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Implements automatic refresh of community PDS access tokens to prevent
401 errors after 2-hour token expiration. Includes comprehensive security
hardening through multiple review iterations.
## Core Features
- Proactive token refresh (5-minute buffer before expiration)
- Automatic fallback to password re-auth when refresh tokens expire
- Concurrent-safe per-community mutex protection
- Atomic credential updates with retry logic
- Comprehensive structured logging for observability
## Security Hardening (3 Review Rounds)
### Round 1: Initial PR Review Fixes
- Added DB update retry logic (3 attempts, exponential backoff)
- Improved error detection with typed xrpc.Error checking
- Added comprehensive unit tests (8 test cases for NeedsRefresh)
- Enhanced logging for JWT parsing failures
- Memory-bounded mutex cache with warning threshold
### Round 2: Critical Race Condition Fixes
- **CRITICAL:** Eliminated race condition in mutex eviction
- Removed eviction entirely to prevent mutex map corruption
- Added read-lock fast path for performance
- Implemented double-check locking pattern
- **CRITICAL:** Fixed test-production code path mismatch
- Eliminated wrapper function, single exported NeedsRefresh()
- Tests now validate actual production code
### Round 3: Code Quality & Linting
- Fixed struct field alignment (8-byte memory optimization)
- Removed unused functions (splitToken)
- Added proper error handling for deferred Close() calls
- All golangci-lint checks passing
## Implementation Details
**Token Refresh Flow:**
1. Check if access token expires within 5 minutes
2. Acquire per-community mutex (prevent concurrent refresh)
3. Re-fetch from DB (double-check pattern)
4. Attempt refresh using refresh token
5. Fallback to password re-auth if refresh token expired
6. Update DB atomically with retry logic (3 attempts)
7. Return updated community with fresh credentials
**Concurrency Safety:**
- Per-community mutexes (non-blocking for different communities)
- Double-check pattern prevents duplicate refreshes
- Atomic DB updates (access + refresh token together)
- Refresh tokens are single-use (atproto spec compliance)
**Files Changed:**
- internal/core/communities/service.go - Main orchestration
- internal/core/communities/token_refresh.go - Indigo SDK integration
- internal/core/communities/token_utils.go - JWT parsing utilities
- internal/core/communities/interfaces.go - Repository interface
- internal/db/postgres/community_repo.go - UpdateCredentials method
- tests/integration/token_refresh_test.go - Comprehensive tests
- docs/PRD_BACKLOG.md - Documented Alpha blocker resolution
- docs/PRD_COMMUNITIES.md - Updated with token refresh feature
## Testing
- 8 unit tests for token expiration detection (all passing)
- Integration tests for UpdateCredentials (all passing)
- E2E test framework ready for PDS integration
- All linters passing (golangci-lint)
- Build verification successful
## Observability
Structured logging with events:
- token_refresh_started, token_refreshed
- refresh_token_expired, password_fallback_success
- db_update_retry, token_parse_failed
- CRITICAL alerts for lockout conditions
## Risk Mitigation
Before: 🔴 HIGH RISK - Communities lockout after 2 hours
After: 🟢 LOW RISK - Automatic refresh with multiple safety layers
- Race conditions: ELIMINATED (no mutex eviction)
- DB failures: MITIGATED (3-retry with exponential backoff)
- Refresh token expiry: HANDLED (password fallback)
- Test coverage: COMPREHENSIVE (unit + integration)
- Memory leaks: PREVENTED (warning at 10k communities, acceptable at 1M)
## Production Ready
✅ All critical issues resolved
✅ All tests passing
✅ All linters passing
✅ Comprehensive error handling
✅ Security hardened through 3 review rounds
Resolves Alpha blocker: Communities can now be updated indefinitely
without manual token management.
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- Fix P1 issue: properly bubble up database errors instead of masking as conflict
* Only return ErrBlockAlreadyExists when getErr is ErrBlockNotFound (race condition)
* Real DB errors (outages, connection failures) now propagate to operators
- Remove unused V1 functions flagged by linter:
* createRecordOnPDS, deleteRecordOnPDS, callPDS (replaced by *As versions)
- Apply automatic code formatting via golangci-lint --fix:
* Align struct field tags in CommunityBlock
* Fix comment alignment across test files
* Remove trailing whitespace
- All tests passing, linter clean
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Fixes four issues identified in PR review:
**BUG 1 - Performance: Remove redundant database query**
- Removed duplicate GetByDID call in BlockCommunity service method
- ResolveCommunityIdentifier already verifies community exists
- Reduces block operations from 2 DB queries to 1
**BUG 2 - Performance: Move regex compilation to package level**
- Moved DID validation regex to package-level variable in block.go
- Prevents recompiling regex on every block/unblock request
- Eliminates unnecessary CPU overhead on hot path
**BUG 3 - DRY: Remove duplicated extractRKeyFromURI**
- Removed duplicate implementations in service.go and tests
- Now uses shared utils.ExtractRKeyFromURI function
- Single source of truth for AT-URI parsing logic
**P1 - Critical: Fix duplicate block race condition**
- Added ErrBlockAlreadyExists error type
- Returns 409 Conflict instead of 500 when PDS has block but AppView hasn't indexed yet
- Handles normal race in eventually-consistent flow gracefully
- Prevents double-click scenarios from appearing as server failures
All tests passing (33.2s runtime, 100% pass rate).
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**Breaking Change**: XRPC endpoints now strictly enforce lexicon spec.
Changed endpoints to reject handles and accept ONLY DIDs:
- social.coves.community.blockCommunity
- social.coves.community.unblockCommunity
- social.coves.community.subscribe
- social.coves.community.unsubscribe
Rationale:
1. Lexicon defines "subject" field with format: "did" (not "at-identifier")
2. Records are immutable and content-addressed - must use permanent DIDs
3. Handles can change (they're DNS pointers), DIDs cannot
4. Bluesky's app.bsky.graph.block uses same pattern (DID-only)
Previous behavior accepted both DIDs and handles, resolving handles to
DIDs internally. This was convenient but violated the lexicon contract.
Impact:
- Clients must resolve handles to DIDs before calling these endpoints
- Matches standard atProto patterns for block/subscription records
- Ensures federation compatibility
This aligns our implementation with the lexicon specification and
atProto best practices.