Resubmit a stored event as a new undelivered event (closes #250)
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Capturing real webhook traffic and firing it repeatedly at a backend
under development is a primary function of this service, and
per-delivery replay cannot do it: it only ever resolves the delivery's
own original target, so a target created for a dev backend has no
prior delivery and nothing can be replayed to it.

The event log now offers a per-event Resubmit action. It stores a NEW
event copying the stored one's method, headers, body and content type
verbatim, and fans it out to the webhook's currently ACTIVE targets,
resolved fresh by the query the receiver uses -- so a target created
long after the original event arrived receives it. The original
event's deliveries have no bearing on where the copy goes, inactive
targets are skipped as the receiver skips them, and the action is
repeatable: replay's in-flight refusal is deliberately not ported,
because firing one captured event over and over is the point.

The receiver and the resubmit path share one construction and one
fan-out site. An eventSource value carries where the fields came from,
live request or stored event, and createAndFanOut writes the event and
its pending deliveries in one transaction and hands the tasks to the
same Notifier, so a resubmitted delivery is retried, SSRF-guarded and
circuit-broken exactly as a first one is. buildDeliveryTasks returns
an error instead of writing a response, which is what lets both
callers share it.

The stored event is read once, before the write transaction, with a
cast to blob, so a body over delivery.MaxInlineBodySize is copied byte
for byte and the engine loads it from the new event row.

A nullable resubmitted_from_id records provenance -- empty for an
event that arrived on the receiver -- and the event log reports the
relationship in both directions, without which the log is unreadable
after a few resubmits of one event. The route sits in the owned-source
group, so auth, CSRF and the body cap apply, with its own rate limit
bucket and an events_resubmitted_total counter.

Inbound signature verification is not re-run: there is no inbound
signature to check on a copy an authenticated, CSRF-protected operator
action submits.

Per-delivery replay is unchanged; it serves recovery, which resubmit
does not replace. The README claimed in four places that replay was
unimplemented, one of them telling the operator that a delivery
stranded by a target type change was lost; all four are corrected and
resubmit is documented beside replay.
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@@ -903,10 +903,13 @@ webhooker solves this by acting as a durable intermediary:
targets simultaneously. This enables patterns like forwarding a
GitHub webhook to both a deployment service and a Slack channel.
5. **Replay** (not yet implemented) — Every received event is stored in
full, which is what manual redelivery for debugging or testing will
be built on. No redelivery exists today, in the web UI or the API;
see [TODO.md](TODO.md).
5. **Replay and resubmit** — Every received event is stored in full,
and the event log offers two redelivery actions built on that.
**Replay** re-sends one finished delivery to its own target, for
recovering a delivery that failed. **Resubmit** re-injects the stored
event as a new undelivered event and fans it out to every currently
active target, for firing captured traffic at a backend under
development. Both are web UI actions; there is no API for either.
### Use Cases
@@ -915,8 +918,8 @@ webhooker solves this by acting as a durable intermediary:
- **Observability** via Prometheus metrics on webhook frequency, payload
size, and delivery performance
- **Debugging** and introspection of webhook payloads in the web UI
- **Replay** of webhook events for application testing and development
(planned; not yet implemented)
- **Resubmit** of captured webhook events for application testing and
development, and **replay** of a single failed delivery for recovery
- **Fan-out** delivery of a single webhook to multiple downstream
targets
- **High-availability ingestion** for delivery to less reliable backend
@@ -1224,7 +1227,7 @@ A programmatic access credential for API authentication.
#### Event
A captured incoming webhook request. Stores the complete HTTP request
data for auditing and for the planned replay capability.
data for auditing, for replay, and for resubmission.
| Field | Type | Description |
| -------------- | ------ | ----------- |
@@ -1235,6 +1238,7 @@ data for auditing and for the planned replay capability.
| `headers` | JSON | Complete request headers |
| `body` | text | Raw request body |
| `content_type` | string | Content-Type header value |
| `resubmitted_from_id` | UUID | The event this one was copied from by a resubmit (nullable; empty for an event that arrived on the receiver). Not a foreign key: the source event can be reaped by retention while its copies remain |
**Relations:** Belongs to Webhook. Belongs to Entrypoint. Has many
Deliveries.
@@ -1283,6 +1287,30 @@ message on the event log rather than delivering from stale
configuration, and a replay is refused while an earlier one for the
same event and target is still pending or retrying.
**Resubmit.** Replay recovers one delivery; **resubmit** re-injects one
EVENT. The event log offers a per-event **Resubmit** action that stores
a NEW event copying the stored one's `method`, `headers`, `body` and
`content_type` verbatim, then fans it out to the webhook's currently
**active** targets — resolved fresh by the same query the receiver
uses, so a target created long after the original event arrived
receives it. That is the difference that matters: a target added to
test a backend under development has no prior delivery, so there is
nothing to replay to it, while a resubmit reaches it like any other
active target. Inactive targets are skipped, exactly as the receiver
skips them.
The new event is a first-class event in the log with its own
deliveries, not a marker on the one it came from, and the original's
deliveries are left untouched. It records `resubmitted_from_id`, and
the event log shows the relationship both ways, so a captured event
fired twenty times at a backend stays traceable. Resubmitting the same
event repeatedly is supported and is the point of the action — there is
no in-flight refusal; the route's own rate limit is what bounds it.
Inbound signature verification is not re-run on a resubmit. There is no
inbound signature to check on a copy the operator submits, and the
route is authenticated and CSRF-protected as an operator action.
#### DeliveryResult
The result of a single delivery attempt. Every attempt (including
@@ -1539,10 +1567,11 @@ unknown) one while one of its deliveries is still `retrying`, both
recovery paths above terminally mark that delivery `failed` and record a
`DeliveryResult` naming the current target type as the reason, logging it
at warn level. The delivery is not re-dispatched under the new type — the
operator never asked for that delivery — and while the event itself
remains stored in the per-webhook event database, there is no way to
redeliver it: manual redelivery is planned, not implemented (see
[TODO.md](TODO.md)).
operator never asked for that delivery — and the event itself remains
stored in the per-webhook event database. Nothing is lost: the delivery
is `failed`, which is terminal, so the event log offers **Replay** on
it to re-send it to that target under the new type, and **Resubmit** on
the event to re-inject it to every currently active target.
### Circuit Breaker (HTTP and Slack Targets with Retries)
@@ -1615,13 +1644,16 @@ arriving and being stored, they are just not getting anywhere.
| `webhooker_deliveries_failed_total` | counter | Deliveries that failed terminally and will not be retried |
| `webhooker_delivery_retries_total` | counter | Deliveries put back into `retrying` |
| `webhooker_delivery_replays_total` | counter | Deliveries an operator replayed from the event log. A replay runs the ordinary engine path, so it also moves the attempt, outcome and duration series; this is the only one that separates it from ordinary traffic |
| `webhooker_events_resubmitted_total` | counter | Stored events an operator re-injected from the event log. The new event also moves `webhooker_events_received_total`, since it is a stored event the delivery side is compared against; this counter is what separates the two. Unlabelled: the target types it fans out to belong to the delivery series |
| `webhooker_delivery_duration_seconds` | histogram | Wall time of a single dispatched delivery attempt, the same duration the attempt's `DeliveryResult` records |
| `webhooker_deliveries_pending` | gauge | Deliveries currently in `pending` |
| `webhooker_deliveries_retrying` | gauge | Deliveries currently in `retrying` |
| `webhooker_circuit_breakers_open` | gauge | Circuit breakers currently open |
Every delivery metric carries exactly one label, `target_type`, and
cardinality is the whole reason for that restriction. A target type is
cardinality is the whole reason for that restriction. The two
event-level counters carry no label at all — an event is not the
property of any one target type. A target type is
one of four compile-time constants, so the label domain is bounded by
construction; a value outside that set collapses to `unknown` rather
than minting a series of its own. Target ids, event ids and entrypoint
@@ -2213,6 +2245,7 @@ abuse limit later; they are tracked as future work.
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/delete` | Delete webhook |
| `GET` | `/source/{id}/logs` | Webhook event logs |
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/deliveries/{deliveryID}/replay` | Replay a finished delivery: creates a new delivery for the same event against the target's current configuration (30 per minute per bucket, then `429`) |
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/events/{eventID}/resubmit` | Resubmit a stored event: creates a new event copying it and fans that out to every currently active target (30 per minute per bucket, then `429`) |
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints` | Add entrypoint to webhook |
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints/{entrypointID}/delete` | Delete an entrypoint |
| `POST` | `/source/{id}/entrypoints/{entrypointID}/toggle` | Enable or disable an entrypoint |
@@ -2303,6 +2336,7 @@ webhooker/
│ │ ├── handlers.go # Base handler struct, JSON helpers, template rendering
│ │ ├── auth.go # Login, logout handlers
│ │ ├── delivery_replay.go # Per-delivery replay: new delivery, current target config
│ │ ├── event_resubmit.go # Event resubmit: new event, all currently active targets
│ │ ├── entrypoint_view.go # Masked entrypoint view for templates
│ │ ├── event_log_view.go # Event log projection, byte-capped in SQL
│ │ ├── healthcheck.go # Health check handler