feat: Added celery tasks to populate blocknote_document for existing documents

surfsense_backend/alembic/versions/38_add_blocknote_fields_to_documents.py

@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ depends_on: str | Sequence[str] | None = None
 
 
 def upgrade() -> None:
-    """Upgrade schema - Add BlockNote fields only."""
+    """Upgrade schema - Add BlockNote fields and trigger population task."""
 
+    # Add the columns
     op.add_column(
         "documents",
         sa.Column(
@@ -42,6 +43,21 @@ def upgrade() -> None:
         sa.Column("last_edited_at", sa.TIMESTAMP(timezone=True), nullable=True),
     )
 
+    # Trigger the Celery task to populate blocknote_document for existing documents
+    try:
+        from app.tasks.celery_tasks.blocknote_migration_tasks import (
+            populate_blocknote_for_documents_task,
+        )
+        
+        # Queue the task to run asynchronously
+        populate_blocknote_for_documents_task.apply_async()
+        print("✓ Queued Celery task to populate blocknote_document for existing documents")
+    except Exception as e:
+        # If Celery is not available or task queueing fails, log but don't fail the migration
+        print(f"⚠ Warning: Could not queue blocknote population task: {e}")
+        print("  You can manually trigger it later with:")
+        print("  celery -A app.celery_app call app.tasks.celery_tasks.blocknote_migration_tasks.populate_blocknote_for_documents_task")
+
 
 def downgrade() -> None:
     """Downgrade schema - Remove BlockNote fields."""

surfsense_backend/app/celery_app.py

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ celery_app = Celery(
         "app.tasks.celery_tasks.podcast_tasks",
         "app.tasks.celery_tasks.connector_tasks",
         "app.tasks.celery_tasks.schedule_checker_task",
+        "app.tasks.celery_tasks.blocknote_migration_tasks",
     ],
 )
 

surfsense_backend/app/routes/editor_routes.py

@@ -30,11 +30,13 @@ async def get_editor_content(
     Get document content for editing.
 
     Returns BlockNote JSON document. If blocknote_document is NULL,
-    attempts to convert from `content` - though this won't work well
-    for old documents that only have summaries.
+    attempts to generate it from chunks (lazy migration).
     """
+    from sqlalchemy.orm import selectinload
+    
     result = await session.execute(
         select(Document)
+        .options(selectinload(Document.chunks))
         .join(SearchSpace)
         .filter(Document.id == document_id, SearchSpace.user_id == user.id)
     )
@@ -54,12 +56,47 @@ async def get_editor_content(
             else None,
         }
 
-    # For old documents without blocknote_document, return error
-    # (Can't convert summary back to full document)
-    raise HTTPException(
-        status_code=400,
-        detail="This document was uploaded before editing was enabled. Please re-upload to enable editing.",
-    )
+    # Lazy migration: Try to generate blocknote_document from chunks
+    from app.utils.blocknote_converter import convert_markdown_to_blocknote
+    
+    chunks = sorted(document.chunks, key=lambda c: c.id)
+    
+    if not chunks:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail="This document has no chunks and cannot be edited. Please re-upload to enable editing.",
+        )
+    
+    # Reconstruct markdown from chunks
+    markdown_content = "\n\n".join(chunk.content for chunk in chunks)
+    
+    if not markdown_content.strip():
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=400,
+            detail="This document has empty content and cannot be edited.",
+        )
+    
+    # Convert to BlockNote
+    blocknote_json = await convert_markdown_to_blocknote(markdown_content)
+    
+    if not blocknote_json:
+        raise HTTPException(
+            status_code=500,
+            detail="Failed to convert document to editable format. Please try again later.",
+        )
+    
+    # Save the generated blocknote_document (lazy migration)
+    document.blocknote_document = blocknote_json
+    document.content_needs_reindexing = False
+    document.last_edited_at = None
+    await session.commit()
+    
+    return {
+        "document_id": document.id,
+        "title": document.title,
+        "blocknote_document": blocknote_json,
+        "last_edited_at": None,
+    }
 
 
 @router.put("/documents/{document_id}/blocknote-content")

surfsense_backend/app/tasks/celery_tasks/blocknote_migration_tasks.py

@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+"""Celery tasks for populating blocknote_document for existing documents."""
+
+import logging
+from typing import Any
+
+from sqlalchemy import select
+from sqlalchemy.ext.asyncio import async_sessionmaker, create_async_engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import selectinload
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
+
+from app.celery_app import celery_app
+from app.config import config
+from app.db import Chunk, Document
+from app.utils.blocknote_converter import convert_markdown_to_blocknote
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def get_celery_session_maker():
+    """
+    Create a new async session maker for Celery tasks.
+    This is necessary because Celery tasks run in a new event loop,
+    and the default session maker is bound to the main app's event loop.
+    """
+    engine = create_async_engine(
+        config.DATABASE_URL,
+        poolclass=NullPool,
+        echo=False,
+    )
+    return async_sessionmaker(engine, expire_on_commit=False)
+
+
+@celery_app.task(name="populate_blocknote_for_documents", bind=True)
+def populate_blocknote_for_documents_task(
+    self, document_ids: list[int] | None = None, batch_size: int = 50
+):
+    """
+    Celery task to populate blocknote_document for existing documents.
+    
+    Args:
+        document_ids: Optional list of specific document IDs to process.
+                     If None, processes all documents with blocknote_document IS NULL.
+        batch_size: Number of documents to process in each batch (default: 50)
+    """
+    import asyncio
+
+    loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
+    asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
+
+    try:
+        loop.run_until_complete(
+            _populate_blocknote_for_documents(document_ids, batch_size)
+        )
+    finally:
+        loop.close()
+
+
+async def _populate_blocknote_for_documents(
+    document_ids: list[int] | None = None, batch_size: int = 50
+):
+    """
+    Async function to populate blocknote_document for documents.
+    
+    Args:
+        document_ids: Optional list of specific document IDs to process
+        batch_size: Number of documents to process per batch
+    """
+    async with get_celery_session_maker()() as session:
+        try:
+            # Build query for documents that need blocknote_document populated
+            query = select(Document).where(Document.blocknote_document.is_(None))
+            
+            # If specific document IDs provided, filter by them
+            if document_ids:
+                query = query.where(Document.id.in_(document_ids))
+            
+            # Load chunks relationship to avoid N+1 queries
+            query = query.options(selectinload(Document.chunks))
+            
+            # Execute query
+            result = await session.execute(query)
+            documents = result.scalars().all()
+            
+            total_documents = len(documents)
+            logger.info(f"Found {total_documents} documents to process")
+            
+            if total_documents == 0:
+                logger.info("No documents to process")
+                return
+            
+            # Process documents in batches
+            processed = 0
+            failed = 0
+            
+            for i in range(0, total_documents, batch_size):
+                batch = documents[i : i + batch_size]
+                logger.info(f"Processing batch {i // batch_size + 1}: documents {i+1}-{min(i+batch_size, total_documents)}")
+                
+                for document in batch:
+                    try:
+                        # Use preloaded chunks from selectinload - no need to query again
+                        chunks = sorted(document.chunks, key=lambda c: c.id)
+                        
+                        if not chunks:
+                            logger.warning(
+                                f"Document {document.id} ({document.title}) has no chunks, skipping"
+                            )
+                            failed += 1
+                            continue
+                        
+                        # Reconstruct markdown by concatenating chunk contents
+                        markdown_content = "\n\n".join(chunk.content for chunk in chunks)
+                        
+                        if not markdown_content or not markdown_content.strip():
+                            logger.warning(
+                                f"Document {document.id} ({document.title}) has empty markdown content, skipping"
+                            )
+                            failed += 1
+                            continue
+                        
+                        # Convert markdown to BlockNote JSON
+                        blocknote_json = await convert_markdown_to_blocknote(markdown_content)
+                        
+                        if not blocknote_json:
+                            logger.warning(
+                                f"Failed to convert markdown to BlockNote for document {document.id} ({document.title})"
+                            )
+                            failed += 1
+                            continue
+                        
+                        # Update document with blocknote_document (other fields already have correct defaults)
+                        document.blocknote_document = blocknote_json
+                        
+                        processed += 1
+                        
+                        # Commit every batch_size documents to avoid long transactions
+                        if processed % batch_size == 0:
+                            await session.commit()
+                            logger.info(f"Committed batch: {processed} documents processed so far")
+                    
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        logger.error(
+                            f"Error processing document {document.id} ({document.title}): {e}",
+                            exc_info=True,
+                        )
+                        failed += 1
+                        # Continue with next document instead of failing entire batch
+                        continue
+                
+                # Commit remaining changes in the batch
+                await session.commit()
+                logger.info(f"Completed batch {i // batch_size + 1}")
+            
+            logger.info(
+                f"Migration complete: {processed} documents processed, {failed} failed"
+            )
+            
+        except Exception as e:
+            await session.rollback()
+            logger.error(f"Error in blocknote migration task: {e}", exc_info=True)
+            raise

surfsense_backend/app/tasks/document_processors/file_processors.py

@@ -396,7 +396,9 @@ async def add_received_file_document_using_docling(
                 "ETL_SERVICE": "DOCLING",
             }
             existing_document.chunks = chunks
-            existing_document.blocknote_document = blocknote_json
+            existing_document.blocknote_document = None
+            existing_document.content_needs_reindexing = False
+            existing_document.last_edited_at = None
 
             await session.commit()
             await session.refresh(existing_document)
@@ -416,7 +418,9 @@ async def add_received_file_document_using_docling(
                 chunks=chunks,
                 content_hash=content_hash,
                 unique_identifier_hash=unique_identifier_hash,
-                blocknote_document=blocknote_json,
+                blocknote_document=None,
+                content_needs_reindexing=False,
+                last_edited_at=None,
             )
 
         session.add(document)

surfsense_web/app/dashboard/[search_space_id]/editor/[documentId]/page.tsx

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ export default function EditorPage() {
 		}
 	}, [editorContent, document]);
 
-	// TODO: Auto-save every 30 seconds - DIRECT CALL TO FASTAPI
+	// TODO: Maybe add Auto-save every 30 seconds - DIRECT CALL TO FASTAPI
 
 	// Save and exit - DIRECT CALL TO FASTAPI
 	const handleSave = async () => {