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  • Bug Fixes
    • Branch-based rule changes, conversions, and automatic renaming now use consistent transaction handling, reducing the risk of partial updates.
    • Automatic renaming now works for module changes through the UI, API, bulk imports, and scripts on active branches, and during branch merges, reverts, and syncs.
    • Channel-name reconciliation errors identify affected names, and rule changes are rejected when they target an incompatible database.
  • Improvements
    • Conversion and rule-application errors provide more useful information.
    • Background rule jobs retain their branch context; background bulk rule requests on a branch are rejected.
  • Documentation
    • Configuration guidance covers script transactions, NetBox Branching 1.2.x support on NetBox 4.7, operational limitations, and background-job upgrades. CI coverage reporting is also clarified.

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In a netbox-branching branch the router sends each write of a branchable
model to the branch connection, and netbox-branching writes the
ChangeDiff rows on default. A block on default alone leaves the branch
writes in autocommit, so a rollback cannot undo them.

transactions.py now owns this state:

- write_alias() returns the alias that the router gives for a write of
  an interface.
- write_scope(expected_alias=None) pins the aliases of one operation:
  ("default",) on main, and ("default", <branch alias>) in a branch.
  It raises before any query when the write alias differs from
  expected_alias or from the open scope, which a nested scope joins.
  In a branch the outermost scope sets lock_timeout to 10s on both
  connections. It restores each value when it exits, after the commit
  callbacks of its blocks. A restore that fails closes the DB-API
  connection, then the Django connection, and raises from the failure.
  A setup that fails restores what it changed. On main the scope runs
  no query.
- atomic_with_events() joins the open scope or opens one. It opens
  default first and the branch alias inside it, so the branch commits
  first. It yields a Block, and Block.set_rollback() marks every alias.
  The using parameter is removed. The internal commit marker stays on
  the write connection.
- on_commit(callback) runs the callback once, after the transactions
  open at the call commit on every alias. Each alias acknowledges
  through Django's on_commit, so a rollback of either transaction, or
  of a savepoint around the call, drops the callback. The join holds
  the complete pending set before the first registration, and marks
  itself fired before it runs the callback. On main it registers the
  callback once on default, as before.

InterfaceNameRule.save() writes through the alias that the router gives
for the rule model, and that alias must be an alias of the open write
scope. It refuses any other using before any query, so a save through
default in a branch is refused while the rule model is branchable. When
an operator exempts the plugin's models in netbox-branching's
exempt_models, the router gives default for a rule, and a rule save in
a branch writes on default. Before, the save opened the alias it was
given.

The statements that read and set lock_timeout are module constants, so
the tests read the setting and inject a restore failure through them.

The branch tests run against a real provisioned branch. They cover the
timeout in each entry state: autocommit, a caller transaction that
commits or rolls back, an aborted caller transaction, a failed setup
and a failed restore. They cover the commit join in each nesting of
the two connections. The restore failure is injected with Django's
execute_wrapper before the statement reaches PostgreSQL.
Apply Rules and Convert in the foreground, and the Convert dry run of
the Apply page, open a write scope in the view, so one lock_timeout
setting covers the whole operation in a branch. The dry run marks its
block for rollback on every alias. The channel reconciliation registers
through the commit join. It runs after NetBox's channel cascade and
after both connections commit, so its failure cannot roll back the
ChangeDiff rows of the family. The rename trigger names the default
alias explicitly. The trigger deferral does not change.

Before the write scope, Apply, Convert, the dry run and the rule toggle
failed in a branch with "select_for_update cannot be used outside of a
transaction", because the plugin's block did not open the branch
connection.

The branch tests drive the views with netbox-branching's cookie:

- Apply, Convert and the toggle write only in the branch.
- A flat family blocked after ten written rows leaves no row and no
  ChangeDiff.
- A collision that another session causes after the plugin's check
  blocks that member and keeps the rest of the family.
- The dry run leaves no row and no ChangeDiff.
- The reconciliation runs after the cascade in each nesting of the
  caller's transactions, and a rollback of default, of the transaction
  or of a savepoint around the call, drops it.
- A reconciliation lock timeout keeps the ChangeDiff rows of the
  family.
- The documented engine function apply_device_interface_rules, inside
  a caller's transaction on the branch alone or on both connections in
  either nesting, keeps a blocked channel at its name after the caller
  frees its target and commits.

The ordering, discard and engine function tests fail when on_commit
registers on default alone, on the branch alone, or forwards from the
branch commit to default: the three alternatives that the design
rejected.
A channel reconciliation restores the name that the plugin kept for a
channel after NetBox's parent cascade renamed it. When it fails with a
database error, it rolls its own block back and now raises
ChannelReconciliationError. The error names each channel by the name
that the cascade gave it and the name that the plugin kept, and it
chains the database error. The rename trigger writes the error into
the journal entry of the module, and the Apply and Convert views show
its text, so the operator can rename each channel back. For every
other error the views still show the error type only.

Before, the journal entry said only "canceling statement due to lock
timeout", the views showed only the error type, and neither named a
channel.

The trigger test takes a row lock on the kept channel from a second
session after the cascade commits, and times the reconciliation out.
Outside transactions.py, production code must not use atomic, the
savepoint functions, set_rollback, get_rollback, on_commit,
get_connection or mark_for_rollback_on_error, and must not import
connection, connections or router from django.db. Two named exceptions
stay: rename_triggers.py may call on_commit and get_connection with an
explicit alias, and models.py may import router for its own row. A
test fails when an exception is no longer used.

Production code outside transactions.py must also not import Django's
transaction module in any spelling: from django.db import transaction,
import django.db.transaction, a name from that module, or
django.db.transaction reached through an imported django.db. This
covers every transaction function, also one that the list does not
name. rename_triggers.py may import the module for its trigger
deferral, which names the alias explicitly. With
"from django.db import transaction" added to views.py, the guard
reports that import.

The detector resolves the names that bind django.db.transaction and
django.db, including an aliased import and a dotted import, so the
plugin's own Block.set_rollback() and on_commit() are not reported. On
the tree before the call-site migration it reports the on_commit of
family/names.py, the set_rollback of family/conversion.py and the two
calls without an alias in rename_triggers.py. Each new spelling has a
detector test that reports it and one that does not.
A branch can hold other rules than main. The cache compared only the
content fingerprint of the enabled rules, so a branch with the same
rules got the rule instances read from main. The snapshot now carries
the read alias, and it reloads when the alias or the fingerprint
changes. A pinned snapshot checks its alias before its fast return. The
memo belongs to its snapshot, so it is per alias too.

The branch tests select a rule on main and in an identical branch, in
a pinned block across both, and after a rule change in the branch only.
The docstring said that NetBox configures one database alias and no
router. With netbox-branching the router sends each read to the active
branch or to main. The block cache stays keyed by primary key alone,
because every read of one block goes to one alias.
SonarCloud flagged the release, publish and docs jobs (S8541, S8544):
they resolved dependencies without uv.lock and could run build scripts.

- release.yaml: the job holds RELEASE_TOKEN, but it synced the whole
  `dev` group, which includes `reuse` (sdist only, so a build script
  runs). It now syncs only the `release` and `packaging` groups.
- publish-pypi.yaml and mkdocs.yaml: `uv pip install --group` resolved
  fresh from pyproject. They now sync the group from uv.lock.
- Each sync uses `--locked` (fail on a stale lock) and `--no-build`
  (wheels only). Each `uv run` uses `--no-sync`, so it does not
  re-resolve.
- setup.sh: download the gh keyring with `--max-redirect=0` (S6506).
  The URL does not redirect. `install -m 644` replaces cat | tee and
  chmod.
SonarCloud S8541 flags uv run without --no-build. With --no-sync, uv run installs nothing, so the flag changes nothing today. It fails closed if a later edit drops --no-sync.
The rule cache shape was restated by hand in five places. The new alias
key reached only three of them: the concurrent-reload test rebuilt and
restored the cache without it, so a later unpinned lookup in the same
worker raised KeyError: 'alias'.

Hold the cache in a frozen _RuleSnapshot dataclass with required fields,
and build the empty cache with one factory. A missing field now fails at
construction. The concurrent-reload test now proves the restored cache
serves an unpinned lookup.
The rename-trigger tests in a branch install the channelized family
through NetBox's views. They need the device, the module type and the
taken targets, but not the modules that main already holds. _ChannelCase
builds those rows and adds the rule on request. _KeptChannelCase adds
the modules on main before the rule, as before.
rename_triggers.py may call on_commit and get_connection only with an
explicit alias. The guard accepted using=None, which Django reads as
default. It now refuses a None alias in the alias position and in the
using keyword.
The receivers pass the alias of the save to the trigger lifecycle. A
save through another alias than the write alias raises: before_save
raises before the row is written, and after_save raises for a post_save
that NetBox sends by hand. The receivers do not read raw, so a fixture
load is still a trigger.

The trigger defers on the connection of the save. It checks the atomic
state of that connection, finds the pending plan in its run_on_commit,
registers each trigger there with its savepoint tag and appends the
untagged runner there. In a netbox-branching branch NetBox opens its
view transaction on the branch connection only. The trigger read the
state of default before, which is in autocommit there, so the plan ran
inside post_save, before NetBox created the interfaces of a new module,
and an install in a branch renamed nothing.

The plan records its alias. The runner opens the write scope with that
alias as the expected alias. So the reapply writes in the branch, with
both connections in the plugin's transactions and lock_timeout scope,
and a plan that commits after its branch was left raises.

On main write_alias() is default, so the trigger uses the same
connection as before and runs no additional query.

Slice 4 of #143 (ADR 0016).
A REST API move in a real branch renames the interfaces for the new bay in the branch, with an ObjectChange for each rename, and leaves main as it was.

The test also passes without the connection change of this slice. A move keeps the interfaces of the module, so a plan that runs in post_save finds them. It is coverage of the move path of #143, not a regression test.
…erface write alias

In a netbox-branching branch, transaction.atomic() opens a transaction on
default only. The module save runs on the branch connection, so the rename
trigger runs at once in post_save, before NetBox creates the interfaces.
The guide now names transaction.atomic(using=router.db_for_write(Interface)).
A branch test runs both forms, and a documentation test pins the text.
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The changes add branch-aware transactions, rule selection, rename triggers, reconciliation, background jobs, integration tests, documentation, and CI workflow updates.

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Branch-aware transactions and reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multi-alias write scopes and commit handling
netbox_interface_name_rules/transactions.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/test_transactions.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/test_branch_transactions.py
Write scopes validate aliases, manage lock timeouts, coordinate atomic blocks, and join callbacks across database aliases.
Alias-aware rules and rename triggers
netbox_interface_name_rules/models.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/rule_selection.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/rename_triggers.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/signals.py
Rule saves and cache snapshots track aliases. Save signals pass aliases to rename triggers and reapply plans.
Branch context and jobs
netbox_interface_name_rules/branching.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/jobs.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/api/views.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/views.py
Jobs carry branch identity and expected aliases. Background bulk requests are rejected in active branches.
Reconciliation and integration coverage
netbox_interface_name_rules/family/*, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/test_branch_*.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/branch_cases.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/helpers.py, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/trigger_cases.py
Deferred channel restoration reports ChannelReconciliationError. Tests cover branch writes, triggers, replay, jobs, locking, and transaction nesting.

Development, CI, and release workflow updates

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Setup and locked uv workflows
.devcontainer/scripts/setup.sh, .github/workflows/mkdocs.yaml, .github/workflows/publish-pypi.yaml, .github/workflows/release.yaml
Dependency installation uses locked uv groups. Commands run through the synchronized environment.
Combined coverage reporting
.github/workflows/test.yaml, .github/workflows/coverage-badge.yaml, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/test_ci_workflow.py, CONTRIBUTING.md, pyproject.toml
Coverage from two matrix cells is combined in a separate job before the CI threshold is applied.
Branching documentation
README.md, docs/*, .github/copilot-instructions.md, netbox_interface_name_rules/tests/test_documentation.py
Documentation describes branching support, alias-scoped transactions, replay behavior, jobs, upgrade guidance, and limitations.

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AppConfig.ready() now calls branching.check_installed_version() on every
install, and that function checks whether netbox-branching is installed.
The jobs and the rule API ask the same question in the next commits, so
branching.py answers it for all of them. The module imports
netbox-branching only inside a function that runs when it is installed.
The AST guard still keeps every other module from importing it. The
design record said that the plugin loads branching.py only when
netbox-branching is installed; it now states what holds.

Slice 5 of #143 (ADR 0016).
…enqueued from

A job enqueued from a netbox-branching branch ran on main. A JobRunner
applies no request processors, so the worker never activated the branch.

At enqueue, the job now stores the rule ID, the schema ID of the active
branch and the write alias, all derived on the server
(rule_job_kwargs). It stores no part of the request, so the session
cookie stays out of Redis. The runner puts netbox-branching's branch
cookie on its synthetic request, enters the request processors strictly
and opens write_scope(expected_alias=...) before it reads the rule.

netbox-branching reads its cookie on every path, and activates the
branch only while the branch is ready (netbox_branching/utilities.py
574-581; the processor at 624-629). It reads the header only on an API
path (544), and the query parameter writes flash messages (551-571).
So a branch that is merged, archived or deleted before the job runs is
not activated, the router gives default, and the job fails with an
error that names both aliases. When netbox-branching is not installed
at the run, activate_on sets no cookie, so the same alias check fails
the job; it is not a ModuleNotFoundError. The check runs before the rule read, so
a rule that exists only in the branch cannot become a "does not exist"
warning on main.

NetBox enters its request processors and only warns when one fails
(utilities/request.py:132-142). The runner lets that failure raise, so
a failed activation fails the job and does not run it on main.

The view derives the kwargs before its try block, so an error there
raises instead of becoming a "Failed to enqueue" message.

A job enqueued before this change has no branch_schema_id and no
expected_alias, and it fails. There is no compatibility path. The
warning for a job without rule_id goes too, because every enqueue
passes it.

In a real branch, the tests enqueue each job through the Apply page and
run it from its record in the queue, as a worker does. Apply and
Convert write in the branch only, with the ObjectChange and the
ChangeDiff rows. The stored kwargs hold no session cookie. A branch
that is no longer ready fails the job, names both aliases and writes
nothing. On every leg: the view stores the kwargs of main, a job
without the new kwargs fails, a job of a branch that cannot be
activated fails, and a request processor that fails to enter fails the
job. Two tests that replaced the enqueue with a MagicMock now enqueue
for real. The branch tests name netbox-branching's cookie by its
constant, and the flat names of the conversion case are a module
constant, so pytest no longer collects the foreground conversion tests
a second time.

Slice 5 of #143 (ADR 0016).
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netbox-branching merges, reverts and syncs a branch: it replays the
changes that NetBox logged. A replayed update is a model save
(netbox_branching/utilities.py:513), and a replayed create is a raw
save (models/changes.py:131). So the plugin's receivers ran for each
replayed module and device. After a merge, the reapply ran at the
commit with the rules of main and outside event tracking: it renamed
on main with no change record. During a sync, it renamed in the branch
with no change record, so a merge never carried the rename.

At startup, after the version check, the plugin now wraps Branch.merge,
Branch.revert and Branch.sync once. Each wrapper marks its context with
a ContextVar and resets the token in a finally, so the mark ends on a
return, an early return and an error. While the mark is set,
before_save and after_save return at once: no previous-state read, no
trigger and no plan. The netbox-branching jobs call these methods
(jobs.py:132, 217, 243), and the merge strategies run inside them
(models/branches.py:1135-1139, 1211-1214).

Rejected alternatives:
- The pre_ and post_ signals. netbox-branching sends no post_ signal
  on the "No changes found" return (models/branches.py:923-924,
  1120-1121, 1196-1197) or on an error (988-993, 1144-1150,
  1219-1225).
- A reset from the branch status. It reads a status that other workers
  share, and it adds one query for each trigger.
- Skipping raw saves. It changes a fixture load on main.

A merge or revert started in a shell with the branch active no longer
raises at the alias check of the trigger. netbox-branching itself still
refuses some replays there: its full_clean validates a replayed create
against the active branch (models/changes.py:110), and the revert of a
module move fails at COMMIT on the AppliedChange foreign key
(utilities.py:525). That revert fails also with the plugin's receivers
disconnected.

The tests start each operation on netbox-branching's page and run its
job from the queue, as a worker does:
- A merge of an install and a move gives main the names of the branch,
  and main logs only replayed changes. A revert gives back the names
  from before. The rule exists on main only, so a trigger would rename.
  Both with the iterative and the squash strategy.
- A sync writes no rename into the branch. The rule exists in the
  branch only.
- After a merge without changes, a dry run, a failed merge, and a dry
  run followed by another worker's merge of the branch, an install on
  main still gets the names of the rule.
- NetBox's channel cascade (dcim/models/mixins.py:302-337) renames a
  kept channel again at the commit of a merge and of a sync. A revert
  gives back the names from before. This pins the accepted limit.
- A contract test checks that each method is wrapped once and keeps its
  signature, name and alters_data.
The branch write tests now share one reader of the interfaces of a bay,
on the active branch or on main.

Each mutation turns tests red: no mark (the merges, the reverts, the
sync and the active-branch test), a reset without a finally (the dry
run and the failed merge), the signals with the status reset (the
other-worker test), the signals alone (the three exit tests), skipped
raw saves (the fixture load on main), and a second wrap (the contract
test).

Slice 6 of #143 (ADR 0016).
The configuration guide now has a netbox-branching section. It states
the supported release, 1.2.x on NetBox 4.7, and that NetBox does not
start with another release. It describes what the plugin does in a
branch: the rename triggers, Apply Rules, the conversion and the jobs
run in the branch. A script installs a module in a transaction on the
interface write connection, as the Apply Rules section already says.
In a branch, each plugin operation sets a lock_timeout of 10 seconds on
both connections. An engine function that a script calls inside its own
transaction leaves the lock waits of the commit callbacks to the
script.

The section describes merge, revert and sync. The rename triggers do
nothing while netbox-branching replays changes. A merge gives main the
names of the branch, a revert gives back the names from before, and a
sync writes no rename without a change record.

It lists the accepted limits of the design record:
- NetBox's channel cascade runs again at the commit of a replay
  (dcim/models/mixins.py:302-337).
- A bulk REST request with background=true runs on main, because the
  background job does not keep the cookies of the request
  (netbox/api/viewsets/mixins.py:307, 345-347). The rule endpoints
  refuse it in a branch; the other endpoints keep the gap.
- NetBox ignores a failed branch activation
  (utilities/request.py:132-141).
- There is no atomicity across the two connections.
- PgBouncer in transaction mode is not supported.

The installation guide lists netbox-branching as an optional
requirement. Its upgrade note says to let the queued plugin jobs finish
before the upgrade, because a job that an earlier release queued fails:
the jobs now store their branch. The engine example states the lock
timeout of a call inside a transaction of the caller, and tells the
script to set lock_timeout for the commit callbacks. The README and the
index list the feature. They and the merge and sync statements point at
the limit of a kept channel.

Documentation tests pin the supported series in the configuration
guide, the installation guide, the README and the index to the constant
of the version gate. They also pin the replay statement with the
cascade limit, and the upgrade note. A helper reads a whole page with
its whitespace collapsed, at each site in the documentation tests.

Slice 6 of #143 (ADR 0016).
…tions

The architecture list named no owner of the database connections and
no module for netbox-branching. It now names transactions.py, the one
owner of connections and transaction state, and branching.py, the one
module that imports netbox-branching: the version check, the branch of
a job, and the mark that stops the rename triggers during a merge,
revert or sync.

Part of #143 (ADR 0016).
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The plugin marks a replay only inside Branch.merge, Branch.revert and
Branch.sync. The version gate accepts any 1.2.x release, so a later
release could add a replay path outside those methods, and the rename
triggers would then act during that replay.

The test parses the source of the installed netbox-branching with ast.
It finds each call of a replay primitive and the function that holds
the call, and compares the set with an allow-list. Each entry names the
wrapped method that reaches it.
- The calls that save a replayed object: ObjectChange.apply and .undo
  (merge_strategies/iterative.py:34, 53; merge_strategies/squash.py:223,
  271; models/branches.py:743-759, 877), and update_object and
  deserialize_object inside them (models/changes.py:107-140, 182-186).
- The calls that start a replay: the strategy in Branch.merge and
  Branch.revert (models/branches.py:1139, 1214), the two sync helpers in
  Branch.sync (966, 975), and the jobs that call the wrapped methods
  (jobs.py:217, 243).
The scan does not pin save() and delete(): netbox-branching calls them
for its own Branch and ChangeDiff rows, and each save of a replayed
object runs inside ObjectChange.apply, ObjectChange.undo or
update_object.

A copy of the installed package with one added function that calls
change.apply() turns the first test red and names the new call site. A
copy with an added caller of strategy.merge() turns the second test red.
The installed 1.2.1 tree passes. A third test checks the scan on a
constructed package on every leg.

Follow-up of #143 (ADR 0016).
…st modules

Test modules imported constants, builders and test case bases from
other test modules, and several modules kept their own copy of a shared
constant: PLAIN_TYPE had six definitions.

Each name that a test module imported from another test module now
lives in one shared module, under a public name:
- helpers.py: the interface types, the breakout modes, TEST_PASSWORD,
  PLUGIN_LOGGER, the skip reasons, the builders of devices and module
  types, install_form, names_of, request_context, WriteInterfacesTo,
  ChannelizationTestCase and VcDriftTestCase.
- trigger_cases.py: the move fixture, ModuleMoveTestCase,
  BayEditTestCase, flat_rule, the journal reasons, and the probes that
  count reapplies, read the journal and inject database failures.
- branch_cases.py: BranchTestCase, the branch write cases, the branch
  values of lock_timeout and FLAT_NAMES. Like helpers.py, it imports
  netbox-branching only inside functions.

The copies go: PLAIN_TYPE, CHANNEL_TYPE, PARENT_TYPE, PLUGIN_LOGGER,
TEST_PASSWORD, FLAT, CHANNELIZED, REQUIRES_CHANNELIZATION,
REQUIRES_NO_CHANNELIZATION, _journal, _module_reapplies and
_reject_interface_updates. The breakout modes come from
BreakoutModeChoices. Two skip reasons that lacked "(4.7+)" now have it.
A local variable that would hide module_reapplies is renamed, and a
moved two-line comment is one line.

The shared modules do not match test_*.py, so pytest collects nothing
from them. A base that a test module imports defines no test, so it adds
no item. On the branch stack, --co collects the same 1695 test IDs
before and after. No guard test or allow-list needed a change.

Follow-up of #143.
…ackage

Test modules imported constants, builders and test case bases from one
another, and copies of shared constants grew next to them. The previous
commit moved every shared name into helpers.py, trigger_cases.py and
branch_cases.py. This guard keeps it that way.

It parses each module of the test package and reports each import
statement that names a test_* module of the package: import a.tests.test_x,
from a.tests.test_x import y, from a.tests import test_x, and the
relative from .test_x import y and from . import test_x, also inside a
function. It reads import statements only, so a dotted-path string such
as a MIDDLEWARE setting is not an import. A shared module, a test_* name
imported from a shared module, and a package with a similar name are not
reported.

With "from .test_channelization import CHANNEL_TYPE" added to
test_bulk_families.py, the guard fails and names that file and
statement. The tree passes.

Follow-up of #143.
…cope

The replay call-site scan recorded only direct calls, as a set of
(name, module, function). A later 1.2.x release could add an unwrapped
replay path and both allow-list tests would stay green:
- A call through an indirect reference: replay = change.apply, then
  replay(branch); getattr(change, "apply")(branch); or an import
  alias such as from .utilities import update_object as u.
- A second receiver in an allowed scope: strategy.merge(...) next to
  the allowed branch.merge(...) in MergeBranchJob.run gave the same
  tuple.
- A deferred call: transaction.on_commit(lambda: strategy.merge(...))
  in Branch.merge ran after the wrapper reset its mark and gave the same
  tuple.

The scan now records each reference to a tracked name: an attribute, a
name, an imported name, and the string of a getattr, setattr or hasattr
call. Each site is (name, receiver, module, scope). The receiver is the
object of the attribute or the call, the source of the import, or
empty. A lambda opens a scope of its own, as a function does. The tests
compare a Counter, so a second occurrence in an allowed scope changes
the result. A failure lists each added or missing site.

The allow-lists now hold a count and a note for each site. The real
1.2.1 tree adds these references, each read in the source:
- apply.alters_data and undo.alters_data (models/changes.py:156, 228),
  merge.alters_data and revert.alters_data (models/branches.py:1171,
  1247): attribute flags, no call.
- The imports of deserialize_object (models/changes.py:15) and
  update_object (models/changes.py:17-22).
- hasattr(model, 'deserialize_object') in ObjectChange.apply
  (models/changes.py:106).
- The revert flag of ObjectChange.migrate (models/changes.py:67-74),
  a parameter, not the method.

Each finding has a regression case in the scan self-test. The three
cases failed against the earlier scan and pass now. On copies of the
installed package, the earlier scan stays green and the new one fails
naming the added site for each of: an indirect reference, a getattr
string, an import alias, a second receiver in MergeBranchJob.run, and a
lambda in Branch.merge. Both scans fail on the two earlier mutations,
and both pass on the installed 1.2.1 tree.

Follow-up of #143 (ADR 0016).
The reference scan cannot see every way to defer a replay past the
wrapper. A stored reference called from a lambda (replay = change.apply,
then on_commit(lambda: replay(branch))) and a generator
((change.apply(branch) for change in changes)) inside an allowed
function give the same references as the direct call. Each new syntax
form needs its own rule, and a missed form stays green.

So the test now fails closed. It records a fingerprint of each scope
that the allow-lists name: a hash of the source of the function, or of
the statements of the class or the module outside its nested scopes,
from the AST, without positions or comments. A change to the body of
any of those 17 scopes on a netbox-branching update fails the test,
and the message tells the reader to read the scope again and to update
its fingerprint and the allow-lists together. A reference outside the
allowed scopes still fails as a new site, and the reference multiset
still checks the receiver and the count. The scan and the fingerprint
name scopes through one walk.

The scan self-test has a case for each deferral: the references stay
equal and the fingerprint changes. With the scan of the previous
commit, the same two programs give equal Counters, so that check stays
green. On copies of the installed package, the deferral by a stored
reference in IterativeMergeStrategy.merge and the generator in
Branch._handle_sync_delete leave the references unchanged: the earlier
checks pass, and the new test fails naming the changed scope. The
installed 1.2.1 tree passes.

Follow-up of #143 (ADR 0016).
…__.py included

The guard against imports of test modules read only the top-level
files of the test package and skipped __init__.py. It resolved each
relative import against the test package, and it checked only the first
component under it. So these stayed green:
- from .test_views import ViewTest in tests/__init__.py;
- an import in a module of a test subpackage;
- import netbox_interface_name_rules.tests.sub.test_views as views;
- from netbox_interface_name_rules.tests.sub import test_views;
- from ..test_views import ViewTest in tests/sub/shared.py, which
  resolved against the wrong package.

The guard now reads each .py file under the test package, __init__.py
included. It derives the package of each module from its path and
resolves a relative import against that package. It reports an import
whose target has a test_* component at any depth under the test
package, and the name of a from-import counts as part of the target.
So a test_* name imported from a shared module is refused too: pytest
collects a test function where it is imported.

With temporary imports in tests/__init__.py, in a new tests/sub
subpackage and in helpers.py, the earlier guard passed and the new one
fails naming the four statements. The new detector subtests for the two
absolute subpackage spellings and the test_* name failed with the
earlier detector. New tests cover a relative import from a subpackage,
and __init__.py and subpackage modules in a temporary test package.
The tree passes.

Follow-up of #143.
A new upstream function that dispatches with getattr(change, action)
(branch), where action is a variable, adds a replay path outside every
reviewed scope. Neither the reference counts nor the fingerprints
change. This is the third finding of one family: each scan rule
misses the next form of dispatch.

So the contract now answers the question at its source: is the
installed netbox-branching the release that was reviewed? A test
asserts that the installed version equals REVIEWED_NETBOX_BRANCHING,
1.2.1. When it differs, the message says what to re-review: run the
scan, read every new reference, every changed fingerprint and any
dynamic dispatch such as getattr with a variable name, then update the
release, the fingerprints and the allow-lists together. The scan and
the fingerprints stay, as the aid for that review.

branching.installed_version() now reads the version, for the version
gate and for this test. The gate still accepts any 1.2.x release.

With the constant set to 1.2.2, the test fails with that message. With
1.2.1, it passes on the branch leg.

Follow-up of #143 (ADR 0016).
With __all__ = ["test_views"] in tests/__init__.py, from . import * in
another module of the test package loads tests.test_views, and the
guard reported nothing: the import names no test module.

The guard now refuses each wildcard import whose source resolves inside
the test package. It does not read __all__. No module of the test
package has such an import; the one wildcard import under tests, in
isolated_settings.py, imports netbox.settings.

The detector reports from . import *, from .helpers import * and
from netbox_interface_name_rules.tests import *. A wildcard import from
outside the test package is not reported. The earlier detector missed
the three spellings, and the __all__ case in a temporary test package.

Follow-up of #143.
InterfaceNameRule.save() compared the save alias with the alias that the
router gives for a rule only when update_fields named a validated field.
A full save and a targeted save of other fields (for example
description) skipped the check. In a netbox-branching branch,
rule.save(using="default") on a fully loaded rule therefore wrote the
main row, while the same save of name_template raised.

The comparison now runs before the update_fields branching, so every
save refuses an alias that is not the routed write alias, before any
query. The write scope membership check stays inside the locked block.

Tests cover a full save and a description save through default in a
branch, and through an unknown alias on main.
A merge or revert started from a shell with the branch active replays
the logged changes on default, while the router gives the branch alias.
netbox-branching replays a rule update through ObjectChange.apply(),
update_object() and instance.save(using="default"). The rule save now
checks the write alias on every save, so this replay raised
RuntimeError, the same failure that the rename triggers had before they
returned early during a replay.

InterfaceNameRule.save() now skips its write-alias comparison while
replay_in_progress() is true. The write scope check inside the locked
block stays: default is always in the scope.

The new test changes a rule through the REST API in the branch, then
merges and reverts it with the branch active.
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