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Update entity assignment logic - #607

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Summary

Spike for batch assign ticket #2956 section 5 (optimise batch-assign runtime, currently ~35-50min per evening-pipeline run).

Found and fixed an O(n²) performance bug in digital-land-python's Lookups class — not a config repo issue, and much higher-leverage than any parallelisation we could do there.

Root cause

Lookups.validate_entry() and Lookups.save_csv() both do membership checks against plain Python lists instead of sets:

  • validate_entry() linear-scans self.entries for an existing (prefix, organisation, reference) match, once per add_entry() call.
  • save_csv()'s entity-number generator does str(n) not in entity_values, where entity_values is also a list.

Both scale with the existing lookup.csv size, not just the new resource, so cost is O(new_entities × existing_entries). tree-preservation-order and listed-building have 523,324 and 532,879 existing rows respectively — an order of magnitude bigger than every other dataset in the config repo (next largest meaningfully-processed one is ~100k) — which is why these two collections structurally dominate every single evening-pipeline run's runtime, regardless of which resources happen to be in that day's batch.

Profiling a single resource (6,983 new entities) confirmed the split:

Stage Time %
copy_tree 0.04s 0%
get_resource_unidentified_lookups 3.55s 2%
lookups.load_csv 0.58s 0%
add_entry loop (6,983 calls) 162.81s 82%
get_max_entity 0.03s 0%
save_csv 22.80s 11%
pipeline_run (actual transform) 7.21s 4%

Fix

digital_land/pipeline/main.py, Lookups class:

  • Added self._entry_keys, a set mirroring (prefix, organisation, reference) for every entry, maintained inside add_entry().
  • validate_entry() now checks key in self._entry_keys (O(1)) instead of scanning self.entries (O(n)).
  • save_csv()'s entity_values changed from a list to a set - same membership-only usage, now O(1).

No behaviour change: both structures are only ever used for membership testing, never iterated/indexed/sliced elsewhere.

Verification

  • 82 existing tests pass across every file touching Lookups/assign_entities (tests/unit/test_pipeline.py, tests/integration/test_assign_entities.py, tests/integration/pipeline/test_main.py, tests/acceptance/test_assign_entities.py, tests/acceptance/test_add_endpoints_and_lookups.py).

  • Real production data, end-to-end, same resource (6,983 new entities, tree-preservation-order) run through the full assign → validate → promote path before and after the fix:

    Unfixed Fixed
    Time 193.07s 14.43s (13.4x faster)
    lookup.csv change +6,983 rows +6,983 rows
    entity-organisation.csv change +1 range +1 range

    The two runs' resulting file diffs are byte-for-byte identical - confirming the fix changes only performance, not output.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance
    • Lookup validation and CSV generation handle duplicate records and entity identifiers more efficiently, particularly for larger collections.
  • Compatibility
    • Legacy lookup entries without a reference remain loadable.

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Walkthrough

Lookups now tracks entry keys and entity identifiers in sets. Duplicate-entry validation and entity identifier membership checks use these sets instead of scanning or storing lists. Legacy entries without a reference can still be added when validation is disabled.

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Lookup membership sets

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track lookup entry keys
digital_land/pipeline/main.py, tests/unit/test_pipeline.py
Lookups records each entry’s (prefix, organisation, reference) key in a set. validate_entry checks the set for duplicates. A unit test confirms that add_entry stores a legacy entry without reference when validation is disabled.
Track CSV entity identifiers
digital_land/pipeline/main.py
save_csv stores existing, retired, replacement and generated entity identifiers in a set.

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- Around line 836-838: Update add_entry so legacy rows without reference use the
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