[econ] another attempt to fix client balance

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Devin Zuczek
2026-08-11 12:26:05 -04:00
parent 7df783302b
commit efbd7936db
4 changed files with 58 additions and 101 deletions
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@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ export function startingBalances(
* 100+ members are the "not purchased" kinds, split by whether they may be spent
* player-to-player.
*
* We sell nothing, so only two of these are ever on the wire from us: balances read back
* as `NonPurchasedNotUsableInP2P` (see `ALL_PLATFORMS`) and a storefront purchase reports
* `RecNet`. The rest is recorded for when a frame from a real capture has to be read.
* We sell nothing, so only one of these is ever on the wire from us: balances read back as
* `NonPurchasedNotUsableInP2P` (see `ALL_PLATFORMS`). The rest is recorded for when a frame
* from a real capture has to be read.
*/
export const Platform = {
NonPurchasedNotUsableInP2P: -2,
@@ -130,9 +130,11 @@ export const ALL_PLATFORMS: number = Platform.NonPurchasedNotUsableInP2P
* but never derives the balance from it, so a wrong value here is cosmetic, not a wrong
* number on screen.
*
* `CommercePurchase` (1400) is a storefront buy — what `buyItem` sends. Kept whole because
* the reasons a balance moves (challenges, level-ups, creator payouts, manual grants) are
* paths this worker will grow into, and the client already has a name for each.
* Nothing here sends one today: the `StorefrontBalanceUpdate` frames this worker pushes
* carry only `{ Balance, CurrencyType, BalanceType }`, and the purchase paths push no frame
* at all (see `pushBalanceUpdate` in econ.app.ts). Recorded because the reasons a balance
* moves (challenges, level-ups, creator payouts, manual grants) are paths this worker will
* grow into, and for reading a frame out of a real capture.
*/
export const BalanceAddType = {
Invalid: 0,
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@@ -31,14 +31,12 @@ import weeklyChallenge from '../static/weekly-challenge.json'
import { getAvatar, setAvatar } from './avatar-db'
import {
ALL_PLATFORMS,
BalanceAddType,
creditCurrency,
CurrencyType,
DEFAULT_STARTING_TOKENS,
ensureStartingBalances,
getBalance,
isSpendable,
Platform,
spendCurrency,
} from './balance-db'
import {
@@ -224,63 +222,28 @@ async function pushConsumableAdded(
}
}
/**
* Push a StorefrontBalancePurchase to the buyer after a purchase settles — the frame the
* reference sends for a spend, as opposed to the StorefrontBalanceUpdate it sends for a
* plain balance change.
*
* `Balance` is ABSOLUTE — the resulting total — and is the only field that moves the
* client's state. `Delta` and `BalanceAddType` are log-only: the client does NOT subtract
* `Delta` from what it is showing. That makes this frame idempotent, unlike
* `pushBalanceUpdate` below, and is why the purchase path uses it: an additive frame that
* raced a `GET /balance` re-fetch (or arrived twice) left the client showing a total the
* backend never had.
*
* `Platform` is `RecNet` — the store the tokens were spent in, not the buyer's device (the
* JWT carries no device, and we sell nothing per-platform) — and `CurrencyType` says which
* wallet the total belongs to. Best-effort: a hub failure is logged and swallowed, since
* the spend has already committed.
*/
async function pushBalancePurchase(
c: Context<App>,
accountId: number,
currencyType: number,
delta: number,
balance: number
): Promise<void> {
try {
await c.env.RECFLARE_NOTIFICATIONS_HUB.getByName(HUB_INSTANCE).notifyPlayer(
accountId,
NotificationType.StorefrontBalancePurchase,
{
BalanceAddType: BalanceAddType.CommercePurchase,
Delta: delta,
Balance: balance,
Platform: Platform.RecNet,
CurrencyType: currencyType,
}
)
} catch (err) {
logger.error('failed to push StorefrontBalancePurchase notification', {
accountId,
error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
})
}
}
/**
* Push a StorefrontBalanceUpdate to a player after their balance changes, mirroring the
* reference's
* `HubSendToPlayer(accountID, NotifFrame(StorefrontBalanceUpdate, {Balance, CurrencyType, BalanceType}))`.
* The client applies it to the shown balance so a purchase reflects immediately, without
* The client applies it to the shown balance so a change reflects immediately, without
* waiting for a `GET /balance` re-fetch.
*
* `Balance` is the CHANGE — negative for a debit, positive for a payout — not the
* resulting total. The client ADDS what it receives to the balance it is already showing,
* so sending the total made a 10,000-token player who earned 250 read 20,250: their own
* balance plus the new total. That also makes this frame non-idempotent, so push exactly
* once per change and never re-send it as a "refresh". A spend goes through
* `pushBalancePurchase` instead, whose `Balance` IS the total.
* once per change and never re-send it as a "refresh".
*
* Every StorefrontBalance* frame is additive this way, StorefrontBalancePurchase included
* — it is NOT the idempotent "here is your new total" frame it looks like. Sending the
* total on a purchase doubled the buyer's balance on screen (17,500 900 spent showed
* 33,200: the correct 16,600 twice over), which is why the purchase paths below push
* nothing to the buyer at all.
*
* So: a frame goes to a player whose client is NOT reading this response — the invention
* creator collecting a payout. The caller learns their own new balance from the HTTP body
* and must not also be pushed one, or they apply both.
*
* `BalanceType` is -2 (account-wide, all platforms). Best-effort: a hub failure is logged
* and swallowed, since the balance change has already committed.
@@ -1750,8 +1713,9 @@ const app = new Hono<App>({ strict: false })
'still matches, debits the buyer atomically, grants the item (into the inventory or',
'consumable table), and returns a gift box. A `Gift` block routes the item to another',
'player, but the caller always pays. `Balance` in the response is the CHANGE (negated',
'price), not the new total. Pushes a StorefrontBalancePurchase socket frame whose',
'`Balance` is the RESULTING total (`Delta` is log-only), which the client shows as-is.',
'price), not the new total. No balance socket frame is pushed: the buyer is the caller,',
'and the client ADDS any StorefrontBalance* frame on top of the change it already',
'applied from this body — pushing the total here doubled the balance on screen.',
].join(' '),
security: AUTHED,
requestBody: jsonBody(BuyItemRequest, 'The item, currency, price, and optional Gift'),
@@ -1839,15 +1803,13 @@ const app = new Hono<App>({ strict: false })
message
)
// Push the spend over the socket so the buyer's client updates the shown total
// immediately — the buyer (`id`) is who was charged, in the currency they spent. A
// purchase sends StorefrontBalancePurchase, whose `Balance` is the RESULTING total
// read back from the DB (`Delta` is log-only), so a frame that arrives late, twice or
// alongside a `GET /balance` still lands the client on the balance we hold. The
// additive StorefrontBalanceUpdate this used to send could not: two of them, or one
// crossing a re-fetch, drifted the shown total off the backend's. Best-effort.
const newBalance = await getBalance(c.env.DB, id, currencyType as number, startingTokens)
await pushBalancePurchase(c, id, currencyType as number, -price.Price, newBalance)
// NO balance frame is pushed here, deliberately. The buyer is the caller: they get
// the debit from the response below (and re-read `GET /balance`), and the client ADDS
// any StorefrontBalance* frame on top of that — including StorefrontBalancePurchase,
// which is additive like the rest despite carrying a `Delta` field. Pushing the
// resulting total doubled the shown balance (17,500 900 read 33,200 = 16,600 twice);
// pushing the change debited it twice. Only a player who is NOT reading this response
// needs a frame — see the invention creator's payout in buyInvention.
// The response mirrors a captured real buyItem: `Balance` is the change applied (the
// negated price), not the resulting balance (the client reads its new total from
@@ -1917,9 +1879,9 @@ const app = new Hono<App>({ strict: false })
'its stored `Price`, debits the buyer and pays the creator that price in',
'RecCenterTokens (a free invention moves nothing), records ownership in',
'`inventory_invention`, and returns the invention alongside the buyers resulting',
'balance. When tokens moved, both players get a StorefrontBalanceUpdate push carrying',
'their CHANGE (the buyers negative, the creators positive), which the client adds to',
'the balance it is showing — unlike this response body, which replaces it.',
'balance. When tokens moved, the CREATOR gets a StorefrontBalanceUpdate push carrying',
'their payout, which their client adds to the balance it is showing. The buyer gets no',
'push: this response body already replaces the balance their client shows.',
'A GET because that is how the client sends it.',
].join(' '),
security: AUTHED,
@@ -2022,13 +1984,11 @@ const app = new Hono<App>({ strict: false })
// Unlike buyItem — whose `Balance` is the change applied — the reference server
// answers this one with the RESULTING total (a first read seeds the buyer's starting
// grant, as everywhere else). The socket frame below is the other way round: the HTTP
// body REPLACES the shown balance, the push ADDS to it.
// grant, as everywhere else). That total REPLACES the balance the buyer's client is
// showing, which is why the buyer gets no socket frame: a StorefrontBalance* push is
// ADDED to what the client shows, so one here would debit them a second time on
// screen. The creator, whose client never sees this response, is pushed above.
const balance = await getBalance(c.env.DB, id, CurrencyType.RecCenterTokens, startingTokens)
// A free invention moved nothing, so there is no change to push for it.
if (price > 0) {
await pushBalanceUpdate(c, id, CurrencyType.RecCenterTokens, -price)
}
return c.json({
BalanceUpdateResponse: {
Balance: balance,
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@@ -777,24 +777,12 @@ describe('econ endpoints', () => {
expect(gift.AvatarItemDesc).not.toBe('')
expect(gift.Id).toBeGreaterThan(0)
// A purchase pushes StorefrontBalancePurchase, NOT the additive StorefrontBalanceUpdate:
// `Balance` is the RESULTING total (10000 - 450), which the client shows as-is, and
// `Delta`/`BalanceAddType` are log-only — the client never subtracts `Delta` itself.
// Sending the change here would leave the client showing 9550 less than it should.
expect(await drainFrames()).toEqual([
{
accountId: 20,
notificationType: NotificationType.StorefrontBalancePurchase,
payload: {
// 1400 = CommercePurchase, 4 = RecNet (the store, not the buyer's device).
BalanceAddType: 1400,
Delta: -450,
Balance: 9550,
Platform: 4,
CurrencyType: 2,
},
},
])
// A purchase pushes NO balance frame. The buyer is the caller: they apply the change
// from the body above, and the client ADDS any StorefrontBalance* frame on top of it —
// StorefrontBalancePurchase included, despite its `Delta` field. Pushing the resulting
// total is what made a live 17,500-token player read 33,200 after spending 900 (16,600
// twice over); pushing the change would debit them twice instead.
expect(await drainFrames()).toEqual([])
// The balance endpoint reflects the debit (this is the resulting total, 10000 - 450).
const bal = await exports.default.fetch(`${ORIGIN}/api/storefronts/v4/balance/2`, {
@@ -1143,20 +1131,17 @@ describe('econ endpoints', () => {
).toBe(DEFAULT_STARTING_TOKENS + 250)
expect(await getOwnedInventionIds(env.DB, 51)).toEqual([9])
// Both sides get a socket frame carrying their CHANGE, not their new total: the client
// ADDS what it receives to the balance it is showing, so a total would have the creator
// reading their own balance plus the payout. Equal and opposite, like the ledger.
// Only the CREATOR gets a socket frame, carrying their CHANGE rather than their new
// total: the client ADDS what it receives to the balance it is showing, so a total would
// have them reading their own balance plus the payout. The buyer gets none — the
// response body already replaced the balance their client shows, and a frame on top of
// it would debit them twice on screen.
expect(await drainFrames()).toEqual([
{
accountId: 999,
notificationType: NotificationType.StorefrontBalanceUpdate,
payload: { Balance: 250, CurrencyType: CurrencyType.RecCenterTokens, BalanceType: -2 },
},
{
accountId: 51,
notificationType: NotificationType.StorefrontBalanceUpdate,
payload: { Balance: -250, CurrencyType: CurrencyType.RecCenterTokens, BalanceType: -2 },
},
])
})