Implement batch delete operation for CRUD API

[Copilot]

Adds DELETE /records/{resource}/many endpoint to delete multiple records in a single request.

Implementation

• dynamodb.rs:

  • Added delete_many() using batch_write_item API with chunking (25 items per batch) and exponential backoff retry for unprocessed items
  • Enhanced get_many() with 100-item chunking and retry logic for unprocessed keys
  • Added 9 unit tests covering chunking behavior for both functions

• main.rs:

  • Added delete_many_records_handler with user ownership verification
  • Accepts query params: ?id=id1&id=id2&id=id3
  • Enforces maximum of 100 IDs per request (returns 400 Bad Request if exceeded)
  • Returns {"deleted": [...], "count": n}

Usage

DELETE /records/streams/many?id=abc123&id=def456&id=ghi789

{
  "deleted": ["abc123", "def456", "ghi789"],
  "count": 3
}

Features

• Automatic Chunking: Handles DynamoDB batch limits (25 for writes, 100 for reads)
• Retry Logic: Exponential backoff (100ms, 200ms, 400ms) for throttled requests
• Security: Verifies all requested IDs exist and belong to user for user-scoped resources
• Validation: Returns 404 if any ID not found, 403 if not owned, 400 if >100 IDs requested

Testing

• ✅ 11 unit tests pass (9 new tests for chunking logic)
• ✅ Code builds successfully
• ✅ Clippy checks pass

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Implement delete many operation</issue_title>
<issue_description>in our crud_api service, so that we can delete multiple records in a single request from the frontend.</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Implement delete many operation #613

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Pull request overview

This PR implements a batch delete operation for the CRUD API, adding a DELETE /records/{resource}/many endpoint that allows deletion of multiple records in a single request using query parameters.

Key Changes:

• Adds delete_many() function in dynamodb.rs that uses DynamoDB's batch_write_item API with automatic chunking (25 items per batch)
• Adds delete_many_records_handler() in main.rs with ownership verification for user-scoped resources
• Updates route configuration to support DELETE method on /records/{resource}/many endpoint

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 7 comments.

File	Description
crud_api/src/dynamodb.rs	Implements delete_many() function using DynamoDB batch_write_item API with chunking and unprocessed item tracking
crud_api/src/main.rs	Adds delete_many_records_handler() with user ownership verification, updates route to include DELETE method, and modifies unused parameter naming in get_many_related_records_handler

[saebyn]

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Pull request overview

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

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

[Copilot]

When batch delete still has requests_to_process after exhausting retries, the function only logs a warning and proceeds, returning 200 from the handler with a potentially incomplete deleted list. This can lead to silent partial deletes under throttling. Consider failing the operation (return an error) when unprocessed items remain after retries, or returning an explicit "failed" list so the handler can communicate partial failure to the caller.

[Copilot]

The new unit tests only validate Rust slice chunking (ids.chunks(...)) rather than exercising get_many/delete_many behavior (request construction, retry handling, and unprocessed-key/item behavior). As written they won’t catch regressions in the actual DynamoDB logic. Consider extracting the chunking/batch-building into a helper you can unit test, and/or adding tests that drive the functions with a mocked/stubbed DynamoDB client to verify retries/unprocessed handling.

Suggested change

	fn test_delete_many_empty_ids() {
	// Test that empty ID list returns empty result without errors
	let ids: Vec<&str> = vec![];
	// Verify chunking logic: empty input should result in no chunks
	let chunks: Vec<_> = ids.chunks(25).collect();
	assert_eq!(chunks.len(), 0);
	}
	#[test]
	fn test_delete_many_chunking_under_limit() {
	// Test that IDs under the 25-item limit fit in a single chunk
	let ids: Vec<&str> = (0..20).map(|_| "test-id").collect();
	let chunks: Vec<_> = ids.chunks(25).collect();
	assert_eq!(chunks.len(), 1);
	assert_eq!(chunks[0].len(), 20);
	}
	#[test]
	fn test_delete_many_chunking_at_limit() {
	// Test that exactly 25 IDs fit in a single chunk
	let ids: Vec<&str> = (0..25).map(|_| "test-id").collect();
	let chunks: Vec<_> = ids.chunks(25).collect();
	assert_eq!(chunks.len(), 1);
	assert_eq!(chunks[0].len(), 25);
	}
	#[test]

[Copilot]

delete_many_records_handler treats duplicate IDs as an error because items.len() != ids.len() will trip even when all records exist (BatchGet returns one item per unique key). Consider de-duplicating the requested IDs (while optionally preserving original order) before doing existence/ownership checks and before calling delete_many, or return a 400 with a clear message when duplicates are provided.

[Copilot]

get_many logs a warning and returns partial results when UnprocessedKeys remain after retries. Callers (notably ownership verification in batch delete) can misinterpret this as “not found” and return 404/403 incorrectly. Consider returning an error when unprocessed keys remain after the retry budget so callers can surface a 5xx/503 instead of silently dropping items.