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fix: over eager preload #1693
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fix: over eager preload #1693
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Preload was sending perload requests for EVERY dag node of an added file. This is unnecessary as the preload request will recursively slurp down the entire graph. This PR fixes that behaviour. License: MIT Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw <[email protected]>
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License: MIT Signed-off-by: Alan Shaw <[email protected]>
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TLDR; Preload was sending preload requests for EVERY dag node of an added file. This is unnecessary as the preload request will recursively slurp down the entire graph. This PR fixes that behaviour.
Adding file(s) causes the preload module to preload any root nodes for the added content. It sends a HTTP request to preload for each root CID because the API on the preload nodes will fetch any children automatically. This greatly reduces the number of HTTP requests we have make when adding large files that are chunked into multiple nodes.
However, the issue was that the tests were checking that a CID had been requested for preload, not that it had been requested only once.
I was inspecting the debug output for preload because of the recent CORS issues we've been having and noticed that multiple preload requests for the same CID were being sent. Worse still, when adding large files, the child nodes were also being requested 😱
The issues are:
ipfs.addcausesobject.getto be called for every file added. The issue with that is thatobject.getwill also attempt to preload the CID you pass it.ipfs.addcausespin.addto be called for each root CID. This in turn causesdag.getto be called for every node in the graph. The issue with that is thatdag.getwill also attempt to preload the CID you pass it.The solution in both cases is to tell
object.getandpin.addin the context ofipfs.addto not preload the CIDs that they are passed.I've augmented the tests to ensure that only one of the required CIDs is requested from the preload nodes and with that change and the fixes to the code the tests are now passing.