Tighter completeness check in update action commit code

[fm3]

Summary

Guards against one possible failure mode if redis becomes unavailable during annotation saving. If redis loses some of the uncommitted update groups for a specific transaction, previously, when the transaction’s final group arrives, commit would just take everything it gets from redis and commits that. Now with this added check, this fails instead, preventing corrupt annotation state. Users get an error during saving and can reload the page and restart from the previous committed version.

Steps to test:

• Not sure how to provoke the error case 🙈 Normal annotating, including with many updates at once, which requires multi-group transactions, should still work.

Issues:

• contributes to Partial success of annotation save requests can lead to lost data #9504

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• Added changelog entry (create a $PR_NUMBER.md file in unreleased_changes or use ./tools/create-changelog-entry.py)
• Removed dev-only changes like prints and application.conf edits
• Considered common edge cases

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Annotation transaction commits now check that all preceding update-group indices exist. Missing indices produce an error instead of allowing an incomplete save. An unreleased change note documents the failure behavior.

Changes

Annotation transaction validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate complete update groups webknossos-tracingstore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/tracingstore/annotation/AnnotationTransactionService.scala, unreleased_changes/9937.md	commitWithPending validates all expected group indices before concatenation and commit. The change note documents the resulting failure behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4c6e0

Malformed update requests can trigger extremely large memory allocations in the tracing service, potentially causing request failures or service instability. Enforce safe bounds on transaction indices before merge.

Poem

A rabbit checks each group in line
No missing hops escape the sign
The save now speaks when parts are gone
And faithful commits carry on
Thump, thump—the checks are done!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: stricter completeness validation during update-action commits.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the Redis failure scenario, the new commit behavior, the protection against corrupt annotation state, testing expectations, and the related issue.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch commit-updates-check

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Inline comments:
In
`@webknossos-tracingstore/app/com/scalableminds/webknossos/tracingstore/annotation/AnnotationTransactionService.scala`:
- Around line 141-143: Validate safe upper bounds for transactionGroupCount and
transactionGroupIndex in the handleUpdateGroups flow before constructing
expectedPreviousIndices; reject requests where either field exceeds the allowed
limit, while preserving normal range construction for valid inputs.

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• unreleased_changes/9937.md
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[MichaelBuessemeyer]

Looking good, thanks for adding this assertion 🙏 😊

[MichaelBuessemeyer]

This reads like the string is always evaluated and not just in the error case. I'd move it there maybe to avoid this 🤔?