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💡 What: Replaced slow copy.deepcopy with orjson.loads for serving cached annotation data.

🎯 Why: copy.deepcopy is extremely slow for large JSON-like dictionaries due to Python's object overhead and cyclic reference checks. Serializing and deserializing via a fast C-based library like orjson provides a significant speedup.

📊 Impact: ~7x speedup for typical annotation payload sizes based on local benchmarks.

🔬 Measurement: Run a local script with copy.deepcopy(dict) vs orjson.loads(orjson.dumps(dict)) with a large dict to observe the difference.


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Summary by Sourcery

Speed up serving cached annotation data by replacing deep-copy-based isolation with efficient JSON re-parsing.

Enhancements:

  • Improve annotation cache reads by retaining raw JSON bytes and parsing fresh objects on each request, avoiding costly deep-copy operations while preserving caller isolation.
  • Modernize type annotations and apply minor code-quality and exception-handling cleanups in the router.

Tests:

  • Update annotation cache tests for byte-based storage and validate independent parsed results across reads.

Chores:

  • Record the performance guidance for avoiding deep copies of large JSON-like cache data.
  • Add a temporary CI investigation note regarding an external GitHub Advanced Security model error.

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The PR replaces in-memory annotation dictionaries plus copy.deepcopy with cached serialized JSON bytes and per-request orjson.loads decoding in a worker thread, retaining mutation isolation while targeting faster large-payload reads; tests and project notes are updated, alongside unrelated cleanup and typing modernization.

Sequence diagram for cached annotation reads

sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant _read_annotations_async
participant FileSystem
participant WorkerThread
participant AnnotationCache
Caller->>_read_annotations_async: _read_annotations_async(path)
_read_annotations_async->>FileSystem: os.path.getmtime(path)
alt Cache miss or mtime changed
_read_annotations_async->>FileSystem: aiofiles.open(path, rb)
FileSystem-->>_read_annotations_async: content bytes
_read_annotations_async->>AnnotationCache: store mtime and bytes
end
_read_annotations_async->>WorkerThread: orjson.loads(cached bytes)
WorkerThread-->>_read_annotations_async: decoded annotation dict
_read_annotations_async-->>Caller: independent dict
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ChangeDetailsFiles
Changed annotation caching to retain serialized bytes and deserialize a fresh payload per request.
  • Read annotation files in binary mode and cache raw JSON bytes keyed by modification time.
  • Replace cached-dictionary deep copies with orjson.loads executed in a worker thread.
  • Preserve caller isolation by returning a newly decoded object on every read.
router/main.py
Updated annotation cache tests for byte-backed entries and the new deserialization path.
  • Adjust file mocks and cache assertions to use bytes.
  • Verify cache hits, mtime invalidation, missing files, and protection against mutation of returned data.
tests/test_read_annotations_async.py
Recorded the performance-oriented caching guidance and made incidental cleanup changes.
  • Document the orjson strategy and reported speedup in the Bolt notes.
  • Modernize typing, imports, formatting, and exception re-raising in the router.
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router/main.py
tests/test_read_annotations_async.py

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Hey - I've found 1 issue

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Please address the comments from this code review:
## Individual Comments### Comment 1
<locationpath="router/main.py"line_range="4433" />
<code_context>
- return copy.deepcopy(_annotations_cache[path]["data"])
+# orjson.loads is significantly faster than copy.deepcopy for large dicts.+ return await asyncio.to_thread(orjson.loads, _annotations_cache[path]["bytes"])
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**issue (bug_risk):** The added `await asyncio.to_thread(...)` creates an extra scheduling window after the cache entry is read. If `save_annotations` writes a new file and invalidates the cache during that window, the in-flight read still returns the old annotation snapshot after the save completes.
**Triggers:** When an annotation read and save request run concurrently.
**Suggested fix:** Track a cache generation/version and retry or discard the parsed result if the entry was invalidated while parsing.
</issue_to_address>

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return copy.deepcopy(_annotations_cache[path]["data"])
# orjson.loads is significantly faster than copy.deepcopy for large dicts.
return await asyncio.to_thread(orjson.loads, _annotations_cache[path]["bytes"])

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issue (bug_risk): The added await asyncio.to_thread(...) creates an extra scheduling window after the cache entry is read. If save_annotations writes a new file and invalidates the cache during that window, the in-flight read still returns the old annotation snapshot after the save completes.

Triggers: When an annotation read and save request run concurrently.

Suggested fix: Track a cache generation/version and retry or discard the parsed result if the entry was invalidated while parsing.

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Co-authored-by: sheepdestroyer <1377479+sheepdestroyer@users.noreply.github.com>
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