Preserve bound read values and nullable equality plans

[bunnykong]

Bound reads preserve the values written by inline SQL: nullable equality, scalar formatting and byte storage agree with the writer, and generated reads release statements on exceptions. Binds remain opt-in through ROUNDHOUSE_PARAM_BINDS=1. The nil and temporal corrections and read cleanup also apply when binds are off, so default output is not byte-identical to main.

Part of #12. Builds on merged #402 and the varying-bind and LRU gates in #378 and #380.

Behavior

• Nullable-column predicates choose column = ? for present values and column IS NULL for nil. The same branch reserves the bind position, so nil consumes no slot and later values retain their positions. Optional arguments against required columns retain SQL NULL without becoming zero, false or empty text.
• Present nullable values remain eligible for SQLite partial indexes such as WHERE column IS NOT NULL. The planner tests also cover composite indexes and outer-join strength reduction.
• Up to seven nullable predicates produce at most 128 cached shapes per read site. Larger combinations use uncached preparation; code generation stays linear in the number of predicates.
• Float and Time arguments use the writer's formatting. Date arguments do likewise on targets with Date support, while String filters remain strings. CRuby and JDBC preserve the writer's TEXT/BLOB distinction, including NUL and non-ASCII binary values. Spinel text binds preserve the full byte length.
• Generated reads use ensure for binding, serialization after preparation, stepping and hydration, including reloads and preloads. Public key guards reject nil before scalar adapters can turn it into a real zero or empty-string key.

IN lists retain their existing inline SQL and statement-cache behavior. Bound queries continue to bypass SQL-only result replay. The substitute_binds implementation from #476 is unchanged, and the typing ceilings remain 0, 299 and 500.

Validation

Unless another commit is named, validation uses commit 09a93169b2856a37f8fe2b97bcff442e490d651a on upstream main 1d0f2d87cbce6e4d5a5c6aa0ed4e8ce9e8961f7c, macOS arm64, Rust 1.98.1, CRuby 3.3.2 and 3.4.9, Spinel e5e8f794, and JRuby 10.0.7.0 with JDK 21. Counts overlap.

• cargo test --locked --lib: 997 passed, 1 ignored.
• Full default suite, cargo test --locked --no-fail-fast, with a fresh target directory: 4086 passed, 0 failed, 149 ignored, including the build-stamp test and doctests.
• Bind, value, planner, cleanup, lease, LRU, concurrency, typing and DB-contract suites: 47 passed, 0 ignored, including CRuby and native Spinel execution.
• The original 20 value-regression tests produce 15 failures and 5 passing controls on the original main 9dc6be29; all 20 tests pass with this change.
• Seeded String-only finder and existence adapters compile and execute with spinel --rbs . in both bind modes, with CRuby controls. Literal, empty and zero String keys and nil guards pass. All 10 primary-key contract tests pass, including unchanged Integer-only sidecars.
• CI planner: 53 passed. Real JDBC execution passes 165 value assertions and 106 cleanup assertions.
• Additional emitted probes at the original head 18174c57 pass all 128 seven-predicate masks and 256 eight-predicate masks on CRuby and native Spinel. They verify cache growth at seven predicates and cache bypass at eight.
• Generic writer/read probes at 18174c57 cover empty and zero strings, frozen and binary strings, long multibyte strings, 0.1 + 0.2, signed zero, nil, time zones and microseconds. Date/String/nil probes execute on CRuby and native Spinel. Default output equals forced-off output for the generic Ruby, Spinel and JRuby fixture.

Composition

The Spinel read-adapter contracts follow the app's key contract: apps with String keys accept Integer | String at inherited dispatch, while Integer-only output remains byte-identical to parent 9be9f033 and each model's scalar signatures remain unchanged. The same correction makes the String-only adapter gate pass with #404/#405 and #438 composed, including Integer input normalized to String and nil rejection. Three native failures inherited from #438 remain: two signed-minimum lookup failures and the Integer-only adapter compile failure. #438 carries a separate unseeded typing ceiling of 512; this PR retains 500. #437 is superseded by canonical signatures already on main.

Limits

Spinel's inline writer still rejects embedded NUL in SQL literals; that failure also occurs on main. Its NUL bind round-trip is distinct from inline-write parity. JRuby still rejects Date-only schemas during emission, also on main. JDBC's complete scalar setters follow in #404; broader request-key casting follows in #438.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Database reads now support optional integer, text, and boolean values, correctly matching SQL NULL when a filter value is nil.
  • Queries with multiple nullable filters handle all nil and non-nil combinations while preserving correct results.
• Bug Fixes
  • Looking up a record with a nil ID now raises RecordNotFound; checking whether a nil ID exists returns false.
  • Associations with nil foreign keys now resolve to nil, including polymorphic associations.
  • Text and boolean database values are handled consistently, including binary text and the distinction between false and nil.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Ruby-family read lowering now supports nullable equality predicates, optional database binds, and uncached statement preparation for queries with many nullable predicates. The change also adds statement cleanup, nil-ID adapter behavior, nullable association handling, and tests for these paths.

Changes

Ruby nullable read predicates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ruby read-value normalization src/lower/arel/*, src/lower/controller_to_library/mod.rs, src/lower/model_to_library/mod.rs, src/emit/ruby.rs, tests/param_binds_values.*	Ruby model and controller lowering can normalize read predicates using schema nullability. Float, Decimal, Date, DateTime, and Time values receive the described serialization where applicable.
Nullable predicates and query preparation src/lower/arel/visitor.rs, runtime/spinel/db.rb, runtime/spinel/db_cruby.rb, runtime/spinel/db_jruby.rb, runtime/ruby/db.rbs, tests/param_binds*, docs/pipeline/runtime.md	Nullable equality selects IS NULL for nil values and equality for non-nil values. Read paths use bind positions for present values. Queries with more than seven nullable predicates use prepare_uncached; planner and emission tests exercise SQL shapes and query plans.
Optional binding across database shims runtime/ruby/db.rbs, runtime/spinel/db*.rb, tests/db_bind_bool.rs, tests/db_escape_binary.rs, tests/db_shim_conformance.rs, tests/param_binds_runtime.rb	The Ruby-family shims bind optional integer, text, and boolean values. Nil binds as SQL NULL. Text binders handle binary and encoded strings, with tests checking the resulting binding behavior.
Read statement cleanup src/emit/ruby/library.rs, runtime/spinel/db_cruby.rb, runtime/spinel/db_jruby.rb, tests/param_binds_cleanup*, tests/param_binds_text_cleanup.rb, docs/pipeline/runtime.md	Generated read statements use ensure-based finalization. Failure tests cover hydration, serialization, binding, stepping, reload, and text preprocessing.
Adapter lookups and nullable associations runtime/ruby/active_record/connection.*, src/emit/ruby/library.rs, src/project.rs, tests/param_binds*, tests/param_binds_associations.rb, scripts/ci-plan.py, tests/ci_plan_test.py	find(nil) raises RecordNotFound, and exists?(nil) returns false. Nullable association readers return nil for nil foreign keys. Spinel adapter signatures for string-key apps accept string IDs, and CI routes the parameter-bind suites.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RubyRead as Generated Ruby read
  participant Db as Db runtime shim
  participant SQLite
  RubyRead->>Db: Prepare SQL with cached or uncached path
  RubyRead->>Db: Bind present values
  Db->>SQLite: Prepare statement and bind parameters
  RubyRead->>Db: Step and finalize statement

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Suggested reviewers: rubys

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 09a93

Nullable read binding is broadly well tested. Two narrow issues remain. Reads with more than seven nullable predicates can run outside the request's consistent read snapshot. A method containing two differently typed shaped reads may fail to compile under Spinel. Both are small fixes and can be addressed before or shortly after merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 09a93

Nullable binding and statement cleanup are largely coherent, but wide bound queries can bypass activation of the request’s consistent-read snapshot. Concurrent updates can therefore produce mixed database versions within one request. Exposure is limited by the opt-in bound mode, query shape and read ordering; no authorization bypass or data-disclosure exploit was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · inferred: Uncached preparation changes more than statement reuse: it bypasses requested snapshot activation in CRuby and Spinel. With binds enabled, a generated read containing more than seven nullable predicates can execute while the request snapshot remains pending. If concurrent writes commit before a later read, the same GET/HEAD can observe different database versions. The omission is introduced by this PR; the base preparation path activates the snapshot. Existing transactions or an earlier read that already opened the snapshot prevent this case. This is a consistency-control regression, not a verified authorization exploit.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The snapshot regression affects SQLite reads through CRuby or Spinel when an application exposes a generated wide nullable query with binds enabled and no transaction or snapshot is already open. Caller values choose nil/present branches, but do not determine the compiled predicate count. Actual production routes, affected tenants and downstream authorization dependencies were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A wide uncached read can finish in autocommit while the requested snapshot remains pending. A concurrent commit before a subsequent read can then yield a mixed-version request view. This weakens an existing consistency control; whether an application uses the affected ordering for a security-sensitive decision remains unknown.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Cached statements are not reused while checked out: nested readers receive separate statements. Release clears cached bindings or parameters before reuse, while transient statements are closed. These controls counter stale-value inheritance and cursor interference across reads.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — New transient preparations register statement ownership for terminal or lease cleanup. CRuby and JRuby preserve failed-close ownership and quarantine connections that retain open statements. Spinel retains failed checkouts until finalize or lease cleanup, avoiding reuse beneath an outstanding finalizer.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make requested snapshot activation independent of statement-cache eligibility, and validate cached/uncached parity with concurrent writers when a wide read is first in a request or follows a write that ended the previous snapshot.

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Review comments at @runtime/spinel/db.rb:
- Around line 1555-1569: Add begin_snapshot(conn) in the runtime/spinel/db.rb
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• docs/pipeline/runtime.md
• runtime/ruby/active_record/connection.rb
• runtime/ruby/active_record/connection.rbs
• runtime/ruby/db.rbs
• runtime/spinel/db.rb
• runtime/spinel/db_cruby.rb
• runtime/spinel/db_jruby.rb
• scripts/ci-plan.py
• src/emit/ruby.rs
• src/emit/ruby/library.rs
• src/lower/arel/ir.rs
• src/lower/arel/mod.rs
• src/lower/arel/ruby_values.rs
• src/lower/arel/visitor.rs
• src/lower/controller_to_library/mod.rs
• src/lower/model_to_library/mod.rs
• src/project.rs
• tests/ci_plan_test.py
• tests/db_bind_bool.rs
• tests/db_escape_binary.rs
• tests/db_shim_conformance.rs
• tests/param_binds.rs
• tests/param_binds_associations.rb
• tests/param_binds_cleanup.rb
• tests/param_binds_cleanup.rs
• tests/param_binds_emit.rb
• tests/param_binds_nil.rb
• tests/param_binds_planner.rb
• tests/param_binds_planner.rs
• tests/param_binds_raw_where.rb
• tests/param_binds_runtime.rb
• tests/param_binds_text_cleanup.rb
• tests/param_binds_values.rb
• tests/param_binds_values.rs

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[thomasklemm]

Autopilot status: cannot push to bunnykong/roundhouse, so the merge onto tip main plus CI/review fixes live on upstream branch cursor/pr403-merge-ready-cdf4 → stacked draft #549 (Actions will auto-run there).

Included vs this head (09a93169):

• Keep main’s IntegerKeyCast / _find_primary_key_input; add exists? with the same cast + nil guard (addresses framework-tests-spinel sp_int refusal at exists?/find).
• CodeRabbit: begin_snapshot in both Db.prepare_uncached shims; per-read suffix on shaped-read bind locals.
• Soft Bar B ceilings left at tip main (0 / 299 / 519), not Preserve bound read values and nullable equality plans #403’s stale 500.

Prefer landing #549 (or rebasing this branch onto the same fixes). Will reply on the two open review threads once #549 CI is green.

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Refreshed review threads just now: 0 unresolved on this PR. Both CodeRabbit findings (uncached begin_snapshot, per-read bind locals) were already fixed on stacked #549 and the threads are resolved.

The new CodeRabbit comment after that landed on #549 (ci-plan.py should route src/emit/ruby/library.rs through param_binds_cleanup) — treating that as the live series finding and fixing it there, since we cannot push this fork head.