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A bazaar listing could be sold twice across channels - #2371

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Second of the two from the audit, and the one where the cross-channel and duplication concerns meet. Follows #2370, which fixed the same ordering mistake one layer in.

The defect

CBuyPacketHandler delivered before it claimed:

  1. GetBazaar — read the listing
  2. deduct gold, create the item, add it to the buyer's inventory
  3. DeleteBazaarAsync — only now claim it
  4. on failure: LogError(BAZAAR_BUY_ERROR) and return, no rollback

The listing lives on the master server and every channel reads it, so two buyers on different channels both pass the price and amount checks at step 1 and both receive an item at step 2. Only one claim wins. The loser keeps the item and has paid for it — one listing, two items in the world.

The claim was not safe either. DeleteBazaarAsync and ModifyBazaarAsync read, check and write a listing with nothing serialising them, and SignalR dispatches hub calls concurrently, so even the claim could lose an update.

The change

Reserve, then fulfil. The claim runs first and nothing is paid for or created unless it wins. The losing buyer keeps their gold, receives no item, and is told the offer changed — the old path left them staring at nothing while a line went into the log.

A lock per listing id on the master side, using the AsyncLock already in NosCore.Core. Per listing rather than per bazaar, so unrelated trades still run in parallel.

Evidence

LosingTheRaceForAListingCostsNeitherGoldNorMakesAnItem makes the claim fail and asserts the buyer keeps their gold and gains nothing. I restored the old ordering and re-ran it: fails. With the fix: passes.

The happy path was already covered by BuyingItemShouldSucceed, so I dropped the duplicate I had written rather than add a second one.

Solution builds. PacketHandlers 414, GameObject 538.

Still open from the audit

  • InShop is never assigned, so the five InExchangeOrShop guards remain inert for player shops. Same shape as An offered item that left the inventory was duplicated #2370, separate lifecycle.
  • The exchange still recreates rather than moves the item instance; moving it would make that dupe structurally impossible instead of guarded.
  • No DB transactions anywhere, so a crash mid-trade still half-applies.
  • PubSubHub.SendMessageAsync fans out to Clients.Others — every channel receives every message and filters locally. Fine at this scale; there is no addressing to tighten later without changing the contract.
  • MasterClientList is in-memory, so a master restart drops all subscriber state.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved bazaar purchase reliability when multiple buyers attempt to purchase the same listing.
    • Prevented duplicate purchases, incorrect gold deductions, and unintended item delivery.
    • Displays an updated-offer message and refreshes listings when an item is no longer available.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage to verify that unsuccessful purchase attempts do not deduct gold or add items.

The buy path delivered before it claimed: gold was deducted and the item was
created and put in the buyer's inventory, and only then was DeleteBazaarAsync
called. The listing lives on the master server and every channel reads it, so
two buyers on different channels both passed the price and amount checks, both
received an item, and only one claim succeeded. The loser kept the item and
the gold was gone; the failure branch logged BAZAAR_BUY_ERROR and returned.

The claim now comes first, and nothing is paid for or created unless it wins.
The losing buyer keeps their gold, gets no item, and is told the offer changed
rather than being met with silence.

The claim itself was a lost update too. DeleteBazaarAsync and ModifyBazaarAsync
read, check and write a listing with no serialisation, and SignalR dispatches
hub calls concurrently, so two channels could both pass the amount check. They
now take a lock per listing id, so unrelated trades still run in parallel.
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Walkthrough

Bazaar listings now use per-listing locks for concurrent deletion and modification. Purchases claim listings before payment and item creation. Failed claims refresh the offer without changing buyer gold or inventory.

Changes

Bazaar claim flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Per-listing operation locking
src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BazaarService/BazaarService.cs
DeleteBazaarAsync and ModifyBazaarAsync acquire a per-listing AsyncLock around listing access and updates.
Purchase claim and race handling
src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Bazaar/CBuyPacketHandler.cs, test/NosCore.PacketHandlers.Tests/Bazaar/CBuyPacketHandlerTests.cs
CBuyPacketHandler claims the listing before payment and item creation. A failed claim displays the updated offer and refreshes the listing. Tests verify that gold and inventory remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 097f1

The PR prevents duplicate buyers from both winning a listing, but the successful purchase path can consume the listing before capturing the purchased item. A full purchase may charge the buyer without delivering an item, and a partial purchase may deliver the wrong quantity, so the PR is not ready to merge until the claim returns an exact item snapshot and failed claims are handled safely.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing a bazaar listing from being sold twice across channels.
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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BazaarService/BazaarService.cs`:
- Line 166: Update DeleteBazaarAsync so a missing listing returned by GetById
after acquiring ClaimLock is treated as an unsuccessful claim and returns false
instead of throwing. Preserve normal deletion behavior for existing listings so
CBuyPacketHandler can execute its recovery path.

In `@src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Bazaar/CBuyPacketHandler.cs`:
- Around line 69-75: Update the bazaar claim flow so the locked claim operation
creates and returns a snapshot of the purchased item before DeleteBazaarAsync or
partial-quantity mutation occurs. Replace the post-claim itemInstanceDao lookup
and itemProvider.Convert(itemInstance!) in CBuyPacketHandler with conversion of
the returned snapshot, preserving the existing gold deduction and inventory
insertion flow.
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  • src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BazaarService/BazaarService.cs
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public async Task<bool> DeleteBazaarAsync(long id, short count, string requestCharacterName, long? requestCharacterId = null)
{
using var claim = await ClaimLock(id).AcquireAsync();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Return a failed claim when the listing is already removed.

After the winning caller unregisters a fully sold listing, the next waiter acquires this lock and GetById returns null. DeleteBazaarAsync then throws instead of returning false. CBuyPacketHandler only sends OfferUpdated and refreshes the list for false, so the losing purchase faults and skips that recovery path.

Return false for this expected missing-listing claim result, or map only this condition to false in the caller.

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In `@src/NosCore.GameObject/Services/BazaarService/BazaarService.cs` at line 166,
Update DeleteBazaarAsync so a missing listing returned by GetById after
acquiring ClaimLock is treated as an unsuccessful claim and returns false
instead of throwing. Preserve normal deletion behavior for existing listings so
CBuyPacketHandler can execute its recovery path.

Comment on lines +69 to +75
var itemInstance = await itemInstanceDao.FirstOrDefaultAsync(s => s!.Id == bz.ItemInstance.Id);
var item = itemProvider.Convert(itemInstance!);
item.Id = Guid.NewGuid();
var newInv =
clientSession.Character.InventoryService.AddItemToPocket(
InventoryItemInstance.Create(item, clientSession.Character.CharacterId));
await clientSession.SendPacketAsync(newInv!.GeneratePocketChange());

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Return an item snapshot from the claim operation.

DeleteBazaarAsync deletes the item-instance record for a full purchase before line 69 reloads it. The lookup then returns null, and Convert(itemInstance!) dereferences that value after line 66 has already deducted gold. A partial purchase also reloads the residual listing item instead of the purchased item.

Create the purchased-item snapshot inside the listing lock before mutation or deletion. Return that snapshot from the claim operation. Build the inventory item from the returned snapshot.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@src/NosCore.PacketHandlers/Bazaar/CBuyPacketHandler.cs` around lines 69 - 75,
Update the bazaar claim flow so the locked claim operation creates and returns a
snapshot of the purchased item before DeleteBazaarAsync or partial-quantity
mutation occurs. Replace the post-claim itemInstanceDao lookup and
itemProvider.Convert(itemInstance!) in CBuyPacketHandler with conversion of the
returned snapshot, preserving the existing gold deduction and inventory
insertion flow.

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