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Closes FAForever/faf-java-api#1181

Adds a request_replay_review lobby command. It validates the content fields of a replay review request, stamps the requesting player from the authenticated connection, and publishes the result to the topic exchange with routing key request.replay_review.create.

The lobby neither answers the request nor knows who will. A consumer bound to that key turns it into a post wherever reviews are actually answered — the intended first one is a forum post by faf-qai, which is a separate PR and not required for this one to be safe to merge.

Why this goes through the lobby at all

Identity. A client posting straight to a chat service can claim to be anyone, which is what sank the earlier proposals. A client on this socket has already authenticated, so player_id and login are the server's word rather than the client's. Nothing else in the feature needs the lobby.

What is in here

  • server/replay_review_service.py — validation, the rate limit, and the publish. The wire contract is documented in the module docstring.
  • command_request_replay_review on LobbyConnection, next to the other party/veto commands.
  • REPLAY_REVIEW_COOLDOWN_SECONDS in config.py.

Three decisions worth looking at

The client cannot name a replay by url. The payload takes replay_id only. The client also knows how to name a replay by link or by a local file, but a link would let the client decide what a review post points at, and a file nobody else can fetch is not a review request. Those keep using the client's existing copy-and-paste path.

Identity is dropped at the parser, not overwritten later. parse_review_request returns content fields only, and the caller adds player_id/login. There is deliberately no ordering of operations in which a client-supplied value survives — test_submit_ignores_identity_the_client_tried_to_set pins that end to end.

The rate limit is in memory. One request per player per 24h, per lobby instance, lost on restart. That makes it a spam guard rather than a quota. The cost of a duplicate is a duplicate post, and the alternative is a schema migration plus a database write on a path that has no other reason to touch the database. Rejections happen before publishing, so an over-limit request never reaches the bus. Happy to change this if you would rather have it durable — it is contained in one service.

Deploying this alone is a no-op

With no queue bound to the routing key, published messages go nowhere and cost nothing. That makes the rollout order lobby-first, and unbinding the queue later is the off switch — no client release, no code change.

Not covered

The lobby sends nothing back on success and answers a rejection through the existing notice path, the same as command_invite_to_party, so a client shows success optimistically. If an explicit acknowledgement is wanted that is a new server→client command, and better decided before clients are written against it. Noted as the fifth question in FAForever/faf-java-api#1181.

Tests

  • tests/unit_tests/test_replay_review_service.py — parsing, the identity stamp, the rate limit, and that a rejected request never reaches the broker.
  • tests/unit_tests/test_lobbyconnection.py — the command wiring, including that an unauthenticated connection never reaches the handler.

flake8 and isort are clean on the changed files. The suite itself I could not run locally — it wants Python 3.13 plus MySQL and RabbitMQ — so CI here is the first full run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a replay review request flow from authenticated lobby players.
    • Replay review submissions are validated, sanitized, and queued for processing.
    • Added protection against repeated submissions with a one-day per-player cooldown.
    • Server-assigned identity and timestamps help ensure request information is trustworthy.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or unauthenticated replay review requests now receive appropriate error responses.

Adds a `request_replay_review` lobby command. It validates the content
fields of a review request, stamps the requesting player from the
authenticated connection, and publishes the result to the topic exchange
with routing key `request.replay_review.create`.

The lobby neither answers the request nor knows who will. A consumer
bound to that key renders it into a post wherever reviews are actually
answered. The reason the request takes this detour at all is identity:
a client posting straight to a chat service can claim to be anyone,
while a client on this socket has already authenticated, so `player_id`
and `login` are the server's word rather than the client's.

Requests are rate limited per player before publishing, so a rejected
request never reaches the bus.
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Adds an authenticated lobby command for replay review requests. The server validates content, stamps player identity and time, applies a per-player cooldown, and publishes accepted requests through the message queue.

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Replay review submission

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validation, cooldown, and publishing
server/replay_review_service.py, server/config.py, tests/unit_tests/test_replay_review_service.py
Defines the request schema, cleans text fields, removes client identity fields, applies the per-player cooldown, stamps server identity, publishes accepted requests, and tests these behaviors.
Lobby command handling
server/lobbyconnection.py, tests/unit_tests/test_lobbyconnection.py
Adds request_replay_review, requires authentication, validates requests, forwards them to ReplayReviewService, and reports rejected requests through notices.
Service export and server wiring
server/__init__.py, tests/integration_tests/conftest.py, tests/integration_tests/test_server_instance.py, tests/integration_tests/test_servercontext.py
Exports ReplayReviewService, injects it into LobbyConnection, and updates integration fixtures and service overrides.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 75f33

The new rate limit can either fail for environment-configured deployments or allow duplicate concurrent requests. These issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LobbyConnection
  participant ReplayReviewService
  participant MessageQueueService
  LobbyConnection->>ReplayReviewService: Submit authenticated player and parsed request
  ReplayReviewService->>ReplayReviewService: Validate cooldown and stamp identity
  ReplayReviewService->>MessageQueueService: Publish replay review request
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement the linked issue requirements. The lobby command validates requests, requires authentication, uses connection-provided identity, applies a per-player 24-hour pre-publish cooldown…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are within scope. Service creation, configuration, lobby wiring, integration fixtures, and unit tests directly support the replay review request flow. No unrelated feature or consumer impl…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: accepting replay review requests and publishing them to the broker. It is specific and related to the pull request objectives.
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In `@server/config.py`:
- Line 108: Update ConfigurationStore.refresh so the
REPLAY_REVIEW_COOLDOWN_SECONDS environment override is converted to an integer
before storage, preserving numeric behavior for ReplayReviewService._prune and
its rate-limit response.

In `@server/replay_review_service.py`:
- Around line 198-202: Update ReplayReviewService.submit to reserve the player’s
cooldown timestamp before awaiting MessageQueueService.publish, preventing
concurrent submissions for the same player from passing the check. If
publication fails or is cancelled, remove the reservation so a later submission
can proceed; preserve the existing cooldown behavior on success. Add a
regression test that blocks the first publish and starts a second submission for
the same player, verifying the second is rejected.

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Comment thread server/config.py
# How long a player must wait between replay review requests. Kept in
# memory per lobby instance, so this is a spam guard rather than a
# quota; see `ReplayReviewService`.
self.REPLAY_REVIEW_COOLDOWN_SECONDS = 24 * 60 * 60

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the numeric type for environment overrides.

When REPLAY_REVIEW_COOLDOWN_SECONDS=3600 is set, ConfigurationStore.refresh stores "3600" as a string. On a second submission, ReplayReviewService._prune evaluates now - at < cooldown and raises TypeError instead of returning the rate-limit notice. Coerce this environment value to an integer before storing it.

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In `@server/config.py` at line 108, Update ConfigurationStore.refresh so the
REPLAY_REVIEW_COOLDOWN_SECONDS environment override is converted to an integer
before storage, preserving numeric behavior for ReplayReviewService._prune and
its rate-limit response.

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On the red Codacy check, in case it looks like something to fix: it has both D212 and D213 enabled, which are mutually exclusive alternatives in pydocstyle, so no multi-line docstring can pass. Reproduced locally with the same two rules selected:

$ printf '"""Summary on the first line.\n\nBody.\n"""\n' > a.py
$ pydocstyle --select=D212,D213 a.py
a.py:1 at module level:
        D213: Multi-line docstring summary should start at the second line

$ printf '"""\nSummary on the second line.\n\nBody.\n"""\n' > b.py
$ pydocstyle --select=D212,D213 b.py
b.py:1 at module level:
        D212: Multi-line docstring summary should start at the first line

The one escape is a single-line docstring, which triggers neither. I have used that where it costs nothing — the constructor and the one test that was flagged. That leaves a single annotation, on the module docstring of replay_review_service.py, where the body is the wire contract. Collapsing that to a comment would take it out of the generated docs, and it would stop matching client_message_queue_service.py and avatar_change_queue_service.py, which document their contracts the same way. Happy to change it if you would rather have the check green.

Every other check passes, including unit tests, mypy, flake8, isort and codecov.

A connection's messages are dispatched one at a time, so two requests from
one player could only overlap while they have two connections open. The
ordering costs nothing either way, and rolling the claim back when the
publish raises is worth having on its own: a request that never reached
the broker should not cost the player their turn.
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Thanks — took one of the two.

Cooldown claimed before the publish: done in 29f3a00, with a rollback when the publish raises and two regression tests. The race itself is narrow, since ServerContext awaits on_message_received one message at a time so a single connection cannot overlap with itself, but the ordering costs nothing and the rollback is worth having on its own — a request that never reached the broker should not cost the player their turn.

Coercing the config value to int: leaving this one. ConfigurationStore.refresh says # NOTE: Only works for string values! at the point where it reads the environment, and that applies to every numeric setting in the file — LOGIN_TIMEOUT set through the environment would break asyncio.sleep the same way. Making this one constant the only one that coerces would hide a repo-wide limitation behind a single exception rather than fix it. Deployments configure through CONFIGURATION_FILE, and YAML keeps the type. Happy to send a separate PR that coerces numeric defaults across the board if that is wanted.

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This functionality should go into the api elide model as discussed in FAForever/faf-java-api#1181

@Sheikah45 Sheikah45 closed this Sep 8, 2026
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