"""Shared initialization service for Basic Memory.
This module provides shared initialization functions used by both CLI and API
to ensure consistent application startup across all entry points.
"""
import asyncio
import os
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from loguru import logger
from basic_memory import db
from basic_memory.config import BasicMemoryConfig
from basic_memory.models import Project
from basic_memory.repository import (
ProjectRepository,
)
async def initialize_database(app_config: BasicMemoryConfig) -> None:
"""Initialize database with migrations handled automatically by get_or_create_db.
Args:
app_config: The Basic Memory project configuration
Note:
Database migrations are now handled automatically when the database
connection is first established via get_or_create_db().
"""
try:
await db.get_or_create_db(app_config.database_path)
logger.info("Database initialization completed")
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"Error during database initialization: {e}")
raise
async def reconcile_projects_with_config(app_config: BasicMemoryConfig):
"""Ensure all projects in config.json exist in the projects table and vice versa.
This uses the ProjectService's synchronize_projects method to ensure bidirectional
synchronization between the configuration file and the database.
Args:
app_config: The Basic Memory application configuration
"""
logger.info("Reconciling projects from config with database...")
# Get database session (engine already created by initialize_database)
_, session_maker = await db.get_or_create_db(
db_path=app_config.database_path,
db_type=db.DatabaseType.FILESYSTEM,
)
project_repository = ProjectRepository(session_maker)
# Import ProjectService here to avoid circular imports
from basic_memory.services.project_service import ProjectService
# Create project service and synchronize projects
project_service = ProjectService(repository=project_repository)
try:
await project_service.synchronize_projects()
logger.info("Projects successfully reconciled between config and database")
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"Error during project synchronization: {e}")
logger.info("Continuing with initialization despite synchronization error")
async def initialize_file_sync(
app_config: BasicMemoryConfig,
) -> None:
"""Initialize file synchronization services. This function starts the watch service and does not return
Args:
app_config: The Basic Memory project configuration
Returns:
The watch service task that's monitoring file changes
"""
# Never start file watching during tests. Even "background" watchers add tasks/threads
# and can interact badly with strict asyncio teardown (especially on Windows/aiosqlite).
# Skip file sync in test environments to avoid interference with tests
if app_config.is_test_env:
logger.info("Test environment detected - skipping file sync initialization")
return None
# delay import
from basic_memory.sync import WatchService
# Get database session (migrations already run if needed)
_, session_maker = await db.get_or_create_db(
db_path=app_config.database_path,
db_type=db.DatabaseType.FILESYSTEM,
)
project_repository = ProjectRepository(session_maker)
# Initialize watch service
watch_service = WatchService(
app_config=app_config,
project_repository=project_repository,
quiet=True,
)
# Get active projects
active_projects = await project_repository.get_active_projects()
# Filter to constrained project if MCP server was started with --project
constrained_project = os.environ.get("BASIC_MEMORY_MCP_PROJECT")
if constrained_project:
active_projects = [p for p in active_projects if p.name == constrained_project]
logger.info(f"Background sync constrained to project: {constrained_project}")
# Start sync for all projects as background tasks (non-blocking)
async def sync_project_background(project: Project):
"""Sync a single project in the background."""
# avoid circular imports
from basic_memory.sync.sync_service import get_sync_service
logger.info(f"Starting background sync for project: {project.name}")
try:
# Create sync service
sync_service = await get_sync_service(project)
sync_dir = Path(project.path)
await sync_service.sync(sync_dir, project_name=project.name)
logger.info(f"Background sync completed successfully for project: {project.name}")
except Exception as e: # pragma: no cover
logger.error(f"Error in background sync for project {project.name}: {e}")
# Create background tasks for all project syncs (non-blocking)
sync_tasks = [
asyncio.create_task(sync_project_background(project)) for project in active_projects
]
logger.info(f"Created {len(sync_tasks)} background sync tasks")
# Don't await the tasks - let them run in background while we continue
# Then start the watch service in the background
logger.info("Starting watch service for all projects")
# run the watch service
await watch_service.run()
logger.info("Watch service started")
return None
async def initialize_app(
app_config: BasicMemoryConfig,
):
"""Initialize the Basic Memory application.
This function handles all initialization steps:
- Running database migrations
- Reconciling projects from config.json with projects table
- Setting up file synchronization
- Starting background migration for legacy project data
Args:
app_config: The Basic Memory project configuration
"""
# Skip initialization in cloud mode - cloud manages its own projects
if app_config.cloud_mode_enabled:
logger.debug("Skipping initialization in cloud mode - projects managed by cloud")
return
logger.info("Initializing app...")
# Initialize database first
await initialize_database(app_config)
# Reconcile projects from config.json with projects table
await reconcile_projects_with_config(app_config)
logger.info("App initialization completed (migration running in background if needed)")
def ensure_initialization(app_config: BasicMemoryConfig) -> None:
"""Ensure initialization runs in a synchronous context.
This is a wrapper for the async initialize_app function that can be
called from synchronous code like CLI entry points.
No-op if app_config.cloud_mode == True. Cloud basic memory manages it's own projects
Args:
app_config: The Basic Memory project configuration
"""
# Skip initialization in cloud mode - cloud manages its own projects
if app_config.cloud_mode_enabled:
logger.debug("Skipping initialization in cloud mode - projects managed by cloud")
return
async def _init_and_cleanup():
"""Initialize app and clean up database connections.
Database connections created during initialization must be cleaned up
before the event loop closes, otherwise the process will hang indefinitely.
"""
try:
await initialize_app(app_config)
finally:
# Always cleanup database connections to prevent process hang
await db.shutdown_db()
# On Windows, use SelectorEventLoop to avoid ProactorEventLoop cleanup issues
# The ProactorEventLoop can raise "IndexError: pop from an empty deque" during
# event loop cleanup when there are pending handles. SelectorEventLoop is more
# stable for our use case (no subprocess pipes or named pipes needed).
if sys.platform == "win32":
asyncio.set_event_loop_policy(asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy())
asyncio.run(_init_and_cleanup())
logger.info("Initialization completed successfully")