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This PR closes #406.

Summary

CLUSTER NODES output was parsed in six places, each doing its own strings.Fields(line) and indexing by position. They agreed on the len(fields) < 8 guard and the flag split at fields[2], then diverged, and three of them restated the line layout in a comment.

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  1. refactor: parse CLUSTER NODES into a ClusterNode struct adds ClusterNode with named fields and ParseClusterNodes as the only code that reads field positions. GetSlots, IsNodeFailed, PrimaryIdFromSelf, FindStaleAddressPeers, GetFailingNodes and the flag extraction in getNodeState now read fields instead of indices.
  2. refactor: parse CLUSTER NODES once per scrape replaces the raw ClusterNodes string on NodeState with the parsed table, produced once by the scrape. Every accessor previously re-parsed it, and IsNodeFailed and FindStaleAddressPeers do so inside nested loops over each node.
  3. refactor: return ClusterNode from GetFailingNodes stops fabricating NodeState values with only two fields set.

Features / Behaviour Changes

NodeState.ClusterNodes (raw string) is gone, replaced by the parsed table.
The output is parsed once by the scrape instead of on every accessor call, and the raw string is no longer retained per node.

No change to what the operator does to a cluster: the pending-node classification, failure detection and stale-address healing all behave as before, and are covered by tests.

Implementation

Design notes are in docs/clusterstate-design.md.

Limitations

The issue lists a seventh site, parseClusterNodesRole in internal/controller/valkeynode_controller.go #320.

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  • Tests are added or updated.
  • Documentation files are updated.
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CLUSTER NODES output was parsed in six places, each splitting lines with
strings.Fields and indexing by position. They agreed on the len(fields) < 8
guard and the flag split at fields[2], then diverged, and three of them
re-stated the line layout in a comment.

Add a ClusterNode struct with named fields and ParseClusterNodes as the only
code that reads field positions. GetSlots, IsNodeFailed, PrimaryIdFromSelf,
FindStaleAddressPeers, GetFailingNodes and the flag extraction in getNodeState
now read fields instead of indices.

Owned slot ranges and in-flight migration markers are kept in separate fields.
Conflating them is the ambiguity that motivated this: a primary holding only a
marker owns no assignable range but is already in the slot map, so a test for
"owns no slots" misclassifies it as pending. HasSlotAssignment answers that
question; GetSlots answers the narrower one of which ranges are owned.

One behaviour change: GetSlots returns []SlotsRange instead of the raw []string
slot fields, so callers no longer convert. The pending check in GetClusterState
uses HasSlotAssignment to keep a marker-only primary out of PendingNodes.

Fields are limited to what callers read: one ClusterNode is held per known node
per scraped node, so port, config epoch and link state from the issue's field
list are left out. They are one-liners to add when something needs them.

Signed-off-by: Björn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>
NodeState held the raw CLUSTER NODES output and every accessor re-parsed it.
IsNodeFailed and FindStaleAddressPeers do so inside nested loops over each node,
so a single reconcile parsed the same output repeatedly and the cost grew with
cluster size.

Replace the raw string with the parsed table, produced once by the scrape.
Myself, IsNodeFailed, FindStaleAddressPeers and GetFailingNodes read it directly.
The field is unexported, so the raw output is no longer retained per node.

Removing the string forces a fix in rebalanceSlots and drainExcessShards. Both
tested "has gossip introduced the destination yet" with strings.Contains over the
raw output looking for the destination ID, which also matches an ID that appears
only as another entry's primary field or as a migration marker peer
([5461->-<id>]) and so has no entry of its own. They now use NodeState.KnowsNode,
which matches on entry ID.

Signed-off-by: Björn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>
GetFailingNodes built NodeState values with only Id and Address set. Those are
peer-table rows, not scraped nodes: they have no client, no INFO and no shard id,
so the type promised more than the values carried.

Return the parsed entries directly. The caller in forgetStaleNodes only reads the
ID and the address, which ClusterNode already carries as Id and Host.

Signed-off-by: Björn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>
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The PR adds structured parsing for CLUSTER NODES output, separates owned slots from migration markers, updates NodeState and controller consumers, adds parser and behavior tests, and documents the cluster-state data model.

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Cluster state parsing refactor

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cluster node parser and validation
internal/valkey/clusternode.go, internal/valkey/clusternode_test.go
ClusterNode and SlotMigration model parsed cluster entries. The parser handles flags, endpoints, owned slots, migration markers, and malformed lines. Tests cover IPv4, IPv6, noaddr, viewer differences, and migration states.
NodeState integration and behavior coverage
internal/valkey/clusterstate.go, internal/valkey/clusterstate_test.go, docs/clusterstate-design.md
NodeState stores parsed peer entries instead of raw CLUSTER NODES text. Slot, identity, failure, stale-address, pending-node, and gossip checks use structured data. Tests and documentation describe the updated behavior.
Controller consumer updates
internal/controller/valkeycluster_controller.go
Stale-node handling validates both Host and PodIP. Slot migration checks use KnowsNode instead of substring searches.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2b675

The refactor centralizes CLUSTER NODES parsing without a supplied concrete behavior or production-impact regression, so it is mergeable with normal checks.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR centralizes parsing, preserves slot and migration-marker separation, updates callers, and adds relevant tests. However, issue #406 also identifies parseClusterNodesRole as one of the seven pars… Update parseClusterNodesRole to use ParseClusterNodes and ClusterNode instead of positional parsing. Add the required ClusterNode fields from issue #406, including port, config epoch, and link state, or document and obtain explicit approval…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 47.83% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 23 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title directly and concisely describes the main refactor: replacing ad-hoc CLUSTER NODES field walks with structured parsing.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the issue reference, summary, behavior changes, implementation, limitations, and checklist. It omits a dedicated Testing section and test results, but it states that tests cov…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are related to the parser refactor. The controller updates preserve refactored behavior, and the tests and design document support the stated objectives. No unrelated code changes are iden…
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The PR centralizes parsing, preserves slot and migration-marker separation, updates callers, and adds relevant tests. However, issue #406 also identifies parseClusterNodesRole as one of the seven parsing sites, and that site remains unchanged. The proposed ClusterNode fields for port, config epoch, and link state are also not represented in the described implementation.

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Update parseClusterNodesRole to use ParseClusterNodes and ClusterNode instead of positional parsing. Add the required ClusterNode fields from issue #406, including port, config epoch, and link state, or document and obtain explicit approval for excluding them. Add tests for the updated controller path and required fields.

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In `@docs/clusterstate-design.md`:
- Line 47: Update the fenced code block containing the ClusterState structural
diagram to specify the text language identifier, resolving the Markdownlint
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In `@internal/controller/valkeycluster_controller.go`:
- Line 1410: Update the address-matching predicate in GetFailingNodes so it only
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The update avoids treating two missing pod addresses as the same node during stale-node cleanup, while retaining node-ID checks for address-less entries. The accompanying design document now marks its diagram as text.

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@bjosv bjosv changed the title Refactor clusterstate refactor: parse CLUSTER NODES into a struct instead of seven ad-hoc field walks Sep 10, 2026
Signed-off-by: Björn Svensson <bjorn.a.svensson@est.tech>

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Checked the behaviour-preservation claim on the part most likely to break quietly. IsNodeFailed already matched fail and fail? before this PR, so ClusterNode.IsFailing covering both is a rename, not a change. make test is green on 2b67520, and coverage on internal/valkey goes from 61.4% to 69.1%.

The unification does pass over two sites, and both of them read flags from the one place that cannot hold the answer:

  • GetSyncedReplicas (internal/valkey/clusterstate.go:237)
  • countReadyShards (internal/controller/valkeycluster_controller.go:1531)

Both spell it slices.Contains(node.Flags, "fail") || slices.Contains(node.Flags, "pfail"), and each half fails for its own reason.

pfail is not a token Valkey emits. clusterNodeFlagsTable in cluster_legacy.c holds myself, master, slave, fail?, fail, handshake, noaddr, nofailover, and fail? is what CLUSTER_NODE_PFAIL renders as. That clause is always false.

The fail clause is unreachable for a different reason, one this PR makes easier to see at clusterstate.go:576: node.Flags = myself.Flags. Those are the flags on the node's own line, and a node does not flag itself failing. clusterCron skips it when marking PFAIL:

if (node->flags & (CLUSTER_NODE_MYSELF | CLUSTER_NODE_NOADDR | CLUSTER_NODE_HANDSHAKE)) continue;

Ran the PR's own parser over a table where a peer is down, rather than trusting the reading:

NodeState.Flags = [myself master]
  contains "fail"  = false
  contains "pfail" = false
per-entry flags and IsFailing:
  a1  flags=[myself master]  IsFailing=false
  b2  flags=[master fail?]   IsFailing=true
  c3  flags=[slave]          IsFailing=false

The answer is in the table this PR builds, and IsFailing reports it correctly. The two callers just never ask.

As for what it costs, an unreachable node never reaches shard.Nodes at all: getNodeState returns nil and the caller gates on that, so len(shard.Nodes) < requiredNodes catches the ordinary outage. The gap is the node the operator can still reach while its peers cannot. countReadyShards counts that shard ready, and if the partitioned node is the primary then IsReplicationInSync returns true unconditionally for primaries, so nothing downstream stops it either. In GetSyncedReplicas the following master_link_status != "up" check covers most of the same ground.

state.IsNodeFailed(node.Id) is already the right call for countReadyShards, which has state in hand. GetSyncedReplicas hangs off ShardState with no route to the full state, so that one is less mechanical.

Changing behaviour may well belong outside a refactor, and leaving both checks alone is defensible. The comment above GetSyncedReplicas saying "Nodes with fail/pfail flags are excluded" is harder to leave, since that is the sentence the next reader will believe. Same two sites as #256.

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@melancholictheory nice finding, I created issue #441 so we can address this pre-existing issue in another PR

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