dialcache 0.25.0__tar.gz → 0.27.0__tar.gz

{dialcache-0.25.0 → dialcache-0.27.0}/API-DESIGN.md

@@ -2,13 +2,24 @@
 
 The Python binding was designed after reviewing [rungalileo/gcache at a688049](https://github.com/rungalileo/gcache/tree/a68804986782cb0b7e8b7dc6bfc34c718c177189), including `src/gcache/gcache.py`, `config.py`, `proto_serializer.py`, and the context, layer wrappers, local cache, Redis cache, and event-loop thread implementations under `_internal/`.
 
-DialCache's [Quint specification](../formal/SPEC.md) and TypeScript implementation define portable behavior. Gcache supplies useful Python interface ideas; its implementation is not a compatible DialCache backend.
+DialCache's [Quint specification](../formal/guides/SPEC.md) and TypeScript implementation define portable behavior. Gcache supplies useful Python interface ideas; its implementation is not a compatible DialCache backend.
+
+The primary decorator style selects identity explicitly with
+`cache_key=lambda user_id, locale: {"id": user_id, "args": {"locale": locale}}`
+and a stable `use_case`. This follows TypeScript's `cacheKey` while retaining
+Python decorator syntax. The selector makes result dimensions and their wire
+names explicit; it must include every input that affects the result.
+
+Selectors receive the loader's original `*args` and `**kwargs`. Match parameter
+names and defaults so positional, keyword, and omitted-default calls select
+the intended identity. Loader defaults are not injected into the selector;
+changing that behavior could change existing keys or break existing callbacks.
 
 | Gcache interface or behavior | Python DialCache decision |
 | --- | --- |
 | `with cache.enable(enabled=True)` | Retained, with per-instance context variables and explicit outer-scope lifetime. Also supports `async with` and `disable()`. |
-| `@cache.cached(key_type=..., id_arg=...)` | Retained. `id_arg` can be a parameter name or `(name, adapter)` pair. Signature binding includes defaults. |
-| `arg_adapters`, `ignore_args`, inferred use case | Retained; inferred names include module and qualified function name. Argument names use the portable UTF-16 ordering and scalar normalization. |
+| `@cache.cached(key_type=..., id_arg=...)` | Supported alternative to explicit `cache_key` selection. `id_arg` can be a parameter name or `(name, adapter)` pair. Signature binding includes defaults. |
+| `arg_adapters`, `ignore_args`, inferred use case | Inferred argument controls remain supported. Default use-case names include module and qualified function name; prefer explicit names for stability across refactors and languages. Argument names use the portable UTF-16 ordering and scalar normalization. |
 | Direct `aget(key, fallback)` | Retained as a structured-key convenience; `get_or_load` is the primary inline-loader API. |
 | `ainvalidate` | Retained as an alias for `invalidate_remote`; missing Redis and failed mutations raise. |
 | `GCacheKeyConfig` and per-use-case provider | `Policy` / `DialCacheKeyConfig` use sparse per-leaf inheritance and deterministic per-key cohorts. `Policy.enabled(ttl_sec)` is available. |

{dialcache-0.25.0 → dialcache-0.27.0}/PKG-INFO

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Metadata-Version: 2.5
 Name: dialcache
-Version: 0.25.0
+Version: 0.27.0
 Summary: Explicitly enabled async caching with runtime policies, coalescing, and tracked Redis invalidation.
 Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/lan17/DialCache
 Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/tree/main/python
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Requires-Dist: redis<7,>=5; extra == 'redis'
 Provides-Extra: test
 Requires-Dist: coverage<8,>=7.11; extra == 'test'
 Requires-Dist: jsonschema<5,>=4.23; extra == 'test'
+Requires-Dist: mypy<2,>=1.15; extra == 'test'
 Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio<2,>=0.24; extra == 'test'
 Requires-Dist: pytest<10,>=8; extra == 'test'
 Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
@@ -30,7 +31,7 @@ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
 An asyncio port of DialCache for Python 3.11 and later. Each use case declares
 its identity and policy; an enabled request scope opts into request memoization,
 local storage, Redis, and concurrent request sharing. The behavioral contract is
-the repository's [portable specification](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/SPEC.md).
+the repository's [portable specification](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/SPEC.md).
 
 Once the first PyPI release is available, install it with:
 
@@ -50,6 +51,9 @@ any Redis client connections.
 
 ## A cached function
 
+Select cache identity explicitly with `cache_key`. This API excerpt assumes an
+application `database`:
+
 ```python
 from dialcache import DialCache, Policy
 
@@ -59,20 +63,33 @@ cache = DialCache(namespace="my-service")
 @cache.cached(
     use_case="user-profile",
     key_type="user",
-    id_arg="user_id",
+    cache_key=lambda user_id, locale: {"id": user_id, "args": {"locale": locale}},
     default_config=Policy(ttl_sec={"local": 5}, request_local=True),
 )
-async def get_profile(user_id: str) -> dict:
-    return await database.fetch_profile(user_id)
+async def get_profile(user_id: str, locale: str) -> dict:
+    return await database.fetch_profile(user_id, locale)
 
 
-async def handle_request(user_id: str) -> dict:
+async def handle_request(user_id: str, locale: str) -> dict:
     async with cache.enable():
-        first = await get_profile(user_id)
-        second = await get_profile(user_id)  # Same request memo.
+        first = await get_profile(user_id, locale)
+        second = await get_profile(user_id, locale)  # Same request memo.
         return second
 ```
 
+The selector returns an entity ID, or `{"id": ..., "args": {...}}` when the
+result has additional dimensions. Here, `id` groups the user's tracked values
+for invalidation; `args` distinguishes locales within this use case. Include
+every input that affects the result, including tenant or authorization scope
+when relevant. Explicit `use_case` and argument names keep identity stable
+across function refactors and languages.
+
+The selector receives the same positional and keyword arguments as the loader.
+Match their parameter names and repeat any defaults the loader accepts; loader
+defaults are not filled in before calling the selector. For inferred identity,
+`id_arg`, `arg_adapters`, and `ignore_args` remain supported alternatives; see
+the [Python identity guide](https://lan17.github.io/DialCache/languages/python.html#identity-and-policy).
+
 Calls outside `enable()` go directly to the source. They do not construct cache
 keys, resolve policy, share concurrent work, or apply a DialCache source
 deadline. Both `with cache.enable():` and `async with cache.enable():` are valid;
@@ -157,7 +174,7 @@ cache = DialCache(redis=RedisAdapter(client))
 @cache.cached(
     use_case="user-profile",
     key_type="user",
-    id_arg="user_id",
+    cache_key=lambda user_id: user_id,
     track_for_invalidation=True,
     default_config=Policy(ttl_sec={"remote": 60}),
 )
@@ -251,6 +268,6 @@ local expiry, cancellation, and wire boundaries. Shared replay runs the real
 Python API through the repository's Node coordinator. Its inputs and expected
 observations come from the same Quint-generated histories used by the other
 ports; Node is a development dependency, not a runtime dependency of the
-Python library. See [the porting guide](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/PORTING.md) for the completion
-and settlement requirements and [the feature map](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/FEATURE-COVERAGE.md)
+Python library. See [the porting guide](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/PORTING.md) for the completion
+and settlement requirements and [the feature map](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/FEATURE-COVERAGE.md)
 for portable behavior versus native adapter obligations.

{dialcache-0.25.0 → dialcache-0.27.0}/README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 An asyncio port of DialCache for Python 3.11 and later. Each use case declares
 its identity and policy; an enabled request scope opts into request memoization,
 local storage, Redis, and concurrent request sharing. The behavioral contract is
-the repository's [portable specification](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/SPEC.md).
+the repository's [portable specification](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/SPEC.md).
 
 Once the first PyPI release is available, install it with:
 
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ any Redis client connections.
 
 ## A cached function
 
+Select cache identity explicitly with `cache_key`. This API excerpt assumes an
+application `database`:
+
 ```python
 from dialcache import DialCache, Policy
 
@@ -32,20 +35,33 @@ cache = DialCache(namespace="my-service")
 @cache.cached(
     use_case="user-profile",
     key_type="user",
-    id_arg="user_id",
+    cache_key=lambda user_id, locale: {"id": user_id, "args": {"locale": locale}},
     default_config=Policy(ttl_sec={"local": 5}, request_local=True),
 )
-async def get_profile(user_id: str) -> dict:
-    return await database.fetch_profile(user_id)
+async def get_profile(user_id: str, locale: str) -> dict:
+    return await database.fetch_profile(user_id, locale)
 
 
-async def handle_request(user_id: str) -> dict:
+async def handle_request(user_id: str, locale: str) -> dict:
     async with cache.enable():
-        first = await get_profile(user_id)
-        second = await get_profile(user_id)  # Same request memo.
+        first = await get_profile(user_id, locale)
+        second = await get_profile(user_id, locale)  # Same request memo.
         return second
 ```
 
+The selector returns an entity ID, or `{"id": ..., "args": {...}}` when the
+result has additional dimensions. Here, `id` groups the user's tracked values
+for invalidation; `args` distinguishes locales within this use case. Include
+every input that affects the result, including tenant or authorization scope
+when relevant. Explicit `use_case` and argument names keep identity stable
+across function refactors and languages.
+
+The selector receives the same positional and keyword arguments as the loader.
+Match their parameter names and repeat any defaults the loader accepts; loader
+defaults are not filled in before calling the selector. For inferred identity,
+`id_arg`, `arg_adapters`, and `ignore_args` remain supported alternatives; see
+the [Python identity guide](https://lan17.github.io/DialCache/languages/python.html#identity-and-policy).
+
 Calls outside `enable()` go directly to the source. They do not construct cache
 keys, resolve policy, share concurrent work, or apply a DialCache source
 deadline. Both `with cache.enable():` and `async with cache.enable():` are valid;
@@ -130,7 +146,7 @@ cache = DialCache(redis=RedisAdapter(client))
 @cache.cached(
     use_case="user-profile",
     key_type="user",
-    id_arg="user_id",
+    cache_key=lambda user_id: user_id,
     track_for_invalidation=True,
     default_config=Policy(ttl_sec={"remote": 60}),
 )
@@ -224,6 +240,6 @@ local expiry, cancellation, and wire boundaries. Shared replay runs the real
 Python API through the repository's Node coordinator. Its inputs and expected
 observations come from the same Quint-generated histories used by the other
 ports; Node is a development dependency, not a runtime dependency of the
-Python library. See [the porting guide](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/PORTING.md) for the completion
-and settlement requirements and [the feature map](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/FEATURE-COVERAGE.md)
+Python library. See [the porting guide](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/PORTING.md) for the completion
+and settlement requirements and [the feature map](https://github.com/lan17/DialCache/blob/main/formal/guides/FEATURE-COVERAGE.md)
 for portable behavior versus native adapter obligations.

{dialcache-0.25.0 → dialcache-0.27.0}/dialcache/__init__.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from .errors import (
     UseCaseIsAlreadyRegisteredError,
     UseCaseNameIsReservedError,
 )
-from .key import Key, normalize_args
+from .key import CacheKeySpec, Key, KeyScalar, normalize_args
 from .serializer import UNDEFINED, JsonSerializer, Serializer
 
 __all__ = [
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ __all__ = [
     "DialCacheKeyConfig",
     "CacheLayer",
     "Key",
+    "CacheKeySpec",
+    "KeyScalar",
     "normalize_args",
     "Serializer",
     "JsonSerializer",

dialcache-0.27.0/dialcache/_callbacks.py

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""Isolation for application callbacks whose contract is synchronous."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import contextvars
+import inspect
+from typing import Any
+
+
+def discard_awaitable(value: Any) -> None:
+    """Fail closed on an awaitable a synchronous callback returned.
+
+    A rejected result must not start work or take ownership of an
+    application's existing task: a coroutine that has not started is closed,
+    and a future's exception is consumed without awaiting it.
+    """
+    if inspect.iscoroutine(value):
+        if inspect.getcoroutinestate(value) == inspect.CORO_CREATED:
+            value.close()
+    elif asyncio.isfuture(value):
+
+        def consume(done: asyncio.Future[Any]) -> None:
+            if not done.cancelled():
+                done.exception()
+
+        value.add_done_callback(consume, context=contextvars.Context())

dialcache-0.27.0/dialcache/_shadow_log.py

@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+"""Bounded content of confirmed shadow-mismatch warnings.
+
+Every field derives from one native JSON rendering of each compared value, so
+a failure logs less, never more. The built-in difference computation walks the
+two parsed renderings and reports RFC 6901 JSON Pointers.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import inspect
+import json
+import math
+from collections.abc import Callable
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
+
+from ._callbacks import discard_awaitable
+from .protocol import utf8_bytes
+from .serializer import UNDEFINED, _native_json
+
+KEY_MAX_BYTES = 2 * 1024
+VALUE_MAX_BYTES = 8 * 1024
+DIFF_MAX_BYTES = 8 * 1024
+MAX_ENTRIES = 64
+PATH_MAX_BYTES = 512
+SIDE_MAX_BYTES = 1024
+# Reference tokens in the deepest pointer the built-in walk reports.
+MAX_DEPTH = 32
+TRUNCATION_MARKER = "...[truncated]"
+_MARKER_BYTES = TRUNCATION_MARKER.encode()
+
+# One difference: a pointer, and each side under "cached" or "source" when the
+# value has that side. A missing key is an absent side; None is JSON null.
+Entry = dict[str, Any]
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class MismatchLogPlan:
+    """The effective content leaves captured when a shadow job is admitted."""
+
+    value: bool
+    diff: str
+
+
+def clamp_utf8(text: str, limit: int) -> str:
+    """Clamp to ``limit`` UTF-8 bytes with the marker, never splitting a code point."""
+    encoded = utf8_bytes(text)
+    if len(encoded) <= limit:
+        return text
+    return encoded[: limit - len(_MARKER_BYTES)].decode("utf-8", "ignore") + TRUNCATION_MARKER
+
+
+def render_json(value: Any) -> str | None:
+    """The native JSON rendering ``JsonSerializer`` stores, or None for a value without one.
+
+    Lone surrogates are escaped, so the rendering is valid UTF-8. A top-level
+    ``UNDEFINED`` has none here: its stored sentinel is not JSON.
+    """
+    try:
+        return _native_json(value)
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+
+
+def render_shadow_mismatch_log(
+    plan: MismatchLogPlan,
+    cached: Any,
+    source: Any,
+    hook: Callable[[Any, Any], Any] | None = None,
+) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], str | None]:
+    """Build the content fields the plan requests for one confirmed mismatch.
+
+    Returns the fields, each requested one present and None when it failed
+    closed, and the failure: ``"hook_error"`` for the hook, which ranks above
+    ``"render_error"`` for JSON rendering, or None. Each side is rendered at
+    most once. A failed hook never falls back to the built-in walk. A
+    top-level ``UNDEFINED``, which a negative-cache entry stores, is an absent
+    side rather than a failure: its value field is None, and the walk reports
+    the other side whole at ``""``.
+    """
+    render_sides = plan.value or (plan.diff != "off" and hook is None)
+    cached_json = render_json(cached) if render_sides else None
+    source_json = render_json(source) if render_sides else None
+    diff_failed = False
+    render_failed = render_sides and (
+        (cached_json is None and cached is not UNDEFINED) or (source_json is None and source is not UNDEFINED)
+    )
+
+    fields: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    if plan.diff != "off":
+        with_values = plan.diff == "values"
+        diff: tuple[list[Entry], int] | None = None
+        if hook is not None:
+            diff = _run_hook(hook, cached, source)
+            diff_failed = diff is None
+        elif not render_failed:
+            diff = _walk_rendered(cached_json, source_json)
+        if diff is None:
+            fields["mismatchPaths"] = None
+            fields["mismatchPathCount"] = None
+            if with_values:
+                fields["diffJson"] = None
+        else:
+            entries, count = diff
+            diff_json = None
+            if with_values:
+                diff_json = _render_diff_json(entries)
+                render_failed = render_failed or diff_json is None
+            # The paths level never renders a side.
+            fields["mismatchPaths"] = [clamp_utf8(entry["path"], PATH_MAX_BYTES) for entry in entries]
+            fields["mismatchPathCount"] = count
+            if with_values:
+                fields["diffJson"] = diff_json
+
+    if plan.value:
+        fields["cachedValueJson"] = None if cached_json is None else clamp_utf8(cached_json, VALUE_MAX_BYTES)
+        fields["sourceValueJson"] = None if source_json is None else clamp_utf8(source_json, VALUE_MAX_BYTES)
+    return fields, "hook_error" if diff_failed else "render_error" if render_failed else None
+
+
+def diff_shadow_mismatch_json(cached: Any, source: Any) -> tuple[list[Entry | None], int]:
+    """The built-in difference computation over two JSON values.
+
+    Objects recurse over the union of their member names in UTF-16 code-unit
+    order, and a member on one side only is reported with that side. Arrays of
+    equal length recurse by index; arrays of different length are reported once
+    at their own pointer. Any other differing pair, roots of different kinds
+    included, is reported with both sides, and a differing pair of containers
+    at ``MAX_DEPTH`` reference tokens is reported whole. Entries keep walk
+    order and are cut at ``MAX_ENTRIES``; the count is the uncut total. Each
+    pointer and side is clamped as in ``diffJson``.
+    """
+    entries, count = _walk(cached, source)
+    # JSON values always render, so every entry bounds.
+    return [_bound_entry(entry) for entry in entries], count
+
+
+def _walk_rendered(cached_json: str | None, source_json: str | None) -> tuple[list[Entry], int]:
+    # None is an absent side; a side that failed to render never reaches here.
+    # Each string came from a successful native rendering, so this is the one
+    # boundary from arbitrary values to the closed JSON domain.
+    if cached_json is None:
+        return ([], 0) if source_json is None else ([{"path": "", "source": json.loads(source_json)}], 1)
+    if source_json is None:
+        return [{"path": "", "cached": json.loads(cached_json)}], 1
+    if cached_json == source_json:
+        return [], 0
+    return _walk(json.loads(cached_json), json.loads(source_json))
+
+
+def _walk(cached: Any, source: Any) -> tuple[list[Entry], int]:
+    entries: list[Entry] = []
+    count = 0
+    # The escaped reference tokens down to the pair being walked. Python
+    # strings have no ropes, so a pointer is built only for a retained entry:
+    # copying the prefix for each member would cost members times its length.
+    tokens: list[str] = []
+
+    def report(**sides: Any) -> None:
+        nonlocal count
+        count += 1
+        if len(entries) < MAX_ENTRIES:
+            entries.append({"path": _clamped_pointer(tokens), **sides})
+
+    def walk(left: Any, right: Any) -> None:
+        kind = _kind(left)
+        if kind != _kind(right) or kind == "primitive":
+            if not _same_primitive(left, right):
+                report(cached=left, source=right)
+            return
+        if len(tokens) >= MAX_DEPTH:
+            if not _json_equal(left, right):
+                report(cached=left, source=right)
+            return
+        if kind == "array":
+            if len(left) != len(right):
+                report(cached=left, source=right)
+                return
+            for index, (item, other) in enumerate(zip(left, right)):
+                tokens.append(str(index))
+                walk(item, other)
+                tokens.pop()
+            return
+        for name in sorted(left.keys() | right.keys(), key=_utf16_order):
+            tokens.append(_escape_token(name))
+            if name not in right:
+                report(cached=left[name])
+            elif name not in left:
+                report(source=right[name])
+            else:
+                walk(left[name], right[name])
+            tokens.pop()
+
+    walk(cached, source)
+    return entries, count
+
+
+def _clamped_pointer(tokens: list[str]) -> str:
+    # A token longer than the cap in code points is longer than it in UTF-8
+    # bytes, so cutting each token there keeps every byte the clamp keeps.
+    return clamp_utf8("".join(f"/{token[:PATH_MAX_BYTES]}" for token in tokens), PATH_MAX_BYTES)
+
+
+def _json_equal(cached: Any, source: Any) -> bool:
+    # Structural equality for a depth-capped pair, iterative so that a subtree
+    # as deep as native JSON rendering allows cannot exhaust the stack.
+    pending = [(cached, source)]
+    while pending:
+        left, right = pending.pop()
+        kind = _kind(left)
+        if kind != _kind(right):
+            return False
+        if kind == "primitive":
+            if not _same_primitive(left, right):
+                return False
+        elif kind == "array":
+            if len(left) != len(right):
+                return False
+            pending.extend(zip(left, right))
+        else:
+            if len(left) != len(right):
+                return False
+            for name, value in left.items():
+                if name not in right:
+                    return False
+                pending.append((value, right[name]))
+    return True
+
+
+def _kind(value: Any) -> str:
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        return "array"
+    return "object" if isinstance(value, dict) else "primitive"
+
+
+def _same_primitive(left: Any, right: Any) -> bool:
+    # JSON equality, not Python's: True == 1 and False == 0 in Python.
+    if isinstance(left, bool) or isinstance(right, bool) or left is None or right is None:
+        return left is right
+    if isinstance(left, str) or isinstance(right, str):
+        return isinstance(left, str) and isinstance(right, str) and left == right
+    if isinstance(left, (int, float)) and isinstance(right, (int, float)):
+        # Numbers compare as IEEE doubles, as the other ports parse them, so
+        # precision beyond a double is not a difference.
+        return _as_double(left) == _as_double(right)
+    return False
+
+
+def _as_double(number: int | float) -> float:
+    # float() rounds an int to nearest and raises exactly when IEEE rounding
+    # gives an infinity, the value TypeScript parses from the rendered digits.
+    # math.copysign would raise too: it converts the int to a float first.
+    try:
+        return float(number)
+    except OverflowError:
+        return math.inf if number > 0 else -math.inf
+
+
+def _utf16_order(name: str) -> bytes:
+    # Big-endian code units compare as UTF-16 code units, the W02 key order.
+    return name.encode("utf-16-be", "surrogatepass")
+
+
+def _escape_token(name: str) -> str:
+    return name.replace("~", "~0").replace("/", "~1")
+
+
+def _run_hook(hook: Callable[[Any, Any], Any], cached: Any, source: Any) -> tuple[list[Entry], int] | None:
+    """Run the use case's hook under the comparator's synchronous discipline.
+
+    A raise, an awaitable or a result that is not a list returns None. Only
+    the kept members are read, inside the try, and a path is logged as its
+    str form: a hook that returns wrong entries gets wrong paths.
+    """
+    try:
+        result = hook(cached, source)
+        if inspect.isawaitable(result):
+            # The contract is synchronous: fail closed without driving it.
+            discard_awaitable(result)
+            return None
+        if not isinstance(result, list):
+            return None
+        entries: list[Entry] = []
+        for member in result[:MAX_ENTRIES]:
+            entry: Entry = {"path": str(member["path"])}
+            for side in ("cached", "source"):
+                if side in member and member[side] is not UNDEFINED:
+                    entry[side] = member[side]
+            entries.append(entry)
+        return entries, len(result)
+    except (Exception, asyncio.CancelledError):
+        return None
+
+
+def _render_diff_json(entries: list[Entry]) -> str | None:
+    # A side with no JSON rendering makes the whole field None, and later
+    # sides are not rendered.
+    bounded = []
+    for entry in entries:
+        next_entry = _bound_entry(entry)
+        if next_entry is None:
+            return None
+        bounded.append(next_entry)
+    return clamp_utf8(_native_json(bounded), DIFF_MAX_BYTES)
+
+
+def _bound_entry(entry: Entry) -> Entry | None:
+    """Clamp the pointer, and keep each present side as JSON or as its clamped text.
+
+    One clamp rule for built-in and hook entries. None when a side has no JSON
+    rendering.
+    """
+    bounded: Entry = {"path": clamp_utf8(entry["path"], PATH_MAX_BYTES)}
+    for side in ("cached", "source"):
+        if side not in entry:
+            continue
+        text = render_json(entry[side])
+        if text is None:
+            return None
+        clamped = clamp_utf8(text, SIDE_MAX_BYTES)
+        # Parsing the one rendering keeps each side rendered once.
+        bounded[side] = json.loads(text) if clamped is text else clamped
+    return bounded