Opt-in, off by default: neither service can undo it, and a local delete is not
always a statement about the world — a duplicate cleared out of a contest log
was never meant to change the DX's log.
The two APIs are not alike, and the difference decides what is possible:
- Club Log deletes by MATCH (callsign, exact timestamp, band number), so it
works for every QSO in the log, past or future. The band table is its own
list and is pinned by a test: a band mapped to the wrong number does not
fail, it points the delete at a different QSO.
- QRZ.com deletes ONLY by logid. So markExtUploaded now stores the LOGID it
already received on every upload — it was being logged and thrown away. A
QSO uploaded before this cannot be withdrawn from here at all, and the log
says so by name rather than leaving the operator to assume it worked.
Both run BEFORE the local delete, because both need the QSO's own fields to
find their copy and there is nothing left to ask with once the row is gone.
Neither can block it: the operator asked for the QSO to go, and a refusing
website is not a reason to keep it.
The single-worker upload queue introduced head-of-line blocking: one slow
upload (LoTW signing via TQSL, or a service on a 30 s timeout) stalled the
whole queue, so every following QSO's Club Log upload waited and the rows sat
at "R". Operators on the older, concurrent build had no such problem — the
tell that this was a fresh regression.
Back to one goroutine per upload (never serialised), so a slow upload never
holds up the rest, while keeping the transient-failure retry with back-off
(concurrent, so it can't block anything).
A QSO logged via UDP / ADIF-import fired `go m.upload` per QSO, so a pileup or
an ADIF-import burst hit a service with dozens of concurrent requests at once.
Club Log's nginx answers that burst with 403; the upload counts as failed and
the QSO stays at "R" while a lucky few go through — the real cause behind the
"it's uploaded but shows R" report (not the earlier display race).
Route all immediate/delayed auto-uploads through a single serialised worker
(one at a time, 250ms apart) so no burst ever trips a per-IP rate limiter.
upload() now reports whether a failure is transient (HTTP/rate-limit) vs
permanent (not eligible, wrong station callsign, no record); transient ones
are retried with exponential back-off (up to 4 attempts, 1s/2s/4s), so a QSO
that hit a momentary 403 ends up marked instead of stuck at R. A full queue
falls back to a goroutine rather than dropping an upload.