fix(api): preserve Application update concurrency constraints by lexfrei · Pull Request #5234 · cozystack/cozystack

Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) · 2026-11-04T20:12:38Z

What this PR does

A stale application update could succeed after a backend conflict. Retries now rebuild and validate the update against a fresh HelmRelease snapshot. Caller UID and resourceVersion constraints are checked again.

Updates without a resource version remain supported. Numeric resourceVersion 0 now also allows an unconditional update, matching Kubernetes' versioner. HTTP PUT, PATCH and apply tests cover it. Durable SSA ownership is not fixed here: Application conversions still omit managedFields.

The root Go build, vet and tests pass, including Application/server tests. Targeted race tests pass too. Full-repository race and lint failures reproduce on the base commit.

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fix(api): honor Application update preconditions and recompute patches after conflicts instead of retrying an outdated admitted object.

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Bug Fixes
- Application updates now respect object identity and version preconditions, rejecting stale requests instead of overwriting newer changes.
- Concurrent updates preserve changes to unrelated HelmRelease fields and lifecycle metadata when safely retrying. When an update is based on stale state or a conflict cannot be safely resolved, the request returns a conflict response rather than overwriting newer data.

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Walkthrough

The REST update path now checks Application snapshot preconditions and retries eligible conflicts. New REST and HTTP tests cover update preconditions, apply creation, admission, dry-run, and concurrent changes.

Changes: Application update concurrency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Snapshot-based update and retry flow `pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go`	REST updates read Application snapshots, check UID and resourceVersion preconditions, and retry eligible conflicts around a single write attempt.
REST preconditions and retry tests `pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_update_concurrency_test.go`, `pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_*_test.go`	Tests cover preconditions, retries, object recreation, callback errors, and concurrent changes. Existing test setups now provide writer or watch clients. The garbage-collection conflict test checks preservation of concurrent finalizers and values.
HTTP update and apply concurrency tests `pkg/cmd/server/application_update_concurrency_test.go`, `pkg/cmd/server/watch_initial_events_test.go`	Server tests cover apply creation and updates across HTTP methods, with preconditions, dry-run, admission, concurrent writes, and persisted state.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ApplicationREST
  participant watchReader
  participant Admission
  participant writer
  ApplicationREST->>watchReader: Read Application and HelmRelease snapshot
  ApplicationREST->>Admission: Validate copied Application snapshots
  ApplicationREST->>watchReader: Read HelmRelease before write
  ApplicationREST->>writer: Attempt HelmRelease update
  writer-->>ApplicationREST: Return conflict for eligible retry

Possibly related PRs

cozystack/cozystack#5136: Both changes affect REST.Update behavior around HelmRelease conflicts and updates.
cozystack/cozystack#4921: The retry path can re-enter credential Secret seeding and pruning during REST updates.
cozystack/cozystack#5137: Both changes affect image-override behavior in Application REST updates during conflict retries.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9dd8d

Updates that send a non-numeric resourceVersion get a 500 response rather than a 400, which misreports a client error as a server error. This is a narrow edge case and does not affect valid updates, so the change can be merged with that one point acknowledged.

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The title "fix(api): preserve Application update concurrency constraints" matches the main change. The PR adds retry and precondition logic to Application updates in pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go. It checks UID and resourceVersion against a fresh HelmRelease snapshot before writing, and it adds tests for concurrent update behavior. The title is specific, uses a conventional commit prefix, and is under 72 characters.

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pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_update_concurrency_test.go: 1
46-46: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a retry case for resourceVersion preconditions.

TestUpdatePreconditions checks Preconditions.ResourceVersion only on the first attempt. No test keeps a resourceVersion precondition across a backend conflict, so a change that rechecks only UID on retry would pass the suite. Add a case where the first write returns a conflict, the stored resourceVersion advances from "7" to "8", and the update with ResourceVersion: "7" returns a conflict without a write.
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Review comment at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_update_concurrency_test.go
at line 46:
Add a retry case to TestUpdatePreconditions that starts with resourceVersion
"7", has the first write conflict and the stored version advance to "8", then
verifies an update retaining ResourceVersion "7" returns a conflict without
another write. Preserve the existing test cases and setup.
pkg/cmd/server/application_update_concurrency_test.go: 1
342-346: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert the dry-run response, not only the backing object.

The successful dry-run update cases return at line 346 after checking only the backing store. The response checks at lines 288-300 cover only numeric and the absence of _internal. A dry-run handler that returns the unchanged live Application would pass these checks. Add an assertion that the dry-run response contains the proposed requested value.
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Review comment at @pkg/cmd/server/application_update_concurrency_test.go around
lines 342 - 346:
Update the successful dry-run branch in the application update concurrency test
to assert that the response contains the proposed “requested” value, in addition
to checking that the backing object remains unchanged. Locate the branch using
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Review comments at @pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go:
- Around line 579-581: Update the error handling in updateAttempt after
versioner.ObjectResourceVersion(app) so a malformed metadata.resourceVersion is
returned as a client bad-request error rather than a raw parse error; preserve
the existing behavior for other errors if they can arise here.

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Review comments at @pkg/cmd/server/application_update_concurrency_test.go:
- Around line 342-346: Update the successful dry-run branch in the application
update concurrency test to assert that the response contains the proposed
“requested” value, in addition to checking that the backing object remains
unchanged. Locate the branch using the want and dryRun conditions, and keep the
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@pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_update_concurrency_test.go:
- Line 46: Add a retry case to TestUpdatePreconditions that starts with
resourceVersion "7", has the first write conflict and the stored version advance
to "8", then verifies an update retaining ResourceVersion "7" returns a conflict
without another write. Preserve the existing test cases and setup.

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`pkg/cmd/server/application_update_concurrency_test.go`

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`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_admission_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_conflict_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_garbage_collection_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_shard_label_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_suspend_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_update_concurrency_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_validation_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_watch_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_workloads_test.go`

`pkg/registry/apps/application/rest_write_options_test.go`

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Admitting one version and writing a later one can overwrite concurrent changes. A retry must not weaken the caller's UID or resourceVersion constraints. Keep omitted resourceVersion updates unconditional for compatibility; numeric zero follows the same Kubernetes versioner semantics. Fixes: 728f676 ("fix(api): retry HelmRelease update on resourceVersion conflict") Fixes: e6ffb4f ("[cozystack-api] Fix resourceVersion error") Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <[email protected]>

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docs(design-proposals): add WorkerClass and Kairos worker pools cozystack/community#115

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fix(api): make monitor watch versions usable as delete preconditions #5326

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