fix(matrix): advance the transaction ID between events within a notification - #91
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMatrix transaction handling now advances after each successful v3 message event. UUID-based transactions receive a new UUID per event, while counter-based transactions continue incrementing. Tests cover multi-room and attachment notifications. ChangesMatrix transaction IDs
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In `@internal/notify/matrix_transaction_test.go`:
- Around line 54-87: The tests currently inspect only Go request specs and
discard non-message requests, so they do not provide Python Apprise parity
coverage. Update the relevant tests around sendTransactionIDs and the Go Send
calls to run equivalent installed Python Apprise and Go Send operations against
a local capture server, then compare their complete captured request sequences,
including attachment uploads; retain assertUniqueTransactionIDs as a Go-specific
uniqueness check.
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internal/notify/matrix.gointernal/notify/matrix_e2ee.gointernal/notify/matrix_transaction_test.go
| // sendTransactionIDs returns the transaction id of every m.room.message send | ||
| // issued by one notification, in order. | ||
| func sendTransactionIDs(t *testing.T, specs []notify.RequestSpec) []string { | ||
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| const marker = "/send/m.room.message/" | ||
| ids := []string{} | ||
| for _, spec := range specs { | ||
| if idx := strings.Index(spec.URL, marker); idx >= 0 { | ||
| ids = append(ids, spec.URL[idx+len(marker):]) | ||
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| // assertUniqueTransactionIDs fails when a notification reuses an id, naming | ||
| // the collision rather than only reporting that one happened. | ||
| func assertUniqueTransactionIDs(t *testing.T, ids []string, want int) { | ||
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| t.Fatalf("expected %d m.room.message sends, got %d", want, len(ids)) | ||
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| seen := map[string]int{} | ||
| for i, id := range ids { | ||
| if first, ok := seen[id]; ok { | ||
| t.Fatalf("sends %d and %d share transaction id %q; a homeserver is "+ | ||
| "entitled to treat the later one as a retransmission and drop it", | ||
| first, i, id) | ||
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Add Python request-sequence parity coverage.
sendTransactionIDs discards non-message requests. Both tests capture Go requests only. They cannot verify installed Python Apprise behavior or compare the complete request sequence, including attachment uploads.
Run equivalent Python Apprise and Go Send calls through a local capture server. Compare their full captured request sequences. Keep the unique-ID assertions as Go-specific checks.
As per coding guidelines, **/*_test.go: Tests should compare Go behavior to the installed Python apprise using a local capture server. Request-spec parity compares full request sequences from Python and Go Send calls.
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In `@internal/notify/matrix_transaction_test.go` around lines 54 - 87, The tests
currently inspect only Go request specs and discard non-message requests, so
they do not provide Python Apprise parity coverage. Update the relevant tests
around sendTransactionIDs and the Go Send calls to run equivalent installed
Python Apprise and Go Send operations against a local capture server, then
compare their complete captured request sequences, including attachment uploads;
retain assertUniqueTransactionIDs as a Go-specific uniqueness check.
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Pull request overview
This pull request fixes Matrix transaction ID reuse within a single notification by ensuring the transaction ID advances after each successfully sent event (attachments and the trailing text message). This prevents homeservers from treating later events as retransmissions and silently deduplicating them, while also meeting the spec’s “unique across requests with the same access token” requirement.
Changes:
- Update
advanceMessageTransaction()to advance UUID-based transaction IDs (token path) between events, and reuse the helper fromsendMessage()to avoid drift. - Update the E2EE transaction advance logic to also advance UUID-based transaction IDs when the token path is in use.
- Add regression tests covering multi-room sends and attachment+text sequences to ensure per-event transaction ID uniqueness.
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| File | Description |
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| internal/notify/matrix.go | Advances Matrix v3 transaction IDs per successful event (including UUID/token path) and centralizes advancement logic via advanceMessageTransaction(). |
| internal/notify/matrix_transaction_test.go | Adds tests to assert transaction IDs are unique across events within a notification (multi-room and attachments). |
| internal/notify/matrix_e2ee.go | Ensures UUID/token-path transactions also advance for E2EE request sequences (no counter persistence needed). |
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…ication Both advance sites gated on transactionIDString == "", so the token path never advanced its id: every event in a notification reused the one generated per sendServer() call. A homeserver recognizes the repeat as a retransmission, so everything after the first event in a room is dropped silently, with a 200 each time. With attachments that costs the message body itself, since the text is sent last. Advance the string path by generating the next uuid, and route sendMessage() through advanceMessageTransaction() rather than repeating the guard inline. Fixes unraid#88 Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Max (@MaxMFC) would love if you could fix the Coderabbit suggestions, then I'm happy to merge this :) Also resolve #88 |
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The attachment case already pins a multi-event sequence against Python, but nothing covered a notification addressed to more than one room, which is the other shape this fix touches. The golden records Python advancing the transaction id from 0 to 1 across the two rooms. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks! On CodeRabbit's parity request: I added a I could not do the same for the bare access-token path, which is the one this PR actually fixes, and I'd rather flag that than quietly leave it out. Those captures fail before they compare anything useful: The missing request is |
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Really appreciate the contribution Max! |
> [!IMPORTANT] > Merging this pull request will create this release ## Fixes - advance the transaction ID between events within a notification (#91) Co-authored-by: knope-bot[bot] <152252888+knope-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Fixes #88.
Problem
#87 gave each
sendServer()call a fresh UUID, fixing the case between notifications. Within a single notification the id still never advances, because both advance sites gate ontransactionIDString == ""— always false on the token path:advanceMessageTransaction()(internal/notify/matrix.go)sendMessage()(internal/notify/matrix.go)So every event a notification emits reuses one id.
Correction to the issue
The issue reasons that transaction ids are scoped per access token and not per room. That is what the spec asks of clients, but it is not how Synapse enforces idempotency, and the difference changes which half of this is user-visible.
Synapse keys the transaction cache on a tuple of the request path, user ID and device ID (
rest/client/transactions.py#L78-L92), and the persistence-layer check is keyed{room_id, user_id, device_id, txn_id}(storage/databases/main/events_worker.py#L2282-L2299). Both carry the room — the first via the path — so:So the reported symptom is real and the fix stands, but the room-to-room case is a spec-compliance concern rather than something Synapse users observe. The spec asks clients to "generate an ID unique across requests with the same access token", so a homeserver keying on the token alone would drop those sends; this change satisfies that too.
Change
advanceMessageTransaction()advances the string path by generating the next UUID, leaving the counter path as it was.sendMessage()calls that helper instead of repeating the guard inline; the duplicated condition is what let the two paths drift apart.advanceTransaction()inmatrix_e2ee.goshort-circuited on the same condition and gets the same treatment.Divergence from upstream
Worth flagging: this is a deliberate divergence, not a parity fix.
Upstream Python has the same defect — every advance site is guarded by
if self.access_token != self.password:, never true on the token path sinceaccess_tokenis assigned frompassworda few lines earlier (base.py#L837-L839). There the guard is load-bearing:transaction_idholds auuid.UUIDon that path, anduuid.uuid4() += 1raisesTypeError, so upstream cannot drop it the way this does.I kept the
accessToken != passwordcheck on the counter path so the structure still maps onto upstream, though it is unreachable on the token path now. Happy to remove it. I can also report this upstream if useful.Parity / determinism
No golden regeneration needed.
newUUIDv4()returns the fixed placeholder underAPPRISE_FIXED_TIME, so fixtures are unchanged, and the counter path the Matrix goldens exercise behaves exactly as before.go test ./...is green.Tests
Both added to
matrix_transaction_test.goand verified to fail onmain:TestMatrixAttachmentTransactionIDsAreUnique— one room, two attachments; asserts three sends (two files, then the text) with distinct ids. This is the case that fails against a real homeserver.TestMatrixMultiRoomTransactionIDsAreUnique— two rooms; pins the stricter spec behaviour that Synapse happens not to require.The shared helper also pins the expected send count, so a regression that stops emitting events cannot pass by looking unique.
Verified against a real homeserver
Synapse, token auth. Attachments now produce three distinct events and the body arrives:
Before this change the same run delivered only the first file. Also exercised one token across 15+ sends with no dedup.
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