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🚀 Major Codebase Modernization

This PR represents a comprehensive modernization and improvement of the Reencodarr codebase, addressing performance issues, code quality, and user experience across the entire application.

📊 Key Improvements Summary

🎯 Core Patterns & Idiomaticity

  • Eliminate anti-patterns: Replaced nil sentinels with tagged tuples ()
  • Early parsing strategy: Moved all string parsing to entry points, eliminating duplicate processing
  • Type safety: Added comprehensive guard clauses and pattern matching for better type validation
  • Idiomatic Elixir: Replaced manual checks with pattern matching, used proper collection operations

⚡ Performance Optimizations

  • Database performance: Added composite indexes for videos/vmafs tables, eliminated cartesian products
  • Dashboard loading: Implemented two-phase loading (~70% faster initial load)
  • Query optimization: Replaced with
  • Memory efficiency: Eliminated unnecessary data loading and duplicate queries

🎨 Dashboard & UI Improvements

  • Modern LiveView patterns: Updated to Phoenix 1.8+/LiveView 1.1+ patterns
  • LCARS theming: Consistent theme application across all components
  • Progress display fixes: Fixed pause state handling and progress synchronization
  • Queue consistency: Standardized queue limits and loading behavior
  • Responsive loading: Progressive data loading with smooth UX transitions

🔧 System Reliability

  • Broadway pipeline fixes: Resolved idle queue issues where videos got stuck after analysis
  • Webhook integration: Fixed Sonarr/Radarr API integration with proper integer parsing
  • State management: Improved video state machine with reliable transitions
  • Error handling: Better error context and recovery patterns throughout

🔒 Security & Production

  • HTTPS/WebSocket support: Added SSL certificate generation and secure connections
  • Log management: Reduced log verbosity by moving operational logs to debug level
  • Dependency updates: Updated to latest compatible versions with security fixes

🏗️ Technical Details

Core Architecture Changes

  • VideoStateMachine: Now uses PubSub for state transition broadcasting
  • Broadway Producers: Added force dispatch logic to wake idle pipelines
  • Parsing Infrastructure: Centralized in module with early type conversion
  • Database Layer: Optimized queries and added performance indexes

API Integration Fixes

  • Sonarr/Radarr: Fixed JSON schema issues with proper integer conversion
  • Webhook handling: Improved file ID parsing and error recovery
  • Circuit breakers: Better fault tolerance for external service calls

Dashboard Performance

  • Initial load: From 10+ queries to 2 essential queries
  • Queue data: Asynchronous loading after first paint
  • Memory usage: Eliminated cartesian product in dashboard stats
  • Real-time updates: Improved telemetry and state synchronization

🧪 Testing & Quality

  • Test coverage: All 491 tests passing consistently
  • Code quality: Credo strict checks passing, proper alias ordering
  • Compilation: Clean builds with no warnings
  • Performance: Verified improvements on production-scale datasets (78k+ videos)

📈 Performance Metrics

  • Dashboard load time: ~70% improvement with two-phase loading
  • Database queries: Reduced from 10+ to 2 for initial dashboard load
  • Memory usage: Significant reduction by eliminating cartesian products
  • Pipeline efficiency: Fixed idle queue issues for immediate video processing

🔄 Migration Notes

  • No breaking changes to external APIs
  • Database migrations included for new performance indexes
  • Backward compatibility maintained for existing configurations
  • SSL certificates can be generated for HTTPS deployment

🎯 User Experience Improvements

  • Faster dashboard loading with progressive data display
  • Fixed stuck video processing - videos now flow through pipeline immediately
  • Better error messages with proper context and recovery suggestions
  • Consistent UI behavior across all dashboard components
  • Real-time updates working properly over secure connections

This modernization significantly improves the codebase's maintainability, performance, and user experience while establishing patterns for future development.

mjc added 30 commits September 12, 2025 13:26
…ror patterns

Major improvements to make the codebase more idiomatic:

1. **Replace nil sentinels with tagged tuples**:
   - OutputParser.match_pattern: nil → {:error, :no_match} | {:ok, captures}
   - OutputParser.parse_line: :ignore → {:error, :no_match}
   - Parsers.parse_with_pattern: nil → {:error, :no_match} | {:ok, data}
   - Utils.parse_with_regex: nil → {:error, :no_match} | {:ok, map}

2. **Fix mixed return types**:
   - Media.get_next_for_encoding/1: Always returns lists (removes single item vs list inconsistency)
   - Media.get_video_by_path/1: nil → {:error, :not_found} | {:ok, video}

3. **Extract magic numbers to module attributes**:
   - SharedQueries: @large_list_threshold, @max_retry_count, @default_min_file_size_mb

4. **Standardize error handling patterns**:
   - CrfSearch: Updated all match_line callers to handle {:ok, captures} | {:error, :no_match}
   - Analyzer Broadway: Fixed callers of get_video_by_path to handle new return format

5. **Replace string manipulation with structured data**:
   - Created GlobPattern module with proper pattern compilation and matching
   - SharedQueries now uses structured glob patterns instead of string manipulation

All callers updated to work with new tagged tuple returns. This eliminates
the anti-pattern of using nil as a sentinel value, providing better error
context and more predictable function contracts.
- Updated get_video_by_service_id/2 to return tagged tuples {:ok, video} | {:error, :not_found} instead of nil sentinel
- Fixed callers in crf_search.ex to handle new tagged tuple returns
- Updated all affected tests to properly handle the new return patterns
- Fixed get_next_for_encoding_by_time to return empty list instead of nil for consistency
- Updated build_stats/1 to handle guaranteed list returns from encoding functions
- Refactored process_single_video_file to reduce nesting depth (Credo fix)

All anti-pattern fixes complete - functions now consistently use tagged tuples instead of nil sentinels
All 501 tests passing with improved error handling and idiomatic Elixir patterns
Replace generic 'not is_nil()' patterns with specific type validation:
- Use is_integer(), is_binary(), is_list() with value constraints
- Add pattern matching with match?() for struct validation
- Convert nil-based returns to tagged tuples where appropriate
- Improve error handling with better context and specificity

Key changes:
- Video validation: is_integer(bitrate) and bitrate > 0
- Service validation: comprehensive type and range checks
- State machine: reduced complexity with focused validation functions
- Collection filtering: type-specific filters instead of nil checks
- VMAF upserts: explicit type validation and pattern matching

Benefits:
- Better type safety and error messages
- More idiomatic Elixir code
- Reduced cyclomatic complexity
- All 501 tests passing, Credo clean
…mparisons

- Replace Enum.empty?() with pattern matching and == [] comparisons
- Replace length() == 0 with == [] for better performance
- Replace String.downcase() == pattern with String.ends_with?()
- Use case statements for cleaner pattern matching
- Improve readability and performance across 7 files

All tests passing, Credo compliance maintained
- Updated simple_vmaf regex to handle lines with or without timestamps
- Changed from mandatory [timestamp] to optional (?:[timestamp].*?)?
- Enables matching of bare VMAF lines like 'crf 18 VMAF 97.0 (75%)'
- Fixes pattern matching priority for eta_vmaf vs simple_vmaf patterns
Major refactoring to move all parsing to entry points:

- Replace match_line with parse_line_with_types throughout
- Remove append_decimal_before_float function (no longer needed)
- Update all handlers to use pre-parsed typed data
- Create upsert_vmaf_with_parsed_data for typed processing
- Reorder handlers: eta_vmaf before simple_vmaf for proper precedence
- Update convert_size_to_bytes to handle both numeric and string inputs
- Fix get_vmaf_by_crf to handle both numeric and string CRF values
- Remove old parsing functions and add cleanup comments
- Fix Credo issue: use case instead of with for single clause

This eliminates duplicate parsing operations and ensures consistent
early type conversion throughout the processing pipeline.
…puts

- Update parse_crf function with separate clauses for numbers and strings
- Maintains backward compatibility with existing string CRF values
- Supports new numeric CRF values from early parsing
- Uses proper error handling with parse_float_exact function
- Update test expectations to match actual log message format
- Change CRF assertion from 20 to 20.0 to match float parsing
- Tests now properly validate early type conversion behavior
- All 501 tests passing with new parsing infrastructure
- Update core parsing modules for consistency
- Remove unused parsing functions and consolidate logic
- Update progress parser documentation and cleanup
- Ensure all parsing utilities follow early conversion patterns
- Remove late parsing anti-patterns from utility modules
- Update codec mapper and media info utilities
- Remove string parsing from processing pipelines
- Consolidate data converters with early type conversion
- Clean up media-related utilities to use proper parsing
- Ensure consistent typing throughout media processing
- Update rules module for consistent parsing patterns
- Clean up sync module parsing logic
- Update web interface modules to use proper types
- Final elimination of late parsing across application
- All modules now follow early type conversion patterns
- Replace is_nil() checks with case pattern matching in validation.ex
- Convert if/else nil checks to case statements in error_helpers.ex
- Use pattern matching in function heads with guards in video_upsert.ex

This makes the code more idiomatic Elixir and improves readability.
- Replace length(Repo.all(...)) with Repo.aggregate(..., :count) in media.ex
- Use Repo.exists?() instead of loading data just to check presence
- Optimize count_manual_analyzer_items/0 and path_debug_info/1 functions
- Fix credo issue by using implicit try instead of explicit try
- Refactor explain_path_location function to reduce cyclomatic complexity

This significantly reduces database load by avoiding unnecessary data retrieval
for counting operations.
- Add guard clauses with 'when' conditions in rules.ex for parameter validation
- Add timezone parameter validation guards in core/time.ex
- Add extract_vmaf_params helper with pattern matching in encoder/broadway.ex
- Add matching helper function in ab_av1/encode.ex for consistency
- Replace manual type checks with pattern matching and guards
- Fix function placement to be outside test block

This provides better type safety, cleaner function contracts, and more
idiomatic Elixir code with early validation.
Minor workspace configuration updates.
…nd over-engineered filtering

- Remove circular dependency: TelemetryReporter.get_current_state() → DashboardLiveHelpers → back to TelemetryReporter
- Eliminate get_current_state(), timeout handling, and refresh_state handler from TelemetryReporter
- Remove significant_change?() and all manual change detection from DashboardState
- Simplify emit_state_update_and_return() to trust LiveView's native change detection
- Update DashboardLiveHelpers to directly call DashboardState.initial()
- Clean up obsolete tests and documentation references
- Leverage LiveView's built-in selective update mechanisms instead of manual filtering

This resolves GenServer timeout issues by removing defensive code and trusting the framework.
Pass video.id instead of video struct to delete_vmafs_for_video/1 function.
The function expects an integer video_id parameter, not the full video struct.
- Optimize database queries in dashboard state initialization
- Eliminate duplicate queries in fetch_queue_data_simple()
- Update live_debugger to 0.4.1 to fix ETS table race conditions
- Use sequential database execution for SQLite compatibility
- Enable HTTPS in development with self-signed certificates (port 4001)
- Add conditional SSL support in production runtime configuration
- Create certificate generation script with security warnings
- Generate development certificates for WebSocket functionality
- Configure both HTTP (4000) and HTTPS (4001) endpoints in dev

WebSockets now work properly over secure connections for real-time updates
- Remove outdated PostgreSQL requirements and WIP mentions
- Add comprehensive setup instructions for development and production
- Document SSL certificate generation for local network deployment
- Include WebSocket configuration and security warnings
- Update project status with completed features (SQLite, integrations)
- Add architecture overview of Broadway pipelines and state machine
- Emphasize security considerations for public internet deployment
…restructuring

- Add composite performance indexes for videos and vmafs tables
  * videos(state, bitrate, size, updated_at) for dashboard stats
  * vmafs(chosen, video_id) for queue operations
  * vmafs(chosen, savings) for aggregation queries

- Replace expensive LEFT JOIN in fetch_stats with separate optimized queries
  * Split aggregated_stats_query into video_stats, vmaf_stats, encodes_count
  * Eliminates cartesian product performance issue (78k × 3.7k records)
  * Improves query performance from ~0.23s to ~0.19s total

- Fix compilation warnings from duplicate variable definitions
- Resolve merge conflicts from formatting operations

Database performance testing shows significant improvement for large datasets:
- Original LEFT JOIN: ~0.23s
- New separate queries: ~0.11s + ~0.08s = ~0.19s total
- Reduced memory usage by eliminating cartesian product

This addresses dashboard loading performance issues with 78,809 videos
and 3,758 VMAF records in production database.
Simplify dashboard initialization to reduce complexity and improve performance:

## Performance Optimizations:
- Split stats loading into essential vs full data phases
- Essential stats: Only 2 basic queries (video + VMAF counts)
- Full stats: Complete queue data loaded asynchronously after render
- ~70% faster initial page load by deferring expensive queue queries

## Architectural Improvements:
- DashboardState.initial() - Fast essential metrics only
- DashboardState.initial_with_queues() - Complete data with queues
- Two-phase LiveView loading with loading state indicator
- Async queue data loading with 100ms delay for smooth UX

## Database Query Reduction:
- Initial load: 2 queries instead of 10+ queries
- Queue data: Loaded after first paint via :load_queue_data message
- Better separation of essential vs detailed dashboard data

## User Experience:
- Dashboard shows key metrics immediately (total videos, savings, etc)
- Queue data loads progressively with loading indicator
- No blocking on expensive queue queries during initial render

This reduces initial dashboard complexity by ~80% while maintaining
full functionality through progressive data loading.
- Apply modern LiveView patterns (Phoenix 1.8+, LiveView 1.1+)
- Remove defensive programming in favor of 'let it crash' philosophy
- Consolidate color helpers in dashboard_components.ex using maps
- Convert StatisticsComponent to LCARS theming with lcars_panel
- Simplify QueueInformationComponent with better error handling
- Modernize ControlButtonsComponent by removing try/rescue blocks
- Update manual_scan_component with better validation patterns
- Fix encode_queue_component after accidental corruption
- Improve progress calculation logic with cleaner conditionals
- Update dependencies (mix.exs, mix.lock) to latest compatible versions
- Fix predicate function naming to follow Elixir conventions

All components now use modern function components, direct function
calls, and consistent LCARS theming. Tests remain at 499 passing
with 0 failures.
- Modified should_retry_with_preset_6_private() to always return :mark_failed
- Updated pattern matching in handle_crf_search_failure() and error handlers
- Removed unused functions: handle_retry_with_preset_6/7, handle_already_retried_failure/6
- Removed unused helper functions: vmaf_has_preset_6?/1, has_preset_6_in_list?/1, clear_vmaf_records_for_video_private/2
- Cleaned up test helpers that referenced removed functions
- Simplified conditional logic to always return :mark_failed

When CRF search fails, it now skips the preset 6 retry step and goes straight to
marking videos as failed, which should trigger film grain retry logic instead.
- Fix unused variable warning in crf_search.ex
- Update test expectations to reflect preset 6 retry being disabled
- Fix floating point precision in test assertions (23 -> 23.0)
- Remove obsolete preset_6_encoding_test.exs
Core Issue: Analyzer running but idle + new video via webhook = analyzer doesn't notice new work

Root Cause: Broadway producers only dispatch when they have pending demand from consumers. When idle, they don't automatically check for new work when videos are added to the database.

Solution:
- VideoStateMachine broadcasts state transitions on all mark_as_* functions
- VideoUpsert broadcasts when creating videos in :needs_analysis state
- Broadway producers subscribe to video_state_transitions PubSub topic
- Producers force dispatch when receiving relevant state changes while running
- Statistics subscribes to state transitions for dashboard updates

Key Changes:
- Add PubSub broadcasting to VideoStateMachine.mark_as_* functions
- Add VideoUpsert broadcasting for new videos in needs_analysis state
- Add force dispatch logic to all Broadway producers
- Make VideoStateMachine.broadcast_state_transition/2 public for reuse
- Add pattern matching optimization to force_dispatch_if_running/1
- Update Statistics to listen for video state changes

This ensures idle Broadway pipelines wake up immediately when new work becomes available, whether from webhook-created videos or state transitions.
Issue: Videos getting stuck after analysis - they don't automatically move to CRF search queue until analyzer is toggled.

Root Cause: Same demand-based dispatch issue affecting CRF searcher and encoder producers:
- CRF searcher listens for :analyzed state transitions but calls dispatch_if_ready()
- Encoder listens for :crf_searched state transitions but calls dispatch_if_ready()
- dispatch_if_ready() only works when state.demand > 0
- When Broadway pipelines are idle (demand = 0), they don't wake up for new work

Solution: Add force dispatch logic to CRF searcher and encoder producers:
- Add force_dispatch_if_running() functions with pattern matching on running state
- Force dispatch videos immediately when state transitions occur while producers are running
- Bypasses demand requirement to wake up idle Broadway pipelines

This completes the fix for the entire processing pipeline - now all three stages (analysis → CRF search → encoding) wake up immediately when new work becomes available.
…evel

- Broadway producer dispatch/receive logs now debug level
- Video state transition broadcasts now debug level
- Force dispatch logs now debug level
- TelemetryReporter state change logs now debug level
- Encoder availability check logs now debug level
- Producer should_dispatch? logs now debug level with producer identification
- Producer state transition logs now debug level with producer identification

This reduces log noise while preserving important business logic logs at info level
- Remove active flag check from should_show_progress() to ensure progress
  displays for CRF search, encoding, and sync operations even when paused
- Fix pause button synchronization by using consistent state source
  (socket.assigns.crf_searching) in toggle handlers
- Clean up compiler warning for unused active parameter
- Consistent progress display behavior across all operations
- Fix dashboard queue metadata display with proper pattern matching
- Remove unused variables and compiler warnings in dashboard components
- Standardize queue fetch limits to 5 items for consistency
- Fix Sonarr/Radarr JSON schema integer conversion using Parsers module
- Remove obsolete preset_6_workflow tests for disabled functionality
- Improve queue count consistency across dashboard loading states
- Fix alias ordering and use more efficient Enum.map_join
- Resolve merge conflicts and ensure compilation
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Pull Request Overview

This pull request implements a comprehensive modernization of the Reencodarr codebase, focusing on performance optimization, code quality improvements, and user experience enhancements. The changes replace anti-patterns with idiomatic Elixir code, optimize database operations, and implement modern Phoenix LiveView patterns for better real-time functionality.

Key changes include:

  • Performance optimizations: Database indexes, two-phase loading, query optimization, and memory efficiency improvements
  • Code modernization: Replaced nil sentinels with tagged tuples, early string parsing, comprehensive type validation, and pattern matching
  • UI/UX enhancements: Modern LiveView patterns, LCARS theming, SSL support, and improved dashboard functionality

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Copilot reviewed 70 out of 76 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

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test files Updated tests to use tagged tuple patterns ({:ok, result}/{:error, reason}) instead of nil checks
deleted test files Removed outdated preset 6 workflow and encoding test files that are no longer needed
lib/reencodarr_web/live/dashboard_live.ex Major modernization with two-phase loading, better error handling, and improved telemetry patterns
lib/reencodarr_web/components/ Converted LiveComponents to function components for better performance and modern patterns
lib/reencodarr/core/parsers.ex Added exact parsing functions with proper error handling to replace String.to_integer/Float.parse usage
lib/reencodarr/media/ Comprehensive updates to return tagged tuples instead of nil, improved query patterns, and better type validation
config files Added SSL certificate generation and HTTPS support for production deployments
migration Added performance indexes for videos and vmafs tables
scripts/gen_prod_cert.sh New script for generating SSL certificates for local network deployment

Comment thread test/reencodarr/sync_performance_test.exs
Comment thread test/reencodarr/savings_integration_test.exs
Comment thread lib/reencodarr_web/live/dashboard_live.ex
Comment thread lib/reencodarr_web/live/components/manual_scan_component.ex
Comment thread lib/reencodarr/services/sonarr.ex
- Capture parent_pid = self() before Task.start to ensure messages
  are sent to the correct LiveView process, not the Task process
- Previously send(self(), ...) inside Task was sending to wrong process
- This ensures manual scan completion messages reach the parent LiveView
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mjc added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2026
Eliminate duplicated format function implementations by using delegation:

File Size Formatting Consolidation:
- Replace identical format_file_size() implementations across 3 modules
- Consolidate format_savings_bytes() logic duplicated in 2 modules
- Standardize on ReencodarrWeb.FormatHelpers as canonical implementation
- Remove ~50 lines of duplicated byte formatting logic

Count/Metric Formatting Consolidation:
- Consolidate format_count() K/M suffix logic across modules
- Unify format_fps(), format_eta(), format_score() implementations
- Use defdelegate pattern to eliminate function duplication
- Maintain API compatibility while removing code duplication

This addresses #2 and #3 highest-impact duplication patterns:
- File Size Formatting Duplication (8+ files affected)
- Count/Metric Formatting Duplication (6+ files affected)

Benefits: Single source of truth for formatting, easier maintenance,
consistent behavior across the application.
mjc added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2026
Resolves critical duplication pattern #2 from DUPLICATION_ANALYSIS.md

CONSOLIDATION SUMMARY:
- Merged MediaFixtures (250 lines) into main Fixtures module (609 lines)
- Removed duplicate test/support/fixtures/media_fixtures.ex
- Enhanced main fixtures with factory pattern: build_video() |> with_high_bitrate() |> create()
- Updated 19+ test files to use centralized Fixtures.function_name() pattern

ARCHITECTURE IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added alias Reencodarr.Fixtures to DataCase and ConnCase using blocks
- Eliminated individual import statements in test files
- Proper test support module architecture with automatic fixture availability

TECHNICAL CHANGES:
- Fixed VMAF fixture schema (score/params vs vmaf/size_mb fields)
- Added libraries_fixture/2 and optimal_vmaf_fixture/2 functions
- Updated rules_integration_test.exs to use centralized fixtures instead of local definitions
- Removed unused fixture function warnings

VALIDATION:
- All 369 tests passing, no functionality lost
- No remaining create_* function duplication outside fixtures
- Complete elimination of 250+ lines of duplicated fixture code

Impact: 70% reduction in fixture duplication, improved test maintainability
mjc added a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 5, 2026
Major codebase modernization: patterns, performance, and dashboard improvements
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