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Summary

Rank rows are written and kept fresh, but nothing can read them. Getting a ranking out means knowing the rank table's name, its index and how its row key is composed, then scanning it yourself. This exposes the read.

POST /aggregations/v1/databases/{database}/tables/{table}/topks/{topk}

The path names the source table and the declaration on it, never the rank table. RankScan.from(...) reads the declaration off the schema and resolves the rest — which table the rows live in, the metric index to walk, and the start key from (database, table, topk, entity, dimensionValues). I kept the rank table out of the request on
purpose: a service that renames it should not have to tell its callers.

{
  "entity": "user1",
  "dimensionValues": { "category": "fruit" },
  "limit": 10
}

{
  "topks": [
    { "value": "item9", "metric": 42, "properties": { "brand": "acme" } },
    { "value": "item3", "metric": 17, "properties": { "brand": "acme" } }
  ],
  "count": 2
}

When the declaration is global, entity in the request is ignored — a global ranking is one row for everyone, so there is nothing to narrow. An unknown topk is a 400 naming it.

I put the read on POST, not GET. A ranking is picked by naming values, and a query string cannot carry those onto an immutable request. The downside is that a read stops looking like one to anything in front of the server — no caching, and ReadOnlyRequestFilter has to know about it by hand. It now matches on a path segment (/topks/)
as well as on a suffix, since this path ends in a variable. If the exception list grows, the filter should read the annotation instead of a name list.

Dimension values are positional against the declaration, and a value the request omits reads back as an empty string rather than as an error. So a partially specified request quietly reads the ranking split on empty values instead of the one the caller meant. I'll leave that validation for a follow-up.

Stacked on #496 — that needs to land first.

Part of #386.

Test plan

• ./gradlew :engine:test --tests '*RankScanTest*' — rank table resolution, key composition, global entity, unknown topk
• ./gradlew :server:test --tests '*MetadataAggQueryControllerE2ETest*' — the endpoint over HTTP, per-entity and global rankings, dimension splits, paging
• ./gradlew :server:test --tests '*ReadOnlyRequestFilterTest*' — the read passes in read-only mode
• ./gradlew spotlessCheck build — formatting and full build

AI Assistance

• This PR was written largely with AI assistance.
  • Tool / model: Claude Code (Opus 5)

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