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Companion to esync #54 and vision-web #1754.

The desk's hand-off gives each curator's position and, from esync #54, the lane it was earned in: "PeakD only", "new authors", the whole queue.

Why the lane rides on the mark request

A first version kept one lane row per curator, written on the roster feed. Review caught that it is keyed only by username, so the last feed request from any tab or device decides the lane every later mark is stamped with: two tabs on different filters stamp the wrong lane on one of them, and a hand-off that misrepresents coverage is worse than one that says nothing. Sent with the mark, each desk describes itself and there is nothing to race over.

The change

The Mark route gains one optional key, lane, an object.

  • It is rebuilt from an allow list (LaneKeys: the roster-feed keys that describe which posts, not how they are paged) and cleaned with the same rules a roster-feed body gets: unknown sorts dropped, views, apps and windows checked against their sets, the community against its grammar, the numeric bounds clamped. Nothing outside the list is copied, so a key the feed does not know never travels, username included.
  • A lane that is not an object is refused (lane must be an object): that is a client bug, not a lane.
  • An absent lane is forwarded as absent. The backend records that as unknown, and never as the whole queue.

The backend validates it again through its own parse_feed_params, so this is the first of two gates rather than the only one.

Tests

Three cases: the lane is rebuilt from the allow list and normalized (a bogus window, a path-shaped community, the paging keys and an injected username all fail to travel while rep_min: 250 clamps to 100); a mark without a lane stays without one and {} is preserved as a real answer; and a lane that is a string, an array or a number is refused. The first fails when the object is forwarded raw.

Full suite green: 480 tests.

Deploy

No settings change. Ships in any order against the other two: until the backend reads lane it ignores the key, and until the desk sends it the key is absent.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Curation marks can now include the feed filter context used when the mark was created.
    • Supported lane settings are normalized before being forwarded.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid lane values are rejected with a clear validation error.
    • Unsupported lane fields are excluded from submitted data.

The desk's hand-off gives each curator's position and, from esync #54,
the lane it was earned in: "PeakD only", "new authors", the whole queue.
The lane rides on the mark request rather than living per curator,
because a per-curator row is keyed by username and the last feed
request from any tab or device would decide the lane every later mark
was stamped with. Two tabs on different filters stamped the wrong lane
on one of them. Sent with the mark, each desk describes itself and there
is nothing to race over.

The Mark route gains one optional key, `lane`, an object. It is rebuilt
from an allow list of the roster-feed keys that describe WHICH posts,
not how they are paged, and cleaned with the same rules a roster-feed
body gets: unknown sorts dropped, views, apps and windows checked
against their sets, the community against its grammar, the numeric
bounds clamped. Nothing outside the list is copied, so a key the feed
does not know never travels. A lane that is not an object is refused as
a client bug; an absent lane is forwarded as absent, which the backend
records as unknown.

The backend validates it again through its own parser, so this is the
first of two gates, not the only one.
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Carry normalized curation lane metadata on mark requests

✨ Enhancement 🧪 Tests 🕐 10-20 Minutes

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• Adds optional lane context to curation marks for race-free hand-offs.
• Normalizes lane filters while excluding paging, identity, and unrecognized fields.
• Tests normalized, absent, empty, and invalid lane payloads.
Diagram

graph TD
  A["Desk mark"] --> B{"Lane value?"}
  B -->|Object| C["Allow-list fields"] --> D["Normalize filters"] --> E["Mark payload"] --> F["Curation backend"]
  B -->|Absent| E
  B -->|Invalid| G["Reject request"]
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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Persist each curator's active lane
  • ➕ Keeps lane metadata out of individual mark requests
  • ➕ Allows the backend to infer lane context automatically
  • ➖ Introduces last-writer-wins races across tabs and devices
  • ➖ Can permanently associate a mark with the wrong queue
  • ➖ Requires additional state lifecycle and synchronization
2. Share a parameterized feed normalizer
  • ➕ Prevents roster and lane validation rules from drifting
  • ➕ Centralizes allowed-value and numeric-bound behavior
  • ➖ Requires refactoring existing roster-feed normalization
  • ➖ Must carefully distinguish selection filters from paging fields

Recommendation: Request-scoped lane metadata is the correct strategy because it binds each mark to the desk state that produced it and avoids cross-tab races. The current allow-listing is appropriately defensive; extracting the common filter rules into a shared parameterized normalizer could further reduce future validation drift without changing the transport design.

Files changed (2) +97 / -1

Enhancement (1) +57 / -1
PrivateApi.CurationDesk.csForward normalized lane context with curation marks +57/-1

Forward normalized lane context with curation marks

• Extends the mark route with an optional lane object and defines selection-only lane keys excluding paging metadata. Rebuilds and normalizes lane filters before forwarding, preserves absent and empty lanes distinctly, and rejects non-object lane values.

dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.CurationDesk.cs

Tests (1) +40 / -0
CurationDeskPayloadTests.csCover curation mark lane validation and normalization +40/-0

Cover curation mark lane validation and normalization

• Adds tests proving lane fields are rebuilt from the selection-filter allow list, invalid values are removed, and numeric bounds are clamped. Also verifies the distinction between an absent lane and an empty whole-queue lane, plus rejection of non-object values.

dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/CurationDeskPayloadTests.cs

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The Mark route now accepts an optional lane object. It validates the object type, filters allowed fields, normalizes values, forwards valid lanes, and adds tests for normalization, omission, empty objects, and invalid types.

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Mark lane support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lane validation and normalization
dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.CurationDesk.cs, dotnet/EcencyApi.Tests/CurationDeskPayloadTests.cs
The Mark route accepts lane, rejects non-object values, rebuilds lanes from LaneKeys, applies roster-feed normalization rules, and tests valid, absent, empty, and invalid lane payloads.

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Marks made from different random roster feeds can lose their distinct feed context because the random seed is not preserved. This undermines the lane’s purpose of associating a mark with the roster view where it was made and should be corrected before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CurationDesk
  participant Mark
  participant NormalizeLane
  participant Backend
  CurationDesk->>Mark: Submit signed mark with optional lane
  Mark->>Mark: Validate lane is a JSON object
  Mark->>NormalizeLane: Rebuild lane from LaneKeys
  NormalizeLane-->>Mark: Return normalized lane
  Mark->>Backend: Forward mark payload with normalized lane
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A rabbit sends a lane through the desk,
Allowed keys hop out in a tidy nest.
Bad shapes stop at the gate,
Good values normalize straight.
The mark lands clean, as checked.

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In `@dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.CurationDesk.cs`:
- Line 794: Update LaneKeys in PrivateApi.CurationDesk.cs to include seed,
retaining it only when sort is random and CurationDeskQuery.IsSeed accepts it;
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Comment thread dotnet/EcencyApi/Handlers/PrivateApi.CurationDesk.cs
An order is not a lane. The Random order arrives with a seed the lane
never carries, and the backend's feed parser refuses that pairing, so
forwarding sort=random would have turned every mark made on that order
into a 400 once all three repos were live. Only unique travels, the one
sort the backend folds into a narrowing.
The order decides whether a position is a watermark at all: a mark on
newest-first says nothing about the older posts, so the hand-off has to
be able to say which order it was made in. The previous commit dropped
every sort but unique to keep random-without-seed away from the
backend's feed parser; the backend now reads the sort off the lane on
its own, so any known sort travels and the seed still never does.
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On the companion finding against vision-web: that reads at a4cbbcb57b, which is three commits behind the branch. It was fixed at b59e5f7fc1 and refined at 0e27e3396b; the branch is at 44cbbd2aa5.

At the current head, the three inputs named:

lane renders as
{sort: "newest"} "newest first, not a watermark"
{sort: "random"} "shuffled, not a watermark"
{rep_min: 80} "Rep 80 to 100"
{} "all posts"

describeLane now names the order first when it is not the queue order, names word and reputation bounds, images only, the excluded view, curated shown, snoozed shown and an explicit not-flagged, and counts anything present that it does not name into "and N more". Only a literal empty lane can read as the whole queue. A parametrized spec pins each of those facets against "all posts", and a second pins the three orders. CurationLane carries sort and hide_snoozed (types.ts:206, :221).

Agreed on the rest: the random-mark failure is closed by this PR forwarding recognized sorts without the seed and esync #54 reading the sort off the lane on its own.

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