## What this is
Three orthogonal interfaces — each with one production impl — for
detecting whether an incoming tool call should join an existing process
via content-hash lineage. Groundwork for PR-I7a: nothing in this PR
calls the detector yet; the ingress/egress filter that wires it into
every controller lands separately.
Built to be modular along three axes. Swapping any of them should not
require changes elsewhere:
| Axis | Interface | V1 impl | Plausible future impl |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hash algorithm | `LineageSignatureExtractor` |
`ByteHashSignatureExtractor` (SHA-256) | `PdfMetadataSignatureExtractor`
(PDF `/ID`, content-stream hash) |
| Storage backend | `JobLineageStore` | `JpaJobLineageStore` |
`RedisJobLineageStore` |
| Matching policy | `HashLineageDetector` | `DefaultHashLineageDetector`
| strategy-driven variant (any-match-joins for multi-input — lives in
JobService) |
## Interfaces
### `LineageSignatureExtractor` — what counts as a fingerprint
```java
public interface LineageSignatureExtractor {
Set<LineageSignature> extract(Path file) throws IOException;
String name();
}
```
File-based (not stream-based) so a future PDF-aware extractor can open
the same file via jpdfium / PDFBox and pull `/ID[0]` or a content-stream
hash. Multiple extractors compose at the detector layer — Spring
auto-wires all `LineageSignatureExtractor` beans, the detector unions
their results.
Production impl: **`ByteHashSignatureExtractor`** — SHA-256 over the
file via 64 KiB-buffered `DigestInputStream`. Hardware-accelerated by
the JVM (Intel SHA-NI, ARM SHA).
### `JobLineageStore` — where signatures live
```java
public interface JobLineageStore {
void record(UUID jobId, Set<LineageSignature> signatures, ArtifactKind kind);
Optional<LineageMatch> findOpenJobForSignatures(Long userId, Set<LineageSignature> candidates, Duration window);
int pruneOlderThan(Instant cutoff);
}
```
Knows nothing about storage technology. Production impl
**`JpaJobLineageStore`** runs a single joined query against
`job_artifact_hash` ⋈ `processing_job` — status + window filtering
happen at the database. The query is bounded by `Limit.of(1)` on the hot
path so a job set sharing a popular signature doesn't materialise
unwanted rows. A future `RedisJobLineageStore` (or write-through hybrid)
is a drop-in.
### `HashLineageDetector` — the high-level API
```java
public interface HashLineageDetector {
Optional<LineageMatch> detect(Long userId, Path inputFile) throws IOException;
void record(UUID jobId, Path file, ArtifactKind kind) throws IOException;
}
```
**`DefaultHashLineageDetector`** delegates extraction to every
registered `LineageSignatureExtractor`, storage to the configured
`JobLineageStore`, and reads `payg.lineage.workflow-window` (default
`PT5M`) from config. When a single extractor throws (e.g. a future
PDF-aware extractor against a malformed PDF), the other extractors still
contribute — failures don't block the byte-hash from landing.
## Profile gating
All three `@Component` beans (`JpaJobLineageStore`,
`ByteHashSignatureExtractor`, `DefaultHashLineageDetector`) are
`@Profile("saas")` — consistent with every other `:saas` bean. Without
this guard the JPA store would fail to wire against its profile-gated
repository in non-saas profiles that pull `:saas` onto the classpath.
## Tests
Run entirely in-memory; no database required.
- **`LineageSignatureTest`** — storage-key encoding round-trips, rejects
malformed `"type:value"` keys.
- **`ByteHashSignatureExtractorTest`** — identical bytes → identical
sigs; empty file hashes to the well-known SHA-256-of-empty constant; 10
MiB file streams without OOM.
- **`DefaultHashLineageDetectorTest`** — same-user / within-window /
status=OPEN filtering, multi-signature matching (one extractor sees
`pdf-id` and matches even when bytes differ), most-recent-job-wins,
record+detect round-trip, extractor-throwing-doesn't-break-others.
**`InMemoryJobLineageStore`** (in test sources) implements the same
`JobLineageStore` interface as the JPA impl, plus a `registerJob` hook
for tests to model job state. Same contract — proves the abstraction is
portable. When the Redis impl lands it gets the same contract tests.
## What's not in this PR (deliberate)
- The tool ingress/egress filter that wires the detector into every
controller — separate, focused review.
- `JobChargeService.openProcess()` — uses the detector, part of the
charging machinery, separate PR.
- Prune scheduler that calls `pruneOlderThan` — small follow-up
alongside the `shedlock` foundational table.
- PDF-aware extractor (`PdfMetadataSignatureExtractor`) — to be added
when we measure how often byte-hash-only misses real workflows.
- Multi-input "any-match-joins" lineage policy — that's a `JobService`
decision (PR-I7), not a primitive.
## Self-review pass applied
An independent code-review on this PR caught:
- **HIGH:** Missing `@Profile("saas")` on the three `@Component` beans →
fixed.
- **MEDIUM:** `pruneOlderThan` missing `@Transactional` (its
`@Modifying` query would have thrown
`InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException`) → fixed.
- **MEDIUM:** `findOpenJobsForSignatures` fetching the whole match set
just to `get(0)` → now takes `Limit`, JPA store passes `Limit.of(1)` on
the hot path.
- **LOW:** `InMemoryJobLineageStore` used both `synchronized` methods
and `ConcurrentHashMap` → dropped the redundant `ConcurrentHashMap`.
Deferred: project-wide UTC unification (`LocalDateTime.now()`
system-zone is the established convention; flipping one file mid-stack
caused a real test failure — proper fix needs its own audit).
## Rollback
Straight `git revert`. No callers yet; deleting these classes wouldn't
break anything.
---
## Checklist
- [x] Tests pass: `ENABLE_SAAS=true ./gradlew :saas:test`
- [x] No new warnings
- [x] Self-review performed (HIGH + MEDIUM findings addressed)
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