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Show editing history on the recording page, and add an audit view - #289
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The link and unlink changes in track_mbid_change have been recorded since 2011 and shown in one place: the track page. The recording page never showed them, so to answer "who unlinked this recording, and why" you had to find the AcoustID first and look there. Now both pages show it, and there is a page listing all of it. The recording page reads history from every link to the recording, not only the ones it displays. That is the point rather than an accident: an unlink sets disabled, the page hides disabled links by default, so the edits most worth reading belong to tracks absent from the list. A test covers exactly that case. Both inline histories are capped at ten with a link to the rest. The track page's list was previously uncapped, which on a heavily moderated track pushed everything below it off the page. The new /edits page lists every change newest first, filterable by recording or by AcoustID, paginated. It is also the only place the moderator's note is shown -- on a page devoted to the edits there is room for the reason, which is the most useful part of an audit trail and was being recorded and never read. Three details worth noting. The gate is a moderator, matching the inline history, via a new require_moderator() helper. Note it is broader than it sounds: is_moderator() only asks whether the account has an mbuser, so this is "signed in via MusicBrainz" rather than a narrow privilege. This makes the /mbid/ view read the session for the first time, so it now carries Vary: Cookie like every other rendered page. That matters only for the pending work on making these pages cacheable, which will need to account for /mbid/ as it already does for /track/. Describing a change needs three clusters -- the change on ingest, the link and its track on fingerprint, the account on app -- so attach_edit_details() does three batched lookups and stitches them. That is not a style choice; there is no join available. It also replaces the hand-rolled version that was inline in the track view. track_mbid_change gains an index on created, because the unfiltered listing orders by it. Verified on a scratch database through the whole migration chain: the planner now does an index scan backward instead of sorting the table.
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the two main changes: recording-page editing history and a new audit view. Description check The description directly explains the recording-page history, the /edits audit view, filters, authorization, migration, tests, and verification results. Linked Issues check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. Out of Scope Changes check Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Review comments at @acoustid/web/views/metadata.py:
- Around line 646-648: Add TrackMBIDChange.id.desc() as a secondary ordering key
after TrackMBIDChange.created.desc() in the paginated query and the two inline
history queries, so rows with identical timestamps have a stable newest-first
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Add id as a tie-breaker to the newest-first sort before using OFFSET pagination.
created is not unique. Its server default is current_timestamp. In PostgreSQL that value is the transaction start time, so every row inserted in one transaction gets the same created. The test test_inline_history_is_capped_and_offers_the_rest inserts its fillers that way.
When rows share a created value, PostgreSQL can return them in any order. With OFFSET/LIMIT, consecutive pages can then repeat some edits and skip others. On an audit trail, that is the wrong failure. The inline queries at Line 166 and Line 529 have the same problem, so the 10 rows shown can change between reloads.
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--- "a/acoustid/web/views/metadata.py"
+++ "b/acoustid/web/views/metadata.py"
@@ -643,9 +643,9 @@
edits: list[Any] = []
has_more = False
if track_mbid_ids is None or track_mbid_ids:
changes = db.session.query(TrackMBIDChange).order_by(
- TrackMBIDChange.created.desc()
+ TrackMBIDChange.created.desc(), TrackMBIDChange.id.desc()
)
if track_mbid_ids is not None:
changes = changes.filter(TrackMBIDChange.track_mbid_id.in_(track_mbid_ids))
# One more than the page, so "is there a next page" needs no count().Apply the same TrackMBIDChange.id.desc() secondary key at Line 166 and Line 529. If the plan needs it, change the index to ("created", "id") while the migration is still unreleased. PG 13+ can also use incremental sort on the single-column index.
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| changes = db.session.query(TrackMBIDChange).order_by( | |
| TrackMBIDChange.created.desc() | |
| ) | |
| changes = db.session.query(TrackMBIDChange).order_by( | |
| TrackMBIDChange.created.desc(), TrackMBIDChange.id.desc() | |
| ) |
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Review comment at @acoustid/web/views/metadata.py around lines 646 - 648:
Add TrackMBIDChange.id.desc() as a secondary ordering key after
TrackMBIDChange.created.desc() in the paginated query and the two inline history
queries, so rows with identical timestamps have a stable newest-first order
before OFFSET/LIMIT pagination.
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Adds the editing history to the recording page, and a
/editsaudit view listing all of it with filters.The link/unlink changes in
track_mbid_changehave been recorded since 2011 and displayed in exactly one place — the track page. The recording page never showed them, so answering "who unlinked this recording, and why" meant finding an AcoustID first and looking there. The moderator's note was being recorded and never shown anywhere at all.The recording page
A moderator-only section, matching the track page. It reads history from every link to the recording, not just the ones displayed — that is the point rather than an oversight. An unlink sets
disabled, and the page hides disabled links by default, so the edits most worth reading belong to tracks that are absent from the list. There is a test for precisely that case: a disabled link whose AcoustID appears in the history and nowhere else on the page.Both inline histories are now capped at ten with a link to the rest. The track page's list was previously uncapped, which on a heavily moderated track pushed everything below it off the page.
The audit view
/edits, newest first, paginated, filterable by?mbid=or?acoustid=, and the only place the note is shown — on a page devoted to the edits there is room for the reason. Pagination fetches one row more than it shows, so "is there a next page" needs nocount().Both filters resolve to a set of
track_mbidrows, because that is what a change points at. A malformed identifier is a 404, and so is a well-formed AcoustID that does not exist — otherwise a typo would silently return an unfiltered listing of every edit on the site, which looks like a working filter.Three things to flag
The gate is broader than "moderator" suggests.
is_moderator()only asks whether the account has anmbuser, so this is "signed in via MusicBrainz" rather than a narrow privilege. I kept it because it is the gate the inline history already uses and consistency matters more here than tightening something as a side effect — but it is worth knowing what it actually means, and the newrequire_moderator()helper says so in its docstring.This makes
/mbid/read the session for the first time, so it now carriesVary: Cookielike every other rendered page. That is the trade chosen deliberately: it matters only for the pending work on making these pages cacheable, which will now need to account for/mbid/as it already does for/track/. Worth remembering when that work happens, since/mbid/pages are the heaviest on the site.Describing one change needs three clusters — the change on ingest, the link and its track on fingerprint, the account on app. So
attach_edit_details()does three batched lookups and stitches them, which is not a style choice; there is no join available. It replaces the hand-rolled version that was inline in the track view, so both pages and the audit view share one implementation. A deleted account resolves to(deleted account)rather than taking the page down —account_idcarries no foreign key, because it points at a cluster the ingest one cannot reference.Verification
14 new tests, each mutation-tested by breaking the behaviour it covers and confirming it fails:
/mbid/, on/edits, and insiderequire_moderatormbidfilter, ignoring theacoustidfilterOne of those was informative: my first attempt mutated
.limit(MAX_INLINE_EDITS + 1)and the test still passed, because the limit is only an efficiency measure — the actual cap is the slice that follows it. Mutating the slice does fail the test. Worth saying because the limit looks like the cap.track_mbid_changegains an index oncreated, since the unfiltered listing orders by it and the existing index only coverstrack_mbid_id. Verified through the whole migration chain against scratch databases — one per engine, because alembic shares a singlealembic_versiontable and pointing all three at one database silently stops after the first. The planner now doesIndex Scan Backward using track_mbid_change_idx_createdinstead of sorting the table.Full suite 420 passed, 1 skipped. Lint clean.