Round the Redis key–value store TTL up to whole seconds

[heeoneie]

Summary

RedisKvStore.set() passed options.ttl.total("second") straight to Redis
SETEX, which takes only whole seconds. Any Temporal.Duration that was not
an exact number of seconds was rejected by the server, so the write failed
instead of storing the value with an approximated expiry. The TTL is now
rounded up to the next whole second, with a floor of one second.

The one-second granularity is SETEX's, not Redis's — SET with PX expresses
millisecond expiries — so the rounding is a property of the command this
adapter uses rather than of the server.

Targets 2.0-maintenance rather than main, per @dahlia's direction on the
issue: "Confirmed that this reproduces in 2.0.x. Since this is a bug fix,
please target 2.0-maintenance rather than main." (comment) The issue
was filed against main; the reproduction below was re-run on
2.0-maintenance rather than assumed.

This is a fork PR, so the workflows land as action_required — they need a
maintainer to approve the run before CI can report.

Related issue

• fixes RedisKvStore.set() rejects any TTL that is not a whole number of seconds #1028

Reproduction

Against Redis 7.4.11 (redis:7-alpine in Docker) on 2.0-maintenance at
9c8ec49, writing the same value with each TTL and reading back PTTL:

TTL	ttl.total("second")	before	after
1 second	1	stored, pttl 1000	stored, pttl 999
1500 milliseconds	1.5	ERR value is not an integer or out of range	stored, pttl 1999
500 milliseconds	0.5	ERR value is not an integer or out of range	stored, pttl 999
1 millisecond	0.001	ERR value is not an integer or out of range	stored, pttl 999
0	0	ERR invalid expire time in 'setex' command	stored, pttl 1000

A whole number of seconds is unchanged, so nothing that worked before behaves
differently.

Why round up rather than to the nearest second

Rounding to the nearest second would shorten an expiry by up to half a second.
Rounding up never shortens one, and three things point the same way:

No other KvStore implementation shortens the lifetime a caller asked for.

adapter	TTL handling	lifetime visible to callers
SqliteKvStore	ttl.total({ unit: "milliseconds" })	exact, to the millisecond
DenoKvStore	expireIn: ttl.total("millisecond")	exact, to the millisecond
PostgresKvStore	ttl.toString() into an interval	exact, full precision
WorkersKvStore	Math.max(ttl.total("seconds"), 60) physically, with the requested expiry kept in metadata.expires	exact — get() returns undefined, and list() skips the entry, once metadata.expires has passed

WorkersKvStore is worth reading carefully, because its 60-second clamp looks
like a precedent for extending a lifetime and is not one. It extends only the
physical expiry, then hides that behind a millisecond-precision check on
read, so a caller observes exactly the lifetime it asked for. No adapter here
extends a caller-visible lifetime today, and this change makes RedisKvStore
the first to do so. That is the honest framing; an earlier version of this
description had the comparison wrong.

What remains true is that Redis under SETEX is the only backend here that
cannot express the requested lifetime at all. It has to miss in one direction
or the other, and rounding down would make it the only adapter that can drop a
value before its TTL.

WorkersKvStore does suggest a third option this PR does not take: Redis could
keep the requested expiry alongside the value and filter on read, which would
give exact sub-second lifetimes without leaving SETEX. That changes the
stored value format for every key, which is more than #1028 asks for; noting it
so the choice is on the record rather than implied.

The costs are asymmetric. Expiring late costs at most one extra second of
staleness on a cache. Expiring early can change behaviour: a TTL used to
suppress duplicate work starts letting duplicates through. Fedify does exactly
that — the inbox listener and the queue handler both mark an activity as
processed with kv.set(cacheKey, true, { ttl: 1 day }).

It matches the issue's expected behaviour. "A sub-second TTL is expected to
be normalized to the smallest expiry Redis can express" is what rounding up
produces for the sub-second cases.

In practice nothing in the library on this branch is affected either way, since
every TTL Fedify itself passes is already a whole number of seconds. The
reachable path is application code, which KvStoreSetOptions.ttl opens to any
Temporal.Duration, and which #1027 made easier to hit on newer branches by
letting an application choose publicKeyTtl and
httpMessageSignaturesSpecTtl directly.

Changes

• packages/redis/src/kv.ts: add expirySeconds(), which returns
  Math.max(1, Math.ceil(ttl.total("second"))), and call it from set().
  The Math.max matters only when Math.ceil yields zero — a zero or
  negative duration — and it documents why the rounding goes up.
• packages/redis/src/kv.test.ts: two regression tests, described below.
  The gated one bounds PTTL against the elapsed time rather than comparing
  TTL to an exact integer, so it does not depend on how fast the run is.
• changes.d/redis/ttl-whole-seconds.md and CHANGES.md.

RedisKvStore has no cas() method, so set() is the only call site.

Verification

The regression tests fail without the patch. Reverting set() to pass the
raw total fails both of them; the end-to-end one reports the error from the
issue verbatim:

ReplyError: ERR value is not an integer or out of range

Each half of the expression is pinned by its own assertion.

mutation	test that fails
Math.max(1, Math.ceil(…)) → ttl.total("second")	both; the gated one with the ReplyError above
Math.ceil → Math.round	1.4s rounds up, not to the nearest second — 1 !== 2
drop the Math.max(1, …) floor	a zero TTL stays at least 1
clamp negatives to 0, keep zero at 1	a negative TTL stays at least 1

The Math.round mutation is the one that matters for review: it still produces
a whole positive number for every case in the issue's table, and only the 1.4-
second case separates it from Math.ceil. The last row is why the negative
cases are not redundant with the zero one — an implementation that clamped zero
to one second and let negatives through would have passed the table as it
originally stood, and reached SETEX with an expiry it rejects.

One test needs no Redis server. RedisKvStore.set() rounds a TTL up to whole seconds passes the store a stand-in client that records what set()
hands to SETEX, and checks the exact integer for 1s, 5min, 1.5s, 1.4s, 500ms,
1ms, 0, −1ms, −30s and −1h, asserting each result is a whole positive number.
RedisKvStore.set() stores a sub-second TTL is REDIS_URL-gated and covers the
end-to-end behaviour, including a −30s TTL and that a 30-second TTL is stored
unchanged.

The gated test does not depend on how fast the run is. It used to compare
TTL against an exact integer. TTL rounds the remaining lifetime to whole
seconds, so a delay of just over half a second reports 0 for a key written
with SETEX 1 and 29 for one written with SETEX 30 — a failure on a slow
run with a correct implementation. Measured against Redis 7.4.11, 600 ms after
a SETEX 1 write:

	EXISTS	TTL	PTTL
SETEX 1, +600 ms	1	0	387
SETEX 30, +600 ms	1	29	29392

It now reads PTTL and bounds it on both sides. The upper bound — the
requested lifetime in milliseconds — rules out a longer expiry than intended.
The lower bound subtracts the time the write and the read took, which is an
upper bound on the key's age, so a correct implementation cannot cross it
however slow the run. Reading the expiry straight after the write leaves only
the two Redis commands inside that window. Checked with an injected delay: at
600 ms and 900 ms the new bounds hold on both keys while the old TTL
assertions fail on all four.

Both new tests import test from node:test directly rather than from
@fedify/fixture, following packages/postgres/src/kv.test.ts. An earlier
version of this description justified that at length by a gap in the fixture,
which swallowed a require("node:test") failure in ES modules and so reported
Node.js passes for tests that never ran. #1039 fixed it and is in this
branch's base as of the rebase below, so that justification is gone; the
postgres precedent is the whole of the reason now. The tests run on all three
runtimes either way.

Branch and changelog. Rebased onto the current 2.0-maintenance
(1a2b510), which now carries #1039. 2.0.27 was released while this PR was
open, so the entry sits under 2.0.28; sacho sync produces no change and
sacho check passes.

Tests. @fedify/redis against Redis 7.4.11 in Docker: Deno 14 passed / 0
failed, Bun 14 passed / 0 failed, Node.js 14 passed / 0 failed. The Node.js
count was 7 before the rebase, because the nine pre-existing fixture tests in
this package were among those #1039 brought back to life; nothing here was
skipped. mise run check passes, sacho check included.

AI use

Claude Opus 5 assisted with the patch, the tests, and running the checks above;
the commit carries an Assisted-by trailer. Every number in this description
was measured against a real Redis instance rather than inferred from reading
the code.

Checklist

• Did you add a changelog entry to the CHANGES.md?
• Did you write some relevant docs about this change (if it's a new
  feature)? — not a new feature; the rounding is documented on
  expirySeconds().
• Did you write a regression test to reproduce the bug (if it's a bug
  fix)?
• Did you write some tests for this change (if it's a new feature)?
• Did you run mise test on your machine? — yes, for @fedify/redis on
  all three runtimes; see Verification.

Additional notes

• A zero or negative TTL now stores the value for one second. Both used
  to fail with ERR invalid expire time in 'setex' command, so this is
  strictly better than the current behaviour, but it is not what the other
  adapters do: they read a non-positive TTL as already expired. This is a
  policy choice rather than a consequence of the rounding, and it is now
  documented as one on set() and on the helper. An alternative would be to
  delete the key instead of storing it for one second, which matches how the
  other adapters read a non-positive TTL. I kept the one-second floor because
  it is the smallest expiry SETEX can express and because deleting on
  set() is a larger behavioural change than this fix needs; happy to switch
  if you prefer the other reading.
• Reframed: the one-second granularity is SETEX's, not Redis's. If you
  would prefer exact sub-second expiry, switching set() to SET … PX would
  remove the rounding — and with it the zero and negative edge cases —
  entirely. I kept SETEX here to stay minimal on a maintenance branch and
  because RedisKvStore.set() rejects any TTL that is not a whole number of seconds #1028 asked for normalisation rather than a new expiry path, and
  you have said keeping it is fine; noting the option so the choice is on the
  record rather than implied.
• A TTL can now be up to one second longer than requested. For the cache
  lifetimes a KvStore holds, that is an extra second of staleness at worst.
• This does not change any existing write. Every TTL that worked before —
  every whole number of seconds, which is all Fedify itself uses — produces
  the same SETEX argument as before.

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RedisKvStore.set() now rounds TTL values up to whole seconds and clamps them to at least one second before calling Redis SETEX. Tests cover the conversion, and changelog entries document the fix.

Changes

Redis TTL normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TTL normalization packages/redis/src/kv.ts	The new expirySeconds helper rounds TTL values up with Math.ceil and clamps them to one second. set() passes the normalized value to SETEX.
Regression coverage and release notes packages/redis/src/kv.test.ts, changes.d/redis/ttl-whole-seconds.md, CHANGES.md	Tests verify whole-second, fractional, sub-second, and zero TTL values. Changelog entries document the fix and its references.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: dahlia

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f2be3

Negative TTLs are intended to clamp to Redis’s one-second minimum, but that behavior lacks regression coverage. This is a bounded test gap rather than a demonstrated production failure.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1028 requires RedisKvStore.set() to accept non-whole-second, zero, and negative TTL values while preserving whole-second behavior. The reviewed code adds expirySeconds(), which applies Math.cei…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The reviewed changes are limited to the TTL conversion in packages/redis/src/kv.ts, regression tests in packages/redis/src/kv.test.ts, and related changelog entries. These changes directly support iss…
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- Line 209: Add a negative Temporal.Duration TTL case to the RedisKvStore.set()
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[dahlia]

The fix follows the approach suggested in #1028. Please address the inline comments on TTL semantics, documentation, and regression coverage, and resolve the changelog sync failure before merging.

[heeoneie]

Thanks — all four are in, in 9bff789, on top of a rebase onto the current 2.0-maintenance.

• SETEX, not Redis. The helper, the changelog fragment and the PR description now attribute the one-second granularity to SETEX and point at SET with PX. I have left a note on that thread offering the PX version if you would rather have exact sub-second expiry — it would remove the rounding and the non-positive edge cases entirely, but it is a different change from the normalisation RedisKvStore.set() rejects any TTL that is not a whole number of seconds #1028 asked for, so I did not take that on unilaterally.
• Non-positive TTLs documented. On set() as well as on the helper, since the helper is not exported, and stated as a policy choice rather than a side effect of the rounding.
• Negative coverage. −1ms, −30s and −1h in the regression table, a −30s case in the gated end-to-end test, plus a positive-integer assertion on every row. A mutation that clamps zero but not negatives now fails, which the table could not catch before.
• Changelog. The lint failure was a stale base: the branch was cut before 2.0.27 shipped, so the entry was being materialised into a version section that no longer exists. Rebased, sacho sync re-run, sacho check green.

@fedify/redis passes on all three runtimes against Redis 7.4.11 (Deno 14, Bun 14, Node.js 7 — the Node.js count is lower because fixture-registered tests do not execute there on this branch, which the PR description explains).

[dahlia]

Thanks for the updates. Please address the two inline comments on test timing and the Workers KV comparison, and rebase onto the latest 2.0-maintenance, which has been updated.

[heeoneie]

Rebased onto 2.0-maintenance at 1a2b510; no conflicts, and sacho sync produces no change on the new base, so the 2.0.28 entry stands as it was. Both inline comments are addressed in their threads.

The rebase had one consequence worth flagging, since it lands on this PR rather than on the base. #1039 fixed the fixture's silent Node.js registration failure — which this PR's description had documented at length to justify importing test from node:test directly. That justification is now gone. Two things follow:

• The description's fixture section is cut down to the packages/postgres/src/kv.test.ts precedent, which is the whole of the reason now. I left the two new tests on node:test rather than moving them to the fixture: on a maintenance branch the smaller diff seemed right, and they run on all three runtimes either way. Happy to move them if you'd rather they went through the fixture now that it works.
• @fedify/redis on Node.js now reports 14 passed, not 7 — the nine pre-existing fixture tests in this package were among those Restore Node.js test registration in ESM #1039 brought back to life. All three runtimes agree at 14 against Redis 7.4.11 in Docker, and mise run check passes.

[dahlia]

Thanks for working on this!