* Make backend tests wait on conditions instead of durations
The backend workflow has a long tail of runs that fail once and pass on
a rerun. Every one of them comes down to a test assuming an operation
finishes within some duration rather than waiting for the state it
needs. Three were reproducible and each was reproduced against the old
code before being changed: TestServerAuthHooks minted a token that lived
one second and never tested expiry, so a slow runner turned the first
POST into a 401; TestServerApp_AnonMode saw "connection refused" because
waitForHTTPServerStart returned silently after three seconds and left a
later assertion to fail with something unrelated; TestFsStore_Cleanup
slept 200ms against a 300ms ttl that Cleanup widens to 400ms with its
commit grace, so roughly 100ms of stall collected an image meant to
survive.
Fixed sleeps before asserting on asynchronous work are replaced with
polls on the condition itself, using require.Eventually and
require.EventuallyWithT, and require.Never where the assertion is that
something did not happen. Polling closures assert on the CollectT they
are handed rather than on t, since testify runs them on another
goroutine, and polls that issue HTTP requests stay under the rate limit
on the routes they poll through.
Where a test needs time to have passed, the clock input is pinned
instead: staging ages are stamped with os.Chtimes on both sides of the
cleanup boundary right before each call, which also makes the 100ms
commit grace an exact case rather than something no assertion reaches,
and the RSS tests set store.Comment.Timestamp explicitly rather than
racing the wall clock into the first 100ms of a second so pubDate
matches.
chooseUnusedPort takes a port from the kernel's ephemeral range. Picking
at random out of a fixed 10000-port window let two package binaries,
which go test ./... runs concurrently, land on the same number between
the probe closing and the server binding. The start helpers fail naming
the port they waited on, and the SSL tests wait on the redirect port as
well as the TLS one.
Arbitrary budgets that nothing tests are gone: ten HTTP clients with a
one-second timeout against bolt-backed import and export, the "should
take about 100msec" assertions, and a one-second bound on noticing an
already cancelled context. Shutdown stays bounded at ten seconds so a
hang is still caught.
Two assertions get stronger. TestServerAuthHooks accepted 403 or 401
from a blocked user, an alternative that existed only because the short
token could expire mid-test; it is deterministically 403 now.
TestAdmin_BlockedList asserted two users blocked while one carried the
same 150ms ttl the next step waits to lapse, so the halves raced each
other.
goleak stops reporting the regexp2 clock goroutine, which chroma pulls
in for syntax highlighting and which lives for up to a second after the
last match with a timeout; it ends on its own but a binary finishing
inside that window was reported as leaking, and this suite now finishes
sooner. The ignore for net/http.(*Server).Shutdown goes the other way:
it no longer matches anything, with both packages run fifteen times each
under CPU oversubscription to confirm.
Two gaps the change would otherwise have opened are covered directly
rather than left to the side effects that used to cover them. The
one-second token was the only thing exercising the authenticator's
ClaimsUpd hook on refresh, so TestServerApp_ClaimsUpd now calls the hook
itself and checks admin, blocked, email and restricted-name
impersonation, including the two pass-through cases. Lifting the
open-route limit removed the last incidental exercise of the rate
limiter, so TestRateLimiter drives a burst past the allowance and checks
the refusals and that the limit is per client. Both run without a wall
clock, and both were confirmed to fail when the behaviour they cover is
removed.
Production code is untouched. The two sleeps outside test code, the 429
backoff in cmd/cleanup.go and the submit poll in store/image/image.go,
are left alone: no CI failure implicates them.
Test sleeps drop from 67 to 21, all of them either inside a
testing/synctest bubble or a poll interval. The suite runs in about 22
seconds instead of 46, mostly because
TestPublic_FindCommentsCtrl_ConsistentCount no longer paces a hundred
subtests with an 80ms sleep each to stay under the open route limit. The
300s per-package budget now matches across both workflows, the race_test
target and the documented command, and CLAUDE.md records the convention.
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backend/app/cmd/import_test.go # modified:
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modified: backend/app/rest/api/admin_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/middleware_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/migrator_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_private_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_public_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rss_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/proxy/image_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/image/fs_store_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/service_test.go # modified:
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* Apply go fix under Go 1.27
Go 1.27 extends go fix with the modernizers, so `go fix ./...` now
rewrites patterns the language has since replaced. Running it across all
three modules produces this: legacy sync/atomic calls on plain integers
become the atomic types (notify.Service.closed, image.Service.term and
submitCount, and several test counters), reverse index loops become
slices.Backward, a Split-then-index becomes strings.Cut, counted loops
become range over an int, and interface{} becomes any in the e2e suite.
The example module needed no changes. The e2e module is behind a build
tag, so it only matches with `go fix -tags e2e ./...`.
One knock-on: prealloc can see the bound of a loop once it is written as
range over an int, so the slice it feeds is now preallocated.
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backend/app/migrator/native.go # modified: backend/app/notify/notify.go
backend/app/rest/api/rest_private_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/comment.go # modified:
backend/app/store/image/image.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/service_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/title_test.go # modified: e2e/e2e_test.go #
modified: e2e/widgets_test.go #
TestService_WithDrops and TestService_SubmitVerificationWithDrops
submitted three items into a size-1 queue and asserted at least one was
dropped, relying on the single consumer not draining the queue between
submits. synctest does not fully pin this because the MockDest send path
does real logging I/O outside the bubble, so under CI's -race scheduling
the consumer occasionally drained all three, delivering everything and
failing the "<= 2" assertion (~0.2% of CI runs).
Add an optional gate channel to MockDest so a destination blocks in
Send/SendVerification until released. The tests now submit one item (the
consumer picks it up and blocks on the gate), fill the size-1 queue,
submit an overflow item that is dropped, then release the gate — the
drop is deterministic regardless of scheduling. Assert exactly two
delivered instead of "at most two".
Go 1.25's testing/synctest package (GA) provides a fake clock bubble
for deterministic goroutine and timer testing. Convert tests that
waited on real-time durations to use synctest, removing most wall-clock
time.Sleep workarounds.
Converted (11 tests, 9 files):
- notify/notify_test.go — all tests, replaced 17 time.Sleep(110ms) with synctest.Wait()
- store/service/service_test.go — VoteSameIPWithDuration, UserReplies, submitImages,
ResubmitStagingImages, deleteImagesOnCommentDelete
- store/image/{image,bolt_store}_test.go — Cleanup, Submit, SubmitDelay
- store/engine/bolt_test.go — FlagListBlocked
- providers/telegram_test.go — DispatchTelegramUpdates
- migrator/backup_test.go — TestBackup_Do
- _example/memory_store/accessor/data_test.go — FlagListBlocked
Simplifications along the way:
- notify/notify_mock.go: dropped the 10ms time.After delay and
ctx.Done select in MockDest — the artificial I/O simulation is
pointless and blocked synctest.Wait from draining the queue
- Removed three dead-code time.Sleep(1s) calls in EditCommentDurationFailed,
EditCommentAdmin, and Info tests: prepopulated comments from 2017
already exceed any EditDuration/ReadOnlyAge under real clock, making
the sleeps meaningless
- UserReplies: replaced the Eventually+Sleep+mutex polling with a
direct time.Sleep under fake clock
Skipped (incompatible with synctest):
- fs_store_test.go: relies on OS file mtime (real wall clock)
- rss_test.go: needs real wall-clock second boundary for pubDate
- admin/rest_private/rest_public tests: httptest network I/O
- cmd/server_test.go: real HTTP server startup polling
Notes on quirks encountered:
- synctest.Wait() does NOT advance fake time, contrary to what one
might expect. It only returns once all other bubble goroutines are
durably blocked. To advance the fake clock, the test goroutine must
itself call time.Sleep
- BoltDB keys the "last" bucket by comment.Timestamp nanosecond string.
Rapid b.Create calls under frozen fake time produce identical keys
and overwrite each other. TestService_UserReplies adds
time.Sleep(time.Nanosecond) between Creates to advance the clock
- Bolt image Cleanup uses strict age > ttl. Under fake time the
age-ttl delta is exactly zero at the boundary, so subtract 1ms from
the passed ttl to stay strictly under
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Apply go fix ./... analysers (Go 1.26) across backend and examples:
- interface{} → any (type alias, no behaviour change)
- for i := 0; i < N; i++ → for range N / for i := range N
- slices.Contains / slices.ContainsFunc replacing manual loops
- strings.SplitSeq replacing strings.Split in range (avoids allocation)
- strings.CutPrefix replacing HasPrefix+TrimPrefix
- min() replacing manual if/else
- fmt.Appendf replacing []byte(fmt.Sprintf(...))
- strings.Builder replacing string += concatenation
- wg.Go(func(){}) replacing wg.Add(1)/go/wg.Done() pattern
- removed redundant ii := i loop variable copies (unnecessary since Go 1.22)
omitempty on struct-typed JSON fields: go fix removed omitempty from
struct-typed fields (time.Time, PostInfo, UserDetailEntry) because
encoding/json's omitempty never applied to struct types — it was always
a no-op. Kept as bare tags (no omitzero replacement) to preserve the
existing serialisation behaviour.
Replace strings.Split(RemoteAddr, ":") with net.SplitHostPort for correct
IPv6 address extraction in vote deduplication and comment IP tracking.
Harden image proxy: add SSRF-safe transport blocking private/reserved IPs
at connection time with DNS rebinding protection, sanitize error messages
to prevent information leakage, add response size limit via io.LimitReader.
Fix shadowed error variables in BlockedUsers, SetTitle, and Delete methods.
Exclude gosec taint analysis false positives at linter config level.
* migrate golangci-lint to v2 and update go version
- migrated .golangci.yml to version 2 format
- updated go.mod from 1.23.0 to 1.24
- removed deprecated run.timeout configuration
* update to go 1.25 and baseimage v1.17.0
- updated go.mod to go 1.25
- updated Dockerfile to use buildgo-v1.17.0 (go 1.25.0)
- updated Dockerfile to use app-v1.17.0
* fix flaky tests with proper synchronization
- use assert.Eventually instead of fixed sleep in TestService_Many
- wait for webhook before shutdown in TestMain_WithWebhook
- fixes race conditions exposed by Go 1.25 scheduler changes
* fix data race in MockDest.closed field
- add IsClosed() method with proper locking
- add locking to String() method
- use IsClosed() in tests instead of direct field access
- fixes race condition detected by go test -race
* update example go.mod to go 1.25
* update golangci-lint to v2.6.0 for go 1.25 support
* fix linter issue and update CLAUDE.md
- merge conditional assignment in example accessor/data.go
- add reminder in CLAUDE.md to always test and lint examples before committing
* update example Dockerfile to baseimage v1.17.0 for go 1.25
* replace store.Locator with SiteID where only it is used
* add EmailSubscription flag to User information
* add /user endpoint test for email subscription
* increase timeout for TestServerAuthHooks http client
* replace assert.Equal checks for slice length with require.Equal
* unify channel name across tests
* fix panic in Test_Main
* increase TestRest_CreateWithPictures timeout for HDD slowness
* increase TestService_VoteSameIPWithDuration timeout for HDD slowness
* increase go test timeout for HDD run
* increase TestRest_CreateWithPictures timeout for HDD slowness
* add API methods for setting and deleting email
* fix service.SetStringUserDetail signature to return string
* switch table test with description to t.Run()
* remove debug logging
* clarify error handling, functions names
* add email integration test
* add information about email subscription to readme
* change email API calls method from PUT to POST
* typo fix, remove unneeded capturing of range variable
* email test draft
* fix notify mock, email notification test draft
* add MockDestination to startupT return
* fix tests
* add email retrieval for notifications sending
* fix mock for notify
* rearrange mock notify declaration
* add GET /email API handler, fix typos
* revert startupT signature change
* get rid of startupTWithDest workaround
* add rest examples for rest notification
* improve email messages formatting
* fix email send repeater location
* remove unneeded context from sendMessage
* change signatures of buildMessage functions to have same field name
* add missing authenticate call on TLS connection
* add dev user auth token to email requests
* change email verification template
* email code and tests cleanup
* replace fixed spaces with normal ones
* human-readable variables names for new comment reply notification
* rename Comment to CommentText
* add html for comment email notification
* fix comment notification html style
* fix email test
* fix notify email messages rendering
* fix comments on rest examples for email
* explicitly state email notify email template fields
* clarify email API documentation
* change email test not to check quoted-printable part of message
* Fix link color, add unsubscribe link
* fix rest examples tokens
* add UnsubscribeLink support to Email
* add unsubscribe email handler
* fix new reply notification email style
* add notify service with no destinations
* change to request for destinations
* add telegram notify and wire to main
* lint: missed err checks
* fix notify factory
* externalize timeout for notify
* fix race in notifier mock
* lint: check notify send status in tests
* lint: write warn
* lint: wrong assignment
* lint: two more writes in tests
* missing notif timeout default
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