Major Description
Cassandra maintains a per mailbox projection for message count and unseen message count.
As with any projection, it can go out of sync, leading to inconsistent results being returned to the client, which is not acceptable.
We need to expose a corrective task, resetting mailbox counters to their correct value.
The proposed endpoint is:
curl -XPST http://ip:port/mailbox?task=RecomputeMailboxCounters
This endpoints will:
- List existing mailboxes
- List their messages
- Check them against their source of truth
- Compute mailbox counter values
- And reset the value of the counter if needed
Of course, this endpoint won't be friendly in the face of concurrent operations, which would be ignored during the recomputation of the counter of the given mailbox. However the source of truth is unaffected hence, upon rerunning the task, the result will be eventually correct.
To be noted that we rely on the "listing messages by mailbox" projection (that we recheck). Missing entries in there will be ignored until the given projection is healed (currently unsupported). We furthermore can piggy back a partial check of the message denormalization upon counter recomputation (partial because we cannot detect missing entries in the "list messages in mailbox" denormalization table)