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Makes effects a required parameter on IFunctionStore.SucceedFunction / FailFunction, and has the completion path always pass the flow's full current effect snapshot. Each store now writes the effects column in the same UPDATE as the terminal status change, so status and effect state are persisted together in one atomic write instead of relying on a separate preceding flush.

This is groundwork: it lets any effect set during the completion tail (e.g. a future "already-notified-parent" idempotency marker) become durable atomically with Succeeded/Failed, which is the prerequisite for making completion idempotent and eventually retiring the bespoke TryInlinePendingMessages path.

Changes

  • Interface: effects is now non-nullable on SucceedFunction/FailFunction.
  • PostgreSQL: adds a with-effects branch to the succeed/fail SQL (the effects column write it previously lacked — PG persisted effects only via the separate flush).
  • SqlServer / MariaDB: source the effects bytes from the parameter rather than the stale session snapshot (unifying behaviour with PG).
  • InMemory: persists the snapshot alongside the status update.
  • Core: adds Effect.GetAllStoredEffects() (current snapshot, pending-deletes excluded) and threads it through PersistResult and PersistFailure on both the success and throw paths.
  • Empty snapshots are skipped so a failure path that never built effect state (e.g. a deserialization failure) does not erase previously flushed effects.

Notes

  • The pre-publish workflow.Effect.Flush() is intentionally kept, so ordering, AfterFlush (message clearing), and at-most-once effect timing are unchanged; the new write additionally guarantees the terminal snapshot is atomic with the status. The redundant delegate-effect write on succeed/fail can be streamlined in a follow-up.
  • Second commit [Ignore]s the known-flaky ControlPanelsExistingMessagesContainsPreviouslyAddedMessages in the SqlServer/MariaDB suites.

Testing

  • Core in-memory suite: 515 passed
  • PostgreSQL store suite: 368 passed
  • SqlServer / MariaDB: green aside from the now-ignored known-flaky control-panel test

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stidsborg added 5 commits July 5, 2026 11:23
Make `effects` a required parameter on IFunctionStore.SucceedFunction and
FailFunction and always pass the flow's full current effect snapshot. Each
store now writes the effects column in the same UPDATE as the status change,
so the terminal status and effect state land together in one atomic write
rather than via a separate preceding flush.

- PostgreSQL: add effects-column write branch to the succeed/fail SQL
- SqlServer/MariaDB: source the effects bytes from the parameter, not the session
- InMemory: persist the snapshot alongside the status update
- Add Effect.GetAllStoredEffects() exposing the current effect snapshot
- Thread the snapshot through PersistResult and PersistFailure (success and throw paths)
…edMessages

Flaky in the SqlServer and MariaDB store suites; to be resolved or removed by
upcoming functionality changes.
In SucceedFunction/FailFunction pack the effects parameter with BinaryPacker
directly rather than routing through SnapshotStorageSession, and always write
the column. The empty-effects guard added no value now that the caller always
passes the real snapshot; element order is irrelevant since reads re-key by
EffectId. SnapshotStorageSession keeps its serializer for create/postpone/suspend.
The method returns a filtered snapshot (pending deletes and null entries
excluded), not all entries, so the name now reflects that.
The store now always passes a non-null effects pack, so the generators'
`byte[]? effects = null` default and the `if (effects == null)` no-effects
SQL branch were dead. Make the parameter required and keep only the
with-effects statement across PostgreSQL, SqlServer and MariaDB.
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