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Extend the limits feature so a limit can count distinct hosts instead of
running frames and reconcile against an external license server, gating
dispatch on real license availability rather than internal counts alone.

Cuebot:

  • limit_record gains a counting type (FRAME/HOST), an enforcement level
    (ENFORCED/ADVISORY/DISABLED), soft/max thresholds and report metadata.
    The V48 migration adds limit_host (the license server's per-host view
    of who holds a token) and limit_usage (cached settled totals so the
    dispatch gate reads one row per limit), and dedupes/constrains
    layer_limit and limit_record names.
  • Dispatch gate: layers bound to an ENFORCED limit are excluded from
    dispatch when merged usage (settled totals plus procs dispatched inside
    the settle window) is over threshold, unless the host already holds a
    token -- HOST limits pack work onto holding machines instead of
    lighting up new ones. Reports older than int_report_ttl fail open;
    never-reported limits count every running proc of bound layers (fail
    closed). The same counting rule feeds the whiteboard usage columns.
  • The gate applies in every scheduling mode and at both the job-finding
    and frame-dispatch stages; upstream never gated BALANCED job-finding,
    which let fully limit-blocked jobs occupy the top ranks and starve
    eligible work below the cutoff. Per-limit usage is computed once per
    query in a materialized CTE rather than per candidate row, which
    benchmarked 17-45x faster on the job-finding query with unreported
    limits; the MATERIALIZED keyword is resolved at runtime since it
    requires PostgreSQL 12 (PostgreSQL 11 CTEs are always fences).
  • Optional license-affinity frame ordering prefers work the host can run
    without acquiring a new license
    (dispatcher.limit.affinity_ordering_enabled).
  • A limit can claim a frame exit status: frames failing with it auto-tag
    their layer to the limit (b_auto_tag) and optionally delay retries
    (int_delay_minutes), replacing the dispatcher.layer_delay.rules
    property (LimitRule/LimitRuleCache in FrameCompleteHandler).
  • New LOCK_LIMIT_USAGE_RECALCULATION maintenance task refreshes settled
    usage; the report path refreshes it synchronously.

Clients:

  • proto/pycue: expose the new limit fields and a read-only view of
    per-host license holds; provider credentials stay redacted.
  • cuegui: limit create/edit dialogs for the new fields, license usage in
    the limits widget and host monitor, updated layer/attribute panels.

Also ships a sample license-server reporter for Houdini/sesictrl
(samples/licensing). DAO, dispatcher and service tests cover the gate in
every scheduling mode, the rule cache and the admin surfaces.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added comprehensive license-limit management, including frame/host counting, enforcement modes, soft thresholds, reporting, failure rules, holds, and layer bindings.
    • Added automatic layer tagging and backoff when frames fail due to license shortages.
    • Added CueGUI tools for creating, configuring, inspecting, and clearing limit bindings and holds.
    • Added host-monitor license visibility and license-based filtering.
    • Added Python API support and a sample Houdini license usage reporter.
    • Improved dispatch decisions with usage settlement, stale-report handling, and license affinity.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance for license limits and external license reporting.
  • Chores
    • Updated version to 1.31.

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Extend the limits feature so a limit can count distinct hosts instead of
running frames and reconcile against an external license server, gating
dispatch on real license availability rather than internal counts alone.

Cuebot:
- limit_record gains a counting type (FRAME/HOST), an enforcement level
  (ENFORCED/ADVISORY/DISABLED), soft/max thresholds and report metadata.
  The V48 migration adds limit_host (the license server's per-host view
  of who holds a token) and limit_usage (cached settled totals so the
  dispatch gate reads one row per limit), and dedupes/constrains
  layer_limit and limit_record names.
- Dispatch gate: layers bound to an ENFORCED limit are excluded from
  dispatch when merged usage (settled totals plus procs dispatched inside
  the settle window) is over threshold, unless the host already holds a
  token -- HOST limits pack work onto holding machines instead of
  lighting up new ones. Reports older than int_report_ttl fail open;
  never-reported limits count every running proc of bound layers (fail
  closed). The same counting rule feeds the whiteboard usage columns.
- The gate applies in every scheduling mode and at both the job-finding
  and frame-dispatch stages; upstream never gated BALANCED job-finding,
  which let fully limit-blocked jobs occupy the top ranks and starve
  eligible work below the cutoff. Per-limit usage is computed once per
  query in a materialized CTE rather than per candidate row, which
  benchmarked 17-45x faster on the job-finding query with unreported
  limits; the MATERIALIZED keyword is resolved at runtime since it
  requires PostgreSQL 12 (PostgreSQL 11 CTEs are always fences).
- Optional license-affinity frame ordering prefers work the host can run
  without acquiring a new license
  (dispatcher.limit.affinity_ordering_enabled).
- A limit can claim a frame exit status: frames failing with it auto-tag
  their layer to the limit (b_auto_tag) and optionally delay retries
  (int_delay_minutes), replacing the dispatcher.layer_delay.rules
  property (LimitRule/LimitRuleCache in FrameCompleteHandler).
- New LOCK_LIMIT_USAGE_RECALCULATION maintenance task refreshes settled
  usage; the report path refreshes it synchronously.

Clients:
- proto/pycue: expose the new limit fields and a read-only view of
  per-host license holds; provider credentials stay redacted.
- cuegui: limit create/edit dialogs for the new fields, license usage in
  the limits widget and host monitor, updated layer/attribute panels.

Also ships a sample license-server reporter for Houdini/sesictrl
(samples/licensing). DAO, dispatcher and service tests cover the gate in
every scheduling mode, the rule cache and the admin surfaces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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OpenCue adds host-based limits, external license reporting, settlement-aware dispatch gates, failure-driven layer discovery, expanded limit APIs, CueGUI management and monitoring, Prometheus metrics, PostgreSQL storage, and a sesictrl reporting sample. The version changes to 1.31.

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Limit model and storage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Limit contracts and database schema
proto/src/limit.proto, cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/..., cuebot/src/main/resources/conf/ddl/postgres/migrations/...
Limits gain type, enforcement, soft thresholds, reporting metadata, usage fields, failure rules, binding sources, host holds, and new RPC messages. Migration V48 adds related tables, constraints, indexes, and usage locks.
Persistence and usage aggregation
cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/...
DAO implementations persist configuration, bindings, external holds, settled usage, pending usage, report watermarks, and holder classifications.
Settlement-aware dispatch
cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/DispatchQuery.java, cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/DispatcherDaoJdbc.java
Dispatch queries use shared settlement-aware usage, host-held token exemptions, enforcement and staleness rules, soft thresholds, affinity ordering, named parameters, and configurable SQL resolution.

Limit management and failure handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Limit administration and reporting RPCs
cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/..., cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/servant/...
Service and gRPC layers add limit creation, configuration setters, failure rules, binding operations, usage reports, hold queries, validation, and mapped status errors.
Failure-rule discovery and maintenance
cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dispatcher/..., cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/MaintenanceManagerSupport.java, cuebot/src/main/resources/conf/spring/applicationContext-service.xml
Failure rules are cached and applied during frame completion. AUTO bindings and backoff delays are recorded. Usage recalculation runs under a task lock on a schedule.
Metrics and configuration
cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/PrometheusMetricsCollector.java, cuebot/src/main/resources/opencue.properties
Prometheus metrics expose limit usage, holds, staleness, delays, and automatic tagging. New properties configure settlement, refresh, report, and affinity behavior.

Client and operator workflows

Layer / File(s) Summary
pycue limit APIs
pycue/opencue/api.py, pycue/opencue/wrappers/limit.py
pycue supports full limit creation, configuration updates, holds, bindings, usage reports, and expanded limit fields.
CueGUI limit management
cuegui/cuegui/LimitDialogs.py, cuegui/cuegui/LimitsWidget.py, cuegui/cuegui/MenuActions.py, cuegui/cuegui/LayerDialog.py
CueGUI adds limit creation and editing dialogs, holder and binding views, richer limit columns, context-menu actions, stale and saturation indicators, and AUTO-binding markers.
Host monitoring
cuegui/cuegui/HostMonitor.py, cuegui/cuegui/HostMonitorTree.py, cuegui/cuegui/plugins/AttributesPlugin.py
The host monitor displays held licenses and supports license:<name> filtering. Host attributes show grouped license-holder details.

Reporter and validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Houdini licensing reporter
samples/licensing/sesictrl_report.py, samples/licensing/sesictrl_limits.yaml, samples/licensing/README.md
The sample parses sesictrl output, maps product usage to HOST limits, builds reports, supports dry runs, and prevents posting after collection or parsing errors.
Validation and documentation
cuebot/src/test/..., pycue/tests/..., cuegui/tests/..., docs/_docs/developer-guide/licenses-and-limits.md, docs/news/...
Tests cover persistence, dispatch, reporting, failure discovery, APIs, and GUI behavior. Documentation describes the model, rollout, configuration, reporter, metrics, and troubleshooting. Navigation metadata is updated.
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VERSION.in
The project version changes from 1.30 to 1.31.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to b3532

The new license enforcement path can lose or clear reported holds and dispatch work beyond actual license capacity. It can also amplify database failures and leave partially configured limits, so the major issues should be fixed before merge.

Suggested reviewers: ramonfigueiredo, lithorus

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LicenseServer
  participant Reporter
  participant Cuebot
  participant PostgreSQL
  participant Dispatcher
  LicenseServer->>Reporter: return per-host license usage
  Reporter->>Cuebot: submit LimitReport snapshots
  Cuebot->>PostgreSQL: replace holds and refresh usage
  Dispatcher->>PostgreSQL: read settled and pending usage
  PostgreSQL-->>Dispatcher: return limit eligibility
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sequenceDiagram
  participant FrameCompleteHandler
  participant LimitRuleCache
  participant LimitDao
  participant LayerDao
  FrameCompleteHandler->>LimitRuleCache: resolve failed exit status
  LimitRuleCache->>LimitDao: load failure rules
  FrameCompleteHandler->>LayerDao: add AUTO binding
  FrameCompleteHandler->>LayerDao: write backoff delay
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cuebot/src/test/java/com/imageworks/spcue/test/dispatcher/FrameCompleteHandlerLimitRuleTests.java (1)

196-201: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the configured five-minute limit-rule delay.

The current assertions prove that a delay exists and that the limit-rule reason is used, but they do not verify its duration. A 60-minute delay with the same limit-rule reason would pass both tests. Assert that startAfter is within a tolerance of five minutes after completion at both sites.

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In
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FrameCompleteHandlerLimitRuleTests to verify that delayed.startAfter is
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Inline comments:
In `@cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/LimitDaoJdbc.java`:
- Line 470: Update normalizeHostName to lowercase hostnames with Locale.ROOT
instead of the default JVM locale, ensuring its join key matches the PostgreSQL
LOWER() behavior used by normHost(), GET_HOLDS, and AFFINITY_ORDER_SQL.

In `@cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dispatcher/LimitRuleCache.java`:
- Around line 62-63: Update the refresh gating in LimitRuleCache so failed
initial getFailureRules() attempts record refreshedAtMs and are not retried
until refreshIntervalMs has elapsed, while preserving immediate loading when no
attempt has yet occurred and normal refresh behavior after successful loads.

In `@cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/AdminManagerService.java`:
- Line 424: Update AdminManagerService.reportLimitUsage to make report admission
atomic: protect the reportedTime interval check with a row lock or perform a
conditional watermark update that succeeds for only one concurrent reporter,
then call replaceExternalHolds only after admission succeeds. Preserve the
existing minimum-interval behavior for rejected reports.

In
`@cuebot/src/test/java/com/imageworks/spcue/test/dao/postgres/LimitDispatchGateTests.java`:
- Line 172: Update beforeBooking() to subtract a margin greater than the
10-minute interval used by ageBookingsPastSettleWindow(), ensuring the watermark
precedes ts_dispatched and testBookingCountsAsPendingUntilSettled observes
pending usage.

In `@cuegui/cuegui/HostMonitor.py`:
- Line 152: Update the clear-license-filter handler around
hostMonitorTree.licenseFilters so it calls updateRequest() immediately after
clearing the filters, refreshing the displayed host list while preserving the
existing clear behavior.

In `@cuegui/cuegui/HostMonitorTree.py`:
- Around line 364-365: Update the hold-source check in the host monitor tree so
holds with source BOTH are treated like EXTERNAL holds when formatting name,
preserving the parenthesized external indicator for both sources.

In `@cuegui/cuegui/LayerDialog.py`:
- Around line 508-512: Move the per-limit getLimitBindings calls in the
LayerDialog loading flow off the GUI thread, preferably replacing them with a
bulk binding query when supported. Collect the results in a worker, then invoke
mark_auto_limits through a GUI-thread callback so dialog updates remain
thread-safe and responsive.

In `@cuegui/cuegui/LimitDialogs.py`:
- Around line 221-223: Update the limit creation flow around createLimit so
report_ttl is supplied during creation and limit.setReportTtl is not performed
as a separate failure-prone step; ensure limit creation and TTL configuration
succeed or fail together, preserving the selected no-external-reporter value.

In `@docs/_docs/developer-guide/licenses-and-limits.md`:
- Around line 35-36: The existing-limit migration statement must qualify that
legacy rows default to FRAME only when they are non-host limits; legacy
b_host_limit = true rows migrate to HOST. Update the migration wording near the
additive-limit description and the corresponding occurrence near the later
legacy-limit documentation, preserving the existing ENFORCED/no-reporter
behavior.
- Around line 347-348: Update the exit-status validation documentation so status
0 is consistently described as the rule-clearing value and status 1 as
invalid/rejected, including the corresponding explanations at all referenced
sections.

In `@samples/licensing/sesictrl_report.py`:
- Around line 457-459: Update the args.from_file reading block to catch
open/read failures, including invalid text decoding, and raise ReportError with
the appropriate operational-failure exit code; preserve the existing raw content
flow for successfully read files.
- Around line 214-216: Update parse_sesictrl_json and build_reports to track
whether any records were skipped because of unrecognized product or usage keys,
and raise ReportError before constructing reports when parsing is incomplete.
Preserve explicit zero-use records and valid records for products that are not
configured, while preventing incomplete input from producing empty
LimitReport.hosts replacements.

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`@cuebot/src/test/java/com/imageworks/spcue/test/dispatcher/FrameCompleteHandlerLimitRuleTests.java`:
- Around line 196-201: Update both limit-rule delay assertions in
FrameCompleteHandlerLimitRuleTests to verify that delayed.startAfter is
approximately five minutes after frame completion, using the test’s existing
time source or completion timestamp and a suitable tolerance. Preserve the
existing reason and WAITING-state assertions while adding duration validation
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use Locale.ROOT for the hostname normalization.

String.toLowerCase() uses the default JVM locale. In a Turkish locale, "HOSTI" lowercases to "hostı" (dotless i), while Postgres LOWER() in normHost(), GET_HOLDS and AFFINITY_ORDER_SQL produces "hosti". The stored limit_host.str_host_name key then never matches the SQL side, so external holds silently stop resolving.

normalizeHostName writes the join key, so it must match the SQL rule exactly.

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line 470, Update normalizeHostName to lowercase hostnames with Locale.ROOT
instead of the default JVM locale, ensuring its join key matches the PostgreSQL
LOWER() behavior used by normHost(), GET_HOLDS, and AFFINITY_ORDER_SQL.

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Comment on lines +62 to +63
if (!loadedOnce || now - refreshedAtMs > refreshIntervalMs) {
refresh(now);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Throttle failed initial cache loads.

If getFailureRules() fails, loadedOnce stays false, so each frame completion calls the synchronized refresh() and retries the database immediately. Use refreshedAtMs as the retry gate after failures.

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In `@cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dispatcher/LimitRuleCache.java`
around lines 62 - 63, Update the refresh gating in LimitRuleCache so failed
initial getFailureRules() attempts record refreshedAtMs and are not retried
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// Losing the race to another reporter is normal and concerns only this limit; the
// rest of the batch must still apply or they drift stale and stop blocking.
if (limit.reportedTime > 0 && now - limit.reportedTime < minIntervalMs) {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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dao="cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/LimitDaoJdbc.java"

# Inspect whether the report lookup acquires a row lock and whether the watermark update
# conditionally rejects a competing report.
rg -n -C 12 '\bfindLimit\s*\(|\breplaceExternalHolds\s*\(|FOR\s+UPDATE|ts_reported' "$dao"

# Locate report-path concurrency coverage, if present.
rg -n -C 8 --glob '*.java' 'reportLimitUsage|replaceExternalHolds|RATE_LIMITED|OUT_OF_ORDER' \
  cuebot/src/test

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service="cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/AdminManagerService.java"
dao="cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/LimitDaoJdbc.java"

sed -n '360,470p' "$service"
sed -n '1,80p' "$dao"
sed -n '210,230p' "$dao"
sed -n '400,465p' "$dao"

rg -n -C 6 '`@Transactional`|reportLimitUsage|findLimit\(' \
  cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/AdminManagerService.java \
  cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/dao/postgres/LimitDaoJdbc.java

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Make report admission atomic.

AdminManagerService.reportLimitUsage reads the watermark through the unlocked LimitDaoJdbc.findLimit query. Concurrent reports can pass the interval check with the same reportedTime, then replaceExternalHolds can let the later snapshot overwrite the first. Lock the row or use a conditional watermark update before replacing the holds.

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In `@cuebot/src/main/java/com/imageworks/spcue/service/AdminManagerService.java`
at line 424, Update AdminManagerService.reportLimitUsage to make report
admission atomic: protect the reportedTime interval check with a row lock or
perform a conditional watermark update that succeeds for only one concurrent
reporter, then call replaceExternalHolds only after admission succeeds. Preserve
the existing minimum-interval behavior for rejected reports.

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private static Timestamp beforeBooking() {
// Well before the test transaction's current_timestamp, so procs dispatched in this
// transaction land after the watermark and count as pending.
return new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis() - 600 * 1000L);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use a watermark that precedes the aged dispatch timestamp.

beforeBooking() subtracts the same 10 minutes as ageBookingsPastSettleWindow(). When the test calls this helper after aging the proc, the report timestamp is later than ts_dispatched. The final assertions in testBookingCountsAsPendingUntilSettled then see settled usage instead of pending usage.

Use a margin greater than the aging interval.

Proposed fix
-        return new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis() - 600 * 1000L);
+        return new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis() - 660 * 1000L);
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return new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis() - 600 * 1000L);
return new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis() - 660 * 1000L);
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`@cuebot/src/test/java/com/imageworks/spcue/test/dao/postgres/LimitDispatchGateTests.java`
at line 172, Update beforeBooking() to subtract a margin greater than the
10-minute interval used by ageBookingsPastSettleWindow(), ensuring the watermark
precedes ts_dispatched and testBookingCountsAsPendingUntilSettled observes
pending usage.

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self.__filterByHostNameLastInput = ""
self.__filterByHostName.setText("")
self.hostMonitorTree.hostSearch.options['regex'] = []
self.hostMonitorTree.licenseFilters = []

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Refresh after clearing the license filter.

Line 152 clears licenseFilters, but the clear button does not call updateRequest(). The current client-side filtered host list remains visible until a later refresh.

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         self.hostMonitorTree.hostSearch.options['regex'] = []
         self.hostMonitorTree.licenseFilters = []
+        self.hostMonitorTree.updateRequest()
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In `@cuegui/cuegui/HostMonitor.py` at line 152, Update the clear-license-filter
handler around hostMonitorTree.licenseFilters so it calls updateRequest()
immediately after clearing the filters, refreshing the displayed host list while
preserving the existing clear behavior.

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Comment thread cuegui/cuegui/LimitDialogs.py Outdated
Comment on lines +221 to +223
reportTtl = 0 if self.__noReporter.isChecked() else self.__reportTtl.value() * 60
if reportTtl != 900:
limit.setReportTtl(reportTtl)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Keep limit creation and report TTL configuration atomic.

If createLimit succeeds and limit.setReportTtl fails, Cuebot retains the new limit but this dialog reports that creation failed. A retry then reports that the limit already exists, and the limit keeps the default 900-second TTL. This is critical when the user selected no external reporter, because the limit can later become stale and stop enforcing.

Add report_ttl to the create operation and apply both values transactionally. If that is not possible, refresh the created limit and report the partial success with an action to retry only the TTL update.

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In `@cuegui/cuegui/LimitDialogs.py` around lines 221 - 223, Update the limit
creation flow around createLimit so report_ttl is supplied during creation and
limit.setReportTtl is not performed as a separate failure-prone step; ensure
limit creation and TTL configuration succeed or fail together, preserving the
selected no-external-reporter value.

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Comment on lines +35 to +36
Everything is additive. An existing limit migrates to `FRAME` + `ENFORCED` with no reporter, and
behaves exactly as it did before.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the existing-limit migration statement.

Lines 35-36 say that every existing limit becomes FRAME, but Lines 417-418 and 813 document an exception for legacy b_host_limit = true rows, which become HOST. State that the FRAME default applies only to non-host legacy rows.

Also applies to: 813-813

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In `@docs/_docs/developer-guide/licenses-and-limits.md` around lines 35 - 36, The
existing-limit migration statement must qualify that legacy rows default to
FRAME only when they are non-host limits; legacy b_host_limit = true rows
migrate to HOST. Update the migration wording near the additive-limit
description and the corresponding occurrence near the later legacy-limit
documentation, preserving the existing ENFORCED/no-reporter behavior.

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Comment on lines +347 to +348
1. **Statuses 0 and 1 are rejected** at the API and by a `CHECK` constraint. 0 is success; 1 is the
conventional catch-all failure and claiming it would tag nearly every failing layer on the farm.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the exit-status validation description.

The document says that exit_status = 0 clears a rule at Lines 356-357 and 518-520. These lines instead state that 0 is rejected. Document 0 as the clear value and 1 as the invalid value.

Also applies to: 593-594

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In `@docs/_docs/developer-guide/licenses-and-limits.md` around lines 347 - 348,
Update the exit-status validation documentation so status 0 is consistently
described as the rule-clearing value and status 1 as invalid/rejected, including
the corresponding explanations at all referenced sections.

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Comment on lines +214 to +216
product = _first_string(record, ('product', 'product_id', 'license', 'name'))
if not product:
continue

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Fail closed on malformed sesictrl records.

parse_sesictrl_json skips records with unrecognized product or usage keys. build_reports then creates empty LimitReport.hosts, which ReportUsage treats as a replacement that clears existing external holds. Track parse completeness and raise ReportError before building reports. Continue accepting explicit zero-use records and valid records for unconfigured products.

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In `@samples/licensing/sesictrl_report.py` around lines 214 - 216, Update
parse_sesictrl_json and build_reports to track whether any records were skipped
because of unrecognized product or usage keys, and raise ReportError before
constructing reports when parsing is incomplete. Preserve explicit zero-use
records and valid records for products that are not configured, while preventing
incomplete input from producing empty LimitReport.hosts replacements.

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Comment on lines +457 to +459
if args.from_file:
with open(args.from_file, 'r') as handle:
raw = handle.read()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Map capture-file read errors to ReportError.

If --from-file names a missing, unreadable, or invalid-text file, open or read raises outside the ReportError handler. The script then prints a traceback and exits with an unclassified status instead of its documented operational failure behavior.

Catch file read errors here and raise ReportError with an appropriate exit code.

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Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').

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args.from_file reading block to catch open/read failures, including invalid text
decoding, and raise ReportError with the appropriate operational-failure exit
code; preserve the existing raw content flow for successfully read files.

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DiegoTavares and others added 2 commits September 4, 2026 09:10
The dispatch-time limit gate correctly let a host already holding a
HOST-limit token keep booking, but UPDATE_FRAME_STARTED still carried
the legacy last-chance clause counting running frames against
int_max_value, with no HOST/holder, enforcement, or staleness
awareness. A HOST limit of N therefore clamped a holding host to N
concurrent frames: the find query returned the frames, and every start
past N was silently refused.

Rebuild the re-check on the real gate: UPDATE_FRAME_STARTED now
prefixes DispatchQuery's LIMIT_USAGE_CTE and embeds limitFilter for
the booking host, so both steps share one counting rule. The re-check
itself stays -- a batch found under headroom books frame by frame, and
without it a FRAME limit would overshoot by the batch; pending procs
from earlier starts in the batch are counted against later ones.

Regression tests: a holding host books past max under a HOST limit,
and the second start of a batch is refused once the first fills a
FRAME limit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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