docs(changelog): add the #1709 fragment

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>

changelog.d/1709-radio-category-cache.md

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+- Shorten the hitch when the Radio directory loads from about 450 ms to about
+  180 ms. A station's tags and categories are worked out once instead of for
+  every category check (mazy1998, #1709).

src/layers/radio/categories.js

@@ -27,42 +27,52 @@ export function createCategories({
       .filter(Boolean);
   }
 
-  function hasTag(station, needles) {
+  const tagsInclude = (tags, needles) =>
-    const tags = stationTags(station);
+    needles.some((needle) =>
-    return needles.some((needle) =>
       tags.some((tag) => tag === needle || tag.includes(needle)),
     );
+
+  // A station's tags decide its categories, and neither changes while the
+  // station record lives. Matching used to normalise every tag again for
+  // every needle of every category of every station: about 0.9 s and a
+  // 445 ms freeze per directory load of 750 stations, repeated for the active
+  // filter on every horizon scan. Keyed by the record and its tags value, so
+  // a record given new tags is read again.
+  const membershipByStation = new WeakMap();
+
+  function stationMembership(station) {
+    const keyed = station !== null && typeof station === 'object';
+    const known = keyed ? membershipByStation.get(station) : null;
+    if (known && known.source === station.tags) return known;
+    const tags = stationTags(station);
+    const genres = MUSIC_GENRES.filter(([genre]) =>
+      tagsInclude(tags, [genre]),
+    ).map(([genre]) => genre);
+    const categories = new Set(genres.map((genre) => `genre:${genre}`));
+    for (const [id, needles] of Object.entries(CATEGORY_MATCHERS))
+      if (tagsInclude(tags, needles)) categories.add(id);
+    const sorted = categories.size > genres.length;
+    if (genres.length > 0 || tagsInclude(tags, ['music', 'hits', 'songs']))
+      categories.add('music');
+    else if (!sorted) categories.add('other');
+    const membership = { source: station?.tags, tags, genres, categories };
+    if (keyed) membershipByStation.set(station, membership);
+    return membership;
+  }
+
+  function hasTag(station, needles) {
+    return tagsInclude(stationMembership(station).tags, needles);
   }
 
   function detectedGenres(station) {
-    return MUSIC_GENRES.filter(([genre]) => hasTag(station, [genre])).map(
+    return [...stationMembership(station).genres];
-      ([genre]) => genre,
-    );
   }
 
   /** Return whether a station belongs in a station-tag category. */
 
   function stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, categoryId) {
     if (categoryId === 'all') return true;
-    if (categoryId.startsWith('genre:')) {
+    return stationMembership(station).categories.has(categoryId);
-      return detectedGenres(station).includes(
-        categoryId.slice('genre:'.length),
-      );
-    }
-    if (categoryId === 'music') {
-      return (
-        detectedGenres(station).length > 0 ||
-        hasTag(station, ['music', 'hits', 'songs'])
-      );
-    }
-    if (categoryId === 'other') {
-      return (
-        !Object.entries(CATEGORY_MATCHERS).some(([id]) =>
-          stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, id),
-        ) && !stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'music')
-      );
-    }
-    return hasTag(station, CATEGORY_MATCHERS[categoryId] || []);
   }
 
   /** Build canonical and detected-genre categories from station-level tags. */

src/layers/radio/categories.test.mjs

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+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { createCategories } from './categories.js';
+import { CATEGORY_MATCHERS, MUSIC_GENRES } from './policy.js';
+
+const categories = createCategories({
+  state: {},
+  services: {},
+  parts: { model: { radioCategoryColor: (id) => `color:${id}` } },
+  source: {},
+});
+
+// Category matching as it was before memberships were remembered: every call
+// normalises the station's tags again. Counts and filters must stay equal.
+const normalize = (value) =>
+  String(value ?? '')
+    .trim()
+    .toLocaleLowerCase()
+    .replace(/[_-]+/g, ' ')
+    .replace(/\s+/g, ' ')
+    .slice(0, 80);
+const tagsOf = (station) =>
+  (Array.isArray(station?.tags)
+    ? station.tags
+    : String(station?.tags ?? '').split(',')
+  )
+    .map(normalize)
+    .filter(Boolean);
+const hasTag = (station, needles) => {
+  const tags = tagsOf(station);
+  return needles.some((needle) =>
+    tags.some((tag) => tag === needle || tag.includes(needle)),
+  );
+};
+const genresOf = (station) =>
+  MUSIC_GENRES.filter(([genre]) => hasTag(station, [genre])).map(
+    ([genre]) => genre,
+  );
+function matchesByRescan(station, categoryId) {
+  if (categoryId === 'all') return true;
+  if (categoryId.startsWith('genre:'))
+    return genresOf(station).includes(categoryId.slice('genre:'.length));
+  if (categoryId === 'music')
+    return (
+      genresOf(station).length > 0 ||
+      hasTag(station, ['music', 'hits', 'songs'])
+    );
+  if (categoryId === 'other')
+    return (
+      !Object.keys(CATEGORY_MATCHERS).some((id) =>
+        matchesByRescan(station, id),
+      ) && !matchesByRescan(station, 'music')
+    );
+  return hasTag(station, CATEGORY_MATCHERS[categoryId] || []);
+}
+
+const CATEGORY_IDS = [
+  'all',
+  ...Object.keys(CATEGORY_MATCHERS),
+  'music',
+  ...MUSIC_GENRES.map(([genre]) => `genre:${genre}`),
+  'other',
+  'genre:not-a-genre',
+  'not-a-category',
+];
+
+function seeded(seed) {
+  let state = seed >>> 0;
+  return () => {
+    state = (Math.imul(state, 1664525) + 1013904223) >>> 0;
+    return state / 2 ** 32;
+  };
+}
+
+/** Stations tagged the way the directory tags them, plus the odd shapes. */
+function directory(count = 1500) {
+  const random = seeded(11);
+  const vocabulary = [
+    ...MUSIC_GENRES.map(([genre]) => genre),
+    ...Object.values(CATEGORY_MATCHERS).flat(),
+    'Hip-Hop',
+    'R&B',
+    'Top_Hits',
+    'songs of praise',
+    'community',
+    'college',
+    'varied',
+    'Police  Scanner',
+    'FIREFIGHTERS',
+    'metropolitan',
+    'x'.repeat(100),
+    '',
+    '  ',
+  ];
+  const pick = () => vocabulary[Math.floor(random() * vocabulary.length)];
+  const stations = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+    const tags = Array.from({ length: Math.floor(random() * 6) }, pick);
+    stations.push({
+      id: `station-${i}`,
+      tags: i % 5 === 0 ? tags.join(',') : i % 7 === 0 ? Object.freeze(tags) : tags,
+    });
+  }
+  stations.push(
+    { id: 'no-tags' },
+    { id: 'null-tags', tags: null },
+    { id: 'number-tags', tags: 42 },
+    Object.freeze({ id: 'frozen', tags: Object.freeze(['Jazz', 'News']) }),
+    null,
+    undefined,
+    'pop',
+  );
+  return stations;
+}
+
+test('remembered memberships give the counts and filters of a full rescan', () => {
+  const stations = directory();
+  for (const id of CATEGORY_IDS) {
+    const expected = stations.filter((station) => matchesByRescan(station, id));
+    assert.deepEqual(
+      categories.filterRadioStations(stations, id),
+      expected,
+      `filter ${id}`,
+    );
+    for (const station of stations)
+      assert.equal(
+        categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, id),
+        matchesByRescan(station, id),
+      );
+  }
+  const built = categories.buildRadioCategories(stations);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    built.map(({ id, count }) => [id, count]),
+    CATEGORY_IDS.filter(
+      (id) =>
+        !id.startsWith('genre:') ||
+        stations.some((station) => matchesByRescan(station, id)),
+    )
+      .filter((id) => id !== 'not-a-category')
+      .map((id) => [
+        id,
+        stations.filter((station) => matchesByRescan(station, id)).length,
+      ]),
+  );
+  assert.ok(built.find(({ id }) => id === 'other').count > 0);
+  assert.ok(built.find(({ id }) => id === 'genre:hip hop').count > 0);
+  for (const station of stations) {
+    assert.deepEqual(categories.detectedGenres(station), genresOf(station));
+    assert.deepEqual(categories.stationTags(station), tagsOf(station));
+  }
+});
+
+test('a station has its tags normalised once, however often it is matched', () => {
+  let reads = 0;
+  const tag = (text) => ({
+    toString() {
+      reads++;
+      return text;
+    },
+  });
+  const stations = [
+    { id: 'a', tags: [tag('Jazz'), tag('News')] },
+    { id: 'b', tags: [tag('community')] },
+  ];
+  categories.buildRadioCategories(stations);
+  for (const id of CATEGORY_IDS) categories.filterRadioStations(stations, id);
+  // A horizon scan asks once per station for the active filter.
+  for (let scan = 0; scan < 50; scan++)
+    for (const station of stations)
+      categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'news');
+  assert.equal(reads, 3, 'one normalisation per tag');
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    categories.filterRadioStations(stations, 'genre:jazz').map(({ id }) => id),
+    ['a'],
+  );
+});
+
+test('a station record given new tags is matched on the new tags', () => {
+  const station = { id: 'a', tags: ['jazz'] };
+  assert.equal(categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'music'), true);
+  assert.equal(categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'news'), false);
+  station.tags = ['news'];
+  assert.equal(categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'music'), false);
+  assert.equal(categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'news'), true);
+  assert.deepEqual(categories.detectedGenres(station), []);
+  station.tags = 'community';
+  assert.equal(categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'other'), true);
+});
+
+test('callers cannot alter a remembered genre list', () => {
+  const station = { id: 'a', tags: ['jazz', 'soul'] };
+  categories.detectedGenres(station).push('rock');
+  assert.deepEqual(categories.detectedGenres(station), ['jazz', 'soul']);
+  assert.equal(
+    categories.stationMatchesRadioCategory(station, 'genre:rock'),
+    false,
+  );
+});