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Kpa-clawbot a4776557ae feat(#1290): use firmware repeat:on|off hint to exclude listener-only observers from disambiguator (#1624)
Closes #1290.

cross-stack: justified — backend persists firmware-side `repeat` hint to
a new observers column, frontend surfaces the listener/repeater status
as a badge on the observers list and node-detail Heard By table per the
issue's UI acceptance criterion.

## What

Firmware 1.16 publishes a `repeat: on|off` flag in the MQTT `/status`
JSON (confirmed by @cwichura on the issue thread — see
[`MQTTMessageBuilder.cpp:58`](https://github.com/agessaman/MeshCore/blob/b45373a31f111fb0de98bb3b168226d09ceadc47/src/helpers/MQTTMessageBuilder.cpp#L58)
in `agessaman/MeshCore mqtt-bridge-implementation-flex`). Listener-only
observers (`repeat:off`) by firmware contract never relay packets, so
they cannot legitimately be a hop in someone else's resolved path. This
PR plumbs the hint end-to-end so the disambiguator stops considering
them.

## How

* **`internal/dbschema`**: idempotent `can_relay INTEGER DEFAULT 1`
migration on `observers`, plus `AssertReady` probe (server fatal-logs if
absent). Mirrored in `cmd/ingestor/db.go` `CREATE TABLE` for fresh DBs.
Annotated `PREFLIGHT: async=true` — `DEFAULT 1` is constant so SQLite
does this as a metadata-only schema rewrite.
* **`cmd/ingestor`**: `extractObserverMeta` accepts `repeat` as bool,
case-insensitive string (`on|off|true|false|yes|no`), or numeric `0|1`.
Missing field → `nil` → `COALESCE` preserves the existing column value
(back-compat with legacy observers). Plumbed through `UpsertObserverAt`
and the prepared upsert statement.
* **`cmd/server`**: `GetNonRelayObserverPubkeys` + new
`prefixMap.markNonRelay` drop matching candidates inside
`pm.resolveWithContext` at the top of the resolver, so all 4 tiers see
the pruned candidate set. `ObserverResp.CanRelay` is surfaced on
`/api/observers` and `/api/observers/{id}`. `GetNodeHealth` enriches
per-observer rows with `can_relay` so the node-detail badge renders.
Probe-and-fall-back when the `can_relay` column is absent (legacy test
fixtures).
* **`public/`**: listener vs repeater pill on observers list, observer
detail `Relay` stat card, and node-detail `Heard By` table. CSS uses
existing theme vars.

## Test

Added `TestResolveWithContext_ExcludesNonRelayObservers_Issue1290` in
`cmd/server/resolve_non_relay_1290_test.go` covering all three required
cases:
* `repeat:off` pubkey → not a candidate (assertion failed in red commit
`5f7fdb96`, passes after green `f12911dc`)
* `repeat:on` pubkey → still a candidate (regression guard)
* legacy obs (no field) → still a candidate (back-compat)

Red→green proof:
```
$ git log --oneline origin/master..HEAD
f12911dc feat(#1290): exclude listener-only observers from path-hop disambiguator
5f7fdb96 test(#1290): red — assert listener-only observers excluded from path-hop candidates
```

Full server + ingestor + dbschema + migrate test suites pass locally.

## Acceptance checklist (from #1290)

* [x] Ingestor parses `repeat` field (boolean OR string `on|off`)
* [x] Field persisted on `observers` table (new `can_relay BOOLEAN`
column, idempotent migration via `internal/dbschema`)
* [x] Server's disambiguator (`pm.resolveWithContext`) excludes
`can_relay=false` observer-nodes from path-hop candidate set
* [x] UI badge on observers list + node detail page indicating
"listener" vs "repeater"
* [x] Backward compat: legacy observers default to `can_relay=true`
* [x] Test: `repeat:off` → NOT a candidate
* [x] Test: `repeat:on` → IS a candidate
* [x] Test: legacy → IS a candidate

## Out of scope (preserved per issue)

Backfilling already-resolved paths is left as a follow-up. No
firmware/broker changes.

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Co-authored-by: Kpa-clawbot <bot@kpa-clawbot.local>
Co-authored-by: openclaw-bot <bot@openclaw>
2026-06-08 01:27:13 -07:00
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