fix(history): defer full transcript hydration to model sends (#5929)

* fix(history): defer full hydration to model sends

* fix(session): key hydration on real rows, fork through get_session

Two regressions from the display/model-context split, both reproducible
against dev.

The hydration gate compared the cached transcript against the
denormalized sessions.message_count column. That column drifts in normal
operation — _persist_message swallows a failed insert while add_message
has already appended in memory, so the next successful persist writes
rows+1 — and _db_to_session re-read the same column after each reload, so
the shortfall never closed. Every send, edit, delete and truncate on a
warm session re-selected the whole message table: the cost this change
set out to remove, relocated onto the hot path. The other direction was
just as bad — a persist for an uncached session writes message_count = 0,
and a stale-low counter with a partly filled cache meant no hydration at
all and a silently truncated transcript for the model.

sync_session_metadata now reconciles message_count against COUNT(*) on
chat_messages (one indexed count inside the connection it already opens),
and _db_to_session trusts the rows it just loaded. A hydrate always
closes the gap, so the next read is a cache hit.

fork_session read session_manager.sessions directly and never hydrated.
keep_count indexes into source.history, and display pagination no longer
fills that cache, so forking after a restart returned HTTP 200 with an
empty conversation and no error surfaced. It goes through get_session
now.

_hydrate_session_history_from_db is gone with its helper: get_session is
the hydration seam, and rebuilding session.history from raw rows in the
display fallback overwrote the parsed multimodal content and the _db_id
edit/delete keys that had just been set.

Tests drive a real SessionManager over a temp DB instead of a stub that
only proved the stub hydrates — both drift directions, the send path
warm and cold, and a fork taken after a restart. All five fail without
this change. The brittle SQL-text assertions are dropped; the page
bounds are already proven by the response body.

* fix(history): route pagination through canonical handler

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Co-authored-by: Léo <leograndcontact@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
RaresKeY
2026-08-10 19:39:21 +01:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Léo
parent dbeed4b63f
commit d449a9d431
6 changed files with 614 additions and 82 deletions
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@@ -137,44 +137,6 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
entry["metadata"] = meta
return entry
def _db_message_metadata(m: DbChatMessage) -> Dict[str, Any]:
meta = {}
if m.meta_data:
try:
meta = json.loads(m.meta_data) or {}
except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError):
meta = {}
if m.timestamp and "timestamp" not in meta:
meta["timestamp"] = m.timestamp.isoformat() + "Z"
return meta
def _hydrate_session_history_from_db(session_id: str, rows: list[DbChatMessage]) -> None:
"""Rebuild in-memory context from raw DB rows after a history load.
The browser history endpoint can return paged/display-trimmed messages,
but the next model call reads ``session.history``. After a restart or a
stale in-memory session, selecting an old chat through the paged endpoint
used to show the transcript while the model only saw fresh context.
"""
if not rows:
return
try:
session = session_manager.get_session(session_id)
except KeyError:
return
session.history = [
ChatMessage(role=m.role, content=m.content, metadata=_db_message_metadata(m) or None)
for m in rows
]
session.message_count = len(session.history)
def _session_needs_db_history_hydration(session_id: str, total: int) -> bool:
try:
session = session_manager.get_session(session_id)
except KeyError:
return False
return len(session.history or []) < int(total or 0)
@router.get("/api/history/{session_id}")
async def get_session_history(
request: Request,
@@ -198,6 +160,8 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
)
page_offset = int(offset) if offset is not None else max(total - page_limit, 0)
page_offset = max(0, min(page_offset, total))
# Keep display pagination page-scoped. ``get_session`` is the
# full model-context hydration seam and must not be entered here.
rows = (
db.query(DbChatMessage)
.filter(DbChatMessage.session_id == session_id)
@@ -206,14 +170,6 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
.limit(page_limit)
.all()
)
if _session_needs_db_history_hydration(session_id, total):
full_rows = (
db.query(DbChatMessage)
.filter(DbChatMessage.session_id == session_id)
.order_by(DbChatMessage.timestamp)
.all()
)
_hydrate_session_history_from_db(session_id, full_rows)
history_dict = [
entry for entry in (_db_history_entry(m) for m in rows)
if not (entry.get("metadata") or {}).get("hidden")
@@ -258,7 +214,10 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
entry["metadata"] = msg["metadata"]
history_dict.append(entry)
# Fallback: load from DB if in-memory is empty
# Fallback: load from DB if in-memory renders empty. Display only —
# get_session above is the hydration seam, so nothing here writes back
# into session.history — rebuilding it from raw rows would overwrite
# parsed multimodal content and the _db_id edit/delete keys it just set.
if not history_dict:
db = SessionLocal()
try:
@@ -268,17 +227,10 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
.order_by(DbChatMessage.timestamp)
.all()
)
db_history = []
for m in db_messages:
db_history.append(_db_history_entry(m))
if db_history:
# Rebuild in-memory history from the full set so hidden
# messages (e.g. compaction summaries) are kept for AI context.
_hydrate_session_history_from_db(session_id, db_messages)
# Response excludes hidden messages, matching the in-memory path.
history_dict = [
m for m in db_history
if not (m.get("metadata") or {}).get("hidden")
entry for entry in (_db_history_entry(m) for m in db_messages)
if not (entry.get("metadata") or {}).get("hidden")
]
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"DB fallback failed for {session_id}: {e}")
@@ -645,8 +597,14 @@ def setup_history_routes(session_manager, upload_handler=None) -> APIRouter:
body = await request.json()
keep_count = body.get("keep_count", 0)
# Get the source session
source = session_manager.sessions.get(session_id)
# Get the source session. keep_count indexes into source.history,
# so this must go through get_session — reading the cache directly
# forks an empty transcript out of a metadata-only session after a
# restart (display pagination no longer hydrates it).
try:
source = session_manager.get_session(session_id)
except KeyError:
raise HTTPException(404, "Session not found")
if not source:
raise HTTPException(404, "Session not found")
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@@ -801,15 +801,6 @@ def setup_session_routes(
finally:
db.close()
@router.get("/history/{sid}")
def get_history(request: Request, sid: str):
_verify_session_owner(request, sid)
try:
session = session_manager.get_session(sid)
except KeyError:
raise HTTPException(404, f"Session {sid} not found")
return {"history": [msg.to_dict() for msg in session.history]}
@router.get("/session/{sid}/export")
def export_session(request: Request, sid: str, fmt: str = "md", filename: str = ""):
"""Export conversation history as a downloadable file.