Keep API inhibition on one configuration generation

[devtechedge]

Reload published the new API configuration before it published the new inhibitor.

The mute callback also read whichever inhibitor was current, so a request that had already snapshotted the old callback could run it against the new rules.

The loaded inhibitor and the API callback are now published together, and the callback closes over that inhibitor instead of the live pointer.

The regression blocks the new inhibitor while it is still loading, and also holds an in-flight groups request across the swap, so either mix fails the test.

Fixes #5593.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The API publishes configuration, alert-group access, and status prediction together. The reloader updates the API after replacement components load. Tests check API responses during reload and across in-flight requests.

Changes

Reload and API state consistency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Publish API configuration and callbacks together api/api.go, api/v2/api.go	API.Update now accepts the alert-groups callback. The API stores it with configuration and status prediction in one snapshot. Request handlers use callback and configuration values from the same snapshot.
Publish callbacks bound to replacement components app/app.go, app/reloader.go	The reloader waits for the replacement inhibitor and dispatcher, then updates the API with callbacks bound to those components. The app no longer supplies the alert-groups callback through a closure over the reloader.
Test requests during and across reloads api/v2/api_test.go, app/reloader_test.go	Tests check that an in-flight alert-group request uses its captured API snapshot and that API status, groups, and alert responses reflect the old state during reload and the new state after reload.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 15653

The current behavior appears consistent, but the regression test does not protect alert status across an in-flight reload. Strengthen that assertion; the gap alone does not block merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 46.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 6 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: keeping API inhibition on one configuration generation during reloads. It is concise and specific, though it does not use the repository’s suggested "area…
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the reload inconsistency, the fix, the regression tests, and the linked issue. It does not include the template’s checklist or a release-notes entry, but it provides the key i…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	#5593 requires each API request to use inhibition rules from one complete configuration generation. app/reloader.go waits for the new inhibitor and dispatcher to load, then calls API.Update with c…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes support #5593. The API callback changes, removal of the reloader-backed groups accessor, and tests implement or verify generation-consistent configuration, groups, and inhibition behavior.…

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[TheMeier]

This is not sufficient I fear, a complete fix would propably look more something like this TheMeier@d0feccb

[devtechedge]

Thanks for pointing at your commit, that shape is cleaner than what I had.

I reworked this to publish config, groups, and inhibition together once the new dispatcher and inhibitor are both loaded.

The groups accessor now closes over the new dispatcher instead of reading the live pointer.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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[TheMeier]

@devtechedge fyi. We briefly discussed this last friday. We want to also evaluate alternative approaches to deal with the original issue.

[devtechedge]

Thanks for the heads-up.

Happy to adapt this to whichever direction you settle on, or to help test an alternative.

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api/v2/api_test.go (1)

1185-1195: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the old generation’s alert status.

getAlertGroupsHandler predicts alert status after snap.alertGroups returns. This test returns a group with no alerts and uses no-op status callbacks, so it can pass if a regression uses the new generation’s callback to predict the old group’s alert status. Return an alert, make the old and new callbacks produce different statuses, and assert the response uses the old status.

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Review comment at @api/v2/api_test.go around lines 1185 - 1195:
Update the in-flight request test around getAlertGroupsHandler to return a group
containing an alert and configure the old and new generation’s status callbacks
to produce distinct statuses; assert the response contains the old generation’s
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