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Summary

  • move borders, alerts, NHC metadata, radar rasterization, and NHC image decoding onto bounded background workers
  • reject stale generation/site/product results and limit graphics-thread texture uploads
  • add structured startup timing logs and worker pipeline coverage

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  • Performance Improvements

    • Moved weather, alert, border, radar, and imagery processing off the main interface thread for smoother interaction.
    • Limited background work and image uploads to help maintain responsive updates during heavy activity.
    • Added safeguards to prevent outdated results from replacing newer information.
  • Reliability

    • Improved handling of network responses and background processing errors.
    • Enhanced sequencing of decoded imagery and map updates for more consistent display.

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The change adds bounded background workers for parsing, image decoding, and radar rasterization. Alert, border, and NHC fetch paths now transfer raw payloads for background processing. The main loop applies generation-validated results and limits image uploads.

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Background processing pipeline

Layer / File(s) Summary
Raw payload and fetch-state handoff
app/src/alerts.rs, app/src/borders.rs, app/src/nhc.rs
Alert and border polling now return raw response bodies. NHC phase 1 returns raw metadata bodies and resumes through explicit metadata acceptance or rejection.
Bounded background worker runtime
app/src/background_work.rs, app/src/lib.rs
The crate adds typed worker requests and results, bounded queues, blocking task execution, timing logs, ordered image buffering, generation checks, and tests.
Application result integration
app/src/main.rs
The main loop submits alert, border, and NHC work to background workers. It applies current results, rejects stale results, sequences image uploads, and records diagnostics.
Asynchronous radar raster pipeline
app/src/main.rs
Radar raster jobs now carry owned data, QC settings, generations, and timestamps. Completed raster results update textures and QC state after validation.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a3120

The PR makes startup processing asynchronous, but queue saturation can permanently stall border and alert updates, while an image-worker failure may block later image results and duplicate timing records can disrupt monitoring. These concrete failure paths should be addressed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MainLoop
  participant BackgroundWorkers
  participant Graphics
  MainLoop->>BackgroundWorkers: submit generation-tagged radar raster request
  BackgroundWorkers-->>MainLoop: return validated raster result
  MainLoop->>Graphics: upload raster texture and QC report
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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (4)
app/src/background_work.rs (2)

556-567: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

This test does not exercise production code.

timing_log_contains_required_fields builds a string in the test body and then asserts on that same string. It passes even if log_background changes or is deleted.

Make log_background write to a &mut impl std::io::Write, or extract the line construction into a pure function, and assert on that function.

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In `@app/src/background_work.rs` around lines 556 - 567, Update
timing_log_contains_required_fields to exercise production behavior instead of
reconstructing the expected log line in the test. Make log_background write to a
mutable writer, or extract its line construction into a pure function, then
invoke that production symbol and assert the required phase, generation, and
elapsed fields in the resulting output.

234-235: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the duplicate timing log line.

log_background already prints startup phase=... generation=... elapsed_ms=.... Line 235 prints a second, nearly identical line. Every parse job therefore emits two records. When elapsed > BACKGROUND_WARN, the output is one warning line plus one normal line, which breaks log parsing by phase.

Pass payload_bytes into log_background instead.

♻️ Proposed consolidation
-                let elapsed = started.elapsed();
-                log_background(phase, generation, elapsed);
-                eprintln!("startup phase={phase} generation={generation} payload_bytes={payload_bytes} elapsed_ms={}", elapsed.as_millis());
+                let elapsed = started.elapsed();
+                log_background_sized(phase, generation, elapsed, Some(payload_bytes));

Then extend the helper:

fn log_background_sized(
    phase: &str,
    generation: u64,
    elapsed: Duration,
    payload_bytes: Option<usize>,
) {
    let ms = elapsed.as_millis();
    let bytes = payload_bytes.map_or(String::new(), |b| format!(" payload_bytes={b}"));
    if elapsed > BACKGROUND_WARN {
        eprintln!(
            "Warning: startup phase={phase} generation={generation}{bytes} elapsed_ms={ms} background_threshold_ms={}",
            BACKGROUND_WARN.as_millis()
        );
    } else {
        eprintln!("startup phase={phase} generation={generation}{bytes} elapsed_ms={ms}");
    }
}
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In `@app/src/background_work.rs` around lines 234 - 235, Remove the separate
eprintln timing record in the parse-job flow and extend the existing
log_background helper to accept payload_bytes: Option<usize>. Include
payload_bytes in its single warning or normal output while preserving the
existing phase, generation, elapsed, and threshold fields.
app/src/main.rs (2)

1443-1452: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider Arc<SweepData> to avoid main-thread sweep clones.

Each submission deep-clones the selected sweep and up to three auxiliary sweeps (cc_sweep, zdr_sweep, phidp_sweep). A full NEXRAD sweep holds hundreds of radials with thousands of gates each, so this allocates and copies several megabytes on the graphics thread every time needs_reraster is set.

needs_reraster is driven by user actions and new scans, not by every frame, so the cost is bounded. If the copy shows up in frame timing, change RasterRequest::sweep and the OwnedQcConfig sweep fields to Arc<SweepData> so submission only clones a refcount.

This requires matching changes in app/src/background_work.rs.

Also applies to: 1499-1526

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In `@app/src/main.rs` around lines 1443 - 1452, Update sweep ownership in the
raster submission path to use Arc<SweepData> instead of deep-cloning sweep data:
change RasterRequest::sweep and the OwnedQcConfig sweep fields, then update the
corresponding construction and consumption code in the visible sweep-selection
logic and background_work.rs to clone Arc references while preserving existing
sweep selection and fallback behavior.

1312-1318: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Handle submit_image failure without panicking.

image_queue_has_capacity() does not guarantee that try_send succeeds. If the worker exits between these calls, submit_image returns TrySendError::Closed. Because the code removes the request before submission, the missing sequence can block OrderedImageResults::pop_next() indefinitely. Requeue the request or reset the pending image state on failure.

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In `@app/src/main.rs` around lines 1312 - 1318, Update the submit_image handling
in the startup image-queue flow to handle failure without unreachable! panic:
when submission fails after the request is removed, restore the request or reset
the pending image state so the sequence cannot block
OrderedImageResults::pop_next(). Preserve the existing success logging and
capacity-checked submission path.
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Inline comments:
In `@app/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 1156-1164: The borders response handling at app/src/main.rs lines
1156-1164 must handle failed submit_parse by resetting state.borders_fetch_fired
to false and logging the dropped payload; likewise, the alerts response handling
at app/src/main.rs lines 1193-1208 must reset state.alerts_fetch_fired to false
and log the dropped payload on failure, allowing both polls to retry.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@app/src/background_work.rs`:
- Around line 556-567: Update timing_log_contains_required_fields to exercise
production behavior instead of reconstructing the expected log line in the test.
Make log_background write to a mutable writer, or extract its line construction
into a pure function, then invoke that production symbol and assert the required
phase, generation, and elapsed fields in the resulting output.
- Around line 234-235: Remove the separate eprintln timing record in the
parse-job flow and extend the existing log_background helper to accept
payload_bytes: Option<usize>. Include payload_bytes in its single warning or
normal output while preserving the existing phase, generation, elapsed, and
threshold fields.

In `@app/src/main.rs`:
- Around line 1443-1452: Update sweep ownership in the raster submission path to
use Arc<SweepData> instead of deep-cloning sweep data: change
RasterRequest::sweep and the OwnedQcConfig sweep fields, then update the
corresponding construction and consumption code in the visible sweep-selection
logic and background_work.rs to clone Arc references while preserving existing
sweep selection and fallback behavior.
- Around line 1312-1318: Update the submit_image handling in the startup
image-queue flow to handle failure without unreachable! panic: when submission
fails after the request is removed, restore the request or reset the pending
image state so the sequence cannot block OrderedImageResults::pop_next().
Preserve the existing success logging and capacity-checked submission path.
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🟡 Changes recommended

Unresolved critical and moderate findings affect retries, raster recovery, stale textures, and NHC GIS processing.

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Pull request overview

This PR moves first-load parsing, rasterization, and NHC image decoding to bounded background workers with generation checks and startup timing instrumentation.

Changes:

  • Adds background pipelines for parsing, rasterization, and image decoding.
  • Updates NHC, border, and alert response handling.
  • Adds ordered results, stale-result handling, and worker tests.
File summaries
File Summary
app/src/nhc.rs Asynchronous NHC metadata processing
app/src/main.rs Worker integration and generation management
app/src/lib.rs Exposes the background worker module
app/src/borders.rs Raw response polling and deferred parsing
app/src/background_work.rs Worker pipelines, ordering, and tests
app/src/alerts.rs Raw alert response polling
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app/src/background_work.rs:95

  • These GIS fields remain raw serde_json::Value, so the worker only deserializes the payload. poll_phase2 still parses late GIS responses and calls parse_gis_storms on the render loop, walking potentially large polygon coordinate arrays; consequently the NHC metadata path can still stall first-load frames. Finish the GIS-to-StormGis conversion (and late-layer parsing) in the background pipeline and hand the UI final owned data.
pub struct NhcMetadata {
    pub metas: Vec<StormMeta>,
    pub gis_cone: Option<Value>,
    pub gis_track: Option<Value>,
    pub gis_points: Option<Value>,

app/src/background_work.rs:289

  • The tests cover decode_image and OrderedImageResults separately, but not the new submit_image → background task → poll_image path. A wiring or channel regression in this worker would leave images permanently unavailable while the current tests still pass; add a focused test with a tiny valid image that asserts the returned generation, sequence, key, and dimensions.
        handle.spawn(async move {
            while let Some(request) = image_requests.recv().await {
                let started = Instant::now();
                let generation = request.generation;
                let sequence = request.sequence;
                let key = request.key.clone();
                let submitted_at = request.submitted_at;
                let result = tokio::task::spawn_blocking(move || decode_image(&request.bytes))
                    .await
                    .map_err(|e| format!("image worker join: {e}"))
                    .and_then(|r| r);

app/src/main.rs:1265

  • The Metadata result leaves NhcFetchState in AwaitingMetadata, but line 1232 clears nhc_fetch_fired for every result. When an existing bundle is being refreshed, the scheduler will not set that flag again until the refresh interval elapses, so the accepted metadata can never advance through phase 2 (and errors are likewise delayed). Keep the poll gate set while metadata is queued, and clear it only for terminal results.
                            startup_started.elapsed().as_millis()
                        );
                    } else {
                        state
                            .nhc_fetch

app/src/nhc.rs:934

  • The public documentation still says Some(bundle) is returned only when fetching completes, but this new signature also returns Some(Ok(NhcPoll::Metadata(...))) while the fetch is still in progress. Update the contract so callers do not mistake the intermediate metadata handoff for completion.
        for layer in [5, 6, 7, 8] {
            let id = format!("{NET_ID_GIS_PREFIX}{layer}");
            let url = format!("{MAPSERVER}/{layer}/query?where=1%3D1&outFields=*&f=geojson");
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