Made each source start from its newest stored release, with --since as an override

Without --since, fetcher service and job-search serve start each source
from the newest release stored for it (the new store.LatestReleaseDate,
by Source), so a restart carries on where it left off instead of fetching
the last day again; with nothing stored, the client's default still
applies. --since overrides it for every source. The Find a Tender source's
name is now a constant, as the Source its opportunities are stored with.

The README's guide to adding a source is brought up to date with the
current worker, start and config type names.

internal/cli/fetch/service.go

@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ func commandService(opts *cli.Options) *cobra.Command {
 		[]string{
 			time.DateOnly, time.DateTime,
 		},
-		"contract updates published since YYYY-MM-DD[ hh:mm:ss]",
+		"contract updates published since YYYY-MM-DD[ hh:mm:ss] "+
+			"(default: each source's newest stored release, or the last day)",
 	)
 	cmd.Flags().Bool("foreground", false, "run in the foreground")
 

internal/cli/serve/command.go

@@ -176,7 +176,8 @@ sources.`,
 		[]string{
 			time.DateOnly, time.DateTime,
 		},
-		"contract updates published since YYYY-MM-DD[ hh:mm:ss]",
+		"contract updates published since YYYY-MM-DD[ hh:mm:ss] "+
+			"(default: each source's newest stored release, or the last day)",
 	)
 	cmd.MarkFlagsMutuallyExclusive("listen", "host")
 	cmd.MarkFlagsMutuallyExclusive("listen", "port")

internal/fetcher/fetcher.go

@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ func New(conf *config.JSCSources, opts ...Option) *Fetcher {
 // logged as they happen and returned joined; nil means a clean shutdown. Run
 // cancels the Fetcher's background context as it returns, so it can only be
 // called once.
+//
+// Every worker starts from since. A zero since starts each source from the
+// newest release stored for it (see WithStore and startFrom); with no store
+// or nothing stored, the source's client picks (Find a Tender's: the last
+// day).
 func (f *Fetcher) Run(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 	defer f.backgroundCancel()
 
@@ -114,14 +119,22 @@ func (f *Fetcher) Run(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 		errs []error
 	)
 
-	// start runs one source's worker until f.backgroundCtx is cancelled. Each
-	// worker is given logger untagged: it tags its own lines with tagged, and
-	// passes logger as it is to any client it creates.
-	start := func(name string, run func(ctx context.Context) error) {
+	// start runs one source's worker from where it starts (see startFrom)
+	// until f.backgroundCtx is cancelled. name is also the Source its
+	// opportunities are stored with. Each worker is given logger untagged: it
+	// tags its own lines with tagged, and passes logger as it is to any client
+	// it creates.
+	start := func(
+		name string, run func(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error,
+	) {
 		wg.Add(1)
 		go func() {
 			defer wg.Done()
-			if err := run(f.backgroundCtx); err != nil {
+			sourceSince, err := f.startFrom(f.backgroundCtx, logger, name, since)
+			if err == nil {
+				err = run(f.backgroundCtx, sourceSince)
+			}
+			if err != nil {
 				tagged(logger).Error(
 					"source stopped, shutting down",
 					"source", name,
@@ -136,17 +149,17 @@ func (f *Fetcher) Run(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 	}
 
 	if f.conf.FindATender.Enabled {
-		start("FindATender", func(ctx context.Context) error {
+		start(findATenderSource, func(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 			return runFindATender(ctx, logger, &f.conf.FindATender, f.save, since)
 		})
 	}
 	if f.conf.FTSMock.Enabled {
-		start("FTSMock", func(ctx context.Context) error {
+		start(ftsMockSource, func(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 			return runFTSMock(ctx, logger, &f.conf.FTSMock, f.save, since)
 		})
 	}
 	if f.conf.Sleeper.Enabled {
-		start("Sleeper", func(ctx context.Context) error {
+		start("Sleeper", func(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 			return runSleeper(ctx, logger, &f.conf.Sleeper, since)
 		})
 	}
@@ -158,6 +171,34 @@ func (f *Fetcher) Run(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 	return errors.Join(errs...)
 }
 
+// startFrom returns the time source's worker starts from: since if it is
+// set, as an override. Otherwise it is the date of the newest release stored
+// for source, so a restart carries on where the last run left off, or the
+// zero time with no store or nothing stored yet, which leaves the start to
+// the source's client. Fetching from the newest release's date fetches it
+// again; the store skips it.
+func (f *Fetcher) startFrom(
+	ctx context.Context, logger *slog.Logger, source string, since time.Time,
+) (time.Time, error) {
+	if !since.IsZero() || f.store == nil {
+		return since, nil
+	}
+
+	latest, err := f.store.LatestReleaseDate(ctx, source)
+	if err != nil {
+		return time.Time{}, err
+	}
+	if !latest.IsZero() {
+		tagged(logger).Info(
+			"starting from the newest stored release",
+			"source", source,
+			"since", latest,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return latest, nil
+}
+
 // save saves opportunities to the store given WithStore, and logs what
 // changed. Without a store it does nothing. A failure fails the worker's run,
 // so its checkpoint isn't moved on and the next run fetches them again.

internal/fetcher/fetcher_test.go

@@ -552,3 +552,110 @@ func TestSave(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("save to a closed store = %v; want a saving error", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// updatedFromServer serves emptyPackage and sends the updatedFrom of each
+// request to the returned channel.
+func updatedFromServer(t *testing.T) (*httptest.Server, chan string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	updatedFrom := make(chan string, 10)
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(
+		http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+			select {
+			case updatedFrom <- r.URL.Query().Get("updatedFrom"):
+			default:
+			}
+			io.WriteString(w, emptyPackage)
+		}),
+	)
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	return srv, updatedFrom
+}
+
+// Without since, each source starts from its own newest stored release, or
+// with nothing stored from the client's default (the last day); since
+// overrides both.
+func TestRunStartsFromNewestStoredRelease(t *testing.T) {
+	opportunityStore := openTestStore(t)
+	srv, _ := ftsServer(t, http.StatusOK, onePackage)
+	stored, err := fetchers["FindATender"](
+		context.Background(), srv.URL, time.Now().Add(-time.Hour),
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	_, err = opportunityStore.SaveOpportunities(context.Background(), stored)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	override := time.Date(2026, 9, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		since    time.Time
+		wantFAT  string
+		wantMock string
+	}{
+		// "" is the client's default: about a day ago.
+		{"stored", time.Time{}, "2026-10-01T12:00:00", ""},
+		{"override", override, "2026-09-01T00:00:00", "2026-09-01T00:00:00"},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		fat, fatFrom := updatedFromServer(t)
+		mock, mockFrom := updatedFromServer(t)
+		sources := &config.JSCSources{}
+		sources.FindATender.Enabled = true
+		sources.FindATender.Interval = time.Hour
+		sources.FindATender.APIRoot = fat.URL
+		sources.FTSMock.Enabled = true
+		sources.FTSMock.Interval = time.Hour
+		sources.FTSMock.APIRoot = mock.URL
+
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+		done := make(chan error, 1)
+		go func() {
+			done <- New(sources, WithStore(opportunityStore)).Run(ctx, tt.since)
+		}()
+
+		for source, got := range map[string]chan string{
+			"FindATender": fatFrom,
+			"FTSMock":     mockFrom,
+		} {
+			want := tt.wantFAT
+			if source == "FTSMock" {
+				want = tt.wantMock
+			}
+			select {
+			case from := <-got:
+				if want == "" {
+					checkAboutADayAgo(t, from)
+				} else if from != want {
+					t.Errorf(
+						"%s: %s updatedFrom = %s; want %s",
+						tt.name, source, from, want,
+					)
+				}
+			case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+				t.Errorf("%s: %s was not polled", tt.name, source)
+			}
+		}
+		cancel()
+		<-done
+	}
+}
+
+// checkAboutADayAgo fails the test unless updatedFrom, in local time as the
+// client sends it, is about a day ago: within an hour, as a calendar day
+// across a clock change isn't 24 hours.
+func checkAboutADayAgo(t *testing.T, updatedFrom string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	from, err := time.ParseInLocation(
+		"2006-01-02T15:04:05", updatedFrom, time.Local,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	gap := time.Since(from) - 24*time.Hour
+	if gap < -time.Hour || gap > time.Hour {
+		t.Errorf("updatedFrom = %s; want about a day ago", updatedFrom)
+	}
+}

internal/fetcher/worker_findatender.go

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ import (
 	"git.avsdev.uk/Go/job-search/internal/util"
 )
 
+// findATenderSource is the Source of the opportunities Find a Tender's
+// converter makes, and so of the ones the Find a Tender source fetches.
+const findATenderSource = "FindATender"
+
 // runFindATender polls Find a Tender every configured interval until ctx
 // is cancelled, passing what each run fetches to save.
 func runFindATender(
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@ func runFindATender(
 
 	worker := util.Worker{
 		Logger:   tagged(logger),
-		Name:     "FindATender",
+		Name:     findATenderSource,
 		Interval: conf.Interval,
 		Task: func(ctx context.Context, since time.Time) error {
 			opportunities, err := fetchFindATender(ctx, logger, conf, since)

internal/store/queries.go

@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ package store
 const selectOpportunityLatestReleaseDate = `
 SELECT latest_release_date FROM opportunities WHERE uuid = ?`
 
+// selectSourceLatestReleaseDate reads the newest latest_release_date of one
+// source's opportunities. ORDER BY rather than MAX keeps the column's DATETIME
+// type, so the driver reads it as a time; it walks the latest_release_date
+// index.
+const selectSourceLatestReleaseDate = `
+SELECT latest_release_date FROM opportunities
+WHERE source = ?
+ORDER BY latest_release_date DESC
+LIMIT 1`
+
 // upsertOpportunity inserts or updates a opportunity. Named parameters
 // (types.Opportunity).
 //

internal/store/queries_test.go

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ var checks = map[string]queryCheck{
 	"selectOpportunityLatestReleaseDate": {
 		sql: selectOpportunityLatestReleaseDate,
 	},
+	"selectSourceLatestReleaseDate": {
+		sql: selectSourceLatestReleaseDate,
+	},
 	"upsertOpportunity":       {sql: upsertOpportunity, named: true},
 	"selectOpportunityByUUID": {sql: selectOpportunityByUUID},
 	"listOpportunitiesSelect": {

internal/store/store.go

@@ -716,6 +716,26 @@ func (s *Store) ListReleases(
 	return releases, nil
 }
 
+// LatestReleaseDate returns the date of the newest release stored for the
+// opportunities from source, or the zero time if none are stored, so a
+// fetcher can carry on from where it left off.
+func (s *Store) LatestReleaseDate(
+	ctx context.Context, source string,
+) (time.Time, error) {
+	var latest time.Time
+	err := s.db.GetContext(ctx, &latest, selectSourceLatestReleaseDate, source)
+	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		return time.Time{}, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf(
+			"reading the latest release date of %s: %w", source, err,
+		)
+	}
+
+	return latest, nil
+}
+
 // ReleaseExists reports whether a release is already stored, so a fetcher
 // can skip converting it.
 func (s *Store) ReleaseExists(

internal/store/store_test.go

@@ -837,3 +837,37 @@ func TestWonAndLostAreExclusive(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// LatestReleaseDate is the newest release of one source's opportunities only,
+// and the zero time for a source with none stored.
+func TestLatestReleaseDate(t *testing.T) {
+	s := openStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+
+	latest, err := s.LatestReleaseDate(ctx, "FindATender")
+	if err != nil || !latest.IsZero() {
+		t.Fatalf("empty store: %v, %v; want the zero time", latest, err)
+	}
+
+	mustSave(t, s, opportunity("ocds-1", "Older", 1, "r1"))
+	mustSave(t, s, opportunity("ocds-2", "Newer", 5, "r1"))
+	other := opportunity("ocds-3", "Another source's", 9, "r1")
+	other.Source = "FTSMock"
+	mustSave(t, s, other)
+
+	for source, uuid := range map[string]string{
+		"FindATender": "ocds-2",
+		"FTSMock":     "ocds-3",
+	} {
+		want := mustGet(t, s, uuid).LatestReleaseDate
+		latest, err := s.LatestReleaseDate(ctx, source)
+		if err != nil || !latest.Equal(want) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: %v, %v; want %v", source, latest, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+
+	latest, err = s.LatestReleaseDate(ctx, "Nowhere")
+	if err != nil || !latest.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("unknown source: %v, %v; want the zero time", latest, err)
+	}
+}