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This follows up the review of #1385, which added the node_id and assigned filters to the admin sandbox list (GET /admin/api/v1/sandboxes). It addresses the five low-severity points left after that pull request merged. Only one changes what SQL runs, and the list's results don't change.

  • One definition of "reported on a node". The unpaged list, which is used when there is no cursor, now filters assigned with Direct's reported_on_a_node predicate, as the paged statement already did. Before, it spelled the same rule a second way, as COALESCE(direct_route.current_node_id, s.active_node_id) IS NOT NULL over the joined route (crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/list_page/admin.rs). The two are equivalent because a route's current_node_id is NOT NULL and sandbox_id is its primary key. The shared predicate looks a filtered row's route up again by primary key. Measured, it plans no worse than the old spelling in any case.
  • A planner claim corrected. reported_on_node's doc (crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/direct/reported_node.rs) said the planner always reaches a node's sandboxes through idx_sandboxes_active_node and the primary key. Measured, that holds only for a custom plan, and that plan uses the unique (id, org_id) index rather than the primary key. The admin statements wrap the predicate as $10::UUID IS NULL OR …. Under a generic plan the planner cannot drop that IS NULL arm, so it tests every row in list order. The comment now claims only that.
  • The 400 for a malformed filter, documented. The admin OpenAPI description now says a malformed parameter answers 400 with or without cursor, rather than being ignored. For example, a node_id that is a node name, or assigned=1, is refused. See Rollout.
  • Tests that could not fail. an_empty_filter_parameter_is_unset seeded only sandboxes with no node, so an assigned= read as false listed the same rows as no filter. It now seeds one sandbox on a node. The combined on-a-node case of each_filter_returns_exactly_its_rows sets created_after again. Its node filter and created_after each decide its result, so a statement that binds one placeholder in another's place lists other rows. In the_node_filters_match_the_node_the_response_reports, only the node_id cases compared the listed rows with the response's own active_node_id; the assigned and unassigned cases checked fixed seed indexes. Now every case does, for the paged and the unpaged statements: each listed row's response has (or lacks) a node, and no unlisted seeded row's does.

Validation

At this head: cargo fmt --all -- --check and cargo clippy -p pplx-space-api --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings pass. cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-api --all-features runs 2188 tests: all pass, and one #[ignore] benchmark is skipped. The database tests ran against the repository's nextest Postgres and Redis fixtures. cargo arch, against main's baseline and architecture, reports the same 113 advisory findings as main, and none is required.

  • an_empty_filter_parameter_is_unset fails against a temporary change that reads assigned= as false, and the version on main passes against it.
  • With the response's active_node_id temporarily reduced to the row's column, ignoring the route, and the node_id cases removed, the assigned case of the_node_filters_match_the_node_the_response_reports fails. The previous version of the test passes against the same change.
  • The plan claim was measured with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE) of both admin statements under force_custom_plan and force_generic_plan. The fixture had 28,005 seeded sandboxes over 300 nodes, plus 2,003 Direct routes. Filtered by a node with five sandboxes, the custom plan read them through a BitmapOr of idx_sandboxes_active_node and sandboxes_id_org_id_key, in about 0.7 ms. The generic plan filtered all 28,005 rows: about 67 ms paged and 55 ms unpaged.
  • The same fixture compared the unpaged assigned filter with the old spelling. For assigned=false the new predicate takes 4.0 ms against 13.6 ms under a custom plan, and 0.7 s against 1.8 s under a generic plan. For assigned=true it takes 1.5 ms with either spelling, and 1.3 s against 1.8 s.

No new plan test was added, because the claim does not hold under a generic plan. No Kind or deployed run was made.

Severity and risk

Severity: low. These are test gaps, an inaccurate comment and a second spelling of one SQL rule. No result was wrong.

Risk: the unpaged list's assigned filter runs a different but equivalent predicate. Existing tests check both statements' assigned and unassigned results, including sandboxes whose route and row disagree. To roll back, revert the commit.

Rollout

No migration or ordering. The behavior change described here shipped in #1385, and this pull request only documents it. On the unpaged list (no cursor), node_id and assigned used to be unknown names, so the list ignored them. Since #1385, a non-empty but malformed value answers 400 instead, such as a node name for node_id or assigned=1. A caller that sent one used to get the whole list and now gets an error. That is intended: a filter that silently matched every sandbox would be worse. An empty value is still unset.

Not covered

  • Under a generic plan, the unpaged statement with an assigned filter is slow with either spelling: about 0.7–1.3 s on the fixture above. Nested loops over the response's joins run before the filter and LIMIT. This predates this change, and the change makes it smaller.
  • A node_id request also tests every row under a generic plan: on the fixture above, both statements filtered all 28,005 rows, in about 67 ms paged and 55 ms unpaged.

Both are tracked separately.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, the tests and this description.

The unpaged admin list now tests assigned with Direct's
reported_on_a_node predicate, as the paged statement does, so one
definition answers whether a response reports a node. Before, it spelled
the same rule as the joined route's COALESCE. Measured with forced plan
modes, the shared predicate plans no worse in any case.

reported_on_node's doc no longer says the planner always narrows through
idx_sandboxes_active_node and the primary key. A custom plan does, through
idx_sandboxes_active_node and the unique (id, org_id) index. A generic plan
of a statement that makes the filter optional cannot drop the IS NULL arm
and tests every row in list order.

The admin OpenAPI description now says a malformed parameter answers 400
with or without cursor, so a node_id that is not a UUID or an assigned
that is not true or false is refused rather than matching every sandbox.

Tests: an_empty_filter_parameter_is_unset seeds a sandbox on a node, so
assigned= read as false (or true) lists other rows than unset; before,
every seeded sandbox had no node and the assigned case could not fail.
The combined on-a-node case of each_filter_returns_exactly_its_rows sets
created_after again, and both its node filter and created_after decide
its result.
the_node_filters_match_the_node_the_response_reports checked its
assigned and unassigned cases only against fixed seed indexes. Only the
node_id cases compared the listed rows with the response's own
active_node_id. Now every case does, for both the paged and the unpaged
statements: every listed row's response has (or, for unassigned, lacks)
the node the filter asks for, and no unlisted seeded row's response does.

With the response's active_node_id reduced to the row's column, ignoring
the route, the assigned case now fails. Before, it passed.
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The legacy admin sandbox list now uses the shared reported_on_a_node predicate for assigned filtering. Tests compare paged and unpaged results and update filter fixtures and cases. Documentation clarifies query-planning behavior and specifies that malformed list filters return 400 with an error message.

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The filter behavior is unchanged and the PR is ready to merge after normal checks.

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Title check Warning The title describes the API sandbox-list filter changes, but it does not meet the required prefix format. The change area must appear as api: at the start or as [api]; [cr-test] api: adds an unr… Use api: follow up the admin sandbox list's node filters or [api] follow up the admin sandbox list's node filters.
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Description Follows The Pr Template Passed The description contains all required template items: a substantive ## Summary; ## Validation with commands and passing results; ## Severity and risk with severity low and stated risks; and `A…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test Passed PASS. The PR is primarily a predicate alignment, documentation, and test-coverage change; the description states that list results were not wrong. The Validation section names regression tests and fai…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified Passed No weakened safeguard is introduced. The diff changes only two test files, SQL/docs, and documentation for the predicate. It does not add skips, allowances, exceptions, CI changes, lint changes, or te…
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The description contains all required template items: a substantive ## Summary; ## Validation with commands and passing results; ## Severity and risk with severity low and stated risks; and AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, the tests and this description.

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PASS. The PR is primarily a predicate alignment, documentation, and test-coverage change; the description states that list results were not wrong. The Validation section names regression tests and failure conditions: an_empty_filter_parameter_is_unset fails when assigned= is treated as false, and the_node_filters_match_the_node_the_response_reports fails when the response ignores the route-derived node. The current tests pass these cases.

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No weakened safeguard is introduced. The diff changes only two test files, SQL/docs, and documentation for the predicate. It does not add skips, allowances, exceptions, CI changes, lint changes, or test exclusions. The test updates add coverage for both paged and unpaged results, expand response-based assertions to assigned and unassigned cases, and seed a node-assigned row so empty-filter behavior can differ. The changed expected rows match those fixture changes.

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  • crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/list_page/admin.rs
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  • crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/direct/reported_node.rs
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Closing: CodeRabbit configuration test finished; the tested configuration is in #1464.

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