Reported: `flask plugin upgrade-all` failed the tools plugin with "table
securesendsecrets already exists".
Every post-cutover baseline emitted a plain op.create_table. That is correct
only while a table's existence and its plugin's Alembic stamp can never
disagree, and they can. Anything that builds tables from the models -
db.create_all(), which `flask db-utils create-all` calls - creates them and
stamps nothing. A run that creates a table and then fails before its stamp
commits leaves the same split, and re-running is the obvious thing to try. In
both cases upgrade-all meets existing tables with an unstamped chain and the
create is fatal.
Nothing caught it because the migration test DROPS the post-cutover tables
db.create_all() built before running upgrade-all. That arranges the one state
where an unguarded create works, and never the state the report came from. The
new test is the same sequence with the drop removed for the plugin under test.
create_table_if_missing and create_index_if_missing are in alembic_template.py
next to create_plugin_tables, which had the idempotency rule right and turns out
to be called by nobody - its docstring claimed every 0001 used it. Fixed the
docstring rather than rewiring the baselines onto it, because the reason they
hand-write their DDL still stands: the helper's per-plugin MetaData cannot
resolve a foreign key to a core table at CreateTable-compile time.
INDEXES ARE MATCHED ON COLUMNS, NOT NAME, and that distinction matters. The two
creators disagree about names - db.create_all() takes SQLAlchemy's default
convention (ix_securesendsecrets_token) and a baseline spells it the way this
repo's naming rules require (ixsecuresendsecretstoken). A name-keyed guard would
have called the index missing and added a second one over the same column, which
MySQL permits with a warning, so every affected site would have quietly grown
duplicates. The test asserts no table ends up with two indexes over the same
columns.
Applied to all nine table-creating plugin migrations, not just the tools
baseline that was reported: the four later migrations that create tables have
the same exposure, and geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and backups are
the same defect waiting for a different site.
WHAT THIS DOES NOT FIX. It makes a baseline idempotent, not a whole chain. A
longer chain can still meet an ALTER whose column is already present -
printedparts adding gagelabtag to a table create_all built at head is the case
that showed up while testing. Guarding every op one at a time is the wrong
answer to that; a database built from the models is already AT head and its
chains want stamping rather than replaying, and there is no `flask plugin stamp`
today. Left alone deliberately rather than half-built, and the new test is
scoped to single-baseline plugins so it does not pretend otherwise.
Gage-lab instruments as Asset extensions: measuringtooltypes (color-coded
lookup) + measuringtools (calibration interval/dates, provider, notes) with
calibration status derived at read time (overdue / due soon / current /
unknown), never stored. Full CRUD API with permission-gated writes, types
management with in-use guard, calibration report, nav/reports/config-schema
hooks, and a complete frontend (list/detail/form, types settings page,
calibration report page, gated routes per ADR-009).
First plugin whose migration chain really creates tables post-cutover
(ADR-008), and the working example for docs/PLUGIN-GUIDE.md - a 12-section
walkthrough of building a plugin on this framework, linked from
PLUGIN-QUICKSTART and PLUGINS.
Verified: full suite 323 passing, live E2E on all four pages, fresh
scratch-MySQL migration dry-run green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
