refactor(hashids): make ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC a Django setting (default True)

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Summary

ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC becomes a Django setting instead of a constance (database) setting. It's a deployment-level choice that never changes while the app runs, and it's read for every ID resolved or rendered: each node of a GraphQL list, each serialized object.

As a constance value, every read was a cache or database round trip. The first version of this PR memoized that read for a few seconds; this replaces the memo with a plain setting, which costs nothing to read.

• baseapp_core.hashids.strategies._is_public_id_logic_enabled() returns getattr(settings, "ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC", True). Public IDs are on by default.
• Removed: the memo, its config_updated handler, BASEAPP_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC_CACHE_SECONDS, and the ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC entry in the testproject's CONSTANCE_CONFIG.
• Tests switch from override_config(ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC=...) to override_settings(...) (45 usages in 12 files). The picker tests cover enabled, disabled and the default.
• The hashids README points to the setting.

Upgrading a project

• Remove ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC from CONSTANCE_CONFIG. The leftover row in the constance table is ignored.
• Projects that had disabled public IDs through constance must set ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC = False in their Django settings; otherwise public IDs turn on. Projects on the default (True) need no other change.

Test plan

• pytest on baseapp_core and every suite that overrides the flag (files, auth users query, blocks, comments, follows, ratings, reactions, reports): 641 passed.
• black, isort and flake8 are clean on the changed files.
• Master merged in (no rebase).

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Walkthrough

The public-ID logic setting now uses a process-local cache with a configurable TTL. Constance updates for that setting, or updates without a specified key, clear the cache. Tests cover expiry, invalidation, and disabled memoization.

Changes

Public-ID Configuration Cache

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Memoization and invalidation baseapp_core/hashids/strategies/__init__.py, baseapp_core/hashids/tests/test_hashids_strategy_pickers.py	The setting value is cached for the configured TTL, which defaults to five seconds. Matching or unspecified Constance updates clear the cache. Tests cover expiry, nested overrides, keyed invalidation, and a zero TTL.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cfeeb

The public-ID cache can briefly serve a stale flag value in rare concurrent cases right after a config change. It self-corrects within the TTL. Consider synchronizing the invalidation before merging, though this is not blocking.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to cfeeb

Identifier-mode changes can temporarily disagree across workers, and a concurrent read can undo same-process cache invalidation. The default delay is short, and the inspected resolution paths retain their existing access checks; no new authorization bypass was demonstrated.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: A reader can obtain the old flag value, overlap a configuration update that clears the memo, and then republish the old value. Subsequent calls can therefore continue using the previous identifier mode until the reader's computed expiry, defeating immediate same-process invalidation and delaying configuration rollback. Atomic tuple replacement does not protect this ordering invariant.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A stale value affects every dependent strategy check in the affected process, rather than one request or tenant. Exposure spans public-ID rendering and GraphQL or DRF lookup selection in applications using these helpers; independently cached workers may observe different transition states.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A client supplying a UUID can still reach the existing public-ID lookup path on a stale-enabled worker after configuration disables that mode. This is delayed routing-state propagation, not demonstrated access to an otherwise unauthorized object: the inspected DRF checks remain downstream, and concrete per-model GraphQL authorization coverage is incomplete.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Request identifiers influence resolver selection through their shape, while the mode value is obtained from Constance configuration. The memo does not derive configuration authority from those identifiers. DRF passes the expected model into resolution and retains filtered object retrieval and permission enforcement afterward.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Monotonic expiry limits stale-state persistence under the configured positive TTL, but signal clearing alone does not guarantee immediate same-process recovery. An old reader can overwrite cleared or newly populated state, temporarily restoring the prior identifier mode.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Order memo publication against invalidation, for example with a synchronized generation check that rejects fills begun before a configuration update. This would prevent an obsolete in-flight read from restoring stale state for subsequent callers.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Title check		The title mentions ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC but states that the change makes it a Django setting. The main change is memoization with configurable TTL and Constance-triggered invalidation.	Rename the title to describe memoization and invalidation, for example: "perf(hashids): memoize ENABLE_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC with configurable TTL".

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Review comments at @baseapp_core/hashids/strategies/__init__.py:
- Around line 44-46: Update the public ID logic memo lookup using
_public_id_logic_memo so it reads BASEAPP_PUBLIC_ID_LOGIC_CACHE_SECONDS before
checking the memo and returns a cached value only when the duration is positive;
nonpositive duration must bypass existing memo entries immediately.
- Line 52: Synchronize the flag read and `_public_id_logic_memo` publication
with memo invalidation, or use a generation counter to discard any read that
began before invalidation. Ensure an in-flight read cannot republish a stale
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What changed in this PR

Adds short-lived memoization for the public-ID feature flag to reduce repeated Constance reads.

Changes:

• Adds configurable TTL caching and signal-based invalidation.
• Adds tests for expiry, invalidation, and disabled caching.

File	Description
baseapp_core/​hashids/​strategies/​__init__.py	Implements memoization and invalidation.
baseapp_core/​hashids/​tests/​test_hashids_strategy_pickers.py	Tests the cache behavior.

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