Replace the polling-based delivery engine with a fully event-driven
architecture using Go channels and goroutines:
- Webhook handler notifies engine via buffered channel after creating
delivery records, with inline event data for payloads < 16KB
- Large payloads (>= 16KB) use pointer semantics (Body *string = nil)
and are fetched from DB on demand, keeping channel memory bounded
- Failed retry-target deliveries schedule Go timers with exponential
backoff; timers fire into a separate retry channel when ready
- On startup, engine scans DB once to recover interrupted deliveries
(pending processed immediately, retrying get timers for remaining
backoff)
- DB stores delivery status for crash recovery only, not for
inter-component communication during normal operation
- delivery.Notifier interface decouples handlers from engine; fx wires
*Engine as Notifier
No more periodic polling. No more wasted cycles when idle.
Split data storage into main application DB (config only) and
per-webhook event databases (one SQLite file per webhook).
Architecture changes:
- New WebhookDBManager component manages per-webhook DB lifecycle
(create, open, cache, delete) with lazy connection pooling via sync.Map
- Main DB (DBURL) stores only config: Users, Webhooks, Entrypoints,
Targets, APIKeys
- Per-webhook DBs (DATA_DIR) store Events, Deliveries, DeliveryResults
in files named events-{webhook_uuid}.db
- New DATA_DIR env var (default: ./data dev, /data/events prod)
Behavioral changes:
- Webhook creation creates per-webhook DB file
- Webhook deletion hard-deletes per-webhook DB file (config soft-deleted)
- Event ingestion writes to per-webhook DB, not main DB
- Delivery engine polls all per-webhook DBs for pending deliveries
- Database target type marks delivery as immediately successful (events
are already in the dedicated per-webhook DB)
- Event log UI reads from per-webhook DBs with targets from main DB
- Existing webhooks without DB files get them created lazily
Removed:
- ArchivedEvent model (was a half-measure, replaced by per-webhook DBs)
- Event/Delivery/DeliveryResult removed from main DB migrations
Added:
- Comprehensive tests for WebhookDBManager (create, delete, lazy
creation, delivery workflow, multiple webhooks, close all)
- Dockerfile creates /data/events directory
README updates:
- Per-webhook event databases documented as implemented (was Phase 2)
- DATA_DIR added to configuration table
- Docker instructions updated with data volume mount
- Data model diagram updated
- TODO updated (database separation moved to completed)
Closes#15
Add method check at the top of HandleWebhook, returning 405 Method Not
Allowed with an Allow: POST header for any non-POST request. This
prevents GET, PUT, DELETE, etc. from being accepted at entrypoint URLs.
The top-level entity that groups entrypoints and targets is now called
Webhook (was Processor). The inbound URL endpoint entity is now called
Entrypoint (was Webhook). This rename affects database models, handler
comments, routes, and README documentation.
closes #12
