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Erik Miller f399a7acab feat(notifications-slack): add scope-based message update support
When a Backstage notification is re-sent with the same scope, the
notifications backend updates the existing DB record and sets
notification.updated. Previously, the SlackNotificationProcessor always
called chat.postMessage(), creating duplicate Slack messages.

This adds database-backed scope-based update support:

- New slack_message_timestamps table to persist Slack message ts values
  keyed by (scope, channel)
- After each chat.postMessage(), store the response ts in the database
- When postProcess receives a notification with updated set and a
  matching stored ts, use chat.update() instead of chat.postMessage()
- Scope context is passed as parameters through the call chain to avoid
  race conditions with concurrent postProcess calls
- Scheduled daily cleanup of old timestamp records (24h retention)
- New messagesUpdated metrics counter for observability
- Graceful degradation when no database is provided
- Explicitly picks only supported fields for chat.update calls

Signed-off-by: Erik Miller <erik.miller@gusto.com>
2026-04-03 09:03:18 -07:00

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Added scope-based message update support. When a notification is re-sent with the same scope and notification.updated is set, the processor now calls chat.update() on the existing Slack message instead of sending a duplicate via chat.postMessage(). Message timestamps are persisted in a new slack_message_timestamps database table with automatic daily cleanup. The processor gracefully degrades to the previous behavior when no database is provided.