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Summary

The REST selector path writes the shard key into the caller's own object, so an application that holds a selector as a constant sends its later requests to the wrong shard.

Why it happens

_try_argument_to_rest_selector aliases the caller's object and then assigns to it:

The alias-and-mutate
elif isinstance(points, get_args(models.PointsSelector)):
    points_selector = points
    points_selector.shard_key = (
        shard_key_selector if shard_key_selector is not None else points_selector.shard_key
    )

The converted selector is the caller's object, not a copy:

Measured
REST before: tenant-a
  request went to shard: tenant-b
REST after : tenant-b   <- the caller's object
  same object? True

So this shape of application breaks:

The application shape
POINTS = models.PointIdsList(points=[...], shard_key="tenant-a")   # a constant

client.delete(collection_name="c", points_selector=POINTS, shard_key_selector="tenant-b")
client.delete(collection_name="c", points_selector=POINTS, shard_key_selector="tenant-a")
# the second call now also goes to tenant-b: POINTS.shard_key was rewritten by the first

The gRPC path, 50 lines up in the same class, is the intended contract — it reads the embedded key and returns it as a separate value, and never touches its input:

elif isinstance(points, get_args(models.PointsSelector)):
    if points.shard_key is not None:
        shard_key_selector = RestToGrpc.convert_shard_key_selector(points.shard_key)
    points_selector = RestToGrpc.convert_points_selector(points)

Two paths, one behaviour, opposite contracts — so the same code is correct over gRPC and wrong over REST, which is the worst shape for a caller to reason about.

What this changes

Build a new selector instead of writing into the input, matching the models.Filter branch directly below, which already uses construct. Same change in async_qdrant_remote.py, which had the identical alias-and-mutate.

Falsy shard keys are deliberately unaffected: 0 is a valid shard key, so shard_key_selector if shard_key_selector is not None else points.shard_key keeps the precedence the existing cluster test documents.

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tests/test_selector_shard_key.py, 12 tests, no Qdrant server needed:

Test output
pytest tests/test_selector_shard_key.py
  before the fix    5 failed, 7 passed
      does_not_mutate_the_caller[sync-point_ids]     FAILED  tenant-a is not tenant-b
      does_not_mutate_the_caller[sync-filter]       FAILED
      does_not_mutate_the_caller[async-point_ids]   FAILED
      does_not_mutate_the_caller[async-filter]      FAILED
      a_falsy_shard_key_still_wins                  FAILED
  after the fix    12 passed

The seven that pass either way are the controls: the request must still carry the explicit key, a selector with no key must still convert, the rest of the selector must survive the copy, and the gRPC path must stay non-mutating.

I also pinned the falsy-shard-key rule offline (0 beats an embedded 1; a falsy embedded key survives when no argument is given), because test_shard_key_from_points_selector asserts the same thing but needs a distributed cluster.

Also verified: ruff format --line-length=99 --check is clean on all three files, and tests/embed_tests + tests/conversions show only the pre-existing test_bm25_core failure from a missing qdrant_cli binary.

Not a duplicate of #1359 (closed, unmerged): that one was about falsy shard keys being discarded via a truthiness fallback, and it landed as #1364. The alias-and-mutate pattern is still present on master — the line above still reads shard_key_selector if ... else points_selector.shard_key.

I did not run the integration tests, which need a live Qdrant server.


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_try_argument_to_rest_selector aliased the caller's object and then
assigned to it:

    points_selector = points
    points_selector.shard_key = ...

_converted is literally the same object, so an application that holds a
selector as a constant and passes shard_key_selector per request has
that constant rewritten by the first call: a later request meant for
tenant A is sent to whichever shard the previous call used.

_try_argument_to_grpc_selector, 50 lines up, reads the embedded key
and returns it separately for exactly this reason. Build a new selector
with construct instead, matching the Filter branch just below, and do
the same in the async twin.

Falsy shard keys are unaffected: 0 is still neither missing nor
dropped, which the existing cluster test asserts and a new offline test
now pins.
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Synchronous and asynchronous REST selector conversion now creates a new selector from the input’s explicitly set fields. A supplied shard key overrides the embedded key; otherwise, conversion preserves the embedded key. Tests check that conversion does not mutate the input and cover selectors with no key, falsy keys, filters, and point IDs. A gRPC conversion test checks that the selector retains its embedded key.

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The change prevents request-specific shard keys from contaminating reused selectors. However, it also makes selector-based REST deletion and payload clearing fail on supported Pydantic v1 installations, potentially blocking data-cleanup workflows. The inspected paths do not introduce greater authority or broader request targets.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Both converters now call the Pydantic v2-only model_dump method although Pydantic v1 remains supported. With v1 PointIdsList or FilterSelector inputs, REST delete and clear_payload fail before sending a request. This newly blocks those point and payload removal paths, including cleanup or recovery workflows that depend on them. The failure remains local and does not itself expand authority or delete unintended data.
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  • inferred — The identified regression affects both remote clients when REST delete or clear_payload receives a model selector under Pydantic v1. It fails before transmission, so the immediate effect is unavailable data removal rather than broader destructive reach. The actual tenant, collection, and deployment exposure depends on application use and is not supplied.

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  • observed — The inspected changes do not add an endpoint, collection target, credential source, or authorization decision. Request-level shard-key override authority already existed in the base; the head changes which local object receives that value.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The compatibility failure is deterministic before the REST request and does not leave partially modified caller state. Repeating the same model-selector call on Pydantic v1 cannot restore the blocked cleanup operation; the unchanged gRPC branch does not use this newly introduced serialization call.
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The declared pydantic range starts at 1.10.8, where the export is `.dict()`.
`model_dump()` exists only on v2, so under v1 both REST selector branches
raised `AttributeError: 'PointIdsList' object has no attribute 'model_dump'`
before `delete` or `clear_payload` sent anything.

`_pydantic_compat.to_dict` already dispatches to the right one for the
installed version, and it sits next to the `construct` this branch already
imports, so both call sites now use the module's own shim.
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Correct on all counts — reproduced under an actual Pydantic v1 install before changing anything.

Both branches raised before any request went out:

pydantic 1.10.26, tests/test_selector_shard_key.py
  qdrant_client/qdrant_remote.py:1455:      AttributeError: 'PointIdsList' object has no attribute 'model_dump'
  qdrant_client/qdrant_remote.py:1455:      AttributeError: 'FilterSelector' object has no attribute 'model_dump'
  qdrant_client/async_qdrant_remote.py:1286: AttributeError: 'PointIdsList' object has no attribute 'model_dump'
  qdrant_client/async_qdrant_remote.py:1286: AttributeError: 'FilterSelector' object has no attribute 'model_dump'

The fix routes both call sites through the module's own shim rather than adding a new one: _pydantic_compat.to_dict already dispatches to model_dump on v2 and dict on v1, and it lives in the same import line as the construct these branches were already using. So f77c14e is four changed lines and no new helper.

pydantic 1.10.26   without this change   5 failed, 7 passed
                   with this change     12 passed
pydantic 2.13.5    with this change     12 passed

The 5 that go red on v1 without the fix are the new tests themselves, across both selector types and both converters.

One thing worth flagging rather than leaving implicit: CI never installs Pydantic v1. I grepped every workflow and there is no v1 matrix row, so nothing in this repo's CI would have caught this, which is presumably how it got in. That also means the tests I added cannot guard it on their own — they only bite when someone runs the suite under v1, which nothing currently does.

I would rather not add a source-inspection test that greps for v2-only API names; it is brittle and asserts on text rather than behaviour. The durable fix is a v1 row in the matrix, but that touches your CI config and broadens this PR, so I have left it alone. Happy to open that as a separate PR if you want it — say the word and I will scope it to just the matrix row plus the install pin.

Wider suite, for parity: tests/conversions tests/test_qdrant_client.py tests/test_in_memory.py tests/test_common.py tests/test_selector_shard_key.py under 2.13.5 gives 64 failed, 78 passed on this branch and 69 failed, 73 passed on origin/master, with the failure-name diff empty in both directions. The 64 are integration tests that need a live Qdrant server; the 5-count difference is exactly the new tests.

ruff format --check --line-length=99 (the line length your ruff-format pre-commit hook pins) is clean on all three files. Plain ruff check reports 3 pre-existing F541 findings in qdrant_remote.py that are present on origin/master too, and the ruff linter hook is commented out in .pre-commit-config.yaml, so I left them.

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