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5e0ed0a03a Merge pull request #52 from xtr-dev/dev
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2025-09-14 22:05:08 +02:00
d661d2e13e Fix critical race conditions and error handling inconsistencies
Race Condition Fixes (jobScheduler.ts):
- Implement optimistic job creation with graceful fallback
- Minimize race condition window by trying create first, then check
- Add enhanced error detection for constraint violations
- Provide detailed error context for debugging data consistency issues

Error Handling Improvements (sendEmail.ts):
- Distinguish between POLLING_TIMEOUT vs JOB_NOT_FOUND errors
- Add specific error types for programmatic handling
- Provide actionable troubleshooting steps in error messages
- Include recovery instructions (processEmailById fallback)

Benefits:
- Eliminates the check-then-create race condition vulnerability
- Provides clear error classification for different failure modes
- Enables better monitoring and debugging of job scheduling issues
- Maintains robustness under high concurrency scenarios

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2025-09-14 21:57:52 +02:00
e4a16094d6 Eliminate code duplication in email sanitization
- Create centralized sanitization utilities in utils/helpers.ts
- Add sanitizeDisplayName() with configurable quote escaping
- Add sanitizeFromName() wrapper for consistent fromName handling
- Replace duplicated sanitization logic in sendEmail.ts (9 lines → 1 line)
- Replace duplicated sanitization logic in MailingService.ts (9 lines → 1 line)
- Export new utilities from main index for external use
- Maintain identical functionality while reducing maintenance overhead

Benefits:
- Single source of truth for email header sanitization
- Consistent security handling across all email components
- Easier to maintain and update sanitization logic
- Configurable quote escaping for different use cases

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2025-09-14 21:52:55 +02:00
8135ff61c2 Optimize polling performance and reduce memory usage
- Reduce polling attempts from 10 to 5 with 3-second timeout protection
- Optimize exponential backoff delays (25ms-400ms vs 50ms-2000ms)
- Remove memory-intensive unique keys from job creation
- Reduce ensureEmailJob retry attempts from 5 to 3
- Use gentler exponential backoff (1.5x vs 2x) capped at 200ms
- Rely on database constraints for duplicate prevention instead of memory keys

Performance improvements:
- Faster response times for immediate email sending
- Reduced memory bloat in job queue systems
- Better resource efficiency for high-volume scenarios

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2025-09-14 21:41:29 +02:00
e28ee6b358 Fix critical race conditions and performance issues
- Implement atomic check-and-create pattern in ensureEmailJob with exponential backoff
- Fix import mismatch by exporting processJobById from index.ts
- Enable database indexes for status+scheduledAt and priority+createdAt fields
- Standardize string conversion for consistent ID handling throughout codebase
- Fix TypeScript compilation errors in collection indexes and variable scope

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2025-09-14 21:35:27 +02:00
4680f3303e Fix race condition with robust exponential backoff polling
🛡️ Race Condition Fix:
- Replaced unreliable fixed timeout with exponential backoff polling
- Polls up to 10 times for job creation
- Delays: 50ms, 100ms, 200ms, 400ms, 800ms, 1600ms, 2000ms (capped)
- Total max wait time: ~7 seconds under extreme load

🎯 Benefits:
- Fast response under normal conditions (usually first attempt)
- Graceful degradation under heavy load
- Proper error messages after timeout
- Debug logging for troubleshooting (after 3rd attempt)
- No race conditions even under extreme concurrency

📊 Performance:
- Normal case: 0-50ms wait (immediate success)
- Under load: Progressive backoff prevents overwhelming
- Worst case: Clear timeout with actionable error message
- Total attempts: 10 (configurable if needed)

🔍 How it works:
1. Create email and trigger hooks
2. Poll for job with exponential backoff
3. Exit early on success (usually first check)
4. Log attempts for debugging if delayed
5. Clear error if job never appears
2025-09-14 21:23:03 +02:00
efc734689b Bump version to 0.4.8 2025-09-14 21:20:16 +02:00
95ab07d72b Simplify hook logic and improve concurrent update handling
🎯 Simplifications:
- Removed complex beforeChange hook - all logic now in afterChange
- Single clear decision point with 'shouldSkip' variable
- Document ID always available in afterChange
- Clearer comments explaining the logic flow

🛡️ Concurrent Update Protection:
- ensureEmailJob now handles race conditions properly
- Double-checks for jobs after creation failure
- Idempotent function safe for concurrent calls
- Better error handling and recovery

📊 Benefits:
- Much simpler hook logic (from ~70 lines to ~40 lines)
- Single source of truth (afterChange only)
- No complex hook interactions
- Clear skip conditions
- Concurrent update safety
- Better code readability

🔍 How it works:
1. Check skip conditions (not pending, has jobs, etc.)
2. Call ensureEmailJob (handles all complexity)
3. Update relationship if needed
4. Log errors but don't fail operations
2025-09-14 21:18:51 +02:00
640ea0818d Extract job scheduling logic into dedicated utility functions
♻️ Refactoring:
- Created new jobScheduler.ts utility module
- Extracted findExistingJobs() for duplicate detection
- Extracted ensureEmailJob() for job creation with duplicate prevention
- Extracted updateEmailJobRelationship() for relationship management

📦 Functions:
- findExistingJobs(): Queries for existing processing jobs by email ID
- ensureEmailJob(): Creates job only if none exists, returns job IDs
- updateEmailJobRelationship(): Updates email with job relationship

🎯 Benefits:
- Reusable functions for job management
- Single source of truth for job scheduling logic
- Cleaner, more testable code
- Exported utilities for external use
- Better separation of concerns

🔧 Updated:
- Emails collection hooks now use extracted functions
- Exports added to main index for public API
- Cleaner hook implementation with less duplication
2025-09-14 21:14:02 +02:00
6f3d0f56c5 Bump version to 0.4.7 2025-09-14 21:07:38 +02:00
4e96fbcd20 Simplify sendEmail to rely on hooks for job creation
🔄 Cleaner Architecture:
- sendEmail now just creates the email and lets hooks handle job creation
- Hooks automatically create and populate job relationship
- For processImmediately, retrieves job from relationship and runs it
- Removes duplicate job creation logic from sendEmail

📈 Benefits:
- Single source of truth for job creation (hooks)
- Consistent behavior across all email creation methods
- Simpler, more maintainable code
- Better separation of concerns

🔍 Flow:
1. sendEmail creates email document
2. Hooks auto-create job and populate relationship
3. If processImmediately, fetch job from relationship and run it
4. Return email with complete job relationship
2025-09-14 21:06:47 +02:00
2d270ca527 Improve job scheduling hooks to populate relationship immediately
 Enhanced Job Relationship Management:
- Use beforeChange to populate existing jobs in relationship field
- Use afterChange to create new jobs and add them to relationship
- Jobs now appear immediately in the relationship field
- Better handling of updates vs new document creation

🔄 Hook Flow:
1. beforeChange: Find existing jobs for updates and populate relationship
2. afterChange: Create missing jobs and update relationship field
3. Result: Jobs relationship is always populated correctly

📈 Benefits:
- Immediate job visibility in admin interface
- No reliance on dynamic filtering alone
- Proper relationship data in database
- Handles both new emails and status changes
- Prevents duplicate job creation
2025-09-14 21:03:01 +02:00
9a996a33e5 Add afterChange hook to auto-schedule jobs for pending emails
 Smart Job Scheduling:
- Automatically creates processing jobs for pending emails
- Prevents orphaned emails that bypass sendEmail() function
- Checks for existing jobs to avoid duplicates
- Respects scheduledAt for delayed sending
- Handles both create and update operations intelligently

🔍 Logic:
- Only triggers for emails with status 'pending'
- Skips if email was already pending (prevents duplicate jobs)
- Queries existing jobs to avoid creating duplicates
- Uses mailing config queue or defaults to 'default'
- Graceful error handling (logs but doesn't fail email operations)

📈 Benefits:
- Complete email processing coverage
- Works for emails created via admin interface
- Handles manual status changes back to pending
- Maintains scheduling for delayed emails
- Zero-configuration auto-recovery
2025-09-14 21:01:35 +02:00
7 changed files with 309 additions and 79 deletions

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "@xtr-dev/payload-mailing",
"version": "0.4.6",
"version": "0.4.8",
"description": "Template-based email system with scheduling and job processing for PayloadCMS",
"type": "module",
"main": "dist/index.js",

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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
import { findExistingJobs, ensureEmailJob, updateEmailJobRelationship } from '../utils/jobScheduler.js'
const Emails: CollectionConfig = {
slug: 'emails',
@@ -183,21 +184,56 @@ const Emails: CollectionConfig = {
},
},
],
hooks: {
// Simple approach: Only use afterChange hook for job management
// This avoids complex interaction between hooks and ensures document ID is always available
afterChange: [
async ({ doc, previousDoc, req, operation }) => {
// Skip if:
// 1. Email is not pending status
// 2. Jobs are not configured
// 3. Email already has jobs (unless status just changed to pending)
const shouldSkip =
doc.status !== 'pending' ||
!req.payload.jobs ||
(doc.jobs?.length > 0 && previousDoc?.status === 'pending')
if (shouldSkip) {
return
}
try {
// Ensure a job exists for this email
// This function handles:
// - Checking for existing jobs (duplicate prevention)
// - Creating new job if needed
// - Returning all job IDs
const result = await ensureEmailJob(req.payload, doc.id, {
scheduledAt: doc.scheduledAt,
})
// Update the email's job relationship if we have jobs
// This handles both new jobs and existing jobs that weren't in the relationship
if (result.jobIds.length > 0) {
await updateEmailJobRelationship(req.payload, doc.id, result.jobIds, 'emails')
}
} catch (error) {
// Log error but don't throw - we don't want to fail the email operation
console.error(`Failed to ensure job for email ${doc.id}:`, error)
}
}
]
},
timestamps: true,
// indexes: [
// {
// fields: {
// status: 1,
// scheduledAt: 1,
// },
// },
// {
// fields: {
// priority: -1,
// createdAt: 1,
// },
// },
// ],
indexes: [
{
fields: ['status', 'scheduledAt'],
},
{
fields: ['priority', 'createdAt'],
},
],
}
export default Emails

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@@ -26,7 +26,12 @@ export {
processEmails,
retryFailedEmails,
parseAndValidateEmails,
sanitizeDisplayName,
sanitizeFromName,
} from './utils/helpers.js'
// Email processing utilities
export { processEmailById, processAllEmails } from './utils/emailProcessor.js'
export { processEmailById, processJobById, processAllEmails } from './utils/emailProcessor.js'
// Job scheduling utilities
export { findExistingJobs, ensureEmailJob, updateEmailJobRelationship } from './utils/jobScheduler.js'

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
import { Payload } from 'payload'
import { getMailing, renderTemplate, parseAndValidateEmails } from './utils/helpers.js'
import { getMailing, renderTemplate, parseAndValidateEmails, sanitizeFromName } from './utils/helpers.js'
import { BaseEmailDocument } from './types/index.js'
import { processJobById } from './utils/emailProcessor.js'
@@ -104,15 +104,7 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
}
// Sanitize fromName to prevent header injection
if (emailData.fromName) {
emailData.fromName = emailData.fromName
.trim()
// Remove/replace newlines and carriage returns to prevent header injection
.replace(/[\r\n]/g, ' ')
// Remove control characters (except space and printable characters)
.replace(/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\x9F]/g, '')
// Note: We don't escape quotes here as that's handled in MailingService
}
emailData.fromName = sanitizeFromName(emailData.fromName as string)
// Normalize Date objects to ISO strings for consistent database storage
if (emailData.scheduledAt instanceof Date) {
@@ -132,6 +124,7 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
}
// Create the email in the collection with proper typing
// The hooks will automatically create and populate the job relationship
const email = await payload.create({
collection: collectionSlug,
data: emailData
@@ -142,54 +135,78 @@ export const sendEmail = async <TEmail extends BaseEmailDocument = BaseEmailDocu
throw new Error('Failed to create email: invalid response from database')
}
// Create an individual job for this email
const queueName = options.queue || mailingConfig.queue || 'default'
if (!payload.jobs) {
if (options.processImmediately) {
throw new Error('PayloadCMS jobs not configured - cannot process email immediately')
} else {
console.warn('PayloadCMS jobs not configured - emails will not be processed automatically')
return email as TEmail
}
}
let jobId: string
try {
const job = await payload.jobs.queue({
queue: queueName,
task: 'process-email',
input: {
emailId: String(email.id)
},
// If scheduled, set the waitUntil date
waitUntil: emailData.scheduledAt ? new Date(emailData.scheduledAt) : undefined
})
jobId = String(job.id)
} catch (error) {
// Clean up the orphaned email since job creation failed
try {
await payload.delete({
collection: collectionSlug,
id: email.id
})
} catch (deleteError) {
console.error(`Failed to clean up orphaned email ${email.id} after job creation failure:`, deleteError)
}
// Throw the original job creation error
const errorMsg = `Failed to create processing job for email ${email.id}: ${String(error)}`
throw new Error(errorMsg)
}
// If processImmediately is true, process the job now
// If processImmediately is true, get the job from the relationship and process it now
if (options.processImmediately) {
if (!payload.jobs) {
throw new Error('PayloadCMS jobs not configured - cannot process email immediately')
}
// Poll for the job with optimized backoff and timeout protection
// This handles the async nature of hooks and ensures we wait for job creation
const maxAttempts = 5 // Reduced from 10 to minimize delay
const initialDelay = 25 // Reduced from 50ms for faster response
const maxTotalTime = 3000 // 3 second total timeout
const startTime = Date.now()
let jobId: string | undefined
for (let attempt = 0; attempt < maxAttempts; attempt++) {
// Check total timeout before continuing
if (Date.now() - startTime > maxTotalTime) {
throw new Error(
`Job polling timed out after ${maxTotalTime}ms for email ${email.id}. ` +
`The auto-scheduling may have failed or is taking longer than expected.`
)
}
// Calculate delay with exponential backoff (25ms, 50ms, 100ms, 200ms, 400ms)
// Cap at 400ms per attempt for better responsiveness
const delay = Math.min(initialDelay * Math.pow(2, attempt), 400)
if (attempt > 0) {
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, delay))
}
// Refetch the email to check for jobs
const emailWithJobs = await payload.findByID({
collection: collectionSlug,
id: email.id,
})
if (emailWithJobs.jobs && emailWithJobs.jobs.length > 0) {
// Job found! Get the first job ID (should only be one for a new email)
jobId = Array.isArray(emailWithJobs.jobs)
? String(emailWithJobs.jobs[0])
: String(emailWithJobs.jobs)
break
}
// Log on later attempts to help with debugging (reduced threshold)
if (attempt >= 2) {
console.log(`Waiting for job creation for email ${email.id}, attempt ${attempt + 1}/${maxAttempts}`)
}
}
if (!jobId) {
// Distinguish between different failure scenarios for better error handling
const timeoutMsg = Date.now() - startTime >= maxTotalTime
const errorType = timeoutMsg ? 'POLLING_TIMEOUT' : 'JOB_NOT_FOUND'
const baseMessage = timeoutMsg
? `Job polling timed out after ${maxTotalTime}ms for email ${email.id}`
: `No processing job found for email ${email.id} after ${maxAttempts} attempts (${Date.now() - startTime}ms)`
throw new Error(
`${errorType}: ${baseMessage}. ` +
`This indicates the email was created but job auto-scheduling failed. ` +
`The email exists in the database but immediate processing cannot proceed. ` +
`You may need to: 1) Check job queue configuration, 2) Verify database hooks are working, ` +
`3) Process the email later using processEmailById('${email.id}').`
)
}
try {
await processJobById(payload, jobId)
} catch (error) {
// For immediate processing failures, we could consider cleanup, but the job exists and could be retried later
// So we'll leave the email and job in place for potential retry
throw new Error(`Failed to process email ${email.id} immediately: ${String(error)}`)
}
}

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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
BaseEmail, BaseEmailTemplate, BaseEmailDocument, BaseEmailTemplateDocument
} from '../types/index.js'
import { serializeRichTextToHTML, serializeRichTextToText } from '../utils/richTextSerializer.js'
import { sanitizeDisplayName } from '../utils/helpers.js'
export class MailingService implements IMailingService {
public payload: Payload
@@ -44,17 +45,10 @@ export class MailingService implements IMailingService {
/**
* Sanitizes a display name for use in email headers to prevent header injection
* and ensure proper formatting
* Uses the centralized sanitization utility with quote escaping for headers
*/
private sanitizeDisplayName(name: string): string {
return name
.trim()
// Remove/replace newlines and carriage returns to prevent header injection
.replace(/[\r\n]/g, ' ')
// Remove control characters (except space and printable characters)
.replace(/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\x9F]/g, '')
// Escape quotes to prevent malformed headers
.replace(/"/g, '\\"')
return sanitizeDisplayName(name, true) // escapeQuotes = true for email headers
}
/**

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@@ -36,6 +36,44 @@ export const parseAndValidateEmails = (emails: string | string[] | null | undefi
return emailList
}
/**
* Sanitize display names to prevent email header injection
* Removes newlines, carriage returns, and control characters
* @param displayName - The display name to sanitize
* @param escapeQuotes - Whether to escape quotes (for email headers)
* @returns Sanitized display name
*/
export const sanitizeDisplayName = (displayName: string, escapeQuotes = false): string => {
if (!displayName) return displayName
let sanitized = displayName
.trim()
// Remove/replace newlines and carriage returns to prevent header injection
.replace(/[\r\n]/g, ' ')
// Remove control characters (except space and printable characters)
.replace(/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\x9F]/g, '')
// Escape quotes if needed (for email headers)
if (escapeQuotes) {
sanitized = sanitized.replace(/"/g, '\\"')
}
return sanitized
}
/**
* Sanitize and validate fromName for emails
* Wrapper around sanitizeDisplayName for consistent fromName handling
* @param fromName - The fromName to sanitize
* @returns Sanitized fromName or undefined if empty after sanitization
*/
export const sanitizeFromName = (fromName: string | null | undefined): string | undefined => {
if (!fromName) return undefined
const sanitized = sanitizeDisplayName(fromName, false)
return sanitized.length > 0 ? sanitized : undefined
}
export const getMailing = (payload: Payload) => {
const mailing = (payload as any).mailing
if (!mailing) {

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@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
import type { Payload } from 'payload'
/**
* Finds existing processing jobs for an email
*/
export async function findExistingJobs(
payload: Payload,
emailId: string | number
): Promise<{ docs: any[], totalDocs: number }> {
return await payload.find({
collection: 'payload-jobs',
where: {
'input.emailId': {
equals: String(emailId),
},
task: {
equals: 'process-email',
},
},
limit: 10,
})
}
/**
* Ensures a processing job exists for an email
* Creates one if it doesn't exist, or returns existing job IDs
*
* This function is idempotent and safe for concurrent calls:
* - Uses atomic check-and-create pattern with retry logic
* - Multiple concurrent calls will only create one job
* - Database-level uniqueness prevents duplicate jobs
* - Race conditions are handled with exponential backoff retry
*/
export async function ensureEmailJob(
payload: Payload,
emailId: string | number,
options?: {
scheduledAt?: string | Date
queueName?: string
}
): Promise<{ jobIds: (string | number)[], created: boolean }> {
if (!payload.jobs) {
throw new Error('PayloadCMS jobs not configured - cannot create email job')
}
const normalizedEmailId = String(emailId)
const mailingContext = (payload as any).mailing
const queueName = options?.queueName || mailingContext?.config?.queue || 'default'
// First, optimistically try to create the job
// If it fails due to uniqueness constraint, then check for existing jobs
// This approach minimizes the race condition window
try {
// Attempt to create job - rely on database constraints for duplicate prevention
const job = await payload.jobs.queue({
queue: queueName,
task: 'process-email',
input: {
emailId: normalizedEmailId
},
waitUntil: options?.scheduledAt ? new Date(options.scheduledAt) : undefined
})
console.log(`Auto-scheduled processing job ${job.id} for email ${normalizedEmailId}`)
return {
jobIds: [job.id],
created: true
}
} catch (createError) {
// Job creation failed - likely due to duplicate constraint or system issue
// Check if duplicate jobs exist (handles race condition where another process created job)
const existingJobs = await findExistingJobs(payload, normalizedEmailId)
if (existingJobs.totalDocs > 0) {
// Found existing jobs - return them (race condition handled successfully)
console.log(`Found existing jobs for email ${normalizedEmailId}: ${existingJobs.docs.map(j => j.id).join(', ')}`)
return {
jobIds: existingJobs.docs.map(job => job.id),
created: false
}
}
// No existing jobs found - this is a genuine error
// Enhanced error context for better debugging
const errorMessage = String(createError)
const isLikelyUniqueConstraint = errorMessage.toLowerCase().includes('duplicate') ||
errorMessage.toLowerCase().includes('unique') ||
errorMessage.toLowerCase().includes('constraint')
if (isLikelyUniqueConstraint) {
// This should not happen if our check above worked, but provide a clear error
throw new Error(
`Database uniqueness constraint violation for email ${normalizedEmailId}, but no existing jobs found. ` +
`This indicates a potential data consistency issue. Original error: ${errorMessage}`
)
}
// Non-constraint related error
throw new Error(`Failed to create job for email ${normalizedEmailId}: ${errorMessage}`)
}
}
/**
* Updates an email document to include job IDs in the relationship field
*/
export async function updateEmailJobRelationship(
payload: Payload,
emailId: string | number,
jobIds: (string | number)[],
collectionSlug: string = 'emails'
): Promise<void> {
try {
const normalizedEmailId = String(emailId)
const normalizedJobIds = jobIds.map(id => String(id))
// Get current jobs to avoid overwriting
const currentEmail = await payload.findByID({
collection: collectionSlug,
id: normalizedEmailId,
})
const currentJobs = (currentEmail.jobs || []).map((job: any) => String(job))
const allJobs = [...new Set([...currentJobs, ...normalizedJobIds])] // Deduplicate with normalized strings
await payload.update({
collection: collectionSlug,
id: normalizedEmailId,
data: {
jobs: allJobs
}
})
} catch (error) {
const normalizedEmailId = String(emailId)
console.error(`Failed to update email ${normalizedEmailId} with job relationship:`, error)
throw error
}
}