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interactive-story/backend/tests/test_m9_backup.py
JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5 44edece67e M9: a campaign you can actually get back
A campaign could already be exported and imported. What could not survive the
trip was everything that explains it: the state events behind the authoritative
document, the prompt each turn was actually given, the passages it was shown,
the summaries that carry long-story continuity, and which take belonged to which
turn. An imported campaign could be read and could no longer say why it was what
it was — and a manual correction, the one state change no narration explains,
was indistinguishable from something the story had established.

The bundle is now `ai-dnd-adventure-v3`, and the version is the design rather
than a side effect. Everything added here could have been another optional key,
the way persona, Save Points, narrative state and imported knowledge each were.
That mechanism stops working at exactly this addition: a v2 file with no prompt
provenance is ambiguous between "written before M9" and "written by M9 from a
campaign that has none", and those are different facts about a campaign. A
version number is how a recovery file states what it was capable of recording.
v1 and v2 still import, and every seam from pre-active-head onward is tested for
the rule that an older file is never reinterpreted under a newer assumption.

Two categories became three. "Chosen travels, derived is recomputed" was enough
until stored prompts had to be decided: they are derived, and they must travel
anyway. The test that separates evidence from cache is not "could this be
recomputed" but "would a recomputation answer the same question" — a rebuilt
search index answers the same question, a rebuilt prompt says what the turn
would be told *now*, which is the opposite of what the inspector is for.

Also here: a real SQLite backup, through the online backup API rather than a
file copy, taken while the application is running and verified before it is
kept; story cards settled as compatibility-only legacy data and taken out of the
narrator's prompt, because they were the untracked path around knowledge
authority that IMPORTED-KNOWLEDGE-DESIGN §73 already forbade; and no schema
change at all, proved against a database M8's own code wrote.

Three defects, found by running the milestone's own tests rather than by reading
them. Deleting a campaign leaked its FTS index rows, and SQLite then handed the
freed ids to the next source imported into any campaign, which failed with an
integrity error that Reindex could not repair — both ends are closed, and a
database already carrying the damage now repairs itself. An imported node with
no state snapshot was being stamped with the campaign's head state, so an Undo
to turn 2 showed what the story knew at turn 20. And the snapshot relink did not
persist at all, because it mutated a dict in place on a column SQLAlchemy tracks
by assignment: it looked correct in memory and wrote the wrong ids to disk.

Carrying per-turn prompts looked like it would halve the length of campaign that
can be restored. Measured — and after compressing them inside the file —
everything M9 added costs 12% of it: the import ceiling moves from about 318
turns to about 279, against a 100-turn certification target. The dominant cost
is not M9's at all. The per-position narrative state document is 74% of a
bundle, and v2 already carried it.

Backend 1,102 passed / 14 skipped / 0 failed. Frontend 145 passed. Lint,
production build and Docker build clean. Verified across two server processes
with two data directories, and in a real browser against a real narrator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qyn3oRd4D6pi72nKBG725B
2026-09-07 01:55:45 -04:00

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"""M9: a consistent copy of the whole database, taken while it is being written.
`app/backup.py` explains why a plain file copy is not a backup. This file is the
evidence for the claim, and the shape of it matters: **every test below opens the
backup as its own database and reads what is in it.** A test that only checked a
file appeared, or that the endpoint returned 201, would pass against a `cp` — and
a `cp` is exactly what this replaces.
The load test is the one that separates the two. It writes to the source
database *while* the backup is being taken, from a second thread, and then asks
the copy for a story it can check turn by turn. A page-torn copy would show a
transcript with a hole in it, a campaign whose head points past its own story, or
a `quick_check` failure — and would show none of those on a quiet database, which
is why the quiet case is not the interesting one.
python -m pytest tests/test_m9_backup.py -v
"""
import os
import sqlite3
import tempfile
import threading
import time
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from fastapi import Depends
from fastapi.testclient import TestClient
from app import auth, backup, limits, models
from app.database import Base, SessionLocal, engine, get_db
from app.main import app
from app.routers import adventures
from fakes import ScriptedProvider, tally_of, tally_reply
@pytest.fixture()
def client(monkeypatch):
"""The app, and a campaign with enough in it to recognise afterwards."""
Base.metadata.create_all(bind=engine)
setup = SessionLocal()
user = models.User(is_guest=False, email="backup@example.com")
setup.add(user)
setup.flush()
setup.add(models.Settings(user_id=user.id, model="test-model"))
adventure = models.Adventure(user_id=user.id, title="Backed up")
setup.add(adventure)
setup.flush()
setup.add(models.Action(
adventure_id=adventure.id, type="start", text="The story opens.",
))
setup.commit()
adv_id, user_id = adventure.id, user.id
setup.close()
monkeypatch.setattr(limits, "check_row_cap", lambda *a, **k: None)
monkeypatch.setattr(adventures.turns, "OpenAICompatibleProvider", ScriptedProvider)
app.dependency_overrides[auth.get_current_user] = (
lambda db=Depends(get_db): db.get(models.User, user_id)
)
test_client = TestClient(app)
test_client.adv_id = adv_id
try:
yield test_client
finally:
app.dependency_overrides.clear()
adventures.turns._active_turns.clear()
Base.metadata.drop_all(bind=engine)
@pytest.fixture()
def elsewhere(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""Backups land under a temporary directory, not beside the real database."""
fake_db = tmp_path / "campaign.db"
fake_db.write_bytes(Path(str(engine.url.database)).read_bytes())
return fake_db
def _play(client, text, total):
ScriptedProvider.replies = [tally_reply(f"Beat {total // 10}.", total)]
response = client.post(f"/api/adventures/{client.adv_id}/actions",
json={"type": "do", "text": text})
assert response.status_code == 200, response.text[:300]
def _open(path) -> sqlite3.Connection:
"""The backup, as its own database, read-only."""
connection = sqlite3.connect(f"file:{path}?mode=ro", uri=True)
connection.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
return connection
# ------------------------------------------------------------------ the copy
def test_the_backup_is_a_database_that_passes_its_own_integrity_check(client):
for turn in range(1, 4):
_play(client, f"turn {turn}", turn * 10)
result = backup.create()
try:
assert result.integrity == "ok"
assert result.pages > 0
assert result.bytes > 0
with _open(result.path) as db:
assert db.execute("PRAGMA quick_check").fetchone()[0] == "ok"
assert db.execute("PRAGMA foreign_key_check").fetchall() == []
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_the_backup_holds_the_schema_and_every_family_of_row(client):
"""Not "the file exists": the copy is opened and asked what is in it."""
for turn in range(1, 4):
_play(client, f"turn {turn}", turn * 10)
checkpoint = client.post(f"/api/adventures/{client.adv_id}/checkpoints",
json={"name": "Here", "note": "A position."})
assert checkpoint.status_code == 201
upload = client.post(
f"/api/adventures/{client.adv_id}/knowledge",
files={"file": ("canon.md", b"# Rule\n\nThe dead do not return.\n",
"text/markdown")},
data={"classification": "canon"},
)
assert upload.status_code == 201, upload.text[:300]
result = backup.create()
try:
with _open(result.path) as db:
tables = {
row["name"] for row in
db.execute("SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table'")
}
for expected in ("adventures", "actions", "branches", "checkpoints",
"knowledge_sources", "knowledge_chunks",
"state_events", "summaries", "settings"):
assert expected in tables, f"{expected} is missing from the backup"
campaign = db.execute(
"SELECT * FROM adventures WHERE id = ?", (client.adv_id,)
).fetchone()
assert campaign["title"] == "Backed up"
# The head, which is the thing a restore has to reproduce.
assert campaign["head_depth"] >= 0
assert campaign["head_branch_id"] is not None
texts = [row["text"] for row in db.execute(
"SELECT text FROM actions WHERE adventure_id = ? ORDER BY id",
(client.adv_id,),
)]
assert "The story opens." in texts
assert any("Beat 3." in text for text in texts)
assert db.execute(
"SELECT name FROM checkpoints WHERE adventure_id = ?",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchone()["name"] == "Here"
assert db.execute(
"SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM knowledge_sources WHERE adventure_id = ?",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchone()["c"] == 1
assert db.execute(
"SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM state_events WHERE adventure_id = ?",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchone()["c"] > 0
# And the head names a turn that is actually in the copy.
assert db.execute(
"SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM actions WHERE adventure_id = ? "
"AND branch_id = ? AND depth = ?",
(client.adv_id, campaign["head_branch_id"], campaign["head_depth"]),
).fetchone()["c"] > 0
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_the_state_in_the_backup_is_the_state_the_campaign_had(client):
"""The authoritative document, read out of the copy and compared."""
for turn in range(1, 5):
_play(client, f"turn {turn}", turn * 10)
live = client.get(f"/api/adventures/{client.adv_id}/state").json()["document"]
result = backup.create()
try:
with _open(result.path) as db:
from app import compression
blob = db.execute(
"SELECT narrative_state FROM adventures WHERE id = ?",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchone()["narrative_state"]
assert tally_of(compression.unpack(blob)) == tally_of(live) == 40
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
# ------------------------------------------------------------ while it is live
def test_a_backup_taken_during_writes_is_consistent(client):
"""The claim a plain file copy cannot make.
Turns are played from a second thread throughout the copy. The backup that
comes out is a snapshot of *some* committed point — which point is not
determined, and asserting on a particular one would be asserting on a race —
so what is checked is that it is a coherent one: `quick_check` passes, no
foreign key dangles, the transcript has no gap in it, and the head names a
turn that exists.
"""
stop = threading.Event()
written: list[int] = []
failures: list[Exception] = []
def keep_writing():
turn = 0
while not stop.is_set() and turn < 40:
turn += 1
try:
_play(client, f"concurrent {turn}", turn * 10)
written.append(turn)
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - reported to the test
failures.append(exc)
return
time.sleep(0.005)
writer = threading.Thread(target=keep_writing, daemon=True)
writer.start()
# Let a few turns land, so the copy is taken over a database that is moving
# rather than one that has not started.
while len(written) < 3 and writer.is_alive():
time.sleep(0.01)
result = backup.create()
stop.set()
writer.join(timeout=30)
assert not failures, f"the writer failed: {failures[0]}"
assert written, "no turn was written during the backup"
try:
with _open(result.path) as db:
assert db.execute("PRAGMA quick_check").fetchone()[0] == "ok"
assert db.execute("PRAGMA foreign_key_check").fetchall() == []
rows = db.execute(
"SELECT depth, type FROM actions WHERE adventure_id = ? "
"AND live = 1 ORDER BY depth",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchall()
depths = [row["depth"] for row in rows]
assert depths == list(range(len(depths))), (
f"the transcript in the backup has a gap: {depths}"
)
campaign = db.execute(
"SELECT head_branch_id, head_depth FROM adventures WHERE id = ?",
(client.adv_id,),
).fetchone()
assert db.execute(
"SELECT COUNT(*) c FROM actions WHERE adventure_id = ? "
"AND branch_id = ? AND depth = ?",
(client.adv_id, campaign["head_branch_id"], campaign["head_depth"]),
).fetchone()["c"] > 0, "the head points past the story in the backup"
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_the_source_database_is_untouched_by_a_backup(client):
"""Opened read-only, so this is a guarantee rather than an observation."""
_play(client, "one", 10)
source = Path(str(engine.url.database))
before = source.read_bytes()
result = backup.create()
try:
assert source.read_bytes() == before
assert client.get(f"/api/adventures/{client.adv_id}").status_code == 200
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------- the rules
def test_an_existing_backup_is_never_overwritten(client):
"""Yesterday's backup surviving today's mistake is most of the point."""
first = backup.create()
second = backup.create()
try:
assert first.path != second.path
assert first.path.exists() and second.path.exists()
finally:
first.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
second.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_two_backups_in_the_same_second_do_not_collide(client, monkeypatch):
from datetime import datetime
fixed = datetime(2026, 9, 7, 4, 30, 0)
first = backup.create(now=fixed)
second = backup.create(now=fixed)
try:
assert first.path != second.path
assert first.path.exists() and second.path.exists()
finally:
first.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
second.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_a_failed_verification_leaves_nothing_behind(client, monkeypatch):
"""A backup nobody verified is a belief, and one that fails is not kept."""
monkeypatch.setattr(
backup, "_verify",
lambda path: (_ for _ in ()).throw(backup.BackupError("bad pages")),
)
root = backup.directory()
before = set(root.iterdir())
with pytest.raises(backup.BackupError, match="bad pages"):
backup.create()
assert set(root.iterdir()) == before, "a failed backup left a file behind"
def test_a_failed_copy_leaves_nothing_behind_and_reports_the_reason(
client, monkeypatch
):
monkeypatch.setattr(
backup, "_copy",
lambda source, working: (_ for _ in ()).throw(OSError("disk full")),
)
root = backup.directory()
before = set(root.iterdir())
with pytest.raises(backup.BackupError, match="disk full"):
backup.create()
assert set(root.iterdir()) == before
def test_a_missing_source_database_is_reported_rather_than_guessed_at(tmp_path):
with pytest.raises(backup.BackupError, match="no database"):
backup.create(tmp_path / "not-here.db")
def test_the_partial_file_is_never_left_wearing_a_backups_name(client, monkeypatch):
"""The rename is the last step, so an interrupted run is invisible."""
seen: list[Path] = []
real_copy = backup._copy
def watch(source, working):
seen.append(Path(working))
return real_copy(source, working)
monkeypatch.setattr(backup, "_copy", watch)
result = backup.create()
try:
assert seen and seen[0].name.endswith(".partial")
assert not seen[0].exists(), "the temporary file survived"
assert result.path.exists()
assert not result.path.name.endswith(".partial")
finally:
result.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
# --------------------------------------------------------------- the endpoint
def test_the_endpoint_takes_a_backup_and_says_where_it_went(client):
response = client.post("/api/backups")
assert response.status_code == 201, response.text[:300]
body = response.json()
path = Path(body["directory"]) / body["filename"]
try:
assert body["integrity"] == "ok"
assert body["bytes"] > 0
assert path.exists()
with _open(path) as db:
assert db.execute("PRAGMA quick_check").fetchone()[0] == "ok"
finally:
path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_the_endpoint_lists_what_is_there_newest_first(client):
"""Ordered by when the backup was taken, which is what its name records.
Both files here are written in the same instant, so their modification times
are indistinguishable and only the stamp in the name says which is which.
That is not a contrived case: copying a backup to another disk or restoring
one from an archive rewrites its mtime, and a list that reordered itself
afterwards would report when the file was last handled rather than when the
backup was taken.
"""
from datetime import datetime
older = backup.create(now=datetime(2026, 9, 1, 10, 0, 0))
newer = backup.create(now=datetime(2026, 9, 6, 10, 0, 0))
try:
listed = client.get("/api/backups")
assert listed.status_code == 200
rows = listed.json()["backups"]
names = [row["filename"] for row in rows]
assert names.index(newer.path.name) < names.index(older.path.name)
by_name = {row["filename"]: row["taken_at"] for row in rows}
assert by_name[newer.path.name].startswith("2026-09-06T10:00")
assert by_name[older.path.name].startswith("2026-09-01T10:00")
finally:
older.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
newer.path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_a_backup_this_build_did_not_name_still_lists(client):
"""A file in the directory whose name carries no stamp is still shown.
The modification time answers instead. The fallback exists to keep a
hand-renamed or third-party file visible rather than silently absent from
the list a reader uses to find their backups.
"""
stray = backup.directory() / f"{backup.PREFIX}-handwritten.db"
stray.write_bytes(b"SQLite format 3\x00")
try:
rows = client.get("/api/backups").json()["backups"]
listed = {row["filename"]: row for row in rows}
assert stray.name in listed
assert listed[stray.name]["taken_at"]
finally:
stray.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_the_endpoint_accepts_no_path_from_the_caller(client):
"""H08. There is no field to attempt a traversal in.
The destination is derived from the database the application already has
open and the name from the clock, so a body is not merely ignored — there is
nothing for one to name.
"""
from app.main import app as application
schema = application.openapi()["paths"]["/api/backups"]["post"]
assert "requestBody" not in schema
assert not schema.get("parameters")
# And sending one anyway changes nothing about where the file lands.
response = client.post("/api/backups", json={"path": "../../../tmp/escape.db"})
assert response.status_code == 201, response.text[:300]
body = response.json()
path = Path(body["directory"]) / body["filename"]
try:
assert path.parent == backup.directory()
assert ".." not in body["filename"]
finally:
path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def test_a_failure_is_a_clear_error_rather_than_a_silent_success(
client, monkeypatch
):
monkeypatch.setattr(
backup, "create",
lambda *a, **k: (_ for _ in ()).throw(backup.BackupError("no space left")),
)
response = client.post("/api/backups")
assert response.status_code == 500
assert "no space left" in response.json()["detail"]