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Closes #163

Summary

In server mode, after each successful /api/where/metrics.json probe, Watchdog compares agencyIDs with the agencies in its published static snapshot. If they differ, it starts an immediate background static refresh instead of waiting for the daily refresh.

Changes

  • DiffAgencySets: symmetric set comparison (order and duplicates ignored).
  • Dedup gate on the refresh coordinator: a mismatch triggers once, a changed mismatch triggers again, convergence clears state, config changes reconcile it.
  • New agency_mismatch refresh trigger; reuses the existing campaign (atomic publish, previous snapshot kept on failure, bounded retries).
  • start() now reports whether a campaign was launched, so a mismatch blocked by an already-running campaign can retry on a later tick.
  • A failed probe never triggers a refresh; existing retirement of omitted agencies is unchanged.
  • Docs: agencyIDs described as loaded static coverage for Java OBA and Maglev.

Testing

make fmt-check, make vet, go test -race ./...

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Static agency coverage mismatches are detected during server-mode checks and can trigger an immediate refresh instead of waiting for the daily schedule. Repeated observations of the same mismatch do not start duplicate refresh campaigns.
    • Mismatch-triggered refresh campaigns are limited to three retries.
  • Bug Fixes
    • A failed coverage check no longer triggers a static refresh.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that the agency coverage metric reflects the backend’s loaded static coverage, not real-time activity.

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In server mode, successful metrics collection compares backend agency IDs with Watchdog’s local static agency IDs. A new or changed mismatch can start a static refresh campaign. The documentation describes backend agency IDs as loaded static coverage.

Changes: Agency coverage refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Compare and track agency mismatches
internal/gtfs/static_refresh.go, internal/gtfs/static_refresh_test.go
The coordinator compares agency IDs as sets and tracks mismatch signatures by server and configuration fingerprint. Tests cover directional differences, deduplication, convergence, configuration changes, and concurrent observations.
Start mismatch refresh campaigns
internal/gtfs/static_refresh.go, internal/gtfs/gtfs_service.go, internal/gtfs/static_refresh_test.go
The coordinator reports whether it launched a campaign. GtfsService starts an agency-mismatch campaign for an accepted observation when the server is configured, and clears the observation if startup does not proceed. Tests cover an already-running campaign.
Connect metrics collection to mismatch refresh
internal/app/metrics_collector.go, internal/app/metrics_collector_test.go, docs/METRICS.md
Server-scope collection passes the backend and local agency differences and a retry limit of three to GtfsService. A failed coverage probe does not trigger refresh or alter the checked state. The metrics guide describes agency IDs as loaded static coverage.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Metrics collection
  participant GtfsService
  participant Static refresh coordinator
  participant Static refresh campaign
  Metrics collection->>GtfsService: Pass agency differences and retry limit
  GtfsService->>Static refresh coordinator: Observe mismatch signature
  Static refresh coordinator-->>GtfsService: Accept new or changed mismatch
  GtfsService->>Static refresh coordinator: Start agency_mismatch campaign
  Static refresh coordinator->>Static refresh campaign: Launch campaign
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Suggested reviewers: 0xaboomar

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7eef9

A server without a published static snapshot may remain unattributed until the daily refresh. Resolve this before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 5
Check name Status Explanation
Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: refreshing static data when an agency mismatch occurs. It is concise and related to the pull request objectives.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #163 is the only directly linked, open issue. Its coding requirements are met at the reviewed head, based on the following evidence.

[Mismatch detection, server mode only] In internal/app/metri…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed Every change maps to issue #163 or supports its implementation.

- metrics_collector.go: the server-scope mismatch check and the agencyMismatchRefreshRetries constant. Both sit in the server-scope pat…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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Explanation

Issue #163 is the only directly linked, open issue. Its coding requirements are met at the reviewed head, based on the following evidence.

[Mismatch detection, server mode only] In internal/app/metrics_collector.go, collectForServerScope probes /metrics.json. The code compares reportedAgencies with the scope's static agency IDs through gtfs.DiffAgencySets, then calls GtfsService.RefreshOnAgencyMismatch. Agency mode (CollectMetricsForServer) does not call this path. A probe error returns before the diff, so a failed probe does not trigger a refresh and does not produce an empty agency set.

[Symmetric, set-based comparison] DiffAgencySets returns sorted backend-only and Watchdog-only IDs. Its test, TestDiffAgencySets, covers order and duplicate independence and both directions.

[Asynchronous, non-blocking refresh] staticRefreshCoordinator.start launches the campaign in a goroutine and returns a bool. Retirement of omitted agencies (RetireInactiveVehicleAgency) runs in the same tick, before or without waiting for the campaign.

[Deduplication and convergence] The coordinator keeps agencyMismatchState per server key, keyed by config fingerprint and signature. Tests cover lifecycle, changed signatures, and concurrent observation (TestObserveAgencyMismatchLifecycle, TestObserveAgencyMismatchConcurrent). reconcile() drops mismatch state on configuration change (TestReconcileClearsAgencyMismatchOnConfigChange). When a campaign is already active with the same fingerprint, start returns false and the mismatch is forgotten, so a later tick can retry (TestRefreshOnAgencyMismatchForgetsMismatchWhenCampaignAlreadyRunning).

[Campaign semantics] The agency_mismatch trigger reuses runStaticRefreshCampaign. That campaign already downloads all feeds as one unit, publishes only after full success, keeps the prior snapshot on failure, and applies the bounded retry policy with agencyMismatchRefreshRetries = 3.

[Documentation] docs/METRICS.md, section 3, states that Java OBA (getAgenciesWithCoverage) and Maglev (ListAgencies on the static database) report loaded static coverage, not realtime activity. It also states the refresh behavior.

[Tests] TestServerScopeFailedCoverageProbeDoesNotRefreshStatic covers probe failure and a differing successful probe.

Unresolved uncertainty: the whole-PR diff tool returned no text because changed blobs were missing. I read the head versions of metrics_collector.go and static_refresh.go. Both reads were truncated before the observe, reconcile-tail, and RefreshOnAgencyMismatch bodies. I did not read the full test bodies. The convergence and dedup conclusions rely on the test names, the PR summary, and the head code that I could read. They do not rely on direct reading of the observe function body.

Minor gap, not a coding requirement: docs/METRICS.md still contains a 'TODO (#163)' line that asks for alignment/mismatch status. The comparison now exists, but no metric exposes it. The issue does not require such a metric.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

Every change maps to issue #163 or supports its implementation.

  • metrics_collector.go: the server-scope mismatch check and the agencyMismatchRefreshRetries constant. Both sit in the server-scope path. Agency-mode code is unchanged.
  • gtfs_service.go: RefreshOnAgencyMismatch, the entry point for the mismatch trigger.
  • static_refresh.go: the agency_mismatch trigger, DiffAgencySets, the mismatch state in the coordinator, reconcile cleanup, and start() returning a bool. These implement the dedup, convergence, and config-change requirements.
  • static_refresh_test.go and metrics_collector_test.go: tests for the listed acceptance criteria.
  • docs/METRICS.md: a one-line backend-coverage semantics update. It covers the documentation criterion.

No change expands the feature into agency mode, realtime behavior, new metrics, or unrelated refactoring. The retry, cache, and publication logic that the mismatch trigger reuses was already present. This evaluation is based on the changed-file summary and the head code I could read. The diff tool did not return text, so I could not verify the full diff line by line.

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Review comments at @docs/METRICS.md:
- Line 109: Update the adjacent TODO in the backend coverage section to remove
the claim that Watchdog still needs to compare agency sets; limit it to exposing
alignment/mismatch status for the comparison, and retain the existing note about
gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba.

Review comments at @internal/app/metrics_collector.go:
- Around line 187-192: Move the empty StaticAgencies early return in the metrics
collection flow to after the agency mismatch check, so an empty initial snapshot
still completes the metrics probe and can trigger a refresh retry. Preserve the
existing empty-agency gate that skips the RT fetch and vehicle pass.

Review comments at @internal/gtfs/static_refresh.go:
- Around line 746-755: Update agencyMismatchSignature to encode both mismatch
directions and their agency IDs unambiguously, so distinct inputs cannot produce
the same signature even when IDs contain delimiter bytes. Preserve the
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Comment thread docs/METRICS.md
- `oba_tracked_agencies_info` has one series per distinct static agency ID, with the agency name, server name, and server URL.
- These gauges refresh when configuration changes and after a complete static snapshot is published. Failed refreshes preserve the prior snapshot and inventory.
- **TODO (#163):** compare this static agency set with the agency IDs reported by OBA's `metrics.json` API and expose alignment/mismatch status. Until then, `gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba` remains the separate OBA-side coverage signal.
- **Backend coverage semantics:** `agencyIDs` in `/api/where/metrics.json` is the backend's loaded static agency coverage. Java OBA builds it from `getAgenciesWithCoverage()` (agencies in the loaded transit graph) and Maglev from `ListAgencies()` on its static database; it does not reflect realtime activity. In server mode, when this set differs from Watchdog's published static snapshot, Watchdog starts an immediate static refresh campaign instead of waiting for the daily refresh.

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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set -o pipefail
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printf '%s\n' '--- implementation references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'agency_mismatch' -e 'AgencyMismatch' -e 'agencyIDs' -e 'gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba' internal cmd || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- changed source paths ---'
git diff --name-only 16d1a358038d4bf88014ecfcad44187c6a4acb23 51341e817c43931dd51b5dcaa7f34b8a165b5521

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Update the adjacent coverage TODO.

The TODO still says that Watchdog has not implemented the agency-set comparison, but the implementation and following description show that server mode now compares the sets and starts a refresh campaign on mismatch. Limit the TODO to exposing the remaining alignment or mismatch status metric.

Suggested documentation fix
-  - **TODO (#163):** compare this static agency set with the agency IDs reported by OBA's `metrics.json` API and expose alignment/mismatch status. Until then, `gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba` remains the separate OBA-side coverage signal.
+  - **TODO (#163):** expose alignment/mismatch status for the agency-set comparison. Until then, `gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba` remains the separate OBA-side coverage signal.
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Review comment at @docs/METRICS.md at line 109:
Update the adjacent TODO in the backend coverage section to remove the claim
that Watchdog still needs to compare agency sets; limit it to exposing
alignment/mismatch status for the comparison, and retain the existing note about
gtfs_static_agency_reported_by_oba.

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Comment on lines +187 to +192
localAgencyIDs := make([]string, 0, len(scope.StaticAgencies))
for _, agency := range scope.StaticAgencies {
localAgencyIDs = append(localAgencyIDs, agency.AgencyID)
}
backendOnly, localOnly := gtfs.DiffAgencySets(reportedAgencies, localAgencyIDs)
app.GtfsService.RefreshOnAgencyMismatch(ctx, server, backendOnly, localOnly, agencyMismatchRefreshRetries)

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'StaticAgencies|StaticRefreshStartup|StaticRefreshDaily|StartStaticRefresh|RefreshStatic|daily' internal/app internal/gtfs | head -125
sed -n '110,230p' internal/app/metrics_collector.go

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set -e
printf '%s\n' '--- configuration refresh caller ---'
nl -ba internal/app/config_updated.go | sed -n '1,110p'
printf '%s\n' '--- static refresh service entry points ---'
nl -ba internal/gtfs/gtfs_service.go | sed -n '90,145p'
printf '%s\n' '--- static refresh scheduler ---'
nl -ba internal/gtfs/static_refresh.go | sed -n '670,725p'
printf '%s\n' '--- static campaign call sites and scope construction ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'StaticRefreshStartup' -e 'StartStaticRefreshCampaigns' -e 'StartStaticRefresh' -e 'type ServerScope' -e 'StaticAgencies' -e 'StaticStore' cmd internal config

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rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'startDailyStaticRefreshes(' -e 'refreshGTFSBundles(' -e '24*time.Hour' -e '24 * time.Hour' -e 'StaticRefreshDaily' cmd internal/gtfs
printf '%s\n' '--- scope resolution and empty-snapshot behavior ---'
nl -ba internal/config/scoping.go | sed -n '30,115p'
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Run the mismatch check after an empty initial snapshot.

A server with no published static snapshot resolves to an empty StaticAgencies list. Startup and newly configured servers already receive an immediate static refresh campaign. However, if that campaign ends without publishing a snapshot, the early return skips the successful metrics probe and mismatch-triggered retry. The next independent campaign is the 24-hour refresh, so backend-reported agencies can remain unattributed for that interval.

Move the return below the mismatch check. Keep the existing empty-agency gate that skips the RT fetch and vehicle pass.

🐛 Suggested fix
-	if len(scope.StaticAgencies) == 0 {
-		app.Logger.Info("Server-scope entry has no static agencies yet; skipping tick", "server_name", server.ServerName)
-		return
-	}
-
 	// Honour the backoff written below on ping failure.
@@
 	backendOnly, localOnly := gtfs.DiffAgencySets(reportedAgencies, localAgencyIDs)
 	app.GtfsService.RefreshOnAgencyMismatch(ctx, server, backendOnly, localOnly, agencyMismatchRefreshRetries)
+
+	if len(scope.StaticAgencies) == 0 {
+		app.Logger.Info("Server-scope entry has no static agencies yet; skipping tick", "server_name", server.ServerName)
+		return
+	}
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Review comment at @internal/app/metrics_collector.go around lines 187 - 192:
Move the empty StaticAgencies early return in the metrics collection flow to
after the agency mismatch check, so an empty initial snapshot still completes
the metrics probe and can trigger a refresh retry. Preserve the existing
empty-agency gate that skips the RT fetch and vehicle pass.

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Comment on lines +746 to +755
// agencyMismatchSignature returns a stable identity for a mismatch, or "" when
// the sets agree. Inputs must be sorted (DiffAgencySets guarantees it). NUL
// separates IDs and \x01 separates the two directions, so no agency ID can make
// two different mismatches collide.
func agencyMismatchSignature(backendOnly, localOnly []string) string {
if len(backendOnly) == 0 && len(localOnly) == 0 {
return ""
}
return "+" + strings.Join(backendOnly, "\x00") + "\x01-" + strings.Join(localOnly, "\x00")
}

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- mismatch references ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- relevant collector blocks ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'CollectMetricsForServer' -e 'collectForServerScope' -e 'Metrics' internal/app internal/oba internal/models internal || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- agency ID validation and separator fixtures ---'
rg -n --glob '*.go' -e 'agency.?id|AgencyID|agency_id|\\x00|\\x01|separator|invalid.*agency|agency.*valid' internal cmd | head -240 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- static refresh call region ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- refresh trigger path ---'
sed -n '90,155p' internal/gtfs/gtfs_service.go
printf '%s\n' '--- metrics model and decode path ---'
sed -n '1,90p' internal/metrics/oba_rest_api_metrics.go
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'reportedAgencies' -e 'AgencyIDs' -e 'agencyIDs' internal/metrics internal/app | head -120 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- local published agency extraction ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.go' -e 'AgencyIDs(' -e 'Agencies()' -e 'agencyIDs' internal/gtfs | head -160 || true
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Use an injective mismatch encoding.

agencyMismatchSignature uses NUL and \x01- as delimiters, but probeReportedAgencies accepts agency IDs containing those bytes. For a local-only L, backend-only ["a\x00b"] and ["a", "b"] both produce +a\x00b\x01-L. A changed backend mismatch can therefore be treated as unchanged, which skips its refresh.

Suggested fix
 func agencyMismatchSignature(backendOnly, localOnly []string) string {
 	if len(backendOnly) == 0 && len(localOnly) == 0 {
 		return ""
 	}
-	return "+" + strings.Join(backendOnly, "\x00") + "\x01-" + strings.Join(localOnly, "\x00")
+	encoded, _ := json.Marshal([2][]string{backendOnly, localOnly})
+	return string(encoded)
 }

-	if agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a,b"}, nil) == agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a", "b"}, nil) {
+	if agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a\x00b"}, nil) == agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a", "b"}, nil) {
 		t.Fatal("IDs containing separators must not collide")
 	}
+	if agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a\x01-b"}, nil) == agencyMismatchSignature([]string{"a"}, []string{"b\x01-"}) {
+		t.Fatal("direction separators must not collide")
+	}
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// agencyMismatchSignature returns a stable identity for a mismatch, or "" when
// the sets agree. Inputs must be sorted (DiffAgencySets guarantees it). NUL
// separates IDs and \x01 separates the two directions, so no agency ID can make
// two different mismatches collide.
func agencyMismatchSignature(backendOnly, localOnly []string) string {
if len(backendOnly) == 0 && len(localOnly) == 0 {
return ""
}
return "+" + strings.Join(backendOnly, "\x00") + "\x01-" + strings.Join(localOnly, "\x00")
}
// agencyMismatchSignature returns a stable identity for a mismatch, or "" when
// the sets agree. Inputs must be sorted (DiffAgencySets guarantees it). NUL
// separates IDs and \x01 separates the two directions, so no agency ID can make
// two different mismatches collide.
func agencyMismatchSignature(backendOnly, localOnly []string) string {
if len(backendOnly) == 0 && len(localOnly) == 0 {
return ""
}
encoded, _ := json.Marshal([2][]string{backendOnly, localOnly})
return string(encoded)
}
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Review comment at @internal/gtfs/static_refresh.go around lines 746 - 755:
Update agencyMismatchSignature to encode both mismatch directions and their
agency IDs unambiguously, so distinct inputs cannot produce the same signature
even when IDs contain delimiter bytes. Preserve the empty-string result when
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Thanks for picking this up. The symmetric comparison, the mismatch dedup and reusing the existing campaign (atomic publish, last snapshot kept on failure) all match what #163 asked for.

Two small things before merging

  • Doc comment on StartMetricsCollection. agencyMismatchRefreshRetries is declared between the function's doc comment and the function in internal/app/metrics_collector.go, so the comment now attaches to the constant and StartMetricsCollection loses its documentation. Moving the constant above the comment (or to the top of the file) fixes it.
  • Two tests from #163's acceptance criteria are missing:
    • a failed /metrics.json probe doesn't call RefreshOnAgencyMismatch and leaves agency state unchanged;
    • when an equivalent campaign is already running, start returns false, the remembered mismatch is cleared, and a later tick triggers it again.

Where this goes next

Comparing agency sets only catches GTFS updates that add or remove an agency. Most updates keep the same agencies and change stops, trips or calendars, so Watchdog can still validate GTFS-Realtime against an older bundle than the backend serves for up to 24 hours.

OneBusAway/maglev#1846 adds staticGtfsHash to /api/v2/metadata.json: the SHA-256 of the raw static GTFS zip Maglev loaded. Watchdog already computes the same hash for every feed it downloads (staticFeedArtifact.hash), so once that PR is merged we'll switch to a more reliable check:

  1. Poll the backend's staticGtfsHash every minute.
  2. If it differs from the hash of the bundle Watchdog last downloaded, trigger a new download right away.
  3. If the hashes still don't match after downloading the latest feed, report an error: Watchdog has the newest file from its configured URL, but the backend is using different data. Either the static feed URL in Watchdog's config is wrong, or the backend is running on outdated data.

I'll open an issue for that once maglev#1846 lands. Nothing in this PR needs to change for it.

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internal/app/metrics_collector_test.go: 1

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Replace the fixed delay with a campaign-start check.

If a campaign starts after the failed probe but its worker runs more than 200 ms later, these assertions pass before the feed download or refresh-state update. That late download can also satisfy the positive-control assertion. Observe campaign scheduling synchronously, or use a controllable worker hook, so each phase checks its own campaign. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Based on learnings, a fixed delay does not synchronize with background work.

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Replace the fixed sleep in the campaign test with deterministic synchronization,
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- Around line 713-714: Replace the fixed sleep in the campaign test with
deterministic synchronization, using an observable campaign-scheduling check or
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Thanks for picking this up. The symmetric comparison, the mismatch dedup and reusing the existing campaign (atomic publish, last snapshot kept on failure) all match what #163 asked for.

Two small things before merging

  • Doc comment on StartMetricsCollection. agencyMismatchRefreshRetries is declared between the function's doc comment and the function in internal/app/metrics_collector.go, so the comment now attaches to the constant and StartMetricsCollection loses its documentation. Moving the constant above the comment (or to the top of the file) fixes it.

  • Two tests from Trigger an immediate static GTFS refresh when backend agency coverage changes #163's acceptance criteria are missing:

    • a failed /metrics.json probe doesn't call RefreshOnAgencyMismatch and leaves agency state unchanged;
    • when an equivalent campaign is already running, start returns false, the remembered mismatch is cleared, and a later tick triggers it again.

Where this goes next

Comparing agency sets only catches GTFS updates that add or remove an agency. Most updates keep the same agencies and change stops, trips or calendars, so Watchdog can still validate GTFS-Realtime against an older bundle than the backend serves for up to 24 hours.

OneBusAway/maglev#1846 adds staticGtfsHash to /api/v2/metadata.json: the SHA-256 of the raw static GTFS zip Maglev loaded. Watchdog already computes the same hash for every feed it downloads (staticFeedArtifact.hash), so once that PR is merged we'll switch to a more reliable check:

  1. Poll the backend's staticGtfsHash every minute.
  2. If it differs from the hash of the bundle Watchdog last downloaded, trigger a new download right away.
  3. If the hashes still don't match after downloading the latest feed, report an error: Watchdog has the newest file from its configured URL, but the backend is using different data. Either the static feed URL in Watchdog's config is wrong, or the backend is running on outdated data.

I'll open an issue for that once maglev#1846 lands. Nothing in this PR needs to change for it.

Hey @0xaboomar i am done here

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Thanks for this. It's a well-built feature, and you handled the review feedback carefully. What holds up:

  • DiffAgencySets treats both sides as sets.
  • The dedup gate is mutex-guarded and resets on convergence and on config change (via reconcile).
  • Forgetting the mismatch when start declines keeps a still-present mismatch from being dropped while another campaign is running.
  • A failed coverage probe never triggers a refresh, and the test has a positive control so it can't pass vacuously.

On the main this was written against, I'd have merged it as is.

The blocker is that #185 just landed, and it changes what ctx means inside collectForScope. Collection now runs under a per-cycle context (cycleCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, app.cycleTimeout()) with defer cancel() in collectOnce). This PR passes that ctx to RefreshOnAgencyMismatch, and coordinator.start derives the campaign's context from it. After a rebase, every mismatch campaign would be cancelled the moment the cycle that started it finishes, usually before the static download completes. Because the mismatch signature is already recorded at that point, the same mismatch would never trigger again. That's a real bug rather than a nitpick, and the rebase won't surface it, because it isn't in the conflict.

What I need before this can land:

  1. Rebase onto main. The textual conflict is trivial: your agencyMismatchRefreshRetries const sits next to #185's concurrency vars and cycleTimeout() in internal/app/metrics_collector.go. Keep both.
  2. Start the campaign on a long-lived context, not the cycle context. The simplest fix is context.WithoutCancel(ctx) at the call site in collectForServerScope. A context that is never cancelled would outlive shutdown, though, so I'd prefer the root context StartMetricsCollection receives, held on the Application or GtfsService the way the daily refresh gets it. Please add a test that runs collectForScope under a context that is cancelled right after it returns and asserts the campaign still completes.
  3. Small one: docs/METRICS.md:108 still carries the TODO (#163) saying to compare the static agency set with metrics.json. This PR does the comparison, so trim the TODO to what's still missing (exposing a mismatch status metric), or drop it.

I'm happy to re-review as soon as it's rebased. This should be a quick turnaround.

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Trigger an immediate static GTFS refresh when backend agency coverage changes

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