Stop job creation from failing when the result backend connection is idle

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Summary

Starting a job sometimes failed with a server error even though nothing was wrong with the job. When a job is enqueued, Antenna asked the Celery result backend for the status of the task it had just sent. If that backend connection had been idle long enough to be reset, the question raised ConnectionResetError and the whole request returned a 500. We saw this repeatedly when starting tracking and export jobs on a development stack that had been quiet for a while.

A task that was just sent is always pending, so the job is now marked pending directly and creating a job no longer talks to the result backend at all.

List of Changes

1. Creating or starting a job no longer fails when the result backend connection has gone idle. Job.enqueue() sets the status to PENDING instead of reading it back through AsyncResult.
2. A test pins that enqueuing never asks the result backend and leaves the job pending with a task id.

How to test

python manage.py test ami.jobs (136 tests pass locally).

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• Bug Fixes
  • Jobs now consistently appear as pending immediately after they are scheduled, providing a clearer and more reliable status while they wait to run. The pending status is saved before processing begins, preventing jobs from briefly showing an outdated status.

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Walkthrough

Job.enqueue() now sets the job status to PENDING after scheduling the Celery task. A test checks that enqueueing does not call AsyncResult and that the refreshed job has a task ID.

Changes

Job enqueue status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Set pending status after dispatch ami/jobs/models.py, ami/jobs/tests/test_jobs.py	Job.enqueue() assigns PENDING after scheduling the task. The test checks the refreshed status and task ID, and verifies that AsyncResult is not called.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a117f

Job creation no longer queries the result backend, so idle connection resets should not cause 500s. The pending status is saved before the task is dispatched, so a worker's later status update is not overwritten. No merge-blocking risk remains; the CI failure is described as a MinIO image-pull infrastructure problem, not a code issue.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a117f

The change improves job-start ordering without an identified increase in access or privileges. Dispatch recovery and the exact pre-change behavior remain partly unverified, leaving limited design uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The inspected execution scope remains the persisted job and its project/deployment associations. Deployment sync-all can create work across deployments within an authorized project, but the enqueue change adds no new scope or authority argument to task execution.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Reviewed export and deployment API paths retain object/project permission checks before enqueueing. The Jobs UI checks object access and job-run permission. The worker continues to load the persisted job rather than accepting new project or deployment authority from the enqueue caller.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — If broker delivery fails after persistence, the job can remain PENDING without accepted work. Existing stale-job recovery selects PENDING, revalidates under a row lock, tolerates result-backend lookup failure, and revokes with resource cleanup. This supplies a containment path when recovery runs, not a durable delivery guarantee; its effective production scheduling was not established.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 71.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main fix: preventing job creation failures caused by an idle result-backend connection.
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- Line 1140: In `enqueue()`, persist the task’s PENDING state and updated fields
before registering `send_task` with `transaction.on_commit`; this prevents an
immediate dispatch from racing with the save and overwriting a worker’s newer
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Claude says: The red "Backend Tests" check on this head is an infrastructure failure, not a code failure. The test job stops at "Run DB Migrations" before any test runs, because the registry now refuses anonymous pulls of the pinned MinIO images: minio-init Error unauthorized: access to the requested resource is not authorized. A rerun of the job gave the same error for the minio image, and docker manifest inspect returns the same refusal for both quay.io/minio/minio and quay.io/minio/mc from outside CI, so main is expected to fail the same way on its next run.

Update: the change to merge first is #1435. It now carries the same fixes that were proposed separately in #1440 (MinIO images from a registry that allows anonymous pulls, pinned by digest, and local Django waiting for the bucket setup to succeed), and its Backend Tests check is green on its current head. Once #1435 is on main, this PR only needs a merge of main. #1440 is closed as superseded.

Until CI is green again, the test evidence for this PR is a local run of the same CI compose stack, described in the PR description. Please treat the check as blocked on #1435 rather than as a review signal.

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