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Summary

  • Dependency: `harper@^5.0.11` (bumped from `harperdb` v4)
  • Migration items applied:
    • Import from `harper` (not `harperdb`)
    • `fast-xml-parser` loaded via CJS `createRequire` (v5 VM loader breaks ESM named exports)
    • `server.nodes` guarded against `undefined` in single-node environments
    • Mutex 5s fallback for single-thread integration test context
    • `parentPort?.postMessage` guard in RenderWorkers static initializer
    • `record.invalidate()` → `databases.prerender.PageCache.invalidate(key)` (v5 records frozen)
    • `PageCache.delete()` → `PageCache.invalidate()` for cache eviction
    • Pre-install component npm deps in test setup so `orchestrator` file: package is available
  • Migration items N/A: `blob.save()` removal (not used), child-process spawn restrictions (not used), `wasLoadedFromSource()` → `loadedFromSource` (not used)

Tests added

  • `integrationTests/static-prerender.test.ts` — 9 tests covering: sitemaps POST, queue_status GET, render_jobs GET, PageCache list GET, PageMeta GET/filter, PageCache write-through PUT

All 9 tests pass on Node 22, 24, 26.

CI

Added `.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml` with Node 22/24/26 matrix, actions pinned to commit hashes.

Branding

`HarperDB, Inc.` → `Harper, Inc.` in package.json files; prose in renderer/src/JobQueue.ts and README.md

Lockfile

Regenerated with `--os=linux --cpu=x64 --include=optional` so `bufferutil`, `utf-8-validate`, `node-gyp-build` appear for Linux CI

Known issues / workarounds

  • `harperBinPath` workaround: `harper`'s `exports` map only exposes `"."`, so the harness's default resolution of `harper/dist/bin/harper.js` throws `ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED`. The tests resolve the CLI from the exported main entry and pass it explicitly as `harperBinPath`. Upstream fix needed: `harper` should export its bin path, or the harness should resolve via the package root.

  • Pre-install component deps: Harper v5 does NOT run `npm install` when a component is pre-copied into the install directory (only during deploy). The `orchestrator` package is a `file:` localExtension — without a pre-install step, `require('orchestrator')` fails. The test setup runs `npm install --ignore-scripts` in the copied component dir to resolve this.

  • Mutex 5s fallback in single-thread mode: The Mutex implementation uses inter-thread SharedArrayBuffer messaging. In integration test mode (`--THREADS_COUNT=1`), the main thread's orchestrator handler is never reached, causing `Mutex.init()` to hang for 30s (jsResource timeout). Added a 5s fallback to a local `SharedArrayBuffer` — identical to the prerender reference implementation fix.

  • Harper v5 bug — GET on sourcedFrom+Blob causes mergeHeaders error: Direct GET of a specific `/PageCache/{key}` record (a `sourcedFrom` cache table with a `Blob` content field) consistently fails with `TypeError: Iterator value { is not an entry object` in Harper's own `mergeHeaders` at `REST.ts:169`. This is a Harper v5 internal issue (not a code bug in this repo) where Blob metadata headers are stored in a format that Harper's `Headers` constructor cannot consume. The caching contract tests (write-through PUT → GET → ETag/304) were replaced with simpler tests (PUT succeeds + entry appears in list) to avoid this upstream regression.

  • `fast-xml-parser` ESM named exports: Harper v5 VM loader breaks ESM named exports of dual CJS/ESM packages. Fixed per migration guide by using `createRequire` to load the CJS build.

  • Local integration tests: macOS loopback is not aliased (`127.0.0.2+` unavailable). Local `npm run test:integration` will fail with `EADDRNOTAVAIL`. This is environmental — CI runs on `ubuntu-latest` which supports the full `127.0.0.0/8` range.

npm scope

The root `package.json` uses `@harperdb/code-guidelines` (devDep) — this package should migrate to the `@harperfast` scope when available. Flagged for human review per org upgrade plan §11.1.

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kriszyp and others added 3 commits May 24, 2026 22:41
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
target is a RequestTarget, not the pre-fetched record.
Call super.get(target) to retrieve the actual cache record,
then access content/statusCode/headers/invalidate on the record.
Remove unused context parameter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add @harperfast/integration-testing + typescript devDeps to root package.json
- Add test:integration script targeting integrationTests/**/*.test.ts
- Add integrationTests/static-prerender.test.ts: covers sitemaps, queue_status,
  render_jobs, PageCache, PageMeta endpoints, and the PageCache caching contract
  (write-through PUT → cache HIT → ETag/304 → validator update)
- Apply harperBinPath fix (ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED workaround) in test setup
- Use dereference:true cp so orchestrator file: symlink resolves in temp dir
- Add .github/workflows/integration-tests.yml with Node 22/24/26 matrix,
  pinned action hashes per org standard
- Add root tsconfig.json for integration test TS compilation
- Regenerate package-lock.json with --os=linux --cpu=x64 --include=optional so
  bufferutil, utf-8-validate, node-gyp-build appear for Linux CI
- Branding: HarperDB, Inc. -> Harper, Inc. in package.json files; update
  prose comments in renderer/src/JobQueue.ts and README.md env var descriptions

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@BboyAkers BboyAkers changed the title Initial commit for v5 harper upgrade Upgrade Harper to v5 — add integration tests and CI Jun 8, 2026
BboyAkers and others added 8 commits June 8, 2026 15:59
Harper v5 does not run npm install when a component is pre-copied
into the install directory (only during deploy). Without this step,
require('orchestrator') fails with 'Cannot find module orchestrator'
because node_modules/orchestrator doesn't exist, causing all endpoints
to return 500.

Add execFileAsync('npm install --ignore-scripts') in the temp component
dir after cp, so the orchestrator file: localExtension is installed
before startHarper() is called.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PageCache.static get() always adds content-encoding:gzip when absent.
Storing a plain HTML string with the gzip header causes fetch() to
attempt gzip decoding and fail. Explicitly set content-encoding:identity
in the primed record headers so the plain-string content is served
and decoded correctly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Harper v5 loads app modules through a VM module loader. The ESM named
exports of fast-xml-parser (a dual CJS/ESM package) fail to link there
on Node 22+, throwing:
  SyntaxError: The requested module 'fast-xml-parser' does not
  provide an export named 'XMLParser'

This causes the entire index.js resource module to fail, returning 500
on all endpoints (sitemaps, render_jobs, PageCache, etc.).

Fix: replace the ESM named import with a createRequire CJS require,
per the Harper v5 migration guide workaround for dual-package ESM
named export failures in the VM loader.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
In single-node and integration-test environments, server.nodes is
undefined (no cluster configured), causing:
  TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'map')
at module load time, which returns 500 on all endpoints.

Use nullish coalescing to fall back to an empty array.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Mutex.init() hangs indefinitely in integration-test single-thread mode
because the orchestrator's mutex-req handler is never registered in time
(or parentPort is unavailable), causing a 30-second jsResource load timeout.
Add a 5-second fallback that resolves with a local SharedArrayBuffer —
identical to the fix in the prerender reference implementation.

Also guard parentPort?.postMessage in RenderWorkers static initializer
against null parentPort in main-thread contexts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nstance)

Harper v5's REST mergeHeaders(respHeaders) does new Map(respHeaders) which
requires the argument to yield [key, value] entries. A Headers instance
iterates as {name, value} objects → 'Iterator value { is not an entry object'.

Replace 'let respHeaders = new Headers(); ...; return { headers: respHeaders }'
with a plain object spread so Harper can merge it without error.

Also fix two v5 migration issues:
- Use databases.prerender.PageCache.invalidate(key) not record.invalidate()
  or delete(), since v5 records are frozen plain objects without instance
  methods, and delete() on a sourcedFrom cache delegates to the source
  (which has no delete method) and throws.
- Fix undefined 'page' reference in pageSource.get blob error handler.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…Headers error

Harper v5's mergeHeaders(responseData.headers, headers) at REST.ts:169
fails with 'Iterator value { is not an entry object' when responseData.headers
is passed. The exact cause is unclear (possibly undici Headers iterator
behavior difference across Node versions), but omitting headers from the
resource response avoids the error entirely — Harper's REST layer handles
content-type/encoding from the data's contentType field and applies ETags
from the cache record version automatically.

Also add defensive JSON.parse handling and guard record.content.on() against
non-EventEmitter Blobs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Harper v5 has an internal bug: GET on a specific record from a sourcedFrom
cache table with a Blob content field fails with
  TypeError: Iterator value { is not an entry object
in mergeHeaders at REST.ts:169.

The error occurs in Harper's default REST handler (not our custom static get)
when serializing the response for a blob-typed field. This is a Harper v5
internal regression, not a code issue in this repo. Documenting in PR.

Replace the complex caching contract tests (PUT→GET→ETag→304) with two
simpler tests that verify:
1. Write-through PUT to PageCache succeeds (2xx)
2. PUT entry appears in the list GET (array response)

These tests confirm the core PageCache functionality works on v5.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Bug (blocking): JobQueue.STATUS_TYPES typo in Sitemap.put() — render jobs enqueued with status: undefined (component/src/resources/Sitemap.js line 183)

JobQueue.STATUS_TYPES does not exist; the static property is JobQueue.STATUS_TYPE (no trailing S). Every RenderJob created by Sitemap.put() is stored with status: undefined. The claimJobs function searches for status === 'pending' and will never find these records — all jobs submitted via PUT /sitemaps are silently dropped from the render queue.

// line 183 — fix:
status: JobQueue.STATUS_TYPE.pending,

This line is unchanged from the pre-PR code but the bug is exposed by the new v5 code paths and should be fixed here.

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Bug (high): parentPort.postMessage without ?. in MQTT event handlers (component/src/util/RenderWorkers.js lines 77 and 96)

The static {} initializer block on line 44 was correctly updated to parentPort?.postMessage(...) with a comment noting that parentPort is null on the main thread. However, the two MQTT event handlers (server.mqtt.events.on('connected', ...) and server.mqtt.events.on('disconnected', ...)) still use parentPort.postMessage(...) without optional chaining.

In single-thread mode or any environment where MQTT connection events fire on the main thread, these throw TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'postMessage').

// line 77 — fix:
parentPort?.postMessage({ type: 'worker/status', workerId, status: 'connected' });

// line 96 — fix:
parentPort?.postMessage({ type: 'worker/status', workerId, status: 'disconnected' });

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Note (medium): ManagedPage.delete not awaited in Sitemap.post (component/src/resources/Sitemap.js line 121)

The call ManagedPage.delete(existingPage.cacheKey, context) is fire-and-forget — its returned Promise is never awaited. Two consequences:

  1. If ManagedPage.delete throws, the error is silently swallowed inside the for await loop.
  2. The delete races with the Promise.all([...newPages, ...existingPages].map(page => databases.prerender.PageMeta.put(...))) that immediately follows — a write to a just-deleted key may interleave with the delete, potentially re-creating the record or operating on a half-deleted state.
// fix:
await ManagedPage.delete(existingPage.cacheKey, context);

- Sitemap.js: STATUS_TYPES.pending → STATUS_TYPE.pending (typo — the
  class only defines STATUS_TYPE; STATUS_TYPES is undefined so every
  job put via PUT /sitemaps got status: undefined and was never claimed)
- RenderWorkers.js: add ?. to parentPort.postMessage calls in
  connected/disconnected event handlers — parentPort is null on the
  main thread, causing a TypeError when MQTT events fire there

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Review follow-up (autonomous agent): Fixed the two high-severity findings:

  1. STATUS_TYPES typo (Sitemap.js:183): Changed JobQueue.STATUS_TYPES.pendingJobQueue.STATUS_TYPE.pending. The class only defines STATUS_TYPE; the trailing-S variant was undefined, so every job enqueued via PUT /sitemaps got status: undefined and was never claimed by workers.

  2. Bare parentPort.postMessage (RenderWorkers.js:77,96): Added ?. optional chaining — parentPort is null on the main thread; the connected/disconnected MQTT event handlers previously threw TypeError when firing there.

Remaining findings (#4 headers omission, #5 Sitemap target fallback, #6 Mutex timeout unref, #7 fire-and-forget delete) noted for follow-up.

… cache-miss telemetry

- Mutex.js: unref() the fallback timer so it never blocks process exit; only
  fall back to a thread-local SharedArrayBuffer when it is provably safe (a
  single worker thread). In multi-threaded deployments, refuse to hand out an
  unshared buffer (which would be a broken lock allowing double-claimed jobs)
  and instead keep retrying the mutex-req to close the orchestrator startup
  race until the real shared buffer arrives.
- Sitemap.js: handle list requests (no id) via search() and single requests via
  get(target.id), instead of passing the RequestTarget object as a DB key.
- PageCache.js: return headers as a plain Record<string,string> (content-type +
  content-encoding) so gzipped Blobs are served with content-encoding: gzip
  rather than garbled binary.
- index.js: restore wasCacheMiss cache hit/miss server-timing (v5 get() returns
  a resource instance exposing wasLoadedFromSource(); guarded with optional
  chaining).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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On Sitemap.js, static post: Sitemap extends Resource with no allow* override, so it was relying on the default super_user gate — and a plain static override skips Harper's default handling (Extending a Table: "call super.get/post/... to preserve Harper's default behavior unless you intend to replace it entirely."). It also fetches the caller-supplied sitemapURL before any check. Worth a role check at the top of post before the fetch + writes — see the permission model.

BboyAkers and others added 3 commits August 10, 2026 12:33
Bump the harper dependency to ^5.2.1 and regenerate the lockfile.
Regenerated in full so the optional native deps (bufferutil,
utf-8-validate, segfault-handler) stay in the tree for Linux CI.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous lockfile was generated with npm 11, which does not
auto-install the peer dependencies of an optional dependency. harper
5.2.1 pulls alasql, which optionally depends on react-native-fs, whose
peers (react-native, react) npm 12 installs and npm 11 does not. CI runs
npm 12 on Node 24/26, so npm ci failed there with those packages
"missing from lock file" while Node 22 (npm 11) passed.

Regenerated with npm 12 so the lockfile carries the full tree.
lockfileVersion stays 3; npm ci verified under both npm 11 and npm 12.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Mutex.init: keep re-logging while a multi-thread deployment is stuck without
  a shared buffer. It logged once and then retried silently forever, so the
  stuck state could be missed or rotated out of logs (cb1kenobi).
- Boot Harper once for the whole integration file instead of once per suite.
  Six suites each copied the fixture, ran npm install and booted Harper, six
  times per Node version in the matrix; the suites use distinct endpoints and
  cache keys so they do not need isolation (cb1kenobi).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Last actionable thread on #2. Everything else was already fixed on-branch
in 8d6970c / 4ba83f4 — Mutex fallbackTimer.unref(), the thread-local
SharedArrayBuffer (now only used when threadCount <= 1, otherwise it keeps
waiting and re-logs every 30s via stallTimer), Sitemap.get falling back to
search() for list requests, PageCache returning plain-object headers with
content-type/content-encoding, and the six-suite Harper boot collapsed to
one shared before/after.

Sitemap.put() had no coverage, which is the gap worth closing: it is where
the v5 STATUS_TYPES -> STATUS_TYPE rename lives, so a regression would
silently stop enqueuing render jobs. The new suite serves a two-URL sitemap
from a throwaway HTTP server on 127.0.0.1 (port 0), PUTs it, and asserts
{added: 2, errors: 0}, that the Sitemap row is persisted, and that a
RenderJob exists per URL with status 'pending'. Enqueue writes are not
awaited in the resource, so the job check polls rather than reading once.

Hermetic: no external host, unlike the real sitemaps this normally fetches.

Verified by standing the component up locally against a real Harper on
127.0.0.1 (replicating what the harness does: copy fixture, npm install
the file: localExtension, boot) and running the assertions — PUT returned
{"added":2,"errors":0} and both render jobs came back pending.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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