fix(tracking): record which code path unchecks a character's tracking box - #153
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… box Users report their tracking box unchecking itself. The box is real — tracking genuinely stops — and the three known writers of `tracked: false` are each ruled out by what the affected users describe: no ACL change, no manual untrack, the tracking dialog not even open. Reasoning backwards from the call sites cannot settle that. Either one of the three fires in a way nobody expects, or there is a caller nobody has found, and static analysis cannot tell those apart. Production evidence can, but there was none to have: `MapCharacterSettingsRepo.untrack/1` emitted nothing at all, and with no log drain (fly logs retains about a minute) nothing survived long enough to read after a report came in. The only available answer was to poll Postgres and hope to catch the row mid-flip, which loses every time the user re-checks the box before the next sample — as it did while investigating this. `untrack/1` is the single choke point. The UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL permission sweep (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all route through it, and `untrack!/1` delegates to it, so instrumenting it observes an uncheck no matter which path caused it — including a path not yet known. Logs the calling stacktrace at :warning (prod runs at :info, so it is visible) and emits a counter tagged with `character_id` and a `source` derived from the stack: :ui_toggle, :acl_sweep, :character_deleted, or :unknown. The bounded source makes it a Grafana breakdown; the stack in the log names the exact caller, which is what actually ends the investigation. A source of :unknown is the interesting case, and it carries its raw stack. Guarded on the prior `tracked` value so this counts true -> false transitions rather than calls. Untracking an already-untracked character writes nothing worth reporting, and counting it would inflate the metric against the reports it exists to explain — the same failure the :location_flag_cleared counter had. Does not change any tracking behaviour. It answers "did it happen, and what did it", which currently cannot be answered at all.
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ChangesCharacter untracking telemetry
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds logging and metrics for tracking unchecks without changing tracking behavior, but concurrent updates may double-count a single uncheck and could mislead production investigation metrics. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up on atomic transition reporting. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Caller->>MapCharacterSettingsRepo: update or untrack character settings
MapCharacterSettingsRepo->>MapCharacterSettingsRepo: verify tracked-to-untracked transition
MapCharacterSettingsRepo->>Telemetry: emit character_settings.untracked metadata
Telemetry->>PromExPlugin: deliver event
PromExPlugin->>PromExPlugin: increment tagged counter
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In `@lib/wanderer_app/repositories/map_character_settings_repo.ex`:
- Around line 94-101: Update the untracking flow around was_tracked and
WandererApp.Api.MapCharacterSettings.update to perform a conditional update only
when the record is still tracked, and emit report_untrack only when that update
confirms a record changed. Add a concurrent regression test verifying that
simultaneous calls produce a single untrack report for one true-to-false
transition.
- Around line 75-85: Update the repository’s update/3 path so callers cannot
bypass untrack/1 instrumentation when changing tracking state: either
reject/remove :tracked from arbitrary updates or route tracked: false through
untrack/1, while preserving normal updates for other fields.
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| # Every path that unchecks a character's tracking box in the database funnels | ||
| # through here: the UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL permission sweep | ||
| # (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all call this, and | ||
| # untrack!/1 delegates to it. It is therefore the one place that can observe an | ||
| # uncheck regardless of which path caused it. | ||
| # | ||
| # That matters because users report their tracking box unchecking itself while | ||
| # none of the known callers appears responsible. Reasoning backwards from the | ||
| # call sites could not settle it; recording the caller at the moment of the | ||
| # write does. The stacktrace is the payload — it names the path even if the | ||
| # path is one nobody has thought of yet. |
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Prevent update/3 from bypassing untrack/1 instrumentation. update/3 forwards arbitrary fields, and the API update action accepts :tracked. Restrict update/3 from changing :tracked, or route tracked: false through untrack/1.
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In `@lib/wanderer_app/repositories/map_character_settings_repo.ex` around lines 75
- 85, Update the repository’s update/3 path so callers cannot bypass untrack/1
instrumentation when changing tracking state: either reject/remove :tracked from
arbitrary updates or route tracked: false through untrack/1, while preserving
normal updates for other fields.
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| was_tracked = Map.get(settings, :tracked) == true | ||
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| |> WandererApp.Api.MapCharacterSettings.update(%{tracked: false}) | ||
| |> case do | ||
| {:ok, _updated} = result -> | ||
| if was_tracked, do: report_untrack(map_id, character_id) | ||
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Make transition reporting atomic.
Two concurrent calls can both read tracked: true at Line 94. Both updates can then succeed, and both calls emit telemetry at Line 100. The counter reports two untracks for one true → false transition.
Use a conditional update that changes only records still tracked. Emit only when that update reports that it changed a record. Add a concurrent regression test.
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In `@lib/wanderer_app/repositories/map_character_settings_repo.ex` around lines 94
- 101, Update the untracking flow around was_tracked and
WandererApp.Api.MapCharacterSettings.update to perform a conditional update only
when the record is still tracked, and emit report_untrack only when that update
confirms a record changed. Add a concurrent regression test verifying that
simultaneous calls produce a single untrack report for one true-to-false
transition.
Review on #153: MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3 forwards arbitrary attributes to the Ash action, so a caller passing tracked: false would flip the flag without going through untrack/1 and the uncheck would go unrecorded. That silently breaks the guarantee the whole change rests on — that untrack/1 observes every uncheck. No caller does this today; tracker_manager_impl.ex:379 is the only one and it passes ship and location fields. This is a latent hole rather than an active bug, but it sits in the same module as the guarantee and would invalidate it without any visible failure. Reports the uncheck from update/3 as well, guarded on the same true -> false transition. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged: attributes are still forwarded as-is, and updates that leave tracking alone or set it on report nothing. Checks atom and string keys, since Ash accepts both.
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In `@lib/wanderer_app/repositories/map_character_settings_repo.ex`:
- Around line 30-34: Update the comment near the arbitrary-attributes update
flow to remove the outdated claim that nothing passes tracked: false, and state
that direct update/3 calls with tracked: false are supported and instrumented
directly while preserving the guarantee that untrack/1 observes every
occurrence.
In `@test/unit/repositories/map_character_settings_repo_untrack_test.exs`:
- Around line 76-100: Add a regression test in the “update/3 cannot bypass the
instrumentation” describe block that calls MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3
with %{"tracked" => false} and asserts exactly one telemetry event containing
the expected character_id and map_id, matching the existing atom-key untrack
test.
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| # This function takes arbitrary attributes, so a caller passing | ||
| # tracked: false would flip the flag without going through untrack/1 and | ||
| # the uncheck would never be recorded — silently breaking the guarantee | ||
| # that untrack/1 observes every one. Nothing does that today; this keeps | ||
| # the guarantee true if something ever starts. |
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Update the comment to match the supported behavior.
The implementation and tests now support direct update/3 calls with tracked: false. Therefore, “Nothing does that today” is no longer accurate. State that this path is supported and instrumented directly.
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In `@lib/wanderer_app/repositories/map_character_settings_repo.ex` around lines 30
- 34, Update the comment near the arbitrary-attributes update flow to remove the
outdated claim that nothing passes tracked: false, and state that direct
update/3 calls with tracked: false are supported and instrumented directly while
preserving the guarantee that untrack/1 observes every occurrence.
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| describe "update/3 cannot bypass the instrumentation" do | ||
| test "reports an uncheck made through the generic update path" do | ||
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | ||
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| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: false}) | ||
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| assert_receive {:telemetry, %{count: 1}, %{character_id: ^character_id, map_id: ^map_id}} | ||
| end | ||
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| test "does not report when the update leaves tracking alone" do | ||
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | ||
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| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{ship_name: "Loki"}) | ||
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| test "does not report when the update sets tracking on" do | ||
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | ||
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| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: true}) | ||
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| refute_receive {:telemetry, _, _}, 200 | ||
| end | ||
| end |
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Add a regression test for string-key updates.
untracks?/1 supports %{"tracked" => false}, but this suite tests only %{tracked: false}. Add a test that passes the string key and asserts one telemetry event.
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+ test "reports an uncheck made through the generic update path with a string key" do
+ %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings()
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+ {:ok, _} =
+ MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{"tracked" => false})
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+ assert_receive {:telemetry, %{count: 1},
+ %{character_id: ^character_id, map_id: ^map_id}}
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| describe "update/3 cannot bypass the instrumentation" do | |
| test "reports an uncheck made through the generic update path" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: false}) | |
| assert_receive {:telemetry, %{count: 1}, %{character_id: ^character_id, map_id: ^map_id}} | |
| end | |
| test "does not report when the update leaves tracking alone" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{ship_name: "Loki"}) | |
| refute_receive {:telemetry, _, _}, 200 | |
| end | |
| test "does not report when the update sets tracking on" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: true}) | |
| refute_receive {:telemetry, _, _}, 200 | |
| end | |
| end | |
| describe "update/3 cannot bypass the instrumentation" do | |
| test "reports an uncheck made through the generic update path" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: false}) | |
| assert_receive {:telemetry, %{count: 1}, %{character_id: ^character_id, map_id: ^map_id}} | |
| end | |
| test "reports an uncheck made through the generic update path with a string key" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = | |
| MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{"tracked" => false}) | |
| assert_receive {:telemetry, %{count: 1}, | |
| %{character_id: ^character_id, map_id: ^map_id}} | |
| end | |
| test "does not report when the update leaves tracking alone" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{ship_name: "Loki"}) | |
| refute_receive {:telemetry, _, _}, 200 | |
| end | |
| test "does not report when the update sets tracking on" do | |
| %{map_id: map_id, character_id: character_id} = tracked_settings() | |
| {:ok, _} = MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update(map_id, character_id, %{tracked: true}) | |
| refute_receive {:telemetry, _, _}, 200 | |
| end | |
| end |
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In `@test/unit/repositories/map_character_settings_repo_untrack_test.exs` around
lines 76 - 100, Add a regression test in the “update/3 cannot bypass the
instrumentation” describe block that calls MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3
with %{"tracked" => false} and asserts exactly one telemetry event containing
the expected character_id and map_id, matching the existing atom-key untrack
test.
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… box (#153) * fix(tracking): record which code path unchecks a character's tracking box Users report their tracking box unchecking itself. The box is real — tracking genuinely stops — and the three known writers of `tracked: false` are each ruled out by what the affected users describe: no ACL change, no manual untrack, the tracking dialog not even open. Reasoning backwards from the call sites cannot settle that. Either one of the three fires in a way nobody expects, or there is a caller nobody has found, and static analysis cannot tell those apart. Production evidence can, but there was none to have: `MapCharacterSettingsRepo.untrack/1` emitted nothing at all, and with no log drain (fly logs retains about a minute) nothing survived long enough to read after a report came in. The only available answer was to poll Postgres and hope to catch the row mid-flip, which loses every time the user re-checks the box before the next sample — as it did while investigating this. `untrack/1` is the single choke point. The UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL permission sweep (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all route through it, and `untrack!/1` delegates to it, so instrumenting it observes an uncheck no matter which path caused it — including a path not yet known. Logs the calling stacktrace at :warning (prod runs at :info, so it is visible) and emits a counter tagged with `character_id` and a `source` derived from the stack: :ui_toggle, :acl_sweep, :character_deleted, or :unknown. The bounded source makes it a Grafana breakdown; the stack in the log names the exact caller, which is what actually ends the investigation. A source of :unknown is the interesting case, and it carries its raw stack. Guarded on the prior `tracked` value so this counts true -> false transitions rather than calls. Untracking an already-untracked character writes nothing worth reporting, and counting it would inflate the metric against the reports it exists to explain — the same failure the :location_flag_cleared counter had. Does not change any tracking behaviour. It answers "did it happen, and what did it", which currently cannot be answered at all. * fix(tracking): close the update/3 bypass around untrack instrumentation Review on #153: MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3 forwards arbitrary attributes to the Ash action, so a caller passing tracked: false would flip the flag without going through untrack/1 and the uncheck would go unrecorded. That silently breaks the guarantee the whole change rests on — that untrack/1 observes every uncheck. No caller does this today; tracker_manager_impl.ex:379 is the only one and it passes ship and location fields. This is a latent hole rather than an active bug, but it sits in the same module as the guarantee and would invalidate it without any visible failure. Reports the uncheck from update/3 as well, guarded on the same true -> false transition. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged: attributes are still forwarded as-is, and updates that leave tracking alone or set it on report nothing. Checks atom and string keys, since Ash accepts both.
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… box (#153) * fix(tracking): record which code path unchecks a character's tracking box Users report their tracking box unchecking itself. The box is real — tracking genuinely stops — and the three known writers of `tracked: false` are each ruled out by what the affected users describe: no ACL change, no manual untrack, the tracking dialog not even open. Reasoning backwards from the call sites cannot settle that. Either one of the three fires in a way nobody expects, or there is a caller nobody has found, and static analysis cannot tell those apart. Production evidence can, but there was none to have: `MapCharacterSettingsRepo.untrack/1` emitted nothing at all, and with no log drain (fly logs retains about a minute) nothing survived long enough to read after a report came in. The only available answer was to poll Postgres and hope to catch the row mid-flip, which loses every time the user re-checks the box before the next sample — as it did while investigating this. `untrack/1` is the single choke point. The UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL permission sweep (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all route through it, and `untrack!/1` delegates to it, so instrumenting it observes an uncheck no matter which path caused it — including a path not yet known. Logs the calling stacktrace at :warning (prod runs at :info, so it is visible) and emits a counter tagged with `character_id` and a `source` derived from the stack: :ui_toggle, :acl_sweep, :character_deleted, or :unknown. The bounded source makes it a Grafana breakdown; the stack in the log names the exact caller, which is what actually ends the investigation. A source of :unknown is the interesting case, and it carries its raw stack. Guarded on the prior `tracked` value so this counts true -> false transitions rather than calls. Untracking an already-untracked character writes nothing worth reporting, and counting it would inflate the metric against the reports it exists to explain — the same failure the :location_flag_cleared counter had. Does not change any tracking behaviour. It answers "did it happen, and what did it", which currently cannot be answered at all. * fix(tracking): close the update/3 bypass around untrack instrumentation Review on #153: MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3 forwards arbitrary attributes to the Ash action, so a caller passing tracked: false would flip the flag without going through untrack/1 and the uncheck would go unrecorded. That silently breaks the guarantee the whole change rests on — that untrack/1 observes every uncheck. No caller does this today; tracker_manager_impl.ex:379 is the only one and it passes ship and location fields. This is a latent hole rather than an active bug, but it sits in the same module as the guarantee and would invalidate it without any visible failure. Reports the uncheck from update/3 as well, guarded on the same true -> false transition. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged: attributes are still forwarded as-is, and updates that leave tracking alone or set it on report nothing. Checks atom and string keys, since Ash accepts both.
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… box (#153) * fix(tracking): record which code path unchecks a character's tracking box Users report their tracking box unchecking itself. The box is real — tracking genuinely stops — and the three known writers of `tracked: false` are each ruled out by what the affected users describe: no ACL change, no manual untrack, the tracking dialog not even open. Reasoning backwards from the call sites cannot settle that. Either one of the three fires in a way nobody expects, or there is a caller nobody has found, and static analysis cannot tell those apart. Production evidence can, but there was none to have: `MapCharacterSettingsRepo.untrack/1` emitted nothing at all, and with no log drain (fly logs retains about a minute) nothing survived long enough to read after a report came in. The only available answer was to poll Postgres and hope to catch the row mid-flip, which loses every time the user re-checks the box before the next sample — as it did while investigating this. `untrack/1` is the single choke point. The UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL permission sweep (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all route through it, and `untrack!/1` delegates to it, so instrumenting it observes an uncheck no matter which path caused it — including a path not yet known. Logs the calling stacktrace at :warning (prod runs at :info, so it is visible) and emits a counter tagged with `character_id` and a `source` derived from the stack: :ui_toggle, :acl_sweep, :character_deleted, or :unknown. The bounded source makes it a Grafana breakdown; the stack in the log names the exact caller, which is what actually ends the investigation. A source of :unknown is the interesting case, and it carries its raw stack. Guarded on the prior `tracked` value so this counts true -> false transitions rather than calls. Untracking an already-untracked character writes nothing worth reporting, and counting it would inflate the metric against the reports it exists to explain — the same failure the :location_flag_cleared counter had. Does not change any tracking behaviour. It answers "did it happen, and what did it", which currently cannot be answered at all. * fix(tracking): close the update/3 bypass around untrack instrumentation Review on #153: MapCharacterSettingsRepo.update/3 forwards arbitrary attributes to the Ash action, so a caller passing tracked: false would flip the flag without going through untrack/1 and the uncheck would go unrecorded. That silently breaks the guarantee the whole change rests on — that untrack/1 observes every uncheck. No caller does this today; tracker_manager_impl.ex:379 is the only one and it passes ship and location fields. This is a latent hole rather than an active bug, but it sits in the same module as the guarantee and would invalidate it without any visible failure. Reports the uncheck from update/3 as well, guarded on the same true -> false transition. Behaviour is otherwise unchanged: attributes are still forwarded as-is, and updates that leave tracking alone or set it on report nothing. Checks atom and string keys, since Ash accepts both.
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Users report their tracking box unchecking itself, and it's real — tracking genuinely stops, they aren't clicking anything, there's no ACL change, and the tracking dialog isn't even open.
There are exactly three writers of
tracked: falsein the codebase, and all three are ruled out by what the affected users describe. So either one of them fires in a way nobody expects, or there's a caller nobody has found — and reading the code cannot tell those apart. I tried; every candidate path dies on one of the reported facts.Production evidence would settle it, except there wasn't any to have.
MapCharacterSettingsRepo.untrack/1emitted nothing, and with no log drain (fly logsretains ~1 minute) nothing survives long enough to read after a report arrives. That left polling Postgres and hoping to catch the row mid-flip — which loses every time the user re-checks the box before the next sample. It lost during this investigation: an hour of 20-second polling on the affected pilot caught nothing, while his row had demonstrably beenfalseshortly before.What
untrack/1is the single choke point. The UI toggle (TrackingUtils), the ACL sweep (CharactersImpl) and character deletion (CharactersLive) all route through it, anduntrack!/1delegates to it. Instrumenting that one function observes an uncheck regardless of which path caused it — including one not yet known.:warning, so it's visible at prod's:infolevelcharacter_idandsource, derived from the stack::ui_toggle,:acl_sweep,:character_deleted, or:unknownThe bounded
sourcegives a Grafana breakdown; the stack in the log names the exact caller, which is the part that actually ends the investigation.source=unknownis the interesting case and carries its raw stack.Sample of the log line it produces:
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was_trackedis captured before the update so this countstrue → falsetransitions, not calls. Untracking an already-untracked character writes nothing worth reporting, and counting it would inflate the metric against the very reports it exists to explain — the same defect:location_flag_clearedhad and had to be fixed for.Process.info(self(), :current_stacktrace)runs only on a real transition, which is roughly 24/day at current behaviour — not on every call.sourceis a bounded 4-value set.character_idmatches the convention established by the other tracking counters.Verification
mix test— 1824 tests, 0 failuresmix compile --warnings-as-errorsclean,mix format --check-formattedcleanmix credo— no findings on the new code (the ones reported are pre-existing inprom_ex_plugin)Not covered
This changes no tracking behaviour — it only makes the uncheck observable. It does not fix whatever is doing the unchecking, because we still don't know what that is. That's the point: the next occurrence names it.
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