fix: preserve peer identity across destination reads

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Why

After a successful synchronization created a physical-interface-to-LAG relationship, a
later destination read could receive a shallow SDK representation of the LAG without the
relationship-valued device field required by its identity. The adapter raised
PeerIdentifierError, so the converged destination could not be read and no new plan was
produced.

The final design hydrates only the missing peer identity, keeps that narrow fetch out of
the shared SDK store, and deterministically preserves an identity-complete cached node.
It does not bulk-prefetch identifiers, combine partial evidence across calls, or rank
nodes with a recursive richness score.

Closes #167.

What changed

• Perform at most one UUID hydration per (kind, UUID) when an identifier is absent or
  None; complete peers make no extra request.
• Keep hydration adapter-local with populate_store=False, and merge fetched identifiers
  with the current peer only within that resolution call.
• Cache three explicit states for the adapter run: absent = not attempted, None = one
  unresolved attempt, string = resolved identity. A later independently complete peer can
  recover without another request; partial peers are not synthesized across calls.
• Reconcile SDK aliases using identity completeness, not field-count heuristics. Candidate
  order is UUID entry, identity alias, then the non-hydrated current node; unknown or
  cardinality-many relationship identifiers fail closed.
• Catch real DiffSync ObjectNotFound misses while propagating unexpected SDK/store
  failures and preserving parent-specific PeerIdentifierError context.
• Keep model_loader() on mapped attributes only. Whether bulk identifier prefetch is
  beneficial is a measured follow-up in SYNC-68.
• Document the user-visible continue_on_error change: peers recoverable by bounded
  hydration are retained instead of silently dropping their relationship rows.

before: shallow LAG peer -> PeerIdentifierError
after:  shallow LAG peer -> one UUID read -> cached unique ID -> converged reread

Validation

Exact head: 42cdd7c04b132ca5ba89d5ffc9795cde72a8a158

• Independent full-diff review: passed with no high-confidence blockers.
• Focused peer/incremental tests: 30 passed.
• Full local suite: 144 passed, 3 skipped.
• Format, Ruff, type checks, CLI help, and example listing passed; only the existing
  unrelated Nautobot ty warnings remain.
• GitHub CI: green on Python 3.10-3.13, documentation/style, and deployment checks.

Exact-head disposable v2 qualification, with bulk identifier prefetch absent:

• Generated an initial 420-create diff and synchronized 420/420 through v2's supported
  tiered sync path.
• Passed destination verification 31/31 before and after a fresh reread.
• Fresh reread compared 840/840 source/destination models and produced zero operations.
• Observed exactly 40 InterfaceLag hydration requests for 40 unique LAGs across 80
  bundle references, all with include=[device,name] and populate_store=False.
• Verified complete teardown and a clean product worktree at the exact remote head.

The v2 cached-plan apply surface rejects the Infrahub adapter before row dispatch because
that adapter does not implement apply_cached_row; the qualification therefore used its
supported sync pathway. Scenario deviations were limited to the existing IP/prefix
exclusion, the disposable local port, and PR #176's already-reviewed L2 transform because
#176 is not contained in this independently main-based branch.

This PR is ready for the planned full re-review from main.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed destination loading for relationship peers that use relationship-valued identifiers.
  • Improved handling of incomplete, missing, or unresolvable peer identities.
  • Preserved complete destination data when resolving shared references.
  • Added safer handling for missing or invalid stored entries.
• Tests
  • Expanded coverage for peer lookup, hydration, caching, error handling, and relationship scenarios.
  • Verified that model loading requests the required mapped attributes.

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Walkthrough

The Infrahub adapter now requests model attributes and identifiers during loading. It validates peer identity completeness, hydrates missing identifiers once, caches resolution results, handles missing store entries, and reconciles SDK store aliases without replacing complete nodes with partial data. Tests cover these paths and model-loader query parameters. A changelog entry documents the fix.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary fix: preserving peer identity during destination reads.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #167 by hydrating incomplete peer identities and preserving relationships during subsequent destination reads.
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Verdict: approve with one requested change. The fix is correctly targeted at the root cause of #167, preserves the adapter's error contract, and adds no cost to paths that work today. One piece of test-driven scaffolding should come out of production code before merge.

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Why the approach is correct

• Root cause, not symptom. adapter: second diff crashes after syncing LAG member interfaces #167 happens because the shared SDK store's by-UUID lookup can return a shallow nested-payload node whose relationship-valued identity field (device) is missing. This fix hydrates by UUID only when an identity field is missing, using the DiffSync model's own _identifiers — the one place that actually knows what identity requires.
• The store stays safe. populate_store=False on the hydration fetch, plus skipping the identity-alias write for hydrated nodes, means hydration never overwrites a richer cached node. The shared store sees strictly fewer writes than on main. The alias behavior for already-complete peers is retained (tested).
• Bounded cost. The (kind, uuid) → unique_id cache guarantees at most one extra GET per shallow peer per run; the tests assert exactly one client.get call across repeated references. Complete peers make no network call at all.
• Error semantics preserved. NodeNotFoundError falls through to the existing rich PeerIdentifierError / continue_on_error paths; transport, GraphQL, and auth errors still propagate even with continue_on_error=True — pinned by a test.
• Right design over the tempting one-liner. Extending _node_has_complete_attributes so resolve_peer_node's existing re-fetch handles this would have been worse: that check is schema-generic (it can't know which relationships matter or distinguish "not fetched" from "not set"), and its re-fetch writes into the shared store. Identity completeness belongs where this PR put it.
• No cross-adapter impact. All changes are inside the Infrahub adapter's node→DiffSync conversion. The unique_id produced is exactly what a fully-loaded node yields, so cross-system matching is unchanged; non-Infrahub sync pairs execute zero changed lines.

Requested change

1. Remove the getattr(self, "_peer_unique_ids", None) lazy-init block. __init__ unconditionally sets self._peer_unique_ids = {}, so this branch is dead in production — it exists only because the test harnesses bypass InfrahubAdapter.__init__. Have _Harness / _RelationshipHarness set the attribute alongside the other state they already fake, and use self._peer_unique_ids directly. Production code shouldn't carry scaffolding whose only caller is a test.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

2. Comment the if not hydrated: guard. It's the least obvious line in the patch — the reason (a hydrated node carries only identity fields; storing it would shadow a richer entry via the store's by-id index) is a constraint the code can't show. One line there earns its keep.
3. Prefer is not None over truthiness in the cache check. if cached_unique_id := ...get(...) treats a falsy cached value as a miss. Harmless in practice, but is not None states the intent and collapses naturally with change 1.

Behavior notes for the changelog / release notes

• Under continue_on_error=True, identity-incomplete peers that were previously skipped (relationship silently dropped) are now hydrated and resolved — diffs will gain rows that used to vanish. That's the correct behavior, but existing users of the flag will see output change.
• A peer that is still incomplete after hydration isn't cached, so a genuinely broken peer referenced by N parents costs N GETs where it previously cost N skips. Only affects an error path that produced no useful result before; fine to leave, worth knowing.

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infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py (1)

498-522: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename hydration_failed to reflect what it measures.

The flag is set from key presence in self._peer_unique_ids, not from a hydration failure. The inference is only valid because a present-and-None entry is written at Line 534. A reader must trace that write to understand the branch at Line 509. Rename the flag to describe the cache state, then derive the retry decision from it.

♻️ Suggested rename

-        hydration_failed = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
-        if hydration_failed:
-            cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]
-            if cached_unique_id is not None:
-                return cached_unique_id
+        # A cached ``None`` means a previous attempt already hydrated this peer
+        # and still could not build an identifier, so do not retry the GET.
+        already_attempted = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
+        if already_attempted:
+            cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]
+            if cached_unique_id is not None:
+                return cached_unique_id
 
         peer_data = self.infrahub_node_to_diffsync(peer_node)
         identifiers = tuple(peer_model._identifiers)
         missing = tuple(k for k in identifiers if k not in peer_data)
-        if missing and not hydration_failed:
+        if missing and not already_attempted:

Apply the same rename at Line 536.

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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py` around lines 498 - 522, Rename
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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 498-522: Rename hydration_failed to reflect that it indicates
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Review follow-up in e5da195:

• Removed the production lazy-init block that existed only for test harnesses.
• Handle real DiffSync ObjectNotFound store misses and register the resolved peer.
• Add the SDK identity alias without replacing a richer UUID-cached node.
• Cache failed hydration explicitly to avoid repeated GETs and warnings.
• Include identifier fields in the bulk loader request.

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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 463-464: Update the model-loading logic around model_loader to
request both model._attributes and model._identifiers when calling
self.client.all, ensuring identifier fields such as relationship-valued device
are included while preserving the existing populate_store behavior.
- Around line 594-599: Update the completeness checks in the peer hydration flow
to require each identifier key to exist with a non-None value, both in the check
before returning peer_data and in the missing calculation near the existing
hydration logic. Ensure peers with None identifier values remain eligible for
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Reviewer-requested cleanup and requalification are complete at exact head
42cdd7c04b132ca5ba89d5ffc9795cde72a8a158.

• Removed cross-call partial-evidence merging and the recursive richness scorer.
• Kept bounded same-call hydration and replaced heuristic selection with the reviewed
  identity-complete order: UUID entry, identity alias, then non-hydrated fallback.
• Kept bulk identifier prefetch out of this PR and moved its measurement/design question
  to SYNC-68.
• Added resolver regressions for null identifiers and fail-closed relationship identity.
• Passed an independent full-diff gate, 30 focused tests, the full local suite, and the
  complete GitHub CI matrix.
• Exact-head v2 live qualification synchronized 420/420, passed two 31/31 destination
  checks, reread 840/840 with zero operations, and observed exactly 40 bounded LAG
  hydrations for 40 unique LAGs across 80 references with bulk prefetch absent.

The PR description now contains the final design, qualification boundaries, and results.
Please re-review the full diff from main as planned.

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Closing re-review — e48f544

Verdict: passes. Ready to merge.

Verified the delta from 42cdd7c against the agreed remediation plan:

• NEW-1 (hydration merge clobbering stub attributes): fixed. The merge is now identifier-only, so hydration's None-filled non-identifier attributes can never overwrite real stub values. Pinned by a regression running the production converter, plus a converter/store contract test so the fakes can't drift from the real contracts again.
• NEW-2 (asymmetric null-identifier rejection): resolved with verify-then-accept. Absent-or-null identifiers trigger the one bounded fetch; an attribute identifier a successful hydration confirms as null is accepted into the legacy identity (warned once per peer); relationship identifiers still error; an unverifiable null after exhausted hydration errors with fresh context. Preserves main's semantics for working configs — no new hard failures.
• NEW-3: loader rationale comment (attributes-only by design, prefetch deferred to SYNC-68) and restored changelog headline are in.

Independently re-ran the gates at this head: 148 passed / 3 skipped, ruff and format clean, ty at the main baseline, CI green. The exact-head live qualification again shows exactly 40 bounded hydrations for 40 unique LAGs across 80 references, and its manifest correctly states which paths the live run proves versus the focused tests — the forward-reference and null-identifier boundaries are proven by the named unit tests.

One non-blocking polish item: _FakeStore raises ObjectNotFound in both store roles; the real SDK store raises NodeNotFoundError. Inert today (production always passes raise_when_missing=False on the SDK store), but worth a two-line fix if anything else touches this branch, to keep the fake contracts exact.

One follow-up outside this diff: post the drafted upstream infrahub_sdk issue for the store's by-UUID downgrade and reference it from the reconciliation comment, so this workaround keeps its deletion path.

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