior for repeated attempts on the same file version while
allowing a replacement version to queue markers immediately.
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In `@internal/playback/marker_update_notifier.go`:
- Around line 110-124: The state.mu.Lock call in SendSessionSnapshotFromLoader
must become interruptible: wait using a mechanism that observes both ctx.Done()
and the active registration’s Done() signal before acquiring the file-state
lock. Return promptly when either cancellation source fires, and only proceed to
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Thanks for the detailed review. I addressed all 15 points from the review, plus the later CodeRabbit cooldown/queued-snapshot edge cases, in The two blockers are fixed:
The realtime path now uses per-file epochs and performs WebSocket writes outside the state lock/request path. Empty reconnect rows are skipped, payload ranges are built once, snapshot delivery is bound to the exact registration, and queued lock waits stop on context cancellation or registration replacement. Replacement readiness is serialized around registration/hello/teardown, snapshot skips are observable, the parser state lives on a connection struct, and the dead/double-validation helpers are gone. Error logging is nil-safe and consistent. For client coordination: the Apple follow-up is Silo-Server/silo-apple#203; Android phone and TV already decode and apply the unchanged Validation on the final head:
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Problem
Related issue: N/A — narrow fix
Skip Intro could appear only intermittently, and Skip Credits could stay missing even when an online provider had useful data. The server stopped refreshing online markers too early when only one skip segment was complete. A provider result could also arrive before the player's realtime connection was ready, leaving the active session with stale ranges.
This also needed to support public read-only marker providers without exposing contribution controls or sending submission jobs to them.
Approach
Playback-time refresh remains eligible until both intro and credits are complete from online, plugin, or manual sources. Scanner and S3 ranges remain eligible for an online upgrade. A bounded 30-minute server-side retry cache prevents partial or missing provider data from triggering a new lookup on every play.
After the first validated realtime hello on each connection, the server loads the current persisted markers and sends them only to that exact WebSocket registration. Empty rows do not emit an all-null clearing event. Per-file epochs order snapshots with concurrent marker updates, while WebSocket writes happen outside the state lock and outside the request path. Marker ranges are built once per update rather than once per session.
Replacement connections become control-ready only after their own hello. Registration, readiness, and teardown are serialized so an old connection cannot leave a replacement marked ready or clear a replacement that has already completed its hello.
Marker ranges remain tied to a file generation, but hash changes now preserve manually entered segments. The invalidation SQL is generated from one column table and one predicate, with a database-free test proving that every marker range and provenance column is covered.
Marker plugins can declare
supports_contribution=false. Existing plugins retain contribution support by default, while fetch-only providers expose only the provider interface.Client coordination
markers_updatedevent and apply intro, credits, recap, and preview ranges. This PR does not change that event's schema, and empty reconnect snapshots are now suppressed, so no Android change is required./MediaSegments/{id}. The native WebSocket reconciliation does not change that surface, so no jellycompat change is required.Performance
Playback does not wait for provider lookups. Online refresh remains background work, duplicate work is collapsed per file, and recent partial or empty online results are negatively cached in a bounded in-memory map.
Realtime reconciliation adds at most one bounded media-row read after the first hello on a connection. Admin marker saves and provider updates no longer wait for WebSocket I/O, and unrelated files no longer share one of 64 lock buckets.
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Validation
Passed on the focused PR branch:
internal/scanner,internal/playback,internal/api/handlers, andinternal/markersGOWORK=off go vet ./internal/scanner ./internal/playback ./internal/api/handlers ./internal/markersmake verify-local-pathsgit diff --checkA full non-race run of the four relevant packages passed for scanner, API handlers, and markers. The playback package reached only the repository's macOS/NVIDIA GPU-probe failures; the changed marker and realtime tests passed separately under the race detector.
GOWORK=off go build ./internal/... ./cmd/...was not completed locally because this clean worktree does not contain the generatedweb/distembed target. The complete Go and Web build remains covered by GitHub Actions.The earlier implementation was also live-tested on a Silo server: playback started immediately, online markers completed in the background, and persisted intro and credit ranges were reused by later sessions. The review-fix commit itself has not been deployed.
Risks
The online retry cache is node-local, so a multi-node deployment can make one provider attempt per node during the retry window. It is bounded to entries attempted in the last 30 minutes and requires no migration or shared cache dependency.
Live marker invalidation events may still intentionally carry null ranges when the server has removed a previously persisted marker. Only the initial reconnect snapshot suppresses an entirely empty row.
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