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fix(cron): prevent duplicate repayment_due notifications per loan#38

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Summary

  • Add Redis-based dedup guard (24h TTL per loan) so loanCheckCron sends at most one repayment_due notification per loan per 24-hour window, stopping the spam of 24+ notifications/day
  • Replace the hardcoded 30 days heuristic with the actual due date computed from term_ledgers * LEDGER_CLOSE_SECONDS, matching how loanController calculates next_payment_deadline
  • Distributed lock was already in place (kept as-is)

Changes

  • src/cron/loanCheckCron.ts — Rewrote the SQL to use term_ledgers for due date calculation; added cacheService.setNotExists per-loan dedup before creating notifications
  • src/tests/loanCheckCron.test.ts — New test file with 4 test cases: lock skip, single notification, dedup skip, and mixed multi-loan scenario

Test plan

  • All 4 cron tests pass (npm test -- --testPathPattern=loanCheckCron)
  • TypeScript compiles without errors
  • Verify with a seeded DB that only one notification is created per due loan across multiple cron runs

Closes #10

Use a Redis-based dedup guard (24h TTL) so each borrower receives at
most one repayment_due notification per loan per cycle window. Also
replace the hardcoded 30-day heuristic with the actual due date derived
from term_ledgers and LEDGER_CLOSE_SECONDS.

Closes LabsCrypt#10

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this is solid, the dedup is done right: a real redis lock (cacheService.setNotExists(loan_due_notified:${loanId}, "1", 24h) in src/cron/loanCheckCron.ts:57-66), so the first caller per loan in the 24h window sends and the rest continue, no in-memory set that resets. the query correctly targets contract_events (not the loan_events view) with valid columns, and mock ordering/completeness are fine. one thing blocks it:

  1. prettier fails on src/tests/loanCheckCron.test.ts (lines ~31, 66, 101, 135-137), and CI's lint step fails the whole job on that. run: npx prettier --write src/tests/loanCheckCron.test.ts

minor, not blocking: if setNotExists marks the key but createNotification then throws, the catch aborts and the key stays set for 24h, suppressing that loan's notification even though nothing was sent. consider deleting the key on send failure (or notify-then-mark) so a transient error doesn't swallow the notification.

heads up: your CI run is gated (first PR, action_required), i'll approve it so you get the signal. fix the prettier line and this is ready.

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Delete the per-loan dedup cache key when createNotification throws so a
transient error doesn't suppress the notification for the full 24h window.
Also format test file to pass CI's prettier check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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the prettier item is fixed and the dedup logic is solid (real redis lock loan_due_notified:, query targets contract_events not the loan_events view). you also picked up my non-blocking note, there's now a test for releasing the dedup key when the notification send fails so it can retry. merging once ci is green. nice.

if you want to keep contributing, join us on Telegram: https://t.me/+DOylgFv1jyJlNzM0

ps: CI is red right now on the migrate step, but that is a pre-existing main-branch issue (a commonjs migration file under our ESM package), nothing to do with your change. once that is sorted this lands.

node-pg-migrate loads every migration file before running any, so CI only
ever surfaced the first failure (a CommonJS file under an ESM package) and
masked a chain of further runtime errors behind it. migrate:up has never
completed on a clean DB. Fixes, in execution order:

- 1776/1778/1784: convert CommonJS (exports./module.exports) to ESM so the
  files load under "type": "module". 1784 also called db.query(), which
  node-pg-migrate never provides to migrations — routed through pgm.sql().
- 1772: event_types jsonb default "[]::jsonb" rendered as invalid JSON;
  use pgm.func("'[]'::jsonb").
- 1778: trigger referenced update_updated_at_column(), created by no
  migration — define it before the trigger.
- 1781: payload / next_retry_at are already created by 1772 — guard the
  re-adds with ifNotExists.
- 1784: drop FK to loan_events(loan_id); loan_events is an append-only event
  table (and later a view) with no unique loan_id to reference.
- 1787: email_enabled/sms_enabled/phone already added by 1773 — guard with
  ifNotExists.
- 1788: replace pgm.renameIndex (not a method in node-pg-migrate v8) with
  raw ALTER INDEX ... RENAME TO.
- 1789: loan_events existence check used pg_tables (excludes views) and tried
  to CREATE TABLE over the 1788 backward-compat view; use to_regclass.

Verified locally against a fresh Postgres: migrate:up applies all 27
migrations (exit 0) and is a no-op on re-run. Unblocks the migrate step for
all branches.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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[Backend] loanCheckCron re-sends the same repayment due notification every hour

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