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Currently pointing at the cross-user-request-lock branch to incorporate the other fixes for requests by fallenbagel without them appearing in the diff. I did this to avoid duplicative work or merge errors down the line.

Previously, Seer blocked all requests for media that was already requested by another user even once that media is fully available. This PR modifies the behavior so a different user can request media that's already available. I applied this specific gate to avoid reopening the in-flight request race that #3377 and #3380 protect against while enabling the ability for multiple users to request media.

When the new request comes in for already-available media, MediaRequestSubscriber now actually calls Radarr/Sonarr's addMovie/addSeries instead of short-circuiting straight to COMPLETED, and RadarrAPI.addMovie merges the new requester's tag onto the existing movie instead of dropping it (Sonarr's addSeries already merged tags correctly).

The frontend exposes the ability for users who have not request specific media to make the request so that their users tags are applied.

AI Disclosure: Claude helped draft the tests which I verified.

Seer currently blocks any duplicate request for media, which breaks the common admin workflow of tagging Radarr/Sonarr items per requesting user to drive per-user Plex/Jellyfin/Emby library views: only the first user to request a title can ever do it via Seer and have the automatic user-tagging of the media applied. Anyone else who wants to request the media once it's already available is stuck with no way to create a request for the media via Seer and have their own tag applied . This closes item #1 of #2276 (item #2, per-user library visibility itself, is out of scope here and planned separately).

How Has This Been Tested?

  • Completed unit tests
  • Tested making requests for already available media that had not been requested by that user to see requests being completed.
  • Accepted these requests to ensure that tags were properly applied in Radarr
  • Attempted to make requests for media that the user had already requested to ensure it blocked the request from the UI and backend.

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  • New Features
    • “Request more” options now appear consistently for eligible movies and shows.
    • Existing Radarr items can receive updated requester tags without unnecessary changes.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved processing and completion of already available media.

@aussierk aussierk changed the title Feature multi user media requests stacked feat(requests): multi user media requests stacked Aug 23, 2026
@aussierk aussierk changed the title feat(requests): multi user media requests stacked feat(requests): allow different users to request already available media Aug 23, 2026
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The changes centralize request blocking and season eligibility rules, serialize request operations, support Radarr requester-tag merging, defer subscriber completion for available media, update request-related UI behavior, and harden server builds and test database setup.

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Request flow and media availability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Request rules and lock primitives
server/lib/requestRules.ts, server/utils/asyncLock.ts, server/utils/requestLock.ts
Shared predicates define request blocking and season eligibility. Async locks now return callback results and support request/media serialization.
Media request creation and duplicate checks
server/entity/MediaRequest.ts, server/entity/MediaRequest.test.ts
Request creation normalizes 4K state, serializes concurrent operations, loads request owners, and applies ownership and availability rules to duplicate checks.
Request update and quota handling
server/routes/request.ts, server/routes/request.test.ts
Request updates serialize ownership changes, validate quotas, preserve eligible seasons, and handle fully covered season requests.
Availability normalization and database safety
server/lib/scanners/baseScanner.ts, server/datasource.ts, server/utils/seedTestDb.ts, server/utils/seedTestDb.test.ts, server/scripts/prepareTestDb.ts, package.json, server/tsconfig.build.json
Empty seasons are normalized. Entity registration is explicit. Server builds exclude tests. Test database operations require an allowed environment.
Radarr tag merging
server/api/servarr/radarr.ts, server/api/servarr/radarr.test.ts
Existing movies merge requester tags, skip unchanged updates, and optionally trigger searches.
Asynchronous subscriber completion
server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts, server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.test.ts
Radarr and Sonarr process already-available media through the normal submission path and complete requests asynchronously.
Request UI blocking and season selection
src/components/RequestButton/index.tsx, src/components/RequestModal/TvRequestModal.tsx, src/components/TvDetails/index.tsx, src/components/Settings/SettingsNetwork/index.tsx
Request controls and TV season views use shared blocking rules. Network settings refresh a status key with update checks disabled.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 6cd14

The PR enables additional users to request media that is already available, but the current head still carries an unresolved risk of losing updated Sonarr metadata and includes test tooling that can target and drop a selected database, with environment leakage that can contaminate tests. These concrete correctness and data-safety risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Suggested reviewers: 0xsysr3ll, danshilm

Poem

A rabbit tags a movie bright

Locks requests through the night
Seasons bloom when rules agree
Tests guard the database tree
Async hops complete just right

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Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Most changes support [#2276] or its test and build infrastructure. However, the SettingsNetwork status-cache mutation is unrelated to duplicate media requests, requester tags, or request locking. Move the SettingsNetwork status-cache change to a separate pull request, or provide a direct requirement linking it to [#2276].
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The PR satisfies the coding objectives in [#2276]. It allows different users to request already-existing media, re-runs Radarr/Sonarr tag logic, exposes the option in the frontend, preserves same-user…
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The PR satisfies the coding objectives in [#2276]. It allows different users to request already-existing media, re-runs Radarr/Sonarr tag logic, exposes the option in the frontend, preserves same-user duplicate blocking, and retains race protections. The requested-availability filtering flag remains explicitly out of scope.


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server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts (1)

732-755: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Persist the Sonarr media metadata before completing the request.

MediaRequest.media has no update cascade, so requestRepository.save(entity) does not persist the modified Media entity. Save media through mediaRepository before completing the request to retain the Sonarr service ID, slug, and server ID.

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In `@server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts` around lines 732 - 755, In the
mediaAlreadyAvailable branch, persist the updated Media entity through
mediaRepository before marking and saving the MediaRequest entity, ensuring the
Sonarr service ID, slug, and server ID changes are retained. Keep the existing
completion status updates and requestRepository.save(entity) flow unchanged.
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src/components/TvDetails/index.tsx (1)

288-313: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the shared blocked-season calculation.

This getAllRequestedSeasons body duplicates getAllRequestedSeasons in src/components/RequestModal/TvRequestModal.tsx Lines 255-285. The only difference is the modal's editingSeasons exclusion. Both copies must stay aligned with isRequestStillBlocking, so a future change to the rule can be applied to one copy only.

Move the logic next to the shared rules, for example a helper that accepts the media seasons, the requests, the current user id, is4k, and an optional set of seasons to ignore.

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In `@src/components/TvDetails/index.tsx` around lines 288 - 313, Extract the
duplicated blocked-season calculation from getAllRequestedSeasons into a shared
helper near isRequestStillBlocking, accepting media seasons, requests, user id,
is4k, and an optional ignored-season set. Update both TvDetails and
TvRequestModal to use the helper, passing editingSeasons from the modal while
preserving existing filtering and blocking behavior.
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In `@server/scripts/prepareTestDb.ts`:
- Line 15: Remove the unconditional allowOutsideTest override in prepareTestDb
and ensure the script only permits destructive operations when using a dedicated
test database, preferably by requiring NODE_ENV=test before seedTestDb runs.
Preserve the database guard so production configuration cannot reach
dropDatabase or test-user seeding.

In `@server/utils/seedTestDb.test.ts`:
- Around line 7-8: Update setNodeEnv to delete process.env.NODE_ENV when its
value argument is undefined, and assign the provided value otherwise, so an
absent original NODE_ENV remains absent and seedTestDb/resetTestDb continue
passing assertTestDatabase.

In `@src/components/RequestButton/index.tsx`:
- Around line 331-343: Update the Request More eligibility predicates in the
main and 4K branches of RequestButton to check the full blocking-request
collections, replacing ownBlockingRequest and own4kBlockingRequest with
blockingRequest and the equivalent 4K value. Preserve the existing permission,
media status, and completed-show checks.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@server/subscriber/MediaRequestSubscriber.ts`:
- Around line 732-755: In the mediaAlreadyAvailable branch, persist the updated
Media entity through mediaRepository before marking and saving the MediaRequest
entity, ensuring the Sonarr service ID, slug, and server ID changes are
retained. Keep the existing completion status updates and
requestRepository.save(entity) flow unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/components/TvDetails/index.tsx`:
- Around line 288-313: Extract the duplicated blocked-season calculation from
getAllRequestedSeasons into a shared helper near isRequestStillBlocking,
accepting media seasons, requests, user id, is4k, and an optional ignored-season
set. Update both TvDetails and TvRequestModal to use the helper, passing
editingSeasons from the modal while preserving existing filtering and blocking
behavior.
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  • server/entity/MediaRequest.ts
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Sorry this PR was a bit messy to start as I wanted to incorporate @fallenbagel 's multiple request fixes into this branch before moving to work on resolving #2276. This PR is laying out allowing multiple users to request the same media once its Available so that their user tags are applied in Sonarr/Radarr.

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The season edit path computed the seasons to add from the raw requested
list instead of the list already filtered against other live requests, so
a season held by another request passed the "no seasons available" gate
and was added anyway. The season then existed under two requests and
counted against both owners' quotas.
The quota check read its counts and then saved with nothing in between to
stop a second request from the same user passing the same check, so
concurrent requests could all clear a quota that only had room for one.
The collection request modal submits its parts in parallel, so this was
reachable from the UI.

Request creation now runs under a per-user lock, which also closes the
same-user duplicate and auto-request races that had the same shape. The
lock is taken before any repository call, so a waiter holds no pool
connection while blocked.
Editing a request never checked the requester's quota, so a user could add
seasons past their limit on an existing request and an admin could move a
request onto a user with no room for it. An edit is charged for every season
getQuota did not already count against the owner, so reassignment and a
request older than the quota window pay in full while an ordinary edit pays
the difference.

The handler serializes on the request id from the url so both parties to a
reassignment queue behind each other, then takes the owner lock around the
quota check and save.

Fixes seerr-team#633
Creating a request skips seasons the media already has, but editing one
only looked at seasons held by other requests, so an edit could add a
season that was already available and charge the owner's quota for it.

The availability check applies to seasons being added, not to the ones the
request already holds, otherwise editing an approved request would drop its
own seasons the moment they started processing. The quota arithmetic now
counts the seasons the edit actually ends up with rather than assuming that
is every season it asked for.
Duplicates and overlapping seasons are already rejected, but both checks run
well before the insert, so two users asking for the same title at the same
moment both got through. Creation now takes a second lock keyed on the title
inside the per-user one, always in that order so the two cannot deadlock.

is4k is normalized at the same time. It is optional, and an undefined one
binds as null in the duplicate query, so an API caller that omitted it could
request the same title repeatedly.
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fallenbagel and others added 3 commits August 30, 2026 22:27
StatusChecker polls /api/v1/status?checkUpdateAvailable=false, but saving
network settings revalidated /api/v1/status, which is a different SWR key
and nothing subscribes to it. The keys stopped matching in seerr-team#3137 when the
version check toggle was added, so since then the restart modal has only
appeared on the next sixty second poll or on a fresh page load.

The general settings cypress spec covered this and kept passing because
earlier specs left the restart flag dirty, so the modal was already up when
the spec loaded the page. Cleaning that up in seerr-team#3368 removed the stale flag
the spec was leaning on and the real gap surfaced.
…arr/radarr

Relaxes the duplicate-request block (movie and TV season) so a different user can request
already-AVAILABLE media even if a different user's request has been completed for that media. It is
gated on MediaStatus.AVAILABLE, to avoid the race conditions being fixed in seerr-team#3380. If media is
already available Radarr/Sonarr are called to merge the new requester's user tag onto the existing
item instead of silently dropping or blocking it.

feature seerr-team#2276
…available

A completed request no longer blocked the requesting user from submitting another one for media
that's still available, since COMPLETED was unconditionally excluded from the duplicate check onboth
movies and TV seasons, now it only stops blocking once the media/season is no longer available (e.g.
deleted and re-added).Extracted the duplicate-block rule and the specials-eligibility check into
server/lib/requestRules.ts so both live in one place instead of being reimplemented per call site.
…a in the UI

The backend already allows a different user to request media that's
already available, but the frontend had no path to it: movies never
showed a request button once status left UNKNOWN/DELETED, and TV's
season selector treated any available season as already covered
regardless of who (if anyone) had actually requested it. Both now use
the shared rules in server/lib/requestRules.ts to match the backend's
notion of what still blocks a given user.
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