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AAP-90129 Fix RBAC bulk assignment OR-of-pairs filter exceeding SQLite depth limit - #1115

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Summary

The RBAC bulk assignment path (bulk_give_permissions / give_assignments) built an OR-of-pairs Q filter to detect which (actor, object_role) pairs already existed, so it could fire post_save signals and activity-stream entries only for genuinely new rows. At scale (1000+ pairs) that filter produces an expression tree SQLite rejects:

django.db.utils.OperationalError: Expression tree is too large (maximum depth 1000)

This surfaced as a failure of test_demo_data_large_mode_creates_roledefinitions on SQLite. See AAP-90129 for the full traceback.

What changed

  • ansible_base/rbac/pipeline.py — replace the per-pair OR filter with PK-range detection: snapshot max(id) before bulk_create(ignore_conflicts=True), then find new rows via filter(id__gt=max_before), narrowed in Python to the batch's exact (actor, object_role) pairs. Constant-size query on the existing PK index regardless of batch shape (skinny or fat); no schema change.
  • The bulk methods now return only the newly-created assignments. Pairs that already existed are omitted — bulk_create(ignore_conflicts=True) cannot report skipped rows, and fetching them back is exactly the query that does not scale.
  • ansible_base/rbac/models/role.pygive_permission fetches its own pre-existing row when the bulk path returns nothing (idempotent re-assignment).

Tests

  • Added scale coverage (skinny 1 user × 1100 objects) and idempotent re-assignment coverage (repeat call returns [], fires no create signals; give_permission returns the saved pre-existing row).
  • Full RBAC suite: 665 passed, 2 xfailed.

Note: the DAB test DB here is Postgres, so the suite validates correctness at N>1000 but does not reproduce the SQLite crash in-suite; a standalone SQLite check confirms the old OR-tree fails at N=1500 while the new id > ? path uses one param.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Reassigning an existing permission now returns the existing assignment instead of failing.
    • Bulk permission operations now correctly handle large batches and avoid duplicate assignments.
    • Audit logs and notifications now reflect only newly created assignments.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for repeated assignments, large batches, permission accuracy, and assignment reporting.

…e depth limit

The bulk assignment path built an OR-of-pairs Q filter to detect which
(actor, object_role) pairs already existed, so it could fire post_save
signals and activity-stream entries only for genuinely new rows. At scale
(1000+ pairs) that filter produces an expression tree SQLite rejects with
"Expression tree is too large (maximum depth 1000)".

Replace the per-pair filter with PK-range detection: snapshot max(id)
before bulk_create(ignore_conflicts=True), then find new rows via
filter(id__gt=max_before), narrowed in Python to the batch's exact pairs.
This is a constant-size query on the existing PK index regardless of batch
shape (skinny or fat), with no schema change.

The bulk methods now return only the newly-created assignments. Pairs that
already existed are omitted -- bulk_create(ignore_conflicts=True) cannot
report skipped rows, and fetching them back is exactly the query that does
not scale. give_permission fetches its own pre-existing row when the bulk
path returns nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The RBAC changes make single permission assignment idempotent and update bulk assignment creation to return, signal, and audit only newly created assignments. Tests cover repeated assignments, large batches, permissions, signals, and audit entries.

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RBAC assignment idempotence

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Single permission assignment
ansible_base/rbac/models/role.py, test_app/tests/rbac/test_permission_assignment.py
give_permission returns the existing user or team assignment when no new row is created. The lookup uses role, content type, and normalized object ID. The test verifies stable primary keys and a single database row.
Bulk assignment creation and validation
ansible_base/rbac/pipeline.py, test_app/tests/rbac/test_triggers.py
Bulk insertion identifies newly created assignments by primary key and exact actor-role pairs. Signals, audit logging, and return values use newly created assignments only. Documentation describes this behavior. Tests cover 1,100-object batches and repeated assignment behavior.

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The change avoids SQLite expression-depth failures during large RBAC bulk assignments while preserving idempotent reassignment behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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In `@ansible_base/rbac/pipeline.py`:
- Around line 172-176: Update _create_assignments so its returned rows represent
only assignments inserted by the current bulk_create operation, rather than
inferring ownership from the global id range between max_before and the
post-insert query. Preserve the existing batch-pair filtering and avoid emitting
duplicate created-side effects when concurrent calls use ignore_conflicts=True;
add a regression test covering concurrent creation of the same actor/object
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The bulk path stores object_id as a normalized string, so the fallback
lookup for an already-existing assignment must resolve content_type/object_id
the same way. Querying with a raw non-integer pk (e.g. a UUID) rendered a
different string form and failed to match, raising DoesNotExist on SQLite
(caught by test_duplicate_assignment).

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Changes look sound.

- Remove the dead empty-input guard in _insert_new; callers already guard
  with `if user_assignments:` / `if team_assignments:`, so it never ran.
- Add test_give_permission_idempotent_returns_existing_team to cover the
  team branch of give_permission's existing-row fallback lookup.
- Add test_fire_signals_false_audits_created_without_post_save to cover the
  fire_signals_on_create=False path for both user and team assignments
  (audit via _audit_log_created, no post_save), plus its empty-created
  early return on re-assignment.

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closing in favor of #1116

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