fix: fetch many-relationship peers before reconciliation

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed updates to many-item relationships so existing remote connections are loaded before comparison.
  • Stale relationships are now removed correctly, while new relationships are added as expected.
  • Preserved relationship source and ownership details during updates.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for relationship reconciliation and lazy loading.

Infrahub's SDK can leave cardinality-many relationship managers uninitialized when the normal node query does not include their remote peers. update_node() previously read peer_ids and computed additions/removals before fetching that manager, so stale peers could survive reconciliation.

Fetch an uninitialized many-relationship manager before snapshotting peer_ids. The existing minimal-delta update and PR #143 source/owner attribution behavior remain unchanged.

Before: remote A, B plus desired A, C could persist as A, B, C.

After: the same update fetches once, removes only B, adds only C, and converges to A, C.

Verification

• Focused attribution/reconciliation tests: 14 passed
• Full suite: 124 passed, 3 skipped
• Ruff and touched-file ty: clean
• CLI --help and list: passed
• Live disposable Infrahub branch: remote A/B → desired A/C persisted; second reconciliation empty; branch deleted
• Three independent test-only judges: unanimous PASS at 86190860277d1ec9b5f0083be278702d919796c1
• Three independent fix judges: unanimous PASS at 682b19cd04a905f330f8359a4c99663b534a3a83

Closes #168.

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Walkthrough

Many-relationship updates now fetch uninitialized relationship managers before comparing existing peer IDs. The adapter then reconciles additions and removals against the fetched peer set. Regression coverage uses a lazy relationship-manager test double and verifies fetching, stale-peer removal, retained peers, new attributed peers, and the final peer set. A changelog entry documents the fix.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #168 by fetching current peers before reconciliation and testing stale-peer removal, additions, and idempotence.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The implementation, regression test, and changelog entry are directly related to issue #168 and contain no unrelated changes.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes fetching many-relationship peers before reconciliation, which is the main change.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

tests/adapters/test_infrahub_update_node_attribution.py (1)

96-119: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the new public test-double methods.

Add concise docstrings to LazyFakeRelManager.fetch, LazyFakeRelManager.add, and LazyFakeRelManager.remove. State the state change performed by each method.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.py requires “explicit types on new or changed code; public functions and classes get concise docstrings.”

Suggested documentation

     def fetch(self) -> None:
+        """Load remote peer IDs and mark the manager initialized."""
         self.fetch_count += 1

     def add(self, data: object) -> None:
+        """Record an addition and update the local peer IDs."""
         super().add(data)

     def remove(self, peer_id: str) -> None:
+        """Record a removal and update the local peer IDs."""
         super().remove(peer_id)

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In `@tests/adapters/test_infrahub_update_node_attribution.py` around lines 96 -
119, Add concise docstrings to the public methods LazyFakeRelManager.fetch,
LazyFakeRelManager.add, and LazyFakeRelManager.remove, describing the state
change each performs: fetching initializes peer_ids and increments fetch_count,
adding records the peer ID, and removing deletes the peer ID.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/adapters/test_infrahub_update_node_attribution.py`:
- Around line 96-119: Add concise docstrings to the public methods
LazyFakeRelManager.fetch, LazyFakeRelManager.add, and LazyFakeRelManager.remove,
describing the state change each performs: fetching initializes peer_ids and
increments fetch_count, adding records the peer ID, and removing deletes the
peer ID.

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Review: Approve

Root cause checks out against the SDK source: RelationshipManagerSync.peer_ids is a property over self.peers, which is [] until fetch() runs. The old code snapshotted existing_peer_ids before calling fetch(), so for any cardinality-many relationship the SDK doesn't eagerly fetch (e.g. kind: Generic), the adapter compared the desired set against an empty set — nothing looked "existing," so nothing was ever removed, only added. That matches #168 exactly.

The fix is the smallest change that could work: it relocates the existing if not attr_manager.initialized: attr_manager.fetch() guard to before the peer-id snapshot instead of after. No new logic, no side effects elsewhere:

• Attribution (source/owner from fix: attribute source/owner on relationships in update_node #143) is untouched.
• Already-fetched relationships (e.g. kind: Attribute) are unaffected, since fetch() no-ops when already initialized.
• The cardinality: one path isn't touched, consistent with adapter: stale peers remain in cardinality-many relationships after sync #168 noting it isn't affected.

LazyFakeRelManager in the new test correctly models real SDK semantics (uninitialized → empty peer_ids → populated on fetch()), and the added test directly covers the bug: fetch called once, stale peer removed, retained peer kept, new peer added with correct attribution.

CI is green across lint/unit tests (3.10–3.13). CodeRabbit's only comment is a trivial nitpick (docstrings on the three new test-double methods) — non-blocking, optional polish.

No concerns. LGTM to merge.

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Review: Approve — merge it. This is the minimal, correct fix for #168, and it's well verified. Two trivial nits below, neither blocking.

What the fix does

The bug: in update_node() (infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py), the adapter snapshotted existing_peer_ids = attr_manager.peer_ids before calling fetch() on an uninitialized relationship manager. The SDK's peer_ids is empty until fetched, so for any cardinality-many relationship the SDK doesn't eagerly load (e.g. kind: Generic), the adapter compared the desired set against an empty set — existing_only was always empty, so stale peers were never removed. The old fetch() call sat after compare_lists(), where it accomplished nothing.

The fix moves that same if not attr_manager.initialized: attr_manager.fetch() block two statements earlier, before the snapshot. Net diff to production code: two lines added, three removed, no new conditions and no new API calls (fetch already ran under the identical condition — it just ran too late).

Is it the simplest, smartest fix?

Yes. The alternatives are all worse: prefetching relationships in the original node query would add cost to every node fetch whether or not the relationship is being updated; changing schema kinds is a workaround, not a fix. Relocating the existing fetch is exactly the right altitude. It also has a nice secondary effect: new_only no longer includes already-present peers, so the adapter stops redundantly re-add()ing peers that are already related — consistent with the minimal-delta behavior from #143, which this PR explicitly preserves.

Test quality

The regression test genuinely pins the ordering: LazyFakeRelManager mimics the SDK's lazy behavior (empty peer_ids until fetch()), and the assertions (removed == ["b-uid"], added == [{"id": "c-uid", ...}]) would fail under the old code, where nothing was removed and both A and C were added. It also checks fetch_count == 1, guarding against redundant fetches. Verification is thorough — full suite green, CI green across Python 3.10–3.13, plus a live disposable-branch reproduction confirming A/B → A/C converges with an empty second diff.

Nits (non-blocking)

1. Changelog fragment naming: changelog/+168-many-relationship-fetch.fixed.md uses the + orphan prefix, so towncrier will render it without a link to issue adapter: stale peers remain in cardinality-many relationships after sync #168 (the issue_format in pyproject.toml is set up for GitHub issue links). Naming it 168.fixed.md would get the [#168](...) link for free. The existing +sync-30-... fragment used the orphan prefix for an internal ticket ref, which made sense there; here a real GitHub issue exists.
2. Missing label: this PR should carry the bugs label per AGENTS.md. Easy to add at merge time.

CodeRabbit's only finding was a trivial maintainability nitpick on the test file — nothing substantive. I'd merge as-is, optionally renaming the changelog fragment first.

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