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fix(web): stop double-counting notification overview after archive - #2137

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@jackobrien44 Jack O'Brien (jackobrien44) commented Nov 1, 2026 •

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Summary

Stop the notification sidebar from showing a negative unread count and an inflated archived count after archiving a notification.

Why This Exists

Work Intent: #2136
Closes #2136

On API 4.37.9 / Unraid 7.3.4, archiving notifications left the sidebar at Unread (-1) and Archived (2) while the notification directory held 0 unread and 1 archived file.

The sidebar carried two workarounds for the server's counting before #2123. That PR fixed the server side but did not touch the sidebar, so both now count twice.

Both are easy to miss: opening the sidebar runs recalculateOverview, which publishes a fresh overview, and archiveAll evicts the notifications cache. The wrong counts show after archiving individual notifications with the sidebar open.

Resolution

Leave overview counts to the server's subscription instead of adjusting them in the archiveNotification merge policy, and display overview.archive.total directly in the Archived tab.

Reviewer Considerations

  • The overview subscription is mounted in Sidebar.vue alongside the overview query, so archives from the sidebar and from CriticalNotifications both receive the server's counts through it.
  • The archive-list eviction in the merge policy is unchanged.
  • Both removed lines depended on server behavior that fix(api): preserve partial results and accurate notification counts #2123 replaced; neither is needed with the current server.

Behavior Changes

  • The unread count updates from the server's overview event, which the server publishes before the archive mutation responds.
  • The Archived tab count matches the number of notifications in the archive list, including while unread notifications exist.

Implementation Summary

  • web/src/helpers/apollo-cache/index.ts: remove the local unread.total-- and its now-unused import; update the policy's doc comment.
  • web/src/components/Notifications/Sidebar.vue: remove readArchivedCount and show overview.archive.total.
  • web/__test__/helpers/apollo-cache/index.test.ts: new tests for the policy with the subscription result arriving before and after the mutation result, using the production archiveNotification mutation and a full NotificationFragment result.

Verification

  • pnpm exec vitest run __test__/helpers/apollo-cache (in web/): 14 tests passed.
  • The new test fails on main with expected -1 to be +0 when the subscription result arrives first, and passes with this change.
  • pnpm codegen (in web/): passes.
  • Targeted ESLint and Prettier passed on the changed files, and the full web pre-commit lint/format hook passed.
  • vue-tsc --noEmit reports no errors in the changed files. A full type check was not clean locally because @unraid/ui was not built.
  • Run on Windows with Node 24.

Risk

If the overview subscription is disconnected, the unread count no longer drops on archive until the next overview event; previously it dropped locally. Live notification updates already depend on that subscription. Not yet tested on a live server with this build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • The archived notification count now matches the total provided by the server, rather than being reduced by unread notifications.
    • Archiving a notification no longer changes the unread total immediately on the client. Unread and archived counts update when the server’s overview updates, whether that update arrives before or after the archive action.

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Walkthrough

The archive mutation cache policy no longer decrements the cached unread total. The Archived tab displays the server-provided archive total. Tests cover subscription and mutation results arriving in either order.

Changes

Notification count updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Archive cache policy and arrival-order tests
web/src/helpers/apollo-cache/index.ts, web/__test__/helpers/apollo-cache/index.test.ts
The archive merge policy no longer decrements the cached unread overview. Tests check that the overview retains unread total 0 and archive total 1 for both subscription and mutation arrival orders.
Archived tab count
web/src/components/Notifications/Sidebar.vue
The Archived tab displays overview.archive.total directly, replacing the archive-minus-unread calculation.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • unraid/api#2123: Changes the server notification service that publishes overview updates used by the client cache policy.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 98e54

Archiving while an empty archive list is cached can temporarily remove unread and archived counts from the sidebar. Narrowing eviction to the archive list is a small, high-value fix.

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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing notification overview counts from being double-counted after archiving.
Linked Issues check Passed The changes meet the coding requirements in directly linked issue #2136. archiveNotification no longer decrements overview.unread.total locally. Sidebar.vue displays overview.archive.total dir…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes remain within issue #2136 Web UI scope. The modified files contain the cache-policy fix, the sidebar count fix, and supporting unit tests. No unrelated API, plugin, build, deployment, or d…
Docstring Coverage Passed No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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Explanation

The changes meet the coding requirements in directly linked issue #2136. archiveNotification no longer decrements overview.unread.total locally. Sidebar.vue displays overview.archive.total directly. The cache-policy tests cover both subscription and mutation result arrival orders. Archive-list eviction remains unchanged.

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The changes remain within issue #2136 Web UI scope. The modified files contain the cache-policy fix, the sidebar count fix, and supporting unit tests. No unrelated API, plugin, build, deployment, or documentation changes are reported.

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A rabbit watched the counts align,
No extra subtraction crossed the line.
The archive total now shows clear,
While subscription updates appear.
Two arrival paths pass the test,
And unread counts can take their rest.

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Minor · Evict the archive list field instead of the root notifications field. · index.ts:155-156

web/src/helpers/apollo-cache/index.ts:155-156
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Evict the archive list field instead of the root notifications field.

When the cached archive list is empty, cache.evict({ fieldName: 'notifications' }) removes the root field shared by the archive query and notificationsOverview. If the subscription writes first, the mutation can remove the server-provided unread and archive totals from the cache.

Use the same targeted list eviction for empty and non-empty archive lists. Add a test that caches an empty archive list, writes the subscription result first, applies the mutation result, and asserts that the overview remains while the archive list is invalidated.

Suggested fix
-            if (archiveQuery.notifications.list.length === 0) {
-              cache.evict({ fieldName: 'notifications' });
-            } else {
-              cache.evict({
-                id: archiveQuery.notifications.id,
-                fieldName: 'list',
-                args: { filter: { type: NotificationType.ARCHIVE } },
-              });
-            }
+            cache.evict({
+              id: archiveQuery.notifications.id,
+              fieldName: 'list',
+              args: { filter: { type: NotificationType.ARCHIVE } },
+            });
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Review comment at @web/src/helpers/apollo-cache/index.ts around lines 155 - 156:
Update the archive-list eviction in the mutation cache handler to always evict
the `list` field on `archiveQuery.notifications.id`, using the archive filter
arguments, regardless of whether the list is empty. Remove the empty-list branch
that evicts the root `notifications` field so the overview remains cached.

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- Around line 155-156: Update the archive-list eviction in the mutation cache
handler to always evict the `list` field on `archiveQuery.notifications.id`,
using the archive filter arguments, regardless of whether the list is empty.
Remove the empty-list branch that evicts the root `notifications` field so the
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