oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron

Do not use names in sagas

Open
#1,781 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Dominant language
Rust
Stars
572
Forks
97
Avg merge
2d 12h
Merged PRs (30d)
96

Description

Operate on UUIDs, not names, in sagas - this avoids a scenario where a saga is created to operate on an object named Foo, but the original object named Foo is deleted and another object is created that is also named Foo. The saga will end up operating on the wrong object.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Trace where sagas capture object names and where they resolve targets; the work is done when the original object's UUID remains the identifier and deleting and recreating an object with the same name cannot retarget the saga.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend, distributed-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.