fix(challenge): reload replaced challenge packages instead of cached ESM modules (#124) - #125
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…124) loadChallengesIntoPKC() imports every installed package from the same entry URL on every reload. Node caches ESM modules by URL, so replacing a package in place -- what `challenge install` does for an already installed name -- leaves the daemon running the previously evaluated module while metadata (and the /api/challenges/reload response) reports the new version. Two red tests: - challenge-loader-module-cache.test.ts: loads v1, swaps the package directory for v2 at the same path, reloads, and asserts the active factory matches the reported version. Also asserts reloading unchanged contents does not create a new module instance. - challenge-integration.test.ts: upgrades test-challenge 1.0.0 -> 2.0.0 under a running daemon and asserts a publication exercises v2 behavior without a restart. Both fail with '1+1' instead of '3+3' against the current loader.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChallenge loading now hashes package contents and uses the hash in entry-module URLs. Changed packages are re-evaluated, unchanged packages retain cached modules, and registry entries are restored or removed as needed. CLI installation and removal reload the configured daemon. ChangesChallenge reload behavior
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR correctly reloads replaced challenge packages and reaches daemons on configured RPC URLs, but removing a challenge can still leave it callable until the daemon restarts. This bounded follow-up risk should be explicitly accepted or tracked. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CLICommand
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participant ChallengeLoader
participant ESMCache
CLICommand->>Daemon: install or remove challenge
CLICommand->>Daemon: request challenge reload
Daemon->>ChallengeLoader: load installed packages
ChallengeLoader->>ChallengeLoader: hash package contents
ChallengeLoader->>ESMCache: import entry URL with content hash
ESMCache-->>ChallengeLoader: cached or re-evaluated module
ChallengeLoader-->>Daemon: update active challenge factories
Daemon-->>CLICommand: reload response
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…ESM modules Import each challenge entry under a URL keyed on a sha256 of the package's own source (node_modules and dot-entries excluded) rather than the bare file path. Node caches ESM modules by URL and `challenge install` renames a verified build onto the same destination path, so an upgrade under an existing name re-read the new package.json for metadata but reassigned the module evaluated before the upgrade. `challenge list` and /api/challenges/reload reported the new version while the daemon kept running the old code until restarted. Keying the URL on package contents re-evaluates the entry whenever the package changes, and stays byte-identical -- so cached, so factory-identical -- when it does not, keeping repeated reloads idempotent. Only the entry module is re-evaluated: relative imports inside a package do not inherit the query, so multi-file package graphs would keep stale submodules. Challenge packages are expected to ship a bundled entry point; noted in a comment at the import site.
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In `@src/challenge-packages/challenge-utils.ts`:
- Line 325: Update the package-file traversal around the entry.name filter so
dot-prefixed files and directories containing active package entry modules are
included in the content digest, while still excluding node_modules as intended.
Ensure the resolved pkg.main entry path contributes to the digest so changed
package contents always generate a different import URL.
- Around line 331-332: Update the file-record hashing logic around hash.update
in the package hash computation to frame each file unambiguously: hash the
relative path with an explicit delimiter and hash the file contents using a
fixed-length SHA-256 digest before updating the overall hash. Preserve
deterministic ordering and ensure any package content change produces a
different import URL.
In `@test/cli/challenge-integration.test.ts`:
- Around line 355-356: Assert the boolean result of waitForCondition in the
readiness step after sub.start(), so a timeout fails the test immediately
instead of continuing. Preserve the existing 60-second timeout and polling
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… not localhost:9138 `challenge install` and `challenge remove` fired their best-effort reload at a hardcoded http://localhost:9138. A daemon started with --pkcRpcUrl therefore never learned about an install and kept serving the old challenge until it was restarted -- the same stale-code symptom as issue #124, reached through the command line instead of the module cache. Reload targets are now derived from the state files running daemons write, which record their real pkcRpcUrl. Daemons serving a different data path are skipped: their challenges dir did not change, so an install into one data path no longer pokes an unrelated daemon. When no state files exist at all (a daemon predating them) the default RPC url is still tried, preserving the old behavior. A wildcard bind (0.0.0.0 / ::) is dialed as loopback so the local-only reload endpoint accepts the request, and IPv6 literals are bracketed exactly once -- URL.hostname keeps the brackets, so re-adding them produced [[::1]]. install now prints `reloaded <name>@<version> in N running daemon(s)` when a reload lands, so an upgrade that took effect immediately is visible. Tests: unit coverage for the reload-url and data-path derivation, plus an integration test that runs `challenge install` against a daemon on a dynamic port with no explicit /api/challenges/reload call anywhere, and asserts a publication exercises the new challenge.
…ed url `challenge install` and `challenge remove` fired their best-effort reload at a hardcoded http://localhost:9138, so a daemon started with --pkcRpcUrl never learned about an install and kept serving the old challenge until it was restarted -- the same stale-code symptom as issue #124, reached through the command line instead of the module cache. Both commands now extend BaseCommand, which already declares the --pkcRpcUrl flag every community command uses, and derive the reload endpoint from it. The default is unchanged (ws://localhost:9138), so the common case behaves as before while a daemon on another port is reachable by passing the same flag the daemon was started with. A wildcard bind (0.0.0.0 / ::) is dialed as loopback so the local-only reload endpoint accepts the request, and IPv6 literals are bracketed exactly once -- URL.hostname keeps the brackets, so re-adding them produced [[::1]]. install prints `reloaded <name>@<version> in the daemon at <url>` when a reload lands, so an upgrade that took effect immediately is visible. Tests: unit coverage for the reload-url derivation, plus an integration test running `challenge install --pkcRpcUrl` against a daemon on a dynamic port with no explicit /api/challenges/reload call, asserting a publication exercises the new challenge. README regenerated for the new flag.
…ness From CodeRabbit review on #125. Both hash findings were reproducible: Dot-prefixed files and directories were excluded from the digest, but pkg.main may point into one (".dist/index.js"). That entry then never contributed to the key, so a same-version replacement -- which `challenge install` supports -- kept the old import URL and served the stale module. Verified by loading a package with main ".dist/index.js", replacing the entry, and reloading: still the old challenge text. Only node_modules is skipped now. Each file record fed the digest its path followed by raw bytes with no delimiter, making the stream ambiguous: {index.js:"A", j:"Z"} and {index.js:"AjZ"} hash identically under the old algorithm (verified), so a changed entry could reuse the previous cache key. Records are now framed as path\0sha256(contents)\0. hashChallengePackageContents is exported so the digest can be tested directly. Also assert the waitForCondition result at every call site in the challenge integration test -- it returns false on timeout rather than throwing, so a community that never published surfaced later as a confusing publish timeout instead of failing at the readiness boundary.
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409-414: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReconcile factories that are no longer loadable.
This function only replaces factories for successful imports. It never removes a factory that was loaded before but is now removed from disk or fails to import. After
challenge remove, the daemon can continue serving the removed challenge. After a broken same-name upgrade, it can serve the old factory while the reload response excludes that package.Track previously loaded challenge names for this data path, then delete registry entries that are absent from the new successful load set. Add regressions for removal and failed replacement reloads.
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In `@src/challenge-packages/challenge-utils.ts`:
- Around line 343-344: Update reloadChallengesInDaemon() to use an abort signal
with a short timeout for its fetch(reloadUrl, { method: "POST" }) request,
ensuring a stalled response is aborted and the helper returns false while
preserving the existing res.ok result for completed requests.
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In `@src/challenge-packages/challenge-utils.ts`:
- Around line 409-414: The challenge package reload flow around
hashChallengePackageContents and the PKC.default.challenges registry must
reconcile stale factories: track the names successfully loaded during the
current scan, then remove previously registered names absent from that set,
including imports that fail. Preserve successful replacement behavior and add
regression coverage for package removal and failed same-name replacement
reloads.
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…quest Second round of CodeRabbit review on #125. loadChallengesIntoPKC() only ever added to the registry, so a challenge kept serving after `challenge remove` until the daemon restarted. Names whose package is no longer installed are now handed back. PKC.challenges *is* pkc-js's own registry, so a package named after a built-in ("question") shadows it -- what the name held before we first took it over is remembered and restored, rather than deleting the key and destroying the built-in. A package that is still installed but fails to import deliberately keeps its previously loaded factory. It is excluded from the reload response either way, so the response still cannot claim a version it did not activate, but dropping a working challenge because its replacement is broken would take the community's publication flow down instead of leaving it on known-good code. Covered by a test so a future change has to be deliberate. reloadChallengesInDaemon() now bounds its request (30s, overridable). A daemon that accepts the connection but never answers previously held `challenge install` for undici's 300s default -- the regression test hit vitest's own 30s limit before this change and finishes in ~300ms after.
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Both findings from the latest review are fixed in cd12cd2. Reconcile factories that are no longer loadable — this was the gap I had flagged in the PR description as separate-issue material, but it is small enough to land here, so I did. One place I deliberately diverged from the suggestion: a package that is still installed but fails to import keeps its previously loaded factory instead of being unregistered. It is excluded from the reload response either way, so the response still cannot claim a version it did not activate — but dropping a working challenge because its replacement is broken would take the community's publication flow down entirely, rather than leaving it on known-good code that an operator can roll back. That trade is now pinned by a test so changing it has to be deliberate. Bound the reload request — done, details in the inline reply. Full suite: 42 files, 329 passed, 1 skipped. |
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Fixes the stale-module bug in #124: a challenge upgraded under an existing name kept running the old code until the daemon was restarted, while
challenge listandPOST /api/challenges/reloadboth reported the new version.Root cause
loadChallengesIntoPKC()imported every installed package from a stable entry URL:Node caches ESM modules by URL, and
challenge installrenames a verified build onto the same destination path for an already-installed name. A reload therefore re-read the newpackage.jsonfor metadata but reassigned the previously evaluated factory intoPKC.challenges[name]— version and behavior disagreed until restart.No pkc-js change was needed, as the issue predicted:
resolveChallengeFactoryByName()readspkc.settings.challenges[name] ?? pkcJsChallenges[name]on every challenge request, andPKC.challengesis that shared registry, so a running community picks up a replaced factory as soon as the registry is updated. The ESM cache was the only thing in the way.Fix
Import the entry under a URL keyed on a sha256 of the package's own source (
node_modulesand dot-entries excluded — dependencies are pinned by the install that produced the package dir, and hashing them would make every reload walk the whole dependency tree):Known constraint (documented at the import site): only the entry module is re-evaluated — relative imports inside a package do not inherit the query, so a multi-file package graph would keep stale submodules. Challenge packages are expected to ship a bundled entry point, which the maintained Bitsocial packages do. Fully hot-reloading arbitrary graphs would need a generation-specific real path (i.e. copying the package per generation), which is not worth the cost today.
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Committed before the fix (
0237f02), so the red→green transition is visible in the branch history.test/cli/challenge-loader-module-cache.test.ts(new, ~0.4s, no daemon)getLoadedFactory()is identity-stable) — this guards against a naive nonce-based fix.test/cli/challenge-integration.test.ts— the regression test described in the issuetest-challenge@1.0.0against a running daemon.test-challenge@2.0.0under the same name with different challenge text/answer, thenPOST /api/challenges/reload.Both failed with
expected '1+1' to be '3+3'before the fix (after passing the assertion that the reload response reportstest-challenge@2.0.0— exactly the disagreement in the issue) and pass after.Full suite locally: 41 files, 313 passed, 1 skipped.
Closes #124
Second fix: the reload target comes from
--pkcRpcUrlChecking whether
bitsocial challenge install <newer-version>actually updates a running daemon immediately turned up a second path to the same stale-code symptom, independent of the module cache.install.tsandremove.tsfired their best-effort reload at a hardcoded url:So a daemon started with
--pkcRpcUrl(any non-default port) never learned about an install and kept serving the old challenge until restarted.Both commands now extend
BaseCommand, which already declares the--pkcRpcUrlflag everycommunitycommand uses, and derive the reload endpoint from it — same flag, same default (ws://localhost:9138), so the common case is unchanged and a daemon on another port is reached by passing the flag it was started with.0.0.0.0/::) is dialed as loopback, since the reload endpoint's local-only variant requires a loopback peer.URL.hostnamekeeps the brackets, so naively re-adding them produced[[::1]]. A unit test caught this.installprintsreloaded <name>@<version> in the daemon at <url>when a reload lands, so an upgrade that took effect is visible.Tests
test/cli/challenge-daemon-reload-target.test.ts(new): reload-url derivation — non-default port, wildcard bind, IPv6 literal, and urls with no usable port.test/cli/challenge-integration.test.ts:challenge install --pkcRpcUrloftest-challenge@3.0.0against a daemon on a dynamic port, with no/api/challenges/reloadcall anywhere in the test — asserts the install reports the reload and that a publication exercises v3.Verified red against the hardcoded-url version and green after.
Full suite locally after both fixes: 42 files, 319 passed, 1 skipped.
Known gap, not fixed here
loadChallengesIntoPKC()only ever adds to the registry, sochallenge removestill leaves the removed factory registered until the daemon restarts. Un-registering safely needs care —PKC.challengesis pkc-js's built-in registry, so deleting a key that shadowed a built-in (e.g. a package namedquestion) would destroy the built-in. Worth its own issue.Summary by CodeRabbit
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