fix(media): align browse container resolution with media.meta and bound its batch - #1383
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ResolveSingletonContainerAliases built one ParentDir IN list for every candidate directory on a browse page, then passed every resolved media ID to GetMediaWithTitleAndSystemByIDs in a single call. A browse page size is client-supplied, so on a page of ~1000 container directories that call exceeded the 30s request budget: the whole resolution was abandoned and the page came back with every directory unpromoted after a 30 second wait. The ParentDir scan now runs in aliasCandidatesPerQuery-sized chunks, and the two shared by-ID lookups chunk at source rather than at the call site, since GetMediaWithTitleAndSystemByIDs is also reached from the media.meta batch path and GetMediaTagsByMediaDBIDs from four more callers, all with caller-sized ID lists. Each loop checks the context between chunks so a cancelled request stops rather than running the rest. Candidates and IDs are deduplicated before chunking. One IN list returns a row once however many times its key appears, but a key landing in two chunks would read its rows twice, and the alias scan appends per ParentDir: a repeated directory would look like it held twice the files and stop collapsing. Measured on MiSTer against 1000 one-cue directories: maxResults before after 100 0.83s, 100 promoted 0.80s, 100 500 1.36s, 500 promoted 1.62s, 500 999 30.1s, 0 promoted 2.61s, 999 1000 30.1s, 0 promoted 2.44s, 1000 Closes #1377
isSingletonDirectoryAliasCandidate dropped any directory whose recursive FileCount exceeded 64 before browse asked whether it collapsed. FindSingleContainerLaunchMedia, behind media.meta and media.image, and container.Index, behind the scrapers, apply no such cap, so the three disagreed about what counts as a container. A folder holding one .cue and 70 .bin tracks browsed as a plain, coverless, non-launchable directory while media.meta resolved it to the cue, the media-folder scraper attached folder-named artwork to that row, and a <folder> entry in gamelist.xml wrote metadata to it. Real containers were excluded outright: a disc folder over 64 tracks, or an .m3u set spanning enough discs. The cap was a batch-size guard, as its own comment said, sitting in front of the semantics instead of in front of the batch. Its stated fear was misplaced twice over: the batch query reads only ParentDir = <dir>/ rows, so a tree of subdirectories returns nothing and costs one index seek, and the example it named, MiSTer's _Arcade/_alternatives, holds media for a dozen systems and is already excluded by the single-system check above it. Bounding the batch is now that query's own job. Every directory holding media for the single system in scope is a candidate, and the container rule alone decides what collapses. docs/api/methods.md and docs/scraper.md already described the rule without a size limit. Verified on MiSTer against a purpose-built corpus, browse against media.meta on the same paths. 64 files promoted and 65 did not before the change; both promote after, along with the 71-file cue set and a 101-file m3u set, while an ambiguous two-cue folder and one holding media in a subdirectory stay plain directories. The promoted 71-file folder reports hasCover for the artwork the media-folder scraper wrote under its name. Removing the cap makes larger directories candidates, which costs about 0.2ms per direct row on pages that hold big flat ROM folders. On MiSTer's stock library that is browse of /media/fat/games/MegaDrive going from 82ms to 225ms over 745 rows, and /media/fat/games/NES from 179ms to 316ms over 584 rows. Closes #1378
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change chunks database lookups, resolves browse aliases per system, removes the 64-file directory cap, and promotes eligible title matches to cue or playlist launch media. Tests cover large directories, mixed systems, tag preservation, caching, migration, and error handling. ChangesMedia resolution
Cache and validation support
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR now promotes larger eligible media directories while bounding and cancelling the associated database work. It is mergeable with owner awareness that rollback may retain newer cached launch selections for an older version, and that a few promotion tests should assert the underlying lookup calls directly. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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BrowseAPI->>ResolveSingletonContainerAliases: submit candidates grouped by system
ResolveSingletonContainerAliases->>MediaDB: resolve aliases in chunks
MediaDB-->>ResolveSingletonContainerAliases: return resolved container media
TitleResolver->>MediaDB: find launch media for an eligible match
MediaDB-->>TitleResolver: return cue or m3u media
TitleResolver->>Cache: cache promoted media ID
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…mpanion pkg/database/container decides when a directory collapses to one launch target. Browse, media.meta and the scrapers all use it. launch.title did not, so the zapScript browse hands a client for a promoted disc folder launched the wrong file: @PSX/B_064 booted "B_064 (Track 001).bin" and @PSX/M_101 booted a disc image instead of its playlist. Two things caused it. Every file in such a folder shares one MediaTitle and "(Track 01)" produces no tag, so the title is ambiguous across the cue sheet and all of its tracks. Selection cannot break the tie either: SearchMediaBySlug caps at defaultSlugSearchLimit, so in a folder of 65 files the cue is often not a candidate at all. That is why a 4-file folder resolved correctly and a 64-file one did not, and why reordering or filtering the candidates cannot fix it. ResolveTitle now asks the database what the selected media's directory collapses to and promotes the result before caching it, so the cached ID is the container's target rather than the sibling the search happened to pick. The lookup is skipped unless the selected extension could accompany a cue or an m3u, so an ordinary rom costs no extra query. A tag the query asked for and the selection carried is never given up, so @PSX/Game (Disc 2) keeps the disc it named while a region both files carry still promotes. Reachable with stock launchers, not just custom ones: the ES-DE system map used by Batocera, SteamOS and Windows lists .bin ahead of .cue on amigacd32, so a two-file folder was enough to launch the track. Verified on the Batocera and MiSTer test devices. media.lookup resolves through the same path and now returns the container target too. launch.search, launch.random and cmdLaunch's exact-path branch are deliberately unchanged: they select by wildcard, by chance and by path rather than resolving a title to one of several same-titled siblings. SlugResolutionCache keeps pre-fix media IDs until its system is reindexed. It is cleared per system on reindex and MediaDB is rebuildable, so there is no migration.
resolveDirSingletonAliases elected one system for a whole page, so a single directory holding media for two systems left every other directory on that page plain. On the test device a page of five PSX disc folders promoted none of them because one folder also held a Genesis file; the same page with systems: ["PSX"] promoted all five. Directories are now grouped by their own system and resolved one system at a time, so a directory that cannot be attributed only costs itself. A filter naming several systems now resolves each of them, which previously did nothing at all and was pinned by no test. A directory spanning systems is still skipped and cannot currently be anything else: BrowseDirectoryResult.FileCount is the sum across systems while the resolver counts direct rows for one, so its nested-media test can never balance. Resolving one properly needs per-system counts out of the browse query. An unfiltered page spanning systems still resolves nothing, which is the behaviour it already had. Browsing a media root lists a directory per installed system -- 34 of them holding 2,607 rows on the test device -- and nothing in BrowseDirectoryResult tells that page apart from a genuine mixed one, so grouping it freely would replace the cheapest page in the API with a batch per installed system. Confirmed after the change: that page still issues zero resolver calls and answers in 81ms.
TestProcessCompanionEntries_HonorsPauseBetweenChildren gave the worker 2s to finish after Resume. That budget was also paying for scheduling latency, so a loaded machine failed it with the pauser behaving correctly. Reproduced on the MiSTer test device: idle it passes 20 times, but running the package with -count=3 -test.parallel=8 against eight busy loops and dd churn failed it twice, at 6.10s and 6.77s against a 2.15s budget. The property under test is that Resume unblocks the loop at all, so the budget now only has to stop a worker that never resumes from hanging the suite. The paused observation window stays as it was: a slow machine makes that assertion safer, not flakier, because it proves nothing happens. Verified under the same load that broke it -- three runs, no failures, one of them taking 8.71s, which the old budget would have failed.
The Windows job runs the whole module with -race and coverage on main pushes, and has been killed at its 15 minute timeout on six of the last twelve, which reports as a cancelled job with no test results at all. GOCACHE is set to D:\go-cache and never saved; only the module cache is persisted, and setup-go has cache: false. So every run recompiles the module from scratch, cgo plus a -race test binary per package, at GOMAXPROCS 2. In the run for 7788f1a the first test result landed seven and a half minutes in and the job was still linking when it was killed. The build cache is keyed by commit and restored by prefix, so a run starts from the nearest previous build. Cache pressure is not a concern: the repo already holds ~64GB across 59 entries, mostly 1.6GB CodeQL ones. This cannot be verified from a pull request. The full Windows job only runs on push to main; pull requests get the reduced native-pr-tests job instead.
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237-246: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winInvalidate legacy slug-resolution entries
SlugResolutionCachepersists in the database, and no migration clears or versions it. The cache-hit branch returns its storedMediaDBIDwithout callingpromoteToContainerLaunchMedia. Legacy entries can therefore launch a sibling media item after an upgrade. Add a migration or promote every validated cache hit.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@pkg/zapscript/titles/resolve.go`:
- Around line 237-246: Update the cache-hit branch in the slug resolution flow
around GetCachedSlugResolution and GetMediaByDBID so every successfully loaded
cached result is passed through promoteToContainerLaunchMedia before returning.
Preserve the cached strategy and confidence, and return the promoted media item;
alternatively, add a migration that invalidates all legacy SlugResolutionCache
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A cache hit returns without consulting the container rule, deliberately: that lookup would otherwise run on every launch of a disc image, and a flat folder of a thousand discs would pay a thousand-row scan each time. Entries written before title resolution learned to promote still name a companion file, so on upgrade a disc folder kept launching its first track until something triggered a reindex. Observed on the Batocera test device: after swapping the binary in, both test titles still launched the wrong file until the database was rebuilt. Clearing the cache once retires those entries without taxing the hot path. The table only memoises resolutions the pipeline can redo, so the next launch of each title repopulates it with a promoted ID. The collation downgrade test took one goose step and so was pinned to whichever migration happened to be last. It now steps down to the version it actually cares about.
Patch coverage was 70%, concentrated in the decisions this change actually turns on rather than in error handling. promotionLosesRequestedTag decides when a promotion would throw away something the query asked for, and each tag operator has its own notion of "satisfied" -- an OR group in particular is lost only when the promotion matches nothing in it, not when it matches a different member. That logic had no direct test; it now has a table covering AND, NOT and both OR outcomes. FindSingleContainerLaunchMediaBySystemID had none at all despite being what the whole promotion hangs on. It is now tested against a real database for the cue it should find, the system scoping that hides another system's rows, and an unresolvable system. Also covers the paths a failure takes: a promoted row that cannot be read keeps the original selection, a system whose row cannot be read costs only its own directories, and a directory that is not a container or is already the launch target skips the re-read entirely. Two gaps in the resolver's stated contract are filled as well -- an ambiguous directory of two cue sheets does not collapse, and a candidate lacking its trailing slash still matches its rows. What stays uncovered is the ErrNullSQL guards and the SQL query, scan and iteration error paths, which need fault injection against a real SQLite handle.
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In `@pkg/zapscript/titles/container_promotion_test.go`:
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Three of the promotion tests only asserted that the resolved media was unchanged. That is also what happens when promotion never runs at all, so each would have passed with the extension gate rejecting every path -- including the two whose whole point is that a .chd or .cue passes the gate and the lookup comes back empty or names the row already selected. They now assert the container lookup was called, and the unreadable-row case asserts the re-read was attempted too. Confirmed by making the gate reject everything: all three fail, where before they passed.
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pkg/database/containerexists so one rule decides when a directory of indexed media collapses to a single launch target. Browse did not use that rule as written:isSingletonDirectoryAliasCandidatedropped any directory whose recursiveFileCountexceeded 64 before the resolver was asked.FindSingleContainerLaunchMedia, behindmedia.metaandmedia.image, andcontainer.Index, behind the scrapers, apply no size limit, so the three disagreed about the same folder.docs/api/methods.mdanddocs/scraper.mdalready described the rule without a limit, so the code was the outlier and neither needed an edit.Removing the cap makes every directory on a page a candidate, which is the input that blows up #1377, so the batch is bounded first.
ResolveSingletonContainerAliasesruns itsParentDir INscan inaliasCandidatesPerQuery-sized chunks.GetMediaWithTitleAndSystemByIDsandGetMediaTagsByMediaDBIDschunk at source rather than at the call site: the first is also reached from themedia.metabatch path, the second from four more callers, all with caller-sized ID lists. Each loop checks the context between chunks so a cancelled request stops instead of running the rest.INlist returns a row once however many times its key appears, but a key landing in two chunks reads its rows twice, and the alias scan appends perParentDir— a repeated directory would look like it held twice the files and stop collapsing.isSingletonDirectoryAliasCandidateis gone. A directory qualifies onFileCount > 0, and the container rule alone decides what collapses.inScanChunks.The cap's own comment called it a batch-size guard. Its stated fear was misplaced twice over: the batch query reads only
ParentDir = <dir>/rows, so a tree of subdirectories returns nothing and costs one index seek, and the example it named — MiSTer's_Arcade/_alternatives— holds media for a dozen systems and is already excluded by the single-system check above it. The two tests that encoded the cap are retargeted rather than deleted: one now asserts the multi-system guard that genuinely protects that directory, the other that a large directory is offered to the resolver and stays plain because no alias comes back. Three unrelated browse tests held fixtures that now reach the resolver and gained alias stubs.Closes #1377
Closes #1378
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task test,task lint,task cross-lint:all.Both fixes were reproduced and confirmed on the MiSTer test device, A/B against
origin/mainwith the same corpus under both binaries.media.browseof the parent againstmedia.metaon the folder path:.cue+ 3.bin.cue+ 63.bin.cue+ 64.bin.cue+ 70.bin.m3u+ 100.chd.cue+ 68.bin64 promoting and 65 not is the cap exactly. The
media-folderscraper attachedmedia/boxart/Y_ManyBins.pngto the 71-file folder's cue, and the promoted browse entry reportshasCoverfor it — only that folder.media.browseof 1000 one-cue directories:Cost
Larger directories are now candidates, at roughly 0.2ms per direct row, spent proving directories are not containers. On the device's stock library:
/media/fat/games/MegaDrive/media/fat/games/NESThis is the price of one shared definition. A guard would buy back a tenth of a second on pages of large flat ROM folders and reintroduce the disagreement.
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