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Why

The first v3 preview's shipped NetBox-to-Infrahub path had three interacting failures:
null optional relationships were rendered as id: "None", NetBox L2 values violated the
destination dropdown, and a post-apply reread could not reconstruct a LAG peer's
relationship-valued identity.

Together these failures prevented realistic interface data from completing a stable
plan, apply, and reread cycle.

Related to #167.

What changed

  • Omit a literally null optional cardinality-one relationship from its mutation while
    retaining nullable scalars, required relationships, and cardinality-many fields.
  • Translate NetBox interface modes for Physical, Virtual, and Lag interfaces and reject
    malformed non-null values at the transform boundary.
  • Perform one bounded peer hydration when identity fields are missing, cache only the
    derived unique ID for the adapter run, preserve richer nodes in the SDK store, and
    retain identity-key aliases for already-complete peers.
  • Preserve contextual errors for missing or still-incomplete peers, and propagate
    unexpected SDK, transport, GraphQL, and authentication failures.
  • Incorporate current main, including source and owner lineage on relationship edges
    added or changed during an Infrahub destination update. Unchanged, pre-existing edges
    are not backfilled.
  • Add regression tests and bug-fix changelog fragments for all three paths.
null optional to-one -> omitted from the mutation
tagged/tagged-all    -> trunk/trunk_all
shallow LAG peer     -> one UUID hydration, then adapter-local identity reuse

Test plan

uv run pytest -q
uv run invoke format
uv run invoke lint
uv run infrahub-sync --help
uv run infrahub-sync list --directory examples/

Results at 70d85f093e99dd8dc1c98c86d9312d8f09ea5a3c:

  • Focused repaired and reconciled adapter paths: 79 passed.
  • Full suite: 1564 passed, 21 skipped, 1 xfailed.
  • Format, lint, type checks, CLI help, and example listing passed. Four existing unused
    ty ignore warnings remain in untouched files.
  • Exact-head disposable NetBox 4.6 to Infrahub 1.10.6 qualification:
    • generated and reviewed a 420-create plan across 18 destination kinds;
    • refused an incorrect checksum without contacting or writing to the destination;
    • applied and reapplied all 420 operations without duplicates;
    • verified 40 devices without primary addresses, 160 physical interfaces without
      bundles, 80 bundled physical interfaces, and all expected L2 values;
    • verified destination counts and relationships after each apply; and
    • reread all 840 source/destination models and produced a zero-operation plan.

Known limitation

The complete shipped tutorial is not yet qualified for IP addresses and prefixes. Those
two kinds remain excluded from this qualification because their source identifiers do not
match the destination schema's namespace-based identity. This PR qualifies the repaired
18-kind path; it does not claim to repair that separate IPAM identity defect.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed synchronization of tagged and tagged-all Layer 2 interface modes.
    • Added clear failures for unsupported or malformed Layer 2 modes.
    • Fixed saved-plan updates involving null optional relationships.
    • Prevented invalid mandatory null relationships from being applied.
    • Improved destination loading when relationship identifiers reference other relationships.
    • Preserved source and owner attribution on newly created relationship links.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified relationship attribution behavior and null-relationship handling in planning and adapter documentation.

PhillSimonds and others added 27 commits July 8, 2026 19:43
update_node stamped source/owner metadata on updated attributes but not on
updated relationships, so a relationship changed by a sync carried no lineage
back to the sync source/owner. This was asymmetric with the create path, which
attributes relationships via generate_payload_create.

Assign relationships via a data dict ({"id", "source", "owner"}) instead of the
bare peer, in both the cardinality-one and cardinality-many branches, so the
same attribution the attribute path applies is stamped on relationships too.

Adds unit tests covering attribute attribution (regression), cardinality-one
and cardinality-many relationships (with and without source/owner), and a
real-SDK check that the dict serialises to _relation__source/_relation__owner.

Fixes #142

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Infrahub relationship updates now apply source and owner attribution, retain rich SDK peer nodes, and cache peer hydration results. Planned applies handle null optional and mandatory cardinality-one relationships with omission, warnings, or validation errors. New tests cover attribution, peer resolution, hydration, caching, and planned writes. The NetBox example now transforms layer-2 modes for physical, virtual, and LAG interfaces and rejects unsupported modes. Changelog and documentation entries describe these changes.

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Review follow-up:

  • 9e2dcd8 adds a typed refusal for null mandatory to-one relationships.
  • Optional to-one null updates now warn and remain a documented no-op because plan v1 cannot distinguish absence from an intentional clear.
  • Nullable scalar values remain unchanged.
  • 44b5dfc documents the resource-pool lineage limitation and adds the matching code comment.

Related source-lane fixes are in PR #176 at 6eaf633 and PR #177 at e5da195. They still need reconciliation into this branch after those lanes merge.

CI is green at 44b5dfc.

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tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py (1)

15-19: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add concise docstrings to the public test functions.

  • tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L15-L19: document supported-mode translation.
  • tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L42-L42: document absent-mode preservation.
  • tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L62-L65: document malformed-mode rejection.
  • tests/test_netbox_example_l2_mode.py#L81-L81: document q-in-q refusal.

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978-998: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rename hydration_failed to match what it tests.

hydration_failed is set from cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids. That membership means "a cache entry exists", not "hydration failed". After the early return at Line 989 the entry can only be None, so the later reads are correct, but the name makes the invariant hard to verify. A name such as cache_entry_exists (or a separate hydration_attempted flag) states the condition directly.

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-        hydration_failed = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
-        if hydration_failed:
+        cache_entry_exists = cache_key in self._peer_unique_ids
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             cached_unique_id = self._peer_unique_ids[cache_key]

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In `@examples/netbox_to_infrahub/config.yml`:
- Around line 339-349: Add a concise documentation entry under docs describing
the L2-mode transform’s supported mappings—access, tagged, and tagged-all—and
that malformed values and q-in-q are rejected rather than translated. Keep the
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In `@infrahub_sync/adapters/infrahub.py`:
- Around line 978-998: Rename the boolean variable hydration_failed to
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test_netbox_example_translates_interface_l2_mode should document supported-mode
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transforms:
# NetBox q-in-q is valid, but this destination schema exposes only
# access/trunk/trunk_all. The named undefined value makes StrictUndefined
# refuse q-in-q explicitly instead of applying a lossy translation;
# `or none` evaluates undefined results so every other unknown mode fails too.
- &netbox_l2_mode_transform
field: l2_mode
expression: >-
{{ ({'access': 'access', 'tagged': 'trunk', 'tagged-all': 'trunk_all',
'q-in-q': q_in_q_requires_destination_schema_support}[mode.value] or none)
if mode is defined and mode is not none else none }}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add documentation for the new L2-mode configuration.

This example now maps three NetBox modes and rejects malformed values and q-in-q. Add a concise docs/ update that states the supported values and refusal behavior.

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Behavior to confirm

  • A single q-in-q interface anywhere in the source aborts the entire interface model load, including read-only diff. The transform refuses the value explicitly rather than skipping the record. If a whole-load abort is the intended handling for a valid NetBox 4.2+ mode the destination schema can't represent, no change needed — confirming this is deliberate.

Follow-up to file

  • is_protected differs between create and update paths: generate_payload_create stamps is_protected=True on relationship peers, while _relationship_input_data emits only id/source/owner. An edge added by update_node is therefore unprotected while the same logical edge created at sync-create time is protected. Suggest filing as a separate issue.

Low severity

  • On the merge-recovery path (peer completed from two partial representations), _reconcile_peer_sdk_alias can alias an identifier-incomplete stub when the SDK store has no richer candidate. Write paths use .id, so impact is low; caching the merged data's richest node (or nothing) would be more consistent.
  • The once-per-peer warning names only the first parent referencing an unresolvable peer; other parents' skipped relationships leave no per-parent trace. A per-parent DEBUG log alongside the WARNING would aid diagnosis under continue_on_error.
  • _reconcile_peer_sdk_alias recomputes the richness comparison on every cache hit. Negligible cost; noting for completeness.

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