fix(requests): serialize requests for the same title

[fallenbagel]

Description

Duplicate requests are already rejected and seasons another request holds are already filtered out, but both checks run well before the insert, and nothing stops a second request for the same title passing them in between. Two users asking for the same movie at the same moment both got a request, and two users asking for overlapping seasons both got the season.

Creation now takes a second lock keyed on the title, inside the per-user one. The user lock is always the outer one so the two can never be taken in opposite orders.

Unlike the per-user lock, which only ever blocks somebody racing themselves, this makes unrelated users requesting the same title wait for each other, and on auto approve that wait covers the subscriber's Radarr and Sonarr work. It is also not a quota bypass being fixed, since every user is charged correctly for what they asked for, so what this removes is duplicate rows and double-booked seasons rather than a limit anyone could exceed.

This depends on the per-user lock PR below it, where the first lock lives.

How Has This Been Tested?

• Via the unit tests attached

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Prevented duplicate movie requests during simultaneous submissions.
  • Prevented the same TV season from being assigned to multiple requests at once.
  • Ensured concurrent 4K and standard-quality requests are handled correctly.
  • Prevented duplicate TV seasons when requests are edited simultaneously.
  • Improved handling of requests submitted without a specified video quality.
  • Improved consistency when multiple requests target the same movie or TV season concurrently.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The request flow now uses a shared media-keyed lock for request creation and TV season edits. Tests cover duplicate movie requests, overlapping TV seasons, and concurrent 4K and non-4K requests.

Changes

Media request concurrency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Media-level request locking server/utils/requestLock.ts, server/entity/MediaRequest.ts	Adds a media-keyed AsyncLock. Request creation normalizes is4k and uses the media key inside the existing user lock.
TV season edit locking server/routes/request.ts, server/routes/request.test.ts	Uses the same media key while filtering, validating, and saving TV seasons. The test verifies that only one concurrent edit claims an overlapping season.
Concurrent request tests server/entity/MediaRequest.test.ts	Adds requester setup and movie and TV API mock data. Tests verify duplicate movie handling, overlapping TV season persistence, and one shared media row for 4K variants.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant MediaRequest
  participant mediaLock
  participant Database
  User->>MediaRequest: submit media request
  MediaRequest->>mediaLock: acquire media key
  mediaLock->>Database: create or reject request
  Database-->>MediaRequest: request result
  MediaRequest-->>User: return result

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant RequestRoute
  participant mediaLock
  participant Database
  User->>RequestRoute: add TV season
  RequestRoute->>mediaLock: acquire TV media key
  mediaLock->>Database: filter and save season claim
  Database-->>RequestRoute: updated request
  RequestRoute-->>User: return response

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1ce24

Supported single-process, single-replica deployments retain the intended request serialization. Custom multi-process deployments should add database or distributed coordination.

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Pull request overview

This PR addresses cross-user concurrency issues in media requesting by adding an additional lock keyed by media identity, ensuring that “check/create/save” request flows for the same title are serialized even when initiated by different users.

Changes:

• Introduces a new mediaLock AsyncLock keyed by media type/id/4K to serialize requests per media.
• Wraps MediaRequest.request() with a nested media-based lock inside the existing per-user request lock.
• Extends MediaRequest tests with cross-user concurrent-duplicate and overlapping-season scenarios.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
server/utils/requestLock.ts	Exports a new mediaLock to support per-media serialization.
server/entity/MediaRequest.ts	Nests a per-media lock inside the existing per-user lock when creating requests.
server/entity/MediaRequest.test.ts	Adds test coverage for cross-user concurrency cases (duplicate media + overlapping seasons).

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In `@server/entity/MediaRequest.ts`:
- Line 64: Update the mediaLock.dispatch key in the request handling flow to
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