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Malformed SQL-linked cache journals could lose their original vote identity and create an extra cached reward owner during recovery. Preserve valid vote and source-row identity when batch positions are corrupt, keep those batches ineligible, and fence new staging until a complete checked SQL/JSON recovery succeeds. Healthy prepared work can continue.

Both JSON adapters retain unresolved ordinary records during unrelated updates and cleanup. Reserve raw journal keys during SQL fallback and persist delivery progress for the same owner while retaining corrupt replay evidence. Opaque ordinary rows remain preserved and fenced through save and restart.

Validate timed recovery rows before either adapter replaces loaded owners or publishes a cache rewrite. Unreadable fields and keys that cannot retain distinct integer-index owners quarantine the journal. Velocity conditional checks use its actual normalized flag coercion. Valid empty and legacy journals, ignored optional values and supported coerced flags remain usable.

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  • Focused durability and identity/rollback suites: 318 passed.
  • Full Maven tests and clean package: 2,424 passed, 1 skipped, using JDK 21.
  • Fresh independent follow-up review: No findings; actual gpt-6.1-sol with Extra High reasoning.
  • Real adapter/handler regressions include completion before reload, malformed complete journal payloads, noncanonical keys, conditional coercion, LF/CRLF, Unicode adjacent data, raw-byte and owner retention, restart and repaired completion.
  • JAR resource/class, archive integrity and duplicate-entry checks passed.
  • New regression groups reproduce data loss against earlier production candidates.

Live server/end-to-end delivery testing has not been run. Required current-head hosted checks and review feedback must be assessed after publication. Unresolved review threads remain visible; this PR must remain unmerged while acceptance is outstanding.

Artifact size: 10.14 MiB, above the advisory 10 MiB target; packaging safety checks passed.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery of cached votes across proxy types and cache lanes. Uncertain or malformed records are preserved rather than replayed or discarded, and cached-batch processing pauses until recovery is complete.
    • Prevented cache updates from overwriting unresolved recovery data. Reloads retain the previous cache state if rebuilding fails.
    • Improved handling of valid empty cache files and recovery metadata.
    • Strengthened validation of timed vote caches and cached vote identities to reduce the risk of corrupt or invalid entries affecting recovery.

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VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheDurability.java: 1

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📝 Walkthrough

The cache recovery path validates persisted journal rows, tracks unresolved SQL and journal ownership, and preserves unresolved rows during durable saves. Velocity reload also validates timed-cache sections and entries. Tests cover malformed journals, recovery fences, SQL reconstruction, and cache identity.

Changes: Vote Cache Recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Unresolved row classification and preservation
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheDurability.java, VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/{bungee/BungeeJsonVoteCache.java,velocity/VelocityJsonVoteCache.java}, VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/CachedVoteBatchDurabilityTest.java, VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/VoteCacheHandlerVoteIdTest.java
VoteCacheDurability classifies unresolved rows and carries them into candidate JSON. For matching recovery owners, candidate delivery and completion fields are retained. Bungee and Velocity durable saves preserve unresolved rows when the journal conditions are met. Tests also initialize temporary journals with valid empty JSON.
SQL and journal ownership recovery
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheHandler.java, VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/CachedVoteBatchDurabilityTest.java
MySQL recovery builds replacement cache collections from checked SQL reads and validates persisted journal structure and rows. Unresolved ownership blocks batch preparation. Recovery retains unresolved entries and delays orphan cleanup until all rows resolve. Tests cover recovery fences, reconstruction failures, and SQL identity matching.
Timed-cache journal validation
VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheDurability.java, VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/velocity/VelocityJsonVoteCache.java, VotingPlugin/src/test/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/tests/CachedVoteBatchDurabilityTest.java
Journal reads and Velocity reloads and saves validate timed-cache rows. Tests cover malformed entries, failed reloads, valid legacy rows, and batch metadata and identity cases.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant VoteCacheHandler
  participant CheckedSQLSnapshot
  participant JSONEmergencyJournal
  VoteCacheHandler->>CheckedSQLSnapshot: Read checked SQL rows
  CheckedSQLSnapshot-->>VoteCacheHandler: Return snapshot rows
  VoteCacheHandler->>JSONEmergencyJournal: Read and validate persisted journal
  JSONEmergencyJournal-->>VoteCacheHandler: Return journal entries
  JSONEmergencyJournal-->>VoteCacheHandler: Provide emergency vote rows
  VoteCacheHandler->>VoteCacheHandler: Set recovery status
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2dc99

Saves made while recovering a damaged cache journal may still discard newly written vote rows or delivery-state updates. If so, votes could be retried indefinitely or rewards could be redelivered. Resolve or confirm the open preservation concern before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2dc99

The inspected changes strengthen recovery controls and preserve uncertain vote ownership rather than creating additional reward owners. No introduced security issue was established. Live delivery, rollback and shared-file concurrency remain incompletely validated.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly affected authority is a proxy's local vote journal and its linked SQL cache lanes, covering server, player and timed-vote owners. Failures in these invariants can affect reward and forwarding progress across owners sharing that journal. The inspected changes do not establish increased transport or credential authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The Java-public cache methods are not themselves remote handlers. Velocity's inspected plugin-message ingress requires the configured channel and a ServerConnection source, then dispatches through VotingPluginProxy. Cache persistence remains a lifecycle/handler operation. The broader authorization policy for backend servers was not established by this review.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Adapter saves serialize per cache instance. Bungee reuses its cache object; Velocity allocates a replacement after task cancellation and old-runtime teardown, under the reload lock. This is counterevidence to ordinary overlapping runtime writers, but it does not prove shared-file safety across independent instances or processes.
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- Around line 124-128: Update preserveValue to restore the previous raw value
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Comment on lines +124 to +128
private static boolean preserveValue(JsonObject parent, String key, JsonElement value) {
if (value.equals(parent.get(key))) return false;
parent.add(key, value.deepCopy());
return true;
}

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preservation overwrites rows that this save intentionally wrote.

preserveValue replaces the candidate value with the previous raw value whenever the previous row is unresolved. It does not check whether the application just wrote a different value at that key. The values are compared only for equality, so a value written by the application counts the same as one the adapter normalized.

Path 1: Velocity emergency votes fail permanently.

  • Configurate drops a persisted "<key>": null row from memory, so getServerVotes(owner) and getOnlineVotes(owner) do not list that key.
  • persistServerVoteToJsonLocked and persistOnlineVoteToJsonLocked are not blocked by unresolvedSqlBatchIdentity. nextCacheIndex can choose that key for a new emergency vote. Key 0 is the simplest case.
  • In saveDurably, unresolvedRow(JsonNull) returns true. preserveValue then replaces the new vote object with null.
  • saveAndVerifyServerVote reads back null and returns false. The rollback reload() restores the same in-memory gap.
  • Every retry selects the same index and fails again. Votes for that owner accumulate in pending persistence until MAX_PENDING_PERSISTENCE_VOTES is reached.

Path 2: Bungee delivery-state updates are reverted.

  • A SQL twin can be bound to a journal row with invalid batch metadata (sqlTwin.copyCachedVoteBatch(vote) gives -1/-1).
  • updateServerVote and updateOnlineVote rewrite that key through updateServerVoteJson.
  • The row is still unresolved, so preservation restores the old bytes. The RewardDelivered change is lost on disk.
  • The call still reports success, because matches() compares only UUID, Service, Time and VoteId.

A non-object lane or owner in the previous journal has the same effect: preservation replaces every new row under it.

Restore the raw previous value only when the candidate holds the adapter-normalized form of that value. A different candidate value means the application wrote it, so keep the candidate.

Proposed direction
--- "a/VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheDurability.java"
+++ "b/VotingPlugin/src/main/java/com/bencodez/votingplugin/proxy/cache/VoteCacheDurability.java"
@@ -121,11 +121,19 @@
 				&& data.has("DelayValidated") && !data.get("DelayValidated").isJsonPrimitive();
 	}
 
-	private static boolean preserveValue(JsonObject parent, String key, JsonElement value) {
-		if (value.equals(parent.get(key))) return false;
-		parent.add(key, value.deepCopy());
-		return true;
-	}
+	/**
+	 * Restores raw recovery bytes only when the candidate still holds the adapter-normalized
+	 * form of the previous value. A different candidate value was written by this process.
+	 */
+	private static boolean preserveValue(JsonObject parent, String key, JsonElement value,
+			java.util.function.UnaryOperator<JsonElement> normalize) {
+		JsonElement current = parent.get(key);
+		if (value.equals(current)) return false;
+		JsonElement normalized = normalize.apply(value); // null when the adapter drops the value
+		if (!java.util.Objects.equals(normalized, current)) return false;
+		parent.add(key, value.deepCopy());
+		return true;
+	}
 
 	/** Enforces JSON lexical rules which older Gson non-lenient readers leave permissive. */
 	private static final class StrictJsonInput extends java.io.FilterReader {

Each adapter supplies normalize: Bungee uses the identity function, and Velocity round-trips the value through GsonConfigurationLoader. In Velocity, also include the persisted keys in nextCacheIndex, so a key held by a preserved null row is never reused.

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Update preserveValue to restore the previous raw value only when the candidate
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// readJournal already verifies the raw object. Configurate can normalize
// an object containing only null cache entries to an empty root.
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P2 Badge Keep normalized timed entries quarantined

When a Velocity votecache.json contains a null TimedVoteCache child, Configurate normalizes the document to an empty root and this change now accepts it. loadJsonEmergencyVotes consequently sees no timed key, while preserveUnresolvedCacheRows only protects VoteCache and OnlineCache, so the next routine save permanently erases the unresolved timed outbox record. Keep reload fenced for normalized-away timed entries or include TimedVoteCache in the raw validation/preservation path so Velocity retains the same recovery evidence as Bungee.

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if (document.has("TimedVoteCache")) {
var timed = document.get("TimedVoteCache");
if (!timed.isJsonObject()) throw new IOException("Invalid timed vote cache structure");

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P2 Badge Quarantine malformed timed rows on Bungee too

The new timed-row quarantine is Velocity-only. With Bungee JSON storage, a journal containing a valid timed vote alongside a null or scalar TimedVoteCache sibling is still accepted; load() skips that malformed sibling, and when the valid vote completes, rewriteJsonTimeVotesAndRemove() clears the entire timed lane and rewrites only decoded queue entries, permanently deleting the unresolved recovery record. Add equivalent Bungee validation or preserve raw timed rows during rewrites.

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