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59 changes: 57 additions & 2 deletions apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
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Expand Up @@ -187,6 +187,21 @@ def create_mention_notification(project, notification_comment, issue, actor_id,
)


def _notification_dedup_key(notification):
"""
Build a key that identifies a "logically the same" notification so we can
dedupe both within a single task run and against notifications already
persisted by a prior (retried/redelivered) execution of this same task.
"""
issue_activity = (notification.data or {}).get("issue_activity", {}) or {}
return (
notification.receiver_id,
notification.sender,
notification.entity_identifier,
issue_activity.get("id"),
)
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printf '%s\n' '--- target file outline ---'
ast-grep outline apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- target implementation ---'
sed -n '1,270p' apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
printf '%s\n' '--- notification model definitions ---'
rg -n -A8 -B8 'class Notification|entity_identifier|receiver_id|issue_activity' apps/api -g '*.py' | head -240
printf '%s\n' '--- dedup references and related tests ---'
rg -n -A12 -B8 '_notification_dedup_key|existing_keys|bulk_create|mention' apps/api -g '*test*.py' -g '*.py' | head -320

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printf '%s\n' '--- notification task remainder ---'
sed -n '206,430p' apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
printf '%s\n' '--- notification model file candidates ---'
rg -l '^class Notification\b' apps/api/plane/db -g '*.py'
printf '%s\n' '--- exact Notification class ---'
notification_file="$(rg -l '^class Notification\b' apps/api/plane/db -g '*.py' | head -1)"
test -n "$notification_file"
sed -n '/^class Notification\b/,/^class /p' "$notification_file" | head -220
printf '%s\n' '--- persisted key query context ---'
rg -n -A18 -B18 'existing_keys|Notification\.objects|bulk_notifications' apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
printf '%s\n' '--- notification construction sites ---'
rg -n 'Notification\(' apps/api/plane -g '*.py' | head -160

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#!/bin/bash
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printf '%s\n' '--- remaining notification construction paths ---'
sed -n '430,680p' apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
printf '%s\n' '--- task callers and argument serialization ---'
rg -n -A18 -B8 'notifications\.delay|notifications\(' apps/api/plane -g '*.py' | head -260
printf '%s\n' '--- focused behavioral verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from uuid import UUID

receiver = UUID("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111")
issue = UUID("22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222")
activity = "33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333"

# Values assigned to a new Notification before Django model-field conversion.
mention_candidate = (str(receiver), "in_app:issue_activities:mentioned", str(issue), activity)
subscriber_candidate = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:subscribed", str(issue), activity)

# Values returned by PostgreSQL/Django for UUIDField columns and JSONField data.
persisted_mention = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:mentioned", issue, activity)
persisted_subscriber = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:subscribed", issue, activity)

print("mention key matches persisted key:", mention_candidate == persisted_mention)
print("subscriber key matches persisted key:", subscriber_candidate == persisted_subscriber)
print("mention differing positions:", [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(mention_candidate, persisted_mention)) if a != b])
print("subscriber differing positions:", [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(subscriber_candidate, persisted_subscriber)) if a != b])
PY

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Canonicalize UUID values before notification deduplication.

Mention notifications use string mention_id and issue_id, while existing_keys can contain UUID objects. The tuples can differ, so retries can insert duplicate notifications. Normalize receiver_id, entity_identifier, and the activity ID in both key paths. Add a regression test for a mention retry.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py` around lines 190 - 202, Update
_notification_dedup_key and the existing persisted-key construction to
canonicalize receiver_id, entity_identifier, and issue_activity ID to the same
UUID representation before tuple comparison, preserving all other deduplication
fields. Add a regression test covering a retried mention whose string
mention_id/issue_id matches UUID-valued existing_keys and verifies no duplicate
notification is inserted.



@shared_task
def notifications(
type,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -665,10 +680,50 @@ def notifications(
new_mentions=new_mentions,
removed_mention=removed_mention,
)

# --- Deduplicate notifications before bulk_create -----------------------------------------
# Guards against duplicate in-app notifications when this task executes more than once
# for the same event (Celery retries, broker redelivery, worker restarts). This is an
# app-level (non-atomic) safeguard - see notification.py for the alternative DB-constraint
# based approach, which is race-safe and preferred long-term.

# 1. Dedupe within this run's own batch (the code above can independently
# append near-identical notifications for the same receiver/activity,
# e.g. via both the general subscriber loop and the mention loops).
seen_in_batch = set()
deduped_batch = []
for notification in bulk_notifications:
key = _notification_dedup_key(notification)
if key in seen_in_batch:
continue
seen_in_batch.add(key)
deduped_batch.append(notification)

# 2. Dedupe against notifications already persisted for this issue
# (covers retries / redelivery of the same task execution).
if deduped_batch:
receiver_ids = {notification.receiver_id for notification in deduped_batch}
existing_keys = set(
Notification.objects.filter(
entity_identifier=issue_id,
receiver_id__in=receiver_ids,
).values_list(
"receiver_id", "sender", "entity_identifier", "data__issue_activity__id"
)
)
final_notifications = [
notification
for notification in deduped_batch
if _notification_dedup_key(notification) not in existing_keys
]
else:
final_notifications = []

# Bulk create notifications
Notification.objects.bulk_create(bulk_notifications, batch_size=100)
if final_notifications:
Notification.objects.bulk_create(final_notifications, batch_size=100)
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rg -n -C 4 'class Notification|UniqueConstraint|unique_together|entity_identifier|issue_activity' apps/api/plane | head -n 240
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fd -i 'notification.py' apps/api
rg -n -C 5 'Notification|notification_dedup|dedup_key|UniqueConstraint|unique_together' apps/api/plane/db/migrations apps/api/plane/db/models apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact Notification references excluding migrations ---'
rg -n -C 3 'class Notification|Notification\.objects|Notification\(' apps/api/plane/db/models apps/api/plane/bgtasks apps/api/plane/api --glob '!migrations/**' --glob '*.py'
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Make persisted notification deduplication race-safe.

The pre-query and Notification.objects.bulk_create are separate operations. Concurrent deliveries can both pass the query because Notification has no uniqueness constraint for this identity.

Add an immutable event-key field, populate it in every notification construction path, and add a migration with a database uniqueness constraint for the canonical notification identity. Then use bulk_create(..., ignore_conflicts=True) here and keep the pre-query as an optimization. Handle existing duplicate rows before adding the constraint. Otherwise, a uniqueness conflict can abort before EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create.

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minimal, and validate.

In `@apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py` around lines 702 - 724, Make
persisted notification deduplication race-safe by adding an immutable event-key
field, populating it in every Notification construction path, and creating a
migration that removes existing canonical duplicates before enforcing a
uniqueness constraint on the notification identity. Update the bulk insert in
the notification task to use ignore_conflicts=True while retaining the existing
pre-query optimization, so concurrent deliveries cannot abort before
EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create.

Source: Learnings

EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create(bulk_email_logs, batch_size=100, ignore_conflicts=True)
return
except Exception as e:
print(e)
return
return