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Part 1 of 5 stacked PRs adding GTFS-Flex support (design: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-09-24-gtfs-flex-implementation-design.md, lands in part 4). Depends on go-gtfs OneBusAway/go-gtfs#6, now merged; go.mod pins its merge commit on go-gtfs main (v1.4.1-0.20261022045510-4daa905fc5ec) until the next go-gtfs release.

Summary

  • Add the Flex tables (booking_rules, locations, location_groups, location_group_stops, flex_stop_times) and the compiled ondemand_services / ondemand_rules / ondemand_stop_services tables; windowed stop_times rows go to flex_stop_times, never stop_times, so every existing query keeps its NOT NULL times.
  • Import and compile on-demand services at feed load (gtfsdb/flex_import.go, flex_compile.go), with the pure geometry code in a new leaf package internal/geo (parsing, containment, distance, ≤256-point simplification).
  • Bump PRAGMA user_version once so a pre-Flex database reimports; add the three real Flex fixtures (Alexandria, Manistee, Charlevoix) and synthetic fixtures.

Test plan

  • go vet (cgo + purego), make test, go fmt
  • Import of all three real feeds; schema/compile unit tests; invalidation of a pre-Flex database
  • Live server exercised end to end on Manistee and Charlevoix (see part 2)

Review notes

  • trips.min_arrival_time IS NULL identifies a flex-only trip; block-scoped queries filter it (see part 3 for the /where side).
  • Pre-existing on main, not fixed here: a database created before feed_expires_at existed fails at startup because import_metadata is only CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS (no ADD COLUMN migration).

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  • New Features
    • Added support for importing GTFS-Flex data, including service areas, location groups, booking rules, and flexible pickup and drop-off times.
    • Added on-demand service information, with service rules and stop associations available for lookup.
    • Added support for polygon and multipolygon service areas, including simplified geometry for display.
    • Feeds with service areas but no regular stops can now be imported.
    • Service-area locations and group members are now included when calculating agency coverage and associating stops with agencies.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Reimporting a feed without Flex data now clears previously stored Flex and on-demand records.
    • Older imports are refreshed so Flex data can be imported correctly.

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The change adds GTFS-Flex geometry processing, database storage, validation, and import support. It compiles on-demand services and rules from feed records, adds database queries for the new data, and updates stop-agency and timed-stop handling.

Changes: GTFS-Flex and On-Demand Data

Layer / File(s) Summary
Geometry parsing and simplification
internal/geo/*, internal/utils/geometry.go
Adds GeoJSON polygon parsing, encoding, bounds calculation, and simplification. The utility package delegates its geometry functions to internal/geo.
Flex and on-demand database support
gtfsdb/models.go, gtfsdb/schema.sql, gtfsdb/query.sql, gtfsdb/query.sql.go, gtfsdb/db.go, gtfsdb/debugging.go, internal/nulls/database.go
Adds database models, tables, queries, prepared statements, and table counts for Flex and on-demand records. Stop-agency and agency-bounds queries include Flex and on-demand references. Adds nullable database value converters.
On-demand service and rule compilation
gtfsdb/flex_compile.go, gtfsdb/flex_compile_test.go
Adds CompileOnDemand to classify services, generate and deduplicate rules, and map referenced stops to services. Tests cover rule fields, precedence, calendars, and feed fixtures.
GTFS import, validation, and reimport
gtfsdb/client.go, gtfsdb/flex_import.go, gtfsdb/helpers.go, gtfsdb/validation_test.go, gtfsdb/flex_import_test.go, gtfsdb/flex_schema_test.go, gtfsdb/flex_warnings_test.go, gtfsdb/helpers_test.go, internal/flexfixtures/*, go.mod
Integrates Flex entities and compiled on-demand data into import and reimport. Validation accepts location-based records and feeds with locations but no stops. Regular stop-time and block processing uses timed records. Adds stale-import invalidation and test fixtures. Updates the go-gtfs dependency version.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StaticFeed
  participant GTFSImporter
  participant GeoJSON
  participant CompileOnDemand
  participant SQLite
  StaticFeed->>GTFSImporter: Parsed records and warnings
  GTFSImporter->>GeoJSON: Parse and simplify location geometry
  GeoJSON-->>GTFSImporter: Geometry and bounds
  GTFSImporter->>SQLite: Store Flex entities and timed stop records
  GTFSImporter->>CompileOnDemand: Compile services and rules
  CompileOnDemand-->>GTFSImporter: Services, rules, and stop-service links
  GTFSImporter->>SQLite: Store on-demand data
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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 57bca

Some Flex geometries may become invalid during simplification, so this should be corrected before merge.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 8dd87

The new import and database design has meaningful rollout and data-consistency implications. No security vulnerability was established in this review, but downstream use of the new data and some deployment conditions remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The immediate write scope is the configured GTFS feed's database and its derived indexes. The examined change adds import-time persistence, not a new HTTP write path; future readers of the new tables are outside the established exposure for this part.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Parsed feed data crosses into durable SQLite records. GeoJSON parsing rejects malformed or unsupported geometry; the importer skips locations it cannot store, and the schema constrains each windowed record to one reference type. These controls do not themselves establish that every referenced location exists.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Feed replacement and derived-data writes share a transaction, and the examined server startup waits for a successful static reload. These limit partial committed state and startup exposure, but do not establish a multi-process writer contract.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before later parts use Flex geography or booking rules to make externally visible decisions, define fail-closed handling for missing location records and verify the feed authority and intended exposure of booking fields.
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I ran nine other public Flex feeds through the import on this stack, from VBB, the Swiss national dataset, two French networks, RABA, three Trillium agencies and a demo feed. Eight of them come in fine.

The Swiss one loses all its zones though. Its stop_times.txt header has a space before location_id, so go-gtfs doesn't see that column and drops every zone row. That's about 40% of the feed's trips gone. I trimmed the header names in csv.New and the whole feed loads, so I opened OneBusAway/go-gtfs#7 for it. The space is really the feed's fault, so up to you whether go-gtfs should put up with it.

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@omlahore:

I ran nine other public Flex feeds through the import on this stack, from VBB, the Swiss national dataset, two French networks, RABA, three Trillium agencies and a demo feed. Eight of them come in fine.

The Swiss one loses all its zones though. Its stop_times.txt header has a space before location_id, so go-gtfs doesn't see that column and drops every zone row. That's about 40% of the feed's trips gone. I trimmed the header names in csv.New and the whole feed loads, so I opened OneBusAway/go-gtfs#7 for it. The space is really the feed's fault, so up to you whether go-gtfs should put up with it.

Thanks Om! I'm a big believer in the maxim of 'be liberal in what you accept and conservative with what you emit,' and fixed the Swiss bug :) https://lawsofux.com/postels-law/

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@burma-shave thanks for the detailed review! I have fixed the issues you described here, for the most part, and pointed you to the stacked PRs that fix the other issues you described. Ready for a followup review.

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@aaronbrethorst Thanks for working through the last round. The fixes all check out on my end.

Before going further on this stack, I'd like to sequence it after the streaming import (#1662 → #1677). That stack fixes the OOM on large feeds, and its parity tests would give us a cheap way to show Flex leaves fixed-route output unchanged.

The catch is go-gtfs. This PR pins go-gtfs PR #6 as a pseudo-version, and none of the tagged releases include it, v1.4.0 included. #1676 moves the import onto v1.4.0's ParseStaticStream, whose stop_times reader only resolves stop_id. A windowed record that references a location or location group won't parse there. So I think the order is:

  1. go-gtfs: rebase the Flex support onto v1.4.0, cover the stream path (EachTripStopTimes yielding windowed records with their location, group and booking rules), and tag a release.
  2. maglev: rebase this stack onto the streaming import. With trips arriving one at a time, the Flex work moves into the per-trip callback:
    • split timed and windowed records there (stop_times vs flex_stop_times)
    • feed each flex trip to the compiler (addTrip already works per trip)
    • build tripEnds from the first and last timed records, and skip flex-only trips
    • find a new home for the exactly-one-of stop/location/group check, since validation now only counts records
  3. Parity: the RABA goldens should only gain entries for the new (empty) Flex tables.

Does that order work for you, or do you see a reason to land Flex first?


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Bump go-gtfs to the gtfs-flex branch, which parses locations.geojson,
location_groups, booking_rules and the windowed stop_times columns. The
validator previously dropped every trip with a stop-less record and
hard-failed when all trips were gone, so a flex feed did not import at
all. Zero stops is now fatal only when there are also zero locations,
records must reference exactly one of stop/location/group, and timed
records still require a stop. A stop counts only when its id is
non-empty, in both checks, so a timed record with an empty stop id and
a location is still rejected as the pre-flex validator did.

Only timed records are written to stop_times and used by the block trip
and layover indexes; a trip with no timed records is skipped by both.
The bump, the validator change and these guards land together because
each one alone leaves the importer dereferencing a nil stop.

Add three real flex feeds as fixtures: Alexandria (one zone), Manistee
(zone-to-zone plus a timed route) and Charlevoix (a location group).
Add booking_rules, locations, location_groups, location_group_stops and
flex_stop_times, plus the ondemand_services/ondemand_rules/
ondemand_stop_services tables that rule compilation will fill, with the
sqlc queries the importer and the /ondemand handlers need.

Windowed stop_times records get their own table so stop_times keeps its
NOT NULL times and no /where consumer changes.

Because flex tables are only written inside StoreGtfsData, which is
skipped on an unchanged feed hash, NewClient stamps PRAGMA user_version
and rewrites import_metadata.file_hash to a sentinel once, forcing a
single reimport on upgrade.
internal/utils imports gtfsdb (filters.go, sort.go), so gtfsdb cannot
import utils, yet the GTFS-Flex importer needs bounding boxes and
display-geometry simplification for locations at import time. Move
geometry.go and its tests into internal/geo, which imports nothing from
maglev, and have utils/geometry.go re-export the same names
(CoordinateBounds and SimplifiedPolygons as type aliases) so every
existing call site keeps compiling unchanged.

Flex zones arrive as GeoJSON Polygon/MultiPolygon features. The parser
normalises both to polygons[p][ring][vertex] so containment and
simplification work on one shape, and the encoder writes display
geometry back out. Geometry with no polygons, a polygon with no rings,
or an exterior ring shorter than four positions is an error, since the
result is stored as a zone.

Douglas-Peucker runs per ring on the open ring split at the vertex
farthest from vertex 0, because standard DP degenerates on a closed
ring whose chord has zero length. The tolerance starts at 10 m and
doubles until every ring has at most 256 vertices; that bound wins over
the 10 m target because Alexandria's 4,239-point zone needs ~160 m. A
ring whose vertices all coincide collapses to a closed pair (dropped as
a hole, kept as an exterior), and the doubling is capped at 40 steps as
a backstop, since DP is not strictly monotonic in its tolerance.
Antimeridian-straddling rings are not handled.
Insert booking rules, locations (with bounding box and display
geometry), location groups and their members before trips, and every
windowed stop_times record into flex_stop_times after trips, all inside
the import transaction.

go-gtfs accepts duplicate ids and resolves references to the last one,
so keep only the last booking rule, location and group per id and drop
repeated members; otherwise the primary keys would fail the import. A
location with no storable geometry is skipped with a warning instead of
failing the whole feed.

Also log each parser warning with its kind, file and row, capped at 200
lines with a summary, so a skipped flex record is visible in the log
rather than hidden behind the existing warning count.
The skipped-location warning used the bare default logger, so it lacked
the component attribute every other importer log line carries and could
not be filtered with them. Also pin the warning cap's boundary: exactly
200 warnings log 200 lines and no truncation summary.
CompileOnDemand turns each flex-involved route into one on-demand
service and each (pickup-capable, later drop-off-capable) record pair
into an availability rule, with pickup-side fields from the pickup
record and drop-off-side fields from the drop-off record. Rules dedupe
to one row per tuple and GTFS service id; serviceKind is classified
from the records so a feed that permits no pickups still yields a
service. The single-agency fallback for routes is shared with the
route insert via soleAgencyID.

The stop agency index now also covers stops that only appear as rule
endpoints or group members, since Charlevoix's ferry stops have no
stop_times rows and search-stop reads that index with no fallback.
That branch joins stops because a group member without coordinates is
never stored and stop_agencies has a foreign key to stops.
SimplifyPolygons doubled one tolerance until the largest ring fit the
256-point bound, then applied it to every ring. In a MultiPolygon with
a large zone and a small one, the small zone's exterior could collapse
to three positions: an invalid GeoJSON ring that ParseGeoJSONPolygons
rejects, so the zone vanished from the stored display geometry.

Search the tolerance per ring instead, and report the largest one used.
SonarCloud flags a DELETE with no WHERE clause as a reliability
blocker. Emptying these tables is intended, so state it with WHERE
TRUE, as ClearStopAgencies already does.
Adding the eight flex tables pushed clearAllGTFSDataWithQueries to
21 sequential if-err branches, over SonarCloud's cognitive complexity
limit. A table of steps keeps the foreign-key order in one visible
list and wraps every error the same way.
A route was labelled zoneToZone when its trips referenced two or more
zones in total. Dial-a-ride routes often run one zone per trip:
Heartland Express (the gtfs.org single-zone example) runs New Ulm and
Brown County as separate trips, and Island Transit paratransit runs
three zones that way. Every rule is same-zone travel, yet both
compiled to zoneToZone, which clients render as travel between
zones and are told not to second-guess.

A route is now zoneToZone only when a single trip references two or
more zones, matching the wiki's pattern table.
Every pickup-capable record was paired with every later drop-off-
capable record on the types alone. The spec's reachability rule also
requires that the start/end_pickup_drop_off_window constraints do not
forbid the ride, so a pickup window of 15:00-18:00 followed by a
drop-off window of 05:00-08:00 compiled to a rule describing a ride
nobody can take.

A pair is now skipped when the drop-off side closes before the pickup
side opens. No real feed in the test corpus has such a pair.
Display simplification always kept a zone's exterior ring, but a zone
narrower than the 10 m starting tolerance (a thin corridor, a small
stop buffer, a sliver part of a MultiPolygon) was reduced to three
positions: a line with no area. That is invalid GeoJSON, which strict
client decoders reject, so the zone vanished from the map.

When a pass would collapse the exterior below four positions, the
original ring is used instead, sampled down to the 256-vertex bound
if it is larger. Holes still drop out as before.
Region bounds came only from the stops that timed stop_times serve, so
an agency whose feed has zones but no stops.txt got no coverage area:
agencies-with-coverage reported zero bounds for it, and in a mixed
deployment CheckIfOutOfBounds could never place a request inside it.

Add the stops, zone bounding boxes and location group members that an
agency's flex records reference to the bounds query.
Forcing the one-time flex reimport overwrote import_metadata.file_hash
with a sentinel. That column is also the system ETag, so until a
reimport succeeded (say the feed URL was down at startup) every
response carried 'invalidated:flex-import-v1', across restarts.

Clear file_source instead. The import skip check compares both hash
and source, so the reimport still happens, and the ETag keeps naming
the data actually being served.
timedStopTimes built a filtered copy of every trip's stop times, and
the importer calls it three times per trip: the stop_times insert and
the block trip and layover indexes. A fixed-route feed with millions
of stop_times paid for three extra full copies on every import.

Return the trip's own slice when it has no windowed record. Every
caller only reads the result.
Two allocations in the rule compiler did no useful work:

- recordsBySequence cloned and re-sorted every flex trip's records,
  but go-gtfs already sorts a trip's stop times by stop_sequence, and
  timedStopTimes relies on that same ordering.
- compileTripRules expanded every location group member into a stopIDs
  slice for each pickup/drop-off pair before addRule threw most of
  them away as repeats. With 300-stop groups shared by hundreds of
  trips, that is a ~600-element slice per pair per trip.

Use trip.StopTimes directly, and carry the two records on tripRule so
addRule expands their stops only for a rule it has not seen.
The flex importer carried its own pointer-to-nullable helpers, one of
which duplicated nulls.Float64FromPtr. Use the existing helper, and add
the generic Int64FromPtr and StringFromPtr to internal/nulls beside it,
where CONTRIBUTING puts nullable field helpers.
internal/utils re-exports geometry from internal/geo so existing utils
call sites keep compiling. The flex additions to that layer (the GeoJSON
parse/encode, bounds and simplify wrappers and their constants and
types) have no utils callers anywhere: gtfsdb uses internal/geo
directly. Remove them.
storeLocations skipped, with a warning, any location whose geometry it
could not store, but kept the trips and compiled rules that point at
it. flex_stop_times and ondemand_rules have no foreign key to
locations, so those rows were left dangling.

Neither skip reason should drop the location. go-gtfs already discards
a feature without polygons, along with the records that reference it,
so meeting one here means that guarantee broke: fail the import rather
than store dangling rows. When only the simplified display geometry
cannot be encoded, store the location without it and serve the
verbatim geometry.
Static feeds are imported as a stream, so a parsed trip carries no stop
times and CompileOnDemand, given data.Static, found no flex records. Give
it the same flex trips the flex stop-time insert reads: the copies,
with their stop times, that the stop-times pass keeps of each stored
trip with a flex record.

The compile tests parse their fixtures with gtfs.ParseStatic, which
keeps stop times in memory, since CompileOnDemand takes trips that
carry them.
The RABA parity golden lists a digest for every table. The GTFS-Flex
tables are new and RABA has no flex data, so each one is listed with
zero rows. Every existing table keeps its digest, which shows the flex
import leaves a fixed-route feed's rows unchanged.
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Performance Smoke Test Results

Status: PASSED

Metric Value
p(95) latency 1.6 ms
Error rate 0.00%
Total requests 342
Req/sec 11.2

Smoke test config: 5 VUs x 30s. Thresholds: p(95) < 300ms, error rate < 1%.

Full results uploaded as workflow artifact: k6-smoke-summary.

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