Integration pending 4h estimated Tier 5 Document Attachments — Upload & Signed URL Services

Integration Purpose

Verify integration with dependent epics: epic-document-attachments-foundation

This integration checkpoint ensures proper coordination and compatibility between different epics. It verifies that all interfaces, data flows, and dependencies are correctly implemented before proceeding.

Execution Context

Execution Tier
Tier 5

Tier 5 - 253 tasks

Can start after Tier 4 completes

Integration Task

Handles integration between different epics or system components. Requires coordination across multiple development streams.

Task Status
Statuspending
TypeIntegration
Estimated4h
Tier5
Parent Epic
Document Attachments — Upload & Signed URL Services
Document Attachments for Activities
Epic Risks (3)
medium impact medium prob technical

The storage upload succeeds but the subsequent metadata insert fails. The rollback delete call to Supabase Storage could itself fail (network error, transient timeout), leaving an orphaned object in the bucket with no database record pointing to it — a cost and compliance risk that also breaks delete-on-cascade logic.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Wrap the rollback delete in a retry loop (3 attempts, exponential back-off). Log orphaned-object incidents to a dedicated structured log stream for periodic audit. Consider a scheduled Supabase Edge Function that reconciles storage objects against database records and flags orphans.

Contingency: If orphaned objects accumulate, run the reconciliation edge function manually to identify and purge them. Add a monitoring alert for metadata insert failures after successful uploads so the issue is caught within minutes.

medium impact medium prob scope

If the signed URL TTL is set too short, users browsing the attachment preview modal on slow connections will receive expired URLs before the content loads, causing a broken experience. If set too long, a URL shared outside the app (e.g., pasted into a chat) remains valid beyond the intended access window.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Default TTL to 60 minutes, configurable via a named constant. The in-memory cache TTL should be set to TTL minus 5 minutes to ensure cached URLs are refreshed before they expire. Document the trade-off in code comments.

Contingency: If users report broken previews, shorten the cache TTL hotfix. If a URL leak is reported, rotate the Supabase storage signing secret to invalidate all outstanding signed URLs immediately.

medium impact medium prob technical

The multi-attachment user story requires parallel uploads with individual progress indicators. Managing concurrent BLoC events for 3–5 simultaneous uploads risks state collisions, progress indicator mixups, or partial rollbacks that are difficult to reason about.

Mitigation & Contingency

Mitigation: Design the BLoC to maintain a per-attachment upload state map keyed by a client-generated UUID. Each upload runs as an isolated Future with its own result emitted as a typed event. Write integration tests for 3-concurrent-upload scenarios.

Contingency: If state collisions occur in production, fall back to sequential upload processing (one at a time) gated behind a feature flag until the concurrent model is stabilised.