macrame/graph/builder.rs
1use crate::error::Result;
2use crate::temporal::as_of::NodeAttributes;
3
4/// Attribute hydration mode for temporal traversals (§5.2).
5#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize)]
6pub enum AttributeMode {
7 /// Live attributes from concepts table. Fast. Documented as WRONG for historical text.
8 Current,
9 /// Attributes as believed at ts, hydrated from transaction_log.
10 AtTime,
11 /// Topology only; concepts join is omitted.
12 ///
13 /// **Use [`TraversalBuilder::execute_ids`], not [`TraversalBuilder::execute`].**
14 /// `execute` returns `Vec<NodeAttributes>`, and there are no attributes to
15 /// return under this mode, so it answers `Ok(vec![])` — which a caller
16 /// cannot tell apart from a traversal that reached nothing. `execute_ids`
17 /// returns exactly what this mode is for, and distinguishes the two cases by
18 /// construction.
19 ///
20 /// Kept rather than removed (Wave 4.5) because it is meaningful where the
21 /// mode is a *parameter* — `hydrate_attributes` and `FilteredVectorSearch`
22 /// both take one and are right to accept "no attributes" as a choice. It is
23 /// only `execute`'s return type that cannot express it.
24 Omit,
25}
26
27/// Recursive CTE traversal query builder (§5.2).
28#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
29pub struct TraversalBuilder {
30 pub start_node: String,
31 pub max_depth: usize,
32 pub edge_types: Vec<String>,
33 pub min_weight: f64,
34 /// `None` means *defaulted*, not `Current` (T3.2, D-085).
35 ///
36 /// The distinction is the whole mechanism. `Current` chosen by a caller who
37 /// knows what it means is a legitimate, fast answer; `Current` arrived at by
38 /// never touching the setting, on a query about the past, is a wrong answer
39 /// nobody asked for. Those two produce identical behaviour and must not be
40 /// stored identically, so the field records which happened.
41 ///
42 /// Public for construction-by-struct-literal, which is why it is an `Option`
43 /// here rather than a private `bool` beside the mode: a caller building the
44 /// struct directly should have to write down the same thing the builder
45 /// method records.
46 pub attribute_mode: Option<AttributeMode>,
47 /// The valid-time instant to traverse at, if it is not the present.
48 ///
49 /// Added in 0.6.0 so "as of Tuesday" is *expressible*. Before this, the
50 /// instant arrived as `execute`'s `now_ts` parameter and a historical
51 /// traversal was indistinguishable from a live one — which is why the
52 /// mismatch with `AttributeMode::Current` could only ever be a `warn!`:
53 /// nothing in the call had the information needed to raise an error.
54 pub as_of: Option<String>,
55}
56
57impl TraversalBuilder {
58 pub fn new(start_node: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
59 Self {
60 start_node: start_node.into(),
61 max_depth: 3,
62 edge_types: Vec::new(),
63 min_weight: 0.0,
64 attribute_mode: None,
65 as_of: None,
66 }
67 }
68
69 pub fn max_depth(mut self, depth: usize) -> Self {
70 self.max_depth = depth;
71 self
72 }
73
74 pub fn edge_types(mut self, types: Vec<String>) -> Self {
75 self.edge_types = types;
76 self
77 }
78
79 pub fn min_weight(mut self, weight: f64) -> Self {
80 self.min_weight = weight;
81 self
82 }
83
84 /// State the attribute mode explicitly.
85 ///
86 /// Calling this is what turns `Current` from a default into a decision, and
87 /// [`Self::execute`] treats the two differently on a historical traversal —
88 /// see [`Self::as_of`].
89 pub fn attribute_mode(mut self, mode: AttributeMode) -> Self {
90 self.attribute_mode = Some(mode);
91 self
92 }
93
94 /// Traverse the graph as it was at `ts` rather than at the present (§5.2).
95 ///
96 /// # Setting this makes the attribute mode a required decision (T3.2, D-085)
97 ///
98 /// A historical traversal has two independent temporal questions, and until
99 /// 0.6.0 only one of them was asked. The topology comes from `ts`. The node
100 /// *attributes* — titles, content — come from wherever
101 /// [`AttributeMode`] says, and the default said `Current`, which is live
102 /// text. So `as_of(Tuesday)` returned Tuesday's graph wearing today's
103 /// titles, and reported that through a `tracing::warn!` — invisible in any
104 /// application that has not configured a subscriber, which is most of them
105 /// at first run.
106 ///
107 /// So: with `as_of` set and no [`Self::attribute_mode`] call,
108 /// [`Self::execute`] returns [`DbError::AttributeModeUnstated`] rather than
109 /// guessing. Both answers stay available and neither is silent:
110 ///
111 /// ```no_run
112 /// # use macrame::graph::{AttributeMode, TraversalBuilder};
113 /// # async fn f(conn: &libsql::Connection, now: &str) -> macrame::Result<()> {
114 /// // Tuesday's graph with Tuesday's titles — usually what was meant.
115 /// let then = TraversalBuilder::new("a")
116 /// .as_of("2026-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z")
117 /// .attribute_mode(AttributeMode::AtTime)
118 /// .execute(conn, now)
119 /// .await?;
120 ///
121 /// // Tuesday's topology with today's titles — legitimate, and now stated.
122 /// let mixed = TraversalBuilder::new("a")
123 /// .as_of("2026-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z")
124 /// .attribute_mode(AttributeMode::Current)
125 /// .execute(conn, now)
126 /// .await?;
127 /// # Ok(()) }
128 /// ```
129 ///
130 /// A traversal with no `as_of` is a query about now, where `Current` and
131 /// `AtTime` agree about which text to return, so the default stands and no
132 /// caller has to change.
133 pub fn as_of(mut self, ts: impl Into<String>) -> Self {
134 self.as_of = Some(ts.into());
135 self
136 }
137
138 /// The instant this traversal reads at: [`Self::as_of`] if set, else `now_ts`.
139 fn instant<'a>(&'a self, now_ts: &'a str) -> &'a str {
140 self.as_of.as_deref().unwrap_or(now_ts)
141 }
142
143 /// Compile the recursive CTE query string as specified in §5.2.
144 ///
145 /// Edge types become bind placeholders, not quoted literals. An earlier
146 /// version spliced them in with `format!("'{t}'")`, which made any caller
147 /// string a SQL fragment on the *read* path — and the only validation in the
148 /// crate, [`super::edge::validate_edge_type`], runs in
149 /// [`super::EdgeAssertion::normalized`] on the *write* path, so a traversal
150 /// never passed through it. Binding removes the question rather than
151 /// answering it: unlike a table name, an edge type is a value, and values
152 /// can be parameters.
153 pub fn build_sql(&self) -> String {
154 format!(
155 "{}{}",
156 self.walk_cte(),
157 r#"
158SELECT DISTINCT w.node_id
159FROM walk w JOIN concepts c ON c.id = w.node_id
160WHERE c.retired = 0
161ORDER BY w.node_id;
162 "#
163 )
164 }
165
166 /// The `AND l.edge_type IN (…)` fragment, or empty when unfiltered.
167 ///
168 /// `?1..?4` are start, depth, `now_ts` and `min_weight`, so edge types bind
169 /// from `?5`. Both call sites push them in the same order after those four,
170 /// which is why this lives beside the CTE rather than at either of them.
171 pub(crate) fn edge_filter_sql(&self) -> String {
172 if self.edge_types.is_empty() {
173 String::new()
174 } else {
175 let placeholders: Vec<String> = (0..self.edge_types.len())
176 .map(|i| format!("?{}", i + 5))
177 .collect();
178 format!(" AND l.edge_type IN ({})", placeholders.join(", "))
179 }
180 }
181
182 /// The recursive `walk` CTE — **the one copy** (T0.1).
183 ///
184 /// [`Self::build_sql`] and `Database::load_subgraph_with` append their own
185 /// projections to this. They previously carried byte-identical copies of the
186 /// recursion in two files, and had already drifted once: D-073 found the
187 /// subgraph loader taking neither `edge_types` nor `min_weight` while this
188 /// builder took both. Two copies of a query that must agree is the same
189 /// failure class as [D-030](../../docs/architecture/s13-decision-register.md)
190 /// and D-035, applied to SQL.
191 ///
192 /// **`UNION`, not `UNION ALL`, and no `path` column (T0.1).** The shipped
193 /// form carried a `path` of visited ids and refused a target already in it,
194 /// which restricts the walk to *simple paths* — so `walk` held one row per
195 /// distinct path to each node rather than one row per node, and the trailing
196 /// `SELECT DISTINCT` collapsed the duplication only after the work was done.
197 /// On a tree that costs nothing, because a tree has exactly one path to each
198 /// node; on a graph the row count is multiplicative in branching factor per
199 /// hop. Measured on libSQL 0.9.30 over a layered fixture (root, then *L*
200 /// layers of *W*, each fully joined to the next): a **328-edge** graph at
201 /// depth 6 produced **299,593** walk rows and took **428 ms**. The same
202 /// traversal here produces 49 rows in 0.1 ms.
203 ///
204 /// `UNION` dedupes on `(node_id, depth)` as rows enter the queue, so `walk`
205 /// is bounded by `V × (depth+1)` and termination comes from the depth bound
206 /// rather than from inspecting the path. The projections keep their
207 /// `DISTINCT`, because a node still legitimately appears at several depths.
208 ///
209 /// **Equivalence, argued rather than only measured.** The old form admits
210 /// only simple paths; this one admits any walk. The reachable sets are the
211 /// same: if a walk of length `k ≤ D` reaches `X`, excising its cycles yields
212 /// a simple path of length `≤ k` that also reaches `X`. So simple-path
213 /// reachability within `D` equals walk reachability within `D`, and the two
214 /// forms differed only in how much redundant work they did to establish it.
215 /// A property test over generated graphs — cycles, self-loops, diamonds and
216 /// expired edges, the four shapes the proof steps over — compares this form
217 /// against the old one at depths 1–4 and requires identical node *and* edge
218 /// sets (`integrity_property_tests`, 512 cases).
219 ///
220 /// **It is not free on a tree, and the plan that proposed it said it was.**
221 /// `UNION` maintains a dedupe b-tree over every row entering the queue; on a
222 /// tree nothing is ever deduped, so that is pure overhead. Measured on the
223 /// star-of-stars fixture at depth 3, best of 15, stable across runs:
224 /// 1,011 nodes 1.6 ms either way, 5,051 nodes 8.9 → 9.5 ms, 10,101 nodes
225 /// 17.8 → 19.6 ms — roughly **8–10% slower** where the old form was already
226 /// optimal, against ~2,000× faster where it was not. Recorded rather than
227 /// smoothed over: the trade is overwhelmingly worth taking and it is still a
228 /// trade, and "within noise" was a claim from a different engine's numbers.
229 pub(crate) fn walk_cte(&self) -> String {
230 let edge_filter = self.edge_filter_sql();
231 format!(
232 r#"
233WITH RECURSIVE walk(node_id, depth) AS (
234 SELECT ?1, 0
235 UNION
236 SELECT l.target_id, w.depth + 1
237 FROM walk w
238 JOIN links_current l ON l.source_id = w.node_id
239 WHERE w.depth < ?2
240 AND l.valid_from <= ?3 AND ?3 < l.valid_to
241 AND l.weight >= ?4
242 {edge_filter}
243)"#
244 )
245 }
246
247 /// Node ids reachable under this traversal, in id order (§5.2).
248 ///
249 /// Reads at [`Self::as_of`] when set, else at `now_ts`. No attribute mode is
250 /// involved, so this never returns [`DbError::AttributeModeUnstated`]:
251 /// topology at an instant is unambiguous, and it is only the *pairing* with
252 /// live attributes that needed a decision.
253 pub async fn execute_ids(
254 &self,
255 conn: &libsql::Connection,
256 now_ts: &str,
257 ) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
258 let sql = self.build_sql();
259
260 let mut params: Vec<libsql::Value> = vec![
261 self.start_node.as_str().into(),
262 (self.max_depth as i64).into(),
263 self.instant(now_ts).into(),
264 self.min_weight.into(),
265 ];
266 params.extend(self.edge_types.iter().map(|t| t.as_str().into()));
267
268 let mut rows = conn.query(&sql, params).await?;
269 let mut ids = Vec::new();
270 while let Some(row) = rows.next().await? {
271 ids.push(row.get(0)?);
272 }
273 Ok(ids)
274 }
275
276 /// Execute the traversal and hydrate attributes per [`Self::attribute_mode`]
277 /// (§5.2).
278 ///
279 /// The hydration is a second step rather than a join in the CTE because the
280 /// three modes read from two different places: `Current` and `Omit` from
281 /// `concepts`, `AtTime` from `transaction_log`. The previous version always
282 /// emitted the `concepts` join, so `attribute_mode` was stored, exposed by a
283 /// builder method, and never read — a caller asking for `AtTime` got live
284 /// attributes with no indication that the mode had been ignored. That is the
285 /// exact failure Doctrine II exists to prevent, arriving as a silent wrong
286 /// answer rather than as an error.
287 ///
288 /// **[`AttributeMode::Omit`] returns `Ok(vec![])` here**, which is
289 /// indistinguishable from a traversal that reached nothing. That is a
290 /// limitation of this method's return type rather than of the mode; callers
291 /// wanting topology only should use [`Self::execute_ids`], which says what it
292 /// found.
293 ///
294 /// # Errors
295 ///
296 /// [`DbError::AttributeModeUnstated`] when [`Self::as_of`] is set and
297 /// [`Self::attribute_mode`] is not — see `as_of` for why that combination is
298 /// a question rather than a default (T3.2, D-085).
299 ///
300 /// `now_ts` is the caller's present. A traversal with `as_of` set reads
301 /// topology at that instant instead; `now_ts` is still what an
302 /// `AttributeMode::Current` hydrate means by "current".
303 pub async fn execute(
304 &self,
305 conn: &libsql::Connection,
306 now_ts: &str,
307 ) -> Result<Vec<NodeAttributes>> {
308 let mode = self.resolved_mode()?;
309 let instant = self.instant(now_ts);
310 let ids = self.execute_ids(conn, now_ts).await?;
311
312 // `Current` hydrates from `concepts`, which is live regardless of the
313 // instant, so the ts it receives only matters for `AtTime`. Passing the
314 // traversal's instant rather than `now_ts` is what makes
315 // `as_of(t) + AtTime` mean "as believed at t" — the whole point of the
316 // pairing this method now requires the caller to state.
317 crate::temporal::as_of::hydrate_attributes(conn, &ids, instant, mode).await
318 }
319
320 /// The mode to hydrate with, or the error that says the caller must choose.
321 ///
322 /// Kept separate from [`Self::execute`] so it is unit-testable without a
323 /// database: the property under test is a decision about two `Option`s, and
324 /// a test that needed a connection to check it would be testing something
325 /// else as well.
326 pub(crate) fn resolved_mode(&self) -> Result<AttributeMode> {
327 match (self.as_of.as_deref(), self.attribute_mode) {
328 (Some(as_of), None) => Err(crate::error::DbError::AttributeModeUnstated {
329 as_of: as_of.to_string(),
330 }),
331 (_, Some(mode)) => Ok(mode),
332 (None, None) => Ok(AttributeMode::Current),
333 }
334 }
335}
336
337#[cfg(test)]
338mod tests {
339 use super::*;
340 use crate::error::DbError;
341
342 const TUE: &str = "2026-01-06T00:00:00.000000Z";
343
344 /// The only combination that is a question, and it is now asked.
345 #[test]
346 fn as_of_without_a_stated_mode_is_an_error() {
347 let err = TraversalBuilder::new("a")
348 .as_of(TUE)
349 .resolved_mode()
350 .expect_err("past topology plus present text must not be a default");
351
352 match err {
353 DbError::AttributeModeUnstated { as_of } => assert_eq!(as_of, TUE),
354 other => panic!("got {other:?}"),
355 }
356
357 // And the message has to be actionable: a caller who reads only this
358 // should know which two calls resolve it.
359 let text = DbError::AttributeModeUnstated {
360 as_of: TUE.to_string(),
361 }
362 .to_string();
363 assert!(
364 text.contains("AtTime") && text.contains("Current"),
365 "{text}"
366 );
367 }
368
369 /// Stating `Current` on a historical traversal is legitimate and stays so.
370 ///
371 /// The fix must not be "forbid the fast path". Past topology with live text
372 /// is a real query — a caller rendering a historical diagram with today's
373 /// labels wants exactly it — and the objection was always to getting it
374 /// without asking, never to asking for it.
375 #[test]
376 fn a_stated_mode_is_honoured_on_a_historical_traversal() {
377 for mode in [
378 AttributeMode::Current,
379 AttributeMode::AtTime,
380 AttributeMode::Omit,
381 ] {
382 let got = TraversalBuilder::new("a")
383 .as_of(TUE)
384 .attribute_mode(mode)
385 .resolved_mode()
386 .unwrap();
387 assert_eq!(got, mode);
388 }
389 }
390
391 /// A traversal about now still defaults, so no existing caller changes.
392 ///
393 /// This is what keeps the change from being a breaking one for the common
394 /// case: with no `as_of`, `Current` and `AtTime` agree about which text to
395 /// return, so there is nothing to decide and nothing to ask.
396 #[test]
397 fn a_live_traversal_still_defaults_to_current() {
398 assert_eq!(
399 TraversalBuilder::new("a").resolved_mode().unwrap(),
400 AttributeMode::Current
401 );
402 }
403
404 /// `as_of` supplies the instant the walk reads at; `now_ts` is the fallback.
405 #[test]
406 fn as_of_overrides_the_execute_timestamp() {
407 let now = "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000000Z";
408 assert_eq!(TraversalBuilder::new("a").instant(now), now);
409 assert_eq!(TraversalBuilder::new("a").as_of(TUE).instant(now), TUE);
410 }
411}