__init__.py

@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ scheduled_tasks: list[asyncio.Task] = []
 # from nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event.
 nostr_client = None
 
+# Reconciliation sweep for NIP-52 publishes that never reached a relay
+# (aiolabs/events#35). Five minutes is well under the window in which a
+# stale ticket count matters to a buyer, and the query costs nothing
+# when there is no drift — the normal case returns zero rows.
+REPUBLISH_SWEEP_INTERVAL = 300
+# Long enough for _start_nostr_client's own 10s wait plus the relay
+# handshake, so the first pass isn't guaranteed to fail on a cold boot.
+REPUBLISH_SWEEP_FIRST_DELAY = 60
+
 
 def events_stop():
     for task in scheduled_tasks:
@@ -117,5 +126,45 @@ def events_start():
     task3 = create_permanent_unique_task("ext_events_nostr_sync", _sync_nostr_events)
     scheduled_tasks.append(task3)
 
+    async def _republish_pending_sweep():
+        """Retry NIP-52 publishes that never landed.
+
+        Inventory reaches clients only through the republished calendar
+        event, and a publish can fail (signer outage) or be skipped
+        entirely (no signer, no NostrClient) without anything noticing.
+        Both leave `nostr_publish_pending` set, so this sweep retries
+        from the DB rather than from an in-memory queue — it survives a
+        restart, which the previous behaviour did not.
+
+        Quiet by design: on a healthy instance the query returns nothing
+        and this logs nothing. It only speaks up when there is drift.
+        """
+        from .crud import get_events_pending_republish
+        from .nostr_hooks import publish_or_delete_nostr_event
+
+        await asyncio.sleep(REPUBLISH_SWEEP_FIRST_DELAY)
+        while True:
+            try:
+                pending = await get_events_pending_republish()
+                if pending:
+                    total = len(pending)
+                    logger.info(f"[EVENTS] Republish sweep: {total} event(s) pending")
+                    recovered = 0
+                    for event in pending:
+                        take_down = event.canceled or event.status != "approved"
+                        if await publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event, delete=take_down):
+                            recovered += 1
+                    logger.info(
+                        f"[EVENTS] Republish sweep: {recovered}/{total} recovered"
+                    )
+            except Exception as exc:
+                logger.error(f"[EVENTS] Republish sweep failed: {exc}")
+            await asyncio.sleep(REPUBLISH_SWEEP_INTERVAL)
+
+    task4 = create_permanent_unique_task(
+        "ext_events_republish_sweep", _republish_pending_sweep
+    )
+    scheduled_tasks.append(task4)
+
 
 __all__ = ["db", "events_ext", "events_start", "events_static_files", "events_stop"]

crud.py

@@ -239,6 +239,26 @@ async def get_pending_events() -> list[Event]:
     )
 
 
+async def get_events_pending_republish() -> list[Event]:
+    """Events whose relay copy may be behind this row.
+
+    `nostr_publish_pending` is set before every publish attempt and
+    cleared only on a confirmed success, so a row still flagged here
+    either failed to publish or never got the chance. Drives the
+    reconciliation sweep in `events_start`.
+
+    Ordered oldest-first so a backlog drains in the order it accrued.
+    """
+    return await db.fetchall(
+        """
+        SELECT * FROM events.events
+        WHERE nostr_publish_pending = TRUE
+        ORDER BY time ASC
+        """,
+        model=Event,
+    )
+
+
 async def get_settings() -> EventsSettings:
     """Singleton settings row, seeded by m010."""
     row = await db.fetchone("SELECT * FROM events.settings WHERE id = 1")

migrations_fork.py

@@ -127,3 +127,32 @@ async def m002_ticket_payment_hash(db):
         "UPDATE events.ticket SET payment_hash = id "
         "WHERE payment_hash IS NULL OR payment_hash = ''"
     )
+
+
+async def m003_event_nostr_publish_pending(db):
+    """
+    Add `events.nostr_publish_pending` — the marker that makes NIP-52
+    publish drift queryable instead of invisible.
+
+    Inventory reaches clients only through the republished calendar
+    event. When that publish doesn't land, the relay keeps serving the
+    counts it last saw and nothing anywhere records the divergence; it
+    has twice been caught only by a human reading a public page
+    (aiolabs/events#35, #51).
+
+    The flag is set before each publish attempt and cleared only on a
+    confirmed success, so it covers *both* observed failure shapes:
+    an attempt that raised (a signer outage) and an attempt that was
+    never made at all (no signer resolved, no NostrClient). A periodic
+    sweep republishes whatever is still marked.
+
+    Existing rows default to FALSE rather than TRUE: on upgrade we have
+    no evidence they're stale, and marking the whole table pending would
+    stampede the signer with a full-table republish on first boot.
+    `/republish-all` is the deliberate way to force that.
+    """
+    await _alter_add_column_safe(
+        db,
+        "ALTER TABLE events.events "
+        "ADD COLUMN nostr_publish_pending BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE",
+    )

models.py

@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ class Event(BaseModel):
     status: str = "approved"
     nostr_event_id: str | None = None
     nostr_event_created_at: int | None = None
+    # Set before every publish attempt, cleared on confirmed success.
+    # True means the relay's copy may be behind this row — see
+    # migrations_fork.m003 and the sweep in __init__.events_start.
+    nostr_publish_pending: bool = False
 
     @validator("categories", pre=True)
     def parse_categories(cls, v):

nostr/nostr_client.py

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ from websocket import WebSocketApp
 from .event import NostrEvent
 
 MAX_SEEN_EVENTS = 500
+# How many times a dequeued req is retried before it is dropped. Bounded
+# so one unsendable message can't block every later publish behind it.
+MAX_SEND_ATTEMPTS = 3
 
 
 class NostrClient:
@@ -78,17 +81,37 @@ class NostrClient:
 
     async def run_forever(self):
         self.running = True
+        # A req that was dequeued but whose send raised. It is already
+        # off the queue, so dropping it loses the publish outright and
+        # the caller has long since been told it succeeded (the queue
+        # put returns immediately). Hold it across the reconnect and
+        # retry instead.
+        held_req: list | None = None
+        held_attempts = 0
         while self.running:
             try:
                 if not self.is_websocket_connected:
                     self.ws = await self.connect()
                     await asyncio.sleep(5)
 
+                if held_req is not None:
+                    req = held_req
+                else:
                     req = await self.send_req_queue.get()
+                held_req, held_attempts = req, held_attempts + 1
                 assert self.ws
                 self.ws.send(json.dumps(req))
+                held_req, held_attempts = None, 0
             except Exception as ex:
                 logger.warning(f"[EVENTS] NostrClient error: {ex}")
+                if held_req is not None and held_attempts >= MAX_SEND_ATTEMPTS:
+                    # Bounded: a req the relay or the socket will never
+                    # accept must not wedge the queue behind it forever.
+                    logger.error(
+                        f"[EVENTS] Dropping req after {held_attempts} "
+                        f"failed sends: {held_req[0]}"
+                    )
+                    held_req, held_attempts = None, 0
                 await asyncio.sleep(60)
 
     def is_duplicate_event(self, event_id: str) -> bool:

nostr_hooks.py

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from .models import Event
 from .nostr_publisher import publish_event_to_nostr
 
 
-async def publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event: Event, *, delete: bool = False) -> None:
+async def publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event: Event, *, delete: bool = False) -> bool:
     """Publish or delete the NIP-52 calendar event for `event`.
 
     Resolves a `NostrSigner` for the wallet owner — backend-agnostic
@@ -22,7 +22,22 @@ async def publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event: Event, *, delete: bool = False) -
     `await signer.sign_event(...)` for signing. Failures are logged
     and swallowed so a Nostr outage doesn't break the HTTP flow that
     triggered the publish.
+
+    Returns True when the event was signed and handed to the client,
+    False on any skip or failure. Callers are free to ignore it — the
+    `nostr_publish_pending` flag is the durable record, and the sweep
+    retries from that rather than from a return value.
     """
+    # Mark before attempting, clear only on confirmed success. Doing it
+    # in this order is what makes "the attempt was never made" — no
+    # signer, no NostrClient, process died mid-flight — as visible as
+    # "the attempt raised". Cheap guard so a re-publish of an already
+    # pending row doesn't write twice; `set_ticket_paid` sets the flag
+    # inside its own update so the sale path adds no extra write.
+    if not event.nostr_publish_pending:
+        event.nostr_publish_pending = True
+        await update_event(event)
+
     try:
         from lnbits.core.signers import resolve_for_wallet
 
@@ -45,14 +60,22 @@ async def publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event: Event, *, delete: bool = False) -
                 f"[EVENTS] No signer for wallet {event.wallet}, skipping "
                 f"NIP-52 {'delete' if delete else 'publish'} for event {event.id}"
             )
-            return
+            return False
 
         nostr_event = await publish_event_to_nostr(
             nostr_client, event, signer, delete=delete
         )
-        if nostr_event and not delete:
+        if nostr_event is None:
+            return False
+
+        event.nostr_publish_pending = False
+        if not delete:
             event.nostr_event_id = nostr_event.id
             event.nostr_event_created_at = nostr_event.created_at
         await update_event(event)
+        return True
     except Exception as exc:
-        logger.warning(f"[EVENTS] Nostr publish failed: {exc}")
+        # ERROR, not warning: the row stays flagged and its published
+        # counts stay behind until the sweep or a later edit succeeds.
+        logger.error(f"[EVENTS] Nostr publish failed for event {event.id}: {exc}")
+        return False

nostr_publisher.py

@@ -212,5 +212,8 @@ async def publish_event_to_nostr(
         return nostr_event
 
     except Exception as e:
-        logger.warning(f"[EVENTS] Failed to publish to Nostr: {e}")
+        # ERROR, not warning: this is the signer-outage shape of
+        # aiolabs/events#35 — the calendar event never reaches the relay
+        # and the published ticket counts stop tracking the DB.
+        logger.error(f"[EVENTS] Failed to publish event {event.id} to Nostr: {e}")
         return None

services.py

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ async def set_ticket_paid(ticket: Ticket) -> Ticket:
         assert event, "Couldn't get event from ticket being paid"
         event.sold += 1
         event.amount_tickets -= 1
+        # Flag inside this same write: the counters and "the relay does
+        # not know about them yet" land atomically, so a crash between
+        # here and the publish still leaves the drift discoverable.
+        event.nostr_publish_pending = True
         await update_event(event)
 
         # Republish the NIP-52 calendar event so connected clients see

tests/test_nostr_publish_pending.py

@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+"""The `nostr_publish_pending` marker and its lifecycle.
+
+Inventory reaches clients only through the republished NIP-52 calendar
+event. These tests pin the invariant that makes drift recoverable: the
+flag goes up before every attempt and comes down only on a confirmed
+success, so every shape of failure — raised, skipped, never attempted —
+leaves the row queryable by the sweep.
+"""
+
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock
+
+import pytest
+
+from .. import nostr_hooks, services
+from ..models import Event, Ticket
+
+
+def _event(**kwargs) -> Event:
+    defaults = {
+        "id": "evt",
+        "wallet": "w",
+        "name": "Test",
+        "info": "",
+        "closing_date": "2030-01-01",
+        "event_start_date": "2030-01-01",
+        "event_end_date": "2030-01-02",
+        "currency": "sat",
+        "price_per_ticket": 1000,
+        "amount_tickets": 10,
+        "time": datetime.now(timezone.utc),
+        "status": "approved",
+    }
+    defaults.update(kwargs)
+    return Event(**defaults)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def saved(monkeypatch):
+    """Capture every update_event write so ordering can be asserted."""
+    writes: list[bool] = []
+
+    async def _update(event):
+        writes.append(event.nostr_publish_pending)
+        return event
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(nostr_hooks, "update_event", _update)
+    return writes
+
+
+def _signer(monkeypatch, signer):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        "lnbits.core.signers.resolve_for_wallet", AsyncMock(return_value=signer)
+    )
+
+
+def _publisher(monkeypatch, result):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        nostr_hooks, "publish_event_to_nostr", AsyncMock(return_value=result)
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_success_raises_then_clears_the_flag(monkeypatch, saved):
+    event = _event()
+    _signer(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(pubkey="pk"))
+    _publisher(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(id="nid", created_at=123))
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event) is True
+    # Flagged before the attempt, cleared after it — in that order.
+    assert saved == [True, False]
+    assert event.nostr_publish_pending is False
+    assert event.nostr_event_id == "nid"
+    assert event.nostr_event_created_at == 123
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_missing_signer_leaves_the_flag_up(monkeypatch, saved):
+    event = _event()
+    _signer(monkeypatch, None)
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event) is False
+    assert saved == [True]
+    assert event.nostr_publish_pending is True
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_publisher_returning_none_leaves_the_flag_up(monkeypatch, saved):
+    """The no-NostrClient shape: nothing raised, nothing published."""
+    event = _event()
+    _signer(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(pubkey="pk"))
+    _publisher(monkeypatch, None)
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event) is False
+    assert saved == [True]
+    assert event.nostr_publish_pending is True
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_raised_publish_leaves_the_flag_up(monkeypatch, saved):
+    event = _event()
+    _signer(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(pubkey="pk"))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        nostr_hooks,
+        "publish_event_to_nostr",
+        AsyncMock(side_effect=RuntimeError("signer timeout")),
+    )
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event) is False
+    assert saved == [True]
+    assert event.nostr_publish_pending is True
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_already_pending_row_is_not_re_flagged(monkeypatch, saved):
+    """The sweep re-publishing a flagged row writes once, not twice."""
+    event = _event(nostr_publish_pending=True)
+    _signer(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(pubkey="pk"))
+    _publisher(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(id="nid", created_at=123))
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event) is True
+    assert saved == [False]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_delete_clears_the_flag_without_touching_the_coordinate(
+    monkeypatch, saved
+):
+    """A take-down must not overwrite the id/created_at of the event it
+    just deleted — the kind-5 has its own."""
+    event = _event(nostr_event_id="old", nostr_event_created_at=100)
+    _signer(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(pubkey="pk"))
+    _publisher(monkeypatch, SimpleNamespace(id="del", created_at=999))
+
+    assert await nostr_hooks.publish_or_delete_nostr_event(event, delete=True) is True
+    assert event.nostr_publish_pending is False
+    assert event.nostr_event_id == "old"
+    assert event.nostr_event_created_at == 100
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_sale_flags_the_event_in_the_same_write(monkeypatch):
+    """`set_ticket_paid` must flag inside its own update, so the counters
+    and "the relay doesn't know yet" land atomically."""
+    event = _event(sold=4, amount_tickets=6)
+    seen: list[tuple[int, int, bool]] = []
+
+    async def _update_event(ev):
+        seen.append((ev.sold, ev.amount_tickets, ev.nostr_publish_pending))
+        return ev
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(services, "update_ticket", AsyncMock())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(services, "get_event", AsyncMock(return_value=event))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(services, "update_event", _update_event)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(services, "publish_or_delete_nostr_event", AsyncMock())
+
+    ticket = Ticket(
+        id="t1",
+        wallet="w",
+        event="evt",
+        name="A",
+        email="a@example.com",
+        registered=False,
+        paid=False,
+        time=datetime.now(timezone.utc),
+        reg_timestamp=datetime.now(timezone.utc),
+    )
+    await services.set_ticket_paid(ticket)
+
+    assert seen == [(5, 5, True)]