fix(ingest): release dedupe claim when event ingest fails

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Closes #5118

Problem

DeduplicatingCollector.Ingest claims the event's deduplication key via IsUnique (SET NX) before the wrapped collector writes the event, and never releases the claim when that write fails. A transient ingest failure followed by the client's documented default retry is then silently dropped as a duplicate: the retry returns success and the event is metered zero times.

Reproduced against current main with the regression test in this PR: with a collector whose first Ingest returns an error, the retry returns nil while nothing is metered.

Fix

Release the dedupe claim when the wrapped ingest returns an error.

• dedupe.Deduplicator gains Remove(ctx, items...), implemented by both backends. In keyhash-migration mode only the keyhash-format key is removed (the key IsUnique claims); an existing raw-format key may belong to an event ingested before the migration, so it is left untouched.
• DeduplicatingCollector.Ingest releases the claim on ingest error and returns the original error. The release is best-effort: if it fails, the returned error joins both failures so the event is not dropped silently.

Trade-off: in the ambiguous case where the write actually landed but returned an error, a retry can now produce the event to Kafka twice; sink-side dedup on the same store still meters it once. The status quo instead guarantees a silent under-count on the common transient-failure path.

Tests

• TestDeduplicatingCollector_ReleasesClaimOnIngestFailure: transient failure, then the retry meters the event exactly once; a genuine duplicate afterwards is still deduplicated. Fails on current main, passes with the fix.
• TestDeduplicatingCollector_ReleaseFailureIsLoud: a failing release surfaces both errors.
• TestRemove for memorydedupe and for redisdedupe across all three key modes, including preserving a pre-migration raw key in migration mode.

Verification

• go build, go vet, and go test -count=1 pass for ./openmeter/dedupe/... and ./openmeter/ingest/... (go 1.27).
• Not run: the full repo build and test suite, which needs the Kafka/ClickHouse development stack and does not compile in this environment. Both Deduplicator implementations in the repo are updated; interface consumers are unaffected by the added method.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Deduplication now uses ownership-aware claims, which can be released only by their claimant.
  • Claim tokens prevent stale releases from removing newer deduplication records.
  • In-memory and Redis-backed deduplication support claiming and releasing items.

• Bug Fixes

  • Failed event ingestion no longer permanently blocks valid retries as duplicates.
  • Claims are released after ingestion failures, even if the original request is canceled.
  • Errors during claim release are reported alongside the original ingestion error.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; no new actionable issues remain.

Summary

Failed ingestion now releases an owned dedupe claim, allowing a later retry.

• Failed event writes release their deduplication claim.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Ingest event] --> B[Claim dedupe key]
  B -->|Already claimed| C[Return success]
  B -->|Claim error| D[Return error]
  B -->|Claim acquired| E[Call wrapped collector]
  E -->|Success| F[Keep claim]
  E -->|Failure| G[Release with independent timeout]
  G --> H{Ownership token matches?}
  H -->|Yes| I[Delete claim]
  H -->|No| J[Leave newer claim untouched]
  I --> K[Return ingest error]
  J --> K
  G -->|Release error| L[Return both errors]

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The deduplication API now uses ownership-token claims. Memory and Redis implementations release only matching claims. DeduplicatingCollector releases claims after ingestion failures with an independent cleanup context and reports release errors.

Changes

Ownership-aware deduplication

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deduplication contract and memory claims openmeter/dedupe/dedupe.go, openmeter/dedupe/memorydedupe/...	The contract replaces Remove with Claim and Release. The memory implementation stores UUID tokens under mutex protection. Tests cover stale, reacquired, and empty-token claims.
Redis claim ownership openmeter/dedupe/redisdedupe/...	The Redis implementation stores claim tokens and deletes keys only when the stored token matches. Migration cleanup uses a detached five-second timeout. Tests cover token checks, Redis errors, and migration cleanup paths.
Ingest claim lifecycle openmeter/ingest/dedupe.go, openmeter/ingest/dedupe_test.go	The collector claims an event before ingestion and releases the claim after ingestion failure. Cleanup uses a five-second timeout derived from context.WithoutCancel. Tests cover retries, joined errors, and canceled request contexts.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeduplicatingCollector
  participant Deduplicator
  participant Collector
  DeduplicatingCollector->>Deduplicator: Claim event item
  Deduplicator-->>DeduplicatingCollector: Return claim and uniqueness result
  DeduplicatingCollector->>Collector: Ingest unique event
  Collector-->>DeduplicatingCollector: Return ingestion error
  DeduplicatingCollector->>Deduplicator: Release claim with cleanup context
  Deduplicator-->>DeduplicatingCollector: Return release result

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: releasing the dedupe claim when event ingestion fails.
Linked Issues check		The PR meets the coding requirements in active issue #5118. DeduplicatingCollector.Ingest claims the event, releases the claim after a failed wrapped ingest with a detached five-second cleanup conte…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #5118. The claim and release API, ownership checks, migration-key cleanup, cancellation handling, backend tests, and ingest regression tests directly support safe recover…

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In `@openmeter/dedupe/memorydedupe/memorydedupe_test.go`:
- Line 65: Replace every newly added context.Background() call in TestRemove in
openmeter/dedupe/memorydedupe/memorydedupe_test.go and in the ingestion failure
tests in openmeter/ingest/dedupe_test.go with t.Context(), preserving the
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In `@openmeter/ingest/dedupe.go`:
- Line 40: Preserve claim ownership across failed-ingestion release: in
openmeter/ingest/dedupe.go at line 40, retain the token returned during
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In `@openmeter/dedupe/memorydedupe/memorydedupe.go`:
- Around line 59-75: Update Deduplicator.Release to reject claims with an empty
Token before acquiring the lock or inspecting the store, returning an error
instead of comparing or removing the stored marker. Preserve the existing
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- Around line 165-166: Update Deduplicator.Release to reject claims with an
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error such as “claim token is empty” and leaving valid-token behavior unchanged.
- Line 62: Update Claim in the DedupeModeKeyHashMigration path so a Redis.Exists
lookup error releases the previously stored hashed claim using a bounded context
derived from the caller; if cleanup also fails, join that cleanup error with the
original lookup error before returning.
- Around line 64-69: Update the existing-key cleanup branch in Claim to call
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