docs(receiving-messages): PDO's once-per-message gate is per sender - #533
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Two participants in a group can pick the same message id (it's chosen by the sending client, not the server), and the gate previously keyed only on (chat, id) let the first sender's placeholder request silently suppress the second's. Document the per-sender gate and the response attribution check that now guards against misattributing recovered content. Ref: oxidezap/whatsapp-rust#1319
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe receiving-messages guide now documents per-sender placeholder gating and PDO sender validation using LID and phone-number identities. ChangesMessage validation documentation
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| PDO requests are deduplicated — if a request is already pending for a given message, subsequent requests are skipped. Pending requests expire after 30 seconds. The deduplication cache uses phone-number JIDs as keys (not LID JIDs) to ensure the cache key matches the JID format in the phone's response. | ||
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| Separately from that 30-second in-flight cache, the client also gates placeholder requests for a message's whole session lifetime, so a redelivered `<unavailable>` stanza never asks the phone twice. **That once-per-message gate is keyed per sender, not just per `(chat, id)` ([#1319](https://github.com/oxidezap/whatsapp-rust/pull/1319)).** A message ID is chosen by the sending client, not the server, so two different participants in a group can pick the same one; gating on `(chat, id)` alone let the first participant's request silently suppress the second's, which then never got its content recovered. When a PDO response arrives, the client also checks that the pending request it matches actually names the same sender (comparing both the LID and phone-number spellings, since a group's own delivery may carry either) before trusting it — otherwise it rebuilds the recovered message from the response itself rather than risk dispatching it under the wrong sender's identity. |
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The pdo_requested gate does not last for the whole session or guarantee that a redelivery never requests the message twice. The documented cache contract is a 24-hour TTL with a 512-entry capacity (changelog/2026-06-11-pdo-once-per-message.mdx:12), so an expired or evicted entry allows another request during the same session. Describe this as a bounded memo cache, including expiration and eviction, rather than a session-lifetime gate.
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| PDO requests are deduplicated — if a request is already pending for a given message, subsequent requests are skipped. Pending requests expire after 30 seconds. The deduplication cache uses phone-number JIDs as keys (not LID JIDs) to ensure the cache key matches the JID format in the phone's response. | ||
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| Separately from that 30-second in-flight cache, the client also gates placeholder requests for a message's whole session lifetime, so a redelivered `<unavailable>` stanza never asks the phone twice. **That once-per-message gate is keyed per sender, not just per `(chat, id)` ([#1319](https://github.com/oxidezap/whatsapp-rust/pull/1319)).** A message ID is chosen by the sending client, not the server, so two different participants in a group can pick the same one; gating on `(chat, id)` alone let the first participant's request silently suppress the second's, which then never got its content recovered. When a PDO response arrives, the client also checks that the pending request it matches actually names the same sender (comparing both the LID and phone-number spellings, since a group's own delivery may carry either) before trusting it — otherwise it rebuilds the recovered message from the response itself rather than risk dispatching it under the wrong sender's identity. |
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This paragraph violates the repository's AGENTS.md writing rules: it uses passive constructions such as “is keyed” and “is chosen,” while the final sentence combines response matching, LID/PN comparison, attribution, and fallback reconstruction into one long sentence. Rewrite these statements in active voice and split each distinct behavior into a concise sentence.
AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L24-L25
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In `@guides/receiving-messages.mdx`:
- Around line 623-624: Rewrite the added paragraph in receiving-messages
documentation to use second-person active voice, replacing applicable
third-person actors such as “the client” with “you” while preserving code
identifiers, protocol terms, technical details, and the existing explanation.
- Line 623: Update the receiving-messages documentation to describe
pdo_requested as a bounded gate with the default 24-hour TTL and 512-entry
capacity; state that expiration or eviction allows a redelivered <unavailable>
stanza to issue another placeholder request, and remove the claim that the gate
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| Separately from that 30-second in-flight cache, the client also gates placeholder requests for a message's whole session lifetime, so a redelivered `<unavailable>` stanza never asks the phone twice. **That once-per-message gate is keyed per sender, not just per `(chat, id)` ([#1319](https://github.com/oxidezap/whatsapp-rust/pull/1319)).** A message ID is chosen by the sending client, not the server, so two different participants in a group can pick the same one; gating on `(chat, id)` alone let the first participant's request silently suppress the second's, which then never got its content recovered. When a PDO response arrives, the client also checks that the pending request it matches actually names the same sender (comparing both the LID and phone-number spellings, since a group's own delivery may carry either) before trusting it — otherwise it rebuilds the recovered message from the response itself rather than risk dispatching it under the wrong sender's identity. | ||
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Rewrite the added paragraph in second person.
Line 623 uses third-person actors such as the client and a message ID. Rewrite the user-facing explanation with you as the actor where applicable. Keep code identifiers and protocol terms unchanged.
As per coding guidelines, **/*.{md,mdx} documentation must use active voice and second person (you).
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In `@guides/receiving-messages.mdx` around lines 623 - 624, Rewrite the added
paragraph in receiving-messages documentation to use second-person active voice,
replacing applicable third-person actors such as “the client” with “you” while
preserving code identifiers, protocol terms, technical details, and the existing
explanation.
Source: Coding guidelines
Addresses review feedback on #533: pdo_requested is a bounded 24h/512-entry memo cache, not a strict session-lifetime guarantee, and expiration or eviction can let a redelivery send a second request. Also splits the added paragraph into shorter, active-voice sentences per this repo's style rules.
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Summary
Documents the behavior fixed in oxidezap/whatsapp-rust#1319.
The PDO placeholder-resend flow's once-per-message gate previously deduplicated purely on
(chat, id). Message IDs are chosen by the sending client, not the server, so two different participants in the same group can pick the same one — when that happened, the first participant's request silently suppressed the second's, and that sender's content was never recovered. #1319 keys the gate per sender instead, and additionally checks (comparing both LID and phone-number spellings) that a PDO response actually names the sender a pending request was for, before trusting it for attribution — otherwise the recovered message is rebuilt from the response itself rather than risk dispatching it under the wrong sender's identity.guides/receiving-messages.mdxalready documented the separate 30-second in-flight PDO dedup cache, but had no mention of this longer-lived once-per-message gate or its sender-collision edge case. This PR adds a short paragraph immediately after the existing dedup note to close that gap.Changes
guides/receiving-messages.mdx: added a paragraph under "Decryption retry mechanism" documenting the per-sender once-per-message gate and the response attribution check, linking #1319.Note
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Clarifies receiving-messages docs: the PDO placeholder resend gate keys per sender and validates response attribution, and the gate’s lifetime is a bounded 24h/512-entry memo cache. Previously the gate deduplicated on
(chat, id)only; now it keys per sender and checks the response names the same sender, avoiding suppressed recovery and misattribution in groups.pdo_requestedis a bounded 24h/512-entry memo cache, so expiration or eviction can allow a later redelivery to send a second request.Written for commit b7b3252. Summary will update on new commits.
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