## Context
The `/metadata` GraphQL response cache (`ObjectMetadataItems`,
`FindAllViews`) and the workspace SDL cache were keyed on
`workspace.metadataVersion`, an integer bumped on every object/field
migration. That mechanism is legacy (the migration runner literally
calls it `getLegacyCacheInvalidationPromises`): the data plane already
moved to `WorkspaceCacheService`, which versions each flat entity map
with its own hash minted on invalidation.
Version keying had two concrete costs: the version bump was the only
proactive invalidation for `ObjectMetadataItems`, and keeping
`FindAllViews` fresh required `flushGraphQLOperation`, a full Redis
keyspace SCAN on every relevant migration. It is also the main blocker
for deprecating `metadataVersion` entirely.
This PR re-keys both caches on the flat-map hashes instead.
## What changed
**Response cache** (`use-cached-metadata.ts`): the key is now
`{operation}:{workspaceId}:{combinedDependencyHash}[:{userWorkspaceId}]:{locale}:{queryHash}`.
Each cached operation declares which flat maps its resolvers read
(`metadata-graphql-operations-to-cache.constant.ts`) plus a scope:
`ObjectMetadataItems` stays workspace-shared, `FindAllViews` is per-user
because unlisted-view visibility depends on the caller. When any
declared map changes, its hash rotates and the key rotates with it; no
flush needed. The key is resolved once per request and reused in
`onResponse`, so a rotation mid-request can never cache a response under
a fresher key than the data it was built from. If hash resolution fails,
the request is served uncached (Sentry-captured).
This also fixes three pre-existing key soundness gaps: `FindAllViews`
ignored locale although view names are translated server-side, the query
hash ignored GraphQL variables (`$viewTypes`), and mid-request version
rotation could re-key between request and response.
**SDL cache** (`workspace-graphql-schema-sdl.service.ts`): keyed on the
combined hash of the four maps the schema is generated from, taken from
the same `getOrRecomputeWithHashes` call that returns the data, so key
and content cannot skew. The `metadataVersion` read/seed block there is
gone; the Redis seed moved to `middleware.service.ts` so the
`X-Schema-Version` "refresh the page" check keeps working after the
Redis key's TTL expires.
**`WorkspaceCacheService`**: the internal pipeline now threads `{data,
hashes}` through every stage (local hit, hash validation, Redis fetch,
recompute) and the memoizer stores the pair, so returned hashes are
always consistent with returned data. New public
`getOrRecomputeWithHashes` and `getOrRecomputeCombinedHash`
(hashes-first: one MGET of the small `:hash` keys, full pipeline only
for missing ones, so cold pods never pull map payloads just to build a
key).
**Atomic pair writes** (`cache-storage.service.ts`): `mset` on the Redis
driver now delegates to the store's own `mset` (a MULTI of `SET ... PX`,
or native `MSET`), grouped by TTL. Previously it was a `Promise.all` of
independent SETs, so two concurrent recomputes could interleave and
leave one recompute's `:data` next to the other's `:hash`; with
hash-keyed caches that torn pair could persist a stale response under a
live key. `CoreEntityCacheService` writes through the same method and is
fixed for free.
**Cleanup**: `flush()` lost its `metadataVersion` parameter (always
pattern-flush per key on workspace deletion),
`METADATA_VERSIONED_WORKSPACE_CACHE_KEY` became
`HASH_KEYED_WORKSPACE_CACHE_KEYS` with the `MetadataVersion` key
relocated to `WORKSPACE_CACHE_KEYS` and the dead `ORMEntitySchemas`
entry removed.
## Deliberately unchanged
- `incrementMetadataVersion` and all its callers stay: the version still
feeds the `X-Schema-Version` check and the pinned upgrade commands.
Deprecating the column is a later stage.
- The runner's `FindAllViews` pattern-flush is kept for exactly one
release: view-only migrations never bump `metadataVersion`, so old pods
in a rolling deploy have no other invalidation signal for their
version-keyed entries. It gets deleted next release, which removes the
SCAN entirely.
- Old-shape cache entries are not migrated; they expire via the 7-day
TTL.
## Known limitations (follow-ups, not regressions)
- The plugin reads dependency hashes Redis-fresh while resolvers can
serve up to 10s-old memoized data, so a request landing right after a
migration can cache a pre-rotation response under the new key. Same
shape existed under `metadataVersion`; closing it needs request-scoped
snapshot plumbing.
- Concurrent recomputes are last-writer-wins (lost update). Fencing with
a conditional write is a follow-up.
## Validation
- Unit: response-cache plugin behavior (scope, key stash, serve-uncached
on failure, prototype-name guard), atomic `mset` batching, existing
`WorkspaceCacheService` spec passing unchanged.
- Integration: a new drift-guard spec runs the real
`ObjectMetadataItems`/`FindAllViews` operations with full frontend
selection sets against the in-process app, spies on
`WorkspaceCacheService`, and fails if resolvers read a flat map missing
from the declared dependency lists, so the constant cannot silently
drift.
- Manual against a live server: creating a field rotates the field-map
hash and the very next `ObjectMetadataItems` response contains it (hash
rotation is now its only invalidation path); warm hits are ~5ms; SDL
entries appear under hash-shaped keys via introspection.
## Suggested reading order
1. `workspace-cache.service.ts`, `workspace-cache-key.type.ts`,
`combine-cache-hashes.util.ts` (the `{data, hashes}` pipeline)
2. `use-cached-metadata.ts`,
`metadata-graphql-operations-to-cache.constant.ts`,
`metadata.module-factory.ts` (response cache)
3. `workspace-graphql-schema-sdl.service.ts`,
`workspace-cache-storage.service.ts` (SDL cache and renames)
4. `middleware.service.ts` (metadata version seed relocation)
5. `cache-storage.service.ts` (atomic writes)
6. Tests
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