[AdrianCurtin]

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Issue

Closes #10628.

LiveQueryController.clearCachedRoles(user) invalidated the LiveQuery server's cached auth for one user, the actor on the request, and only when there was one. Two cases were never invalidated:

• No user on the request. The method returned early when user was falsy, so a master key role write or delete published nothing at all. Managing roles with the master key, from admin tooling or cloud code, is the common case.
• Users other than the actor. The publisher sent a single { userId } and ParseLiveQueryServer#_clearCachedRoles resolved _Session rows for that one user. A role write changes the effective closure of every member of the role and of any role inheriting from it. Adding a member is the clearest example: the actor is the admin doing the write, the affected user is the member being added, and only the actor was invalidated.

Until its authCache entry expired on cacheTimeout, a subscriber kept receiving events decided from a stale role closure.

Approach

clearCache messages now carry clearAll: true, and a LiveQuery server receiving one drops its whole authCache rather than one user's sessions. Entries are repopulated lazily by getAuthForSessionToken, so the cost is a re-resolution per active session after a role write, and role writes are rare relative to events.

Three details worth reviewer attention:

• userId is still published when it is known. A LiveQuery server on an older version ignores clearAll and reads userId, so it keeps doing exactly what it does today rather than silently doing nothing. Mixed-version deployments degrade to current behavior instead of breaking.
• _clearCachedRoles(userId) is kept for the reverse direction, an older Parse Server publishing { userId } to a LiveQuery server on this version.
• A standalone LiveQuery server clears its own role cache. It runs in its own process with its own cache controller, which the publishing Parse Server's cacheController.role.clear() never touched. Failures there are caught and logged rather than propagated, matching _clearCachedRoles.

The whole cache is cleared rather than a computed set of affected sessions because the affected set cannot be reconstructed for a delete: by the time the message is published, the _Role row and its _Join rows are gone. Snapshotting members before the destroy would put the cost on every delete and still miss transitive members.

Tests

spec/ParseLiveQueryServer.spec.js gains a role cache invalidation block:

• A role change with no acting user publishes clearAll, which is the master key case that previously published nothing.
• A role change with an acting user still publishes userId alongside clearAll, pinning the back compat contract.
• A clearAll message routes to the full clear, and a message without it routes to the targeted clear.
• A full clear empties authCache and clears the role cache.
• A full clear resolves rather than rejecting when the role cache is unavailable.

spec/ParseLiveQueryServer.spec.js, spec/ParseLiveQuery.spec.js, spec/ParseRole.spec.js, spec/Auth.spec.js and spec/rest.spec.js all pass against MongoDB 8.

Tasks

• Add tests
• Add changes to documentation (code comments)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • LiveQuery authorization data is now refreshed after role changes, including changes made without an acting user.
  • Full cache clears now remove both authorization data and role-related cached data when available.
  • A failure to clear role-related cached data no longer prevents the remaining full-clear operation from completing.
  • Targeted invalidation for a specific user remains supported, preserving the existing behavior for user-specific role changes.

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Walkthrough

Role changes now publish LiveQuery cache-invalidation messages even when no acting user is present. The server processes global invalidation messages by clearing its authorization cache and local role cache. Messages without the global-clear flag retain targeted invalidation.

Changes: LiveQuery role-cache invalidation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Publish role-cache invalidation src/Controllers/LiveQueryController.js, src/LiveQuery/ParseCloudCodePublisher.js	Role changes publish invalidation messages without requiring a user. Messages include clearAll: true and include userId when a user is provided.
Process and test cache clearing src/LiveQuery/ParseLiveQueryServer.ts, spec/ParseLiveQueryServer.spec.js	The server clears all authorization and role caches for global invalidation messages. Messages without clearAll retain targeted clearing by user ID. Tests cover publication, dispatch, cache clearing, and rejected role-cache clears.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: mtrezza

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c1bb6

Role writes now invalidate LiveQuery auth caches for all users. Deleting a role still does not, so LiveQuery clients can keep receiving events under a deleted role's permissions until their cached auth expires. Add the invalidation to the delete path before merging, or explicitly accept this gap as tracked separately.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Title check		The title begins with the required prefix "fix:" and the first letter after the prefix is lowercase ("fix: LiveQuery..."). The title's stated rule requires the first letter to be capitalized, so the t…	Capitalize the first letter after the prefix so the title reads "fix: LiveQuery role cache is not invalidated for all users affected by a role write or delete" with "LiveQuery" already in place. Specifically, the title requirement says the …

Passed checks: 6 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description follows the repository template: it includes the security and license lines, an Issue section that closes #10628, an Approach section that explains the change and the back-compat handl…
Linked Issues check		Issue #10628 requires LiveQuery authorization cache invalidation after role writes and deletes, including requests without an acting user. clearCachedRoles now publishes in both cases. The publisher…
Out of Scope Changes check		The reviewed changes modify role-cache invalidation and add focused tests for that behavior. The compatibility path, standalone role-cache clearing, comments, and failure handling support issue #10628…
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Security Check		The reviewed changes do not introduce a security vulnerability. Role changes now publish an internal clearAll invalidation, including master-key requests without a user, and preserve the existing `u…
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The description follows the repository template: it includes the security and license lines, an Issue section that closes #10628, an Approach section that explains the change and the back-compat handling, a Tests section, and a Tasks checklist. The author marks tests as added and documentation as updated through code comments. The Tasks list omits the security check and the Parse JS SDK item, which the template lists. These are minor gaps.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #10628 requires LiveQuery authorization cache invalidation after role writes and deletes, including requests without an acting user. clearCachedRoles now publishes in both cases. The publisher includes clearAll: true and retains userId when available. ParseLiveQueryServer clears all cached authorization entries and its local role cache for full-clear messages. It retains targeted invalidation for older message formats. The added tests cover publication, routing, cache clearing, compatibility, and role-cache failure handling.

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Explanation

The reviewed changes modify role-cache invalidation and add focused tests for that behavior. The compatibility path, standalone role-cache clearing, comments, and failure handling support issue #10628. No unrelated change is established.

Full details: Security Check

Explanation

The reviewed changes do not introduce a security vulnerability. Role changes now publish an internal clearAll invalidation, including master-key requests without a user, and preserve the existing userId compatibility field when available (LiveQueryController.js:63-66, ParseCloudCodePublisher.js:31-42). The Live Query server clears its local auth cache and role cache, while retaining targeted invalidation for older messages (ParseLiveQueryServer.ts:135-146, 671-683). The patch does not weaken authorization checks, expose credentials, trust client input, or broaden data access. The repository's security-advisory test is unrelated to these cache changes.

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The title begins with the required prefix "fix:" and the first letter after the prefix is lowercase ("fix: LiveQuery..."). The title's stated rule requires the first letter to be capitalized, so the title does not meet the casing requirement. Apart from casing, the title accurately describes the change: LiveQuery role cache invalidation is extended to all users affected by a role write or delete.

Resolution

Capitalize the first letter after the prefix so the title reads "fix: LiveQuery role cache is not invalidated for all users affected by a role write or delete" with "LiveQuery" already in place. Specifically, the title requirement says the first letter must be capitalized, e.g. "feat: Add...". Change "fix: LiveQuery..." to "fix: Live Query..." or rewrite so the first word after the prefix is capitalized, for example "fix: Invalidate LiveQuery role cache for all affected users".

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

Major · Publish cache invalidation after role deletion. · ParseLiveQueryServer.ts:229-231

src/LiveQuery/ParseLiveQueryServer.ts:229-231
Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Publish cache invalidation after role deletion.

After a successful _Role deletion, the REST deletion path calls onAfterDelete but does not call clearCachedRoles. The deleted role can therefore remain in LiveQuery authorization caches until they expire. Add the invalidation in src/rest.js, alongside the existing post-delete notification.

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Review comment at @src/LiveQuery/ParseLiveQueryServer.ts around lines 229 - 231:
After successful `_Role` deletion, update the REST deletion flow around
`onAfterDelete` to also invalidate cached roles using the existing
`clearCachedRoles` mechanism. Keep the invalidation alongside the post-delete
notification and limit it to successful role deletions.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @src/LiveQuery/ParseLiveQueryServer.ts:
- Around line 229-231: After successful `_Role` deletion, update the REST
deletion flow around `onAfterDelete` to also invalidate cached roles using the
existing `clearCachedRoles` mechanism. Keep the invalidation alongside the
post-delete notification and limit it to successful role deletions.

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Capitalize the first letter after the prefix so the title reads "fix: LiveQuery
role cache is not invalidated for all users affected by a role write or delete"
with "LiveQuery" already in place. Specifically, the title requirement says the
first letter must be capitalized, e.g. "feat: Add...". Change "fix:
LiveQuery..." to "fix: Live Query..." or rewrite so the first word after the
prefix is capitalized, for example "fix: Invalidate LiveQuery role cache for all
affected users".

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[AdrianCurtin]

Regarding the outside-diff comment on the _Role delete path in src/rest.js: that call is added by #10620, which clears the role cache on delete and publishes the LiveQuery invalidation alongside it. This PR changes what the published message does (every cached role closure is cleared, and a master key request with no acting user still publishes). The two PRs together cover role writes and deletes.