perf(server): reuse generated client build outputs

[FelixTJDietrich]

Description

Move all generated GitHub, GitLab, and Outline Java clients into one Maven module so unchanged client code can be reused locally and in CI instead of being regenerated and recompiled with every application change. This removes unsafe test-skipping shortcuts, keeps normal Maven lifecycles correct, and creates a reusable boundary that default-branch runs can seed for subsequent local and hosted builds.

Refs #1527

What changed

• Added generated-clients and application modules under the server reactor. The application now compiles 2,259 handwritten sources separately from 11,942 generated transport sources.
• Enabled Maven Build Cache only for generated-client output. Cache identity includes schemas, operations, templates, generator and Maven configuration, dependencies, and the resolved Java toolchain.
• Restricted shared cache publication to trusted default-branch workflows. Pull requests can restore an exact entry but cannot publish one; mutable target/ directories are never cached.
• Removed the file-activated quick profile and the reuse-main-classes path. mvn test no longer changes behavior based on existing build output or silently skips tests.
• Added the scheduled/manual Server Phase Reference workflow. It publishes Maven Profiler JSON for generation, compilation, test compilation, and execution, and samples byte reproducibility with two clean cache-disabled builds.
• Updated GraphQL IDE paths, schema tooling, Docker/buildpack inputs, CI path filters, contributor commands, and documentation for the reactor layout.
• Removed regex mutation of generated Java and redundant generated-output directory checks. One narrow cleanup remains for two invalid Relay wrappers emitted by GraphQL Java Codegen without their required Query root model.
• Added ADR 0032 with the evaluated alternatives, measurements, security constraints, and revisit criteria.
• Updated Spring Boot to 4.0.7 and PostgreSQL JDBC to 42.7.12 for CVE-2026-40992 and CVE-2026-54291.

Performance

The compile-once workflow-artifact design was rejected after measurement: its 2m53s producer serialized the workflow and increased workflow-to-gate latency to 13m40s. The selected generated-module cache restores in 1.39–1.47s after a 24.75s clean package while preserving parallel CI fan-out.

Hosted samples: run 32897801204 before the final documentation rebase, and latest run 32902551841. Pull requests restore caches read-only, so a branch-specific generated-client key cannot be seeded until it reaches the default branch.

Required server job	Before #1527	Run 32897801204	Latest run 32902551841
Quality / App Server	Not recorded	5m03s	4m42s
Quality / API and Database	9m27s	8m15s	8m17s
Unit and Architecture	8m52s	8m45s	8m22s
Integration	9m33s	7m54s	10m11s

The issue did not record a separate pre-change App Server quality duration, so no unsupported comparison is shown. The latest cold Integration sample exceeds nine minutes, which is why this PR does not claim the latency SLO.

Limitations and follow-up

• This PR does not claim the hosted p95 acceptance criterion from Cut server verification below nine minutes by eliminating repeated work #1527. The latest sample is below nine minutes for every required server job, but the eight-run observation window is still required.
• #1528 was closed as not planned after its scope changed. #1530 retains repository-specific diagnostics; GitHub Actions remains the source for general workflow metrics.
• The remaining two-file Relay cleanup is an upstream generator compatibility workaround, not a handcrafted client implementation. Removing it currently produces an uncompilable RelayQueryResponse because the generator omits GHQuery.

How to test

1. Run the repository gates:

   pnpm run format:check
   pnpm run check
   pnpm run test:server:verification
   pnpm run test:server:integration

2. Verify a cold generated-client build:

   cd server
   ./mvnw clean package -pl generated-clients -am -DskipTests -Dmaven.build.cache.enabled=false

3. Repeat without clean or the cache-disable flag and confirm Maven restores generation and compilation from the matching build-cache entry:

   ./mvnw package -pl generated-clients -am -DskipTests

4. Run a focused application test and confirm unchanged clients are not regenerated:

   ./mvnw -f application/pom.xml test -Dtest=OpenApiOutlineOperationIdLintTest

5. Dispatch Server Phase Reference, download its artifact, and inspect the JSON phase profiles and matching generated-client SHA-256 values.

Checklist

• My changeset summary reads as an operator/user-facing note (it becomes the changelog entry) — see .changeset/README.md
• If the operator must act on this change (new required env var, manual migration step), the changeset summary says how (**Operators:** …) and MIGRATION.md is updated — no operator action is required

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Walkthrough

CI now compiles server classes once, uploads them as an artifact, and restores them in quality and test workflows. Maven skips repeated generation, cleanup, and compilation when the reuse property is enabled.

Changes

Server Class Reuse

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Maven compiled-class reuse profile server/pom.xml	Adds the reuse-main-classes profile. The profile skips code generation, stale-class cleanup, and main compilation when enabled.
Compiled server artifact production .github/workflows/cicd.yml, .changeset/proud-rooms-move.md	Adds conditional server compilation and artifact upload. Quality and Test receive the artifact name. The changeset file contains no package declaration or description.
Quality and test artifact consumption .github/workflows/ci-quality-gates.yml, .github/workflows/ci-tests.yml	Restores compiled classes for applicable jobs and enables -Dreuse.main.classes=true for Maven commands.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 13979

Because this change modifies server build configuration, its empty changeset may omit required package release metadata and disrupt repository release bookkeeping; merge is otherwise reasonable with explicit owner follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI as cicd.yml
  participant Compile as compile-server
  participant Quality as ci-quality-gates.yml
  participant Tests as ci-tests.yml
  participant Maven as Maven server build

  CI->>Compile: start conditional compilation
  Compile->>Maven: generate clients and compile server
  Compile-->>CI: upload server classes artifact
  CI->>Quality: pass artifact name
  CI->>Tests: pass artifact name
  Quality->>Quality: restore server classes
  Tests->>Tests: restore server classes
  Quality->>Maven: run checks with reuse-main-classes
  Tests->>Maven: run tests with reuse-main-classes

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes reusing generated server build outputs, which is a central part of the CI optimization. It is slightly narrower than the full change, but it remains specific and relevant.

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✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1

🛠️ Fix failing CI checks 💡

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch 1527-server-verification-hardening

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