fix: prevent duplicate in-app notifications on task retry - #9614
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe notification task now identifies duplicate notifications by receiver, sender, issue, and activity. It filters duplicates within the batch and against persisted notifications before bulk creation. ChangesNotification deduplication
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Retries can still create duplicate in-app notifications because the current check is not safe under concurrent processing and some notification identifiers are compared in inconsistent formats. The PR is not merge-ready until notification identity is canonicalized and uniqueness is enforced safely at the database boundary. Possibly related PRs
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In `@apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py`:
- Around line 702-724: Make persisted notification deduplication race-safe by
adding an immutable event-key field, populating it in every Notification
construction path, and creating a migration that removes existing canonical
duplicates before enforcing a uniqueness constraint on the notification
identity. Update the bulk insert in the notification task to use
ignore_conflicts=True while retaining the existing pre-query optimization, so
concurrent deliveries cannot abort before
EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create.
- Around line 190-202: Update _notification_dedup_key and the existing
persisted-key construction to canonicalize receiver_id, entity_identifier, and
issue_activity ID to the same UUID representation before tuple comparison,
preserving all other deduplication fields. Add a regression test covering a
retried mention whose string mention_id/issue_id matches UUID-valued
existing_keys and verifies no duplicate notification is inserted.
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| def _notification_dedup_key(notification): | ||
| """ | ||
| Build a key that identifies a "logically the same" notification so we can | ||
| dedupe both within a single task run and against notifications already | ||
| persisted by a prior (retried/redelivered) execution of this same task. | ||
| """ | ||
| issue_activity = (notification.data or {}).get("issue_activity", {}) or {} | ||
| return ( | ||
| notification.receiver_id, | ||
| notification.sender, | ||
| notification.entity_identifier, | ||
| issue_activity.get("id"), | ||
| ) |
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from uuid import UUID
receiver = UUID("11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111")
issue = UUID("22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222")
activity = "33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333"
# Values assigned to a new Notification before Django model-field conversion.
mention_candidate = (str(receiver), "in_app:issue_activities:mentioned", str(issue), activity)
subscriber_candidate = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:subscribed", str(issue), activity)
# Values returned by PostgreSQL/Django for UUIDField columns and JSONField data.
persisted_mention = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:mentioned", issue, activity)
persisted_subscriber = (receiver, "in_app:issue_activities:subscribed", issue, activity)
print("mention key matches persisted key:", mention_candidate == persisted_mention)
print("subscriber key matches persisted key:", subscriber_candidate == persisted_subscriber)
print("mention differing positions:", [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(mention_candidate, persisted_mention)) if a != b])
print("subscriber differing positions:", [i for i, (a, b) in enumerate(zip(subscriber_candidate, persisted_subscriber)) if a != b])
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Canonicalize UUID values before notification deduplication.
Mention notifications use string mention_id and issue_id, while existing_keys can contain UUID objects. The tuples can differ, so retries can insert duplicate notifications. Normalize receiver_id, entity_identifier, and the activity ID in both key paths. Add a regression test for a mention retry.
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In `@apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py` around lines 190 - 202, Update
_notification_dedup_key and the existing persisted-key construction to
canonicalize receiver_id, entity_identifier, and issue_activity ID to the same
UUID representation before tuple comparison, preserving all other deduplication
fields. Add a regression test covering a retried mention whose string
mention_id/issue_id matches UUID-valued existing_keys and verifies no duplicate
notification is inserted.
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| # 2. Dedupe against notifications already persisted for this issue | ||
| # (covers retries / redelivery of the same task execution). | ||
| if deduped_batch: | ||
| receiver_ids = {notification.receiver_id for notification in deduped_batch} | ||
| existing_keys = set( | ||
| Notification.objects.filter( | ||
| entity_identifier=issue_id, | ||
| receiver_id__in=receiver_ids, | ||
| ).values_list( | ||
| "receiver_id", "sender", "entity_identifier", "data__issue_activity__id" | ||
| ) | ||
| ) | ||
| final_notifications = [ | ||
| notification | ||
| for notification in deduped_batch | ||
| if _notification_dedup_key(notification) not in existing_keys | ||
| ] | ||
| else: | ||
| final_notifications = [] | ||
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| # Bulk create notifications | ||
| Notification.objects.bulk_create(bulk_notifications, batch_size=100) | ||
| if final_notifications: | ||
| Notification.objects.bulk_create(final_notifications, batch_size=100) |
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Make persisted notification deduplication race-safe.
The pre-query and Notification.objects.bulk_create are separate operations. Concurrent deliveries can both pass the query because Notification has no uniqueness constraint for this identity.
Add an immutable event-key field, populate it in every notification construction path, and add a migration with a database uniqueness constraint for the canonical notification identity. Then use bulk_create(..., ignore_conflicts=True) here and keep the pre-query as an optimization. Handle existing duplicate rows before adding the constraint. Otherwise, a uniqueness conflict can abort before EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@apps/api/plane/bgtasks/notification_task.py` around lines 702 - 724, Make
persisted notification deduplication race-safe by adding an immutable event-key
field, populating it in every Notification construction path, and creating a
migration that removes existing canonical duplicates before enforcing a
uniqueness constraint on the notification identity. Update the bulk insert in
the notification task to use ignore_conflicts=True while retaining the existing
pre-query optimization, so concurrent deliveries cannot abort before
EmailNotificationLog.objects.bulk_create.
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Description
Fixes duplicate in-app notifications being created when the notification Celery task is retried or redelivered for the same event.
The notification creation path could process the same logical notification more than once and insert duplicate
Notificationrecords.This change adds deduplication protection before bulk-creating notifications so repeated processing of the same event does not create duplicate in-app notifications.
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Not applicable. This is a backend notification-processing fix.
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Fixes #9600
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