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Fixes #446

Problem

.env.example documents INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS as the ingestion cadence, but nothing read it: DataScheduler hard-coded timedelta(hours=24) and __main__ constructed it with the default.

Change

  • DataScheduler.__init__ now takes interval: timedelta | None = None and resolves it via resolve_ingest_interval() at construction, so the value is read from the environment when the scheduler is built (after load_env()), not at import.
  • Blank/unset → 24h. Non-numeric, non-finite, zero or negative → warning + 24h. The scheduler runs unattended, so a typo in .env must not keep the catalog from ever being built.
  • An explicit interval argument still wins, so existing callers/tests that pass one are unaffected.
  • Module docstrings in data_scheduler.py and ingestion_service/__main__.py no longer claim a fixed 24h.

Verification

  • New auto_ontology/ingestion_service/tests/test_ingest_interval.py: default, positive/fractional/whitespace values, 0/-3/daily/nan/inf fall back with a warning, explicit arg wins.
  • uv run pytest auto_ontology/ingestion_service -q → 50 passed.
  • uv run ruff check / ruff format --check clean.
  • Smoke: INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS=6 → 6:00:00; INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS=bogus → 1 day plus ingest: ignoring INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS='bogus' … warning.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • The ingestion schedule can be configured with INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS, defaulting to 24 hours. Positive fractional-hour intervals are supported.
    • Unset or blank values use the default; invalid or out-of-range values produce a warning and use the default. An interval set directly in the scheduler takes precedence.
  • Documentation
    • Scheduling guidance clarifies that each interval is measured from the previous run, connections reload on each pass, and semantic compilation continues every 24 hours.

.env.example documents INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS as the ingestion cadence, but
DataScheduler hard-coded a 24h timedelta and nothing read the variable.

DataScheduler now resolves its interval at construction from
INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS, defaulting to 24h. A value that is blank, non-numeric,
non-finite, or not positive is logged and ignored rather than raised, so a
typo in .env cannot keep the catalog from ever being built. An explicit
interval argument still wins, so tests and callers that pass one are
unaffected.

Fixes NVIDIA#446
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Walkthrough

The ingestion scheduler now reads its recurring cadence from INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS, with a 24-hour default. Semantic compilation remains documented as running every 24 hours.

Changes: Ingestion interval configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve and apply the ingestion interval
auto_ontology/ingestion_service/data_scheduler.py, auto_ontology/ingestion_service/tests/test_ingest_interval.py, auto_ontology/ingestion_service/__main__.py, .env.example
resolve_ingest_interval() accepts finite positive hour values that produce a schedulable interval. Missing or blank values use the 24-hour default. Invalid or out-of-range values log a warning and use the default. DataScheduler resolves the environment setting when no interval is supplied and passes explicit intervals through. Tests cover configuration and explicit interval precedence. Documentation describes the configurable cadence and fallback behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/auto-ontology#447: Both PRs configure the DataScheduler cadence through INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS and use a 24-hour fallback.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 303fa

The default remains 24 hours, but exceptionally short configured intervals can cause sustained ingestion and log traffic.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 303fa

The normal configuration path preserves existing ingestion authority and sequential execution. However, accepted extreme intervals can undermine scheduler availability. This requires configuration control; no new request-controlled route to the setting was identified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new environment path accepts intervals that do not preserve scheduler failure containment. Microsecond intervals can expire before waiting; empty or pre-await-failure passes can then repeat without a guaranteed cooperative suspension, potentially starving the HTTP and scheduler control loop. At the opposite extreme, an interval validated against datetime.max at construction can overflow when added after the startup pass, terminating the background task; start() does not replace a completed task. The base used a safe 24-hour default for this production path. Explicitly supplied extreme intervals were already possible, and ordinary passes remain serialized, limiting this concern to newly effective configuration and runtime availability.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The configurable timer applies to the service-wide sweep of configured connections and their catalog and embedding writes, rather than one request-selected asset. Very short intervals can increase repeated source access and downstream work, although scheduled passes remain sequential.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new cadence source is the process environment, loaded before scheduler construction, or an explicit in-process constructor argument. The inspected HTTP routes do not provide a cadence-setting parameter. The evidence therefore establishes a configuration-to-worker transition, not a new request-to-privileged-operation path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Failure containment must include the shared application event loop and the scheduler task lifecycle, not only interval parsing. The retained concern is bounded by configuration access, but malformed-value fallback does not cover every accepted value that can starve or terminate scheduling.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define operational cadence bounds, guarantee a cooperative suspension between repeated passes, and validate or contain datetime addition at the scheduling point. A failed background task should have an explicit recovery policy rather than remaining permanently registered as started.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 5 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Tests For Backend Behaviour Changes Warning The PR changes ingestion scheduling behavior. It adds tests under auto_ontology/ingestion_service/tests, but not under auto_ontology/tests or dev_tools. The PR description does not explain why a… Add or update tests under auto_ontology/tests or dev_tools, or explain why a test is impractical.
Passed Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title is a concise imperative summary. It identifies the environment setting and scheduler change.
Linked Issues check Passed [#446] DataScheduler resolves INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS at construction and uses a 24-hour default when the setting is blank or invalid. The resolver accepts finite, schedulable positive values and wa…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The scheduler implementation, environment-setting documentation, module docstrings, and focused tests all support [#446]. No unrelated change is evident in the reviewed change summary.
Migration Accompanies Schema Change Passed The PR does not modify auto_ontology/dal/schema.py. The migration requirement does not apply.
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

[#446] DataScheduler resolves INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS at construction and uses a 24-hour default when the setting is blank or invalid. The resolver accepts finite, schedulable positive values and warns before fallback. Tests cover defaults, valid and invalid values, and explicit arguments. The constructor uses an explicit None check, so an explicitly supplied timedelta(0) is preserved.

Full details: Tests For Backend Behaviour Changes

Explanation

The PR changes ingestion scheduling behavior. It adds tests under auto_ontology/ingestion_service/tests, but not under auto_ontology/tests or dev_tools. The PR description does not explain why a test is impractical. The previous failure remains unresolved.

Resolution

Add or update tests under auto_ontology/tests or dev_tools, or explain why a test is impractical.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @auto_ontology/ingestion_service/data_scheduler.py:
- Line 66: After constructing the interval with timedelta(hours=hours), validate
that it is greater than zero; if rounding produces a zero interval, warn and use
the existing default interval. Add an interval test for a positive value such as
INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS=1e-12 that rounds to zero.
- Line 66: Update the interval validation around the `timedelta(hours=hours)`
return to reject values outside the range the scheduler can represent, warn, and
use the default interval. Account for both `timedelta` construction limits and
adding the interval to the scheduler’s current `datetime`; test inputs that fail
at each stage.

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Handle positive values that `timedelta` cannot represent or that round to zero.
Fall back to 24 hours and add boundary tests.

- Tests For Backend Behaviour Changes:
Add or update tests under `auto_ontology/tests` or `dev_tools`, or explain why a
test is impractical.

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Review comments at @auto_ontology/ingestion_service/data_scheduler.py:
- Line 58: Update the configured interval validation around the interval check
so impractically short values are rejected, or enforce an established minimum
delay before the scheduler starts another ingestion pass. Use the project’s
defined minimum rather than inventing a threshold, and update the test that
currently accepts the four-microsecond interval.

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Failed pre-merge checks:
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Use an explicit `None` check, such as `interval if interval is not None else
resolve_ingest_interval()`. Add a test that passes `timedelta(0)` with
`INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS` set and verifies that the zero interval is retained.

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Fixed the failing Linked Issues pre-merge check in 303fa9b. DataScheduler.__init__ now uses interval if interval is not None else resolve_ingest_interval(), so an explicit timedelta(0) is no longer replaced by INGEST_INTERVAL_HOURS. test_explicit_interval_wins_over_env now sets the env var and covers both timedelta(hours=1) and timedelta(0).

The interval suite passed (15 tests), and ruff check / ruff format --check are clean.

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Add or update tests under `auto_ontology/tests` or `dev_tools`, or explain why a
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